Why not India and the USA?
@coolidgeeffect.bsky.social
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Pub quiz , science and joke fan from Leicestershire. Rejoiner and Republican (in the UK sense of course)
Here’s the Coolidge Effect explained, basically I’m a big fan of the anecdote
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Had a taxi driver taking me just north of Leicester comment “the country’s full” and I replied “yeah, you can set off walking East of here and you’ll do 50 miles without seeing hardly anyone before falling in the sea”
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Expected the “reader, I married her” there
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I went down a rabbit hole after this in trying to read about the oldest DNA recovered… and found a woolly mammoth called Chris Waddle www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
Mulleted mammoth called Chris Waddle helps scientists crack creatures’ genetic code
Researchers build genome using 52,000-year-old remains of woolly mammoth named after ex-England footballer
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A fear of (say) heights may not be “rational” but it is an instinctive part of our evolution that prevents falls…so whilst phobias aren’t the result of enlightened debate… they are sometimes a decent yardstick. Xenophobia was probably a similar “new people, dodgy” yardstick that helped us in Africa
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The irony of going all “ooh I’m Otto and I’m childish” … being the most childish thing I’ve heard for a while and I have a 7 year old kid
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Jokes on her, I’m Comrade Stephanie and I like to ignore people points and go ad hominem
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They criticised the job too love
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Get her onto Bluey
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The earliest recorded version of the joke is in 1969 apparently but is a bit woolly as to where it’s really from (as are most very old jokes) interestingly it used to be the “pickle slicer” and often ends with “she got sacked too”
