Llama.

Dear Uncle Randy,

I’m thinking of buying my bf a llama for Xmas, should I ask the landlord first?

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Perhaps rather than directing your enquiries toward the landlord regarding the admissibility of cohabiting with farmyard animals, you should first be asking yourself, ‘What am I trying to accomplish in purchasing a llama?’ No doubt, they are glorious creatures, capable only of increasing the value of their surrounds per diem. But ask yourself, where is this llama coming from? Is it a genuine gift of abundance and joy; an expression of union and mutual adoration between you and your partner? Or is it a desperate attempt to resuscitate a relationship that has ceased to beat sound and true; a fanciful bid to inject some long lost novelty into a habitual performance of partnership that has succumbed to a lacklustre quotidian monotony? Be honest now.

Evidently, your relationship is in a state of utter ruination. You cause each other nothing but irritation and distress, frustration and resentment. Arguing acrimoniously over everything and nothing, keeping score of numerous offences and transgressions, it has become clear that your personalities are incompatible as you strain to remember the good times and why you entered into this quagmire of toxicity in the first place.

Whilst a llama can certainly offer both charming company and plush wool yields, a six foot fluffy camelid — taking up space in the front room, chewing on the furniture and shitting in the hallway — cannot fill the gaping void that so clearly exists between you and your boyfriend. A llama will not repair your broken love, nor solve your inability to communicate effectively. A llama should never be a band-aid cure for such a gangrenous wound, and it would be profoundly unfair to lay that burden upon such a sweet and unsuspecting creature. Perhaps you should address the emotional chasm that separates your two hearts before you consider shanghaiing another life form into the vortex of your personal shit storm. Consider therapy; consider breaking up. Consider the llama.

Randy.

Office Romance.

Dear Uncle Randy,

I can’t stop making a tit of myself in front of this hot girl at work. Yesterday I accidentally stapled her skirt to the desk — do you think I’m still in with a chance?

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When it comes to the mating rituals of the animal kingdom, you simians really have nothing to worry about. Fortunately, hundreds of thousands of years of natural selection have taken care of a great deal of the courtship process. Seduction runs in your bloodline. Your parents, your great-grandparents, all the way back to your lascivious neolithic ancestors, have all been wholly successful in the art of seduction, and each has passed their sexual prosperity on to you.

The problems only really arise when You get in the way of your own natural process.  Hooked by desire, wanting, clinging to what could be, you try to ‘figure out’ how to attain the object of your affections. Rather than moving with the rousing instincts of your primordial body, you start thinking with the limited scope of your quotidian mind. Questioning, judging, second guessing each minute communication between you and this prospective mate in a desperate bid to affect a desired outcome. And in such a state you lose flow, you forget yourself, you become stilted, unnatural and wholly unattractive. Good job.

It is uncertainty from within that repels and inspires a flaccid disposition. Humans like confidence. Unwavering certainty in an uncertain world is attractive; it is beneficial to survival, reproduction and the evolutionary heritage you carry forth today. So harness your innate powers! Your carnal prowess is present already, you must simply trust in and act upon your instincts. From this place of relaxed libidinous certitude, only success can arise. Are you stapling with confidence? Are you stammering with conviction? Are you deliberately releasing your bladder into your pants? If so, romance is inevitable.

Now, armed with re-animated aptitude and unwavering self-belief, you can assert yourself and your desire at will. You can express your being freely, brazenly, knowing that all you do and say will be met with joy and acceptance. Create your own chances, attract at will, get out of your way.

Randy.

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Pants.

Dear Uncle Randy,

My underwear keeps going missing from my washing line but only the black lacy things – what can I do?

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There are infinite circumstances in this world which lie beyond our immediate control. The economy is in ruins; public transport is delayed; it rains on your wedding day; you are impotent at 30; other people exist and insist on having their own ludicrous opinions, feelings, and sexual perversions. One could spend a lifetime beating upstream, screaming into the winds of circumstance, exhausting oneself against the turbulent, unremitting reality into which one is thrown. Or, one may relax and recline, surrender willingly to the current and ride in harmony with the comings and goings of today’s bullshit.

The question remains, what can you do? What action can you take; what does lie within your control? You could stop hanging your laundry out — hang it up inside, or stop wearing black lacy things altogether. You could move to a neighbourhood with fewer registered sex offenders. You could install sentinels to watch over your washing line with guard dogs and submachine guns. You could instigate an international campaign to hunt down and execute the perpetrator, brandishing their severed head as a warning to all prospective panty snatching perverts.

