Why does dust keep coming back? Even in rooms with air filters, dust settles on my wood furniture, my window sills, my air filter(!), my pictures....Why does dust keep coming back? If I was a good housekeeper I'd dust every four days. Is this God's way of letting people know what a crummy housekeeper I am and since I'm allergic to dust and dust mites, a way to make me sneezy, snuffy and cranky?
How do crazy immigrants(from other countries and other states) who cannot read STOP signs get their driver's licenses? I live in an area of diversity. The only sure thing is these folks who learned to drive in India, The Ukraine, Somalia, Asia, California etc. go through red lights, they tailgate me because I actually go the speed limit, they crazily change lanes illegally, go through my 'hood way over the 25mph limit and they scare me. How Do they pass the driving test?
Why do the TV Networks assume we, the audience, are all morons? I refuse to watch a program about folks taking lie detector tests, sliding off greased foam objects, swapping wives, the 12th rerun of a series show, and way too many freakin' dumb commercials for their fall shows!!
Why do people who have NEVER heard of the Marquise de Sade all have higher grades in algebra than I? Is a liberal arts education dead? What are they doing at the thousands of small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest and East? These folks also admitted they can only answer one question right per Jeopardy show. ACK! I get over 25 right each show.
Why do folks always buy vowels on Wheel of Fortune even though they don't need to and it wastes money?
In a world where people are starving and homeless, how can anyone(Brad Pitt) spend a half-million dollars on furniture?
Please add your own odd question....
18 comments:
I would like to know why I have to ask my kids to do the same things over and over and OVER again...they are not trick questions!
Good ponderings, and The wheel of fortune thing has bugged since the first time I watched that show.
People really are idiots
Very good questions! Wish I had some good answers.
Thank you for popping (I accidentally spelled that "pooping," but fixed it for your sake, haha) over to my blog. I loved your comment about your grandma passing away when Brennie did. My heart goes out to you. How old would he be today?
I look forward to catching up on your blog. Is there a post or two you would like to direct me to to help?
Very good questions. I wish I had some answers. I don't, but I'll state my opinion because that's how I roll.
Dust. We move it around but it never goes away. Plus it comes in the house thru open windows and doors.
Immigrant drivers. In my state they pass the test because the test is a joke. Plus they can do it in their own language, unlike people who move to other countries from the US. Plus, Asian and African drivers drive like maniacs because they come from places where there aren't a lot of private cars, so they are used to bikes and walking and have a very strange field of reference. They just don't measure space the way someone brought up with cars does.
TV: The networks DO think we're all morons. And unfortunately, most of this country ARE morons. So they're just showing what people want to see. Why do you think American Idol and Dancing with the Stars are the two biggest hits on TV? Mindless entertainment with no critical thinking involved.
Algebra is a talent. Some people can think abstractly. Obviously you and I are not amongst them.
Wheel of Fortune. See TV Networks. Morons. I once saw a guy say "I'd like to buy a vowel. Can I have an "F". I swear to God. Morons.
Brad Pitt: He gives enormous amounts of money to charities and to green movement organizations. I think he's interested in architecture and that furniture he bought wasn't for him, right? But you have a point. When you are earing 20 million per picture, a million is just small change.
I don't know the answer to the dust question - but here, where there are no air filters, open windows and building sites nearby, you can't notice the difference in a pile of dust from one day to the next...
Algebra is just Wheel of Fortune with numbers...
Why do legitimate news organizations insist upon giving me updates on Britney Spears or Paris Hilton?
Why is it that my husband can hear what his buddies say in a whisper in a crowded room, but not me sitting right next to him in the quiet car - and I always get the "huh?"
Glad I found your blog - tracked you down from your comment on mine! Thanks for leaving that comment, and now I have a new source of reading!
My answers (some of them have already been said):
Dust - we never actually remove it, we just rearrange it. I liked Stephanie's comment from the Bob Newhart show where he runs the inn: "If God chose for that dust to be there, who am I to move it?"
