Just another day on Facebook.

If it looks like a frog you’re right-brained and if it looks like a giraffe you’re left-brained. What? It looks like a seagull to me. Never mind, here’s an intriguing story about a passenger’s outrageous behaviour on a plane with yet another entitled person refusing to move or demanding a seat swap. Shocking.
Anyway, which cup does fill up first, what colour is the dress, green or blue, and which way should toilet paper hang?
Now here are some absolutely genuine and not in the least AI pictures of intricate plants that look like animals, amazing animals that no one has ever seen on this earth before and the giants who once walked amongst us. Even more convincing are photos of couples in their 90s who have been married for 65 years, bless them, how do they manage to look like 45-year olds?
Oh, here are some more gripping stories about the actions of bad neighbours, careless or aggressive drivers, rude and dumb tourists, ratbags on the subway train and unreasonable in-laws. I love these last ones, especially if they involve weddings, funerals, Wills or conflicts between husbands and wives or bosses and workers, that tell of absolutely believable karmic justice and elaborate revenges.
Now I can join the other 4.3K commenters trying to explain why someone’s bizarre maths meme doesn’t add up before admiring some absolutely convincing pictures of incredibly complex, detailed and futuristic engineering miracles, not just of astonishing machines and devices, but also fantastic bridges, tunnels and giant buildings, often in China or Japan (where people are “living in the next century”) except for the giant looped skyscraper in New York’s Central Park.
After discovering that one weird trick to reduce belly fat, another to cut your electricity bill in half and what unusal foods can cleanse your blood or remove toxins, let’s spend spend some time arguing with Flat Earth advocates, moon landing deniers and brain chip implant believers before checking today’s stories about the early warning signs of loathsome diseases, silent killers and how to rid your body of parasites and toe fungus. My goodness, when the doctor checked this one, he called the police!
It almost as exciting as the stories of extensively tattooed and pierced people who can’t get a job or the furious debates about how much to tip. Let’s face it, if you can’t tip at least 30% then you can’t afford to eat out.
The morning has almost gone and at last I can get on with my work, but not before being amazed at the transformation before my very eyes of an elderly woman on America’s Got Talent into a gazelle to the astonishment of audience and judges and admiring the amazingly intricate and detailed larger-than-life carving of an owl, lion, woman, bear, ship, tree, flower or mermaid by a sad-looking young girl, teenage boy, disabled veteran, elderly aunt or someone’s grandfather who has never received the recognition they deserve. They are so talented, the whole world should know, can we get a like?

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