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Hello friends and welcome to Silly Story Thursday!  Today I am starting something new that is just going to be pure silliness and fun for all.  I am going to write the most random silly stories ever for you to enjoy.  Primarily it is for a creative writing class I am doing, but I figured if I'm writing I might as well share it with all you silly geese!  So here goes...

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According to the video here, the average American watches 26-30 hours of television each week, but what about those people that watch 40 hours of television every week?  Do they have an addiction? Most doctors claim that a person must be either mentally or physically dependent on something for them to be addicted and TV watching does not fit that definition.  However, if you know someone who never seems to step away from the television screen, it probably seems like TV addiction is very real thing. Watching TV for hours on end turns into a mindless activity for some people, causing them to watch...

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Some of the most off the wall, offbeat, and silly addictions in the world are funded each year by money scammed through cyber crimes from people who had no clue they were being victimized by online criminals. ADT security is great for helping protect your house, but what about your computer and your network?  That can be a lot trickier, since so much is out of your control.  Cyber criminals will go to great lengths to get just enough information from banks, credit card companies' statements, discarded receipts, and even email accounts all hosted somewhere outside the person's home.  This can lead...

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There are some silly addictions in this world, and well we know it.  Most of the addictions, obsessions, and idiosyncrasies you're accustomed to reading about here at the Silly Addiction are a little on the bizarre side.  Today's featured addiction, however, is one that is a lot more commonplace in today's connected society.  The reason I want to call attention to it is to demonstrate that just because "everybody" is doing something, that does not make it any less bizarre.  To me, the results of the following infographic prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that a lot of people really need to sort...

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Some people are absolutely addicted to calling customer support lines, to the point that even if there is nothing wrong with anything in their house, they are still going to call for help, just to hear the voice on the other end of the line.  It is a strange, strange addiction to be sure.

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Some people are obsessive compulsive about feeling extremely safe and secure in their homes.  There are people who often lay elaborate and silly traps for any prospective home intruder who might plan to pay that house a visit, like a huge tin coffee can filled with marbles to make the burglar slip and fall, or a false dog barking recording that is played from behind the door of a closed room, and even the sounds of a woman screaming and a gunshot being fired in an unseen room.  This all might sound like something from the movie Home Alone but a person who is that insecure about his house and its safety...

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There is a real and growing new silly addiction out there to having one's teeth whitened excessively.  But before you laugh, you should know that this is far from a harmless addiction that results in a spectacular smile;  rather, it can be a dangerous thing to do that can lead to a life of pain. Linda McKnight 43, was in the middle of a yoga class at the local gym when she felt a sharp, shooting pain that was bad enough to send her to the floor. It wasn't a stretching injury, or anything, in fact, related to her muscles at all.   This pain had come from her teeth.  "It came out of the blue,"...

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All around the country this year, it seems many more bear sightings have been reported in or near residential areas than in years past.  Indeed, some of these sightings have involved large, black bears lurking near dumpsters around densely populated shopping areas, so the threat has not been limited to suburban regions.  What could be causing all of the bears to come out of their normal woodland habitats and into human populated areas in such numbers, and what can or should you do about it? " First of all, bears like honey,"  Jim Stanhope, a resident, said thoughtfully while gnawing on a piece...

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Some people would rather sit around all day counting jelly beans than going out into the world to do anything constructive.  A wise man always told me, "if you are too tired or lazy to go fishing, then you are not human."  But actually, the kinds of people here -- let's call them JBCs for short (Jelly Bean Counters) -- really and truly are not tired.  It takes an enormous amount of human energy to keep track of large numbers of jelly beans.  Especially if they are all many different colors and specklings, or various flavors.  When these colorful confections are all dumped together into a large...

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There sure are a lot of silly addictions in the world.  Some people are addicted to sugar, but others are addicted to drugs or alcohol.  And then you have people who are addicted to prunes and other strange fruits that most of us wouldn't touch with a ten or longer foot pole.  It's true, for nearly everything that exists, there is someone out there who can't get enough of that something.  So never laugh when you are faced with someone who is confessing an addiction to, oh say, cabbage.  Or maybe they are addicted to paperclips or even certain sounds.  You just never really do know when you will...

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