Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
European History from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity
There is this group of
Earthlings who went crazy for a long time and took over most of the
planet. Then after one last blazing fling about 70 years ago, they
mellowed out. They don’t take over anything anymore.
It all started when the
Europeans realized that a group of people who believed something
surprisingly not all that different from what they believed
controlled a city that the Europeans believed was important to what
they believed.. That really pissed them off. So they raised a huge
army and attacked those other people, called Muslims, and took the
city, Jerusalem. Then the Muslims took it back. Then the Europeans
took it again. And the Muslims took it back. This went on for a while
with the Europeans getting decreasingly successful at it.
They gave up.
Then they found out about
all the land there was in the rest of the world and the people in it
who didn’t believe anything like what they believed. And they might
have gold. So the Europeans switched focus to saving all these other
people from their beliefs and their gold.
And this made the lives of
these other people a living hell because they were usually pretty
happy living their lives without ships, swords, Jesus and horses. And
they definitely could have done without the slavery.
But
it all fell apart when the Europeans realized even they didn't all
believe the same thing. Because getting beliefs exactly right is very
important to Earthlings. If you are even slightly off they get very
violent. This is what brought the Europeans down. They spent a lot of
time killing each other over it. (If I told you how many wars have
been fought in the name of the King of Peace, you'd call me a liar.)
In
the end, it seemed like they were fighting just to fight. So
finally they said, “This is crazy. We are done with this.” They
really seem to have learned their lesson and are really trying to get
along.
But
one of their descendants, the Americans, picked up the crazy ball and
are really running with it. And going by the fact that the Europeans
ran with it for hundreds of years and went out with a really big
bang, I don't think the Americans are going to stop any time soon.
They’ve got a full head of steam.
The moral here is if an
Earthling shows up on your shore saying, “I come in the name of [X]
to bring you [Y],” run. As deep into your jungles as you can. And
whatever you do, don't tell them you're not interested. They will
brand you a heretic, or a communist, or whatever the current wrong
thing to be is. (Socialist is big now.) This will make you fair game
for torture, forfeiture of natural resources and enslavement. Come to
think of it, it doesn't matter how you respond. You're still fit for
torture, forfeiture of natural resources and enslavement.
As I said, run.
Observer003
– Earthlings
Monday, February 25, 2013
Fuzzy Barriers in Earthling Linguistic Structures
If you speak English, which, if you're
going to be an Earthling, you really should do, then one of the most
important words you need to know is “shit”. It is the most
versatile and can get you through most situations.
Shit literally means feces or to
excrete feces. But it's rarely used for that.
As a noun, it can be a compliment. Or
an insult, depending on which article you use. If someone calls you
the shit, that's a compliment. A shit is an insult.
Unless you modify it by temperature. A cold shit is still bad. But a
cool shit is good. As is a hot shit. I'm not sure about in-between
temperatures, though; I've never heard someone called a room
temperature shit. Neither a toasty shit.
Shit can also mean “stuff”. I found
this out when a friend asked me to help him move into a new
apartment.
“I need some help moving my shit.”
Long beat.
“Your what?”
“My shit. C'mon, man. Many hands make
light work.”
“Why- What- … How much?”
“Hey, I helped you move your shit
when you got that new place.”
“My...”
Long beat.
“Ohhhh. Right. Sure. What time?”
As a verb, shit mostly means to lie to.
“Are you shitting me?”
“No. And I think it would be
pretty obvious to us both if I were.”
“Why? You don't think you have what
it takes to look me in the eye and shit me?”
“Clearly that would be impossible.
Especially at first.”
“You better not be shitting
me.”
“You would be the first to know. Or,
at least the
second.”
Another use of shit is in a phrase
indicating anger.
“How mad was she?”
“She shit a brick!”
Which doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
While I have never shat a brick, of all the emotions I might feel
during the process, I don't think anger would be one of them. Fear
springs to mind. Also confusion.
“How confused was she?”
“She looked as though she were
shitting a brick!”
That might make more sense.
And afterward might come relief.
In fact, shit is used in so many
phrases that you're better off just learing what the correct
responses to them are, rather than what they mean.
Like:
“I'm not going to take any shit from
you.”
INCORRECT: “You didn't have to tell
me that; it is a base assumption.”
