IxnayOnTheTimmay (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ixnayonthetimma) wrote,@ 2008-04-10 21:29:00 |
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Observations...
Here are some things I have noticed about life and myself. I decided I would share them with youse all.
1. The more willing someone is to talk about or lie about someone else to me, the more I worry that person is talking about or lying about me to someone else.
2. South Park episodes are a lot shittier than they used to be...
3. I have read a Newsweek article that acknowledges that politicians lie and Americans are okay with this. When I read that, I realized the sad truth; people can do evil things and the majority of humanity will be too focused on their own lives to care. This is how we will lose our freedoms to tyrannical rule.
4. I seem to be regressing culturally. I find myself looking to increasingly older media to augment the cache of knowledge tidbits in my brain.
5. Though the mathematical odds are stacked severely against me, I rationalize buying a lottery ticket by saying that if Lady Luck is going to smile on me, it will be regardless of having one ticket or twenty.
6. People enter their vehicles and their minds change. The nicest, most humble and polite person becomes the world's worst asshole when behind the wheel of their mobile fortress of solitude. And they get out, and they are nice, humble and polite again. Strange...
7. Watch out for those big business fucks who preach how the government needs to stay out of the free-market economy. Because when times get tough, and the free market starts punishing companies for the bad decisions of their leaders, guess who's all too willing to go to the government for a taxpayer-funded handout.
8. It hurts to drip molten solder on exposed skin, but it doesn't leave a mark. I think this is because as soon as the solder hits the skin, it splashes off into little solid spheres, thus not contacting the skin long enough to burn.
9. I don't know why, but it is immediately funny or cool when any other show/comic/cartoon/whatever makes reference to Star Wars.
10. If your savings account or money market or wherever you have money is making less than 3%, you're getting ripped off. Any less than that and the real value of the money is going down by sitting there because of inflation, so you would be better off spending it all now than to keep it in an account making less than 3%.
11. I said that, and currently my savings account is making only 1.25%. I'd move it to somewhere else, but I am too lazy and unmotivated to do it right now.
12. Papa Johns' Pizza isn't as good as it used to be.
13. It is important when considering one's priorities to remind oneself that there will be a time when you are not on this world. People don't like to think about being dead, but it has to be acknowledged before any serious long-term considerations and reflections of one's life can be made
14. In the late '90s and early 2000s, it was actually much cheaper to buy your own computer hardware and put it together yourself to build a working box than to go out and buy a pre-made PC. This is no longer the case.
15.The preceeding doesn't apply to Apple computers, and I don't think it ever will.
16. It's official. The five-dollar bill is now more queer than the three-dollar bill.
17. Everything exists, even the things that don't exist. I could think up a five-wheeled, automatic, self-cleaning, 5-foot-tall, green oven that has 17 handles on it and can be set to 4200 degrees Fahrenheit, and because I thought of it by describing it and you imagined it by reading it, it must exist. If it doesn't exist, than nothing that isn't purely tangible can exist. For that matter, nothing that is saved electronically can exist either, so give up on your level 60 priest in World of Warcraft, because it isn't there!
18. McDonalds is promoting themselves as the purveyors of food that gives you energy to be active. If you don't believe me, just take a look at the McDonalds cups and bags next time you're there. It will show people biking and playing tennis, et al. If that isn't doublethink right there, I don't know what is.
19. The legal drugs are caffeine, nicotine and ethyl alcohol, and are okay in moderation. The rest are illegal and, therefore, bad under all circumstances. Why is that?
20. They print all of the Xs of your blocked-out credit card number on receipts when you pay by card. So at the bottom, it says XXXXXXXXXXXX1234. Why? What happens if two people who actually do keep a meticulous record of their receipts happen to have the same last 4 digits on their cards?
That's about all for now. I urge all of you to consider moving to rectangular states. They need to be filled up! Have a good night.
