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Odds & Ends

Posted April 20th, 2007 in Vents by M

By and large I believe in Charles Darwin’s theories, especially natural selection and survival of the fittest. But do the fittest of the species always survive?

  • Why or why do doofuses at an elevator push both the up and down buttons, fondly imagining the lift will come faster? To add insult to injury, the stain on our collective DNA pushes the buttons repeatedly, suspecting that the bright red light is just, to coin a rugby expression, a “dummy”.
  • While still on the lifts, one wonders whether to laugh, cry or both when seeing a daughter of a mother
    • Wait 5 minutes for a lift to come down to the ground floor
    • Upon entering the lift press the button for 1st floor (there are no mezzanines)
    • Upon getting to the 1st floor enter an establishment whose core business is a gymnasium
    • Later over hear said lady, over a large and greasy meal. asking her friends if they think she has lost wait. No, HMS Ulysses, you have not lost weight. If you wait 5 minutes for a lift to take you up one floor, you don’t have to think too hard to realize why your friends refer to your belt as the equator and your trousers as the Tropic Of Capricorn
  • I am sick and tired of hearting about Raila Odinga and his bloody Hummer. I have had enough forwards from kind people who think my knowledge of all things Hummer is wanting, and thus pollute my inbox with all sorts of photos, specifications and catalogues. Listen nitwits:
    • There is no way a plain vanilla Hummer can cost 45 million shillings. 45 million shillings, using a rounded off dollar rate of 70 bob, is about 640,000 dollars.
    • Unless Raila Odinga’s Hummer polishes Raila Odinga’s shoes, brushes Raila Odinga’s teeth, reads to him bedtime stories and calls him Papi after a hard day’s work, no one gives a flying rat’s ass.
    • If you are still forwarding these bloody forwards, rest assured someone somewhere is imagining taking the largest model of the hummer, covering with with gravy, turning it sideways and STICKING IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR [This section reserved by management]
  • The next time you’re preaching to me about Don Imus, you’ll be a lot more convincing if at the time
    • You don’t hail me with a smile and a cordial “What’s up nigga!”
    • Your CD player is not belting out very loudly “I make it rain on them hoes, I make it rain“.
    • You keep referring to bitches and it is common knowledge you have no pets
  • The next time you attempt to justify anything by telling me you were under the influence of Mr Al Koholic, that look in my eye is me imagining you
    • Being horse whipped
    • Being whipped by a horse
  • The other day concerned souls forcefully sat me down and told me who the Kenya’s celebs are. Among them are
    • A doofus who hired a helicopter to fly over a fence
    • Several half-witted stars and starlettes who torture our eardrums on radio. Since when did reading news on radio make you a celebrity?
  • It goes without saying I completely reject the nitwits we celebrate as celebrities. I can confidently say that I am jolly interested in what folks like Paul Tergat are up to, not the shenanigans of twelve jabronies at the coast
  • A movie is in the works about Anna Nicole Smith. Who. Cares?
  • Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are generally top searches on Yahoo. If you are one of the doofuses wasting our limited bandwidth searching for those two smack your fat head as hard as you possibly can.
  • There is no difference between Othaya Really Old Boys & Country Club (Narc Kenya) and the Court Jesters Association (ODM-K). Both should take very long walks off very short piers.
  • I no longer take the notion of “African Time” or ladies being “fashionably late” seriously. At all. In fact if you find yourself saying this that patient look on my face is not of understanding. It is me praying very hard that re-incarnation is true, so that you can come back as a toilet seat in the only toilet in  a men’s hostel during a diarrhoea outbreak.
  • And last but not least, I object to being generalized. I object to being referred to as a typical man. And should you find yourself addressing me thus, then rest assured this typical man is typically thinking you can kiss his typical [This section reserved by management]

Groan Of The Day

Dude, you need to get serious. Wash your damn car! Kwani you think you’re Chamillionaire?

 Walanguzi – Vaseline

  • http://www.simplyclarah.blogspot.com Klara

    Wow! Fao can believe this!!!
    That Hummer storos sax just as the The Artur’s brothers one!
    Ati being whipped by a horse! LOL

  • http://tallb.wordpress.com aegeus

    Tabia mbaya i tell you. Lifts are a very strange place to be and you observe very strange behaviors, finger in nose then onto button, urgh! I use a tissue to finya things or kindly ask to be assisted by the dude or ‘dette hogging the space next to the controls blocking access. Then those people who get in and stand at the door instead of standing aside so the rest of us can get in before we are crushed half to death by the closing doors? And why do half the sensors for the doors not work?

    I second you on that moto-gari!

    On that Don idiot – hear hear! ROTFL!

    Or even having you kicked by the said horse! :-D

    That Paris and Britney thing baffles me! Prolly limited brain cells – could be excused if you are looking for the video of some attempt at procreation…

    African tymer – what is that watch you wear on the wrist for? **well the size that peeps wear these days** i see adopt a watch ads becoming a reality! :-)

  • http://tallb.wordpress.com aegeus

    And where did that heffer come from! I was first! **high pitched voice!** Klara – wanted – nitafunga na wewe! **oops forgot it was not high school** Hehehehe!

