The Jumper Thief

Walking around any public place, eg malls, parks we can see examples of human courting rituals. The suggestive coffee drinkers, the flirtatious shoppers. One particular courting ritual that is evidenced in most females, but especially teen girls is the jumper branding. The female steals the males jumper and wears it in public, in theory a practicality to keep warm but in reality a mark of ownership. In this act she advertises to watchers that she has claimed a man, it is a mark of power over the man she has claimed.

This male doesn't need to be hers, it can be any males jumper, as long as it is seen that the jumper is not hers and it is her will that parted him with his possession.

This gives the female certain perceived power, it marks her as a higher rank then the male she took the jumper from and also any female that does not have this power over another.

This power play is very important in young womanhood. These females have not yet proved their worthwhileness by social or cultural standards so power over others of the same low ranking social positioning moves them up slightly in society's food chain it is most often done by the alpha female of a pack of teenagers and the higher rank the male who owns the jumper the more powerful the female appears to be.

So please, when you are next in a public place watch for the female that claims a males jumper, understand the connotations of this gesture then try to ignore the self- important bitch.

hypocrysy

So, the general gist of this post is fairly hypocritical on my part.
But i need to get this off of my chest.

I was at a gig just over a week ago and there was a small cluster of irritating indi-er-than-thou indies present. Though I can get a little like that and the gig was Jackson Jackson - an obscure Australian band - so there were bound to be some of these types there, one of the guys t-shirts caught my eye and caused me to loath him and all others who own the t-shirt.

The t-shirt was a typical indi-t with a random picture and quote, but it was the quote that got me:

A life without knowledge is a death in disguise.

ARGH. FRUSTRATION AT THE WORLD is all I can express. What a stupid sentiment! To me this demostrates that there are both indies shallower than your average teenybopper and would buy the t-shirt because it sounds deep and would make them seem intellectual and that there are some truely idiotic people in the world. If you take this statement seriously, I have some very firm and fundemental disagreements with your view on life.

This quote immediately brings to my mind another quote of pretty much the inverse, Slarty Bartfast in The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (books or radio series, certainly not that awful movie):

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Doesn't that seem a much more sensible message? Shouldn't that be true? I'm not saying that knowledge and true happiness are mutually exclusive, but I just think it's a sad world where people feel you have to have one to be able to achieve the other.