This bag is too weird.
Not a man and not an animal–it’s some sort of beast.
It has a crazy face on it with a gnarly mouth and green bug-eyes.
Is it watching for pickpockets?
Wonder if it bites the hand that tries to go inside the purse.
I can’t look at this thing anymore.
Make it go away! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
There is just something so crazy funny about this Simpsons’ painting.
Homer is mad as h*ll and has Bart by throat!
Bart is screaming for help.
It so funny how art imitates life.
Where people drive others $%#&^*)* crazy.
And the other person just wants to wring their freakin’ neck.
Yeah, this never really happens. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Thought this was a pretty scary mannequin.
Aside from the disheveled hair covering her head and half her face.
You can see that her mouth and nose is taped over with clear masking tape!
Clearly she looks like she has been abused or worse, and the image is that she can’t even scream for help.
Why anyone would advertise women’s fashion in this misogynist way should be beyond all of us.
There are a lot of crazy nuts out there.
This photo is a small reminder of what we face in terms of ugliness in this world.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So have you ever dealt with these types of people?
They are what is commonly referred to as:
“Batsh*t Crazy!”
Some telltale signs in combination:
– Loud
– Out of control (off the spectrum)
– Exaggerated thinking/delusional
– Feelings of victimhood/paranoia/anger
– Gesturing wildly
– Fingers tightly extended or clenched into fists
– Banging on the table/wall
– Sharpening facial lines
– Clenching of the lips/teeth
– Bugged out/staring eyes
– Dark, hallowed-out eye sockets
– Disheveled hair/clothes
– Unkept/dirty/smelly
– In your face/space
– Potentially violent/dangerous
When you are dealing with batshit crazy…watch out!
You can’t reason with them. You can’t confront them. You can’t evade them.
They have you in their sights.
Scary, right?
BTW, I looked up the derivation of this term:
It come from “there is nothing at all going on upstairs”–such that the bells are no longer ringing in the church tower, and hence the bats are coming to rest there, and they have been there so long that the batsh*t has built up.
There is certainly a lot of batshit from what I can see! 😉
(Source Photo: here with attribution to geralt)
Thought this was incredible.
Someone opened up a “Rage Room” in Maryland.
I know the atmosphere in D.C. is polarized and sort of toxic lately, and there is lot’s of identity politics, obstruction, and even people hating on each other, but this really shows how things have degenerated.
And let’s face it, it’s not just the politics that people are stressed out about–how about stress from family, work, and bills. We’re on 24/7 these days and a lot of stress can build up in people that way.
But now, people can actually pay money to go to into a room, wrap themselves in safety clothing, and spend their time smashing things.
Almost like when they put crazy people in a padded room in a straight jacket and let them hit their heads against the wall for a while.
In the Rage Room:
You can break 10 glass items for just $25!
Or throw in a medium printer in the starter pack and it’s $35.
You can even BYOB (Bring Your Own Breakables) and have at it for $15.
Group packages and even gift cards are available.
Fun maybe, a little crazy for sure. 😉
I thought this art was funny and accurate:
There’s always one in every family.
Really, it should be there is always one (or two) in every family, group, and organization.
Whether it’s the upside down bird or the “black sheep”–I think we call it that person a troublemaker!
Is it the attention they crave?
Is it a good fight or argument they are after?
Are they just different and that’s okay.
Listen, we are all the same, but we’re also all different.
Imagine being completely the same and how boring that would be.
So being the upside bird isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
The other birds may look at this upside down bird as cuckoo.
But the bird may not be a cuckoo bird at all.
He may just be acting himself.
To the upside down bird, he probably thinks of himself as being right side up bird, and that it’s the other birds that are the cuckoos.
From my experience, there is being different and then there is being cuckoo for real.
There really are one or more cuckoos just about everywhere you look.
Worse yet, if the other 4 birds are sane, then watch out because you may be the cuckoo bird.
And then there was the movie, “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So one of my colleagues told me an interesting saying:
If you give a moose a muffin, they will never go away.
What a funny image and thing to say.
But I get the idea that if you keep giving freebies and treats to people, they will just keep coming back for more.
Everyone needs to be taught self-sufficiency to the extent possible.