  • http://mwanamishale.wordpress.com archer

    Third! I see you’re not smiling with people today. Off to read! Now where did Klara come from?

  • http://mwanamishale.wordpress.com archer

    HMS Ulysses? LOL! Did Milo pass you one of his blunts as well? And I see you’ve been watching re-runs of The Rock on WWE.

    About lifts, what irks me is when a fat ass heffer tries to ensconce herself into an already full lift…or when some idiot stands at the back of a packed lift kumbe he’s going to Mezzanine 1!

    M, are there any prizes for spotting typos? “Hearting” (Hearing)

  • http://kadhat.blogspot.com egm

    Couldn’t agree more on this list. Concerning Tergat, I was part of a group having dinner at a restaurant when the man himself came in with some friends and sat at a table next to ours. This got us talking about how chances were high that he probably didn’t get as much attention that befitted his stature as some of the so-called “celebs”. Needless to say, we did ask him for a photo op, which he graciously afforded us. Celebrity definitely needs to be redefined.

  • http://kadhat.blogspot.com egm

    For the Don Imus affair, I couldn’t belive Russell Simmons response to calls for rap to purge the derisive lyrics it glories in. He said that the difference between rap and Imus is, in rap, they are speaking about their reality of a hard life in the projects and that conditions for blacks should be improved so that they can start singing about good things. This response is just hogwash. Where is it written you can sing about negative aspects of life only using vulgarity to spread your message?

  • http://justsue.wordpress.com Sue

    Hehehe =)) Wassup Nigga.. The celebrity thing.. Soo true it hurts..

  • http://mywordsonly.blogspot.com acolyte

    Where do I start? Let me read and give maoni! Pee-nus power!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://mywordsonly.blogspot.com acolyte

    - The other suckers in lifts are those who use their keys very well knowing that the keys scratch up the buttons and wont even do the job.
    - I do remember the lazy gym goers and who after the workout would be in Kenchic munching on 2 packs of chips, half chicken, washed down with a half liter of coke.
    - I tire of those double standards, if a white man says it it’s wrong but if black rappers say it everyone turns a blind eye. Heck no! Wrong is wrong!
    -I think Kenya’s celebs are famous for being famous for most cases. Otherwise they are nothing to write home about. I won’t even start talking about people who are still riding 3 year old songs to this day.
    - I’m tired of these wazee touting themselves as Kenya’s future. Please give us a break!
    -Hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder who typecast you as a typical man? Remember you are unique, just like everyone else!
    Now let me hop hop just like a jack rabbit back to my blog…..

  • http://tallb.wordpress.com aegeus

    It hits me an hour later that groan of the day refers to… Haki, total blonde moment right there.

  • Aco patrol

    I see you have come to peddle your not so well received post on thinkers real estate too!

  • njege

    hummer: that storo is as tired as kenenisa bekele attempting to shinda in coast. apart from the fact that its stupid to link in any way leadership ability to ones method of transportation.

    lifts: like guys who order the aforementioned (@acolyte) chips, burger etc then thinks that a ‘diet’ coke miraculously changes it all into salad.

    don imus: a bit of a hypocritical reaction from the worlds largest producer of pornography, misogynistic rap AND howard stern. but i guess that was yr point?

  • http://chrenyan.wordpress.com Chrenyan

    @Aegeus: Adopt-a-watch? LOL!

  • http://chrenyan.wordpress.com Chrenyan

    So M, you believe in Darwin’s theories? Interesting!

  • farmgal

    ai yawa …umekasirika!
    But I feel this post…totally

  • http://udi-m.blogspot.com Udi

    Boss, i can see we think alike. Lifts, i am done especially since I just encountered a foolish old man yesterday wanting to go to 3 different floors at the same time. Raila’s Hummer. That moti better talk like Kitt in Knight Rider. Otherwise, I am not impressed. Celebs. I am sure I dont need to emphasize my distaste for what we refer to as celebs

  • Jogoo wa Shamba

    I feel you bro, especially on Agwambo’s Hummer,ADD THIS – the impending marriage of one of our African daughters to a mercenary… bla, bla,bla!! I am having a steel cage made for my telly coz one of these fine days i might do something bad to it :->

  • Mitzy

    Hmmm, lifts! First complaint, the people who chat away loudly while in a crowded lift, inappropriate personal stories at that, e.g. (true story) “You know my Aunt Wambui is in hospital, she has fibroids…”
    Other people I don’t understand are those guys that go for laps in lifts. You are both headed to top floors, but when the lift arrives, the jamaa asks where its going…he’s told “Down”, he gets on anyway…and there he is again when the lift comes back up for you get in.
    As for Raila and his (or not his?) Humm-gwambo, the two better be catching strokes for that ridiculous said price and the nauseating publicity.
    @M, there really is a song called Vaseline? :D

  • http://nyarshady.blogspot.com mamashady

    ive really chekad!you do have a way with words.lifts…the other day i met a guy in a lift who was killing time between lectures and so was stopping on every floor, over and over agin…ala?!but you can definitely observe funny things in those joints!as for youre other peeves…very amusing!clearly darwin must be rolling in his grave!

