On Monday 02 July 2018 10:41:21 deloptes wrote:
> William Morder wrote:
> > You are anthropomorphizing your computer, and childishly ascribing to a
> > machine your own personal likes and dislikes.
> >
> > Everybody knows that computers run on Guinnness Extra Stout.
>
> There has been a study ages ago, that people (especially women) tend to
> handle computers as human beings. Funny but true :)so this is nothing
> unusual.
> There was a story I heard that in the 1920ties older woman in Germany put a
> cake infront of the radio so that the homunculus inside would have
> something to eat :)
>
When I was a child, I used to think that the music and the announcers and 
other voices somehow lived inside the radio and TV. Then when I got a bit 
older, I came to understand that they sent out their broadcasts from a 
studio, a building that was some distance away. Since I had seen television 
shows like Ed Sullivan, with musicians playing their songs, I knew that they 
had instruments and equipment, but I was puzzled about how they could change 
so quickly from one group to another. My theory was that they must have 
several different rooms, and that some music group would be playing in one 
room while another would be setting up in another, and so on. 

This is exactly why women tend to humanize us lonely bachelors, and make them 
presentable in public, and to brighten up a home; it has something to do with 
that tendency. The world would be a very dull place without a little 
irrationality to make us bounce through life, rather than scraping along, in 
deadly seriousness, freed from superstiton, but weighed down by the 
irresistible force of gravity. 

I don't really think that women are more childish, or given to irrational 
superstitions, of course; I was just joking. Men just tend to lack a sense of 
romance and poetry, and about three-quarters of them cannot dance (or even 
clap on the right beats in a song). 

Men also tend to be superstious and irrational about different things than 
women; for example, men imagine may fancy that their cars have personality; 
and their tendency to superstition often runs through activities such as 
contact sports. 

But enough this off-topic, or we will call down the wrath of others! 

Bill