Who’s the bigger idiot?
Published by MadMan August 27th, 2003 in MediaThe tripe that is published these days is astonishing. Like this “story”:
Indian, Pak actresses can save Earth from Mars omen
If some of the popular Indian and Pakistani actresses dress up with full make up and offer prayers as the planet Mars comes close to Earth on Wednesday, it would be a good omen for the subcontinent.
The Nation quoted Professor Fazal Karim Khan, an astro-palmist, as saying that these actresses and other beautiful women should pray to ward off bad omens likely to arise out of this unique phenomenon, which is recurring after about 60,000 years.
I’m not going to waste time and spacing bothering to point out why this story is absurd. The readers of AnarCapLib (which itself sounds disturbingly like a new sun sign name) are intelligent enough for that.
The title of the post asks the question. Who’s the bigger idiot - the nutjob who makes this “prediction”, the nutjob who believes it, or the nutjob at the Trash of India who actually considers this newsworthy and publishes it in the tabloid newspaper?
PS: The photo in the middle of the ToI article is not the astrologer palmist astro-palmist in question, but an ad for TimesClassifieds.com, yet another site that continues the Times Internet group tradition of knowing absolutely nothing about interface design and usability.
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actresses and other beautiful women should pray to ward off bad omens
I am wondering what I should wear…….??
If I was Mars I would prefer the actresses to be minimally (if at all) dressed and preferably without makeup. And no Pashto actresses please!
The best part is that if they do this it will actually work. There won’t be any negative repurcussions from Mars getting too close to earth.
stupidity, as they say, is an incurable disease.
Stars to save the earth? ;-)
Oops they didn’t do it. Now we’ll have to pay a higher price to plaacate the God of War. They’ll all have to pose nude on TV. (It has to be telecast so that the microwaves can reach mars or something.)