just one question: did you live in Asia?

I study scientifically all the regions of the world.

in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is.

Metatheory is a beautiful place to visit :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory

Yes, but why prick a bubble to see if will burst, when you know it will.

Is not stereotyping using both hands on the keyboard whilst wearing headphones?

Plug-y-bug: how practical!

Metatheory is a beautiful place to visit :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory

So in which area of the planet Dune do you live?

Yes, but why prick a bubble to see if will burst, when you know it will.

Is not stereotyping using both hands on the keyboard whilst wearing headphones?

By no means you can get more familiar with the daily behaviour of people reading books (even when they are serious researches conducted by spesialists and not some crap Benoit is always ready to give you a link to) vs circulating among them

You get to know people by doing census, surveys and interviews, that is by asking questions repeatedly and knocking at doors systematically and insistently.

Wherever I happen to live, I make sure people are free to become fully individualized.

Aw c'mon, tell me you don't do it.

So I'm standing in front of a mall this morning enjoying "a nice relaxing smoke", and I feel these eyes on me. Peripheral vision picks up this old, gray-haired, remnant, of the Trudeau era stealing glances at me. I know who he is just by type, and I know what to expect. He opens his mouth to speak, I lift my free hand to point at the public ash tray, and tell him to "eat shit". Now he could have just been a friendly old guy needing directions, but I stereotyped him, and reacted in what I felt was accordingly. Seriously, you've never done stuff like that?

Did you ever notice each day comes with, what for these purposes we'll call "patterns of irritations". Like you'll have days when you can't get anything but a stale orange at a traffic light, or every street intersection, or super market corner seems to come with a fat woman blocking your path. I was having a morning where everything in front of me was an old lefty. Maybe not, but that's what my vision saw through my stereotyping blinders. I'd arrive at a counter for a purchase and just before I got there some old, bespectacled, Trudeauite would slip in ahead of me. I know they were lefties, because if the item they were purchasing was sliced, they wanted it whole, if it was whole they wanted it sliced. There was always some niggling complaint and this smug assumption that if it wasn't the way they wanted it, it wasn't the way the whole of Canada wanted it.

And I swear it was like these guys were following me around with 2 way radios. "OK Rusty, he's going into Burger King. Get in there ahead of him and order something 'your way' ".

I almost see what creates those gang stalking conspiracy freaks. Expect with me it isn't a conspiracy of the mysterious military elite, it's more just a misalignment of the stars, kind of thing.

It isn't just with lefties that I stereotype though. Can it get racial? Sure it can. If I'm driving along slightly above the speed limit, peacefully minding my own business, as is my custom, and I see a little black head whizzing past me in the slow lane, I'm instantly aware, because experience has taught me this vehicle is going to cut in front of me without signaling. Is that racial stereotyping? Probably. Has it saved my life? I think so.

I'm a lover of European deli's. If I walk in, and see it's been taken over by orientals, I walk out. OK, so am I a racist dickhead, or just a guy who's whole day is ruined if he orders a smoked meat sandwich, and it's a thin layer of meat, between 2 stale pieces of rye? If I am racist, there must be a lot of us, because I notice there's fewer, and fewer European delis.

I've got multi-cultural pals, but when I'm driving around, and everyone blocking my way is a multi-cultural I've been known to mutter stuff like "Damned Pierre Elliot Trudeau".

I don't know. Is there hope for me? Maybe what's required is some kind Stereotypers Anonymous. I'd be standing up there going "I'm Infidel Dog, and I am a stereotyper".

I study scientifically all the regions of the world.