This time around I am not going to focus on bad reporting. If that is something you are interested in I encourage you to look at virtually any story written by anyone, big or small, about politics primarily in the United States. Their level of bias and abuse of statistics to attempt to prove their point will quickly become evident. I've stopped reading all stories from both sides of the fence for a little while now because all I need to know in order to determine their conclusion is
- what network / publication wrote the article
- who is the main focus of the article
If you know these two things the conclusion is always the same: "Our guys good! Their guys bad!"
So let's focus on something a bit more light-hearted, funny, and in the end a bit tragic if you are a cheese lover.
An 18-wheeler "big rig" crashed a couple of days ago in California, fortunately hurting no one, including the driver. The cause of the crash is either unknown or undisclosed but the truck flipped on its side and destroyed a guard rail in the process. This situation is quite rare because of all the restrictions on truck drivers as well as safety on highways being generally pretty good in the USA but it does happen every now and then.
Although no one was harmed physically, the emotional toll on cheese lovers is one that might hit you right in the feels. The cargo of this monstrous vehicle was nothing other than 14,000 pounds of cheese.
This kind of made me wonder about when I am driving on a highway and there are trucks around me, I don't really have any idea what they are carrying. I suppose it would be better for it to be carrying delicious cheese rather than some sort of industrial solvent.
I'm like a child sometimes even though I am well beyond childhood age and one thing that I never got tired of was cheese sandwiches
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Awwww yeah!
I did a little math and found out that if this cheese was sliced that you could have made 225,000 grilled cheese sandwiches out of this one crash. Or if you want to be more sensible and horde it all for yourself that is just over 6 grilled cheese sandwiches every single day, for the next 100 years. You might get tired of them pretty quickly though!