Wednesday 8/21/24
Celebrate:
National Brazilian Blowout Day
National Senior Citizens Day
National Spumoni Day
National Sweet Tea Day
Poet's Day
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Why is it that no one can manufacture a USB stick that actually tells you which way to put it in? Oh wait, you have to have ports be standard as well...oh never mind.
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Most people don't feel their most limber . . . first thing in the morning. I get it. But it's still important to actually clean yourself in the shower and not just stand there.
In a new poll, people were asked, "Do you wash your feet in the shower?"
60% of people said YES . . . they make a point to actually wash their feet.
37% said NO . . . they just let the water run over them.
A few others were torn. One said, "Not every time, but yes."
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There's a new thread online where Millennials are talking about the "old person hills they'll die on" . . . and here are some highlights:
1. New car headlights are too bright.
2. Social media was better when it only showed you content from friends and followed pages . . . and it was easier to pick up where your last scroll left off.
3. People shouldn't listen to music or have videos and calls played on their phones in public without headphones.
4. You shouldn't have to download an app for EVERYTHING.
5. Not everything needs to be recorded, photographed and posted online.
6. People need to stop speeding through neighborhoods.
7. Grocery stores are too much work . . . from scrolling through an app to "clip" all the sales, to scanning and bagging all of your own purchases. (And buying bags if you didn't bring your own.)
8. Restaurants should offer an actual menu . . . not a QR code . . . especially when it's hard to read.
9. Tips should be for sit-down meals in restaurants only.
10. There should be zero work-related texting, especially during non-work hours. All work communication should be through a work email account.
11. Touchscreen keyboards aren't as good as an actual physical keyboard.
12. If I say something to you, I'd like an acknowledgment that you heard me.
13. I am not instantly available at any waking moment just because it is technically possible for me to see your message right away.
14. Writing notes by hand on paper is better than typing notes.
15. The way that Gen Z makes hearts with their hands is deeply unsettling.
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An Indian entrepreneur is using sugar, cellulose, and corn waste to make millions of plastic-like bags for small businesses. But unlike plastic, these bags decompose within 180 days.
His company Bio Reform has already replaced 6 million plastic bags in the checkout counters of stores all over India.
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If you have kids, you've probably caught them putting some NASTY stuff in their mouths at some point. And if you think you're completely desensitized, see if you can make it through THIS LIST without cringing.
People on social media are talking about the MOST DISGUSTING things they have put in their mouths . . . on purpose or not. And I'm going to be honest, it's a little rough.
1. Soap. They weren't having their "mouth washed out" for saying something naughty . . . someone was handing out "soap samples" outside of a store, and someone drunkenly popped it in their month, thinking it was FOOD.
2. Someone said, "I once accidentally chewed an Advil liquid gel cap. It was obscene."
3. Seagull poo. It hit their face . . . RIGHT at their mouth.
4. Someone said, "When I was a kid, I was on a long, overnight car trip, and I reached for a bottle thinking it was water, and drank some . . . it was windshield washing fluid."
5. A cockroach. "I drank out of the tap in my bathroom, and when I turned the water on, a cockroach shot out of the faucet into my mouth."
6. Someone said, "I drank from a half full can of beer that had been used as an ashtray." And someone else said, "I left a Pepsi open outside all day and when I took a big swig. It was full of ants."
7. Baby spit-up.
8. Someone said, "My cat sneezed in my mouth when I yawned."
9. Someone was sleepwalking . . . and they ate half a bowl of POTPOURRI thinking it was cereal.
10. Some actual "edible" foods made the list, including . . . clams, insects, Chinese "century eggs," coconut sparkling water, foie gras, and durian, the fruit delicacy that, to some, tastes like literal garbage.
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A 21-year-old woman in Florida named Nakhia Davis was arrested last week after she attacked her sister with RAVIOLI. Literal ravioli.
The sisters were arguing. Nakhia was mad because her sister brought home some food, but wasn't sharing it. She was so fired up, she grabbed a "plate of raviolis" and threw it at her sister.
The police were called . . . and when they showed up, the sister still had sauce from the raviolis on her.
Nakhia admitted throwing the pasta . . . and was charged with domestic battery, which is a misdemeanor.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - There are 4,700 species of frogs, and only one makes a "ribbit" sound. But we associate it with all frogs, because the frog that "ribbits" is native to California, so it's the one that sound engineers originally recorded for movies.
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