February 6, 2010 by ponderingstuff
Some people think that Americans are too materialist. I think that it is just the way we were raised. When we were kids we played a lot of board games that taught us to be materialistic. In Monopoly, there is a community chest card that says, “you have won second prize in a beauty contest, collect $10.” The community chest card didn’t say how winning second place in a beauty contest makes you feel good or how it is good for your self esteem. In Monopoly all that matters is money.
Or in the board game LIFE, when you got married, all you did is put a little peg in your car. And of course it is your car and not you and your peg’s car. The only way the game LIFE could make marriage anymore lifeless, is if the pegs didn’t have little round heads.
Or in the board game Shoots and Ladders, you are only allowed to move forward or backward, and it is against the rules to be happy with where you are.
Board games make us materialistic.
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February 6, 2010 by ponderingstuff
A lot of people feel good when they read the nutritional information on the back of their food products: “Unleashes the power of Avocados”, “Helps reduce the Risk of cancer”, “All natural with no added ingredients.” These phrases sound nice and can really give your day a boost. However, when you read the benefits of eating a certain food product, you have to bear in mind. That out of the thousands of things the company could have said about their product; those were the best.
I think it should be federal law that if a company advertises the advantages of eating their product on the back of the box, that they should also have to include the disadvantages of eating their product. Examples of some disadvantages of eating some foods are: “Hinders Growth”, “May cause puking”, “Product is a by-product”, “If you eat more than five servings of product within a 24 hour period please consult a physician.” If the bad and the good information are both included on the back of the box; then it will help people better gauge the cost benefit relationship of buying the food product. “It’s $2.89, increases my eyesight, but animals experienced side effects during testing.” “It’s $3.74, has 135 percent of my daily required Vitamin C per serving, but it says it may cause dizziness.”
If companies don’t want to include the disadvantages of eating their product with the advantages, then I think it is fair that companies only included mediocre or neutral information on the back of the box like: “Contains Food”, “Food transported by truck”, or “Food”.
Food descriptions misleading
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February 6, 2010 by ponderingstuff
People are starting to make changes to decrease their impact on the environment. But there is one thing that people will never give up, no matter how bad the environment gets… drinking coke. There is a lot of carbon dioxide in Coke which givesit its fizzy bubbles. When you open the can a lot of that stored carbon dioxide gets released in the atmosphere. In 2003 for the first time in history carbon emissions from coke and other carbonated beverages passed electricity and heat, as the number one cause for increased carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere.
This could spell disaster for the planet. We need to shift away from drinking carbonated beverages and drink alternative non-carbonated drinks: such as grape juice or milk. However, scientists agree that these alternatives won’t be economical feasible for at least another decade. In the meantime there are many things we can do to limit our coke use. You can share a coke with a friend; this reduces carbon emissions by half. You can use mass beverage delivery systems, such as fountain drinks, which releases 60 percent less carbon dioxide but is 60 percent more watered down.
Also, if you want to help the environment, don’t build Mentos MythBuster soda fountains. Not only do they release carbon dioxide, but they stain and have lost all jaw-dropping potential.
Coke, carbon dioxide, and global warming.
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February 6, 2010 by ponderingstuff
I think it is stupid when I see movies where aliens want to drink and collect human blood. In the movies, aliens fly halfway across the galaxy in a cramped space ship; all because they want human blood. There is no way that aliens would go to such great lengths to get human blood.
I have seen four movies where aliens steal blood from people. And in each movie the aliens never test the blood before they use it to see if it is safe to use or not. That is crazy! Blood is dangerous, people have: hepatitis, infections, diseases, and tattoos.
It’s like these aliens haven’t discovered biology yet. They can travel across galaxies, build laser guns, and translate any language. But they don’t bother to stop and check to see if a person’s blood is safe to use or not.
The Food and Drug Administration protects people from bad food in the United States. Don’t these aliens have a Food and Drug Administration that tells them the dangers of collecting and consuming human blood and tell aliens the precautions that need to be taken when dealing with human blood?
Aliens testing human blood
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February 6, 2010 by ponderingstuff
At the end of the movie E.T., E.T. went home in his spaceship. The kid in the movie was really sad about this. I don’t know what the kid was so sad about. What did he think was going to happen?
E.T. isn’t from earth. E.T. lived on a far distant alien planet, where he probably paid into some form of alien social security and has a pension. Did the kid really think that E.T. was going to turn his back on all that money?
E.T. paid into that alien Social Security system because he expected to receive a benefit, because one of these days E.T. is going to be old. When that happens, those alien Social Security checks are going to look a lot more appealing than Reese’s Pieces and bike basket rides.
