A Recipe For Snake Oil?

So, here comes today’s break from doing spreadsheets and worrying about my next driving test.

I’ve just come back from some strange corner of the internet where tables sit on ceilings, birds swim, sharks fly, cats dig up their own shit and a bunch of children have forced a guy called Kony to become their one-man army.

And while I would love to keep making stupid remarks about this reverse world, only in Soviet Russia does a blog write me, so I’d better explain myself.

In the prescientific world of 1796, a physician known as Samuel Hahnemann in Germany proposed the basic laws of a practice we all know today as homeopathy. This practice was based on the ‘law of similars’; the idea that ‘like can be cured by like’, which, as we all know, must mean that eating lots of cake cures type 2 diabetes.

Well no, it’s not like that, because according to the principles of homeopathy the more diluted a substance is, the stronger its effect. So the natural progression from that would turn out to be something like…

You will need:

-1 slice of cake
-shitloads of water
-shitloads more water
-an assload of water
-ridiculous amounts of water

step 1: first, take your slice of cake and add shitloads of water. Stir until there are but crumbs of cake in very sparse areas of the mixture.

step 2: then, take your mixture and add shitloads more water. By this point there should only be a few molecules of cake in each area of the mixture, but just in case, mix until there is basically no active ingredient.

step 3: add an assload of water; just in case there’s any chance of there being anything apart from water in this solution.

step 4: finish off your recipe with ridiculous amounts of water; making sure to take note of how many times it has been diluted; remember, diabetes is a thing of the past when you can drink water. I wonder why medical science didn’t think of this, I mean the stuff’s been around for a couple of hundred years now!

So in this strange world outside the republic of internet and in the strange district of the blogosphere known as ‘homeopath avenue’ there are strong criticisms being pushed towards people who are skeptical of these ideas.

And why wouldn’t there be? Obviously these ideas make perfect sense! Pharmaceutical companies should continue to make lots of money out of selling basically nothing!

I think on this issue it’s hard for me not to start taking the piss, mostly because I’m still baffled at how widespread homeopathy is in Britain.

The royal family doesn’t really help, but to be honest I’m not sure there’s a lot they do help with.

I fear that I am not yet done here.

Musicianship

So the music industry is pretty notorious for coming out with pretentious and uptight millionaires who want nothing better to make a quick buck on the backs of all their loyal fans they regularly shit on when attempting to conjure up their next corporate scheme to earn more money that they don’t need.

However, there are nice guys involved, only, as with every other aspect of society, you often can’t hear their polite offerings for all the dicks shouting over them, trying to convince the world that we should just abandon all hope and pretend that we actually like Pitbull and all the other shit those aforementioned millionaires are smearing over my ears on a regular basis.

I know that Lars Ulrich has a large reputation for being a twat, mostly over the whole illegal downloading issue, but even he’s gone out of his way to give free stuff and a meet and greet for an ill fan in his time.

The problem is that when you look at people it’s hard not to see their dark side over the lighter sometimes.

but the foo fighters would make it hard for you to remember some of the dubious campaigns they’ve supported in their time by playing in fan’s garages.

Now that’s giving something back.