The Most Stupid Excuses Ever

Why People Makes Stupid Excuses?

There are several reasons why people makes stupid excuses, and that includes me. My first reason to make stupid excuse is because other people I talk to seems to have no choice but to accept my stupid excuses, but that only works if I have something good in bargain. This is an example, I was showing up late in a meeting about the grand mockup I made for a project cost millions of dollars. Then I said, “sorry, but I had to catch a smug who took my mockup and deal with the paperwork at the police station”. The audience bought that, because without me being late for that, there will be no mock-up for the meeting. And they can proof it by calling the police station, which I bet they won’t.

The second reason I made lame and stupid excuses is by using the most common thing I have all my life but seems extraordinary to the people I talk to. For example, I was born and raised in the city of rain, where it rains all the time. It was raining the day I was born, it was raining when I went to school for the first time, it was raining on my first date, it even was raining on my BBQ party. But then, I said, “sorry I’m late, it’s the rain”. What the?!? Is that not sound like the most lamest excuse I have ever give if the person I talked to lives in the same place as I was? But, those who don’t will take this excuses just like that. Duh! Or, don’t they know that the duo who sang “Blame It On The Rain” were lip-sync liars?

Some Fairy Tales

One nation has been living in the shadow of fear of nuclear contamination for decades. Then a scientist gave an idea, “we need a nuclear power plant in order to cleanse those area free of radiation faster.”. As you guess, they refused the idea with the answer, “we are afraid of nuclear.”. 

What? It’s not the nuclear you have to be afraid of, it’s when someone put a lead to it. That’s where things got wrong the first place! Someone invented Calium Nitrate and Potassium powder, the other put the word gun in front of it, made it a gunpowder. I had difficult times to find an English word for gunpowder without “gun before the powder”. Someone invented how to split atom, the one in higher chain of command put a lead into it.

See the problem? It never were the inventions to blame, they were always more people interested to make them as weapons. 

And that made my third reason to make lame and stupid excuses. Because more people will buy that so I can get behind the other who can back me up with those excuses I made.

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Why No Billionaire Becomes Batman

Facts

According to Billionaire Mailing List, there are hundreds of billionaire in the United States alone. But not a single one of them becomes Batman. Why is it so hard to be the Batman? The article you’re about to read will tell you why? And not by saying that he’s only a comic character.

He Lives In A Jail

Bruce Wayne almost lost his purpose of becoming  Batman when he found that his parent’s killer has committed suicide in his apartment.

Batman lives in a jail he created himself, he will lose on purpose if the bad guys vanished. That’s why he also put all of his arch enemies into Arkham Asylum because he believes that crime is an illness that can be cured. But that also gives him the opportunities to re-capture his enemies again and again. He creates a perfect loop where he can do as much repetition as possible.

No billionaire wants a life like that. Never mind being a Batman, living like Bruce Wayne just seems to have become an impossible task.

Batman Hates Guns

He never uses guns before his first appearance in BVS, right? Wrong! He used guns on his early appearances until the publisher decided to stop Batman using any guns. That decision was made to make Batman more family friendly. And I guess that was a good decision judging by how popular Batman is until now.

Later, the story writings put special attention to show that Batman actually hates guns because his parents killed by a gun.

With today’s gun control issue, do you think any billionaire have the guts facing criminals without any guns?

Overrated Popularity?

Everybody knows Batman, even those who don’t “know”. I hear the statement that “Batman flies” occasionally. We know that’s wrong, but hey, at least that person knows Batman. And I bet he never heard of Black Lightning. Anyway, Chris Nolan did a great job showing how Bruce Wayne’s transformation seems realistic.

With so much media attention, billionaires with bruised faces will surely be easily suspected as Batman. We know Batman’s pieces of equipment are not cheap.

His Effort

Among the god-like personas, Batman stands tall. His contingency plans never fail. He’s a great negotiator and psychiatrist that makes him can talk someone until surrender his gun, without a gun.

What makes him special is that he gained all that without any mantra, exposed to something that mutated him, came from other planet or had an accident, well… unless you include the alley’s incident. But still, he didn’t overcome his ability on the next day, right?

In the real life, a billionaire efforts best is what makes him a billionaire. And that’s making money. I don’t think any billionaire can multi-task and split his focus on both martial art training and making money. Or can he?

He’s A Sick Person

Batman is indeed a sick person. He loves going out at night dresses like a bat, beating criminals to a pulp. He even pushed himself into danger he knows only has 0.01% chance of success.

I remember the one scene when he jumped right into Deadshot’s firing line. And guess what? He succeeded with fatal damage. According to my psychiatrist, that’s called sado. An urge for pain and violence.

A billionaire will surely visit his psychiatrist to make sure that he’s always mentally healthy because he has too much at stake. Just hope he’s not seeing The Scarecrow.

Foot Note:

The facts stated above make me and Batman only billions of dollars and excessive painful pieces of training apart.

