Comments on: DFS, dwarves and urban legends

By: Tony Kiernan

Tony Kiernan — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:35:15 +0000

My favourite is that it’s political correctness gone mad.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:59:16 +0000

Yeah, balance is the really indisputable one.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:24:32 +0000

Must be true then. ;-)

By: Ronnie Brown

Ronnie Brown — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:18:30 +0000

Wikipedia says we have six senses (the sixth being “balance”) so that’s good enough for me.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:05:08 +0000

I’m a big fan of QI, but, funnily enough, haven’t seen that episode.

> in some aboriginal cultures, people never learned to see themselves as separate from their environment in the way that we do.

That just means that they have a different sense of self, not that they don’t have one at all.

By: McGazz

McGazz — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:50:16 +0000

As for Urban Legends – I was disappointed to learn that Walt Disney *wasn’t* cryogenically frozen after he died.

By: McGazz

McGazz — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:32:23 +0000

I saw that episode of QI where Fry talked about the other senses as well. I agree it all comes down to how you define a sense.

“I’m not sure that sense of self would count as an actual sense rather than just a clumsy way to express something that is intrinsically difficult to express.”

I’d agree. AFAIK, in some aboriginal cultures, people never learned to see themselves as separate from their environment in the way that we do. I think it’s all to do with Lacan’s Mirror Stage, but I could never be arsed reading all that stuff ;-)

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:24:42 +0000

But not a sense of occasion, I would wager.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:52:15 +0000

Oo, yes, the sense of the passing of time. I reckon that’s definitely a sense.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:08:01 +0000

It does somewhat make a mockery of commonly used phrases.

“My God, that was spooky! It’s almost like you’ve got a sixth sense!”
“What, comedic timing?”

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:44:20 +0000

> What about fashion-sense?

You’re joking, but a sense of aesthetics might arguably be a sense.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:09:06 +0000

What about fashion-sense?

Just realised that the pound-for-pound comment is probably exactly the opposite when talking about fashion models.