Go! Check out an Inspirational Sign!
January 11th, 2008 by arvind
Arvind here, checking out this quirky but inspirational message from Nirvana School, South India.
What is the most unusual or quirky message you have read?
If one day YOUR words were posted for school children to read, what would they be?!
Written on a lavatory wall by ’someone’ when he was younger;
Here I sit all broken hearted
Came for a dump but only farted
The painters work was all in vain
The sh!t house poet strikes again.
Amazing where inspiration can strike eh?
LOL, plus it rhymes Gareth, bravo!
Gareth,
You should write a book!
Do share anything else you have written…
I’ll add to that,i’ve seen the following on the back of a toilet door.
Here i come to sit and think
Not like you to S**t and stink.
That’s a pretty wise quote from a wise man.
The most unusual message I’ve heard is ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us!” It’s a very bad translation from an old japanese nintendo game. I think you can find it on youtube.
Thanks Arvind and we’ve peppered our book with relevant quotes that relate to the text but ours would have to be…
GO! Smell the flowers while you still can!
Hmmm.., Bridget’s might be:
Make the most of these happy days
and don’t be in such in hurry to be grown-ups
Once you are and have to deal with other adults’ nonsense
you’ll often wish you could go back to these blissful days of childhood innocence!
This doesn’t rhyme and it was not meant to be ha!
‘arbeit mach frei’ was the geeting above the gates at germanys first concentration camp. a rather sick joke dont you think?
You’re kidding, still its not often you get a German joke even if it is sick.
oh those guards at dachau……. how they laaaaaughed!
Ouch!
Hi and happy Hijiri New Year!
This interesting, there is a growing base of belief in the Middle East that the Nazi concentration camps, or more specifically what happened within them has been grossly exaggerated to support the Zionist cause.
Conspiracy theory or fact what happened to the Jews in WW2?
I’ve been to Auschwitz-Birkenau Mohammed and based upon the piles and piles of human hair/childrens shoes/glasses/suitcases, this theory is WAY off the mark.
Not to mention deeply offensive.
I too have visited Nazi concentration camps and I agree with you that it is deeply offensive and way off the mark.
But why do you think these conspiracy theories are growing?
These theories only really grow amongst Neo Nazi/fascist groups and certain radical areas of Islam.
For the fascists its an attempt to sharpen up their image and distance themselves from the events in order to appeal more to the ordinary rank and file and thus increase membership.
For radical Islam it is to try and heap more pressure on Israel and put doubts into peoples minds as to why the state was set up and garner support for Hamas, Hezbollah and so on. This of course is a crazy course of action as all it does is harden the resolve of the Israelis and make the average Palestinians already awful life much, much worse.
Personally I find both cases puerile and distasteful. It smacks of the football hooliganism mind set. Those footy guys beat people up and generally abuse each other simply over which team they support.
Neo Nazis beat people up because they won’t share the same mind set nor will they wear a black uniform. I actually think half the anti Nazis are just as bad as they really badger people and take violent action when, a much easier and more effective course of action is to ignore them and not give credence or recognition to them. Like a child throwing a tantrum they will get bored and stop.
Small sections of Islam, often called radical Islam, wish to destabilise and ultimately end the state of Israel. Clearly this isn’t going to happen as it is seen as a test of wills. Recently Mahmoud Ahmadiejad raised a good question but, given who he is, it was shunned and criticised by most in the West.
Why wasn’t a Jewish state set up in Austria/Germany? after all it was those guys who inflicted the holocaust.
I have debated this a number of times with a friend of mine from Persia (he won’t say Iran as he considers himself Persian). Generally we can’t get to a black and white answer but the one thing we agree on is it is simply pathetic that people can’t live side by side.
Plus they are both god fearing.They all believe in one god merely different takes on it. Does anyone think that the key figures, The Profit, Jesus, Moses, etc. really wanted so many killed in their name? Its pathetic and really needs to be stopped.
People spreading this theory and following Islam are widening the gap between Islam and none Islamics. This is sad and also unhelpful, plus it perpetuates the unfounded Western mindset that Islam=terror.
Millions of people live together in many places of the world without resorting to war and strife, yet some of the key religions can not.
Sad, Sad, Sad.
My dear Gareth, I thank you for your thoughtful and balanced response, I agree with all you have said. Although my immediate support is for my Palestinian brothers, as Arabs we must not forget that the Jews are also our cousins.
How the state of Israel came to be in the first place is highly contentious, but it is there and we must learn to live side by side. Why Israel is not in Europe, I don’t think the Israeli’s would have accepted their ‘promised land’ anywhere else but where their historical origin is from.
Inshalla, peace will come, no problem is truly insurmountable, there have been many examples of wholesale change in recent history to support this hope. Think Berlin Wall, Ireland etc….
Excellent insights and wonderful aspirations, Gareth and Mohammed.
Gandhi would have been impressed
Well they were hardly going to put ‘We’re going to kill you’
That would be why it is a sick joke Lib
Like it Arvind - it inspires me not to pull over a drive throughs now, imagine that Ghandi one above the burger king pull off!
Yes, exactly! A lot of what Gandhi said would make a huge difference in the world today