Thursday, January 20, 2011

Logic

Extract from a boy's essay in defence of video games:

One good point about video games for today’s generation, who spend more time inside than their parents did when they were young, is that when they do get out, their senses are more refined than other people’s, which could be an advantage.

Ye-e-e-s.

I've just been out with some friends. One was commiserating with me about the ankle. "I had a festive injury too," she said.

She'd been out at a work Christmas event and had become slightly merry. She'd also won a prize: a HUGE bar of Toblerone. She really likes Toblerone so this made her even merrier.

"You know how it is when you've had some wine," she went on. "You can only think about one thing at a time. So when I got a taxi home, I kept thinking, Don't leave the chocolate in the taxi. You can have some when you get home and it'll counteract the wine."

So she clutched it to her bosom all the way home in the taxi, got to her front door safely, opened it and was met by her enthusiastic dog. "I was pleased to see him too," she said, "so I rushed to give him a hug and dropped the enormous bar on my foot. I couldn't walk for days and it's still bruised."

"So you threw the Toblerone away in disgust?" I asked.

"I was so angry with it," she said, "that I ate it."

7 comments:

  1. Re the boy's essay in defence of video games:

    '...their senses are more refined than other people’s, which could be an advantage' – if they're attacked by evil monsters/baddies, but only if they've taken their keyboard or control gizmo outside with them.

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  2. Good for your friend! (Take THAT you nasty, giant chocolate bar!) I know I should take a few to task too...
    How is your ankle coming along, btw?

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  3. Well clearly, that's the only proper way to punish a rambunctious toblerone bar!

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  4. I am sorry to say that I recently stumbled across this:

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/uor-vgl091010.php

    So your student might actually be right!

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  5. Of course she was right to chastise the bar in that way!!
    How is your foot now?

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  6. If chocolate misbehaves, it has to be punished...

    I hope you are looking after your ankle.

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  7. Ah, that's the key. Get angry with chocolate and then eat it as revenge. I will try this.

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