These days where everyone is some sort of specialists and “subject matter expert,” there are very few people who are really self-sufficient and can survive on their own.
Instead, we have a society of people that are mutually dependent (codependent)–and most would starve or freeze to death if they didn’t have someone else supplying the “muffins.”
This all reminds me of a funny story when I was a kid, where a crazy lady friend of my parents came over to their house when my parents were sitting shiva (in mourning after the loss of one of my grandparents).
This crazy lady actually laid down on their living room couch so the other people coming to pay their respects couldn’t, and then she wouldn’t leave–hint after hint, she just laid there sprawled on their couch.
Finally, my dad got up from his mourning, fed her some food, and actually gave her some money–literally to leave–which she finally did and not to be mean, but really as a relief to everyone.
In this case, my dad gave the moose a muffin to go away and it worked, thank G-d.
But as is with moose’s, I am pretty sure she came back another day for more muffins. 😉
(Source Photo: here with attribution to OpenClipart-Vectors)
I like this saying by life coach Iyanla Vanzant”
“When you see crazy coming, cross the street!”
I remember learning similarly from experts that the first lesson in self defense is always:
“If you can run, run!”
That doesn’t mean your not strong or courageous.
It’s just common sense to try to avoid trouble if you can.
When people seriously fight, both usually can end up with a black eye or worse.
And there are truly a lot of crazies out there.
Peace is always desired.
But strength (and preparedness) is always required.
This makes sense as well in the larger context of the USA upgrading it’s nuke arsenal and other weapons systems and platforms to deter enemy aggression.
Thus, peace through strength and of course, prayer! 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So it’s Halloween tomorrow.
It’s a holiday to remember those that have passed.
In modern times, it has become a holiday of ghosts and ghouls, spooky and scary.
People dress up often in ghastly costumes, party hearty, and go door to door, trick or treat.
With fright night, I ask myself, are we more afraid of what we don’t understand from the spirit world or perhaps of what do understand from people in this life?
Certainly, the supernatural and the spirits–elements of what’s awaiting for us on the other side are things we don’t really have tangible experience with or understand…we are afraid of the unknown.
But in this world, we are familiar and encounter bad people and deeds, and unfortunately have to deal with them, but it never becomes easier or less scary to confront these.
Sure, we understand that not everyone is good, and not everyone has the best impulse control–people do rotten, horrible things for selfishness and greed or simply because they can’t stop themselves.
How scary is it to run into and have to deal with people that can and will do almost anything–maybe without a conscious thought or remorse for doing wrong…perhaps, they might even enjoy hurting others, taking what doesn’t belong to them, forcing their will or themselves on others, and doing unthinkable acts of crazed violence and evil.
We are definitely afraid of people like this…they are out of control, and don’t add up for those of us who think in terms of a soul, conscience, an everyday moral compass, and a seeing and hearing L-rd above
So life is scary, but death awaits us all as well.
And as my dad used to say, no one has ever come back to tell us what happens over there.
He had the most faith of anyone I know, and I understand we are supposed to have faith that we are going to a better place, but like coming out of the mother’s womb into this world, when we die, we are coming out into a whole new place altogether.
New things are scary and going from the physical world to the spiritual one, I assume can also be a little earth shattering–where exactly are we going and how will we be judged when we get there?
Of course, I hope that I will be with my family and with G-d and bask in his eternal light.
Thus for me, I find myself less scared of ghosts and metaphysical things, but the evil that people can bring, behind ghoulish smiles and with hidden agendas, telling lies and fooling us of their evil intent, that is scarier than any ghost or goblin, any time of year on Earth or beyond. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
This was quite interesting in the local food store.
There in the aisle are shelves full of chips to eat.
On this shelf were Stacy’s Pita Crisps–5 Cheese Flavor…doesn’t sound too bad.
But next to the chips, on the same shelf, was a brick…yes, literally a solid brick wrapped in cellophane…why to keep it fresh!
Who would wrap a brick in cellophane and put it out among the other foods to eat???
Maybe the chocolate custard-filled donuts got stale–very stale–and turned into a brick.
So even the cellophane wrapping couldn’t keep it fresh.
Never buy baked goods wrapped in cellophane…you already know they are old(ish) and who knows it could be turning into a stale brick. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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