Monday, January 21, 2008
Last week we were teaching our students that even something as private as suicide is and can be a social issue/problem. Durkheim surmised that these people often committed suicide (egoistic/fatalistic/altruistic/anomic) basically because of the different types of social solidarity (low/high; organic/mechanical) and its effects on them (low/high regulation/integration).
But WHATEVER. KNN! If you wanna die go stick your head in an oven for Pete's sake! Don't jump on the MRT track and inconvenience EVERYBODY else. THANKS for making it even MORE a social fucking problem than it already is. Because of you I was LATE LATE LATE to work even though i got up FUCKING EARLY can. NBCB. LKY will be VERY upset with you for halting the economy. I on the other hand am upset for something more important: I woke up early for nothing!!!
(Some) Singaporeans constantly write to the forum asking for glass doors to be built around open train platforms so people won't jump. Puh-lease. There's a reason why it's called OPEN PLATFORM you dickheads* ! We should build freakin glass doors around these jumping idiots, not the platform! Now all we need is a programme to identify potential jumpers, dress them up as mimes or clowns, box them up in glass boxes, then let them slowly die in front of waiting commuters...
*See previous post for possible definitions
PS. Evidently noone jumped and it was just a broken down train. I hope tomorrows' headline is "SMRT shares plummet due to absolute incompetence despite 99% efficiency" or "1% breakdown was one straw too many for the SMRT camel" or "Shane pisses on SMRT control station. Fined $500". OK maybe not the last one.
Save this post for when someone jumps and I am pissed off again.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
"dickhead"
This entry is gonna be a bit shaneographic so if you don't like dickheadish things, I suggest you stop reading.
I was just thinking today... Who came up with the term
dickhead? I bet you it was a woman cos only men can be dick
heads. Sometimes we refer to each other by our representative reproductive organ, but why single out a head over the whole thing? (Woman are never called cunt lips, for example). I mean, I'm not really sure it even resembles an actual human head of any sort, except maybe someone who's gone through a massive car accident, and had to have half his brain removed leaving an immense single-incision scar from just above his forehead to the back of his head near the nape of his neck. But even then he wouldn't really be totally bald. Maybe splotchy patches of hair. But not bald. There's no denying that the term spawned all sorts of other useful sub terms used to make fun of men: "
They're always thinking with the wrong/other head". But the fact is, a
dickhead looks nothing like a head.
On the other hand, a dick kind does look more like a snake. So they started calling it
the one-eyed snake. So that's why you get all-time favorite terminology like "
Hey baby check out my Alabama blacksnake", or the old-school bar joke of "
Daddy, I saw the postman and mum in bed. He also brought his snake and it went into mummy's cave", and so on and so forth. But seriously, why is having a snake as symbol of sex so appealing? I can only think of the biblical story of Adam and Eve and the highly seductive snake slithering all around Eve's naked body. Or not. And anyway, there are small thin snakes. But in reality of thick, long, hard snakes are desirable. People take all sorts of things to make the snake hard. But hard snakes are usually stuffed and displayed in a museum.
I'm quite convinced it's a feminist conspiracy.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Contradictions, Contradictions
The world is full of contradictions, but its funny that people and governments can still get away with it. For example, the Indian High Court recently rejected a petition filed by a HIV and AIDS organization called the Naz Foundation that sought to challenge laws that deemed homosexual acts as "unnatural criminal behaviour". Ok, i don't know about you, but unnatural, that's a matter of opinion and personal beliefs, but to say it's criminal is a bit too much lah.
But I digress. Here's the funny part: The High Court ruled that "the validity of a law" cannot be challenged by anyone who is "not affected by it". That is, gay people should petition for gay rights, not organizations representing them.
The irony is, it also ruled that "Indian society, by and large, disapproves of homosexuality and justifies it being treated as a criminal offence even when adults indulge in private". Now, where are the straight people's petition? By the same logic, the government, ie. an organization representing a body of people, should not be allowed to sanction law the same way an organization representing gays should not be allowed to petition or challenge said law. The government lawyers should get off their arse and conduct polls, make straight people put their names down and sign a very long petition representative of "Indian society, by and large" in order to make such a ludicrious demand, isn't it?
My intention here is not pro-gay nor anti-gay. It's just pro-fairness.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
NY to my "God-Children"
I'm quite grateful to have two swell god children. I mean, who else has a cousin who plays in a heavy metal band, and signs off her Christmas presents in self-praise? :p I don't actually know what is required of a good god father, especially one that doesn't pray as much as he used to, nor adhere to Christian doctrines as much as he once did. But I am thankful that at least both ryan and steph have good parents and great families for them to grow up in and take care of them. I am sorry if I've not been there often enough, or adequately enough, but I hope that the new year holds new and better prospects for all of us.
Ryan and "Stephilicious"
"Stephilicious" and I
"dickhead"
Ryan and "Stephilicious"
"Stephilicious" and I
