Day: July 12, 2026

People who come here from Bumfuck or wherever, speaking some pigeon form of Ainglaish that they think is great and no one here can comprehend, always get jobs that have them directly interfacing with the public. God only knows why and if there is one, it’s laughing it’s ephemeral ass off about it. Yes, the title is THE TOWER OF BABEL, as pronounced unintelligibly by virtually all migrants.

Went to one of our two gas stations in town this morning to get some gas for my chain saw and to top off the tank in my car. The pump locked my credit card in place and did nothing, I waited and waited, finally went into the gas station to get someone to deal with this and no one was behind the counter.

Then this tall, young very foreign looking woman came out from somewhere and said something I couldn’t understand and I told her that the pump won’t let go of my card. She said a bunch more totally unintelligible words, really fast, I said “I can’t understand you”, so she said a bunch more of them, also rapid fire.

Deciding not to respond, I followed her out to the pump where she pushed buttons to make the pump release my card and using mostly body english and sign language, indicated that the far pump was the one to use, grabbed up my empty fuel can, stuffed my card into the far pump and started filling the can. Since I only wanted enough for the chain saw because the rest will go bad if it sits in the summer heat, I beeped my horn at her and waved at her to stop. At least that worked.

I beeped at her because I had to drive to the other pump if I wanted to top off my tank, while she assumed I only wanted to fill the can, after I told her I wanted to top off my tank. I was finally able to chase her off, get my gas and go home after paying $6 a gallon for it. This may be an average or even low price in other countries but we’re the largest oil producer in the world. We shouldn’t be paying more than $2.50 a gallon, Trump keeps telling us that the price of gas is back down to about that and I’m wondering if he seriously believes this or is just blowing more smoke up our asses.

Life is so much better now that our population has gone from the 149 million it was when I was born to the almost 450 million it is now. Oh, so very much better now that the USA is the third most populated country in the world.

 

First I want to say that the rise of an absolutely worthless class of self-adoring people in social media like Facebook and Twitter, who call themselves “influencers”, is a symptom of the sickness of social media addicts. These people present themselves as being special and living special lives, and their universal message is “You can be more special if you do what I do”. You have to be a loser to let any of these parasites be a guide in your life.

This particular “influencer” was a Brazilian model with the usual puffy injected lips and sculpted facial appearance who “fell” from the 27th floor of an apartment building in Dubai where she’d been living for two years. With more than 20,000 Instagram followers, she was probably raking in more than enough money to support living the high life. “Her social media pages showed photos of luxury travel, designer fashion, and life in the United Arab Emirates.”

Therein lies the key to solving this not so mysterious mystery. She was living in the heart of Muslim land and “One of her final posts celebrated her engagement to her partner, Barbara Abrantes. The couple had recently shared the happy news with their followers before tragedy struck.”

She was a lesbian and openly announced that she was marrying a woman. In an Islamic country and very shortly afterward fell from a high building. With assistance, no doubt.

She forgot she wasn’t in Brazil any longer. Looks like those 20,000 followers are going to have to find a new role model. How tragic.