I can only speak for myself, but of the people I know its ONLY my lame-super-religious OLD PERSON relatives and co-workers that are doom-n-gloom. Conservative republican types who watch their Faux news and think the world is in "end times" and they're trying to stockpile. *eyeroll*. I wish I could slap some sense into them. LIFE IS FINE, turn off the retard news and step outside and look around. Everything is NORMAL. The sky is not falling, your neighborhoods look BETTER than they did when you were a kid... what the heck is the problem?
For me? Life is awesome, I make good money. I have a nice house. I cannot complain at all. America needs some purging of its religious nut job chicken-littles, but that doesn't really affect me since I avoid them anyway.

I don't know how Hello Kitty is sold these days but when I was a kid Hello Kitty products were a special treat and NOT very known in the states (Yea, I'm THAT old) There was a little stand in the local stationary store filled with Hello Kitty items. Most of them tiny, fascinating and packaged with efficiency and tidiness(a price was always found in the top corner and put there by Sanrio). It was mostly the tiny aspect that I loved. I bought tiny colored pencils, with tiny erasers and sticker books. There was a tiny gumball machine with tiny gum. The miniature aspect was the best for me. Finding Sanrio products was tricky back then, and you could only find them in specialty toy shops and stationary stores.

These days Hello Kitty is everywhere...and I'm an adult so I'm not allowed to like that stuff anymore (even though its from MY childhood). Part of me is happy Hello Kitty went on to be such a huge success... part of me is annoyed that its freakin' everywhere now.

Poor kid just doesn't have the right bone structure to be a winner in any beauty sense with a chin like that. Why bother with a boob job.
If the mom really thinks she knows anything about beauty... she should just face the facts that her kid is only average. Instead she's setting her up for something with the odds not stacked in her favor. She'll never be a model and be a top beauty. Hate if you like, but its honest. I don't set the standard, society does.

Ready made potatoes? Good grief, a baked potato is as easy as it gets, for an easy-to-make lazy person food. People really have no ability to plan ahead (for extra time?)
Take potato. Rinse potato in water. Spray a little oil on it (or not to save calories).Wrap potato in tin foil. Throw in oven (not literally) for 45 minutes @ 400 degrees F. Done.

To me this is one of those "well, Duh." factoids. This also applies to most things involving people. Anyone who plays MMO's can experience this effect first hand. If you're a good player, and you want to get noticed. Pick a easy name. Keep it short, simple, and non-offensive for best results. Bonus if the name gives people an instant mental image, to remember you by (animal names and colors are awesome examples). If you want most people to ignore you... pick something weird, obscure and hard to pronounce.
Some decent simple examples: Red, Nut,Pink, Fox, Blue, Fern, Mouse.
Some bad examples: Evangelopolopugus, Tanatioustank, Beerandbraunschweiger, etc.