RO #1
Have you ever thought about the expression 'lost x kg'. When someone says, “I lost five kilograms in the last month”, isn't the expression weird?
It sounds like when this particular someone was walking, suddenly a blob weighing 5 kg fell out of their pocket and they did not notice. Or someone broke into their body and stole 5 kg while they were sleeping.
The expression “I shed 5 kg in the last month” sounds much more accurate in describing the process that this person has gone through.
RO #2
When a food item smells good, does the taste of this item also automatically feel good to the person eating it? I am not trying to say that if we were somehow to make rotting food (or other disgusting items) aromatic, we would delude ourselves into thinking its good.
Consider your daily meal. If we were to make this meal smell better than it usually does, would we feel that it is somehow better than it is every other day?
RO #3
I know that they say when in love you should share everything, but if you are sharing earphones, you are probably taking it too far. “I don't have anything to talk to you about, so let's both listen to songs with one earphone each so that we can avoid the awkward silence we are having.”
RO #4
In the past couple of months, I have come across at least five articles that reported that a person had died while trying to take a selfie – either they were trying to take selfies in dangerous positions and ended up falling to their death or were just so damn excited about sharing another mundane incident of their life that they had fatal heart attack.
This led me to ask the question, in the not-so-distant future, could 'plummeted to death while taking a selfie' become one of the leading causes of death?
(I have realised that ranting about this subject is largely futile as everyone from 2 year old kids to 120 year 'young' grandfathers love doing it. But hey! I am trying to save lives here, not judging people because they are narcissitically obsessed with taking taking an incomprehensible number of pictures of their face.)
P.S If you're interested to see the other parts of the ROs, here's the link http://amritkosaraju.blogspot.in/p/random-observations.html
Have you ever thought about the expression 'lost x kg'. When someone says, “I lost five kilograms in the last month”, isn't the expression weird?
It sounds like when this particular someone was walking, suddenly a blob weighing 5 kg fell out of their pocket and they did not notice. Or someone broke into their body and stole 5 kg while they were sleeping.
The expression “I shed 5 kg in the last month” sounds much more accurate in describing the process that this person has gone through.
RO #2
When a food item smells good, does the taste of this item also automatically feel good to the person eating it? I am not trying to say that if we were somehow to make rotting food (or other disgusting items) aromatic, we would delude ourselves into thinking its good.
Consider your daily meal. If we were to make this meal smell better than it usually does, would we feel that it is somehow better than it is every other day?
RO #3
I know that they say when in love you should share everything, but if you are sharing earphones, you are probably taking it too far. “I don't have anything to talk to you about, so let's both listen to songs with one earphone each so that we can avoid the awkward silence we are having.”
RO #4
In the past couple of months, I have come across at least five articles that reported that a person had died while trying to take a selfie – either they were trying to take selfies in dangerous positions and ended up falling to their death or were just so damn excited about sharing another mundane incident of their life that they had fatal heart attack.
This led me to ask the question, in the not-so-distant future, could 'plummeted to death while taking a selfie' become one of the leading causes of death?
(I have realised that ranting about this subject is largely futile as everyone from 2 year old kids to 120 year 'young' grandfathers love doing it. But hey! I am trying to save lives here, not judging people because they are narcissitically obsessed with taking taking an incomprehensible number of pictures of their face.)
P.S If you're interested to see the other parts of the ROs, here's the link http://amritkosaraju.blogspot.in/p/random-observations.html
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