CORRECT: [situation dependent]
“Are you shitting me?”
INCORRECT: “While I imagine there
might be some confusion at first, I think that once your eyes cleared
my anus, it would be pretty obvious if I was shitting you. I think a
good rule of thumb would be that once your mouth if free enough to
ask that question, you shouldn't need to ask it.”
CORRECT: “I shit you not.”
“What's this shit?”
INCORRECT: “Do you really need a
modifier for that noun? Shit is shit.”
CORRECT: [situation dependent]
“Bull shit.”
INCORRECT: “Where?”
CORRECT: “No, seriously.”
“Holy shit!”
INCORRECT: “Oh, come on. Is there
anything you people won't worship?”
ALSO INCORRECT: “This I have
got to see.”
CORRECT: “What?”
“Fuck that shit.”
INCORRECT: “I most certainly will
not!”
CORRECT: “I hear you.”
Mostly though, shit is just an
interjection indicating that an outcome was contrary to one's desire
or expectation.
“Shit! I got pregnant.”
“Shit! I robbed a bank.”
“Shit! I betrayed the messiah.”
- Observer003 -
Earthlings
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Africa, Cradle of Mankind
Africa is where Earthlings became
Earthlings, but after that everything that was ever important to
Earthlings happened somewhere else. Africa has been sitting on its
laurels for thirty thousand years, easy. It is the high school
football star who now works at the convenience store of continents.
It's where Earthlings evolved, and it
had the Egyptians, who weren't too shabby. But lately? Nothing. I
don't think they even created their own writing there (except the
Egyptians).
C'mon Africa. You can do this. Remember
the opposable thumb? That was huge. And nobody did walking
upright and the domestication of fire like you did.
Snap out of it. Not all the Earthlings
left you. It's time you thought about the ones who stayed. And look
at what those others have done. War and environmental degradation?
Who needs them.
You think Europe is happy? It looks
like a diseased penis with erectile dysfunction. And if Europe is the
penis, then Asia is the butt. The butt with a vestigial tail. And all
those poopy little islands around it aren't helping. Japan must have
been a big fiber day.
I have no idea what North America is
going for and South America looks like it's trying to look like you.
And failing.
“You mean like this? Is this right?”
No. Sorry South America.
Antarctica? Just look at the picture. I
don't want to repeat myself.
And Australia clearly isn't trying.
It's like a blob land mass fell off the creator's pallet and he
didn't bother to clean it up.
Then there's you. The shape of a demon
skull. The great, horned beast. Feral and feared. Get back on that
horse, Africa. You're time has come again.
- Observer003 -
Earthlings
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Economic Myth Exposed Via Testi-Pedal Impact
I know an Earthling woman who quit her
job to work in the sex industry.
“The Sex Industry”, like most
things on Earth, is not what it sounds like. Factories do not dot the
landscape where “sex” is manufactured. Although there are
factories where sex toys, of which they have many, are manufactured.
They have powered sex toys; you have to plug them in.
And the majority of these devises are
for female Earthlings. And, considering the level of technology
available, I'm amazed they even put up with the males anymore. You
wouldn't believe this stuff. And you would think this would be a big
tip off. If your partner is so dissatisfied that she has to tax the
electrical grid, you've got a problem.
But no. Earthling males have a
hyper-inflated opinion of the size of their sex organ, and of its
innate ability to please.
Thus, the sex toys.
And sex toys are usually built in a
country other than the one where they are sold.
I've often wondered what warped, or,
more probably, highly accurate, view these people have of the people
in the other country.
I've also wondered what people who work
in these places tell other people they do.
“I work down at the factory.”
“Oh? I've always wondered what they
make there.”
“Yeah.”
“So?”
“Hmm?”
“What do they make there?”
“Oh, um, rubber ... and latex based
electronics.”
“Oh, like cooking utensils?”
“Sure. Okay. I can imagine, in a
pinch, using them to push something around a frying pan, yes. Or to
froth something up, definitely.”
Anyway, that woman I know. She
specializes in dominant/submissive relationships. She ties her
customers up because they feel inferior and reminds them that they
feel inferior, which makes them feel good.
She gets paid to do this.
