10/6/25 - Tired of Dealing With, Fingernail Clippings, and Job Hunting AI

Monday 10/6/25

Celebrate:

Blue Shirt Day - for Bullying Prevention

Child Health Day

Come and Take It Day

Day of Unity

Garlic Lovers Day

Mad Hatter Day

National Badger Day

National Coaches Day

National Consignment Day

National German American Day

National Noodle Day

National Orange Wine Day

National PA Day (physician's assistant)

National Plus Size Appreciation Day

World Architecture Day

World Cerebral Palsy Day

World Habitat Day

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I expected Taylor to open with like a billion-dollar weekend at the boxoffice.

1. Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl $33.0M

2. One Battle After Another $11.1M

3. The Smashing Machine $6.0M

4. Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie $5.2M

5. The Conjuring: Last Rites $4.1M

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Nearly 1,000 climbers were trapped on Mt. Everest by a blizzard ... and, while several hundred are safely down, a majority are still stuck up there.

The BBC -- citing Chinese state media -- reports rescue efforts are underway, with authorities and locals in the area teaming up to get people off the world's tallest mountain.

A large snowfall began Friday night ... pelting the eastern slopes of the mountain in Tibet -- a popular spot for hikers. Reuters reports authorities have made contact with the remaining hikers on the mountain.

BBC also reports heavy rains in Nepal has triggered landslides and floods ... which have led to the death of 47 people.

I hope they can all be rescued, and I don't want to be mean..but have any of them ever heard of a weather report?

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Adults Over 40 Are Sharing Things They Are "Too Tired" To Deal With As They've Aged.

"I’m tired of always going above and beyond for no recognition. I now don’t work unless I get paid. I don’t deal with bullshit and spare others' feelings. I’m fine with being the 'cranky bitch' in my department and fighting back against people throwing their work on me. I’m 46 years old and JUST received my first promotion ever — I was always hired to fix other people’s mistakes. I’m a fixer, I fix things and people, and I’m done."

"A wise friend once told me that once you become an adult, you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. For me, that means I don’t go camping. I don’t like it or enjoy it, and I don’t ever have to do it — so I don’t. I’m too old to be sleeping on the ground or cooking food over a campfire."

(you should really try glamping)

"NOISE. Quiet the F down, people. Stop using speakers and FaceTime without earbuds. Nobody wants to hear you or your music, and it's frankly aggressive to act this way. And restaurants: turn the music down. We want to talk."

"I’m middle-aged, and I don’t want to spend money and go find parking just to hang with a friend. Please just come over and wear comfy clothes. Let’s eat edibles, make weird concoctions to eat, watch movies, and just vibe and talk about everything in the universe. I’m done with bars, clubs, and concerts. Any time I have to be around a ton of people, I have to decompress for a week after. I’m done with traffic. 

"Just get me to a human to speak with instead of the bot rigmarole! I don't wanna do a million different chats from a robot that won't fix my specific problem or issue — just get me a human person, and we can fix this in five minutes instead of this roundabout nonsense that takes 20 minutes to figure out before you get a 'somewhat human on the chat.' It's chaotic!"

"Caring about underwear lines. Thongs are uncomfortable, and why should I care if somebody else knows that I wear undies?"

"Rudeness. Common courtesy seems to be a thing of the past, and it seems basic manners are just not being taught to some (not all) kids. Those kids grow up to be entitled, insufferable adults. I honestly believe that etiquette class should be a requirement in elementary school —unfortunately, that’s what it’s come to."

"I will no longer own a car without air conditioning. I did that all through my 20s. I'm in Florida; that is a hard pass now." (do they actually come without it?? I would never own one with crank windows again...and again, do they actually come with those?)

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If you’ve been saving your fingernail clippings and need some quick money, you should consider selling them as traditional medicine ingredients in China.

Yes..a lot of fingernails

Fingernail clippings are usually discarded as disgusting pieces of trash, but according to Chinese traditional medicine, they are valuable ingredients in concoctions used to treat conditions like abdominal distension in children and tonsillitis. Companies producing traditional Chinese medicine reportedly purchase fingernail clippings from schools and villages, which they then wash thoroughly before drying and grinding them into a fine powder that gets mixed into various medicinal products. Because human adults only grow about 100 grams of fingernails per year on average, collecting enough to keep up with demand is a difficult task and the price of clippings is relatively high, about $21 per kilogram.

And before you even think about it, no, you can’t sell your toenails. Fingernail processor make it very clear that they check their stock very carefully and toenails are not accepted.

(still gross)

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AI has made applying for jobs eaiser, but companies are so swamped with these applications that about 20% say they've considered a pay-to-apply system, and nearly 90% of them say they're likely to adopt it at some point.

The idea is that they might start requiring an application fee, like some colleges have.  This way, they can reduce the clutter . . . and filter the human-made résumés from the stacks of A.I.-generated ones.

So what do you think about, say a $10 fee to submit your resume?

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Crayola released a line of food-scented crayons in 1994.  They were called Magic Scent, and the wax sticks came in coconut, cherry, and licorice.

But by 1995, Crayola had taken them off the market.  Parents feared kids would eat them . . . and yeah, at least 10 of them did.  So Crayola changed the scents to be less appetizing.  Brown, for example, went from chocolate to dirt.

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