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ONE OF THE most satisfying little things in life is popping some bubble wrap - and it’s universally acknowledged around the world as such.
But why is it so addictive? Why do we always need to have just one more pop? Well, some actual scientific research has gone in to finding out why we love it so much.
As the Science of Us reports, US psychology professor Kathleen M. Dillon studied the effects on a sample audience and found:
…those who got to pop two sheets of Bubble Wrap felt at once calmer and more awake after they were done than before they’d started; they also reported higher levels of calmness and alertness than a group that was not granted popping privileges.
So, it’s scientifically more relaxing to pop bubble wrap, fair enough. But it goes even further than that, as the study went on to explain.
In actual fact, the satisfaction of popping bubble wrap could be linked to our evolutionary instincts:
it has to do with a very natural, human response to stress: freezing in your tracks. In real danger, this might be helpful, because it gives you a moment to decide what to action to take — better to fight back or flee? A similar thing might happen when people are nervous or stressed, and so it could be that little nervous motions like finger tapping or foot jiggling — or Bubble Wrap popping! — are ways of releasing that muscle tension, which helps reduce the feeling of stress.
So now.
When it was reported last week that the makers of bubble wrap were inventing a version that wouldn’t pop – the whole bubble popping world went into crisis.
So now you know why it’s addictive – you can cherish it to its fullest extent (while you still can).
#savethebubblewrap
Written by David Elkin and originally published on DailyEdge.ie
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This scampi happening!
That’s a-pall ling.
That must have caused haddock.
the plaice is in bits
Sure they were packed in like sardines
You’re codding me!
An overturned truck of fish has been causing problems on the main Cork-Dublin road, take care if you are approaching the area, and get off your bloddy phoines!!!
Large scale traffic disruption
Create your own fish pun, dont leave it to salmon else
clean up is gonna cost a few squid.
at least there is a ray of hope it will open later
Are sole.
pollocks
Gonna have to avoid the plaice
was that at the turn Pike
A dangerous plaice to crash
i would hake to be travelling that road this morning
A plaice to avoid this morning.
On a SCALE of one to ten how much of a fishy story is this?
It`s a mackerel that no-one was hurt
Your all gillty of terrible fish puns…
Now were fin ished
Don’t panic they say it will be cleared up in a whale
Full “scale” emergency declared.
This story is a red herring.
These fish puns should be funny.
Dont plaice the sole of your foot to hard on the breaks. otherwise you will skate across the road. okay ill get my coat!!!! lol
That driver will have to be schooled on his driving.
Something smells, are they trying to bait us?,
The driver was Whiting a text message, it was an easy mistHake to make, no Trout about it.
Right folks, fin-ish up there now, do yis not have homes to goldfish?
Would ye all stop blubbering on!!?
You don’t have to be a brain sturgeon to come up with a good fish pun but it would dolphinetly kelp.
The fish will………..
Doh!
Monorail!
maybe they made up this story just for the “halibut”.
I read the first 10 fish puns here hoping they would make me laugh but, no pun in 10 did.
Ah don’t be such a stickleback.
Ah Ted. That must make you feel very out of plaice. We are all having a whale of a time too. But we are bound to worm a smile out of you yet and get you off your hook or should we just let you flounder.
All we need now is a few loaves, and we’d have a miracle.
There is something fishy about that crash .
Two hours and not one fanny pun, standards are slipping.
eel get a few points on his licence for that !
They will have to PIKE them by hand onto trucks
If you don’t want the fish dont maul it il have them for tea
I don’t give a dam about water charges. (See what I did there?
Talk to me when someone is organising a protest against property tax or USC.
Looks like it will be the healthiest section of the motorway.
Pollocks.
Eel bet they were worth a few squid.
Salmons head is going to roll for this.
Bleedin Topes…
Chr@@t there’s a load of lads here that would do well ablow in the opera house!!
orca ward situation to be in
wrong time, wrong plaice!
something fishy about that
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