Dumb blonde thread. I'm just curious if anyone knows or if anyone feels the same way?

[SusanJillParker]

This is my dumb blonde thread. I have a lot of questions to things that I don't have answers. Maybe you do too.

This thread is about random questions of the universe. If you have a question of your own, I welcome you to post it here.

It doesn't have to be a question of the universe; it could be a question of the Earth.

While waiting for my coffee to heat, I wondered why does 30 seconds feel so fast but a minute feel so slow. Have you ever wondered that?

I realized that 30 seconds is half as long as one minute but seemingly, when waiting for the microwave buzzer, one minute seems so much longer, unbearably longer.

Why is that? Is that our brains playing tricks on us?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The best speakers know this.

Keep your speeches short. 30 seconds is about right, a minute is too long.

Its prolly a natural timer for sex, too. After 30 seconds do something different.

 

[SusanJillParker]

The best speakers know this.

Keep your speeches short. 30 seconds is about right, a minute is too long.

Its prolly a natural timer for sex, too. After 30 seconds do something different.

Just so that I understand your meaning, after only 30 seconds of sex, you're ready to play cards?

I agree about keeping speeches short but 30 seconds for a speech and/or 30 seconds for sex doesn't seem long enough.

If I had my choice, sex would be much longer than the attention that I'd give to any speech.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Just so that I understand your meaning, after only 30 seconds of sex, you're ready to play cards?

I agree about keeping speeches short but 30 seconds for a speech and/or 30 seconds for sex doesn't seem long enough.

If I had my choice, sex would be much longer than the attention that I'd give to any speech.

30 seconds per course. That is, if youre gonna do sex, pollinate all the flowers, don't fixate on licking toes.

The Gettysburg Address took about 30 seconds.

 

[ishtat]

30 seconds per course. That is, if youre gonna do sex, pollinate all the flowers, don't fixate on licking toes.

The Gettysburg Address took about 30 seconds.

Edward Everett was the principal speaker that day, and spoke for over two hours. Lincoln's address was 273 words and took a tad over two minutes. If you read it out you'll prolly take a fair bit less time than Lincoln - But Lincoln knew a bit about the eloquence of silence, the pauses between the words.

A cousin of mine was a rector and reckoned no sermon should last more than 6 minutes - unless you wanted to irritate the congregation.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Edward Everett was the principal speaker that day, and spoke for over two hours. Lincoln's address was 273 words and took a tad over two minutes. If you read it out you'll prolly take a fair bit less time than Lincoln - But Lincoln knew a bit about the eloquence of silence, the pauses between the words.

A cousin of mine was a rector and reckoned no sermon should last more than 6 minutes - unless you wanted to irritate the congregation.

I spent years in court, and judges love short and sweet testimony. Effective witnesses deliver testimony as well as Jay Leno delivers jokes. Short with a punchline.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Meeting, business type meeting, should be no longer than 30 minutes or they are a waste of time. I don't know how much time was wasted over the 40 years of my career. Long winded bosses were the worst.

You could see the fidgeting of everyone in the meeting as the boss wandered all over the place. After about two minutes they all strayed from the agenda they had put together to keep the meeting short.

You have to wonder why the windbags are always put in a position of authority.

 

[SusanJillParker]

As if they copy one another, to be safe, except for Porsche, do you ever wonder why cars all look alike? Now instead of having fins, sharp edges, or being squared off, they are all rounded as if they were made from one piece of steel. Seemingly cars today all look the same. Cars today all look alike.

Sometimes difficult to tell one manufacturer from another, now a Hyundai looks like a BMW and a Ford Fusion looks like an Aston Martin. Don't these designers have an imagination of their own or are the accountants in charge of their creativity by telling them to sketch on the safe side and copy someone else's proven design instead of creating your own?

They do the same thing with movies. Instead of coming up with a new story line, they make a sequel. Except for Godfather 2, the sequel is rarely better than the original. Moreover, the book is always better than the movie.

Think about that for a minute. The book is always better than the movie. How can that be?

Isn't that an odd phenomena? When a book cost ten bucks to buy and a movie cost hundreds of millions of dollars to create, why is the book always better than the movie?

