Thought Provokers: 12/6/2023

They only had to change the word snake to essential to get us to buy these oils again.

Google Maps must have saved a lot of marriages.

You know it’s a great vacation when the most stressful part is getting ready to leave.

Explaining a problem you are having is not the same as complaining about it - but way too many people think it is.

2075 to 2150 seems a lot longer than 1905 to 1980.

Every eyebrow looks weird if you look at it for 5 seconds.

Garlic and onion, arguably the two most important and widely used ingredients in all of cooking, are generally considered extremely unpleasant when eaten by themselves.

Setting your alarm clock song to be one you don’t like makes it more effective.

Long after you‘re dead your personal data will live on in some database for possibly hundreds of years.

Every day, millions of people do good and generous things for each other without it being filmed and put on YouTube or Instagram.

People expect movie characters to behave logically in every scene but people are hardly logical in every moment of their lives.

Of the lower 48, Montana and Maine are the only states that neither have a professional sports team nor border a state with a pro sports team.

People with more or less than 10 fingers are going to be mistaken as AI-generated.

No matter what you weigh, your weight is somebody’s goal.

Lying about how tall you are is the quickest, and easiest, possible way to label yourself a liar.

You’ve felt the happiest you’ll ever feel your entire life and you’ll never recognize it until years later.

The Sultan from Aladdin let his daughter keep a pet tiger but didn’t let her outside the palace walls.

Wishing someone a good day is positive but wishing someone a good life is usually negative.

Weirdly, you can remember that you forgot something.

In modern times we use written communication with one another by far more than ever, and yet we are becoming worse and worse at it.

Men aim to impress women, but women also aim to impress women.

We’d all sound a lot less intelligent without auto-correct.

It’s a little bit counterintuitive that the Dodge Charger isn’t electric.

Some animals are more dangerous dead than alive. Take a chicken, for example. When it’s alive the most it can do is peck you, but when you’re eating it? You could choke on a bone, get food poisoning, cook it wrong, and be sick.

First, you chop a tree down, then you chop it up.