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Thursday, June 23, 2005/

Things That Make You Go Hmmm... @ 11:11 am

The world we live in is a bizarre place, and it can sometimes leave you wondering about things. They might be trivial little things or they might be serious issues but either way they can do your head in! So, for no special reason other than just to keep those brains of yours busy, here's a little list of things that I got from Libragirl just like that (with a couple of jokes tossed in). . .

With all these new luxuries and technological advances supposed to make our lives easier why is everybody so stressed out?

How do fashion designers actually make money? Nobody actually wears the stuff you see on catwalks down the street, and if they did most people would point and laugh.

Why are they called reality TV shows when our lives are actually more real than anything that happens on the shows? Shouldn't they be called un-reality shows or hyper-reality shows?

Why does it take somebody incredibly mega-famous, successful, young and beautiful like Kylie Minogue being suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer to make women go to get tested? Is it like thinking that if a superstar can get sick then maybe I can too? And is it really any more tragic that Kylie has it than it is if anybody else has it?

We'd like to think we live in a fair and equal world, so why do men still get paid more on average than women?

If nothing sticks to teflon, how did they get the teflon to stick to the pan?

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are a billion, trillion stars in the universe you will believe them without so much as a second thought, but if they tell you that a wall has wet paint you can't resist touching it with your finger, just to make sure?

Whenever there's a news report of some horrible event like a plane crash or some freaky natural disaster like the tsunami where loads of people are killed, they always mention how many Singaporeans died before the rest. Why? Is the life of a Singaporean somehow worth more than the life of someone from another country?

And why is the news pretty much always just the bad news? Doesn't good news count anymore? Do people actually want to feel bad about the world?

Do TV newsreaders talk that way all the time?

Have you ever noticed how whenever you're watching TV the volume jumps up when it switches to an ad break? Why do you think that might be?

In case you hadn't noticed, Paris Hilton is famous. Really famous. But for what exactly? The same
goes for Nicole Richie, Danni Minogue, Kelly Osbourne, Tara Reid, I could go on . . .

And while we're on the topic, why does anybody care about these people's love lives? Does it really matter to anybody who Brad Pitt or J-Lo is dating?

Have you ever noticed how when you blow in your dog's face it gets all annoyed and tries to snap at you, but when you go for a ride in the car it puts its head out the window?

There's always a huge controversy about seeing somebody's naked breast (remember Janet Jackson?) or any nudity or sex on TV, but nobody even bats an eyelid at the fact that most of the most popular shows seem to be about solving murders (in gory, gross detail). Don't you think that's a bit weird?

What's the point in making a prequel? You already know what happens in the end! Anakin becomes Darth Vader - duh! Wouldn't you just write the story in order in the first place and then just tell it that way?

Whose cruel idea was it to put an "s" in the word lisp?

People who are successful, famous, beautiful (or even all three) always say how they were awkward, ugly and/or unpopular in high school. Surely this can't be true for all of them. Can it? If it's not true, why would they say it?

*[poof]****

a lyfe* like mine-; 11:11 am