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One day around this time of the year is called the world consumer day.
So what exactly is the meaning of “world consumer day”?
An immigration country, for example,
is a country an entire nation immigrates to.
If immigrants were to immigrate into a country
it would be called immigration country.
Well, that much is obvious.
So what is the meaning of world consumer day?
Is that the day to remember 
all consumers world-wide?
Or is the world consumer day the day
to remember those
who consume the world?
Namely the world consumers.
Now that makes sense.
It describes the essence of capitalism.
If we all stopped consuming
it would cease to exist.
World consumer day is world rescuer day.

KJG/SIX
(Translated by EG)

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Knigge wrote a traditional code of etiquette for Germans in the time of enlightenment. His famous and influential description of society and literary works, as well as his role as leader among those who undermined the freemasons by following Weishaupt’s “Illuminati” are legendary.

I would wish to see an “Email Knigge” that works according to the laws of ethical correctness. After having studied “Knigge”, however, it gets clear that the name cannot be used any more. We must find another name for the 21st century.

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Tonight is opening night for „Troy“.
A dance show tour with beautiful bodies.

So why did the Troyan war start?

Well, it started because of a beautiful woman.

Her name was Helen.

However, even in antique Greece 
the poet Euripides said:

Helen was not beautiful at all.

She was old and ugly.

So why should Paris have abducted her and taken her home to Troy?

Consequently, there was never a battle for Troy.

Then there is also no Troyan epic.

And neither will there be a Troy dance show tonight.

Well.

KJG/SIX

Ganesha vor der Flachbaugruppe

In remote India, in a small village far from the great mega cities of the subcontinent, there live two “scallywags”. They want to outwit the wise village guru. So they come up with a secret scheme.

They will go to the guru together. Before going, they will catch a small bird. One of them will hide the bird behind his back, the other will say:

Most honourable and wise guru! My friend is hiding a bird behind his back. Can you tell us if this bird is dead or alive?

If the wise guru says “dead”, the boy will set the bird free and let it fly away. If he says “alive”, the boy will wring the neck of the bird and show the dead animal to the guru. The guru has not a chance.

The plan is put to practice. The two scallywags see the guru and act according to plan.

The wise guru looks them in the eyes. After a suitable pause, he says:

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Everybody expects of everybody else
that they expect of everybody else
to share their opinion 
on sexual abuse.
Nobody expects anybody
to expect anybody
not to condemn
sexual abuse in the strongest terms.
If you disregard this expectation,
you can no longer 
expect
others to expect 
your expectation.
This is how we all
become watchers and minders
who watch over
the worst expectations
to be correctly expected.

KJG/SIX
(Translated by EG)

I am always happy to find free content. Without, it would, for instance, be extremely costly to illustrate a blog!
I am well aware of the fact that many people have reservations about “free content”. Who protects the property of authors and photographers? Many things must be considered. Theft of intellectual property musts not be promoted, permitted, or tolerated.

You have to accept that life does not get any easier for professional photographers if they get additional competition from amateurs. How often have we experienced that technological or social change caused entire professions to disappear?

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Or:

Help. It never rains any more these days!

Phoenix

I have now been going from Ottobrunn to Unterhaching by bike for quite a few years. And if all goes well, there will be another three to four years ahead of me. During the last ten years, my raincoat was a reliable accessory I always carried with me. Being an obsessive person, I always have it in my bag. After all, I do not want to get wet.

Lately, something strikes me as rather strange: I only seem to need my raincoat very rarely these days. It spends week after week folded into the red saddle-bag (Ortlieb) and is never taken out. So today, I asked myself:

When was the last time you wore your raincoat?

The answer was:

“A long time ago!”

Now, in my opinion, there might be several explanations for this phenomenon:

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