Questions and Musings From Twitter
Sep. 7th, 2009 04:39 amBefore you skip this post, it's not a LoudTwitter compilation, I loathe those as much as everyone else does (moreso, in many cases). My Twitter feed serves many functions, with its primary purpose being a sort of brain-dump for when I don't have anyone else to talk to. So, along with anecdotes of "I saw a funny thing today", "I'm in {insert location here}", and "I'm eating pizza" (which are fewer nowadays, because I don't care anymore), I tend to post a few things that are actually somewhat interesting. Since I'm bored, and remembered one of them in the shower, I figured I'd re-post and expand upon a few of the more interesting ones.
These are in reverse order (newest first), because it's easiest and I'm lazy.
-According to the commercials for some penis-pump-thing (marketed as an ED treatment, I forget the name), their product is not only covered by "most insurance companies", but also by Medicare (for you non-US residents, it's a government program to cover medical expenses for the elderly, disabled, and children/families living in poverty). Freaking Medicare! Why is a penis pump for ED considered to be enough of a medical necessity to warrant treatment, but treatment for trans-people isn't covered by hardly anyone? For that matter, even the morning-after pill isn't covered by as many health plans.
-I know the hype for video games can get pretty insane, but screen-captures of the VH1 Classic staff playing Beatles Rockband are not music videos, and should not be inserted into the playlist as if they were. Especially during a video block where Beatles songs would normally not be played at all.
-Considering the target market for those "Girls Gone Wild" videos (middle-aged men), and how many of the girls in the videos are practically teenagers, I really wonder how many dads see their own daughters in those? Worse yet, how many of them "enjoy" it anyway? *shivers* I really hate late-night TV :-\
-Now that the election's over, listening to Obama speak is like chatting about politics with friends (when there are no arguments involved). If I drank, Obama is totally someone I'd love to have a beer with; thus, I finally understand how early Bush supporters felt about Dubya.
-Why do Star Trek characters never get to finish a meal uninterrupted? Will the etiquette rule of "never call during dinner" disappear completely in the future? It's not always for massive we're-all-gonna-die emergencies, either, sometimes it's for really trivial stuff like playing on the Holodeck. Voyager characters, in particular, have a bad habit of getting food and only getting a few bites of it, if they get any at all.
-Speaking of Star Trek, why is Counsellor Troi a bridge officer? She's the most worthless officer ever, with her entire contribution to tense situations being little quips like "They're out there" or "I sense anger". Stuff that everyone who's not an emotional android already knows. Only once has she ever actually been useful, by telepathically finding a cloaked ship in Nemesis, which begs the question, why has she never done that before?
-You might live in a small town if "one of the most controversial issues of the year" is whether to allow egg-laying hens in residential neighbourhoods, aka "urban chickens". I understand that there's a lot of debate about it, but does something this petty really deserve to be called one of the city's most controversial issues? Especially when such a title overlooks things like destroying a 200-year-old landmark to build a superfluous new road because our fire department is too cheap to buy traffic light pre-emptors?
These are in reverse order (newest first), because it's easiest and I'm lazy.
-According to the commercials for some penis-pump-thing (marketed as an ED treatment, I forget the name), their product is not only covered by "most insurance companies", but also by Medicare (for you non-US residents, it's a government program to cover medical expenses for the elderly, disabled, and children/families living in poverty). Freaking Medicare! Why is a penis pump for ED considered to be enough of a medical necessity to warrant treatment, but treatment for trans-people isn't covered by hardly anyone? For that matter, even the morning-after pill isn't covered by as many health plans.
-I know the hype for video games can get pretty insane, but screen-captures of the VH1 Classic staff playing Beatles Rockband are not music videos, and should not be inserted into the playlist as if they were. Especially during a video block where Beatles songs would normally not be played at all.
-Considering the target market for those "Girls Gone Wild" videos (middle-aged men), and how many of the girls in the videos are practically teenagers, I really wonder how many dads see their own daughters in those? Worse yet, how many of them "enjoy" it anyway? *shivers* I really hate late-night TV :-\
-Now that the election's over, listening to Obama speak is like chatting about politics with friends (when there are no arguments involved). If I drank, Obama is totally someone I'd love to have a beer with; thus, I finally understand how early Bush supporters felt about Dubya.
-Why do Star Trek characters never get to finish a meal uninterrupted? Will the etiquette rule of "never call during dinner" disappear completely in the future? It's not always for massive we're-all-gonna-die emergencies, either, sometimes it's for really trivial stuff like playing on the Holodeck. Voyager characters, in particular, have a bad habit of getting food and only getting a few bites of it, if they get any at all.
-Speaking of Star Trek, why is Counsellor Troi a bridge officer? She's the most worthless officer ever, with her entire contribution to tense situations being little quips like "They're out there" or "I sense anger". Stuff that everyone who's not an emotional android already knows. Only once has she ever actually been useful, by telepathically finding a cloaked ship in Nemesis, which begs the question, why has she never done that before?
-You might live in a small town if "one of the most controversial issues of the year" is whether to allow egg-laying hens in residential neighbourhoods, aka "urban chickens". I understand that there's a lot of debate about it, but does something this petty really deserve to be called one of the city's most controversial issues? Especially when such a title overlooks things like destroying a 200-year-old landmark to build a superfluous new road because our fire department is too cheap to buy traffic light pre-emptors?