Don't know anything about "wheelhouses"; if that's a naval term, what I have is a dinky little canoe proudly sporting the call sign "PS 132" ( I believe that's what I called it ), and the waters in this forum occasional get to be turbulent enough I'm seriously thinking about trading it in for a kayak.dongregg wrote:We are so on the same page. It sounds as though this is your wheelhouse, too.sauvin wrote:My not-so-learned response might start with a [...] and you can bring your neotonies and atavisms on [...] though { if ] experience is any indicator, this "learned response" will either elicit a lot of yawning or a lot of yelling.
Your guess is as good as mine, honestly. Possibly better, since I'll bet you're cruising around in something that has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a walk-in refrigerator and a "wheel house" with enough electronic equipment in it to make NASA drool. You're right, though, better make sure your gyros are in good working order.dongregg wrote:Yes, sexual dimorphism is critical to the discussion, and, that said, you can be sure there will be blood (mine, no doubt). Best if I don't say more until I can say it all. That will take a while. Suggestion for which forum to start the thread on?
I've shared things in this forum that I've never shared with anybody in real life - ever. This is partly why. I don't know anybody in my personal life who can follow this kind of discussion, either because they're simply not used to this kind of thinking (or subject matter), or because they're not capable of entertaining anything that seems to challenge their personal beliefs or value systems.dongregg wrote:Okay, here's a preview. When I delivered this topic as a talk to about 70 learned men and 10 learned women, the men tried to shout me down. (Alcohol may have been a factor. The meeting had stretched on into the night. ) I cheerfully and good-naturedly pursued the topic to the end. Women ("girls" in evolutionary terms) come out looking pretty good. Men ("large animals" in evolutionary terms), not so much.
For maximum benefit (and mirth), please read the entire topic, start to finish. Maybe it'll add some gasoline to your "learned response". If needed, I might still be "with it" enough to supply matches.
A suggestion, though: if the bulk of the discussion references Oskar and Owen and Eli and Abby only tangentially, it might be best to start this potentially supersized bonfire in the "Off Topic" section. The same is true if all four kids are together heavily referenced, since I don't recall any really logical place to discuss all of them together.