The Cat is Really an Alien Spy

Sometimes I really have to wonder if Shego (pictured left) really is a cat. She

does some very uncat like things most of the time, like playing in water. Not to mention her intense curiosity about everything.

And I mean everything.

I know that cat's are curious critters (curiosity killed the cat, after all). But Shego's curiosity seems to go way beyond normal cat curiosity.

Then there's her obssession with pushing things off the edge of things just to see what will happen to them when they land. Seriously, she just watches them fall, and seems to get a thrill when they break upon landing. What kind of cat does that?

But this leads to the question if Shego's not a cat, then what is she?

There's a whole host of possibilities as to what she could be. But I think she's an alien spy, sent to Earth to learn our ways.

I can hear you muttering that I'm jumping to conclusions. But I've watched the cat closely and it all seems to fit;

I've never seen a cat get so much enjoyment watching things break.

And then there's the TV watching factor.

Watching TV isn't all that weird for cats, I know. I've had cats that have watched TV in the past, and my current cat sometimes watches TV. But the difference between those cats and Shego is that they would watch just about anything if there was enough movement on screen. Shego is different. She only pays attention to the TV when I'm watching the news or documentaries (and sometimes even when I'm using Wii Fit to work out). She looks as though she's trying to learn as much about us and the planet as she can.

That is very suspicious. And definitely screams alien spy.

I mean, she was a real cat when we got her as a kitten. But while she was still growing, she was taken and replaced with an alien in her body, which explains her small stature.

But now she's nothing more than an alien spy in a cats body. It's the perfect disguise for alien spies!

Wii Fit

It's probably a good thing I'm not impressionable when it comes to my weight.

I just jumped on the Wii Fit to check out how I was doing weight-wise. I'm now in the ideal weight range according to Wii Fit. But as well as congratulating me about this, it also told me that I still needed to lose more weight.

Yeah, I need to lose another five kg if I want to be totally healthy.

So now I'm going to find out what happens when I reach my goal weight that Wii Fit has set for me. Not because it told I have to, but because I want to reach the weight I was when I was 17/18 (something that is surprisingly hard when mum isn't around to monitor what I eat so that I don't over indulge).

I'm pretty certain that once I reached my (or Wii Fit's) ideal weight, I'm pretty certain that Wii Fit won't congratulate me. It'll just say that I need to lose more weight so that my BMI is absolutely perfect (at least that will most likely be the excuse it uses as it demands I drop my weight).

Now that's healthy, isn't it?

Especially if I were really self conscious about how I looked and wanted to look like one of the photo shopped models in the magazines.

While the Wii Fit is a great way to get exercise without having to leave the house and go to the gym, it's extremely dangerous.

Wii Fit doesn't seem to realize that no one has the same ideal weight as anyone else (and how would it? It's a computer). So when you set unrealistic weight loss goals (for example, 10 kg in two weeks), and then don't achieve said goal, it gets angry and berates you for it ... even though two weeks earlier it said that such weight loss is extremely unhealthy and unsafe.

So imagine all of those people who are extremely conscious about their body image using the Wii Fit. It'll be doing them more damage than good. Demanding that they lose more weight sooner.



Oh, and I'm aware that plenty of people have already probably talked about this (and probably in better and more detail). I've just realized just how damaging it can be.