Observations on the world and its inhabitants
If you didn’t immediately get it, it’s about clichés—the pre-chewed cud of human interaction. They arrive dressed as empathy, euphemisms, and preparation to deliver insults. But more often they function as conversational wallpaper: decorative, non-absorbent, and entirely resistant to meaning. They’re the linguistic equivalent of nodding while scrolling. Clichés operate like emotional pop-ups: they interrupt, ...
In a dénouement that echoed with the inevitability of a wilting pink carnation, Adrian Mardell, the captain who steered Jaguar Land Rover through last year’s bewildering “Barbie pink” storm, is stepping down. It’s a stark reminder that even the most audacious visions can shatter against the unforgiving wall of public mockery. Mardell, in a move ...
Well, the things and people I come across, and have to deal with – I tell you. This anecdote follows on from the side-splitting: The Great Cabbage Conspiracy: Why water is useless! Let’s get into this one. “Right,” I began, trying to sound helpful, “what exactly is wrong with your knee, then? Is it, you ...
Wow!! It’s such an amazing tool – beating back ChatGPT hands down – that I had to try it out on some conundrums I faced in the past. Note that on opening this post, a video starts playing automatically at 11:11 min and stops automatically about 6 mins later. To not have the video start ...
I’ve been searching for the last 5 years for an economical very small microwave oven. This is something I could use when working out of hotels. Well, I gave up on the search. But not easily. I even explored trying to build with my own hands, a small microwave by taking component parts from second ...
In a groundbreaking study, a team of researchers at the International Institute of Quantum Idiocy (IIQI) has discovered a new set of particles that is believed to be the fundamental building blocks of stupidity. The particle, named the “stupidion,” has a unique set of properties that set it apart from all other known particles in ...
Don’t ask – “How do these situations happen to you only?”. Right let me get into it straight away. It’s today 29/05/2024, I’ve left my room on the third floor of a hotel, on the way out to get to a domiciliary visit. I see a man who appeared be about 70 y.o, just outside ...
I really don’t understand. It is so unfair. I tried to learn and thought I did learn what was important to doctors on a certain forum. Then I’m beaten up for the understanding I was led to. Oh well it is the rough and tumble of forums, I must understand and try to accept – ...
Unless you’ve been buried under a Rock or you are Rip van Winkle himself, you will not have heard of ChatGPT. But the way it works is that the many will say, “I don’t understand it – I’m not a tech geek so I left it alone. Furthermore, the government said it could be dangerous! ...
As many know the topic of stupidity has occupied me privately and on this blog for quite a while. I’ve not written about it for quite some time. That ought not to mean that stupidity has died! The story below shows stupidity and its power. Summary: I can book at Booking.com for the same apartment ...
Over many years, I’ve been noticing that it is acceptable for many people to declare themselves as ‘lazy’, ‘dumb’, ‘stupid’, ‘luddite’, or ‘thick’. By stark contrast people who dare to assert that they are smart, or of above average intelligence are not accommodated very well. Instead they are given a rough time with derogatory responses, ...
The result of MRI scan has shown something that ‘may’ be a cancer. That’s brought me closer to my mortality. And – I nauseatingly re-iterate that ‘time is our most precious asset’. Hence, I have and will continue until the very end, to deal short shrift to idiots who intend to waste seconds or hours ...
Some people want to save money on food and some don’t. In my recent bill below I saved 69%. Obviously, I won’t get that saving every time. But the more savings I make; they will add up. It was on food that was reduced-price, around 16:30PM on a Sunday. There are other days and times ...
So – for the last 2 years I have realised that many images in posts were not showing. Those were mainly before 2015. That as annoying but not in need of an urgent fix. I tried loads of thing that didn’t work. But – I kept on researching the problem every two to three months. ...
Well, I nearly died of laughter. This is a play on that tree which fell that know one knew about. Of course it is about something else too – obviously!
This is now defined by the Royal College of Psychiatrists as Unlawful behaviours Some examples of unlawful behaviours are: • Comments about the way someone looks which they may find demeaning • Treating someone unfairly because of their marital status • Indecent remarks • Touching without permission • Spreading malicious rumours about someone’s sexuality. It ...
Wow! I came across the video below that explained it very well – how stupid people are so powerful. Like a panorama opened before me. Fear of intelligence was explained very well. It is something I’ve been observing for years – obviously because I am statistically in the top 5% of the intelligence distribution curve. ...
What on earth am I on about now!? I ‘heard’ hundreds thinking it. Calm down. This is metaphor. Oh dear I should be more cautious really cuz it is a new world where metaphor has been replaced by the concretised thinking often seen on social media. Yuh know – this is where only mention of ...
Humans are driven by various things. Some will again be jumping on the net to Google everything, instead of thinking. Those who read pop-psychology will be about to lecture me on ‘needs’ which drive people i.e. things like primary (as per Freud) and secondary needs (as per Maslow). I have no argument that people need ...
It’s the name of a book! In the event that you don’t know Dr Bo Bennett, you are expected to jump on the net and start Googling madly. After all, you don’t know who’s who in this world – and everybody out there is a guru of some sort – right? I mean – like ...
I’m pretty sure some will be jumping on the net to read up what cliché means. Nobody is getting a dissertation here today. To start off net-crawlers, go here to read up. The one that has been getting to me more in the last 2 years is ‘.. to be fair‘. Every time I hear ...
Recently I had the experience of communicating with another person who spoke mostly French. I speak only English – sorry (like I’m not). Both of us were using Microsoft Translate App. Those who haven’t caught up will be nosily interested in whether this is a male or female person. It is a male person, and ...
Yep. That’s what I was told in a real FTF conversation tonight 2021-09-04 between 20:00 and 21:20PM. Some must wonder why I even engage in those kinds of discussions. Well, I discover how the average human being thinks. It is stupid basically – the patterns of thought – and the gross disregard for the rules ...
From an online forum is the following. DB: Well done! What is a blaeberry?! CW – replying to DB: For those who don’t know howto – select word with mouse, right click, then click search option that appears. For those who don’t know how to select text: left click mouse, hold it down and move ...
Well, I often post up situations I encounter as a sort of diary which then forms evidence for my patterns of thinking. Scenario This one was at a hotel A. There was some confusion on a Sunday night when I needed to check in. I had 5 nights which I accidentally double-booked for the following ...
As some will know, I have conversations with an imaginary character called Stupid. I haven’t explained much about Stupid before now. The particular features of Stupid: The above is not a full list, of course. How did this character develop? Over the years I’ve heard so many stupid utterances from people, that I have had ...
I tell you, somebody sends morons in my direction! It is a plot – or I’m like some sort of magnet for fools! Okay – calm down. No need to call the authorities to ‘take me away’. So what it is, is this: I park my car partly on a pavement – not in London, ...
For many years I’ve been referring to the power of the herd instinct. Nobody believes me of course – because I am a NOBODY! That’s fine cuz I don’t need people (the herd) to validate what I might say or think. History proves me right. In essence when people take a position or attitude about ...
I am thankful for the COVID-19 virus attack on the world – though many lives will be lost – a terrible cost – because we will be taught as a society a different sort of social contract with our leaders, and people around us. We also will be reminded about the essentials of ‘life’, which ...
I know that I’ve touched on how intelligent people can be stupid, but today was a brand new experience in that same direction. Right – the situation was that I was sitting at lunch among ‘folk’ who I know the average intelligence quotient of the group was around 120. [Genius is >140-ish and learning deficient ...
Captain Walker
Captain Walker
