Strange things you've noticed recently

[The_Echo]

In an episode of Family Guy, Peter meets Jesus Christ. Later that day, the Griffins have him over for dinner. Brian, being an atheist, asks Jesus to prove himself by doing some miracles. So Jesus does a couple miracles.

... Brian remains an atheist.

I must have seen that episode ten times already, but I only just noticed it last week.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

What the hell is up with the pregnant one?
It looks like something out of a horror film.

I know right? Ironically it is more like out of a horror film than the Barbie that actually was out of a horror film!!

 

[Pink Gregory]

Also, I could have learned and mastered the guitar had I begun practicing when my mom offered to teach me about a decade ago, rather then clumsily starting now by myself.

It's waaaay overrated, if you don't especially love it, like, 12 hours a day-type love it.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Jean jackets.
I mean, what the hell?

Why is it acceptable for women to wear jean jackets around and not dudes? The last male human I saw wearing a jean jacket was some kid at a truckstop up in Maine, and I'm not even sure that counts. I just want to flaunt my sweet denim duds, but social stigmas against men in jean jackets are forming a societal lockout.
We need equality, and we need it now.

I think the problem might be that you're in New England (I assume: I mean you saw the kid in Maine). If you lived just a bit further South you could probably pull off a Jean Jacket no problem. Hell, last time I was in GA I saw a kid (between 12 and 14) with a fucking RAT TAIL. So you know he owns a Jean Jacket and would have worn it were it not for the heat.

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I've noticed that the Doritos Locos taco is delicious. What, it's weird to me?

I noticed on one of the adverts for it, they used the line: "After years of research". It was at that point I was consciously aware that I had, at some point, developed a face-palm reflex. Seriously, it doesn't take years of research to think of adding doritos powder/crumbs/chips to a taco/shell.

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Speaking of the last time I was in GA; I noticed a chicken as roadkill. A white chicken...as road kill. I don't care that Gainesville is Chicken Capital of the USA, I haven't seen it before dammit!

 

[Bvenged]

I keep having deja vu moments, even when there is no "trigger" present.

A trigger is something that causes to you to remember a moment or event, so the next time that you remember a similar moment or event, it is because the same trigger is involved.

A recent deja vu moment is when I was looking at the television and I saw a scene on the news that occurred three years ago. The thing is that I don't remember what triggered me to remember that scene and why I'm remembering it now.

I get that a lot, drives me crazy.

I saw this BBC programme a couple weeks back (I think) about the mind, where deja vu is just the delay between your eyes seeing something and your concious mind recognising it, but your unconscious mind receives it first not milliseconds beforehand, so when your conscious sensory nodes receives it via the unconscious part of your brain you think "I've seen that before".

But I've had deja vu, and then I've had what you described where you just KNOW you've seen it years before and there's no obvious trigger. Like half-way through the deja vu episode you practically predict what happens next, then it does. It's like deja vu Level 2.

 

[Legion]

I noticed that I don't find gaming anywhere near as much fun as I used to.

I don't mean since I was a kid, but back when Gears of War 2 came out I was extremely hyped for it, I spent loads of times on the official forums discussing it and was counting down the days until it was out.

Now I don't find that I care very much at all. Even for games that when they were announced I was pretty hyped about.

I also cannot spend a long time on one game very easily. Before I could pretty much get up in the morning assuming I wasn't working and play until I went to sleep, now I tend to get bored of it a lot more easily and switch to something else.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

No, you have to be lying... No way he directed something that good. The film about the prison? And the SEAL team trying to stop a poison bomb and there's a ransom? Cage and Connery?

Wikipedia says you're not lying. Fuck.

I know that he REALLY REALLY likes the military.
I just didn't think he was capable of making a pretty good military movie.
Maybe it's just Sean Connery. Any movie with him in it is awesome by default.

 

[Woodsey]

OT: I just found out that I have attached earlobes, which is apparently kind of rare

Welcome to the Master Race.

Jean jackets.
I mean, what the hell?

Why is it acceptable for women to wear jean jackets around and not dudes? The last male human I saw wearing a jean jacket was some kid at a truckstop up in Maine, and I'm not even sure that counts. I just want to flaunt my sweet denim duds, but social stigmas against men in jean jackets are forming a societal lockout.
We need equality, and we need it now.

You can, unless you're also going to wear jeans - in which case you'd need to know exactly what you're doing. That shit's playing with fire, though.

OT: I've gotten pissed 6 days in a row now from Freshers, and I'm not unconvinced that the alcohol is becoming necessary to my survival. The day before yesterday I was convinced I'd gotten flu, so naturally I went out drinking again that night. Woke up in the morning feeling better than the day before.

 

[AlmightyNoob]

Whenever I discover some obscure and otherwise useless word that I've never seen before, I start noticing it pop up in something immediately afterwards - for example, I pick up a weird word on the internet which I have -NEVER- seen before, then maybe a few hours later, I find myself reading a book. I find this word in a book. And then it keeps popping up everywhere - It's happened in so many instances, and it is FREAKING. ME. OUT.

 

[Spearmaster]

That the world never changes, only peoples perceptions of it change.

Care to explain?
I mean it isn't really hard to see that the world it's in constant movement, new technologies keep being developed, cities grow, volcanoes surface from below the water, new islands rise, I mean even the poles are melting, isn't that all evidence that it's always changing?
Or did you mean something more Philosophical and less literal?
But anyway literally speaking, it's in constant movement, it's always changing, even if it's just a little.

Mainly I was mentioning the social aspects. Saying it doesn't change literally would be insane.

