Jul 292014
 
Plunge dipping sheep

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Hello sheep.  Following up on Ralph’s post from last week, I have decided to not just rewrite the fabulous Coot’s lessons, but to start over on the road to uniformity, conformity, and the bland whiteness of looking at a world with the wool pulled over your eyes.  So to speak.

Today I would like to start off with a little bit of conformity.  If Ralph, Bob and I cannot be your guides to Cantankerousness, then we will have to be your shepherds.  And, just a warning, sometimes it takes the stick in order to get an unruly sheep to behave.  Ralph even sent me this picture of him teaching his sons the conformity lesson.

So conformity tells us that we should all be the same.  Everything should be nearly identical in our beige lives under the blue sky.  You.  Over there in the pink shirt.  Go put on the grey uniform.  You.  Over there with the uncombed hair.  Report for haircut and style.  You.  Over there thinking that this is a joke and not really serious.  Get over here and prepare to be beaten into line.

There will be no free thinking anymore.  Previously we have tried to put out lessons and articles that allowed you all to make up your own minds and look at the world freely and go your own way.  Not anymore.  You will go our way.  If you try to go your own way, we will bring you back and make fun of you on Twitter.  If you try to think something different than what we want you to know, we will come over to your house and show you what an electric cattle prod is for.

I hope Heather wants to think differently, because I would love to go to Scotland.  So for now, all of you out there, prepare to follow the norm.  Prepare to follow us.  Prepare to actually be a sheep and follow.  You will never get off of the treadmill and your view will never change.  Enjoy the sameness.

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Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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Sep 202012
 
The unsustainable geometric progression of a c...

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All of this talk about the sheep and the training of such is, well kind of disheartening.  It looks like the readers of Cantankerous Old Coots are willing to be led along and prodded once in a while.  So Ralph, Bob and I will just have to play the shepherd and *MAKE* you go in the directions we want you too.

The biggest problem I can see is that Cantankerousness should be voluntary and not forced upon you.  It is a choice and to do otherwise would create a dictatorship that would end badly in a few years with, quite possibly, a world war.  So here is my proposal.  Everyone go out and recruit 2 friends to come to the next meeting of the coots and decide for themselves.

When those 2 friends bring 2 more and so on we will either have a great selection of people to mine comments from, or we will have a pyramid scheme.  Note: there is no promise of money involved.  We get some decent traffic here on a daily basis, but I keep wondering how much of that is bots and search engines.

We need people here, real people with intelligence and the brains to make comments meaningful and worthwhile.  So, seriously, get 2 friends to read this site next week.  Ralph will have another great news day on Sunday and we will go from there.  Lets get some community going and lose the sheep mentality.

Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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