Tell your friend to seek help.

There’s a saying in therapy. If someone is sad all the time they have to learn to get mad, and if they are mad all the time they have to learn to be sad.

Serious question.

What’s the last thing in entertainment that you think was known to everyone in the USA? I’m not talking about Taylor Swift dating a football player. I mean a brand new act coming out and all kinds of people excited.

I can’t think of anything.

Here’s my take. If a movie ticket is $5.00 I’ll try something new. Maybe I like it or I don’t, but hey, it’s $5.00 and I get to tell people how awful it was. If a movie ticket is $20.00 I am not going to play around. I want something I’m already sold on.

I was thinking about it this morning.

Look at Beatle-mania or Spice Girl-mania.

Back in the day, 100 million people were aware of one big thing and it brought them together.

Today with the internet, you’ve got a million different ‘big things’ each with 100 fans.

Reminds me of an old joke.

A beautiful princess is galivanting across the sward one fine morning. She comes upon a muddy pond. A frog jumps out of the slimy water and bows at her feet.

“Oh princess, I am under the curse of an evil witch. If you give me but a single kiss I shall return to my true form. Kiss me and I’ll become the world’s best drummer.”

The princess gathers her skirts, bends over, picks up the frog, and shoves him into her purse.

“Aren’t you going to kiss me and break the witch’s spell?”

“Hell, no! I can make a lot more money with a talking frog than I can with the world’s best drummer.”

You could set up a small business with the pressure washer.

Start looking for another job.

It’s a long standing GOP tactic.

Pass a law they know is unconstitutional, and then use the power of the state to enforce it. It forces the Left to spend money that could go to actual elections, and it let’s them cry about ‘activist’ judges.

Put the blame where it belongs.

Ronald Reagan was a middle class kid who wanted to be very, very, very rich. When he got to Hollywood he made it his business to always be the poorest guy in the room. He sucked up to the rich every chance he got.

One of the things he did for them was tell them that they didn’t owe the peons anything. In fact, he told them they should flaunt their wealth and grind down the poor where and whenever they could.

Dalton did a great job with what he was given. The first few minutes of Brosnan’s movie brought back the cigarettes and casual sex. Dalton’s Bond was ‘cleaned up’ for the AIDS era.

I give Dalton a lot of credit. He was making Bond in the middle of the AIDS era. They had to cut out the wild, promiscuous sex and even denied him cigarettes. It was like making a Superman movie where the actor had to be in Clark Kent’s clothes and never wore the cape.

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It’s a truism in writing; villains act and heroes react. If someone looks at the internet and sees a way to exploit it they will. They don’t care that it’s working fine for everyone else; they want the money.

I once read a novel from the 1970s. There were a couple of thugs who were arguing over who’d had more STIs. It was a simpler, happier time.

Think about this. Public sex clubs like ‘Plato’s Retreat’ and gay bath houses were mainstream in the 1970s. Bette Midler got her start performing at a gay bath house. There were porn theaters catering to couples all over the place. AIDS came along and threw everything back fifty years.

Sometimes I wonder about how many songs the average person would know throughout history. An ancient Roman would be exposed to songs from the entire Empire, while a 1000 AD English farmer might only hear a few dozen in their whole life time.

Since this is a comedy thread, I’ll paraphrase John Cleese.

The great thing about anger is that it really works. It makes you physically stronger and less likely to feel pain. If you’re angry all the time you aren’t worrying about things because you’ve got a target to go after.

I’ll throw in another comedy classic.

The musical “The Music Man” is about a conman who gets the whole town in an uproar over a pool table.

Check the history of comedy.

Mel Brooks ‘The Producers’ movie had two gay men. Bugs Bunny was in drag in the 1940’s. “Some Like It Hot” came out in the 1950s. Heck, pretty much any Hollywood movie made before the Hays Code would have had gay gags.

Milton Berle was the King of Comedy and he did drag for years.

The Pythons didn’t invent anything

Go in and demand to be fired.

If you’re fired you get unemployment benefits.

Also, say something like “I know you need to cut back. I can get another job in a couple of days, but [insert enemy’s name] could never get another job.”