Do you ever just sit back and take the time to truly appreciate the ironies of life?
I mean, what if one day, you help a nice, semi-senile old lady across a busy intersection, bid her good day, turn around and walk away, and promptly turn around again just in time to see her get deep fried by a bolt of lightning? Thinking about shit like that is what keeps me from ever walking old ladies across streets.
Really though, irony will fuck with your head. Another example: there exists a certain Facebook group at Princeton, namely "Asian Guys Who Don't Date Asian Girls." I assume it's in protest/competition with the other (and much larger) Facebook group, "Asian Girls Who Don't Date Asian Guys." I am one of only two members of the former, and ironically, the only other member of AGWDDAG (wait a second...) is an Asian girl. I won't even begin to pretend to understand what the fuck God is trying to tell me here.
In China, a 1.25 liter bottle of Pepsi in a moderately-priced restaurant costs a little over (12 yuan) one-third of a fairly good Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary from a large (i.e. Barnes & Noble-type) bookstore (32 yuan). Imagine what you could buy in America for a third of a dictionary... Well actually, B&N.com lists the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary (English/Chinese, Chinese/English) for only $17.95 USD. One-third of this amounts to $5.98, which is about equivalent to the price of a large Whopper combo meal at Burger King here. Strangely, a Big Mac combo at a McDonald's in China will again also run you a little over one-third of that same dictionary back in China (this time, 15.50 yuan).
What a fucked up world this is.
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I mumble a lot offstage; I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't hear me. He'll say, "What?" So I'll say it again, but once again he doesn't hear me, so he says, "What?" But really it's just some insignificant shit that I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"
Hey what do teachers do at teacher meetings? Talk about what they did that day?
Hey guys, I had a great idea for a senior prank. We should throw paint on all the windows of the cafeteria and then shoot everyone with paintball guns... they won't know it's us. More importantly, you have to understand--- IT'S NOT GAMBLING!!!
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