Friday 29 January 2021

Coincidental Thoughts

 

I sometimes wonder whether my thoughts, idle and unpredictable as they sometimes are, more often than not anyway; do they, these thoughts, ever coincide with yours my many, or few, readers?

What I'm saying here, and getting no answer, is: are you thinking what I'm thinking?

I'm not talking about common thoughts like who came first, the chicken or the egg? Or why did the chicken cross the road? Or if a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to see it; does it remain standing?

No ... my thoughts go deeper than that. For example: the Nobel Prize. There's a Nobel Prize for Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry and so on. Why is there not a Nobel Prize for colouring-in with crayons? Surely this would encourage aspiring artists to do better in life?

Then there's the Oscars. Awarded to actors, directors, films and so on. And the Emmy Awards and other awards given to so many people in the entertainment world. Why is there not an award for the ugliest actor? Or the worst singer? Or the most boring celebrity on TV? I bet you could think quite a few candidates for these awards.

Then sometimes my thoughts turn to mundane things like life and how we live it from day to day. We can't all be flash, (British word meaning ostentatiously stylish or expensive), with new clothes, fast cars, yachts and private planes. Some of us lead more pedestrian lives and have to go upstairs several times a day and once there forget why they got up for. Well, I now started to right down on a piece of paper why I need to go upstairs. And I make a point of not going upstairs until I have at least three reasons to do so. Sometimes I walk around downstairs with plaited legs, (another British saying meaning legs held tightly together - intertwined), until I can think of another two reasons to go upstairs to the bathroom or wherever.

The problem often is, when I finally get upstairs, I find out I left the piece of paper with the reasons written on it downstairs. That's when I discover a new reason to be upstairs and I get changed.

And that's the thing with mundane daily thoughts that are neither here not there. In which case, where are they if they are neither here nor there? That's another conundrum for you to solve for me.

Then there's the adverts on TV. I understand that the whole purpose of advertising is to get people to buy the product or service on offer. What gets me is when adverts, often in the same segment within a break in the TV program, tend to be contradictory. For example, only today there were two adverts following each other for famous alcoholic drinks. One was for a well known brand of spirits, and the other for beer. They were then followed by a public information advert advising you to drink responsibly or preferably not at all. Who has juxtaposed these ads together? Besides, if there were no alcoholic drinks whatsoever how could people get drunk? 

Oh ... and how about cheese? Those of you who are connoisseurs of various cheeses will know that some cheeses like Gruyère, Jarlsberg, Emmental and others have holes in them. They are hard, or semi-hard, cheeses with holes in them. So when you buy a wedge of these cheeses you are in effect buying the holes which are part of the weight you are paying for. Think about it for a minute. You buy a block of cheese. Inside it there are many holes capturing air within the cheese itself. Air has a weight. So when you buy the block of cheese you are in fact paying for the weight of air captured within the block of cheese.

I have resolved this problem, after hours of thinking about it, by only buying these delicious cheeses in pre-packed sliced versions. Because the cheese has been sliced before packing, any pockets of air have been emptied of such previously captured air, and consequently has not been weighed when the packet was sealed and priced.

Spontaneous combustion. That's another thing that's been on my mind lately. You know, people suddenly catching fire for no apparent reason. I was wondering. Can people have spontaneous combustion when in the shower? How does that work? Do they suddenly become alight and the water from the shower turns them off? What if they get out of the shower? Do they set alight again? Must be terrible to have all one's hair singed and wet at the same time.

And walking in one's sleep. We've all heard of that. But do people ever run in their sleep? Or do they bang their face straight into the door or wall and wake up with a nose-bleed?

What if you open a window in winter? Does the cold air from outside come in, or does the warm air in the house go out? I've often wondered about that. 

Anyway, these are my idle thoughts that cross my mind time and again. How about you? What does tax your mind these days?

21 comments:

  1. ...you ESP isn't working at the moment.

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    1. My ESP does not work when I am asleep, or drunk.

      God bless, Tom.

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  2. I've considered some of the things on which you reflected. . .but not today! Maybe the next time. It is worth some thought though. Have a grand weekend!

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    1. I sometimes decide to reflect at a different future time. It is called procrastination, but I cannot spell it so I don't use that word ever. I'll have to look it up in the dictionary ... tomorrow.

      God bless, Cathy.

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  3. Poor Victor.
    You are having another thought marathon.
    Take a deep breath, a brew of your choice and a relaxing nap.
    You will soon stop rambling...you are just stuck on overloaded with to many thoughts.

    God's Blessings Victor ✝

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  4. Man, your thoughts are incredibly random, Victor, but you did make me smile today. :)
    Blessings!

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    1. Random yes, but serious too. Have you ever wondered about holes in cheese? Or warm air leaving through an open window?

      God bless, Martha.

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  5. Getting your thoughts in order might help. Then again you have so many, maybe you need to assign numbers to each thought according to their importance. :)

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    1. That's a good point, Bill. Setting out priorities as to which thought is more important. I never considered that.

      God bless, my friend.

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  6. Now I don't feel so alone! Having just splurged on a particular wedge of cheese, I'm happy to have chosen a non-holey variety. I'm grinning now, remembering the time my son went from service station to service station until he found one with free air (for his tires). Indignantly he remarked, "I'm not paying for AIR."

    Spontaneous combustion? Not sure if the children's chant is a 'thing' in the UK, but we used to say, "Liar! Liar! Pants on fire." So yesterday I laughed out loud when I saw on Facebook, "Just once, I'd like to see a liar's pants catch on fire."

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    1. I agree about the free air for car tires, Mevely. I find it so annoying when they charge for air, considering the price we have to pay for other services like petrol (gas) and for car washing.

      Yes, we do have the "pants on fire" saying here. And there's so much untruths spoken on TV too! Did you know that in a recent survey here 85% of those asked replied, "I don't know!"

      They were asked, "What is the meaning of Je ne sais pas?" The other 15% did not know the answer.

      God bless,

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  7. Dearest Victor,
    Running up the stairs (or down) is a very good exercise. Even if our brains lack (temporarily I hope...!) the reason as for what we did come! Think about it positively.
    Commercials often don't make any sense at all and I can't think of anything that we have inside our home, because of them! So they must be aimed at a different audience...?
    Happy weekend,
    Mariette

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    1. Yes, I noticed most commercials are aimed at a younger audience with money to spend, or spare, or waste. Some of the items advertised I would never bother to purchase.

      Wishing you a great time, Mariette. God bless.

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    2. Guess WASTE is the correct word here...
      Happy weekend Victor!

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  8. I was wondering today why the temperature of our house in winter feels so cold, while in the spring that temperature would feel balmy.

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    1. Probably because you left a window open somewhere.

      God bless, Kathy.

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  9. You do have some interesting thoughts. My science teacher taught me that the warmth seeps into the colder areas, not the other way around.

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    1. I think your science teacher was right, Mimi.

      God bless.

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