fibojoly

Funny thing about emails : it appears that the main difficulty isn't sending them, rather it's how to do it without being detected as spam.

Same. Even though it's generally consider myself a metalhead, I also love some rap, some techno, some classic... I love plenty of music! "Favourite" is an idiotic concept to me. My heart has plenty of room for all my music. Love isn't a zero-sum game!

I've lived with my wife for twelve years and we have two kids and I don't think she's ever managed to listen to any of the stuff I really love, because it's just too heavy for her. And I'm not talking Lorna Shore here, I'm saying she gets all stressed out when she hears any short of bass drop.
I don't think her brain was ever ready for metal, I'm pretty sure they don't have anything like it in China.

Anyway, my point is, it still works because she doesn't see music as a defining thing for herself, nor do I think of myself exclusively as a metalhead. She doesn't hate me listening to metal, nor do I hate her listening to cheesy Taiwanese crooners from the eighties. She doesn't try to change my tastes, nor impose hers.

I think that's more important, actually. Not hating what the other person brings to the table. Sure it's sad not to share a passion with the person you love, but it's better than them trying to change you, or dismissing or denigrating what you love! Now that would be a deal breaker.

Because you are looking at it from the destination. People from across that field all want to reach that point you're at and their paths gather like rivers flowing together.

Aka the mons pubis

Media and documentaries are not scientific studies! But they get people talking. And they get scientific studies funded because you can point to the movie's success and say "look, this is an important subject". And they get politicians regulating because they can see the people care. Whether the movie was actually influential or a product of the zeitgeist I'm not sure.

Tells you something about the impact it had that people would still try to discredit it all those years later! What's OP's point, eh? McD every day is gonna be healthy if you don't drink. Get outta here!

I think it's more they want a proof that they aren't bragging or crazy when they do feel like they are surrounded by morons. Not sure about the need to show off though. That seems silly. We got both kids tested at the behest of the school so it's an officially recognized test (WPPSI-IV) but I didn't need a test to tell me I have clever kids. Nor do the teachers after about five minutes chatting with them, usually. But it was useful to get them sorted in the upper class when there was a doubt. Also it was nice to have some fine grained detail and an actual statistical value of just how different they are. Something I try to keep in mind when dealing with them on the daily. In France we use the term "High Intellectual Potential" and that's really all it is : potential. It's up to me not to waste it and help them flourish now. So far the teachers also see it and the best they can to also help them flourish but clearly the public school system is barely equipped to grow that potential when there are so many kids in difficulty. A single "social case" kid in a class can fuck things up for everybody around them, it's a fucking nightmare...

Hmmm, what could be the common factor between the victims, I wonder ?

If you think all the scientists around the world giggling about all the puns are gonna destroy that ever bountiful source of joy, you got another one coming.

I would absolutely love that. Fuck fast travel, let me explore!

Alain Robert way ahead of us all on that one!