Please see my last pondering list if you have any questions. Here are some more random things that I’ve been thinking about in my spare time:
1. I wouldn’t like being tall, due to top of the fridge dust…
I know it sounds like a random statement, but I only realise when I wear high heels, that the top of my fridge gets really dusty. I keep forgetting to wipe it down, because I can’t see it! Then I started to feel sorry for all those tall people, who can see the top of the fridge. Imagine how many dusty tops of fridges they must see! I would be running around with a cloth each time I visited a short persons house and wipe away the dust on top of high surfaces! I really wouldn’t be able to help myself…
2. Photography is not an art form.
I’m now imagining five hundred people all yelling at me. Please let me explain what I am saying – Imagine a beautiful landscape of a mountain with a river and the sun just rising. A person paints this with different textures, colours, shadows. Five people looking at the same view will paint five different paintings because of skill, viewing things differently, paint type etc. However, five people with a digital camera will take the exact same photo, no difference. They are not creating something. They are clicking a button…
3. Why does everyone know what soap tastes like?
If you say “This tastes like soap!”, no one will question how you know what soap tastes like. Did we all lick the soap as a child and just remember that we didn’t like it? When did this happen? Should I be concerned that almost every person on the planet has at one stage actually tasted soap and we accept this as a non-weird fact or consideration?
4. There are only 12 notes in music and there is an finate ways that they can be arranged and sound good. I know that you will argue that there are different octaves, tempos and instruments etc. But what I am saying is that they are factors in the production, not the arrangement of the actual notes. I’m not looking at any of the production, just the way the notes are set out to make a tune, which can be combined with others to make a song, but the chord progression stays the same.
There are millions of songs with the same chord progression. See some of the more notable ones on the side.
So, this means there are finite chord progressions and then we just repeat them again and again and again…
5. Why do tv shows always make noises of cutlery bumping against teeth when people are eating? You may not have noticed it (you will now), but it always sets my teeth on edge when a person raises their fork or spoon and it makes that clink noise as the actor puts it in their mouth! Do they think people actually bite the cutlery when they are eating? It gives me shivers just thinking about!
6. Since the coronavirus, so many stores limit quantities purchased. Isn’t this against what the stores main goal is? I mean the number one goal of retail is to sell the products! If a person needs more, then you order more, so you have more products that they can buy! Supply and demand… have the stores forgotten what their actual purpose is?
7. Ok well this question has been asked by everyone, but it links to above. Why did all of humanity, during a pandemic event, suddenly decide the most important factor for their survival was toilet paper? Humans need food, water and shelter for survival. How did toilet paper get added to the survival list? What happened? Can someone please explain why toilet paper suddenly was being hoarded and fought over? I still don’t understand and it’s been 3 years of questioning…
8. My publisher told me I needed to join instagram to advertise my book?
Aren’t words like the ultimate enemy of picture only platforms? Do I open the book on a page and take a picture? How does taking a picture of a book help people want to buy it? The literal definition of an author is “a writer of a book, article, or document”. So, why would you ask them to stop using the thing that they are trying to sell? It’s like telling someone to advertise the colour yellow with only the colour purple???
9. X Formally known as Twitter.
Why did the idiot do this? Social media was already getting ignored because of all the problems, but then changing a very popular and well known brand to a letter… There are a lot of problems which come from this, such as search engine indexing and then for the next 100 years, when anyone mentions the platform they also need to say “formally known as twitter”, because that is how everyone in the world knows it…
10. Folding clothing with a folding board, do you really need that much help?
I really don’t understand why this is necessary. It takes way more effort to use one then to just fold something. Am I missing something? Do people just not understand that the board is doing the same motions as your arms do if you’re normally folded clothing? Why is this an actual thing that people use or want?
11. People saying the entire world has been discovered and explored. Then why has only 23% of the ocean floor been mapped? Seriously, 70% of the world is ocean! The world is not completely mapped, please start looking at the missing parts! See here for more detail Seabed 2030 project.
12. Influencing of voting. Are politicians really that dumb or that clever?
Ok, for some reason an Australian politician, started saying really unpopular things against workers rights and wages. Now, this is a truly idiotic thing to do during an election, and I have to question it…
The main goal of being a politician is to influence people to vote for them. So, why was he doing the opposite? Australia is a sneeky place, and I honestly think they were trying to make sure the other party got voted in. After the catastrophe of Trump getting elected, twice, in America, I think they decided not to trust voters anymore and making the voters decision by giving them a clear candidate not to vote for, so they knew 80% of people wouldn’t make the wrong choice? Just a theory…
(very excited about my first conspiracy theory)
Maxine the Magnificent 