Go Absurd

  Standard Introduction (for now…) “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “To me, absurdity is the only reality.” (Frank Zappa) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Your guess is as bad as mine A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A man has died after having an epileptic fit and then being bitten by his distressed dog https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dog-owner-died-after-being-22733873 Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Let’s Celebrate War! A Virgin’s Guide to Intercourse, Discourse, and Inebriation A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question… Did you know it took me so long?   The Meaning of Life? ill-health From The Great Man E. M. Cioran … I was in a café ...

  Quote of the Day “Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” (Samuel Beckett) Opening Absurdity A recent study has shown that people who are depressed are more likely to be depressed and get depressed, compared to people who are not depressed A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Make sun while the hail shines   A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A Florida man has finally been released after spending 37 years in jail for a crime that new DNA evidence has proven he didn’t commit... A rather cruelly absurd amount of time to be locked up for being absurdly unlucky… https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jailed-37-years-florida-man-cleared-murder-rape-73001057 Absurd Wondering and Wandering… How many actual families have there been where there has been a Mrs Palmer who has five daughters? Or a Rosey Palmer who has five sisters? Book Title You Will Probably Never See… The Diarrhoea Cu...

Quote of the Day “Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.” (Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ) A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… The latest absurd craze known as the ‘Gender Reveal Party’ has caused more mayhem, this time starting off, allegedly, the huge El Dorado fire in California https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/09/07/california-fire-is-latest-gender-reveal-to-go-disastrously-wrong/#1edc99e153f1   Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Jolting Jack and Jackalina: A Peer-Reviewed Philosophical Inquiry Absurd Wondering and Wandering… Is there anyone in the world who has the surname Penis or the surname Vagina ? Deathbed Final Words That May Have Been Said… “It was not fun while it lasted…” A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Make it big or make it small but whatever you do don’t make it The Meaning of Life? tinea Said No One, Probably Ever…. “My mum said I needed to be de...

  Quote of the Day “Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.” (Albert Camus, The Fall ) News Flash! A Crisis That Happens Each Day In Our Homes! A 47-year-old woman was recently discovered indecent in the house she had been living in for the last 20 years. It is alleged that the woman was found naked while taking a shower! Sheriff Abs, visibly distressed, stated that, “This is a crisis that has been going on for far too long in our country. What if someone had walked past the woman’s house at the exact time she had been in a compromising position and the curtains had been open and one of the walls had blown down and the shower door had been left open and she had been facing the passer-by? “That passer-by would have to live with that distressing image for the rest of their lives. They may be so traumatized that they never work again and thus become a burden on our Economy. It just isn’t fair but it is happening in millions and mill...

  Quote of the Day “Many people are bored with life, irritated by the human condition, exhausted from suffering, tired of living. For those for whom life is too long, a longer life would be worse and, quite possibly, more absurd. For some, however, life seems too long because it's too short, meaning life is rendered so absurd by being short that even a short absurd life feels too long because it is pointless. A life made absurd because it is too short would be rendered less absurd if it were significantly longer.” (Rivka Weinberg) Sponsor’s Message No Money To Sponsor This Sh.. SHOW! A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A 10-year-old British boy has endured 4 hospital treatments, and faces years of scarring, after being exposed to a toxic hogweed plant while walking with family https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12511154/hogweed-schoolboy-scarring-toxic-years-family-walk-cheshire/ Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Going Under: This Is NOT A Book About Going Down ...

  Quote of the Day “The Bible says, ‘Love thy neighbor’.” “That could mean to leave him alone.” (Charles Bukowski, Factotum) Sponsor’s Quote “Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct.” (John Dewey) A Cruel and Absurd World… An Australian woman’s face was burnt off on a camping trip after a gust of wind pushed the deckchair she was snoozing on into the nearby campfire which she landed headfirst in https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12445753/teacher-face-burned-off-wind-blew-deckchair-snoozing-in-into-campfire/ Book Title You Will Probably Never See… The Art of Excretion: A Scientist Responds to an Interdisciplinary Discussion on The Metaphysical Properties of Elephants A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said… Don’t count your counting before you count Out of Context Conversation? “It shouldn’t get much bigger…” The Meaning of Life? Faces and Heads A Face Mask to...

  Quote of the Day “In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead.”   (Samuel Beckett) Sponsor’s Message Give me money, lots of it, now! From Dadaist Legend, Dada Tzara… “What I like most in life is money and women. But I have very little money and am very unlucky in love” (Tristan Tzara)   A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A 22-year old man from Scotland has been left in a coma after a bulldog named Biggie Smalls ripped off and ate his genitals. The man had apparently applied peanut butter to his crotch area only moments before the attack https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-who-genitals-ripped-eaten-13520910 Book Title You Will Probably Never See… Doctor Genitals: An A to Z Guide On What’s Down There! A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said A woman arrives; a man descends; and vice versa The Meaning of Life? Symbols, Characters, Le...