The Book Of Mormon / Objective Humour

For my birthday, I went to watch a theatre production: The Book of Mormon! I think this is one of the best ways for me to explain one of the social constructs I try to follow, accept and embody: objective humour.

So, Book of Mormon has had a lot of hype and interest - revered as a breath of fresh air, really funny and quotes that I believed were hyperbole until I witnessed the phenomena with my own eyes and ears.

Yet it's also been termed racist, offensive and crass. Which, believe it or not, it actually was. It was even blasphemous. At these times, I found the show uncomfortable to watch but (question) did that detract from the fact it was hilarious?

The clothes maketh the man

Buses, women and now free clothes. It seems that there are the three things in life, that when I am in need of their service they are not so easily found, but then when you are in ready availability of their service… bang! You can’t stop receiving them.

I was at a charity show helping out a friend, and she asked me to do a bit of presenting and to do some modelling, as dull as I find modelling, and as fat as I have recently got, I decided it was for a good cause. I plug along to the venue, go backstage and introduce myself to everyone their and then do what I do best… self amuse and have fun!

Inappropriateness between everyone there was in full flow, mainly due to me, but  for once this was not my fault. Enter...

How to be confident

‘Being savoir faire and not giving a shit are inextricably linked’ (Me in 2013)

 This quote has no relevance, I just really like it and I like being irreverent.

‘Confidence is a stain you can’t wipe off’ (Lil Wayne)

  

People (Lil Wayne at least) talk about confidence like its something you have or don't, I disagree i think you can learn' it to an extent.

A colleague of mine said he wanted to be confident, and asked me how to do it. I half joking replied: ‘Just be more like me, don’t care about stuff’

This quasi-arrogant, quasi-advisory comment made perfect sense to me, but he replied – 'Yeah, I don’t know what that means, can you explain what that means, I don’t quite get it' and this was yet another example of how my brain misses steps. 

My brain creates direct links from point A to B, except to others the argument I sometimes make are not point A to B but A to C and I miss out B. Case in point: Being like me and not caring (Point A) equates to having confidence (point C). Whilst this seem perfectly linear to me, I realised my brain is broken. In fact through the experience of this conversation I have realised this was not linear and there was a requirement to connect the dots. I know this because my friend said 'I have no idea what that means, that doesn’t make sense, explain how not caring makes you confident, and what do you do that makes you confident.'

  So here is part B: