4/10/25 - Movie Beginnings, Sexy Men, and Weird Ways To Save Money
- bribriny
- Apr 10
- 4 min read
Thursday 4/10/25
Celebrate:
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Day
Encourage a Young Writer Day
Global Work From Home Day
Golfer's Day
National Cinnamon Crescent Day
National Farm Animals Day
National Hug Your Dog Day
Poem in Your Pocket Day
Safety Pin Day
Salvation Army Founders Day
Siblings Day
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The reigning People's Sexiest Man alive is John Krasinski.
A "People" staffer named Rachel McRady has made it her mission to make Jack Black the Sexiest Man Alive happen. She says, quote, "The man is a triple threat who can sing, dance and act his face off.
"He's got the moves of a jungle cat, absolutely genius comedic timing and that signature devilish grin."
She even thinks he's a "superior love interest" to Jude Law in the romantic flick "The Holiday".
She also notes that he's a devoted family man, he's awesome to his fans, and he does a lot of charity work.
Last year's Sexiest Man Alive was announced in mid-November, so there's time for this campaign to take hold. And I sincerely hope it does.
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What's your favorite opening scene in a movie? Britain's "Independent" newspaper put out a list of the 26 best.
1. "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968): Charles Bronson gets into a shootout with three gunmen at a deserted train station.
2. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968): Prehistoric apes discover a strange black monolith.
3. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981): Indiana Jones tries to steal a fertility idol from a cave and ends up running from a giant, rolling boulder.
4. "Blade Runner" (1982): An establishing shot of the Tyrell Corporation building.
5. "Goodfellas" (1990): Henry, Jimmy, and Tommy brutally and fatally beat a gangster in the trunk of a car, followed by Henry in voiceover saying, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."
See thier full list here.
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A woman on TikTok asked people for the most "unhinged" ways they keep themselves from spending money. Like, "This might sound weird, but I swear it works . . ."
Some of them are crazy, and some are crazy BRILLIANT. Here are a few good ones people offered up . . .
1. Lock all your credit cards. You can still use them if you want, but you have to go through the trouble of unlocking them every time.
2. Make yourself run for every dollar you spend. If you buy something you don't need for $50, you have to run for 50 minutes.
3. Tape a picture of your parents to your credit card. It's supposed to remind you of how much you DON'T want to move back in with them.
4. Do you like the item more than cash? Before you buy something, ask yourself, "If someone offered me this t-shirt or $30, which one would I take?"
5. Calculate how long you'd have to work to pay for it. Like if something costs $100 and you make $20 an hour, is it worth five hours of your time?
6. Pretend it costs even more. Make a rule: If you wouldn't pay three times as much for it, then it's not worth what they're charging.
7. Consider the idea that you might never retire. Before you buy something you don't need, think of yourself at 85, and you're still working.
8. Think of it like you're stealing from yourself. You spent all that time earning money. Are you really going to steal it from your future self to buy something you don't need?
9. Boycott everything. Find reasons to boycott as many companies as you can, and refuse to give them your money. There's an app called Goods Unite Us that might help. It tells you how every brand leans politically.
10. Just start binge-watching "Hoarders". You'll never want to buy anything ever again.
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A new poll found a third of Americans already trust ChatGPT more than experts in at least one field or area of expertise.
The things we trust it with the most are career advice and product recommendations. 60% tend to believe what it says about that stuff.
We don't trust it with everything yet, though. Just 35% would trust medical advice from ChatGPT, and 28% said the same about legal advice.
Half of users say they lean on it as a learning tool . . . 33% use it for financial stuff . . . 30% ask for product recommendations . . . 20% use it for career advice . . . and 15% turn to it for relationship advice.
We still trust our own googling skills a little more than A.I., though: Just 16% trust ChatGPT more than Google, and 41% said they trust it less. The other 43% said it's a tie.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - If you had $1 billion and spent $1,000 a day, it would take you about 2,749 years to run out of money.
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