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Go Absurd 81 – It Would Be Rude Not To

Quote of the Day “Effort is useless but entertains” (Fernando Pessoa) Sponsor’s Message go absurd Go Absurd GO ABSURD! Absurd World ‘Pair hired for man's broom sexual fantasy turn up in bedroom at wrong address with machetes’ https://news.sky.com/story/pair-hired-for-mans-broom-sexual-fantasy-turn-up-in-bedroom-at-wrong-address-with-machetes-11996365 A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Three in the hand is worth two in the tree   Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Coming In The 2020’s: A Methodological Comparison With The 1920’s and 1640’s in Regressive Logic Statistics A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question… Do people lie in, or through, their teeth? The Meaning of Life? Goldman Sachs Said No One, Probably Ever…. “I want to teach a bird to sing a dog song with cat connotations” A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be… 23.75% of people who drink milk, drank chocol...

Go Absurd 80 – Where the Grass is Always

Quote of the Day “This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.” (ALBERT CAMUS, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays) Go Absurd! Exercise: Go to a random university lecture and exclaim, when everyone is quiet, “I never knew you could know so much knowing!” An Absurd World… A massive brawl has erupted at, and on, an American airport carousel after one woman allegedly hit another woman while they were waiting for their bags which set off a huge all-in brawl https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12157297/brawl-airport-baggage-carousel-woman-slap-another-argument/ A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said… When it’s time it isn’t   Book Title You Will Probably Never See… A Blade of Grass and How it Turns Green: A Sociological and Scientific Analysis of Phenomenological Pos...

Go Absurd 79 - Take It or Take It

Quote of the Day “Absurdity is the new sublime. The good news is that, while other resources are dwindling, absurdity is multiplying and flourishing and filling the earth.” (Michael Foley, The Age of Absurdity ) A Cruel and Absurd World… A father has lost his life after allegedly being punched in the head after a disagreement over ‘queue-jumping’ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12093364/family-dad-died-punched-screwfix-trauma/ A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said To eat is to starve Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Disagreements Related to Blueberries and Metaphorical Digressions: A Laymen’s View The Meaning of Life? Resistance A Future Cliché? Found in translation Said No One, Probably Ever…. “That’s a big apolitical agenda you have there. Is it political? Does it sing?” A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be… 26.3% of all people from 93.3% of all past and present civilisatio...

Go Absurd 78 – It Is What It Isn’t

Quote of the Day “Every project is a camouflaged form of slavery” (E.M. Cioran) Sponsor’s Message This message is redundant Chinese Proverb When one dog begins barking at a shadow, ten thousand make it into a reality Memorable Wedding Photos… https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12016182/wave-sweeps-newlyweds-out-to-sea/ A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Why see when you can hear? Why hear here? Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Why Don’t You See It? Yes, Why Don’t You See It? The Meaning of Life? Luck Said No One, Probably Ever…. “The amount of passion in the world is overwhelming! Everyone loves everyone else so much and so deeply! Wow! I’m awesome!” A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be… Only 3.22% of the population last night slept for more than two minutes…   From The Great Man Pedro Carolino Who Wrote A Portuguese-English Phrase Book, English As She Is Spoke ,...

Go Absurd 77 – Short But Never Sweet

Quote of the Day “The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.” (Bertrand Russell) Sponsor’s Message There’s Nothing Here, You Need A New Sponsor Another Quote… “Life is but a series of misunderstandings” (Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist ) In The News… Recent Headline from The Sun … RACE ROW  White model Martina Big who identifies as black slams white people for ‘exploiting’ the black community https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11944725/white-martina-big-identifies-black-slams-white-people/ A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Three in the hand is worth one in the mouth Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Swapping Love for love: A Medieval Discourse with Wings The Meaning of Life? Life Said No One, Probably Ever…. “The sun looks better when you drink rum and come…over the hills and far away.” A Statistic That Probab...

Go Absurd 76 - Give Up Your (Don't) Day Job

Quote of the Day “We are all of us in error, the humourists excepted. They alone have discerned, as though in jest, the inanity of all that is serious and even of all that is frivolous.” (E.M. Cioran) Sponsor’s Message “Overrated” “Waste of Space” “Pointless” Are just some of the things that have been whispered to the Sponsor who isn’t a Sponsor Another Excuse For A Quote… “A cup of coffee, a bit of tobacco whose aroma passes through me when I smoke it, my eyes half shut in a half-dark room – this, and my dreams, are all I want from life.” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said To not think is to think (you are thinking) Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Doth Cum Often? A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question… If there was no ocean, would there be an ocean? The Meaning of Life? Not found in words   Said No One, Probably Ever…. “Nice buck...

Go Absurd 75 - I'm The Only One Who Will Read This

Quote of the Day “There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer. (Gertrude Stein) Sponsor’s Message “I have always been attracted by lost causes, by individuals without a hope of success, whose follies I have espoused until I suffer from them almost as much as they do.” (E.M. Cioran) An Absurd World… A Belgian man has become increasingly anxious and sleep deprived over the last 9 years because he has been getting pizzas delivered to his door that he never ordered. This can occur at all hours, even 2am, and each time he has to turn them away. On one day, in January 2019, 10 different delivery men showed up at his door, one having 14 pizzas to give to him, which of course he refused. “I cannot sleep anymore. I start shaking every time I hear a scooter on the street. I dread that someone will come to drop off hot pizzas yet another time” https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news...