Thought Provokers: 3/8/2023

The number of people older than you never increase.

History is the longest-running game of Telephone.

Paying for life coaches who end up scamming you must be the most ironic life lesson ever.

Of the four fundamental forces, gravity is responsible for the most human deaths.

The only difference between a collector and a hoarder is a theme.

People living in optimal climates accomplish more in conversation because they don’t need to talk about the weather.

Light is both invisible and visible.

Most ice cubes aren’t cubes.

Professional chefs are actually chemists because cooking is actually performing a bunch of chemical reactions using heat.

Writers are magicians of the mind.

Your teeth are the only body part you get a practice run of.

Our eyes never close, we just cover them up to give them some rest for the next day.

Consciousness is the only part of yourself that can’t be given or taken, and yet it’s not always in our possession.

Since cooking is an art form, following a recipe is comparable to painting by numbers.

Insurance companies profit from you when you are healthy. Hospitals profit from you when you are unwell/injured.

Even if we would have gotten a letter from Hogwarts, our parents would have never believed it was real and let us travel to London to run against a wall. We never had a chance.

We often think of cell phones as being intrusive (they are), but forget those landlines subjected us to anonymous paging in our own homes.

No sport is played with a triangle as the ball.

Rush hour is the slowest of hours.

Few seem to wonder when the ongoing 20+ year trend of superhero blockbusters will end.

Cleaning our shared room with our sibling was our first experience with group projects where one person doesn’t equally contribute.

Once millennials become senior citizens, there will be a lot of Nintendo 64 birthday parties.

Putting a potted plant in a wooden house is effectively the same as putting a human in a flesh house.

It’s crazy that caffeinated sodas aren’t marketed as breakfast drinks.

Nearly all pets are involuntarily celibate.

There’s nothing more judgmental than your phone’s alarm clock telling you how long until it goes off.

The mass of the earth goes down with every satellite we send into space.

The act of drinking from a straw doesn’t require any air in your lungs.