My taste in humor isn’t always the same as everyone else’s. So much humor on TV (and elsewhere) just seems cruel to me. A comedian will say something “funny,” and I’ll be dumbfounded when people laugh, because I just found saw it as hurtful (not necessarily hurtful to me, but to someone). Cruel humor is everywhere these days. But when I saw this video, I thought, hey, here’s someone who has the right idea.
In his mind, it’s not “I’m going to get laughter from these people,” it’s “I’m going to give these people the opportunity to laugh.”
It’s not about getting, it’s about giving. And it’s not just in comedy.
What do you think, readers? Do you find much of today’s humor to be more cruel than funny? Do you like humor that gives better?
I know it’s a little late, but Happy Valentine’s Day. Whether you rocked it solo or spent it with someone (or someones), I hope you had a grand time and ate lots of chocolate. After all, it IS one of the “Chocolate Holidays.” Valentine’s, Easter, and Halloween (and, to a lesser extent, Christmas) are all chocolate holidays. They’re all holidays that are, regardless of anything else happening, wonderful because they’re excuses to eat scads of chocolate and/or candy. Wonderful sweets litter the stores, just begging to be sampled.
‘Scuse me while I go romance this candy.
I know break-ups spike around Valentine’s Day, but at least there’s lots of chocolate to console all the sad people. Could they have planned it better?
Flying solo this Valentine’s? Worry not, there’s plenty of chocolate to go around.
Or maybe you like healthier Valentine’s treats.
So if you find you’re bummed by the commercialism or the pressure or because you have no beau, just change your mindset.
As it turns out, hiding in boxes reduces stress and anxiety in new cats in animal shelters.
Now it was a small study, but are we really surprised? If you were suddenly stuffed into a prison full of strangers, wouldn’t you rather have some kind of divider between you and the rest of the world to help control interaction with said strangers? Well, this study confirmed this for cats too. In the study, some new cats got boxes, some didn’t. Surprise, surprise, the “boxed” cats were less stressed out about their new surroundings.
I imagine play time was more fun too.
Pew pew!
What the study doesn’t explain is the cat trap concept.
It even works on big kitties.
I imagine there’s a reasonable explanation. So dear readers, why do you think cats like boxes so much?
For example, this water is afraid of this fancy new surface that scientists have developed (or is the surface afraid of the water?)
This cat is afraid of socks.
Me, I’m afraid of spiders. Cliche, I know, but they just have too many legs and they move all wrong… I like cool critters. I like seeing beauty in deadly predators. Wolves, bears, and big cats have incredible beauty and magnificence. Snakes are gorgeous in the own way. Even sharks have an impressive presence and an eerie grace in the water. But spiders? They’re just creepy. Ugly and creepy. I’m not a fan of any bugs, really, but spiders… *shudder* I will encourage spiders everywhere to gorge themselves on the other icky-crawlies of the bug world, but if they come within the same four walls that I currently occupy, or within a couple meters of me when outdoors, then it’s game on. Flyswatter time.
Note there are no pictures of spiders. I do not like spiders.
If I were to get serious about phobias and fears, I could admit much deeper things. But this is a blog. The internets.
I am also afraid of putting my hands inside an oven unprotected if the oven is on. Even if it has only just been turned on. I’m okay if I’ve got oven mitts on, but to reach in and grab something with pot-holders? No. Too much hand exposed. Tea towel? No. Stick something in a not-yet-warm oven without oven mitts? No. Oven mitts or it ain’t happening. It’s silly, sure. But no.
No.
What about you, dear readers? What are you afraid of? What do you say NO to?
This post is not intended to be inspirational (just in case someone thought it would be). This is about those stupid little things that you are “good” at. So I ask, what’s your superpower?
Mine? Probably being cold. That’s right, my superpower is being cold. I can be cold when no one else in the room is cold. I can be cold when everyone else in the room is hot. I’m really good at being cold. Ergo, superpower. I never said it was a good superpower.
My fingers and these icicles are approximately the same temperature 90% of the time.
And at least I don’t have one of the awful “super powers” from the TV show Haven (a good show, btw).
Haven: Home of the Worst. Superpowers. Ever.
My boyfriend has a cool superpower though; he can move with uncanny silence. He isn’t trying to sneak up on people, but for some reason, we never see or hear him coming. He must have a ninja superpower (he denies this).
How if I had a choice in my superpower, I would choose teleportation. Just saying. In case anyone out there is handing out legit superpowers.
What about you, readers? What’s your superpower? What superpower do you wish you had?
I don’t usually go for stuff like this, finding these videos more awkward and embarrassing than funny, but this one is hilarious. Watch this dashboard cam as a policeman sings the entirety of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” – you can’t hear him, but they synced up the song perfectly.
I like it at 1:16 where you see him suddenly go all composed and give a curt nod and wave to someone off-camera.
I love seeing people just plain having fun. No pretense, no self-consciousness, just someone doing something that feels good.
I was always sorry when I told my roommate that I could hear him singing in the shower (he was hilariously atrocious), as he never did it again. Just have a little fun! No one minds, and it might make them smile too.
Stephanie Beavers 