The sounds… of pain

A while back, I ran across Nad Shot, which is a blog about comics featuring men getting kicked in the ‘nads. You’d think this would get boring after a while, but it never does: there are so many ways to depict a boot to the groin.

Here, for your reading pleasure, are the words that have been used to describe a nad shot, going back as far as October 10th of this year. Note that these sound effects describe the shot itself, not the recipient’s reaction to it.

WHUD!
PHHT
PLATCH
SKLONSH
FUMP
WHUTCH
FAM!
WHACK
KRRENNNGG
KLUD
KRUNCH!
FOOM
CRUNCH!
WUMP!
SWUP!
KRNCHH
KRUUNK
BAWOOM!
WHUD (this time without the exclamation point)
BLAMP!
SHTUCKK
TUMP

Of these, I think my favourite is FAM – as in, he’s probably not going to be starting one after being on the receiving end of that.

Everybody has a boss

I think I’ve figured it out: the world is the way it is because everybody has a boss.

The average employee works longer and harder because the boss is demanding more. And why is the boss demanding more? Because he or she has a boss, too. And that boss has a boss, and so on, all the way up to the CEO.

But the CEO is answerable to the company’s shareholders. If the company isn’t profitable enough, the shareholders will dump the CEO. And the shareholders, too, have bosses. And so on, and so on.

And corporations are competing with other corporations, both here and around the world. Which is why corporations do nasty things that individual people wouldn’t do on their own: they have to compete as hard as they can, or they will perish.

Wasn’t life supposed to get easier in the future?

Some cool people at Mechapixel have pointed me at a cool online comic strip: A Softer World. Who can resist a comic with writing like this?

i FREEDOM FIGHTER BOMBING love you
whether you reply or JIHAD not
if my GODLESS WESTERN PRESIDENT letters are flagged
our love will outlive us
in their SUBWAY SARIN GAS computers

When listing my favourite cover songs yesterday, how could I have missed Yo La Tengo’s “Little Honda”? That was a horrible oversight on my part. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.