Onasagoras
For those of you who thought that the TikTok videos where a wanted criminal chats with the police were the most absurd thing to happen this week, you were wrong. Welcome to the land of the absurd, where we've installed solar panels but failed to realize that Cyprus enjoys plenty of sunshine during the day (!!!), meaning we produce excess energy, and then... have no place to store it. (Yes, I know where your minds went). Someone please award the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) with a global prize for foresight and strategic planning!
So, we end up tossing the electricity we produce during the day into the trash, while at night, when there's excessive demand, the system crashes due to insufficiency. Insufficiency of both the system and the brains who designed it.
Because at the rate we’re going, in this country, you never know what to take seriously and what to consider... tragically comical.
“Thankfully, we have the occupied areas,” a friend said to me today, “and they lend us electricity!” Thankfully? I asked, shocked. “I said that ironically,” he apologized, to emphasize the absurdity of the situation. Thankfully, I replied, relieved, that you didn’t mean the “thankfully.” Because at the rate we’re going, in this country, you never know what to take seriously and what to consider... tragically comical. Anyway, the geniuses responsible for this unbearable farce are in A16 scale positions, with bloated salaries and pensions. Well, good luck with that.
I saw it and shuddered, thinking it was some bad internet joke. Unfortunately, the post was entirely true. In just five lines, a likeable guy managed to make eight serious grammatical and spelling errors while declaring that he had accepted to serve the country (what a sacrifice) as a scientific collaborator in Geneva! At this point, let’s add at least half a dozen exclamation marks because we’ll really need them. Let’s hope he wasn’t appointed as a scientific collaborator in the Ministry of Education! At the end of his post, he sends his love “from cold Geneva.” You’ll freeze, kid, don’t forget your sweater.
The saddest part of all this is that we’ve become so used to these appointments that we’ve run out of energy to complain or even troll them. But let’s all sing together: "I was the best student in class (NOT) and the first to be appointed." Oh yes. I imagine somewhere, Yanakis is reading this incredible post, petting his cat, and grinning slyly. Because as we all know, the enemy of the ridiculous is the even more ridiculous.
Finally, after excuses and endless delays, thanks to some well-known big interests, the infamous E-Kalathi will arrive in our lives on March 4. Consumers will now be able to easily compare supermarket prices and make more cost-effective choices. Hallelujah.
*This article was translated from its Greek original
