Monday, July 6, 2009

Pursuit of the pointless

You know, just when I start thinking that the human race is progressing so quickly. Just when I start marveling at the genius that is modern society some Daffy goes and ruins everything. Some tool with no purpose in life decides to do something really stupid and completely pointless.


Manjit Singh is the latest culprit to yank the annoy EEbEE string. Have a look at this.


Man pulls light aircraft with his ears.



With his EARS dude! …. Wh… WHY!? I simply don’t understand. Please! If someone, anyone, can explain why this man decided to pull an aeroplane with his ears please tell me. Restore my faith in humanity. Do we have a purpose on this world? Are we just random entities abusing our minds and free will to accomplish diddily squat (I’ve always wanted to say diddily in a post…milestone reached YAY!)?


Why does the public entertain these buffoons? Why do people recognize and pay homage to these individuals? Human nature never fails to baffle me. Perhaps we have become too advanced for our own good and guys like Manjit put things back into perspective for us. We are in fact a bunch of wallies living off the bright ideas of a handful of visionaries.


I can’t claim to be responsible for the internet, baked bread, the internal combustion engine, nuclear power plant technology… but then again, neither can the people who invented these respective items. They have all merely responded to a situation, found solutions to problems that wouldn’t have even existed if the rest of us weren’t around in the first place. Maybe we should all take credit for advancing the human race. That would inadvertently mean that we’d all have to take the collective blame for everything wrong that humans do/have done as well. Where do we draw the line? I’m even more confused now.


AAARGH!


Of course we could just as easily throw all logical thought processes out of the window and continue our pointless pursuit of that holy grail of accomplishments…


…pulling a DOUBLE DECKER bus with our ears.



(sigh…)

6 comments:

Luke said...

Eebee, you are too harsh...Maybe this is his only talent!

It's a very sad world if that IS the limit of his abilities, but it's still possible...

But overall, I agree with you. We are rather pathetic as a species. We invent stuff to make it easier to have more of ourselves, which requires more invention. Not the most feasible plan of action by a long stretch.

EEbEE said...

Exactly! If nobody invented supermarkets, this guy would still be foraging to meet daily energy requirements as opposed to pulling heavy stuff...with his ears. (sigh!)

(i always sigh deeply whenever i think about that...)

*sigh*

William said...

ahahahaha! I was looking at the first pic before reading and was wondering why is this guy standing in front of a plane with an idiotic smirk on his face?
To bad the plane didnt take off with him still attached.

EEbEE said...

I did look for a picture where you can see the string but i liked this one more (simply because the expression is priceless).

I have to admit, the image of this man dangling by his earlobes from a plane in flight is quite amusing (*snigger*)

po said...

That is some strong cartilagenous tissue man!

EEbEE said...

I'm slightly concerned that some people have completely missed the point of this post...

I'll have to make my examples more boring in the future to prevent this happening again.