People say the darndest things

While having my lunch break at work this friday, I was trying to ignore all the nonsense going on around me (as usual) and eating my food. But some things can't be ignored.

There has (not unsurprisingly) been a lot of news about Michael Jackson lately. And apparently women are supersticious. When I was eating we were seven in the lunchroom, five of which were women. All of them agreed that it was likely that MJ had risen from his grave and had been watching (and enjoying) his own funeral.

I was dumbstruck. I wanted to stand up and shout at them for being silly but couldn't bring myself to saying anything at all. I can agree that one or two of the girls at work aren't quite the brightest apples of the bunch, but everyone agreeing that MJ was important enough to get to be a ghost or something?

Now this was not a statistically significant sample or anything but if this is how "normal" people view the world, I'd rather be a nerd sceptic any day.