Bubbles

I'm not sure if this is really smart or just obvious but people often drown because they get disorientated under water and can't tell which way is towards the surface.

My logic would tell me to blow a few bubbles under water and follow the direction they go. Even if you have no air left you can still create bubbles under water by flapping your arms like a slow motion chicken.



Problem solved.

Facebook statuses

Over the last 2 years there's been a decline in facebook statuses.
Is this because:
a) My facebook friends are getting older and busier
b) Twitter has grown so more people are tweeting rather than status updating
c) Statuses have become less cool (the more you update, the more obvious it is that you don't have a life)

Whatever the reason i'm pretty happy about it. The status updating did get to a point where it was getting ridiculous.
`I'm awake', `i'm off to have some breakfast', `my cat is also awake', `must feed my cat now, lol', 'time to go back upstairs and get changed' etc. There's just no need for that much information, i don't give a shit what you're doing every second of the day - this is not a personal diary, if you want a stalker i'm sure there's easier ways.

The reason why facebook changed the question in the status box from `what are you doing right now?' to `what's on your mind?' was probably to prompt more exciting statuses and prevent mass murder.

Let's be honest, the only statuses we really like are the more offensive and entertaining.
Frapes for example, you never get bored of reading a good frape.

One of my favourite time wasting sites

I've often thought about this likely event:




Wish for more lamps instead! Genius.
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Deja vu

The french word meaning 'already seen'.
We've all experienced Deja vu, but have you ever had a double Deja vu or maybe even triple?

This is not uncommon apparently, i've had a triple Deja vu, which is the strangest feeling.
You could say 3 times stranger (lame).

It's weird enough to experience something that feels like it has been experienced before. But then to feel like you've experienced the unexperienced experience before is even weirder. And to feel an experience that was unexperienced in an experience that was unexperienced is crazy. I don't even know if that makes any sense.

Basically to repeat something that has never happened is really eerie. To then recognise a time when you repeated the never happened occasion your now repeating is a double deja vu.

This is beginning to sound like an Inception spin-off.

Spy holes

I thought the whole purpose of a spy hole was to be able to spy on whoever's outside, without them knowing you're in.



This makes me wonder why some front doors have spy holes even when the door has glass windows? It's hardly spying when the person outside can see you clearer than you can see them...
If you had a slim rectangular body maybe it would work but i'm yet to come across a person with a rectangular head. You'd also have to walk up to the door directly central which could be difficult.

Spy holes on glass doors are a FAIL if you ask me.

Periods

This might be a bit too much for the faint hearted but i can't help wonder:

When a woman says 'I can't stand the sight of blood, the slightest drop makes me faint'... it makes me wonder what do they do every month?
Across the world there would thousands of women passed out on the floor, underwear half way down their legs. It's unavoidable.

You know when you're queueing in public toilets, and that one toilet never opens...it's always locked no matter how long your there, even when you come out of your toilet and you wash your hands, maybe dry them, re-apply make-up, brush your hair. No matter how long you take it's still locked...well maybe that's why! The cubicle probably has a woman face down on the floor pantless!

Before the internet

It's hard to imagine what life would be like without internet, especially now that we are completely reliant on it. In school, the closest we got to typing in random key words and recieving information was Encarta.


Microsofts Digital Multimedia Encyclopedia. Enacarta even exists now!

If the Internet was to suddenly disappear i wonder what the back-up plan would be. Would we go back to Encarta, start using Libraries? I think that i'd struggle most with no e-mailing or google images. Not only does the Internet save me money - less stamps, but it also saves me huge amounts of time! I don't need to walk to letterboxes every day or flick through thousands of books looking for images.

This is a toast to the intenet!

(i've never had to spell toast before but i can assure you that this is the correct spelling)

Domain names

Why hasn't www.dotcom.com been created!?

I just typed it in and ... nothing. If i had the money to spend on buying new domain names i would and that would be the first one i'd buy. It's only a matter of time before it's gone. So much potential and so little time.

Car Faces

A lot of people describe cars to have faces. This is how i come to an aesthetical decision about the style of a car and whether i like it or not. My Dad however thinks im slightly mad for doing this?? I dont know if it's a male thing, or just people with less imagination that find visualizing more difficult...

Basically this post is to defend myself. I am proving that im not mad, cars can be related to having faces. I have collected some evidence to support this theory:

This is an article explaning that cars are made to represent similar characteristics to human faces, which also leads us to give them personalities, such as friendly, aggressive, sad etc.

