The Problem:
GIB readers are invited to submit their own questions and answers in the comments section – hopefully the questions will elicit answers and the answers will reassure those who are beginning to doubt that any progress is being made.
The Social Invention:
Masturbation makes you go blind. That this is so is becoming increasingly evident. It is clearly a slow process but most of those over fifty are discovering that their eyesight is deteriorating. I also note that every cardinal seems to have spectacles…
Question why is there a search for extra-terrestrial intelligent life? Have any intelligent life forms been found here on earth?
If Nature abhors a vacuum then why George W Bush?
One can purchase decaffeinated coffee but have you tried purchasing a decaffeinated coffee table? Clearly an opportunity for some entrepreneur.
Why should people be upset about being disillusioned? Do they really want to live a life filled with illusions?
Religions exhort us to strive to achieve life after death, is there any reason why for much of the world’s population life after death is supposed to compensate them for the lack of much of a life before death?
What is so special about the end of the day? Surely at the end of the day all that matters is that the sun sets?
There is a pressing need for 21st century oxymorons: military intelligence and honest politicians are two that come to mind.
Health requirements demand that food products are stamped with a use by date – why do we do not do the same for politicians?
Parking spaces – it is very clear that the availability of parking spaces is the inverse of the distance to the place where you need to be.
Queues and queue jumpers. When at the end of a long queue that seems to be stuck because the person at the head of the queue is trying to convince the cashier that the exchange rate of cowry shells to the dollar is 100, then you owe it to your fellow queuers to move to a faster mover queue. The moment you do the queue you join will be bogged down by some argument and the queue you have left will miraculous begin to move at the speed of light.
In banks remind would be robbers to wait their turn – that the crime of queue jumping is the greatest any person can commit.
When stuck in traffic why is that the other vehicles seem to have a far better music selection then you have?
Serve wine at room temperature – which particular room is being used as a standard here?
Where do people in multi-storey office blocks go for a pee? Should there not be a universal standard so that one can locate the loo no matter where one is?
Why is it that one can fly from Sydney to London in 16 hours but that it takes a further 4 hours at either end to get from home to the airport and onto the aircraft and off the aircraft to one’s hotel room?
Why are people not more adventurous as the baggage carousel and simply take the first bag that comes off? After all you know what is in your bag but who knows what is someone else’s bag!?
Why don’t journalists make up all of the news as opposed to just some of it?
One reads lots of reports about the worlds ageing population – is there an alternative?
The Author
- John Töns (JGTONS)
John is currently doing a Ph D on Global Justice as well as that he and his wife run a boarding facility for dogs and cats in Lenswood. Many of his ideas are generated whilst he walks the dogs of a morning. contact through his website: arkabakennels.com.au