Or you could simply accept the particularity of today’s perversions without resistance, free from antipathy or aversion. Greet the current state of your reality with open arms and live congruently, agreeably. Remove all conflict, find your seat in today’s oddity of life and discover joy in the unwanted and unforeseen. Embrace your status as a symbol of lacy lust and adorn your washing line end to end with a plethora of aphrodisiac gifts: thongs, stockings, bodacious bras and negligees, all for the taking! The legends will be true of the beauteous bounty bestowed. Pervs will come from far and wide to purloin your panties and sniff the crotch of charity and goodwill. And as you give so generously to the world, the world shall respond in kind. In a glory of karmic retribution, gifts shall rain upon you as abundance proliferates throughout your life. Harmony shall restore, devoid of conflict, full of pants.

Randy.

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Jobless.

Dear Uncle Randy,

I’ve been in town for a few weeks now and I can’t find a job. Any advice for the road?

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There are few trials as disheartening as the downtrodden dejection of being unemployed. Out of work and out of use, drifting jobless through the bustling noise of the world at work, one’s meandering existence can become lacklustre and hopeless. As economic ruin creeps ever closer with each depleting dollar and the stability of one’s material existence is brought into serious question, one shoulders the anxiety of impending destitution. Teetering between the possibilities of deprivation and prosperity, subject to the whims of a saturated job market, one’s fate can seem totally out of one’s own control. Meanwhile, in such a state, the possibility of any spontaneous personal enjoyment of such abundant free time is struck off. Yet, powerless and discouraged, one can only persevere.

A few weeks is nothing; these things take time. Many believe that they will glide effortlessly into the sickest job in the mountains as soon as they arrive in town. Sex magnet bar tender; powder shredding snowboard guru; juiced up adrenaline surging bungee slinger; Mr Connected black suits slick hair concierge of Hôtel Extraordinaire. And sure enough, some do. But most end up eventually getting any old job and making the absolute most of it.

Rest assured, a job will come. It may not be exactly what you imagined or desire, but a job it shall be! And with it will come its own idiosyncratic perks and pros, drags and dead ends, its own people and memories, its own chapter in your life. And whilst such particularities lie beyond your control, knowing that it is sure to come relieves you of the anxiety of unemployment. So relax. Loosen the force of your grip on the outcomes of your choices and experiences. You are free to enjoy yourself, to drink in the town for all its worth. To go out, to meet people make friends have fun. To get to know the individuals that make up this teeming power house of a working town. Because in this town, friends take care of friends. And when you are so engrossed in the world around you, the possibilities can’t help but present themselves.

Randy.

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Picture cred from Mr. Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936.

Tech.

Dear Uncle Randy, 

People say humans are evolving… are kids going to be super intelligent or fucking stupid fucktards growing up with all this technology, eg iPads, iPhones, games to play with?

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You’re quite right, people do say that humans are evolving.  In fact, I hear it’s all the rage; every species is doing it.  Perhaps you should give it a try.  Surely you’ve had quite enough of scraping your knuckles along the ground, relying predominantly on your sense of smell for environmental reckoning, gnawing on animal carcasses found in the trash whilst grunting territorially over the fence at your timid, nonplussed neighbours.  Arise, Apeman!  Haul yourself from the primordial swamps, erect your stooping posture and discover the wonder of opposable thumbs! 

Do not forget, “all this technology” is nothing new.  Humans have made use of such technical knowledge for hundreds of thousands of years; you are a technological species.  The wheel really got things rolling, whilst fire making is still very much in fashion.  Numeracy, clothing, and pointy sticks have all come rather a long way.  More recently, satellites have facilitated instantaneous global communication, and the internet has bestowed a wealth of pornography and cats at the click of a button.

However, whilst technologies continue to develop at an ever increasing rate, evolution is a slightly slower process.  The human tail fell into obsolescence roughly twenty-five million years ago, whilst that new phone you just bought is already super lame.  As technology steams ahead like a bullet through the neolithic brain, shaping the world in which you live and how you interact with it at an unprecedented rate, humans can only cling on desperately, simultaneously marvelling at and fearing that which they have created. 

Perhaps technology will come to improve life for the better, enriching the young and expanding the minds of the many; saviour of Earth and freer of Mankind.  Or perhaps humans will continue to devolve into a race of drooling imbeciles, kept docile and amused by beguiling zeros and ones, gleefully prodding at the digital world of their screens and luxuriating in the sweet rush of brilliant pixels as they flee the malaise of shitty reality.

