People, we are a strange lot, are we not?
October 21, 2009 by OpinionHead · Leave a Comment
Have you ever noticed that sometimes, just saying hello can get a negative response? You just never know what to expect. I have been working in various “people” oriented businesses pretty much all of my life, and every time I find a new personality, it just amazes me.
I tried to start a conversation with someone, a person that I have seen all over many profiles, and from what I saw, they seemed like a friendly sort, but I quickly learned that I was wrong, oh well, I just wanted to say hello.
I had to do some research, I had to know if it was just me, why did I feel guilty that I had unintentionally upset someone to the point that they were, a little bit rude. I guess maybe they were having a bad day, and I just happened to be the one that stepped in it, I don’t know. But, I did find these two videos to illustrate my confusion.
This first, I believed to be correct, but, after watching the second……..
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I was really a mess, I didn’t pass the test! After being able to answer all of the math questions with no problem, I was confident, then, that last question, the only one that counted, I FAILED! Who would have thought that 98% of people could all come up with the same answer? I don’t think so, but, maybe if that question were asked in some other country that could be true, but, as is my point of this article, people are strange, or, it takes all kinds, or maybe, just maybe, I’m nuts?
Balloon Boy, What do you think about it?
October 19, 2009 by fat_madman · Leave a Comment
If you have been living under a rock, or maybe in a 140 Mafia coma, then you haven’t heard about Balloon Boy. This is one of those things that when it first started being shown on Fox News, it looked fake, and even Shepard Smith said that when it was first being reported, Fox News almost didn’t cover it becuse they thought it was a hoax, I mean come on, a weather balloon shaped like a Flying Saucer? As the report started getting interesting, the balloon looked like it was really big, and, to carry a boy to 8,000 feet, it would have to be, then, I started having Mythbusters flashbacks, remember when they did the thing with the real weather balloons? Yeah, they did the math and figured out what it would take to lift Adam in a lawn chair, and so on. When they did this, the array of balloons was massive, compared to what we found out we were watching, Adam and Jamie had to really scrounge to get enough helium to do the myth, so, as I was watching what I thought was a big flying saucer balloon I was trying to figure out why would a weather balloon need to be that big, and where they got enough helium to fill it up! Then, finally, the thing came down and the guy grabbed it, when I saw how tiny it was, I was confused, and dissappointed. I had been hoping that a kid would crawl out and jump up and down exclaiming just how much fun that was, but, in order for a kid to have been in it, it would have had to be a baby! Bummer, the rush was over with a crash!
Anyway, I found this video to help those that may have missed it, and, to just have a video to post. If you guys have a favorite YouTube clip, post it here in a comment, create a new topic in the forum, in other words, this is the video category, enjoy!