Euro 2008 is now done, so I can start writing again. I have had many ideas cross my mind during the usual times of napping, eating, before sleeping and during other activities, but I did not feel like writing, but now I am. This might be a long post, or it might not be, we shall just see how it goes, I do not feel like splitting the contents into different posts.

1. My Calculator

I have had the same calculator for the past 13 years. I got it from K-mart for less than $10 and it works just fine. It is a Casio Fx-250D type, I am not even sure they make them these days. Although some people prefer multiple complex calculators (heck I do not know if people know what a calculator is these days), I still prefer this simple calculator to do my complex calculations, for the rest I use my brains, like any old fashioned person does. I bet many of you young people do not even know about log-tables.

2. Edo Pride night

Edo Pride Sunday has been a regular event for me for the past 3 years or so. It started simple, then became a big event, then dwindled down to just a couple of people, and now we are starting again with a semi-new group. Sometimes it feels like Santana, the band, with the number of changes it has had in the past 40 years. (link). These days we are basically myself, The Stallion, his quirky cousin G, and a Latina replacement (the original Latina is smuggling Bangalis somewhere). Regular guests are usual old members such as Nibaq and the Gurls, Josie and the pussycaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats,pussycaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats!

3. Atheist Among us

In the past few weeks I have read a few blogs of people, not only "U", who "claim" to be atheists, or are atheists. While the normal 20 something young adult is typically confused or brain-washed to either believe or not believe, typically an intelligent person understands the right path eventually, while idiots remain in their belief of non-belief. I once was confused, but I did not atheisize (not sure if this is a word) myself, I just understood my existence better and I am very comfortable with where I am now, a believer. For the atheists cows out-there who insist on being atheists, if you cannot believe there is a God of some sort, then you have cow-dung for brains, for the confused, I had a book once that would make you "logically" relate to "belief" but I cannot find the name in my old papers, but it was very important in shaping my understanding of existence and the essence of Man. "U" will find your way, I am sure. Just a final note on this topic, I saw Dogma (link) again yesterday, still funny.

4. Movies

I also have watched my fair share of movies over the past month. Kung Fu Panda was ok, I started to Watch the Eye (original version) but Damn its scary, 15 minutes and I stopped it. Reminds me of the time I wanted to watch that Japanese horror movie with the two sisters, I could not, kept forwarding and opening one eye. Wristcutters a love story (link) was a good independent movie I enjoyed. It is "A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide", Purgatory anyone? And since I have my DSL receiver, I also saw Super Bad again, one of the good movies of the past couple of years in that genre, I cannot get enough of Mclovin.



5.Travel

I want to travel but prices are crazy, I cannot see myself pay a fils for those high prices, so I will stay here in the summer, baring any special event where I manage to convince myself to pay the extra 50 fils for my tickets.

6. Midgets

During Edo Sunday the subjects of midgets came up, well actually I brought it up. I had seen a blogger across and I said hi, she had her own Edo Pride Groupie thing, but its all good in the Edo-hood, then I ate, then I ate, then I remembered something when the replacement Latina in the group wanted to give a Sunday Church pass to one of our members who was craving Taco Bell Burri-ghetto, which started the following conversation

Me: So, do you have midgets at base?
Latina : Huh? No - Laughter around
Me: Yeah, why don't you have midgets in the base?
Latina: We just do not.
Me: Does that mean the U.S. military has something against midgets? that is discrimination.
Latina: No.
Me: Yes it is! its because they are suicidal huh!
Latina Confused look
Me: Yeah, midgets are suicidal. That is why they are not allowed in, isn't it?
Latina: I do not know.
Me: Come on! What is better than to sending those midgets to Iraq? I mean they can search for road side bombs, go in places where no one else can go, oh oh! How about an army of midgets? You have a special forces midget unit, led by that guy from Lords of the Rings, Gandalf
--Confused looks all around, though they have seen this side of me before --
Me: How about Black midgets? or Blue, smurfs?
Latina: I do not know!!

Then it moved to something else, but that issue still bugs me, Why don't they have midgets in the Army??

7. Whistling Purg

A post would not be complete without some whistling. Give me Some late night Don Cornelius.



