Excerpts from: "Life Tips For The Young - (What Stuff Really Means)"
Mechanics
A
breed of mostly men trained to perpetually sabotage your automobile on a kind
of falling dominoes system that starts when you first go in for an oil change
only to find out, a month later, that you now need a new oil filter. After returning
the car to have the oil filter changed you find out a month later that you need
new spark plugs, and then another month later, new leads, then a fan belt, then
clutch, then brake pads, then battery, water pump, transmission, head gasket
and so on and so forth until you finally give up on your car and sell it to
your mechanic who is only too happy to do you the favour and take it off your
hands for, say, 100 bucks.
The
next week you will recognise your old car standing out front of the mechanic shop
looking brand new and sporting a big sign that says “One Owner! $17,000!”
The
trick is to check where the black fingerprints are located every time your car
is returned to you after each bogus repair so you’ll know what they’ve tampered
with and what is therefore going to break down next because those sonsofbitches
broke it while they were fixing the last thing they also broke.
Postal Workers
Whether
they sit in perfectly straight lines in great parcel and envelope sorting
enclaves for forty years or more, or are out on their brightly painted bicycles
delivering mail up and down the streets in all kinds of weather, they are all nutters.
During an average working day the underside of the average postal worker’s
fingernails collect bits of dead skin from more than 7,000 unknown individuals.
This is apt to drive anyone toward the dark side.
Amsterdam
First
metropolitan cab off the rank when the sea levels rise with global warming. Amsterdam is most notable
for two things: It is below sea level, and everyone and their dog rides a bike.
Not a motorbike, a pushbike. A bicycle. Amsterdamners prefer to ride
old-fashioned bikes like the one Anne Frank used to ride in the months leading
up to the Second World War (see “Stove Pipe Jeans”). They also like to ride
with the same countenance film makers have imagined Anne Frank used to have
when she was riding her bike around, with the head tilted back in a kind of
arrogant defiance and the neck scarf flailing behind in the breeze.
Amsterdamners are also proud of their Marijuana Cafes, known throughout the
world, and also the display window whore houses which leave absolutely nothing
to the imagination.
Mr Olympia
(See
steroids) Is the world’s most supremely
developed man as judged by a panel of bent over goons without a serviceable
ballsac among them.
Miss Olympia
Sponsored
in toto by fake tanning products. Miss Olympia contestants are predominantly
Caucasian and leave their faces and heads a pasty white while the rest of their
bodies they paint a black-brown from the jaw-line on south and look like exceedingly fit and well-built human
lighthouses.
YouTube
An
attempt by evil global masterminds to capture in video format the contents and
appearance of every bedroom on planet earth using clueless human guinea pigs to
do the dirty work for them, for free.
News Anchor
A
single person who’s ignorance is so total it somehow maintains its own fierce
center of gravity while all around it the rest of the news team are losing
their minds in the mad dash for advertising dollars.
Husband
A
man for whom freedom has become a distant, joy-filled memory.
Wife
A
distant joy-filled memory.
Rear-View Mirror
After
the invention of the petrol-driven engine it was believed that speeds of more
than 30 miles per hour could snap your head right off if you had to turn to see
if anything was coming up from behind. Like a Cheetah. These fears proved
unfounded however when it was discovered that the human does not snap off until
speeds somewhat in excess of 30 miles per hour are reached.
Papa
Someone
who is never directly looked at but only glimpsed as a dark silhouette bent
over a horse-drawn plough somewhere out along the horizon.
Mama
Someone
who’s skirt is never clear of clinging, snot-nosed children with dirt behind
their ears.
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