Oh it's been a dumb year so far. You'd think by now we would have gotten a few things right. True, sometimes dumb things are out of our control, but let's face it, 2002 has been pretty dumb so far. In no particular order:
Dumb thing #1
It was bad enough that there was a television show called "Fear Factor", a show where contestants would eat worms, sleep with crocodiles, bungie-jump in a nuclear waste dump for cash. But did we really need a "Fear Factor" with semi-celebrities like David Hasselhoff and Alan Thicke? Of course not!
Dumb thing #2
It was 15°C in January. Followed by a -35°C day, then back up to 15°C, then it was February and it was still 15°C and then rain and then -35°C and back to 15°C and the flowers came out only to be crushed by freezing rain wind and ultimately snow and then March came and it was 20°C one day and -35°C with wind the next. That's f___ed-up!
Dumb thing #3
Your boss really does read your confidential e-mails. No really! Even when the e-mail is solicited by HIS boss as a forum where you can confidentially gripe, congratulate, complain and make suggestions about him. He's paranoid and he'll read them. And there will be consequences. Not to him, to you.
Dumb thing #4
L'Oreal makes a hair product that messes your hair. Get up in the morning with bed head, have a shower and shampoo, add the product, and blow-dry your hair back into a bed head. Uh-huh.
Dumb thing #5
We haven't ousted the idiots yet. In fact, it looks like they're around forever. Isn't there someone other than Jean Chrétien? For that matter, isn't there someone other than Ernie Eves, Tony Clement and Jim Flaherty? Is our world that dumb?
Thanks and good luck.