Web Watch has told you about DIRTY HOTEL ROOMS before.
And you all know people who travel with a Ziploc bag in their luggage, specifically to use with the TV remote control, as Web Watch has mentioned that the TV remote in a hotel room is pretty much germ central.
But it ends up that the hotel room TV remote is NOT the dirtiest item in your dirty hotel room.
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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
We’ll wait.
Just let us know when you’ve gotten back and we’ll continue…
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Have you ever considered going into politics?
Sure, there’s some fame and fortune involved, plus the added bonus of actually feeling like you’re giving something back to the community that you represent. This may work best in smaller cities and neighborhoods — being the president of your local Homeowners Association requires a completely different skillset than being the Mayor of your town.
Just like being Mayor requires different skills in some podunk town in the middle of nowhere than it does being Mayor of a major metropolitan city.
Face it – if too many cows on your byways is the biggest problem you have to deal with, then you’re not quite ready to attack the Major Politics of Today.
All that’s not to say that representing a small political arena is for dumb people, and only smart people can manuever around Big City or National politics.
But maybe there are some trends that can identify whether the person representing your best interests is as smart as they can be when compared to their compatriots.
For instance, according to SUNLIGHT LABS analysis of the members of congress and how they use language, they can identify who present themselves at a higher-intelligent level vs those in congress is try to talk to the lowest-common denominator.
Using some analysis of speeches that all Congressional members have made, they’ve been able to determine the grade level that each Congressman typically speak at.
From a trending perspective, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that as more and more years pass, Congressional speech patterns are getting worse and worse. Web Watch calls it the MTV Effect (or, to update for the 21st century – the YouTube Effect). Shorter attention spans and the rise of quick edit TV newscasts has resulted in what is – in effect – representatives that have lost the ability to sound like they’re talking intelligently.
They all may be extremely smart individuals. But they’re certainly not all presenting themselves that way.
Let’s look at the LOWEST RANKING CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS and their level of grade school talk:
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(Just go with the grades higher than 12 to be collegiate level. Web Watch is just reporting what’s in the data, not making judgements on how its interpreted.)
Some of what the analysis shows is:
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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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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.
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When was the last time you got your hair cut?
So you went to the salon of your choice (or local barbershop, or Hair Cuttery, Great Clips, Supercuts, Fantastic Sam’s, or even the neighbor down the street who happens to have the only working Flowbee in the surrounding 100 miles). You sit down in the chair and settle in for your haircut.
And no matter what you pay, whether it be free, $9, $14, $45, or $150 — you all experience the same thing as you watch your Hair Professional pick up their trusty pair of scissors off their counter and approach your head with their fingers of steel…
“Did they sterilize those scissors after their last customer?”
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Do you consider yourself a smart person?
If you’re reading this (or anything on the Internet), one would assume that the answer is “yes”. Only smart people bother to use the Internet — and only the smartest of the smart will read Web Watch.
So “hi!” to all of our smart readers out there.
But seriously, studiest have shown that sometimes what your intelligence level is can be dictated by the environment you surround yourself with. In other words – generally speaking – if you hang out with smart people (or dumb people), then you will eventually become smarter (or dumber) through association.
At the very least, just to keep up with those you hang out with.
But a new study proves this even better…
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Men — How do you feel about your junk? Are you satisfied with what you have?
More importantly – is your partner satisfied with what you have?
Well, new research shows that maybe they aren’t as pleased with what you’re packing as you may think. None of this should really be a surprise to anyone, but when we finally have facts to back up what folks always joked about — now we have something to talk about. Let’s read on…
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