And once you get over their absurdity, it occurs to you that they are also dangerous.
Jones wanted the often dour Williams to host because he needed someone "straight-faced while all this absurdity is occurring".
Scenes are set in jobcentres and in characters' homes addressing some of what Neville calls the "everyday absurdity" of what occurs, such as when people with disabilities and fluctuating health conditions are wrongly declared "fit for work" inflicting additional suffering in the process.
If we're not careful, absurdities can occur without our realising their gradual development.
Drawing on the great reporting of others, most notably Rajiv Chandrasekaran in "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," Murphy shows the absurdities that occur in places like Baghdad when the proconsuls and legions and contractors we send have no clue about the people they are dealing with.
Burning Man, if you didn't know, is a celebration of absurdity, art, and self-sufficiency that occurs every year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
Europe was never intended to be a construct in which all cucumbers must have an identical radius of curvature – to give just one example of many European policy absurdities that have occurred over the years.
"The fight against corruption entails no small amount of absurdity, since so much of the corruption these days occurs in broad daylight.
When this occurs, all our systems are suddenly exposed as absurdity and artifice, and nothing makes sense anymore.
Never once did it occur to us the absurdity that has become the norm: to live to work.
But perhaps the point is meant to occur to the reader; for the same absurdity reappears in an even more glaring form in the Aviary passage.