There's one guy who paid her to tie him
up and kick him in the nuts over the course of an afternoon. When I
heard this, I realized that there's really no excuse to not have a
job. If there are people out there who are willing to pay you to kick
them in the nuts for an afternoon, the dream of full employment is
within the Earthlings' grasp.
Observer003 –
Earthlings
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Foundational Mythology of the Earthling Western Hemisphere – Part II
Last time I talked about the Israelites, they'd just escaped the Egyptian army when their god (Yahweh) blew his nose at the sea so they could get across. Then Yahweh stopped blowing his nose at the sea and the water came back and drowned the Egyptians when they tried to cross after them. Which the Egyptians really should have seen coming; It's the basis of every Road Runner cartoon I've ever seen. Yeah, they didn't have cartoons back then, but still. Come on.
Anyway,
after this, the Israelites decided to regroup at this mountain called
Sinai so Moses could tell them their next move. This is when Yahweh
decided to explain the whole deal to them. It was essentially a
protection racket. “You worship me, and only me, and obey these
rules, and I'll never let anyone hurt you and give you this really
sweet place to live.”
*
* * * *
But
on the way there, the Israelites got attacked by Amalek (I'm not sure
if that's a person or a country). But so long as Moses kept his arms
raised the Israelites won. But when he lowered them, they started to
lose. Weirdest battle strategy I ever heard of. So the battle went
back and forth because Moses's arms would get tired, because battles
last a long time and he just couldn't keep his arms up that long.
Then he realized he should just sit down and have two guys hold his
arms up.
And
Yahweh was so pumped from this that he was all like, "Woo-hoo!
Oh yeah! I'm going to wipe Amalek from history! No one will even
remember they even existed!! Write it down! Write it down that no one
will ever remember Amalek even existed."
So
the Israelites wrote it down in their book. A book, by the way,
that's been translated into every known Earthling language.
*
* * * *
After
that, they made it to Mount Sinai. There, Yahweh called Moses up the
mountain to lay down the law to him. And it was a lot of law. The
whole first part was basically about how everybody should be cool
with each other, no stealing, and if you break something you have to
pay for it. But he sprinkled in some random stuff, I think as a test
to see if anybody actually did the reading.
He'd
be like, “So you read it all?”
And
the Israelites would be like, “Oh, absolutely.”
“Seriously?”
“Totally.”
“Word
for word?”
“Word
for word.”
“Okay,
great. So what's for dinner?”
“Oh,
we're just going to have a little lamb boiled in it's mother's m-”
“AH
HAH!”
Like
that.
The
next part of the rules were all about how to build the ultimate crash
pad that Yahweh could stay in when he came to visit. He was very
specific about size and materials. Very specific. Like he'd
been thinking about it a long time. Like, the whole time the
Israelites were suffering in Egypt, Yahweh was off thinking about his
ultimate crash pad. It was just a tent, but he knew exactly how it
should look. And they also had to build a special box to put all the
rules he was giving them in. And what the priests should wear.
Then
there was a whole part about how to cook out. And Yahweh must have
gone vegan at this point, but reluctantly, because he wasn't going to
eat the animals they sacrificed to him, but he did love the smell. He
was like a guy who quits smoking but still likes to be around other
people who smoke just for the smell. Maybe he was dating a vegan so
he had to be one, too.
And
Moses must have been, like, “Jeezus, This is a lot of stuff. I
can't remember all of it.”
“Oh,
no problem. I wrote it all down for you.”
And
Yahweh handed him these two tablets.
“What?
You got all that on two tablets? Everything?”
“Yeah.
Well, front and back. And I took out all the spaces and vowels.”
But,
in getting all this, Moses was up on the mountain forty days in a
cloud of smoke. It says the whole top of the mountain was covered in
smoke. I guess Yahweh wasn't a smokeless burning bush. And Yahweh
didn't want any of the Israelites to go up on the mountain with
Moses. (There was some kind of security fence around it that killed
anyone who set foot on it.) Maybe because if someone got up there,
they were bound to find out that Yahweh was a burning bush and
wouldn't have understood.
“A
what?”
“I'm
not kidding. He's talking to a burning bush.”
“And
the bush is talking back?”
“I
guess so. I didn't get that close. One thing I did hear: No more
shellfish.”
“What?”
“Dude,
we're in a desert. It's not really an issue.”