Randy.

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Trash.

Dear Uncle Randy, 

How do I deal with my flatmates’ smelly trash? My room is near the kitchen and I’m tired of my flatmates stinking out the house so I’ve put the bin outside, but they keep bringing it back in.

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Other people are, on the whole, insufferable.  Cohabiting with such detestable creatures is the ultimate test of tolerance, patience, and compassion.  They chew loudly and slurp liquids; they leave a trail of filth and detritus in their witless wake; they verbalise every inane thought that crosses the putrid moors of their mutton mind as if they weren’t an intrinsically worthless bag of dicks; they breathe.  Sometimes you just want to scream, to turn on them in a fit of fury and beat the life out of their thick, incompetent skulls.  But alas, we are civil, domesticated folk living in peace and harmony, yae.  So we must squash the broiling bile deep down inside ourselves, relieving the pressure only by degrees. 

Under no circumstances should you address the matter directly; one must never abandon the amiable facade of agreeability.  Rather, the passive aggressive approach is always preferential.  Through sullen silences and cryptic communications, they will surely realise the nature of their transgressions and adjust their behaviour accordingly.  Continue to put the bin out, and every time they bring it back in, put it back out.  Say nothing.  Confront no one.  Smile and laugh gaily as you swallow the encroaching stomach acid; everything is just tickety-boo!

But for some reason it doesn’t work.  Somehow, they aren’t capable of reading your mind, of intuitively understanding what’s agitating your inner world.  Well then it’s time to up the ante!  Innocently destroy something precious to them.  Cut their hair whilst they sleep.  Film them in the shower and release the video online.  Still not getting the message?!  Chloroform them and duct tape them to a chair.  Shatter their knee caps and extract their front teeth with a crowbar.  Is it beginning to sink in now, you trash stinking shit stain?!  Get my drift, you fetid bucket of rotting arseholes!?  Laughing maniacally, press your thumbs against their larynx and squeeze tight, watching the light dwindle from their eyes.  Slice and peel off their face and wear it upon yours, screaming into their mutilated corpse, “Who’s trash now, bitch?!”  Eat the brains.  Dismember the body.  Burn the remains.  Return home to make a nice cup of tea in a world free from indoor bins and vexing housemates, purified and odour-free.  Recline, relax, and ignore that twitch in your eye.

Randy

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Merry Shitmas.

Dear Uncle Randy,

My father sends me really shit gifts every Christmas – from out-of-tune music boxes to weird, odd-fitting clothes. This year, I want to get ahead of the game and send him something truly terrible in return. Is this a good idea? What do you suggest?

Kind regards, Eve.

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Dear Eve,

Alas, you are not alone. The night before every Christmas, Santa crams his dashing sleigh with a monstrous pile of shit, invades the homes of millions, and drops a great steaming dump under your tree, into your stocking. Partly this is due to the commercially administered need to bolster the economy each year and clutter each other’s lives with superfluous toss for the sake of satisfying cheap novelties. All too often does the considered art of gift giving degenerate into a frenetic search through brimming aisles and ubiquitous web pages for something, dear god anything, to wrap hastily and present to someone you don’t even really like, simply because work is doing Secret Santa again this year. Such surplus spending results in inane, bizarre, needless gifts being graciously forced upon the unsuspecting many.

However, for you the conduit between giver and receiver is further perplexed by the naivety of the generational gap – an unbridgeable gulf between the young and the old, a murky realm in constant lack of same-page understanding. Take the phenomenon of bad dad dancing as analogy. Long ago, somewhen after the war but before broadband, Dad’s dancing was not the shameful flailing of limbs that it is today. On the contrary, it was the grooviest jam the discotech boogiefloors had ever seen! Dad was cutting rugs on the regular, throwing hip, new, panty-dropping shapes night after night after night. But gradually Dad stopped being young and at the forefront of self-expression, and he became old and dated and weird. No longer may his honest expressions of cultural value roam unchecked and unchallenged on the nightclub dancefloors, nor in the presents under the tree.

Any attempt by you to out-weird your father will be totally lost to the sincerity of his ignorance. And please don’t contribute to the growing trash heap of disposable commodities. Dig deep and give a gift which you genuinely feel deserves to be given; earnest and true. Pour your heart and soul into the most meaningful present you can muster – thoughtful and creative – make it a little piece of you. Chances are it will be received with equal bewilderment and disappointment. Merry Christmas.

Randy.

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