"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handy's Deep Thoughts
China just might have found a way of improving their education system. Or at least weeding out the idiot teachers. They are making the teachers take the same final exams as their students. Any teacher who doesn’t score at least 80% is taken out back and shot in the buttocks. Just kidding. But they don’t get any future bonuses or benefits. They should implement this here in America! I’ve known quite a few teachers who would have failed. Via Japundit.
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A British study has concluded that not smoking (cigarettes), eating lots of fruits and vegetables, exercising regularly, and drinking alcohol in moderation can add as much as 14 years to your life. WOW!!! Amazing. Does this mean smoking crack and running down the center lane of a highway are bad, or were these things just not included in the study?
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I know the title is confusing but it comes down to this… Science fiction has thought up tons of really cool things that people often think it would be awesome to have. Yet if these things existed in real life they would cause more problems than they would solve. Take, for example, the Star Trek’s (among others) holodeck.
We’re thinking if aliens showed up to Earth 1,000 years after the invention of the holodeck, they’d find a silent planet with 10 billion mummified corpses laying on the floor of 10 billion dusty holodecks, with huge smiles on their faces.
I think you can imagine just what that huge smile signifies… Anything missing from the list at the link? I’m thinking light sabers. It sounds cool until someone loses an eye (and has it cauterized in the process)!
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It turns out 9 out of 10 Americans have had premarital sex.
More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
“This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. “Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades.”
Sometimes I just have to laugh at the obvious.
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It’s like reading a summation of all the stupid, strange and dumb things people do…
In Ohio, an unidentified man in his late twenties walked into a police station with a 9-inch wire protruding from his forehead, and calmly asked officers to give him an X-ray to help him find his brain, which he claimed had been stolen. Police were shocked to learn that the man had drilled a 6-inch deep hole in his skull with a Black & Decker power drill, and stuck the wire in to try and find the missing brain.
In our Likely Story department this week, the crew of a trawler that sank in the Sea of Japan claimed their ship went down after “being struck by a cow which fell out of the clear blue sky”. According to Flying magazine, no one believed this absurd explanation– except the Russian military. It seems that the crew of a military cargo jet had stolen a cow they found wandering on a Siberian airfield, and loaded it aboard. While cruising at 30,000 feet, the terrified cow ran amok and jumped out of the plane.
I had an ex-girlfriend who was stupid. One day her stupid things were getting on my nerves and I asked her what her I.Q. was. She responded “20/20″!
I was 18 and in the Air Force, and had just bought my first car. It was at Fairchild AFB, near Spokane, Washington, and the car was a 1955 Oldsmobile. I had paid $50.00 for it. My buddy and I decided to take it for a drive over to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Nearing the city, we heard a “chop…chop…chop” sound. We parked at a restaurant and shut the car off. Went inside to eat, and then returned to the car. The car would not start. I raised the hood, and my buddy and I, (both of us REALY STUPID!) just stood there looking at the engine, not knowing a thing about cars. A man came up to see if we needed help. He told us that my battery was gone. Apparently, it was not tied or bolted down and it fell into my fan blades. Well, this man put his battery in my car to get it started and then took it out. He told us that when we get back to Spokane, to go buy a battery. Well, we drove all the way back to Spokane, and stopped in a gas station and bought a battery, ($19.95 in 1971). Well, we put that battery in, and as we went around the cloverleaf onramp to get back on the freeway, we heard, “chop..chop..chop.”
I’m glad all the stories are on one page, but it’s like reading a novel!
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Well this comes as a huge surprise. Men and women have different brains.
“Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road,” she writes. Men, however, “have O’Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex, where women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes.”
Yet another “no duh” moment brought to you by the color red and the number 2
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“This administration may be over,” Lance Tarrance, a chief architect of the Republicans’ 1960s and ’70s Southern strategy, told a gathering of journalists and political wonks last week. “By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over.” Really? Ya think? You know it’s bad when Republicans are thinking this…
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How many times have you read or heard on the news that scientists have confirmed something you knew since you were a kid? “Getting shot in the head is often fatal,” for example? Here’s a list of 10 obvious scientific studies that just make you cringe that money was spent.
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