Peter Benchley's Jaws was so much more scarier reading it than watching it in the movies. Ali MacGraw with her terrible acting ruined Segal's Love Story.

Here you are watching a movie in color on a giant screen with loads of imagery and description yet, what you imagine in your head while reading black words on a white page in a paperback book is always better. Seemingly what you imagine yourself is better than the director's and actors' interpretation of what you see on the screen. How about that? Isn't that something?

Furthermore, I wish Hollywood would continue to make new, fresh movies instead of doing remakes of something made in the 1940's. A good example of that is, Heaven Can Wait. The original movie made in 1943 with Gene Tierney was different but the remake in 1978 with Warren Beatty was dumb.

I'm glad they left some movies alone, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, On the Waterfront, and It's a Wonderful Life. There are lots of movies that I'd love to see a remake but only if they can make it fresher instead of copying the old original word for word and scene for scene.

Some novels, such as Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence was made into a movie with the writer's dialogue left intact, word for word. How can you change perfection? The movie was just as good as the book.

Mario Puzo's Godfather was just as good as Francis Ford Coppola Godfather movies. Now, that's what I'm talking about. Hollywood needs to make better movies, movies that are as good as the books.

Tolstoy's War and Peace, an epic to read falls flat on the silver screen in the way that Homer's Odyssey did too. Forget about anything written by Shakespeare, exciting when created at the time, now it's enough to put you to sleep. The same can be said about anything written by Charles Dickens.

As far as I'm concerned, if they can't improve on what was written on the page, why bother? F. Scott Fitzerald's Great Gatsby, so much more enthralling when read in his book, is a mess on the screen, even with Robert Redford playing Gatsby.

 

[FantasyXY]

Forrest Gump, the movie... was infinitely better than the book. The book absolutely sucked.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Forrest Gump, the movie... was infinitely better than the book. The book absolutely sucked.

There are always those rare exceptions when an actor surpasses his role in the way that Tom Hanks did. Yet, must it be an Oscar winning performance for a director to do his job in interpreting the writer's written word?

Seemingly movies are much better when directors write their own as did Lucas did with Star Wars in hiring a writer to write the books after the movie. Jane Campion did the same with Piano. She made the movie first and then wrote the book, a rare exception. In the case of Piano, I think the movie was better than the book.

Then there's JK Rowling and Speilberg's Schindler's List. The movies are nearly on par, and nearly as good as the books.

Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes was a masterpiece to read but a dismal failure as a movie. That was the one book that I had to continue to put down because I couldn't stop crying.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

As if they copy one another, to be safe, except for Porsche, do you ever wonder why cars all look alike? Now instead of having fins, sharp edges, or being squared off, they are all rounded as if they were made from one piece of steel. Seemingly cars today all look the same. Cars today all look alike.

Sometimes difficult to tell one manufacturer from another, now a Hyundai looks like a BMW and a Ford Fusion looks like an Aston Martin. Don't these designers have an imagination of their own or are the accountants in charge of their creativity by telling them to sketch on the safe side and copy someone else's proven design instead of creating your own?

They do the same thing with movies. Instead of coming up with a new story line, they make a sequel. Except for Godfather 2, the sequel is rarely better than the original. Moreover, the book is always better than the movie.

Think about that for a minute. The book is always better than the movie. How can that be?

Isn't that an odd phenomena? When a book cost ten bucks to buy and a movie cost hundreds of millions of dollars to create, why is the book always better than the movie?

Peter Benchley's Jaws was so much more scarier reading it than watching it in the movies. Ali MacGraw with her terrible acting ruined Segal's Love Story.

Here you are watching a movie in color on a giant screen with loads of imagery and description yet, what you imagine in your head while reading black words on a white page in a paperback book is always better. Seemingly what you imagine yourself is better than the director's and actors' interpretation of what you see on the screen. How about that? Isn't that something?

Furthermore, I wish Hollywood would continue to make new, fresh movies instead of doing remakes of something made in the 1940's. A good example of that is, Heaven Can Wait. The original movie made in 1943 with Gene Tierney was different but the remake in 1978 with Warren Beatty was dumb.

