Thought Provokers: 9/25/2024

Generation X is a placeholder until hindsight provides a better descriptor.

It’s possible that the only animals that live on all seven continents are humans and penguins.

Asking a good question is a skill.

A plastic, screw-top bottle of Coca-Cola would have been a one-of-a-kind luxury 150 years ago. 300 years ago, it would have an energy potion in a magical bottle. Today, it’s tooth-rotting garbage packaged in trash.

When a story ends with the protagonist waking up from a dream, it breaks your suspension of disbelief and the character’s suspension.

By inventing silicon chips, we just tricked sand into thinking.

Because of all the “Keep Social Distancing” stickers hanging around everywhere, even after COVID-19, some kids will start distancing without knowing why.

Germophobes avoiding stair handrails replace the small risk of germs with the relatively more significant risk associated with falling down stairs.

It might be considered the “End Times” because so many people are not having children, ending their bloodlines that have existed for hundreds of thousands of years.

We don’t know most of the thousand or more things that happens inside of our own bodies.

The Hallmark Store is like a Hot Topic for middle-aged suburban women.

If humans decided to use zero-indexing for centuries, the 1900s would be the 19th century instead of the 20th century.

Trying to list everything you did in the past week is a good way to show how frequently we forget things.

High tech cars that rely on software updates, subscription services, and special dealer-provided maintenance will probably tank the used car market in 20-30 years.

A brain is a ruminant that grazes on information.

Why don’t auto parts stores sell joke products? New guy is sent for a bucket of steam, and they “actually” have it.

During the peak of the Television era, sewers probably had peak flows every half an hour and every seven minutes in between due to the timing of commercial breaks.

Whether it’s an elevator or a lift, they only describe half of the story.

Some people have amazing smiles but are too insecure or sad to share them with the world.

Before mobile phones, parents would prevent kids from watching TV. Now, parents buy stroller accessories for kids to watch cartoons on their phones.