'It probably won’t come as a surprise that most people viewed cars as having faces. Nor that there was often agreement on the corresponding “personalities,” as with the “submissive and friendly” Nissan Micra pictured above. What was surprising to me, though, was that most people, including both men and women, seemed to agree on their preference. From the study:

…the better our subjects liked a car, the closer it matched the shape characteristics corresponding to high values of “power.” Thus, people seem to like mature, dominant, masculine, arrogant, angry-looking cars.'

http://artandperception.com/2008/09/car-face.html

Herbie ofcorse... need i say more



And a whole film based on cars with faces and personalities 'Cars' 2006, Disney Pixar Films



This sums it up perfectly i think:

Rare Coins

So, i've been doing a bit of a 'spring clean' during the summer. Amoung the many things i've held onto are some coins. I remember when i was around 11 my next door neighbours took my brother and myself to the Millenium Dome. When we were there we bought an ice cream and this man handed some change to me. He said hold on to that one (indicating to the 50p) because it will be worth around £10. So i did.

This 50p has dolphins on the back, which is why im guessing it's supposedly rare.



I've done some rare coin hunting and the highest it will get me so far is £2.95. But i did find one bid that has now dissapeared that was a whopping £6.99! I'm thinking if i hold on to it long enough, one day it might pay for my tuition fees.
I had some other 50p's i thought had the same 'rare factor' but thanks to wikipedia it turns out they're not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_pence_(British_coin)

Belly Buttons

Innie or Outie? Outies mean your an alien...? Remember that theory? (i believe it was in an episode of Rugrats).

The belly button is a mysterious thing. Whilst it is a scar left behind from the umbilical cord, it's also a fashion icon, object of sexual fetishism and taboo area of the body.
Belly buttons have more uses than you'd think. They are not just a one trick ponies, they can be used as a way to distinguish between twins or they can be pierced or even this...

Flooding

I don't understand why people buy houses in flood areas.
When there's heavy rain they still manage to act suprised when their ground floor becomes a pond and their belongings are floating away down the street. Surely you'd expect this if your living in the middle of a dried up lake?

Every year you see people on the news complaining about damage to their houses and what a terrible disaster this year has been. Well, why build a house ontop of a flood plain? Or better yet, why then buy one and live in it?
When people become stranded on there rooftops, i can't help but think - it's your own fault.

Lucky for them i have come up with a genuis plan to prevent such issues: The dinghy in the attic plan.
Every (floodrisk)home will have a dinghy in there attic. When such flood arises, a roof hatch/axe will allow the person to escape out onto the roof and set sail in there dinghy to safety.

Tada!

Tomboy

I was thinking, where did tomboy come from. It has no connection to being a female at all, surely it should be tomgirl or girlboy...? Well here is the answer:


'An english language print reference to the term tomboy can be
traced back to 1553 when it was used to describe a "rude,
boisterous boy." Another reference, in 1579, as a "bold or
immodest woman" and in 1592: "a girl who acts like a spirited
boy." This development of the word is largely a corruption,
through misinterpretation and mistaken use over centuries
and is derived from the Anglo Saxon "tumbere" meaning
dancer or romper, from the same roots as the French
"tomber," to tumble about. Hundreds of years later the
early meaning of a promiscuous boisterous girl or woman
resurfaced in the shortened slang term Tom, meaning
prostitute, when in the 1930's London Police used the term
to describe a prostitute working the Mayfair and Bayswater
areas.'

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/19841#ixzz0pRl033gW

Much like the 'don't say what it's rude' phenomenon (earlier blog), it is again a misinterpretation.
At least now when i use the term i know its wrong.

I'm singing in my head

Just a quick post, but isn't it weird how you could have a song in your head that you've been singing outloud... and then you go quiet for 5 minute (approx.).... and then you and who ever you're with start singing outloud at the same moment and at the same point!









Answer: Yes

The Truman Show

Have you ever thought you were on The Truman show? But in your case The (insert your name here) show. Basically if i was then i wouldn't need to be writing about thinking it as everybody would know...

I have come face to face with people that have confronted me about them being on The (their name) show, when i've been thinking this is reverse psychology and actually their on my (my name) show.

...well anyway, i thought about this before i'd heard of the film, therefore how do i know that the film is genuine and wasn't just to put me off the scent...!? If anything it convinced me more that it was happening to me and not to Truman.

I'm not paranoid.

Music video

Now, have you ever had music on whilst travelling and made a music video in your head. Occasionally when im in a car or on a train listening to a song, depending on what im looking at it seems to make a great music video in my head... Everything fits in time with the music and it seems really cool and meaningful for a few seconds (magical stuff).

Then you realise how boring it would actually be to watch trees and clouds for 3 minutes.