Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Spiders
I
get why people are scared of spiders. They look like someone went
mental in photoshop and copy-pasted legs and eyes and hairs until
Guillermo del Toro got an erection.
Friday, 19 September 2014
Thursday, 18 September 2014
The Daily Mail: A Thing I Do Not Think Should Be A Thing
So. The
Daily Mail.
Sorta like a gateway to far-right neo-fascism.
It doesn't say explicitly anything TOO far right - because that would put their fingerprints on it and after they came out supporting Hitler they don't wanna risk that kind of association again - but they nonetheless function as a racist propaganda leaflet full of deliberate misinformation.
Well.
When Stephen Colbert said "reality has a well known liberal bias", it was the perfect bit of satire. Because that's what The Mail DO. Craft lies until there is an alternate reality. And then sometimes they come out against something BECAUSE it's a lie, which serves to make themselves seem as if they have any scruples ABOUT lying to the public. Which they don't. At all.
But what makes it worse is they're not telling nice lies for good reasons (if that's even a thing). It's about creating conflict. Always conflict. Conflict sells papers.
And it goes on. THE YOUNGER GENERATION LISTEN TO SUICIDE MUSIC ABOUT CHEMICAL ROMANCES AND BLACK PARADES WHICH IS EVIL AND THE DEVIL AND MAKES THEM DEPRESSED.
THEY SMOKE WEED LIKE THE PEOPLE AT SCHOOL WITH YOU BUT IT'S STRONGER AND MORE DANGEROUS AND WILL KILL YOUR DAUGHTER AND OR SON.
IF YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE AT NIGHT YOU WILL BE MUGGED BY YOUNG PEOPLE DRINKING BECAUSE OF LABOUR.
They seek not to make people understand one another, but to breed distrust and concern and fear and TO DIVIDE.
And it's horrible and I hate it. And kids buy into it and that makes it worse somehow.
Because of all the things to give our children we give them misanthropy.
Sorta like a gateway to far-right neo-fascism.
It doesn't say explicitly anything TOO far right - because that would put their fingerprints on it and after they came out supporting Hitler they don't wanna risk that kind of association again - but they nonetheless function as a racist propaganda leaflet full of deliberate misinformation.
Well.
When Stephen Colbert said "reality has a well known liberal bias", it was the perfect bit of satire. Because that's what The Mail DO. Craft lies until there is an alternate reality. And then sometimes they come out against something BECAUSE it's a lie, which serves to make themselves seem as if they have any scruples ABOUT lying to the public. Which they don't. At all.
But what makes it worse is they're not telling nice lies for good reasons (if that's even a thing). It's about creating conflict. Always conflict. Conflict sells papers.
And it goes on. THE YOUNGER GENERATION LISTEN TO SUICIDE MUSIC ABOUT CHEMICAL ROMANCES AND BLACK PARADES WHICH IS EVIL AND THE DEVIL AND MAKES THEM DEPRESSED.
THEY SMOKE WEED LIKE THE PEOPLE AT SCHOOL WITH YOU BUT IT'S STRONGER AND MORE DANGEROUS AND WILL KILL YOUR DAUGHTER AND OR SON.
IF YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE AT NIGHT YOU WILL BE MUGGED BY YOUNG PEOPLE DRINKING BECAUSE OF LABOUR.
They seek not to make people understand one another, but to breed distrust and concern and fear and TO DIVIDE.
And it's horrible and I hate it. And kids buy into it and that makes it worse somehow.
Because of all the things to give our children we give them misanthropy.
Ren & Goddamn Stimpy, Motherfuckers
I see SO MANY comedies SUPPOSEDLY aimed at grown ups.
Take any Chuck Lorre show. The Big Bang Theory, Two And A Half Men. Take
basically any comedy show on E4.
Now take Ren & Stimpy and Spongebob Squarepants. The jokes on those shows are SO MUCH smarter and funnier and just...
