Thought Provokers: 1/31/2024

The 90s have become for Gen Z what the 50s were for Gen X.

Scrabble’s difficulty depends massively on the language you play.

When you learn a new word you start to see it everywhere as if it has never existed.

Despite all the incredible strengths and abilities many animals have, it’s pretty neat that humans easily live so much longer than almost all of them.

Static shock must have been wild before electricity was discovered.

A shrimp sees colors that we will never be able to fathom.

In TV shows when a character gives birth, all their friends and family go to the hospital during labor. That rarely happens in real life.

Chopsticks don’t really chop anything.

The safest public place to rip a huge fart is in a crowded nightclub.

The naked man fears no pickpocket.

People are grossed out about eating bugs, but will gladly eat a dozen shrimp.

We’re closer to 2070 than to 1970.

Sundays never really feel like a full day off.

Many people don’t know they need a hug until they get one.

Tell someone you had two pieces of toast with jelly for breakfast and no one bats an eye. Tell them you ate a jelly sandwich and they’ll think you’re insane.

We laugh at dogs getting excited when they hear a bark on TV, but if TV was a nonstop stream of unintelligible noises and then someone suddenly spoke to you in your language, you’d be pretty startled too.

People are freaking out about the overpopulation of the Earth and not having enough babies born.

A person who wears designer brands and luxury items is less likely to be rich than a guy in a plain t-shirt and office pants.

For the first half of our lives, common wisdom says romantic love shouldn’t get in the way of following our ambitions. In the second part of our lives, it says in the end, none of those ambitions matter as much as the people we love.

Fish is the only food that is regularly accused of tasting too much like itself.

At some point in the future, life itself will be a subscription service beyond your natural lifespan.

Moonlight is actually sunlight.