Thick, delicious irony
April 4, 2013 at 11:34 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2013 at 12:35 am by Cyberman.)
Some of the more discerning of you may have spotted the distinct lack of Stimbo around here in recent days. Basically, I've been helping and supporting my great (and hopefully soon greater) friend Shell through some particularly troubled waters, not to mention vice versa, via the medium of DIY and applied karaoke. It's a long story.
Anyway, earlier this afternoon we found ourselves in a second-hand furniture/household goods store, run by a Christian charity. All well and good; they help the local community and provided they don't try to shove the bible down people's throats, which they don't, then fair play to them I say.
Among the few items of religious decor they do have is one of those incredibly tedious wartime "Keep Calm And..." metal posters that have been popping up like toenail fungus all over the place in recent years (the best example I've ever seen was on a baby-changing mat - "Keep Calm And Change My Bum"). This one, inevitably, read "Keep Calm And Trust God". As inherently trite and banal as it is, it might perhaps have seemed a mite more convincing, if not for it being sited next to a notice informing customers that "These premises are protected by CCTV" etc etc. I suspect that my lolling was behind Shell's decision to escort me from the premises.
Any other examples of unwitting irony out there?
Anyway, earlier this afternoon we found ourselves in a second-hand furniture/household goods store, run by a Christian charity. All well and good; they help the local community and provided they don't try to shove the bible down people's throats, which they don't, then fair play to them I say.
Among the few items of religious decor they do have is one of those incredibly tedious wartime "Keep Calm And..." metal posters that have been popping up like toenail fungus all over the place in recent years (the best example I've ever seen was on a baby-changing mat - "Keep Calm And Change My Bum"). This one, inevitably, read "Keep Calm And Trust God". As inherently trite and banal as it is, it might perhaps have seemed a mite more convincing, if not for it being sited next to a notice informing customers that "These premises are protected by CCTV" etc etc. I suspect that my lolling was behind Shell's decision to escort me from the premises.
Any other examples of unwitting irony out there?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