  • vituvingisana

    Don’t forget jesse “blackmailing” jackson… he protests just as long as he is not paid off…

  • http://www.iexplor.blogspot.com kayliz

    Has anyone ever got into a lift with just one person but once you’re inside unajua kumbe amenyamba? Yesterday that happened to me and the culprit was a drop-dead gorgeous mama!!

    Anyway, nice post – a good laugh (which I needed), thanks.

  • http://mywordsonly.blogspot.com acolyte

    @ aco patrol
    If I was peddling the post, I would have put a link to it. Plus my traffic figures tell a different story, thanks for the hateration irregardless!

  • TeeJ

    hahahaha dude, loooved the odds and ends. You still rock!! lol

  • I

    ha ha ha ha!! hilarious!!!
    ohh.. and i cannot stand that “African time” crap.. if there was such a thing i am sure it would apprear on my watch somewhere which would be my “Q time” to leave you waiting on “My time” to get there.. which you would soon find out is..
    Never after the time agreed upon..

  • http://ichiena.blogspot.com ichiena

    I hear you man. Elevators – kwanza if you have ever dared to try Nyayo House or KNH! Most irritating is when someone steps in and stands there oblivious to the fact that they have just overloaded the lift and it is not going anywhere until they get out. Arrrghh moments i tell you.

    The alcoholic excuses = no excuse.

    You? A typical man? That’s a first…hehehe

  • http://www.ajkenswi.blogspot.com Adrian

    absolutely lovely enjoyed this post!
    love it when people go on rants about something and everything on their blogs.

    great post!

  • brainz

    Preach on Brutha Preach On……

    This is the gospel truth. better than watchin jerry springer.

    Lovley post my guy

  • http://howdidigethere-kenyanchick.blogspot.com/ Kenyanchick

    You and I are kindred spirits, M. I feel you on absolutely everything you’ve written. In fact I just added a few pet peeves on my blog. In fact, I could author an entire blog just about my $*%& pet peeves!!

    Do another one.

  • http://www.ciikuandhermess.blogspot.com ciiku

    Oy! Vey!

    I so feel you on so many levels.

    I tell you, ANYONE who drives a Hummer needs to be bashed upside their heads….. [unless they are in the army and at war]

    LOL @ Celebs… I see these one hit wonders are really trying to cling onto their 15 minutes of fame…. *smh* its a damn shame!

  • I

    ha ha ha.. ati a hammer for $640,000!!

    unless that thing flies…thats a damn lie!!

  • Aisee

    what about those guys who press the up/down button for the lift when i have already pressed it and it is lit up? do you have super magical powers that will make the lift come faster coz YOU pushed it again? people are weird, speaking of which am i the only one with this strange urge to press all the buttons in the lift when i get in?

  • http://dkwin.wordpress.com DK

    I hate dirty garis too.. Kwani how much will you pay just to wash it??.

  • http://www.gleamofdawn.blogspot.com Komi

    Someone once said that if you keep pressing the top/down buttons even if they are already on, then you have enough energy to take the stairs. I believe him.
    I also wonder at people who take the lift on Mezz to ride to the ground floor. It annoys me abit-more than I want to admit-but it is their equator.
    As for the Hammer, I think it calls Raila papi…it infuriates the love of cars out of me.

  • Key

    @Aisee I have done it twice. It was last year at Corner House. Got out of the lift at ground floor and pressed all the floor buttons. It was worth it…the guys who then entered the lift were extremely pissed off. You could hear the ‘ahhs’, ‘wewes’ and ‘pumbavus’. It was hilarious…

  • munyanta

    i got to admit am also one of those guyz who likes ‘bonye-zaing’ lift buttons severally….i really really dont know why….. i just feels wrong if i dont do it……

    yes,Raila has a hummer, but so what !!!??!!! i mean who cares!!! now just try to imagine if he had aquired a personal boeing 707 like John Travolta ?? i shudder at at the thought.

  • donworry

    When M is flowing I pitty the keyboard. I felt your angst kabiza!

    I thought acolyte was also going to mention our tu- cousins who use their keys to scratch their ears…ouch

    finally am I the only one who missed the link between hummer and nyundo?

  • http://blog.uhuru.de JKE

    Well, thx god there are no or only a few elevators in rural areas.
    As for the bandwidth issue: i feel you on this. Pole. Which btw reminds me of the Hummer video i saw on Youtube…. :-D

  • No rhyme No reason

    A post way overdue. The hummer story has done its round and should be retired. As for the lists…straight on point but you hsould have included those folks who attempt to continue with Cell phone conversations in lifts.