Questions to Ponder

OK...I have a few questions that came to me the past week.

Let's start off simple.  Why do people bend their ear to listen?  Do they think that bending the ear outward will help them catch the sound better?  Does that work?  I know animals move their ears around like little satellite dishes but does it work for humans?    About the only thing I do is stick my fingers in my ears to stop the sound from entering.  Now that does work, let me tell ya. Ha!

Why do some people go to the movie theater and proceed to talk during the movie? I'm not talking about children.  In my experience last night the children, between 8 and 15, were quiet as church mice.  I am talking to the two stupid women who sat a few sets to the other side of us last night.  Why did they think talking through the entire movie, even when asked nicely to stop talking?  Then pulling out the cell phone to screw with it and annoy everyone else around them.  They sure had no problem getting their butts out of the theater as if their asses were on fire after the movie was over.  Guess they were ok pissing people off in the dark but once we could see them, they didn't think it funny to stay for the severe tongue lashing that was coming had they stayed.  UGH.. Rude people suck.

Has anyone else noticed that commercials on TV have gotten more and more stupid as they go along?  Am I the only one who actually will pause the TV when commercials start, go to whatever I need to do, then come back and fast forward through them?  Before pause was an option it seemed like you barely had enough time to run to the restroom or grab a drink before the show would start back up. Now you can almost run to the local gas station for a beer in the time given to commercials.  Typically you get 3.5 to 4.5 minutes of commercials 3-4 times a show.  Don't even get me started on morning talk shows.  You know the ones where you think you will get weather, traffic, news and a little later, world news.  With those you are lucky if you don't get 6-8 minutes of commercials between each teaser they give of 1-2 minutes of worthless babble.  Thank goodness we now have  the pause and fast forward option as well as the option of paying for commercial free boob-tube. 

Let's talk reality TV.  Can we just say that it really seems like TV producers have lost their ability to come up with good, entertaining shows that can capture an audience to want to watch every week, instead coming up with fake drama that wastes time.  They have decided that people need to watch a bunch of 20-somethings live in a house creating as much stupid fake drama as possible while on 24x7 cameras.  Do we really need fake drama?  Doesn't the world offer enough real drama that we don't need to make more?  Can we all agree that seeing some bachelor or bachelorette find the love of their TV loves got a bit boring?  Do we really care who gets the rose? Are we really living vicariously through our boob-tube?  I thought that was bad but they also created islands where people would 'survive' with lots of drama and arguments...isn't that what Manhattan is?  Or those who are walking around naked with strangers for absolutely no reason.  Then you have crazy bitches with nails and attitudes, actors learning to dance, short people, fat people, swamp people, religious people and more I can't even remember.  Would you think that is enough 'fake' reality TV?  Apparently not.  Now some real sick producer has decided to go to new heights.  Why would some television station or producing station or whatever they are decide that the world needs a reality show about popping pimples?  Even more so, how could someone be excited about that  as a profession?  Beyond that, who is disgusting enough to watch this. I mean really?  That is just freaking nasty!!!

Think that is all my questions for today.  Just thinking about that last one has made me nauseous.  I'm going back to bed.