and finally

before you all
revolt from my
incessant stream of
spam

I come forward
with open hands
and
ask you for advice

quite frankly
I have doubts
as to whether
this is even advice
I have a right to ask for
but
regardless
I shall anyway

[alternate post title]
[can the shrew be tamed?]

My brother
the unfortunate
fellow
married
and
foolishly
brought two
children into
an most unhappy
marriage

[one of those]
[have a kid to]
[improve the marriage]
[blunders]

and
to be fair
the first child was on
the way when things
went south

My brother
would be by
most any standards
an
asshole
or if you wished to
be kind
simply a jerk

this must be
clear so that
you may fully understand
the depth of this
situation

he is a generally
unpleasant and unhappy
fellow in the best of times
always has been

severe type A personality
[oldest child complex]

so
you must understand
when I say
that his wife
is simply the
most excruciating wench
I have ever encountered

I have never
met anyone so
permanently focused
and delighting in
the negative aspects
of anyone she meets

her preferred choice
of social interaction
is to gossip behind
peoples back.

I have
little patience for
it all but
that is irrelevant

until now
my basic theorems
have applied

I smile and nod
and perform all the
rituals of common decency

but
I fear I have
reached my limit

Two events
which I was involved
only in the periphery
but heard the more
intimate details of
tonight
have pushed me
to this pinnacle of
unrest

the other night
the sister-in-law
in question
approached both
myself and amber
and stressed
that she expected us
to come to her first
and resolve any differences
we might have with her
directly and without involving
other parties.

while
I appreciate the
concept of the position
and generally hold
such as usual practice

what made this
unbearable for me
was that she
had delivered this
speech immediately after
leading a prolonged
session in which
she proceeded to bad
mouth my mother to
other relatives for
roughly two hours

I admit that
I am by nature
defense of those
I care for
and
for all her fault
perhaps because of them
I do love my mother

that is not the issue here
nor is the quite likelihood
most of the faults
she attributed to my
mother are in fact
present.

however my objection
lies in the fact
that she attempts to
play the victim when
people get angry at
her for her venomous ways

Let me be clear here
as I have been clear with
her

I bear only the
secrets I choose
and even those
are shared
with amber
who
at her discretion
may decide to act
upon that information

[only perhaps in]
[the most severe cases]
[would I intervene with]
[her choice of response]

I will not accept
someone being angry
at me because I relayed
the fact that they were
back stabbing someone
to that person

I believe wholeheartedly
in calculated cruelty

[as distinguished from]
[casual cruelty]
[as discussed in my]
[prior posts]

but I strongly believe
in delivering that
crooked dagger
directly to
the person in question
and look in their
eyes while driving it
deep into their hearts
with a smile.

the second
incident
was her clear
statement that
she intends to
divorce my brother
and
the second hand
statement

[from what I]
[consider a reliable]
[first hand witness]

that she said
verbatim

"I intend to divorce him
and want to know how
much money I will get"

however much
I may
dislike
perhaps even
despise my brother
for his various
acts of careless cruelty
over the years

my defensive
buttons have been
pushed
and quite frankly
I am done with her

and
regardless of my
opinion of my brother
my heart
will be still and cold
before I allow her
to take with her
when she leaves

[not if, but when]

a single undeserved penny

[i.e. more than]
[an equal share]
[of my brothers marital assets]

or my niece and nephew

now
perhaps
this post tells
more about the
flaws in my own
character than hers
I will leave that
decision to you

you need only two tools.

WD-40 and duct tape.

if it doesn't move
and it should,
use WD-40.

if it moves
and it shouldn't,
use duct tape.

jumping on the bandwagon

Paranoid: Moderate
Schizoid: Moderate
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: High
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate

wanna take the test?

still jumping on that old bandwagon

Congratulations!
Your general IQ score is 158.
[only twenty points lost]
[to years of excessive drugs]
[yay]

A person whose IQ score falls in the range of 144-160 is considered to be "gifted".



take the test

I found this on Gelasia's journal but
she got it from someone else

tarzan was a bitch

or
the
savage within us

what determines within us
what switch defines our reaction
to adversity?

Why do some of us
lie down and accept
what is piled upon us
and others fight to
the death even the appearance
of such

or
perhaps a better question
what within
ourselves signals
the change between
what behaviors we
will accept from others
and
what behaviors release
the primal beast within.

I tend
to be a primal bastard

you fuck with my family
I am going to fuck with you

but there is a line
some times drawn
in stone and others
in sand

which if someone
crosses I go from
a nice and polite

lets resolve these issues

to get the fuck
out of my way
I am going to
redecorate his face
with this shovel here

I am
a violent man
who
rarely engages in violence

I find it often
inconvenient
but strongly believe
that
often violence
is the only answer

fuck Rodney King
cause
we can't all just get along

If we humans
were all rational and
unemotional people

violence would be
obsolete

The vulcans of
star trek fame
were perfectly capable
of resolving any issue
by a path of discourse
to a mutually satisfactory conclusion.

Humans are not.

The reason for this
is that we all
each and every one of us
speaks a different language

my english is
different than your english

but
it is close enough that
we can generally get
a vague idea of what
the other is saying.

For example
most people consider
being sympathetic
to be a good thing

good old joe is always has a sympathetic ear
to help you sort out your problems.

I say
fuck good old joe
and his sympathy too

in my english
sympathy is condescending

in order to give sympathy
you have to be in a better place

you are a poor miserable soul
so I can give you my sympathies
for your wretched state

sure it is just semantics
but language and communiation
are about semantics

and quite frankly
when it comes to life
we are
all fucked [up]