E.T. went home
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February 6, 2010 by ponderingstuff
There are a lot of movies that show aliens having three fingers. That doesn’t make any sense, aliens are supposed to be evolved millions of years beyond us. What is so evolved about having only three fingers? Just imagine a three-fingered alien trying to type on a keyboard; it can’t even cover the home row.
I understand why so many aliens want to destroy the Earth. Aliens land here, see us playing saxophones and flutes, and they get frustrated because they can’t play those instruments. If you think guitar hero is difficult on hard mode for a five-fingered person, just imagine what is like for a three-fingered alien.
Aliens also have trouble with sign language. It’s hard to develop an effective sign language when you only have three fingers on each hand. Aliens are lucky if they can make good baseball hand signals, let alone sign with their hands. That’s why so many aliens are telepathic. Millions of years ago aliens were signing to each other and thought screw it, signing with three fingers is about as fun as talking to Daffy Duck while he is spitting and as effective as communicating to humans through crop circles.
Angry aliens with three fingers
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February 6, 2010 by ponderingstuff
How come in movies, hitmen are always surprised when their boss decides to off them? They work for a business that kills people. It’s like working for a pig slaughtering plant and not expecting to get a ham at Christmas.
Pig Plant Guy: “Your giving me HAM!!… I should have know, you gave all those other people HAMS over the years. I just never thought I would be the one getting a ham.”
If you are a hitman, it’s hard to find out if your boss is trying to kill you. Hitmen meet in creepy places with bizarre instructions all the time. If your boss tells you, “Meet me at the old docks at 3 am. Tell no one and come alone.” It’s hard for a hitman to give that a second thought.
Hitmen surprised when they get hit
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February 5, 2010 by ponderingstuff
The most intense reality TV show would be one about people moving out of their apartment when their lease is up. I think that there are a lot of people out there who would like to watch a TV show about tenants frantically trying to clean up their apartments and get their full security deposit back.
Seeing someone win a quarter of a million dollars on the Biggest Loser is ok… good. But it doesn’t trigger as many emotions as seeing someone get back their entire $600 security deposit. Moving out of an apartment doesn’t just make good reality TV, but it makes a good movie. Forget A-bombs and asteroids. That is nothing compared to the emotions, pain, uncertainty, and fear involved with moving out of your apartment.
The only reason there hasn’t been a movie made about someone moving out of their apartment, is that it is too much story for one movie. A movie about someone moving out of their apartment needs to be a trilogy a minimal to tell the entire story. Maybe, just maybe, you could cut down the story to a movie and a sequel. But, to do that you would have to cut our all of the parts about the landlord.
Reality TV show moving out of your apartment
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February 5, 2010 by ponderingstuff
Greek mythology is such a bureaucracy: Ares the god of war, Athena the goddess of wisdom, Aphrodite the goddess of love. Are you telling me that if I have a war problem and I am only four minutes away from the temple of Aphrodite; that I have to take my war problem all the way over to the nearest Ares temple, which happens to be 80 miles away.
Greek mythology is very compartmentalized and unionized, where each god makes sure that they only do work within their job description, whether: it is love, war, wisdom, ect. If you have a problem and ask a Greek god about it, he will try to tell you that it is not his department. Then he will try to transfer you to another god, who refers you to a different god, who recommends you to go to the first god you talked to.
That’s why I like Christianity, no matter what your problem is, you always go to the same person; not to mention all the convenient locations located across the US.
It’s tough running a nation when you worship a lot of gods. Greek Mythology has about thirty major gods. If your nation practices Greek Mythology, you are looking at thirty days off a year minimal, just for religious holidays.
Historians believed that Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in 337 AD to cut down the Roman religious holidays from thirty to two.
Greek mythology is such a bureaucracy.
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February 5, 2010 by ponderingstuff
Why do the last names Gaylord and Cocks still exist? Most people who have last names had two parents. If you had two parents and your last name is Gaylord or Cocks, I want to know, what was the last name that your parents decided not to use? It must have been pretty bad like, Kiddypeni or Bestialitymen. Now if you had one parent, it is harder for you to get rid of that awkward last name outside of court.
If you had two parents, there is no excuse for you having a last name like Gaylord or Cocks. But, some people have conservative values and beliefs; and believe that the wife and the kids should take the husbands last name. But, there is no way that having the husband’s last name of Gaylord is more conservative than taking the wife’s last name of Thompson.
Last names Gaylord and Cocks
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