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As money-making schemes go, this one has a beautiful simplicity to it.
However, I can forsee pitfalls if several of his clients have an advanced (i.e. warped) sense of humour.
For example, I would certainly pay over the odds to see Mr Sadler have to wear a 'Darwin Was Right' t-shirt to a born-again church service (and vice-versa for an athiest shindig).
Thinking about it, this could become a kind of game. How high would the danger money have to be to tempt him to risk peril and potential serious injury? I see spread betting potential here.
In fact, throw in a camera crew and, hey presto, you have the latest hit reality TV show.
('Tees N' Terror', or something like that. You have my blessing to pitch it).
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I once had my Physics Licence taken away for failing to check
in my rear-view mirror before achieving polarity.
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Why I think this is so brilliant reveals what a tragic person I truly am.
As an audio addict, I have to admit that the book in question (1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die) is my number one choice of toilet reading.
I am also an inveterate list-maker and, despite many attempts to be spontaneous, this affects my listening habits as well.
So to have a book that tells me what the (alleged) good s*** is pretty much on the third step to heaven...
Music. Non Stop.
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...What makes me jump up steps two and one is finding that someone has methodically gone through Spotify (to whichI happen to be a member) to find all the albums in the book that are available on that service. Then created a page with a link to Every. Single. Bloody. One.
I have already lost many hours I am never going to get back.
Help...me...
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A site that somehow managed to annoy me two-fold.
First of all, none of the experiences celebrated are "awesome".
Comforting, thought-provoking, funny, ironic, heartwarming...are perfectly adequate, and much more factually correct, words to describe this list of little pleasures.
Calling these things "awesome" just perpetuates the bad habit of overworking hype adjectives. It's the same mentality that insists that every new film released is a "masterpiece".
Secondly, whoever edits this site has a tourettes-like tic of highlighting the most colourful phrases in every piece. Take these bits out of context and the result is a bit like those 'concrete poetry' fridge magnets as arranged by someone who's overdosed on a thesaurus.
For example:
big wet rock - deep, dark galaxy - swirly-twirly headtrip - organized checkerboards - beautiful insanity - etc.etc.
(Anyway, you get the drift)
Normally, this is something I would heartily approve of. But here I suspect it's merely another method of hammering home how "AWESOME" it all is.
Then again, a site called 1000 Really Okay Things probably wouldn't get as much traffic.
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English has many words to describe a person going away to another country for a short while.
They range from flattering ('Guest'), to neutral ('Visitor'), to slightly off-hand ('Holidaymaker'). However, none of them encapsulate the distain of the natives like 'Tourist'.
Think about that word of a minute. Has it ever been used as anything other than an insult? Even it's roots (going away for a 'Grand Tour'), summon up negative connotations. Visiting a country to "see the sights" (translation: be photgraphed in front of the one or two building that the visitor's guide suggests are "must-sees"). Only a tourist would say that they have 'done' a certain city or country. ("Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame...yup, that's Paris done.")
I could go on a long rant here, but why bother when this picture sums it up so well:
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You see these people? These people are tourists.
There are many things I don't understand about America.
Well, there are many things I don't understand about everywhere, but with our countries sharing (approximately) a language, some history, and most of the same television, the similarities should outweigh the differences.
And by-and-large, they do (though Basketball will forever leave me cold).
However, the perceived mindset of those states comprising the 'Bible Belt' has me at a loss.
Now, I'm sure there are many, many good and sane people living in that area. It just seems to be the extreme wackjobs who shout the loudest.
For example: stickering textbooks for presenting evolution as fact.
At this point, my brain starts making squeaking noises - "Don't...understand...!!"
So, while this article is a humourous extrapolation of this trend (gravity and a spherical earth are equally as suspect), it is also a warning that this is just the thin end of the wedge.
Because if you're trying to reverse the onward march of knowledge, the next stage is probably burning the cable guy at the stake. Because, y'know, electricity...it's witchcraft!
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(Definition from Dictionary.com)
HORROR (n)
1. an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking,
terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear
2. anything that causes such a feeling
3. such a feeling as a quality or condition
4. a strong aversion; abhorrence
5.
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(Pictures of ladies sporting extensive body art (or 'Suicide Girls', as I believe they are popularly known) seem to be a unbiquitous sight on the internet these days. Perhaps the whole world, depite the warnings, has finally gone goth?...)
