Ok, this is completely non-travel-related. But it’s so strange that I had to relate it…
So I started to ask Google “Why doesn’t firefox spellchecker handle contractions correctly in gmail?” (which is one of my current tech annoyances). But when I got as far as “why doesn’t”, the Google auto-completer helpfully recommended the following:
- why doesn’t he call (233 Million hits)
- why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle (114k)
- why doesn’t he like me (53.7M)
- why doesn’t he love me (33M)
- why doesn’t god heal amputees (21k)
I shit you not.
Now this tells us a couple of interesting things:
First, the top three causal interrogatives that concern the web population as a whole are (a) courtship ritual uncertainties, (b) kinetic curing properties of (likely polyvinyl acetate-based) adhesives, and (c) the theological problem of evil.
Second, the courtship rituals cluster overwhelmingly outweighs the other two. By like 3 orders of magnitude. Sex trumps chemistry and god every time, I guess.
Third, the courtship rituals are entirely about the behavior of the male of the species. There are no “why doesn’t she love me?” queries. I won’t touch that.
Finally, the most pressing query about evil concerns the (undoubted) suffering of amputees. While clearly a pressing theological issue, one does wonder about other concerns such as war, famine, plague, crime, poverty, etc.
The web is a far stranger place…
Anyway, as a pathetic attempt to make this post at least marginally travel-related, I’ll note that fruit cocktail tastes exactly the same in Spain as it does in the US. Ah, fond memories of preschool snack time…