I'm glad they left some movies alone, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, On the Waterfront, and It's a Wonderful Life. There are lots of movies that I'd love to see a remake but only if they can make it fresher instead of copying the old original word for word and scene for scene.

Some novels, such as Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence was made into a movie with the writer's dialogue left intact, word for word. How can you change perfection? The movie was just as good as the book.

Mario Puzo's Godfather was just as good as Francis Ford Coppola Godfather movies. Now, that's what I'm talking about. Hollywood needs to make better movies, movies that are as good as the books.

Tolstoy's War and Peace, an epic to read falls flat on the silver screen in the way that Homer's Odyssey did too. Forget about anything written by Shakespeare, exciting when created at the time, now it's enough to put you to sleep. The same can be said about anything written by Charles Dickens.

As far as I'm concerned, if they can't improve on what was written on the page, why bother? F. Scott Fitzerald's Great Gatsby, so much more enthralling when read in his book, is a mess on the screen, even with Robert Redford playing Gatsby.

Most things are captured by their times, and the Old Days are outta rapport with Modern Times. Today I wouldn't be caught dead wearing what I luvved back in 1970. Even when every button and bow are authentic...theyre new and pristine, and real life is blemished and soiled.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Most things are captured by their times, and the Old Days are outta rapport with Modern Times. Today I wouldn't be caught dead wearing what I luvved back in 1970. Even when every button and bow are authentic...theyre new and pristine, and real life is blemished and soiled.

I don't care what you write. I still think you look good in bell bottom pants and an open shirt ala John Travolta with a big, gold medallion.

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

Dumb blondes

Boring.

I want a partner smart enough to crawl into my head... To win battles. To provide a challenge.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Has anyone else noticed that the contents of packages, cookies, shampoo, and potato chips for an example, have been less while the packaging remains the same size and the prices increase?

They must think if they keep the package the same size that we won't notice being cheated. They must think that we are as stupid as they are for them to decrease the contents and for us to continue to buy their products at an inflated price.

Greed is ruling this country. Every time I walk in a supermarket, prices are up a penny here and a penny there. It used to be every time I bought gas, the price of a gallon was up. It always amazed me that when the price of a gallon of gas increased, the change was made immediately but when they reduced the price of a gallon of gas, even by a few cents, the change took days to make.

Have you noticed that there are more and more commercials and informercials. It used to be that commericials were 30 second spots. Now many of them are 15 seconds. As if being shot with an automatic weapon, we are bombarded by commericals and the drug commercials are the worse. I'm wearing out my mute button but now they put writing on the screen for those who mute their commercials.

Seriously, we need for the FCC to bring back the cigarette and hard alcohol commercials. At least they were better than Viagra and Cialis commercials.

Some of these drug commercials have a side effect list that are longer then the benefits of the drug. Then, they read through the warnings in the way they do when they advertise a car lease.

We need to boycott. We all need to stand tall against Keebler elves and Keebler cookies.

It wasn't that long ago when VO5 shampoo was 16 ounces before dropping down to 15 ounces. Now it's 12 1/2 ounces. Instead of being flush on two sides, Dial soap is now concave, they say for better grasp.

"Better grasp my ass. Bullshit! Better grab for more profits!"

Enough is enough! I'm sick of these billion dollar companies going through my pockets to pick out my loose change. Who do they think they are, the Catholic Church?

How dare they?

 

[FantasyXY]

As long as we are asking crazy questions here...

If you strap jellied toast to a cat's back and toss it in the air, which evil force wins?

 

[TxRad]

As long as we are asking crazy questions here...

If you strap jellied toast to a cat's back and toss it in the air, which evil force wins?

If you strap roller skates and two roman candles to a duck.....

Uh, never mind.... i need to get the fire extinguisher....

 

[rjordan]

Meeting, business type meeting, should be no longer than 30 minutes or they are a waste of time. I don't know how much time was wasted over the 40 years of my career. Long winded bosses were the worst.

You could see the fidgeting of everyone in the meeting as the boss wandered all over the place. After about two minutes they all strayed from the agenda they had put together to keep the meeting short.

