An advantage of being 3 years old

A friend of mine's daughter is 3 years old today. Being 3 is very much like being 65. When you are 65, you qualify for lots of cool deals, like an all-encompassing bus pass and discounts all over the place. When you are three, you can finally play with all those toys with a label "Not suitable for children under the age of three"!

Something else on Facebook which is stupid

On the left side of one of my main Facebook pages under "shit I normally never look at," there is this category "What is your relationship status?" Under this is a line "1 more pending item." So I clicked on that. Under this it says that one of my FB pals has "listed you [meaning me] as a family member." Except this guy is NOT a family member. He is no relationship to me whatsoever. There is a drop down which says "Choose relationship," with various crap like brother, sister, etc., etc. (a long list). There is no "none of the above."

No laughs at the fish market

I thought this was pretty funny, thinking "cleaning" means washing the fish (rather than removing guts, etc., which is what it really means) -- especially since this guy was using this weird vacuum-like device to do something vacuum-like in the fish tank.

But then he got all annoyed when he saw me taking pictures of another sign which said words to the effect "Osaka Supermarket is not legally liable if a crab should pinch you," and started screaming at me, "No pictures allowed in the store!"

I guess he thought by doing this I would steal the fishes' souls or something.

A chance in hell is better than this...

CKWX: "Another nail in the Canucks' coffin..."

Later, there was a news item that some guy did a computer anal-ysis of the Canucks' chances of making the playoffs. He said it was 0.01%.

Unsubscribing stupidity

Don't you love it when you get some e-mail from a company you contacted once for some reason and now you want to unsubscribe from receiving further messages -- and this is not just an automatic process through some link? Typically you would have to tell them which e-mail address you want to use to unsubscribe. In my case, I have numerous e-mail addresses forwarded through various domains to my main address, so I have no way of knowing which one it is. This is STUPID!

A bunch of crap

There are numerous Internet postings which suggest that if you leave your toilet seat open and flush the toilet, some "fine spray" will send minute pieces of pee, poo and whatever all over the place, contaminating any toothbrushes, towels, washcloths, bars of soap, etc. in the immediate vicinity (up to several feet away).

I think this is a bunch of crap (no pun intended).

I tried an experiment myself, closing the toilet lid and flushing the toilet. I then opened the lid and ran my fingers along the underside of it. It was COMPLETELY DRY.

[Follow-up: I did a Google search for a Mythbusters anal-ysis (no pun intended) of this phenomenon, and they determined that there actually was some "fecal material" encountered on a testing toothbrush near the toilet after a flush. But they also found this "material" in a room where they had put a testing toothbrush which was far away from the toilet. Their conclusion: shit is everywhere.]
 

What bloggers need

Seriously, all bloggers should have someone standing behind them, like the guys riding in the chariots of Roman generals returning home from the wars, whispering in their ear: "Remember ... thou art but a man [or woman, as the case may be]."