Let's Build a Boat!

I could not think of what to write about, so naturally I turned to Google. I searched: Blog Topics, seems pretty simple, yes? Wrong. It brought me to a website with 81 blog ideas that consisted of- write a blog about 40. becoming a wine connoisseur, 34. building a boat and crossing the Pacific in it- just to name a few.

Why would anyone write a blog about building a boat, especially someone who has no boat building experience? My blog on how to build a boat would consist of what I learned from Tom Hanks in Cast Away when I was 10. Sharpen a large rock and in some kind of miracle use that to cut down a few trees. Then cut the stalks of the trees into five identical length stumps, with that same sharpened rock and somehow magically tie them together with the leaves of a palm tree. As wonderful as that movie was, I am almost positive that this will not actually work seeing as I can barely cut through a tree stump with a real sharpened saw and no leaf of a tree, palm or not, is strong enough to tie up a tree that is going to be placed into the water and hold it together with a 100+ human floating on top of it. You mine as well jump in the pacific with one of those floating noodles and hope for the best, you would probably have better luck. Now you may be able to find a fallen tree and place the stump in the water and straddle it like a floating device. However, somehow I am pretty sure I am not qualified to tell people how to build a boat that will keep them alive while floating in the Pacific. Anyone who learns how to build a boat on a blog I would also question, and I would think twice about boarding that boat. 

Now, again, I have no special wine abilities either. The only thing I know about wine is the fact that it comes it red and white. I cannot taste the difference between a $2 wine and a $200 bottle of wine. The extent of my connoisseur abilities consist of telling you go for the $2 bottle of wine, you can get drunk quicker and will not be crying all night after you are drunk about the money you have just spent of this god awful bottle of wine. Now, maybe I am a cheap date (which is one hundred percent true) but again, this is not a sufficient or appropriate blog topic idea. What kind of people does this website think they are targeting. Any boat building wine aficionado looking for blog topics on Google is probably not a boat building wine aficionado. 

You can say that yes I have written a blog on two topics that were on this list, however I do not think that the person who came up with these ideas had this in mind when they said write a blog about building a boat or write a blog about becoming a wine connoisseur. Anyone who has that much time on their hands to research for their blog by building a boat or being a specialty wine connoisseur should probably stop writing a blog and get a real job because they must have some skills that could be put to use in an actual paid job. 

Just a few other blog “ideas” that you may enjoy from this website; how anyone came up with these ideas is beyond me. Now if anyone ever actually wrote blogs on these topics I applaud you!

 

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