10 Completely Stupid Things That Everyone Does (Even If You Deny It)

Admit it, you stubbed your toe again didn't you. Same place you always do, right?

by Chris Quicksilver
Toe Gif Human life finds away amongst a delicate, intricately woven web of customs, cultures and traditions, and the sad part is that it only makes sense because so much time and effort is spent forcing it to. In reality, your life is usually chaotic, bizarre and generally confusing. It is often only when doing something utterly ridiculous that the chaos and rampant silliness inherent to it finally shines through, which is invariably when you catch yourself doing something astonishingly stupid as if it was nothing in the world. In that respect, legendary US comedian and free thinker George Carlin was 100% right: society tries to break us down along invisible barriers like class, race, sex, sexual orientation, pay grade, politics and more besides, but the reality is really quite different and our similarities FAR outnumber our differences. Unfortunately that also means in those stupid quirks and unifying moments of numb-headedness that creep into everyday existence. With that in mind, it's possible to paint quite an oddly specific picture of some of the stupid, seemingly random things that everyone has done at least once. These are the things that unite us all; however differently you may look, feel, act or even vote, you're all just a bunch of colossal bloody idiots... And probably always will be.
 
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I am a professional author and lifelong comic books/pro wrestling fan. I also work as a journalist as well as writing comic books (I also draw), screenplays, stage plays, songs and prose fiction. I don't generally read or reply to comments here on What Culture (too many trolls!), but if you follow my Twitter (@heyquicksilver), I'll talk to you all day long! If you are interested in reading more of my stuff, you can find it on http://quicksilverstories.weebly.com/ (my personal site, which has other wrestling/comics/pop culture stuff on it). I also write for FLiCK http://www.flickonline.co.uk/flicktion, which is the best place to read my fiction work. Oh yeah - I'm about to become a Dad for the first time, so if my stuff seems more sentimental than usual - blame it on that! Finally, I sincerely appreciate every single read I get. So if you're reading this, thank you, you've made me feel like Shakespeare for a day! (see what I mean?) Latcho Drom, - CQ