Thought Provokers: 5/8/2024

Some products are so ingrained in our daily use that companies don’t need to spend money on marketing.

You almost never have to buy shoelaces anymore because shoes don’t last that long.

Some people don’t know how to talk to kids because their go-to small talk with adults is to ask about work.

It is a choice to be a parent. But it is not a choice to be a child.

On the Internet, the final question on IQ tests is whether to pay for the result.

We need unattractive people to have attractive people.

Every year, your eventual death date comes and goes without you knowing it.

The word “consonant” has more vowels than the word “vowel.”

The average teenage boy with the internet has probably seen more nude people than all his ancestors without the internet combined.

Millions of people go through their entire lives without meeting anyone from another race.

It’s amazing how efficient the human body is at converting and storing food as energy.

We spend the first half of our lives sacrificing our health to gain wealth, and the second half sacrificing our wealth to regain our health.

With technology, anyone can start a chain of yawns around the world.

Life sentences are getting progressively worse as the human lifespan gets longer.

Love is a choice, just as much as it is an emotion.

Considering how easy and random it is to die, it’s amazing that so many people still make it to old age.

Thanks to dating apps and smartphones a lot of romantic relationships start while using the restroom.

There are almost no inherently spicy/savory dishes that are served frozen or ice cold.

When you are old, being perceived as younger is a compliment, but when you are young, being perceived as older is also a compliment.

A marriage proposal is only one knee away from begging.

Nothing is on fire; fire is on things.

Someone is the mosquito-slapping World Champion, and they don’t even know it.

Most people will spend thousands of hours on a highway but never step on it.

Fashion is human exterior design.

We don’t learn ways to learn in school.

Your tongue can get tired at times but can never fully relax.

The brightness on your phone is the volume for your eyes.

Men with long chins are usually the villains in cartoons.

Babies make the same noises in every country.