Thought Provokers: 10/9/2024

If our weeks were designed to be shorter, we would have more weekends.

If you’re over 18, some kid has probably used your birthday to lie about their age.

A broken clock is correct three times during winter daylight savings and only once during summer daylight savings if it stops from 2:00 to 2:59.

Employers would be more amenable to remote work arrangements if commuting time is legally mandated as paid work hours.

A metaphor is a convolution to make a point clearer.

People born in the 90s were likely the last humans to know someone born in the 1800s.

If someone suddenly stopped being allergic to a food, it would take them a long time to realize.

People hardly ask strangers for the time anymore because we all have cell phones with clocks on them.

“Tribute,” “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” and “Hallelujah” could all be about the same mind-blowing piece of music.

There should be a vehicle version of the Library of Congress. Imagine someone had the foresight to collect every model of every car ever produced right off the assembly line and store them in a massive Fort Knox-style secured garage, available only for research and study.

The hard-boiled egg is probably humanity's most consistent, universal food experience across time and regions.

There should be sport for throwing plastic supermarket baskets so that they land on the stack.

Someone is getting resuscitated somewhere right now. Say a little prayer for them.

Dentists insist you only use soft-bristled toothbrushes and then start scraping your teeth with sharp metal tools.

You could probably harness zombies for perpetual energy.

Commercial kitchens are probably the only professional environment where loudly announcing to all your coworkers that you’re holding a knife is considered good etiquette.

We are the only species that will save another species from extinction solely because they are going extinct.

Words are like items: the rich have many and rare ones, while the poor often have to use simpler, or less authentic ones.

Arguments over paternity were probably less common before we had access to good mirrors.