Thought Provokers: 8/14/2024

It’s nice that water has such a low viscosity. It would not be very pleasant if it was thick, like syrup or honey.

As the years go by, owning a car with a manual transmission lowers the chance of theft since fewer new-generation thieves know how to drive it.

Crunchy foods soften as they become stale, while soft foods become crunchy as they go stale.

A whole generation of people have only ever experienced simulated television static.

Typically, “evil” people are referred to by their last/second name.

Some bars have a traffic light sign lit green for open, red for closed, and yellow for last call; in this case, yellow means speed up.

People would probably have much better dental hygiene if toothpaste had addictive substances.

After school dances, the teachers almost certainly go somewhere private to laugh at all the awkwardness, discomfort, and weirdness they have just witnessed.

Word searches must be much more difficult in Braille.

A truly randomly chosen number would likely include a colossal number of digits.

It’s crazy that anyone you interact with online could be your neighbor, and you’d never know.

Horses are better swimmers than seahorses.

The Olympic lifeguards would probably have a higher chance of saving someone if they turned around and watched the crowd instead of the swimmers.

You write and type your full name (given name & surname) many more times than you actually say it.

Ice cream cones are edible portion control.

Many superheroes don’t wear gloves, and nobody realizes that fingerprints could be used to discover their secret identities.

An eye for an eye was probably a way to stop people from taking both eyes.

You do not see keyboards with lowercase letters.

The unofficial accepted minimum speed for the passing lane is often fast enough to get you a speeding ticket.

If we had a different quantity of fingers on our hands, music, as we know it, would be completely different.

Telling someone to “live each day like it’s the end of the world” tells them to practice nihilism.