You have to wonder why the windbags are always put in a position of authority.

Peter Principle?

rj

 

[SusanJillParker]

As long as we are asking crazy questions here...

If you strap jellied toast to a cat's back and toss it in the air, which evil force wins?

Do you consider comparing books to movies crazy questions?

Do you consider questioning the greed of corporate America crazy questions?

Do you consider cookie cutter, copy cat cars crazy questions?

The only post asking a stupid question is you.

If you don't like me or my thread, it's kind of crazy for you to not only read it but post to it, don't you think?

 

[TxRad]

Since you named the thread, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Your sense of humor is slim to none all of a sudden.

 

[SusanJillParker]

With Christmas only 10 days away, other than a necktie or cologne, what's the best gift to buy a man?

Other than something for the kitchen, a sexy nightgown, or perfume, what's the best gift to buy a woman?

I'm looking for some out of the box ideas, nothing too expensive but more thoughtful.

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

Tickets

For his/her favourite band.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Big Brother is here.

Most of all the radio stations, television stations, news organizations, and cable TV are owned by 7, old, white men. We all know who they are.

They are the men, via their news organizations, who tell you want to think. They only show you what they want to see.

I refuse to be so controlled.

It's idiotic how they've been discussing and debating our next president for 2 years. Is there no other news except for another cop shooting yet another black man?

Once Fox and CNN latch onto something, that's it for the news.

I read all my news online and even though it's slanted, I can avoid topics by not clicking on them.

I've had to resort to watching public service broadcasts and the BBC news to get the rest of the story.

Sometimes I feel so manipulated as if I'm a puppet on a string.

 

[beachbum1958]

As long as we are asking crazy questions here...

If you strap jellied toast to a cat's back and toss it in the air, which evil force wins?

I reckon one of three things will happen: either the two irresistible forces (to wit: the toast landing jelly-side down and the cat landing on it's feet) will each cancel each other out and the cat will remain permanently suspended in a singular cat & toast-shaped universe created by the paradox whose physical constraints allow both outcomes simultaneously i.e will allow both the cat and the toast to land feet down and jelly side down, or, more likely, the cat will explode and the toast will laminate itself to the nearest wall, jelly-side first.

The third possibility is that the tidal stresses involved will instantly cause our universe to stop existing. The empirical thing to do would be to strap the toast to a cat, chuck it up in the air, and see what happens; just be sure you have a convenient alternate universe to duck into if it does all does go pear-shaped, but to be on the safe side, get someone else to do it, there's always some idiot around who'd gladly press the 'Armageddon' button just to hear the bang...

 

[SusanJillParker]

Thank you for moving up my thread with your nonsense. You are too kind.

 

[FantasyXY]

These are smarter questions than you think

I reckon one of three things will happen: either the two irresistible forces (to wit: the toast landing jelly-side down and the cat landing on it's feet) will each cancel each other out and the cat will remain permanently suspended in a singular cat & toast-shaped universe created by the paradox whose physical constraints allow both outcomes simultaneously i.e will allow both the cat and the toast to land feet down and jelly side down, or, more likely, the cat will explode and the toast will laminate itself to the nearest wall, jelly-side first.

The third possibility is that the tidal stresses involved will instantly cause our universe to stop existing. The empirical thing to do would be to strap the toast to a cat, chuck it up in the air, and see what happens; just be sure you have a convenient alternate universe to duck into if it does all does go pear-shaped, but to be on the safe side, get someone else to do it, there's always some idiot around who'd gladly press the 'Armageddon' button just to hear the bang...

Great answer. Of course we all know why toast tends to land jelly side down. The jelly is much more dense than the bread which creates a center of gravity for the combined bread and jelly that is much closer to the jellied side than the dry side. When dropped the lighter bread side actually acts in a similar way as tail fins do on an arrow. Yeah, most grade school children can see that one.

But do you know why a falling cat can land on it's feet? Not a hypothetical answer with alternate universes and irresistible forces, but the real answer as to how a cat lands on all fours in a fall. Even more, do you know the real physical way to easily cancel out the cat's feet landing ability?