Facts To Make You Unpopular at Parties

[raybear]

a.k.a. random things in my brain today.

- A new transportation bill passed a few weeks ago that approved $231 million to build a bridge longer than the Golden Gate and taller than the Brooklyn Bridge. Where does the beautiful example of human engineering plan to go? It connects a tiny island in Alaska with 50 people to the closest inland town of 8,000 people. That's about $29,000 per person. Our tax dollars at work and thank g-d for Republicans being anti-big government and not wasting our money on federal....oh.

- The cost to manufacturing a regular car is EXACTLY the same as building an SUV. That $10,000-20,000 mark-up on the price tag? Pure profit into the pockets of the car industry.

- Flesh-eating maggots and blood-sucking leeches will now require FDA approval before being used by surgeons. What's that you say? You didn't know they were already being used? Wait, maybe I should wait and continue this one until after you've eaten a full meal.

- An american moving to Singapore got arrested for having 58 porn videos, one of them entitled 'Lord of the Strings'. I love that I know this because some reporter deemed it necessary to the news story. Remember that kid who got caned a like 10 years ago? Yeah, me neither. Well, only just barely. But if you google "singapore cane teenager", voila!

Okay, I should stop rambling about facts and IMing with cute boys and do something productive with my evening. Ooh, my cell phone is ringing. I have a new ring: Still D.R.E. and it makes me so happy to hear whenever it goes off.

Comments

[coolerbythelake.livejournal.com]

i totally remember michael faye. i remember being a freshman in college and a bunch of us saying that we wanted to see his butt. :-)

i know there's a ton of markup on SUV's, but they do cost at least somewhat more to make than a regular car.

note that i'm not defending SUV's, or those who think that the need them when they don't, ... i'm just sayin.

pax...

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i thought that too about SUVs, but i read an article recently that said, no, on average, the difference is negligible. i think the same article said that for all the reasons people give for SUVs (more cargo space, more passenger space, safer, able to make trips off-road), the minivan was actually number 1 in most all categories, not an SUV. i thought that was kinda funny, esp. given the minivan craze of the 80s. now i need to go back and find my source......

[moander.livejournal.com]

I classify the PT Cruiser as whack.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

oh, i'm totally down with the maggots, actually. and have known about them for awhile -- last xmas i had a conversation with DYA's sister about it. i'm more amused by the FDA approval aspect and how they had to decide which department, whether it was "biological" or "device". They decided because the actions include chewing and sucking, they were devices.

[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

are you sure it wasn't "lord of the g-strings"? cause i've seen that one, and it calls for a caning.