FOLIO OLIO: FRIDAY #2305

One Of My Very Own...

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Today on a TV sports show they had a story about a soccer player who was red-carded for "shooting the bird" to his own home fans. That is weird enough, but what totally baffled me was that the sports show blurred out his middle finger when they reran the incident. Think about that. Holding up your middle finger is so grotesque that no one should be allowed to see it.
This means nothing:

This means nothing:

This is not only an offense in sports, but can get you arrested if you hold it in a policeman's face...

Who makes up this lunacy? Seriously, some human(s) made a rule and we have no idea who they are or were, yet we walk around following their dictates as if it were ordained by providence.
Any gesture or word only has the power that we give. It has no magic power of its own...just what we think when we see or hear it. What if we all started laughing when we see it? Could we all, collectively, change it from an insult to a stimulant for laughter?
I doubt it.
I think people LIKE to have shit to get angry about. These are the "US" who hate the "THEM" anyway and handpick various words and/or gestures of the unclean to declare offensive. That way the US can persecute the THEM with impunity.

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When I was growing up, my mother had an album of old 78 rpm records. I listened to them all the time. Here is my favorite.

This is what the Islamic State insurgency looks like...

A member from the Iraqi security forces beats an Islamic State insurgent.

Six of one a half dozen of the other.

Take a good look at the Middle East. That's what happens when people really believe that their god or prophet is the only true god or prophet. I'm just thankful that Americans just play around with the whole belief thing, probably for social reasons, and leave the true faith thing to those people.

Can you image if American Christians actually enforced all the rules in the bible.

Hopefully, these first two will make you feel just a little better about yourself...

Federal agencies wasted $125 BILLION in improper payments last year, but said they may be of a billion or two.

Snakes and ladders can sometimes be a total bitch.

Vladimir Puttin’.

First "shop baby" all grown up...

That child's mother used to work for my wife and brought her to work with her. Now she is a school teacher and one of the nicest people I've ever met.

Some places erect statues to the victims of war...

The first recorded use of marijuana as a medicinal drug occurred in 2737 BC by Chinese emperor Shen Nung. The emperor documented the drug’s effectiveness in treating the pains of rheumatism and gout.

There are over 200 slang terms for marijuana in the popular vernacular. Some of the more common nicknames include, pot, tree, herb, grass, weed, hash, ganja, Mary Jane.

The name “marijuana” comes from a Mexican slang term for cannabis and is believed to have derived from the Spanish pronunciation of the names Mary and Jane.

According to one report, it would take 800 joints to kill a person but the cause of death would be carbon monoxide poisoning.

The cannabis plant can grow in nearly any environment and averages one to two inches of growth per day

From 1850 to 1942, marijuana was listed in the United States Pharmacopoeia as a useful medicine for nausea, rheumatism, and labor pains and was easily obtained at the local general store or pharmacy.

During the temperance movement of the 1890s, marijuana was commonly recommended as a substitute for alcohol.

Have you ever eaten a candy bar in the bathroom cause you didn’t want to share it with your wife?

A Deventer scribe, writing around 1420, found his manuscript ruined by a urine stain left there by a cat the night before. He was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, drew a picture of a cat and cursed the creature with the following words: [Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesky cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.

The downside to being famous.

Laugh?

Well, if you went to the beach alone, how would you do it? I think the guy solved a problem very efficiently.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach unless he’s a vegetarian, then you can get there through his vagina.

Spring is that delightful time of year when I watch Netflix with my windows open.

Netflix shortcuts...

Netflix needs a “grunt to confirm you’re still watching” setting for us who are too lazy to click.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

The most severely abused cat in history?

If I had my own cooking show I would get drunk halfway through and end up ordering pizza and screaming at the camera crew.

I could write a whole short story from these next two images...

Quality humor. Our motto.
Speaking of hair...

Smart girl.

Putridarium, or “corpse toilets,” were underground crypts built in Italian churches from Milan to Sicily. Putridarium had toilet-like seats carved into stone where corpses were placed in a seating position during decomposition. Fluids would drain out during putrefaction leaving only the bones.