<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">And my barber is left-handed, if that has anything to do with it. Also - I watch him cut and for years did not notice that he cuts left-handed. In the mirror of course he is cutting right-handed which would look normal to me, so I would not think a thing about it, and if asked, would say that he is right-handed. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 8:45 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well from your barber's POV from the front, those people who part on <br>
their left side, are parting on his right side. And since most people <br>
comb their hair while looking in a mirror, those that part it on their <br>
left side do so based upon how it would look to others if they parted <br>
it on their right side. Not to mention all those mirrors in the barber <br>
shop. So maybe give your barber a break. :-P<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br>
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Quoting Bill Wallace:<br>
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> Beyond stunned. I was getting a haircut and asked the barber how <br>
> most people parted their hair on the left versus the right. I <br>
> thought it was on the left, as I have noticed that, or so I thought, <br>
> being a man who parted his on the right (which might have something <br>
> to do with my dad being left-handed and me being nearly equal on <br>
> both sides).<br>
> Anyhow, he looked puzzled and finally said on the right. I looked <br>
> it up when I got home and sure enough, 90% of right handers part on <br>
> the left, and so do 45% of lefthanders.<br>
> My question is: how can someone look at heads all day long for <br>
> about 40 years and not notice where most people part their hair? <br>
> When asked, get it wrong.<br>
> So it made me wonder, since the barber was of average intelligence, <br>
> what I had been missing despite looking at it all my life. I have <br>
> come up with a few over the years: in the Revolutionary War there <br>
> was a group called the Green Mountain Boys. I wondered where that <br>
> came from until I finally got it when I looked at the word Vermont <br>
> for the thousandth time, and saw it. Then my mind went to : <br>
> Giuseppe Verdi - Joe Green.<br>
> We look and we look again and for many years we just don't see. I <br>
> wonder how many abstractions are that way. We know the definition <br>
> but simply do not understand the concept the way we think we do. <br>
> When we do, it's a little epiphany.<br>
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