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Singing in the car can lead to accidents

Driving experts had long believed that when you are on a long road trip and feeling a bit groggy behind the wheel, there were a few things that you could try to keep your mind focused on the task at hand.

  • Rolling down the window, letting fresh air into the car
  • Turning on the air conditioner rather than keeping the heat on
  • Singing along with the radio

Well, it ends up that one of the above may kill you.

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Women: looking for a date? Men want you blonde and boob-arific. Surprised?

Dating today can be rather difficult.

Web Watch was chatting with a friend the other day, and she was sharing all sorts of stories about the strange people who contact her on her dating profile.  If it was just one person out of a dozen, then she’d write that contact off as a fluke – but for some reason, she’s really attracting the crazies.

We can imagine how frustrating that can be – all she wants to do is meet somebody who’s relatively normal and decent.  One would think that wasn’t asking for much.

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Guess what: people tend not to respect you if you’re having too much sex

It should be an obvious conclusion: if you’re having lots of sex — and Web Watch is talking about you having way more sex than your peers are — then you shouldn’t be surprised if those same peers have a lower opinion of you.

Which does lead to the obvious question, if you’re not having all that extra sex with your peers — then who ARE you having all that sex with?  But we digress…lets get back to the question at hand…

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One reason why men go into debt? Blame women.

Bachelors, have you ever wondered why you’re going deeper and deeper into debt while your married friends seem to always be buying the latest cars, houses, or electronics?

It’s not because of the “Marriage Tax” or the deductions that their brood of kids gives them.

No, it’s because those married men aren’t wasting their financial resources on dating.  Sure, there are other monetary obligations that arise from a serious relationship, but overall you can expect that you’ll spend less money when you’re devoted to a single woman than you will when you’re hounddogging around town after every piece of tail that’s out there.

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People who talk to computers are idiots

If Web Watch were to mention the name Randy Pausch to you, chances are you wouldn’t know who we were talking about off the top of your head.

But if we were to mention that Randy was the Carnegie-Mellon professor who wrote the book The Last Lecture, then maybe that would help ring a bell for you.  If you haven’t taken the time to read the book or watch the phenomenal documentary on The Last Lecture, then Web Watch strongly encourages you to stop whatever you’re doing right now and do so.

We’ll wait.

Just let us know when you’ve gotten back and we’ll continue…

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How to explode a watermelon

Have you ever wanted to go completely Gallagher on somebody, and just slam a watermelon with a sledgehammer to see how it feels?

Maybe you just don’t have a sledgehammer handy, and maybe you want to make it more interesting and interactive for all involved parties.

Here’s how Web Watch will help you EXPLODE A WATERMELON, using common office supplies — and hopefully, have you win a bar bet or two.

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Study shows the “5-Second Rule” is healthy for kids

Maybe our parents weren’t that dumb after all.

When Web Watch was younger, we recall that our parents did something a bit unusual with all their friends:  when one of the children got sick, the parents would insist that all the kids would then have to get together and play until all the kids were sick at the same time.

This is, if our memory is correct about the situation, how all of the kids we knew ended up with the chicken pox at the exact same time.

From a parenting viewpoint, it was probably good planning; they got all their own kids through the fun of being all itchy and scratchy at the same time as all of the classmates did.  It must have been like a chicken pox epidemic at that school.

Yes, Web Watch grew up in the age of “chickenpox parties”.  We really don’t hear of those happening today, do we?

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Study says – Spanking can lead to mental illness

Parents: how do you punish your children when they get out of line and you need to make a quick disciplinary action?

Do you count to three, but don’t have any idea what to do when you reach the number four, five, or ten?

Sometimes spanking – or, at the very least, a quick swat on the butt to get a child’s attention – is the method of last resort for some parents.  Look, whether you agree with spanking or not, parents should agree that the reason spanking has survived as long as it has over the generations is because it works.

While the old adage of “this hurts me more than it hurts you” may come into your mind if you decide to spank your child, that may not necessarily be true anymore.