Thought Provokers: 3/20/2024

Young people’s goals have shifted from having a house by 30 to not having a roommate by 40.

People are vastly overestimating their capacity to hit a target with a gun.

Everyone in The Simpsons universe has hair that’s a different color than their skin, except the Simpson children.

Some person in history has the record of feeling the most pain ever.

The using of clockwise and counter-clockwise will eveually die out after people gradually stop using rotating clocks and watches.

There’s a good chance that someone you don’t know has told a story about you.

Most people have eaten more female meat than male meat in their lifetime.

Tears are the only bodily fluid/excrement we don’t think of as gross when seen.

Being a poisoned food tester for the king in the Middle Ages must have been a very high-risk, high-reward job for a peasant.

When someone says their favorite number, seldom is the number higher than 100.

Saying that in 50 years, old people will be much better at tech than young people, instead of the other way around, is the next generation of “Kids nowadays can’t even drive a stick shift.”

Life feels more real when it’s warm outside.

You can put any flag on the moon, there isn’t any law that says otherwise.

Saying you’ll arrive in 6 minutes sounds more believable than saying you’ll arrive in 5.

Our pets spend a significant portion of their lives trying to figure out what the heck their owner is doing.

Cats walk all over you, but they hate it if you try to walk on them.

Time flies faster as you age because each moment is a smaller percentage of your life.

When the sea level rises, mountains get shorter.

Remaking bad old movies makes much more sense than remaking good old movies.

Intelligent people aren’t always successful, and successful people aren’t always smart.

Saying "no pun intended" usually draws more attention to the pun.

There are ants on every continent except ANTarctica.