In 1968 John Cleese, the well known member of Monty Python, did a tv show called How to irritate people. There’s no need to say that he is a specialist, when it comes to combining the irritation of people with humour.
In 2008 Monty Python appeared in the internet personally for, well I don’t really know what for. But they are there. And they irritate and amuse as if nothing had happened in the last 40 years. How interesting to see there still so much room for them to act like that. John Cleese seems to be the most active one of them, having an own blog and an own twitter account.

And there he says things like this:

Ha?

‘Ha!’ means you know something. Something of interest. Something of importance? Something we need to know? Definitely something he’s hiding from his followers.

You see how easy it is to irritate people: Just hide some information from someone and show within a short utterance that there is some kind of information he might be interested in. That he could eventually be in need of. Even if he doesn’t have a tiny clue what that kind of information that could be.

John keeps that information for about 7 hours. And 7 hours in twitter are a lifetime. You can drive with your car from London to Paris in 7 hours.

Finally he comes back and…

enjoys keeping his secret.

You think I just made that up? Have a look:

It’s one story between women and men that women always try to get their guys to sit on the toilet. Standing in front of it may be healthier for men but in most relationships it simply means more work for women to clean everything afterwards. Or they think it’s more hygienic within the bathroom as men sit down.
I think, my ladies, you won’t be able to educate men that way. Just have a look at scottymoon.

How robust men can be if the situation affords it.

They do not let anything disturb their way of life as long as they know what’s to be done. And they don’t give up plans as new preconditions come up. Even if it is in form of a smelly, brown, flabby substance quite near to them.

Somehow it would never ever occur to men in scotty’s situation to clean the toilet first before doing what they we’re planing to do as they enter the bathroom. Just think about how abstruse that thought is: Men considering about cleaning the toilet first before having a piss.

And is there still anyone to think education is the right thing to do here?

Die richtige PR und überhaupt Werbung ist auch vor Jahren schon Schwerpunktthema in Unternehmen gewesen, wie dieser Beitrag aus Sketchup mit Dieter Pfaff und den unvergessenen Dieter Krebs und Werner Kreindl zeigt.

Sometimes there are discussions starting because of headlines of daily papers. Last week such a headline in Germany dealt with the sexual life of a star.

There must be something about discussing the frequencies of stars having sex. David Duchovny thinks he has to much and more people are interested in that topic than in his tv show, where he’s playing a guy having too much sex. Whereas in the USA that topic is more an object of humour it was taken more seriously in Luxembourg:

In english: “Fuck! I read while getting rolls: Heino’s got more sex than me. Dirty old prick.”

Heino is a german folk music star who turned 70 last saturday and told the press he’s having sex 3 times a week. So in this case it’s not just about being interested in the sexual habits of a star. It’s about comparing your own sexual life to that of a star. Papierfrau seems to be the loser of that comparison, which means she’s having sex less than three times a week. I guess what you think right about now is: How much is okay?

Anyhow to Papierfrau the subject is not a nice one, either due to not having a sexual life that’s worth making a headline of or due to losing a comparison about having sex to a 70 year old folk music star.

It even gets worse as she catches a glimps of the headlines on the next morning:

In english: “The media still deal with Heino’s sexual life. I don’t want to get informed about that, because if, I’ll start figuring that scene *fear*”

What a curious thing about the human brain. Although neither Heino’s music nor the imagination of Heino having sex seem to be enjoyable occurrences to papierfrau it’s still interesting at first glace to think about the frequences of him having sex.

It doesn’t help her anyhow and just keeps piling TMIs.

There’s always something about Sarah Palin giving interviews:

It’s christmas time. It’s time to get some presents for the beloved. Most guys are known for not being too smart in chosing the right present. So they better listen to their girls because if girls know their guys they drop their wishes in what they say from time to time. Otherwise they have to think about it themselves and risk to chose exactly the wrong item.
Drinkbourbon clearly has sniffed on the wrong item:

Is it just the metaphor drinkbourbon wants to point out or the richness of scents he has smelled so far?

I’m not jealous of him having these smell experiences if it’s that what he’s talking about. A young hooker’s menstrual flow must be more attractive to him in that case, although that kind of substances ain’t something that is kept in your body for years.

Anyway, I still haven’t improved in telling you how to get the best present. Chosing the right present just doesn’t seem to be a guy’s thing.

Am vergangenen Sonntag hat sich STERN-Chefredakteur Hans-Ulrich Jörges bei Alexander Kluge hingesetzt und gemeint, man hätte die Finanzkrise kommen sehen können. Er habe dies schon in einem kritischen Artikel im September 2007 getan. Angela Merkel sei seitens der Amerikaner in Kenntnis gesetzt worden, dass 3 Billionen Dollar auf der Kippe stehen, “vernichtet” zu werden. Merkel und Steinbrück, die seiner Ansicht nach alles alleine auskungeln, hätten einschreiten können. Hätten einschreiten müssen. Hätten das Finanzgebaren intensiver kontrolieren und regulieren müssen. Stattdessen habe man die Hände in den Schoß gelegt und nichts getan. Ein Jahr lang nichts.

Jetzt klingt das irgendwie so, als ob Merkel nur ihr Superman-Kostüm aus dem Schrank rausholen hätte müssen und schon wäre die Krise innerhalb eines Jahres für Deutschland wesentlich abgefederter angekommen. Dabei ist Jörges’ Kommentar bei weitem nicht so alarmierend, wie er ihn zu lesen scheint. Er klingt darin eher wie der Ausplauderer von Schlechtwetterhalbwahrheiten, die kein Leser genau einzuschätzen vermag. Ein Appell an die Regierung lese ich schon gar nicht daraus.

Aber okay, so gut kenne ich mich mit den politischen Chancen vergangener Tage nicht aus. Aber Jörges nahm, wie ansatzweise auch schon in seinem Artikel, noch die Gelegenheit wahr, das Finanzgebaren als Kulturzeitenwende zu deuten. Es werde entweder so sein, dass solche Bohlensendungen im Fernsehen noch schlimmer werden würden oder es gäbe eine vollkommene Abkehr von derartigen Sendungen. Die Überbewertung von Geld führt nach Jörges also zu einer Unterbewertung von Kultur. Das Übermaß des Einen erniedrigt das andere. Ying und Yang.

So sieht es der Chefredakteur des STERN, einem Lifestyle-Magazin, das sich nun wirklich wie kein anderes Blatt aktiv gegen die Bohlens dieser Welt engagiert.