More weirdness from around the globe

I am back. I found another story for you all. I just find these things or perhaps they find me. There are those amongst us, and I may be one, who believe that there are no coincidences. All things happen and occur for a reason, we are just not all privy to the reasons or the meaning of the connection. It is a tenet of Buddhism (whatever the spelling may be, ahhh I'll just use the spellcheck) that there is a connection between all things. Everything is interconnected in some way. I think that there is some truth to that belief, but I find my reasoning is suspect.

I figure that the interconnectedness thing occurs but we are just not always capable of "receiving" and understanding the connections and their meanings. I guess that comes with enlightenment. Achieve that and you have achieved it all.

I know this is all very well and good but where is the weirdness, notwithstanding the author. Here it is for you, but I just got sidetracked there by something that struck me. You were just along for the ride. Here is the story:

Absent husband returns home ... as a eunuch
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian man who left his wife and two young children two years ago shocked his family when he returned home as an eunuch, wearing garish red lipstick, the Asian Age newspaper said Thursday.
After a fight with his wife, the jobless Nabiullah left his family in Hathipur town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2003 to look for work, the paper reported.
During his absence, he got himself castrated and became a eunuch, earning money by singing and dancing, a common form of employment among India's ostracized community of eunuchs.
"I was always fond of singing and dancing, but felt suffocated in my body as a man," Nabiullah was quoted as saying.
His wife, Shama Parveen, fainted when he returned home late last month and now wants a divorce.
"I cannot live with this eunuch and subject myself and my children to social ridicule," she was quoted as saying.

Doesn't that end all? I mean I can understand desparate but not so desparate that I would cut my balls off!!!! He CUT OFF HIS BALLS! (I had to yell to get your attention) That is taking some drastic measures. Either that or he really wanted to be a juggler, only now he is juggling with no balls. (hahahahaha) Please let me know if somebody actually can see themselves doing something remotely like that. I guess it makes being a "cutter" child's play or it is X-treme Cutter work, either way it is not my bag (I mean that both figurativly and literally).

Oh yeah, I forgot to shudder about that thought. I know what it is liked to get kicked there and I figure cutting the boys off has to hurt at least ten-fold. OUCH!

Now his wife's reaction is justifiable. It also answers that age old question, which is worse an unemployed husband or one with no nuts. See, I have something going for me, but I digress. I do not need funny comments, these events just occur. What the fuck is wrong with us humans? I cannot see any animal feeling the need or desire to have himself castrated. I guess he "fixed" his wife, or she fixed him, no he fixed himself and as a result, her. Also, when did becoming an entertainer become a job of ridicule. Should we go make fun of the "stars" of Bollywood and Hollywood?

Actually, that is not a bad idea when I think about it. Does anybody really care about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (except for the two of them)? Actually, that was the topic of conversation at the outlaws' last Friday evening. My wife's aunt brought it up, so I left the room to choke on my bile and avoid hearing anything that would set me off. I need to refill my Valium, I am just too on edge. I am really off on a tangent right now, so I will come back now.

I guess his death would have been less shameful to his family, or wife, at least. Wow!

I found another funny one here.

SOFIA (Reuters) - A Bulgarian who dipped his hands into a popular public fountain in central Sofia was electrocuted because of faulty insulation in the fountain's lights and pump, the news agency FOCUS quoted prosecutors as saying Thursday.
The death of 33-year-old Veselin Petrov late Wednesday has spurred authorities into ordering rapid checks of other fountains in the Bulgarian capital, FOCUS said.
Other people in the Bulgarian capital had reported receiving shocks from the recently opened fountain but no action had been taken, the news agency added.

Check other fountains? D'ya think? I am thinking it was to be a tourist draw to Sofia. Come see and feel the Shock fountain! Every fifteenth visitor gets a free electrocution! (sort of brings to mind the posted odds on the big slot machines in the casinos in Las Vegas, a 96% payout type thing) I guess on the scale of crappy vacation spots that would rank up there with the Rusted Barbed Wire Playground in Albania. It is funny, though. As Homer Simpson (it is sad that I am quoting a cartoon character, but the writing is top notch) once said, "It is funny because I don't know the guy" or "It's funny because it's not me." It is good either way.

That is today's ravings, though they may be less ravings and more pithy observations, or less than that. Keep your heads held high and ciao!