No, when I woke up in the morning it just suddenly looked like that.
There's a bit in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which I really love (okay, there are lots of bits I really love, but never mind that right now), where Ford Prefect contemplates human conversation:
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.
This tendency in human beings is even more bizarre when it takes the form of asking questions when you already know the answer.
Case in point, the number of kids today who asked me, "Have you dyed your hair?"
My hair, as of Saturday, has this colour:
For comparison, my previous colour (also dyed) was this:
Also, I'm having a terrible cold and used up three packs of tissues during the school trip. At the end of the day, one of the girls who'd spent the most time around me asked, "Are you sick?"
This is a reasonably bright eleven-year-old. Ford Prefect is right, people are strange.
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.
This tendency in human beings is even more bizarre when it takes the form of asking questions when you already know the answer.
Case in point, the number of kids today who asked me, "Have you dyed your hair?"
My hair, as of Saturday, has this colour:
For comparison, my previous colour (also dyed) was this:
Also, I'm having a terrible cold and used up three packs of tissues during the school trip. At the end of the day, one of the girls who'd spent the most time around me asked, "Are you sick?"
This is a reasonably bright eleven-year-old. Ford Prefect is right, people are strange.
This entry was originally posted at http://katta.dreamwidth.org/555966.html and has
comments there.