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I posted a longer comment on Bruce’s site, but he’s dead wrong about glass vs plastic pint glasses. It’s been done for a long time in some places, it works, and unless you’ve spent a lot of time getting drunk in rough pubs & clubs in Britain I don’t think you can really appreciate the threat of violence or the way that glasses have a unique position as readily-available weaponry there.

This scene from Trainspotting is not much of an exaggeration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utN9s_zGCms

Posted by Jacob Davies on 27 August 2009 @ 8pm

Do people even actually know much about anything outside their primary knowledge zone?

I submit that most successful knowledge workers (the better ones, anyway) are more curious than the average bear and must continuously reeducate themselves in order to avoid becoming obsolete. This is not a skill the average person is forced to have.

How many people get their news from traditional sources (especially TV)? I’d assume those people know next to nothing about most things, and what they DO “know” are mostly falsehoods.

Posted by Bryan on 28 August 2009 @ 5pm