Flarp Psychology

Kitsch is such an interesting word for explaining and or describing a person place or thing. It is a way to describe something that is so bad that it can be barley understood by anyone why someone would spend so much time making something that is so vulgar and hideous The definition of Kitsch according to Gilbert Highet is a “vulgar showoff, and it is applied to anything that took a lot of trouble to make and is quite hideous” (p.303). A perfect example of a kitschy item would be Flarp. Flarp is noise putty that makes a frat like noise when you push it in to its container. This is a vulgar and showoff way to draw attention. For example, a young student has some flap in class with him; as he plays with it and makes a fart sound with it while the teacher is giving a lesson it directs every ones attention to the noise while it vulgarly interrupts the teacher. Flarp makes a wide verity of fart like sound depending on the position it is in the container and where it is pressed on. Flarp is usually a revolting color, for example the green is a mucus like color. Most of the colors are just atrocious and unsightly it gives you a headache. Also the
First, of the entire name flarp is terrible, what kind of name is that. Just hearing the word would make someone cringe in disgust. It sounds like a weird way to pronounce the word fart or another name for it. Second, the colors that flarp comes in are ugly and just make you want to vomit. Also the colors all have this weird tint to them that is just gross; mucus green, ear wax yellow vomit pink, sickly blue, etc. The colors just add even more to the hideousness of the flarp. Next, it makes such hideous sounds. There is no need to make putty that makes fart noises; its bad enough when someone does that himself or herself. Its so revolting to think that flarp is amusing in anyway. Flarp is a hideous display of bodily functions that are gross enough the way it