When I say 'scandal,' I'm not just talking about personal screw-ups, but all the sensational news that we read only because it sounds like something out of a suspense novel or movie, and are prepared to criticize in the same way as we would criticize a poor fictional storyline.
Like a superhero team or a group of guys you're getting together for a heist, you need friends that have various skills that will benefit you the best.
My boyfriend and I have recently come to the point where we're discussing the whole engagement deal and have come to the conclusion that this whole engagement ring racket is an elaborate trap. It seems like it should be simple enough for two reasonable people to agree on some kind of tangible engagement symbol that doesn't cost you thousands of dol
Sometimes women need different versions of certain products, like smaller clothes, or sappier movies, or bras with larger cups than men's bras. But most products don't need that split, which is why you don't see Wastebaskets For Women or Ladies' Bookshelves.
The biggest problem is that there's a lot of different kinds of smart, and we can't all be good at all of them. Some people just panic and think there's only two groups of people - the smart and the dumb.
There's sort of a weird dynamic in the world of sports commentary where red-blooded sports-watching men have to tiptoe around certain subjects as delicately as Victorian gentlemen. Because of this, they end up using these euphemistic code words that are in some ways almost worse than just dissing people straight out.
While it's easy to look down at that narcissistic dude on Twitter, we've all, at one point or another, fallen victim to the notion that strangers give a rip about what we think.
There are a lot of pretty obviously fake stories the supposedly hard-boiled internet will just swallow as easily as your grandma will fall for that 'poor man from Nigeria that needs someone to help him get his money.' Stories like:
People who can't be bothered to care about insurance can be made to pay attention, for some reason, when there is a British lizard talking at them. That's why corporations all over have made cartoony animals and interesting humans the face of their company, fusing them with their logos like some kind of horrifying cyborg.
It's comforting to know that there are some places on earth modern man still hasn't cheapened and ruined yet. Well, that's what you think until you get there, and see how long the line is to get in.
We always want to read the sensation stories about ridiculous lawsuits brought on by outrageous villains. Too bad these stories range between half to full of malarkey.
or years, game companies have been combining games that make money in order to make even more money. Occiasionally this works out pretty well. But with 'Marvel vs. Capcom 3' hitting shelves and selling pretty briskly, game designers will be trying to cram even more blockbusters together into the same universe.
Sometimes politicians get so bad that we make jokes about how we'd rather have a monkey, or drinking bird toy, or other humorous hyperbolic metaphor in charge, but then we never do anything about it. Such is the apathy of our voting citizenry today.
