You Ever Notice...and What's the Deal...

[minor muppetz]

On the topic of Mario games, how come world 2 of many games is always a desert world? The desert is world 2 of Mario 2, 3, all or most of The New Super Mario Bros. games, and I think Mario 3D Land. It seems the only way world 2 isn't set in the desert is if the game doesn't have a desert world. But other themed worlds can be any world in the game (well, except for world 1 always being a generic world and the last world being a dark world, but that's to be expected).

 

[minor muppetz]

There's a number of places that have public restrooms, but they are one-person restrooms, with one toilet and basically being like a home bathroom (but without a bath tub). People who use these restrooms are expected to lock the doors, and yet places that have these kinds of restrooms have two such restrooms, and label them "Men's" and "Women's" separately. But what's the point when only one person at a time will be using them? Especially since these kinds of Men's rooms usually don't even have a urinal? Of course my local Books-a-Million has two of these kinds of restrooms, without being gender-labled.

And I've also seen a few public men's rooms which have those privacy walls/doors (don't know what you'd call them), and yet inside those walls are both a toilet and a urinal, really close together. What's the point there? I doubt many people would use a urinal right in front of somebody using a regular toilet like that.

 

[charlietheowl]

I think even if the two bathrooms are the same, people just feel more comfortable if the two bathrooms are differently labeled. There are probably some people who don't feel comfortable using unisex bathrooms if they don't know the people they are sharing it with.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

The public restroom in my dorm building was for men and women but there was both a urinal and a regular toilet in it. The toilet was in a typical stall, even though the stall itself didn't lock, the door to the room did, so unless you went in there with a group of people, only one person could be in there at a time. It was the strangest configuration of a bathroom I have ever seen.

 

[D'Snowth]

I remember that one day when I had to install a security system all over the building because MrsPepper told me to, so I had cameras everywhere, and I was shocked and astounded when I saw Sarge in the women's room standing up... that was SO weird!

 

[D'Snowth]

For my fellow glasses wearers out there, let me ask you something: do you ever have problems with cleaning them, because of that one lens that WON'T cooperate with you?

I mean seriously, what is up with that? What is it about that one lens that won't clean, no matter how much you clean it? Take my glasses for example, the left lens cleans up really nicely, with hardly any problems whatsoever... the right lens, on the other hand, takes me minutes upon minutes to try to clean it, because for some reason, trying to clean it seems to make it smear and smudge all the more. And even when it seems like I've FINALLY gotten it mostly clean, I might see one little smudge, so I'll go to clean it off, then afterwards, not only has the smudge been smeared, but now there's other smudges over the lens now. I mean, it's the same pair of glasses, they go through the same thing, they're on the same face, so why is it that one lens will clean up easily, but the other is a nightmare and a hassle to try to clean? It gets REALLY frustrating!

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I hear ya dude. My glasses are perpetually dirty. In my case I can get the center cleared, but around the edges there's this gross permanent film I guess from sweat and stuff....

 

[D'Snowth]

And what's the deal with people who are clearly poor: they live in ghettos and hoods, the apartments they live in are tiny, they barely have any furniture, their living conditions are a shambles, yet they have fancy pimped-out cars? I mean, they can barely afford to actually live, yet somehow, they can manage to afford buying fancy cars and having them pimped-out with huge wheels with gold hubcaps, gold grills, metallic paint jobs and such.

 

[minor muppetz]

I was just watching the episode of King of the Hill where Bobby takes a comedy class, and at the end, at the talent show, when he starts making fart sounds with his whoopie cushion, the principal takes him off the stage and afterwards he's in detention (presumably because of that). I can see that happening if he acted that way in the classroom, but why would he go to detention over that for doing it in a talent show? I've never seen or participated in any talent shows (I regret not participating in my high school talent shows), but if he's introduced as a comedian (which he was) and the audience is laughing, I don't think that would normally get somebody sent to detention. After all, it's not like he was making racist or sexual jokes or something like that.

 

[D'Snowth]

Because farting in school in general in inappropriate? Heck, one time in Grade 3, I think, I actually got in trouble for just making armpit farting gestures - I wasn't doing any actual armpit farting (never could for some reason, however, I CAN do palm farting), just mocking the gesture, and for that I got in trouble.