FAKs: Frequently Asked Kuestions

Who the FAK are you?

Please refer to our 'Raison d'être' page for specific details about who and what we are and are not. Briefly, we'll remind you that we are not affiliated with any political party or organisation and have no agenda other than sharing instances of people, places, and things that make us exclaim: WHAT THE FAK!

Pericles and Antigone aren't our real names. We've borrowed them from Ancient Greek History / Literature and a simple Google search will render more details on those names. We thought it appropriate to adopt Greek names since the ancient Greeks are mostly widely known for, um, thinking and we suspect were probably the first to utter: WHAT THE FAK but in ancient Greek when they were sitting around thinking about how something was very 'faked' up in their society and how someone had to do something about it. There was no television at that time; therefore people had nothing else to do but think for amusement and to solve problems: imagine that! Like the ancient Greeks, we think for fun because we cannot help ourselves. We do not follow American Idol or Desperate Housewives so are left to think. We also think much of what we observe in our daily lives is very 'faked' up and felt it was time to say something about it. We suspect there are others out there who think along the same lines as we do - at least another 2-5 people globally perhaps.

What the FAK do you expect from such a site?

What do you think we expect? Not to get rich, of course, although Antigone is a freelance writer / journalist and she would not mind a job with a respectable media company like AP or Reuters. I do not think she would ever go for Cosmetic News Network or F-aking OX-y-moron News. You see, "Shock and Awe" type of journalism is not her cup of tea. Instead she prefers to address subjects that are more of the "Shocking and Awful" type.

What we expect is simple: We do this for fun to enjoy ourselves and don't mind if we also manage to make you laugh and think about current affairs. If we accomplish that much, then we have succeeded. It's that simple.

Who the Fak are the quotes' authors like 'The Scientist'?

The Scientist

20-something clueless college graduate with a science degree but less common sense and scientific drive than the average garden hose. The scientist believes she’s ‘in the know’ simply because she graduated from college. She won’t exert the effort to think past her own nose because she already knows everything and cannot comprehend why there are some crazy people in the world who question what they’re told. Prime target and dream audience for government propagandists and corporate marketers. Fears everything; thinks about nothing. Not the least bit inquisitive and overall mentally and physically lazy.

Truly the antithesis of a scientific mind, the ‘scientist’ spouts complete nonsense defiant of truth or science which only makes her boasting of being a scientist all the more amusing for those who know better.

Examples: When the backwards-thinking scientist says she wants ‘real sugar,’ she is referring to white, refined sugar that is a product of a chemical refinement process and refers to raw cane sugar as ‘fake or weird’ sugar. To the scientist, iodized, not sea salt is ‘real salt’ while ‘real’ paper and eggs are white, not brown.

Grandma

Grandma believes such things as: ‘newspapers never lie,’ ‘doctors are all-knowing b/c they’re doctors,’ and ‘it’s the same everywhere.’  Paying more than $10 for ANYTHING is too much, and everything is ‘still good’ even after it’s disintegrated. Never uses gifts because she deems them too good for her to use and stashes them away to regift at a later date. Therefore you may as well buy things you like because, odds are, they’ll be yours again someday.

Dad

Some of Dad’s beliefs include: ‘taking no for an answer is not acceptable,’ ‘you can if you try hard enough,’ and ‘most problems have solutions if you really want to find them.’ While usually diplomatically, Dad speaks his mind and feels most people simply need a jolt of reality to change for the better. He feels the biggest barrier between what is and what can be is the trend of hiding from the truth just because changing it might take a little work.