This is my version of the farmers almanac.
1. Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD will rapidly become the curse of the modern society so infatuated with their mobile gadgets and twitting on their facebooks, that they would lose all sense of what time it is and who they are;
2. Carpal muscle digititus - or finger pain - will also consume the so called modern society due to the very same textomania (most waking moments);
3. Deafness - loud incoherent music secreted in to the ears over years;
4. Obesity - Due to obvious reasons - being captivated to the mobile device for twitting will lead to less physical movement other than the digititis mentioned above. This ailment now the exclusive turf of the USA will go global;
5. Coherent thought absentia - outside of superficial minutae detailing the eating, sleeping and date preferences of many involved the ability to conduct rational thinking will erode away leading to brain function decay and ultimately the formation of smaller headed beings.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
Twit used to be a British gaali. Now it may be applicable to the new breed.
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