uncommon sense
Sometimes it bothers me when people say, Use your common sense. Or, worse, Why didn't you show any common sense?
What makes it common? That everyone knows it? I mean, you weren't born with it. It's not intrinsic sense. You had to learn it from someone, or from screwing something up and learning yourself. Putting metal in the microwave, for example. Common sense? Who magically suddenly knows not to? Hot Pockets come in a foil-y wrapper thing. You put a fork in and it sparks, or your mom tells you not to put that fork in, because it will spark.
What if you've never owned a microwave? What if no one you know has? But you own, I don't know, a rice paddy? I don't know what common sense goes into upkeeping a rice paddy. Probably, don't use the water to cool yourself off, and if you have a cut, that mother's getting INFECTED.
What makes it common? That everyone knows it? I mean, you weren't born with it. It's not intrinsic sense. You had to learn it from someone, or from screwing something up and learning yourself. Putting metal in the microwave, for example. Common sense? Who magically suddenly knows not to? Hot Pockets come in a foil-y wrapper thing. You put a fork in and it sparks, or your mom tells you not to put that fork in, because it will spark.
What if you've never owned a microwave? What if no one you know has? But you own, I don't know, a rice paddy? I don't know what common sense goes into upkeeping a rice paddy. Probably, don't use the water to cool yourself off, and if you have a cut, that mother's getting INFECTED.