 

[Soxafloppin]

In Batman: Arkham City, Calender Man has one leg longer than the other and wears a Platform shoe to make it up for, I thought he just wore his leg in a brace because it was broke or something (likely by Batman.

Also Soreen Malt loaf is delicious!

 

[Dags90]

It started to occur to me that part of the reason my room is always so much hotter than the rest of the house is probably because I have 2 computers running 24/7 and a minifridge. The minifridge puts out a fair amount of heat by itself.

 

[Kae]

That the world never changes, only peoples perceptions of it change.

Care to explain?
I mean it isn't really hard to see that the world it's in constant movement, new technologies keep being developed, cities grow, volcanoes surface from below the water, new islands rise, I mean even the poles are melting, isn't that all evidence that it's always changing?
Or did you mean something more Philosophical and less literal?
But anyway literally speaking, it's in constant movement, it's always changing, even if it's just a little.

Mainly I was mentioning the social aspects. Saying it doesn't change literally would be insane.

I don't know about that, a lot of things that were acceptable when I was a kid aren't acceptable now, and a lot of things that weren't are now, I mean when I was a kid it was acceptable to use physical punishment at schools, now it isn't, and you know gay people were totally unacceptable in the Mexican culture, and now they can get married on México city, and since we're going by what I can remember and I'm only 21 that was in less than 2 decades, there have been a lot more changes, I just think that they are sometimes hard to notice because there's a lot of people that don't accept them, so the change comes very slowly, it's like racial equality, though it still lingers, it's not as bad as it used to be, it just slowly went down until *racism became the exception rather than the norm.

Edit: Sorry that was poorly worded, I edited it so it made more sense, I hope you got what I meant, which was that racism diminished not racial equality.

 

[Spearmaster]

That the world never changes, only peoples perceptions of it change.

Care to explain?
I mean it isn't really hard to see that the world it's in constant movement, new technologies keep being developed, cities grow, volcanoes surface from below the water, new islands rise, I mean even the poles are melting, isn't that all evidence that it's always changing?
Or did you mean something more Philosophical and less literal?
But anyway literally speaking, it's in constant movement, it's always changing, even if it's just a little.

Mainly I was mentioning the social aspects. Saying it doesn't change literally would be insane.

I don't know about that, a lot of things that were acceptable when I was a kid aren't acceptable now, and a lot of things that weren't are now, I mean when I was a kid it was acceptable to use physical punishment at schools, now it isn't, and you know gay people were totally unacceptable in the Mexican culture, and now they can get married on México city, and since we're going by what I can remember and I'm only 21 that was in less than 2 decades, there have been a lot more changes, I just think that they are sometimes hard to notice because there's a lot of people that don't accept them, so the change comes very slowly, it's like racial equality, though it still lingers, it's not as bad as it used to be, it just slowly went down until *racism became the exception rather than the norm.

Edit: Sorry that was poorly worded, I edited it so it made more sense, I hope you got what I meant, which was that racism diminished not racial equality.

And your parents saw similar changes and so did their parents, I was thinking mainly that there is not really a generation that had more change than another, that each generation kinda stops at some level and their children start the next wave. Change will come if its you or maybe the next generation and that always stays the same, in 30 years or so there may be a change that even this generation doesn't like. So change is a constant that never stops, only what we see changing is what we notice, thus our perception of the world, and the changing is always a constant, the world is change. I think that people like to try and take a snapshot of their best years and then say "man the world sure is changing".

Maybe I'm wrong who knows

 

[Kae]

And your parents saw similar changes and so did their parents, I was thinking mainly that there is not really a generation that had more change than another, that each generation kinda stops at some level and their children start the next wave. Change will come if its you or maybe the next generation and that always stays the same, in 30 years or so there may be a change that even this generation doesn't like. So change is a constant that never stops, only what we see changing is what we notice, thus our perception of the world, and the changing is always a constant, the world is change. I think that people like to try and take a snapshot of their best years and then say "man the world sure is changing".

Maybe I'm wrong who knows

Well it's a pattern, don't know how far back you can trace it, but yeah I guess, if you ask me it sounds like a bit of a stretch, "Society is always changing, but always in a similar way as the last one, so in reality society doesn't change" or something, I'm not really into Philosophy, and I guess this classifies more as Philosophy, but having a somewhat vague pattern for change doesn't really do it for me as far as proving that society doesn't change, maybe if you ask someone that's into Philosophy?
I'm not really sold on this idea, but yeah it's a pattern.

 

[Spearmaster]

And your parents saw similar changes and so did their parents, I was thinking mainly that there is not really a generation that had more change than another, that each generation kinda stops at some level and their children start the next wave. Change will come if its you or maybe the next generation and that always stays the same, in 30 years or so there may be a change that even this generation doesn't like. So change is a constant that never stops, only what we see changing is what we notice, thus our perception of the world, and the changing is always a constant, the world is change. I think that people like to try and take a snapshot of their best years and then say "man the world sure is changing".

Maybe I'm wrong who knows

Well it's a pattern, don't know how far back you can trace it, but yeah I guess, if you ask me it sounds like a bit of a stretch, "Society is always changing, but always in a similar way as the last one, so in reality society doesn't change" or something, I'm not really into Philosophy, and I guess this classifies more as Philosophy, but having a somewhat vague pattern for change doesn't really do it for me as far as proving that society doesn't change, maybe if you ask someone that's into Philosophy?
I'm not really sold on this idea, but yeah it's a pattern.

Ehh, its not for everyone