Driving: You're assuming they actually have licenses. What someone else said is true, the tests are way too easy, but especially around here so many people just get in the car and drive without going through the formality of actually doing it LEGALLY. We don't have much diversity, these are mostly stupid white trash rednecks driving like idiots.
TV - yes, they think we're idiots. That's why we don't have TV.
Algebra - 1. They're cheating 2. You've psyched yourself out over the subject. I had a marvelous teacher who taught us to look at algebra as a puzzle rather than math. I don't know that I could reproduce her technique, but it certainly worked for me.
Wheel of Fortune - good lord, is that still on? Pat Sajak used to be a weather forecaster in Nashville.
Brad Pitt has more money than God.
My question: Why is it that my husband and girl child cannot find an object that is sitting right in front of them, but my boy child (age 2) can find anything, even when it doesn't belong to him and he didn't put it there?
I was listening to a commentary on the radio this morning where some listener was chastising the commentator about his stance on global warming, asking why people were so upset and disavowing the fact that there is global warming and on and on and on with his stupidity. My question is How can you live in this world and not be aware of what global warming is doing to us? It's the same as a woman I heard of that is just so amazed that husband of 30 years died and left her without resources, so now she was seeking the services of a social worker to tell her what to do. My first instinct would have been to scream at her "where were you when all this change was going on? Did you not listen to one single news broadcast in all those 30 years? How can you be married for 30 years and not have a clue as to what happened in your marriage? Thankfully she was not my client :)
this is probably why none of my marriages worked out...I could never stand for anyone to tell me what to do, especially a man. I always had my own mind and my own stubborn way of thinking about how things should be. As I've gotten older I have learned the art of compromise but alas have yet to meet a man who has also learned it.
Oops, sorry, Janice...went on a rant didn't I? Have a good one!
Yep on the dust... unless you're using something that will actually pick it up, you're wasting your time, lol. And how does it get inside? Well you do know what something like 75% of it consists of, right? Ugh. I the Pitt and the Jolie do an awful lot of charity work so they don't bug me so much they spend money like that. It's the ones who do nothing to give back to *society* that bug the crap out of me.
Dusting is my least favorite thing in the world to do (housework wise). I only do it when things get really bad. I'm guessing the crazy immigrants DON'T have valid licenses and that's why they don't stop at STOP signs. I saw that shopping spree of Brad Pitts as well and thought it was ridiculous.
Well, they have given my answers for me and asked most of my questions. I do have one question that drives me crazy....
Why is in a minute to a man equal to an hour when said to a woman, but if a woman says in a minute to a man it is equal to 30 seconds?
And the biggest question is - what is your stance on memes? Because I tagged you...
1. That's your skin, Auntie
2. They buy them
3. Wife Swap is funny!!
4. What??
5. Because Pat is cool
6. They were "green chairs" made of newspapers - the highest priced funiture in the universe sold to idiots with millions ... to burn. (then say they are humanitarians)
I hope you are not a huge Brad Pitt fan ... (wink)
That buying a vowel thing on Wheel of Fortune has always driven me nuts!
Great questions! I love Jeopardy. My liberal-arts educated family usually knows many, many answers. If we could play as a team, we'd be unbeatable.
That's a big IF.
I've tagged you for a meme. It'll be up on Compost Happens on Monday. Enjoy!
I totally rock Jeopardy, and who doesn't know who the Marquis de Sade is? He was a naughty little monkey, wasn't he?
Here's one: Why must everything be "BREAKING NEWS!!!!" An example, someone made a comment in our newspaper the other day about how in 1982 there were far less child drownings in Arizona than there are now because people actually parented then. I did a little research and found that there were actually more child drownings back then than there are now. We just don't hear about every single one AS.IT.HAPPENS. There are days when I hate all of humanity, because of the collective stupidity.
Oh, hi...sorry, didn't mean to rant in your comment section. I'm Shelley, nice to meet you. :)
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