In college the health center offered free bags of condoms to any student. The freshmen orientation leaders made a big deal of this, though I never personally heard of many people going there to get any. They usually went to a store and just bought them, for whatever reason. I always assumed it was one or two people taking them all, which is a little disturbing when you think about it. There was an entire line item in the school’s budget for a couple of students’ sex lives.
You know another good show they cancelled? Drive. Sure, it wasn’t great after the six or so episodes that actually aired, but it showed the promise of being pretty good. Maybe there should be a sort of majors and minors of network programming? If you do well on NBC you get to stay, but if you struggle they demote you to the USA Network where you get at least another season to try to find an audience.
There’s certainly a disturbing loop one can find themselves in when being nostalgic about the cycle of life (or circle, for you Lion King fans…which should be everyone). This is why food is probably best consumer and discussed in two separate settings. Don’t worry about it once you start eating. It’s pretty much a locomotive that can’t be stopped at that point.
One-upmanship is always a bit humorous to watch. The problem is that the people participating never seem to realize it’s one of those childhood games that can go on forever.
For example, if you were to tell me you can eat six hamburgers, I could say seven. If you were to say eight, I could punch you in the throat. If you happened to be eating one of those burgers, you’d probably die. But since we’re both lying, the game simply continues with you kicking me in the spleen. No one wins.
I ate so much garbage in college. Pixy Stix pizza would have been pretty good for my diet at the time. Thank goodness for high metabolism in college, and I suppose multivitamins. Otherwise I’d be dead.
Students will try almost any excuse to get out of work. Often their excuses prove their true intellect, and make you kind of sad they don’t put the same effort into their actual work. But when all else fails, they always fall back to pink eye.
Considering all the superhero films coming out this summer, it would be more appropriate for this to be the plot of Super 8. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’d bet even money this ends up as a segment on Sesame Street.
Rapture predictions do bring up a lot of questions. Such simples ones as–why? Why predict something that everyone will know you are wrong about almost immediately? What’s the point? Either you truly believe it, or else what’s the end game? Hoping a lot of people will repent last minute “just in case”? Does “just in case” even count in God’s eyes? It seems a silly endeavor predicting the end of the world.
Now, predicting the next flavor of Ben and Jerry’s on the other hand….
I know it’s a well known trope by this point, but I find great enjoyment in finding the moment the producers of a show gave up. It’s usually the point where they replace a major character, or try introducing a new major character. Some shows, like Married with Children, try this and almost instantly give up realizing what a bad idea it is. We do this with comics, but fewer people seem to care.
There’s always an awkward moment when people flirt with someone more or less cool than themselves. It breaks one of the fundamental laws of the universe, and you can simply pray that the reverberations from it don’t destroy us all. In other words? If you know what Doctor Who is, don’t try flirting with people who don’t.
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