Like, seriously, guys. Take some fucking lessons. Ren & Stimpy has a SUPERHERO WHO LITERALLY CAN SAVE THE PRESIDENT FROM BAD GUYS but is more concerned with DELIVERING POWDERED TOAST which is BASICALLY THE WORST IDEA EVER.
Mr Horse mulls a question over for a long-ass time and then says "I think the President did... what the President had to do", which is the most fucking dumb political soundbite you will ever hear EXCEPT THE ONES YOU HEAR IN THE REAL WORLD.
Ren becomes a producer and then takes all the credit for Stimpy's work on a cartoon. IN A CARTOON. WITH AT LEAST ONE PRODUCER.
Cynical? Totally. Hilarious? YES.
A family brings home a baboon and then takes it in turn to GET MAULED BY THE BABOON, in the most casual, flippant, jovial fashion possible. Because the guy at the pet shop told them that was how it should be and they were too fucking dumb to go "hey... that doesn't sound OK..."
On top of all that it's a show about an abusive relationship and about how capitalists will ABUSE and EXPLOIT you for your last pennies.
That's the kind of shit other shows don't have the goddamn BALLS to talk about.
Now take Ren & Stimpy and Spongebob Squarepants. The jokes on those shows are SO MUCH smarter and funnier and just...
Like, seriously, guys. Take some fucking lessons. Ren & Stimpy has a SUPERHERO WHO LITERALLY CAN SAVE THE PRESIDENT FROM BAD GUYS but is more concerned with DELIVERING POWDERED TOAST which is BASICALLY THE WORST IDEA EVER.
Mr Horse mulls a question over for a long-ass time and then says "I think the President did... what the President had to do", which is the most fucking dumb political soundbite you will ever hear EXCEPT THE ONES YOU HEAR IN THE REAL WORLD.
Ren becomes a producer and then takes all the credit for Stimpy's work on a cartoon. IN A CARTOON. WITH AT LEAST ONE PRODUCER.
Cynical? Totally. Hilarious? YES.
A family brings home a baboon and then takes it in turn to GET MAULED BY THE BABOON, in the most casual, flippant, jovial fashion possible. Because the guy at the pet shop told them that was how it should be and they were too fucking dumb to go "hey... that doesn't sound OK..."
On top of all that it's a show about an abusive relationship and about how capitalists will ABUSE and EXPLOIT you for your last pennies.
That's the kind of shit other shows don't have the goddamn BALLS to talk about.
Monday, 15 September 2014
Sunday, 14 September 2014
Friday, 12 September 2014
The current polling is that Republicans will win enough elections in 2016 to take over the Senate and keep the House
Inspired, I suppose, by the GOP's message "It's Obama's Fault We're Hitting This With A Wrench."
Sunday, 7 September 2014
Killing In The Name Of
When
we execute people, the tears we shed are not for those we execute - we
never met them, and they belong to the part of the population its
easiest to turn a blind eye towards - but for the rest of us, and what
it says about us.
That we are not even civilised enough to rise above killing.
What made you think it was THEIR soul we were battling for?
That we are not even civilised enough to rise above killing.
What made you think it was THEIR soul we were battling for?
On Drugs
A lot of my friends smoke weed. A lot of my friends' parents smoke weed.
Some of my friends, and some of my friends' parents, do cocaine as well.
...But my friends and their parents are criminals.
This has always been my reasoning for why we need to end the war on drugs. If enforcing a law would tear apart society and put harmless people behind bars then I don't think that law should exist.
Some of my friends, and some of my friends' parents, do cocaine as well.
- I don't think my friends, nor their parents, belong in jail.
- I don't think my friends, nor their parents, are a danger to society that need to be taken out of it.
- I don't think my friends should have their parents taken away from them.
...But my friends and their parents are criminals.
This has always been my reasoning for why we need to end the war on drugs. If enforcing a law would tear apart society and put harmless people behind bars then I don't think that law should exist.
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