I'm sure Allyson can come in and back me up WRT scientists, and flea and amych on other academics.
Where I work it is lawyers, with the JZ exception clause for the buffista lawgeekers.
You were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture.
Giles ,'Selfless'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JohnSweden - Apr 19, 2006 2:13:25 pm PDT #2351 of 10002
I can't even.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2006 2:24:01 pm PDT #2352 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where I work it is humans.
flea - Apr 19, 2006 2:35:36 pm PDT #2353 of 10002
information libertarian
Honestly, I think it happens to a large percentage of people who get put in charge of stuff - there's an automatic shutoff valve for things like minor niceties and common sense. I've seen it happen a lot in managers - suddenly they have an assistant they can use as an external brain and a part of their own brain suddenly atrophies.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 19, 2006 2:36:30 pm PDT #2354 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sort of like the eternal dilemma of: if you had to fuck either Carrot Top or Andy Dick, who would you choose?
I feel confident that I could figure out some way to make death an option in this scenario.
Rick - Apr 19, 2006 2:40:29 pm PDT #2355 of 10002
If the ring finger is longest, it indicates a high testosterone level.
I think if this were so, then men's hands (and women's, to a lesser extent) would change shape all the time! Your testosterone levels go up and down over the course of your life (possibly your day, or week, or month), but your fingers do not get longer or shorter after a certain point in life.
The people who believe in this think that the ratio of index_length :ring_length is influenced by prenatal testosterone and therefore is correlated with average testosterone levels in adulthood. The evidence for this is pretty sketchy, but it's so easy to measure i:r that people do it and call it a testosterone index.
Ailleann - Apr 19, 2006 2:49:57 pm PDT #2356 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Maybe I was supposed to be a boy.
admires long ring fingers
Jesse - Apr 19, 2006 2:53:31 pm PDT #2357 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I thought you were supposed to be able to tell who was gay from finger length ratios, too, no? Is that supposed to be related to the testosterone thing?
Also, people in general often suck. Especially at work.
Rick - Apr 19, 2006 2:54:38 pm PDT #2358 of 10002
Maybe I was supposed to be a boy.
I did mention the sketchy part, right?
sarameg - Apr 19, 2006 2:54:57 pm PDT #2359 of 10002
There is an amazingly loud hoard of kids outside. They just found a snake. Oops. I think a mom is coralling them. Finally. Normally kid sounds don't bug, but I'm staving off a headache. I gotta say, though. I wouldn't be letting a bunch of kids between 5 and 10ish be roaming around here unsupervised. We used to in my childhood neighborhood, but this is a bit different location.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2006 2:55:37 pm PDT #2360 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it happens to a large percentage of people who get put in charge of stuff - there's an automatic shutoff valve for things like minor niceties and common sense. I've seen it happen a lot in managers - suddenly they have an assistant they can use as an external brain and a part of their own brain suddenly atrophies.
I think it gets more attention with people in charge of stuff (because there's the wonder of how they got the stuff), but in my time in business I've found the "OMG, how do you function?" is pretty evenly distributed.