“That's
not the point. Like circumcision wasn't enough, now no more
Lobsterfests?”
“Wait.
Let's get back to that burning bush. This is what Moses has been
talking to the whole time? Seriously, who here actually knew Moses
before any of this?”
“Wasn't
he wanted for murder? I heard he killed a guy. That's why he left.”
“I
heard he was 40 years herding sheep. That's gotta mess with your
mind.”
“That's
what the smoke was at the front of the line? All this time we were
like, 'Okay, cool. Somebody brought the hibachi.' Because we left in
such a hurry, we forgot ours. But now we know why the burgers never
made it back to us.”
And
it spiraled from there.
“A
flaming shrub? Has anybody besides
Moses heard it talk? Maybe – and I'm just spit balling here – but
maybe we should take half a mo and talk about this. Because I never
heard Abraham, Isaac or Jacob mention a burning shrub. And I think it
would have come up. A golden calf. That was always good enough
before. Aaron? You're good with a hammer. How about hammering us up a
nice golden calf. Who's with me? Because, after all this, I could use
a party. Anyone else? Show of hands? Yeah, I thought so.”
So
they collected all of their gold earrings and Aaron made them into a
nice golden calf for them to party with. They ate, drank and danced
with it. Because you could do that with gods back then. But not with
Yahweh. He heard about it and got pissed.
He was going to wipe them all out right there and Moses had to talk
him down.
Then
Moses went down the mountain to check it out for himself and when he
saw it, he was so blown away that he dropped the tablets Yahweh had
just given him. Shattered them. The only ones not partying was this
tribe called the Levites. So he tells them to grab their swords and
go at it. Which they did. They cut a pretty bloody swath through the
Golden Calfers. Which was
less than what Yahweh wanted to do, but not by much. But I think
Moses was mostly mad that he dropped the tablets, because he had to
go back up the mountain and get another set, which was another forty
days.
And
pious as he was, forty days was forty days. He had a wife he hadn't
seen.
*
* * * *
I
was really thinking I was going to be able to explain these people in
two reports. I see now how wrong I was. I may never finish, but I
will continue.
Because,
the amazing thing is, so many Earthlings trace their roots to them,
even though neither they, nor their ancestors, spent any time amongst
them. There are Earthlings who hate* the descendents of these people,
but still trace their roots back to these people.
So,
yeah, I'll have to get back to this story.
-
Observer003 - Earthlings
*And
I do mean hate. Hate as in they want to
wipe-them-off-the-face-of-the-Earth hate.
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Monday, July 2, 2012
You Actually Don't Want To Be Taken To Their Leaders
Politics is when Earthlings try and
figure out who has had the least sex with the fewest people, as long
as they have had it with at least one, other than themselves or
someone the same sex. The person who lies about this the best gets to
be leader. This is very weird because when I was going through their
educational system, this list of the most electable people would be
the list you most didn't want to be on. You wanted to be on the list
of the nearly least electable people. (The only less electable people
are gays and virgins.) So they tend to elect losers. But not virgins.
Or women, even though women in their educational system wanted to be
on the most electable list.
Sometimes they get it wrong. This is
called a scandal, which is when male politicians who unsuccessfully
have private lives have to quit and write a book and go on talk
shows. Female ones have to - I don't know. There are so few of them
that I haven't seen one have have a scandal yet.
* * * * *
Talk shows are things where Earthlings
talk about how they are so ashamed of something they did that they
can't even talk about it. Except with people they don't know so the
people they don't know feel good because at least their lives aren't
as crappy as this person's. And in between, they sell you soap.
Earthlings need refreshing a lot, based on their soaps. And
invigorating. And the smell of soap really does this for them! I
mean, I've tried smelling soap and it really does nothing for me. But
something about Earthling physiology is really zoomed up by smelly
soap.
* * * * *
Politicians can wipe away a scandal by
being “born again”. Which is strange, because wiping away a
scandal by coming out of a woman again would seem the least likely
way to erase all the trouble they got into by going into women to
begin with. I guess the idea is that if you convince a woman to let a
full grown you climb all the way up inside her and then back out
again you must be pretty contrite. They never mention who the woman
is that let them do this. I guess because no woman would want the
whole world to know how blown out her vagina must be now.
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