This page is here because I find the world silly. Not silly -'BIZZARRE', but just plain silly. (Though parts of the world are pretty bizzarre, and there may be another page about them. This page is for those instances in life when you want to do some reasonable, logical sensible thing - and the wolrld wont let you. It is also to highlight other people who try to do something sensible, but fail to.

"To illustrate this, we shall look at different German idiomatic expressions, conventionalized as well as
non-conventionalized ones, which refer to the same schematic terget concept: "stupidity". This common target structure
can be characterzed schematically as a negatively valued norm deviance in the domain of intellectual capacities and the mind. (my italics)

Generalized Metonymy: The conceptualization of stupidity in German idiomatic expressions
Kurt Feyaerts and Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven
 
Can you get much more stupid?

'The symbolic meanings of saliva developing from its physical, physiological functions. The key role of the saliva lies in reception, thus it promotes the adaptation of the world beyond us. Through water, saliva can also be converted into a carrier of mental contents, becoming the means of creation and self- expression. Idioms like "he is the spitting image of his father" identify spitting with Creation. Spitting may be the symbol of occupation, the extension of the self-bounds. "Spit-spit, this is mine" the small child says, grabbing a toy. Spitting is also the gesture of rejection, aggression, and humiliation. Saliva appears as harmful, an accessory of monsters which embody negative archetypes. In films like  The Fly  and  Alien, saliva is the symbol of the appetite, of a desire for devastation. Only the flame-thrower with a drying action is effective against monsters saturated with fluids. That is the way saliva itself is destroyed. And the dehydration means emotional impoverishment in the sense of the soul.'

"Spit-spit the world": Or the symbolism of saliva.
Robert Meszaros - Psychiatria-Hungarica. 1996 Dec; Vol 11(6): 661-663

Safeways does many silly things, and this section will grow long. Some are very silly, but some just irked me as I shopped.
 

• The Safeways burgers are not the cheapest.
• They always close the short queue secondsbefore you set there.
• They have a shower gel called 'Code'.
• They sell only short black shoelaces or very long black or blue shoe laces. Nothing in the middle.
• They do not sell plain black hair dye.
• They sell chocolate in about 4 places -       Mars bars etc. near the checkouts
Some cooking chocolate with the cooking things
Some cooking chocolare with the Fruit n' Nut etc.
Some chocolate with the sweets etc.
(and far too many Easter eggs, far to early before easter)
I'm just getting silly now, aren't I

Notes on a Talk Entitled ``Is the Brain Critical?'' by Per Bak, 18 March 1997 at the Santa Fe Institute

These notes discuss the lecture in detail, and are very silly (well the lecture was silly, wasn't it?)

    Some song lyrics are just really, really silly. Such as...
 

• "Then the rain exploded with a mighty crash, as we fell into the sun!" (Band on the Run, Wings)
• "I hear the real, though far off in, that hails a new creation." (How can I keep from Singing Pete Seeger)
• "I am the eggman, we are the egg men, I am the Walrus, (coo coo ca choo)" (I am the Walrus, The Beatles)
• "Put it in the pantry with your cup cakes..." (Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfuncle)

    Radio 2 has an odd habit, when some DJ (sorry, presenter) is away. Another presenter is usually taken out of their slot, and a new presenter is put in the empty slot. This means that for two weeks we have Sarah Kennedy in for Terry Wogan, Alex Lester taking over from Sarah Kennedy, and Mo Dutta (who has no regular slot) in for Alex Lester. This seems very silly: why not just put in Mo Dutta for Terry Wogan?

On a Politically Correct note (PC = Pretentious Crap), Radio 2 has very few female presenters, and they are usually on in the middle of the night, or the depths of Sunday afternoon.

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