Wednesday 16 April 2008

Rules

First of all, I must apologize for the absence in the blog, but on these last few months I just wasn't feeling like writing. The good thing about blogs, or the bright side, is that you can write whenever the fuck you want! Now let’s go for the subject.

Although most people think rules were made just to piss off anarchists, I believe they were made to be broken! When the first lawyer in the world, Antonio Gravietti, came up with the first law and named it after himself, he made it so that in the future people could break it and float around the planet. Yes, at first it was called the Law of Gravietti and with time it changed to the word we all know as gravity!
There is a theory that Newton "found" the Law of Gravity when an apple fell on his head! Assuming that, I found the Law of Coincidence when a pigeon’s crap landed on my head! It was a one in a seven billion shot!

The most intriguing rules are the rules of society, the most castrating form of repression, I mean; who made those rules? Why shall I not walk around naked in the streets? OK, that wouldn't be so good, but why can’t I tell someone I don't know to fuck off? Because society says so? Well, screw society!

Most people will tell you that rules have purposes and that for each rule there's good reason for its existence. Well, most people believe that we came from Adam and Eve. And do you believe them? So, who are you going to believe?

And the bright side of rules is really their purpose, to be broken! Just take a look around and you will find that anarchists are much happier than lawyers and judges!

And the (b)right message for today is... breaking rules rulez!

Wednesday 9 January 2008

Smoking

Though I once talked about smokers, the people, now I call upon the act. Recently, with the new legislation about smoking, a lot has been said and done, but the most annoying thing is the journalistic revolution that was created around this subject. Seriously, can news be more uninteresting and shallow? Yes they can, but I hope I never see the moment that chewing gum will be forbidden in public places! Not that it should not happen but is just that it is too stupid, even for me!

The head of the department that is going to make sure that the law is put into practice was caught smoking in a place forbidden by law, a casino, and answered that the laws of gambling are superior to every other law. Besides amazingly stupid, this is immoral, and according to his statement it is not illegal to shoot someone in the head because the laws of gambling are superior and there is no gambling law that states to be illegal to kill someone inside a casino! Therefore, can you kill someone? Yes, if you're in a casino! Is it illegal? Yes, unless you are in a casino! Fortunately, there are no casinos in Ribeira, in Porto.

According to this new law, the only places you can smoke are the smoking lounges that can be created in places big enough for having both zones. Although this might seem as an enclosure and a kind of lung apartheid, it is also a good way to socialize and, these bonding places are actually a soothing bright light in this law. I like to call it the bright side of the law! Now, outside a café or a pub, you see people talking, most of them have already seen each other inside at another table but never talked, and due to this law they are communicating. I have friends that have never smoked in their life but are planning to start so that they can meet new people! A few years ago we had IRC (Internet Relay Channel) and now we have SRC (Smoking Relay Chamber)!

So the bright side of the law for today is... Smoke for your social life!