A Blessing In Disguise: Being Forgetful

A Blessing In Disguise: Being Forgetful

Want to know what is so good to be forgetful? It’s simple, because it’s easy to forget. Why is it something I categorize good?
I’ll explain with some true stories below:

Forget About Movies

I have forgotten since when I started being forgetful (surprise!), But I often watch the same movie so many times because I can not remember the story. In fact, I had forgotten the beginning of a movie when I just got to the middle of the same movie. Fortunately, I still remember the title of the film that I like, most likely forgot the name of the actors.

Is not that fun? I can watch movies that I like so many times with different friends. One movie for pleasure many times.

My forgetfulness is what triggered me become very active in social media, especially Facebook, because Facebook is kind enough to keep reminding me of what I did on the same day a few years ago. So, Facebook is my diary.

Forgot About Friends

While this often creates an awkward moment, such as having to make small talk by asking, “hmm, you have a nickname at school?” And after being given hint, I still can not remember it … This situation can help me improve a relationship.

Once, I talked with someone familiar, but then I was pulled by my friend and he said, “why are you talking to him? You hate that person, right?!?”

Usually I won’t ask what made me annoyed by that person, yet it’s fine now.

Forget About Game

It’s like forgetting a movie, so I can play the same game over and over again. Unfortunately, I also forgot how to play it, so I’ll have to went through the same challenge as well. And we all know that saying, “I used to be good” sounds stupid.

Forget About Revenge

It’s like forgetting acquaintance. The difference is I can remember the person, but not the mistake. Although my spider-sense says something is not right with that culprit, our relationship can continue well from that point.

And … when I’m upset with people, I just have to blocked everything that allowed the culprit to contact me, until I eventually forgot.

Though, the reuniting just happened to make things awkward. The culprit’s phone number already in my phone, but still in the blocked list. It was proven by the dial tone he heard when trying to contact me.

Actually there are still many that I want to share with my friends here, but unfortunately I do not remember what I wanted to tell you.

Avatar As We Are

Warning, what you’re about to read is not for everybody. And no, this is not a topic about James Cameron’s movie, Avatar. Though somewhat mentioned, it certainly is not Aang’s crappy live action.

I have a question that I ask you to answer honestly.

Which one do you choose between your current soul and body which is something you can not choose*, or you live in an avatar that you can choose yourself negates all kinds of physical (and economy) limitations you have?

*yes, we can set our life according to our effort, but you get it, right?

I think, if you are sane and have limitations like other average human beings, you will choose to be (in) an avatar.

What I See In The Movies

Just look how in James Cameron’s Avatar movie, the disabled main role can walk and even jump from tree to tree. Or maybe I need to mention Neo in Matrix? Please see for yourself the difference between the physical and his embodiment of the avatar.

Vanilla Sky (spoiler alert) is also an example of how something relative tends to be nicer. But this one is different since he didn’t know that he lived in an avatar at first, because he chose not to know (maybe this is us now).

One of Bruce Willis’s movie also shows it, where the physical form that roams the streets is the “representative” of its ageing original body. I assume this is also an avatar.

Sword Art Online, a very popular Japanese anime that my daughter likes, draws something comparable. In SAO, they are caught in a sophisticated neural machine, so their family takes care of how they can be “fed” automatically (although it does not explain how the bladder went).

Or because the movie itself is a man-made, the hardest to please being?

In The Reality

This can be seen when people are faced with the opportunity to choose something freely. Simple example, create a social media account, an app to chat, or play Role Playing Game, what do we do? First of all is to use a name that is not given by your parents from birth. Then choose a profile picture that is a photo of yourself after deducting 20kg by the photo editor, adding a customisation here and there and everything that is not even close to the real you.

Is this normal? In my opinion, yes!

For the preceding reasons, humans cannot be satisfied. If you are a monk who has been detached from earthly things, maybe you do not recognise this. But, hey … you’re not born into the world for the heavenly business since the beginning, right? A monk, for me is an avatar made in himself.

What Ifs

What If… we really are avatars? What if we’re actually a perfect someone looking for more challenge in this world? What if there is an avatar that does every activity we do on the internet without us knowing it? What if we’re just an angel’s avatar? And heaven is one hell of an MMORPG server?

Playing God, Being Human

Truman Show is not about avatars, but the movie is a perfect simplification of our lives. Truman is “tied up” in a routine, responsibility and relationship with someone who “acts” to love him. Even his father was played by an actor. The loss of Truman’s dad’s is one of the reasons Truman intends to break into his confinement from his “world” by searching for his father.

Truman’s intentions have temporarily disappeared when his father is “freely given” by the director. Like when God gives us something that we are never grateful for free of charge.

Last Words

The source I have forgotten where his references say that humans will do most of their activities online. What is clear is that he is talking about Ready Player One.

Later, we will only be offline when we need to eat, and bathroom affairs.

So, do you choose to be an avatar, or hold full control over “the real” you? Where do you choose to live, a palace purchased with crypto currency in cyberspace, or live in a narrow cabin?

But you have to wonder first, which shoes should you lick to get a fun life in cyberspace? It will not be as good as the shoes that you lick now. As you know … how human behaviour on the internet, especially if they have a power. Cyber-bullying is the most common among others.