Rant 330 / Looking For Alternatives

A sadist, a masochist, a murderer, a necrophile, a zoophile and a pyromaniac are all sitting on a bench in a mental institution.
"Let's have sex with a cat?" asked the zoophile.
"Let's have sex with the cat and then torture it," says the sadist.
"Let's have sex with the cat, torture it and then kill it," shouted the murderer.
"Let's have sex with the cat, torture it, kill it and then have sex with it again," said the necrophile.
"Let's have sex with the cat, torture it, kill it, have sex with it again and then burn it," said the pyromaniac.
There was silence, and then the masochist said: "Meow."

If you even smiled at this, you know you've be desensitized. Unless, of course, you have no idea what the big words mean.









The Changeling is a movie with a misleading title. I had thought that it was going to be some sort of horror/fantasy thriller film, but instead got a historical account of a murder case, basically a drama/mystery film set in the 1920s.

A mother got home from work only to find her only son missing. She filed a police report and eventually the police told her they found her boy. When she saw him at the train station she knew they had the wrong boy.

Hence the story begins.

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I expected the child to turn out to be some sort of monster right out of some European folklore. He turned out to be just a boy who wanted to pretend to be her son just so that he could go to Hollywood to see a famous actor (she lived in California).

At the end when they found a boy who escaped from the murderer and he admitted to knowing her son, I thought she could have asked that other boy who had assisted the mad killer about whether her son had escaped or whether they had captured him again that night.

Maybe she did but it was done without the help of the police, hence the absence of a record of it.

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So apparently tertiary education in France is almost free. It usually costs only several hundred Euros a year unless you're going for private universities. In countries like Sweden, it's completely free for both locals and foreigners. Foreign students still have to pay for accomodation and etc though.

So why the f*ck do we need to pay good money for exchange programmes?







Here's a video made by two teenage brothers. It's made using a very unique style. A simple concept executed extremely well. Somehow I like the music but they didn't upload it separately as a mp3 file.