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| Thought 101: 14/10/02 |
| Why does the English FA badge have three lions on it? There are no lions in England. |
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| Thought 102: 20/10/02 |
| While people around me are turning 18, I'm still getting used to the moral-sapping reality of being 17. I was buying a pair of trainers with a friend, and he asked me to check if there was room in the trainers for growth, to which I replied, "I'm 17, I'm not going to grow much more". And I'm right, being 17, ney, 16, signals the end of childhood. At least while you are between 16 and 17, you can say you were a bit late. But I'm between 17 and 18 now, and I have no more growing up to do. I've already chosen the path I will lead in life. The characters in soaps and drama series are younger than me. Players making their footballing debut are younger than me. I'm too old to enter some competitions. My childhood was, quite literally, a millenium ago. |
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| Thought 103: 20/10/02 |
| Maybe it's just an excuse to not give any presents and be a miser, but I'm considering renouncing Christmas on a personal level. After all, I don't believe in God, or Christianity, so it's hypocrisy to take part in a festival of a religion just for the selfish, capitalist, materialistic part. But, in the modern era, Christmas is no longer religious anyway. It's been taken over by globalism and Coca-Cola. Maybe it's pointless renouncing a festival that no-one considers religious anymore. People talk about Christmas being a time for family. I can't stand my family. A time for friends, then. My friends are always with their families, though. Hmm. I suppose renouncing the festival because of it's obsolete and forgotten religous origins is a bit harsh. I'll try to spend time with my friends over Xmas. If I can find any. |
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| Thought 104: 03/11/02 |
| I don't understand when people like U2 have audiences with the Pope. Whenever they show footage of the event, it's just the Pope sitting down, with Bono talking to him and the others standing around, probably thinking The Edge: "Oh here we go, do you fancy going down the pub for a pint?" Adam: "Can I come?" The Edge: "......no." So, surely, it should be that it's an audience with U2, and the Pope's the audience. Also, it makes it sound like it should be the Pope that's entertaining people, and singing, and telling jokes, like the ITV programmes, like an audience with Ken Dodd. |
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| Thought 105: 03/11/02 |
| A way to undermine or ruin a well constructed anecdote is to ask what happens next. Usually, what happens next is not the point of the story, so forcing someone to over-elaborate something beyond it's 'punchline' would make it less funny. Also, showing no emotion in response to the 'punchline' would deal a blow to the person telling the story, because they would've thought that part was funny. Of course, I would never be malicious enough to want to deliberately shatter someone's confidence just because I'm bitter that I don't have the confidence to speak and make people laugh. Obviously. |
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| Thought 106: 21/12/02 |
| All mobile phones have a 4 digit number at the end, so you know what type it is, but what happens when we run out of 4 digit numbers? 5 digit numbers won't be as catchy, so we will have a Millenium Bug-style problem all over again. Unless they start using Greek letters, but then all mobile phones will sound like Street Fighter sequels. |
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| Thought 107: 21/12/02 |
| One of the things I want to do before I go to uni--go to a football match--looks like happening since I've been invited with some friends to see Charlton versus Exeter in the FA Cup. This will also give me the chance to find out something I've always wondered--"Who actually starts the chants?" All the people on TV seems to know when to do it, but you never see anyone organising it. This observation was pointed out by Billy Connolly, I think it was to be the last funny thing Billy Connolly ever said. |
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| Thought 108: 05/01/03 |
| I noticed when I was living in my house by myself last week that I kept leaving the lights on. This would be because usually there is someone around who would need the light on. So this made me think that bachelors must waste a lot of electricity leaving lights on (as the old saying goes, the economical worm catches the birds. Or so I am led to believe). Why nobody has provided these poor souls with a mutually exclusive light system is beyond me. A mutually exclusive light system that also cooks Pot Noodle. It'll be huge. |
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| Thought 109: 20/01/03 |
| Why do people always feed ducks, but never starving homeless people? |
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| Thought 110: 20/02/03 |
| Exactly what are you supposed to do when music is playing? Nodding your head looks silly, and singing along is just annoying (especially if you don't know the words). Why can't people just sit and listen? Dancing is impossible, unless you're that guy from the Lynx advert. I think it's something to do with the way that people need to display what they're thinking, and their motives, because they are so scared of other people thinking they are weird. For example, a person will be walking along a street, then they realise they've forgotten something, and have to turn around and go the other direction. They don't allow themselves to simply turn around and go back, they have to act as though they've forgotten something, for example, a tut, or a slap of the forehead, to prove to any observers that there is a purpose for their actions. This is why I think we should invent thought bubbles. Life would be so much easier. Like playing The Sims. |
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