Urband Legends & American Idol
I missed the American Idol show at 8.00pm last night since I had to pick up my hubby in Kelana Park View at 6.30pm and we had dinner outside. By the time we got back home it was around 8.15pm. I have this habit of not watching a show halfway because I won’t enjoy it half as much as watching from the start. So, I decided to watch the 11.30pm show instead.
While waiting for the show to be on air again, we watched the Discovery Channel on Astro channel 50. It was a documentary on Most True Stories: Urban Legends. It fascinates me to watch interesting documentaries that provokes your mind and tells of something-out-of this world stories. Americans have this Urban Legends which they passed down generations t- generations. Some are logical and can be accepted but some are so bizarre that you wonder whether they were possible or just a product of an imaginative mind. So, yesterday I managed to watch 2 urban legends ( didn’t finish until the end since it was time for American Idol, heh heh ). The 2 urban legends were:
Urban Legend No. 1
Rapist who pretend to be policemen and stop victims especially female driving alone in the middle of the night. They do this by pretending to check on the car or whether the victim was drunk and checking the breath on the breath analyzer. Even if the victims insist they were not drunk, they were forced to abandon their car and follow the guy in the patrol car. This rapist will then take his victim to a lonely, remote road, raped them and left them by the side of the road.
My verdict: This urban legend is possible since citizens have always been intimidated by authorities in uniforms. Criminals can take advantage of this situation. We can ask them to flash their ID but how to tell fake IDs from the original ones? How many of us has actually seen an original police ID?
Urban Legend No. 2
An overweight woman who wants to lose weight saw this TV advertisement on weight lost pills for only US$19.95. Thinking that she had nothing to lose since it was cheap, she bought the pills and when it arrived the next day, was surprised to see there’s only one capsule. She swallowed it down and weight herself few days later and was surprised to see she lost weight. She continued to lose weight days after that even when she ate a lot. She constantly feels hungry and forever bingeing on food but still she loses more weight. One day she woke up from bed and found her nose bleeding. She jumped out of bed and saw a lying tape worm on her bed…Ewwwww! It seems that the capsule she swallowed contains tape worms and they breed in her body and intestines and became parasite. That’s why she keeps losing weight because she’s been feeding food to the tape worms until the multiply in her body.
My verdict: As bizarre as it sounds, I dun think you want to lose weight by having tape worms in your body. It can definitely infest your body and make you feel sick and probably make you lose weight, but the illness that comes after that is worse. It can even go to your brains and other parts of the body. Ermm…scary, I’d rather exercise and eat wisely rather than taking the easy way and let the worms do all the work. I mean, it’s easy to consume them, but how do you remove them once they’re in? If there’s too many of them, like in thousands, I dun think that Zentel would work.
Oh well, I had to leave Discovery since it was time to watch American Idol. As I expected, the guys performed extremely well this week. It’s amazing to hear Simon praising almost everybody and even apologizing for his harshness to one contestant on the previous round. Ermm… maybe he’s not so vocal after all. I’m putting my hopes on Mario and Anwar as usual but I’m setting my eyes on Bo Bice. Randy called him Da Bomb last night. The truth, I think he deserved it, he was good. Real good.
While waiting for the show to be on air again, we watched the Discovery Channel on Astro channel 50. It was a documentary on Most True Stories: Urban Legends. It fascinates me to watch interesting documentaries that provokes your mind and tells of something-out-of this world stories. Americans have this Urban Legends which they passed down generations t- generations. Some are logical and can be accepted but some are so bizarre that you wonder whether they were possible or just a product of an imaginative mind. So, yesterday I managed to watch 2 urban legends ( didn’t finish until the end since it was time for American Idol, heh heh ). The 2 urban legends were:
Urban Legend No. 1
Rapist who pretend to be policemen and stop victims especially female driving alone in the middle of the night. They do this by pretending to check on the car or whether the victim was drunk and checking the breath on the breath analyzer. Even if the victims insist they were not drunk, they were forced to abandon their car and follow the guy in the patrol car. This rapist will then take his victim to a lonely, remote road, raped them and left them by the side of the road.
My verdict: This urban legend is possible since citizens have always been intimidated by authorities in uniforms. Criminals can take advantage of this situation. We can ask them to flash their ID but how to tell fake IDs from the original ones? How many of us has actually seen an original police ID?
Urban Legend No. 2
An overweight woman who wants to lose weight saw this TV advertisement on weight lost pills for only US$19.95. Thinking that she had nothing to lose since it was cheap, she bought the pills and when it arrived the next day, was surprised to see there’s only one capsule. She swallowed it down and weight herself few days later and was surprised to see she lost weight. She continued to lose weight days after that even when she ate a lot. She constantly feels hungry and forever bingeing on food but still she loses more weight. One day she woke up from bed and found her nose bleeding. She jumped out of bed and saw a lying tape worm on her bed…Ewwwww! It seems that the capsule she swallowed contains tape worms and they breed in her body and intestines and became parasite. That’s why she keeps losing weight because she’s been feeding food to the tape worms until the multiply in her body.
My verdict: As bizarre as it sounds, I dun think you want to lose weight by having tape worms in your body. It can definitely infest your body and make you feel sick and probably make you lose weight, but the illness that comes after that is worse. It can even go to your brains and other parts of the body. Ermm…scary, I’d rather exercise and eat wisely rather than taking the easy way and let the worms do all the work. I mean, it’s easy to consume them, but how do you remove them once they’re in? If there’s too many of them, like in thousands, I dun think that Zentel would work.
Oh well, I had to leave Discovery since it was time to watch American Idol. As I expected, the guys performed extremely well this week. It’s amazing to hear Simon praising almost everybody and even apologizing for his harshness to one contestant on the previous round. Ermm… maybe he’s not so vocal after all. I’m putting my hopes on Mario and Anwar as usual but I’m setting my eyes on Bo Bice. Randy called him Da Bomb last night. The truth, I think he deserved it, he was good. Real good.
