Monday, February 8, 2021

Social Media: Dangerous to Health - Yours and Others

 According to statistics, around 30% of driving accidents in Australia are caused by drink driving. It joins New Zealand, U.S.A and Canada, as one of the worst countries for drink driving. Considering that these countries are also higher income countries, drinking seems like a status symbol. Almost like – Have money, will drink. 

The other thing that Australia is noted for is gambling, in which it is the leading country in the world. Gamblers report a loss of $1.128.00 per adult. At one time almost 1,000 gamblers were registered to be banned from gambling, many of whom breaking the ban when able. 

It seems to the addictive habits of drinking and gambling – dangerous to themselves and others – another one is now being added. It’s called Social Media addiction. 

According to some experts, while at least one third of world population is using social media, some 210 million people suffer from media addiction. Like other addiction it manifests itself as excessive usage followed by problems in the real world. 

You can become depressed, have difficulty sleeping, suffer broken sleep by the necessity of checking the phone during the night instead of sleeping, alienate yourself from real social interaction. Other health problems might include sore fingers and wrists, headaches and sore eyes. 

This is what you could be doing to yourself. When it comes to others, social media addicts can be as dangerous as other addicts. Drivers who can’t leave their phones alone while driving are both killing and injuring others.    

Cell phone distraction causes 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States every year, according to the journal's publisher, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 

At the other extreme is the Social Media addict who gets himself or herself killed while walking and paying no attention to what is happening around them. 

The US Governors Highway Safety Association estimates that there were 6,000 pedestrian deaths in 2016, the highest number in more than 20 years.

Social Media addicts are encouraged to use their brains instead of their fingers, and live to see another day.


Compliments demilked.com

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Be Amused

 •    Venison for dinner ?  Oh deer!

•    How does Moses make tea?  Hebrews it.

•    England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.

•    I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.

•    They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Typo.

•    I changed my iPod's name to Titanic.  It's syncing now.

•    Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.

•    I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.

•    I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.

•    This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore.

•    When chemists die, they barium.

•    I'm reading a book about anti-gravity.  I just can't put it down.

•    I did a theatrical performance about puns.   It was a play on words.

•    I didn't like my beard at first.  Then it grew on me.

•    Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?

•    When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.

•    Broken pencils are pointless.

•    What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?  A thesaurus.

•    I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.

•    I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.

•    Velcro - what a rip off!

 

•    Don’t worry about old age; it doesn’t last


Saturday, February 6, 2021

Grieving Bride

 Read recently on the Internet about a bride who never got to be a wife.

Apparently on the wedding day celebrations two of the bride’s guests had a quarrel with her new husband. The quarrel escalated and became quite ugly resulting with the two bride’s guests – who incidentally were brothers – shooting the bride’s new husband and his brother.

It’s a bit of a novelty that wedding guests attends a wedding anticipating problems needing a gun.

However, one can only imagine the horror, the grief, the sorrow, the anguish, the desolation the poor bride left behind must have felt.

What were her reactions one wonders? Did she like poor Miss Havisham of ‘Great Expectations' lock herself away from the world to feed her unhappiness in silence for the rest of her life.

It seems not. A soon as she got the chance the bride opened her computer and poured her heart out on social media.

Well, they do say we all grief in different ways!  

Compliments HuffPost