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# Thursday Miscellany
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5724/
- Published: 2007-09-20T10:52:50.000Z
- Updated: 2007-09-20T10:52:50.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Humor, #wpChunk

Hey, I just learned that Rod Stewart and I have something in common: We both want to know if chicks want our bodies. Naw, just kidding: We both have seven children. Of course, [he used serial polygamy to get his](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%5FStewart?ref=thedailyeudemon.com#Relationships) and Rousseau-like put one up for adoption, but hey, it's quite an honor to have something in common with a future knight.  
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[Nerds get the girl](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in%5Farticle%5Fid=481258&in%5Fpage%5Fid=1770&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Maybe there's hope for me and a little serial polygamy yet.  
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All sorts of interesting articles at Ananova this morning:

> It takes all types: [A Serbian maths professor has celebrated his retirement by moving into a house he built himself entirely out of plastic bottles](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm%5F2517250.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

> Those crazy Romanians are at it again: [Police are investigating after villagers in Romania claimed to see a Superman-like figure flying through the sky.](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm%5F2517321.html?menu=news.quirkies&ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

> I'm throwing away my rubber boots: [A Croatian motorbiker's penis was zapped by lightning as he stopped beside the road to take a leak. . . . "Doctors said the lightning went through my body and because I was wearing rubber boots it earthed itself through my penis."](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm%5F2517312.html?menu=news.quirkies&ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

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New hero: [A 72-year-old man with a wine purchase refuses to produce proof that he's 21 years old](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk%5Fnews/england/merseyside/7003325.stm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I understand the policy: "If we don't card everyone, we end up on a slippery slope. Do we not card the 40-year-old? The 30-year-old? Eventually, we'll end up making judgment calls and offending people. We might even *discriminate*!"

Well, deal with it in a rational manner. What the slippery slope chanters don't realize is, *everything is a slippery slope*: Anything not reigned in with moderation can go too far. What the haters of discrimination don't realize is, everyday life is full of discrimination: judgment calls, nuanced calls, irrational calls, emotional calls, reflex calls. People make simple decisions that are so complex in their formulation that we couldn't flowchart them on a movie screen, and 99% of people make these decisions just fine. The other 1% are the mentally addled, and they can't hold down a job. If a person is mentally normal enough to hold down a job, he ought to be given the discretion to decide that a 72-year-old man is over age 20.