This is the end of the post, I hope you enjoyed it and if you did not, screw you.

Purgatorian Post #1307

I was browing via AOL and found this article from CNN Money on prices of gasoline around the world. I did not read the full article, but was amused by the list.

Top 10 cheapest countries in gasoline price at pump per gallon.

10. Seychelles 98 cents
9. Kuwait 90 cents
8. Egypt 89 cents
7. Bahrain 81 cents
6. Qatar 73 cents
5. Swaziland 54 cents
4. Libya 50 cents
3. KSA 45 cents
2. Iran 40 cents
1. Venezuela 12 cents

If you look at the list, which does not list Oman and UAE, we have very expensive prices!!! wtf almost $1 dollar for almost 4 liters of gasoline!!!

As for the top 10 countries for most expensive countries to buy gasoline

10. Belgium $8.22
9. Iceland $8.28
8. Monaco $8.31
7. Netherlands $8.37
6. UK $8.38
5. Norway $8.73
4. Eritrea $9.58
3. Bosnia-Herzegovina $10.86
2. Aruba $12.03
1. Sierra Leone $18.42

The top 4 countries also make you wtf!!OMG! 18 bucks for one gallon of gasoline! I better ride a mule instead!

For the full article, click on the link

Purgatorian Post #1262

Yesterday, I was watching tv and violence in Kenya, and that made me think, these African countries always have problems, they are never stable, what if we use the same concept as investment and buy one of those countries and improve it?

The countries of today have been created with time and borders drawing based on ethnic and religious backgrounds and have been redrawn so many times based on colonial power rulers in the previous centuries. However, the world of today is still controlled by the same powers from their own countries, and they spreads their McChicken, and their Pep-Chicken, and their Air-Chicken, all over the world, but they would not publicly go on the record and say that they will buy a country, because they are afraid of how people would think of them and it can ruin their image, but ThePurg does not care, does he?

Imagine this conversation.

ThePurg: I came to buy your country Chief.
Ruler of AX-Country: Jumbo Takamto Uno?
ThePurg: I give you one Dolla.
Ruler of AX-Country: Kharambo Omamko Anto! Fakano Yoko!! YOKO!
ThePurg: I am just kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddddding!! I give you One Billion Dollars.
Ruler of Ax-Country: OK

And then, ThePurg buys this land, improves it and makes it better, just like any wise investor would do when he takes over a company, then buys more land, and more land, until he has a big share of Earth.

I think its a nice idea, buying an island is no longer interesting, but buying a country, with its people and its assets would be.

Passports sold at your local Co-op.



Purgatorian Post #1177

أمس أثناء تجوال البرغ السكري في الكويت مع صديقه كانت السوالف عن اشلون الدينار الكويتي مــا يسوي هل الأيام

صديق البرغ السكري: ذاك اليوم ياني واحد في البورصة يقولي، والله الدينار هل الأيام ما يسوي، العشر دنانير صارت نفس الدينار أيام أول

سنك ابوت ات، أيام أول، البرغ السكري الصغير كان يروح يطلع ويه ربعه الصغار، و كان بتعشي بصمونتين مع كوكتيل، و بالغصب يطلع دينار، , أغلي بوفيه كان من 5-6 د.ك.، بس اللحين غير طبعا

صديق البرغ السكري: و نفس اليوم ياني واحد شايب في البورصة يقولي، والله الدينار هل الأيام ما يسوي، 100 د.ك. صارت نفس الدينار أيام أول

طبعا هل الريال أكيد الله منعم عليه و فلوسك كتيــر موله (علي قولة ميلودي هيتس) ، و فجأة

، شب الليت في رأس البرغ السكري

وميض! وميض!وميض

البرغ السكري: أنا أقترح أنه يسون نوط بو خمسين دينار، و (......) شرايك؟

صديق البرغ السكري: اذا سمع هل الفكرة يحطك وزير المالية

سو مي فيلو بلوجرز (غ بس حقي)، يو هيرد ات فيرست هيـــر، باجر اذا صار صج، يعني واحد استولي علي فكرتي، لكن هل البوست دليل تاريخي علي صاحب الفكرة

و السلامو عليكم

Purgatorian Post #1166