Thursday 10/3/24
Celebrate:
Global Smoothie Day
Look at the Leaves Day
Mean Girls Appreciation Day
National Boyfriend Day
National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day
National Caramel Custard Day
National Family TV Show Day
National Soft Taco Day
National Techies Day
The Start of Rosh Hashanah
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Hasbro has introduced "Monopoly Board Crawl," the first official drinking game version of the classic, aimed at players aged 21 and over.
The game involves no play money or worry about bankruptcy; instead, it focuses on drinking or sipping beverages while completing lighthearted challenges and dares to collect properties. Designed for 2 to 10 players, the game offers a 30-minute experience, substituting monetary transactions with sips of a drink to "buy" properties or pay "rent."
Challenges or dares can also allow players to steal properties from one another.
There are already other "drinking" versions of games including Drinking Twister, Drunk UNO, and Drunk Clue.
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Merriam-Webster - the people that bring you Quordle - has added 200 new words and term definitions, providing insights into contemporary language use and cultural trends.
“beach read” to describe light, escapist fiction ideal for leisure reading
“Burrata,” a mozzarella ball containing curds and cream.
“IDGAF,” which is a “defiant acronym for indifference.” (ask a foul mouthed co-worker what that is)
“snog,” which is a British term for kissing
“Nepo baby”
“MAGA”
“cash grab”
“late capitalism”
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The chocolate company Ferrero released their 2024 Halloween survey, and they're trying to claim the hot new trend (really??) is adults celebrating Halloween.
They're even trying to get a new term trending . . . "ADULToween".
Here are a few stats to kick off the spookiest month of the year . . .
1. 69% of adults plan to buy Halloween candy, even if they don't expect trick-or-treaters. So for some of us, it's just an excuse to eat sweets.
2. 67% of parents will buy extra candy "just in case" they need it, then secretly stash some away for themselves.
3. 58% will decorate their house in some way, even if it's just a pumpkin on the porch. 60% of people said they enjoy pumpkin carving.
4. 47% of adults said they like to dress up in costume for their own enjoyment.
5. 36% of people plan to dress their pets up this year.
6. 77% of adults feel nostalgic about trick-or-treating.
7. 40% of people polled said Halloween is their favorite holiday.
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You might have heard about the Marie Kondo "spark joy" decluttering way to get rid of things. Now there's a new one. Try pretending someone crapped on it. Yes...it's the "Poop Rule".
It went viral on TikTok after a woman with ADHD heard about it from a therapist. She has trouble organizing, and it's supposed to make it easier to let go of stuff you don't really need.
The technique is simple: Pick something up in your hands and pretend there's poop on it.
Then ask yourself, "If there really was poop on this, would I wash it or throw it away?"
If it's something you'd wash, then keep it. If it's something you wouldn't, then throw it out, or donate it.
I'd rather stick with the "does this bring me joy" method.
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What do you sleep in (or not)?
A Reddit poll asked what they usually wear to bed, and one in seven people said it's what they're wearing right now.
14% said they usually sleep in whatever they wore that day. (I would guess they don't get under the covers like normal people) To be fair..people work from home and may not leave so are in pajamas or the like all day.
A lot of people in the comments found it gross and said "their beds must be filled with all sorts of germs and bacteria."
Here are the five choices, and how many people chose each one . . .
1. Pajamas, 31%
2. Underwear, 30%
3. Whatever you wore that day, 14%
4. Naked, 14% - some responses - I sleep butt naked if anyone walks in and gets blinded its there problem not mine.
5. Shirtless, 2%. No top, but not totally in the buff.
The remaining 8% said none of the above.
Check out the Reddit Thread Poll here.
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Fat Bear Week is back, and this year's contestants are a giant, fuzzy dream for the competition's 10th anniversary. Brown bears from Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are the competitors.
The announcement was delayed a day after one contestant attacked and killed another one. The gruesome attack was captured on web cams.
(I guess that's one way to make your way to the top..didn't realize it was The Hunger Games.)
It's a voting bracket contest at fatbearweek.org
Read about the contestants here.
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James Blunt is making a promise to his fans if they can bring his 2004 album "Back to Bedlam" back to the top of the U.K. charts. He's re-releasing it on the 11th for its 20th anniversary. That's the one with "You're Beautiful" on it.
He says, quote, "I have signed up to changing my name to whatever the public want[s], they can change my name. I swear on my life and the life of my one fan, Brian from Glasgow, I will change my name should it hit number one . . .
"Of course the public are going to [be] kind, they're not going to go for anything that rhymes with Blunt are they? But you know, as long as it's not, you know, Blunty McBluntface." (which actually was my first thought.)
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - There's one hour a day where it's three different dates in three parts of the world. When it's 11:00 P.M. Monday in American Samoa, it's 5:00 A.M. Tuesday in New York, and 12:00 A.M. Wednesday in the Pacific island country Kiribati.
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