Silent_Water
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On the one hand, I know, the last year was not funny at all and the new year did not start very well, too.
On the other hand, some things in human life are so crazy that you can only start to laugh, when you see it and people like ...
... or ...
... said that life is sometimes so absurd that it is only bearable when you make sad jokes about it. So, try to enjoy this and the following postings as I tried and I found them funny - but I am also German and Germans sometimes seemed to like the very dark side of life, e.g. the ancient Nordic / Germanic mythology has the "Götterdämmerung", in which even the Nordic Gods are disappearing in a "world fire" which makes place for a more beautiful world and one of the oldest German "Saga" is the "Legend of the Nibelungs" about "Siegfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild, King Gunther, Hagen von Tronye" etc. and in the end only few survivors are able to tell how jealousy, envy, betrayal, hatred and bloody mass murder with swords led to the fall of one of the richest kingdoms in legendary times of the Middle-Ages.
So: I apologize for my dark kind of humour in the following examples.
At first, an example of the German actor and satirist Oliver Kalkofe, who became famous for a few crazy-funny movies and his ability to find unusual combinations of German words which are funny in the end. Maybe, this is not the best example of him, but fitting for the last year (translation into English below):
Annual review to "The Year with the C-Word"
Let's be open and honest with one another. Speak out what is necessary bluntly, without further ado. So to speak: Kicking into the wrinkled pleated ass of the silly fat elephant (of this year) in this room. Because the immovable truth is: Fucking 2020 was by far the most stupid, piss-silly and crappiest shitty year since what-I-know-when! Sorry, but there is simply no more polite way of expressing it. For a long time - seen globally! - there has not been a similar year which has tested the mind, patience and, in general, the humanity of Homo Sapiens as much as this one. And to blame for it is a tiny, invisibly sneaky virus with C, whose name nobody really wants to hear or pronounce anymore.
Although it does not primarily attack the brain, its sheer existence seems to be able to dangerously infect the humanoid center of reason, apparently even without physical contact through mental aerosols via the Internet. Wild delusions, loss of a sense of reality and egomaniacal disorientation are on the package insert under 'Most common side effects'.
But that's how we are. While animals can only experience reality, humans are allowed to have an opinion about it. He doesn't just have to accept the truth, he can evaluate, deny and reject it. If he wants it that way, the earth is flat, the C-word virus is just an invention of the mask industry, climate change is a mistake in the weather forecast, and if you lose an election, you've actually won it. Reality was only invented by the elites to suppress us - let the others prove otherwise! Basically very simple. There are now so many theoretical truths everywhere that you can easily choose the one you like best.
Or you invent your own and put it on the internet somewhere, then some idiots will believe in it. After all, a truth only becomes true when it is accepted as such - when a tree falls in the forest, there is only a sound, if someone is there who can hear it - or something like that which I read on the internet.
So we just have to keep our eyes and ears shut long enough, stick our tongues far out and wait until everything is over, which we may find stupid. This is how you master every crisis. Even the stupid year 2020!
And 2021 will again be super and virus-free with a party guarantee. Honestly, I read it somewhere on the internet! In this sense: Happy New ...!
2021 ... hm ... It really does not start well, when you look at the front pages of European newspapers and the most photographed person in ALL European newspapers during the last two days is this gentleman and really all Europeans suddenly asked themselves many questions, for example: "Who is the man with the horns?"
"Ah, OK, this must be a remake of 'A Night at the Museum', right?"
"Mhm, no, it seems to be an advertising-gag because of a sell-out of an old souvenir-shop, right?"
"Mhm, not really, it seems more to be a theater performance in a real time production about madness in real life."
"Ahm, OK, we all can see it now but we cannot believe it! This is really over there on the other side of the Atlantic ocean? Today? In our times? In the 21st century? REALLY?"
On the other hand, some things in human life are so crazy that you can only start to laugh, when you see it and people like ...
Ephraim Kishon - Wikipedia
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... or ...
Mel Brooks - Wikipedia
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... said that life is sometimes so absurd that it is only bearable when you make sad jokes about it. So, try to enjoy this and the following postings as I tried and I found them funny - but I am also German and Germans sometimes seemed to like the very dark side of life, e.g. the ancient Nordic / Germanic mythology has the "Götterdämmerung", in which even the Nordic Gods are disappearing in a "world fire" which makes place for a more beautiful world and one of the oldest German "Saga" is the "Legend of the Nibelungs" about "Siegfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild, King Gunther, Hagen von Tronye" etc. and in the end only few survivors are able to tell how jealousy, envy, betrayal, hatred and bloody mass murder with swords led to the fall of one of the richest kingdoms in legendary times of the Middle-Ages.
So: I apologize for my dark kind of humour in the following examples.
At first, an example of the German actor and satirist Oliver Kalkofe, who became famous for a few crazy-funny movies and his ability to find unusual combinations of German words which are funny in the end. Maybe, this is not the best example of him, but fitting for the last year (translation into English below):
Annual review to "The Year with the C-Word"
Let's be open and honest with one another. Speak out what is necessary bluntly, without further ado. So to speak: Kicking into the wrinkled pleated ass of the silly fat elephant (of this year) in this room. Because the immovable truth is: Fucking 2020 was by far the most stupid, piss-silly and crappiest shitty year since what-I-know-when! Sorry, but there is simply no more polite way of expressing it. For a long time - seen globally! - there has not been a similar year which has tested the mind, patience and, in general, the humanity of Homo Sapiens as much as this one. And to blame for it is a tiny, invisibly sneaky virus with C, whose name nobody really wants to hear or pronounce anymore.
Although it does not primarily attack the brain, its sheer existence seems to be able to dangerously infect the humanoid center of reason, apparently even without physical contact through mental aerosols via the Internet. Wild delusions, loss of a sense of reality and egomaniacal disorientation are on the package insert under 'Most common side effects'.
But that's how we are. While animals can only experience reality, humans are allowed to have an opinion about it. He doesn't just have to accept the truth, he can evaluate, deny and reject it. If he wants it that way, the earth is flat, the C-word virus is just an invention of the mask industry, climate change is a mistake in the weather forecast, and if you lose an election, you've actually won it. Reality was only invented by the elites to suppress us - let the others prove otherwise! Basically very simple. There are now so many theoretical truths everywhere that you can easily choose the one you like best.
Or you invent your own and put it on the internet somewhere, then some idiots will believe in it. After all, a truth only becomes true when it is accepted as such - when a tree falls in the forest, there is only a sound, if someone is there who can hear it - or something like that which I read on the internet.
So we just have to keep our eyes and ears shut long enough, stick our tongues far out and wait until everything is over, which we may find stupid. This is how you master every crisis. Even the stupid year 2020!
And 2021 will again be super and virus-free with a party guarantee. Honestly, I read it somewhere on the internet! In this sense: Happy New ...!
2021 ... hm ... It really does not start well, when you look at the front pages of European newspapers and the most photographed person in ALL European newspapers during the last two days is this gentleman and really all Europeans suddenly asked themselves many questions, for example: "Who is the man with the horns?"
"Ah, OK, this must be a remake of 'A Night at the Museum', right?"
"Mhm, no, it seems to be an advertising-gag because of a sell-out of an old souvenir-shop, right?"
"Mhm, not really, it seems more to be a theater performance in a real time production about madness in real life."
"Ahm, OK, we all can see it now but we cannot believe it! This is really over there on the other side of the Atlantic ocean? Today? In our times? In the 21st century? REALLY?"