On 13-2-2012 20:30, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Really? I thought that apart from South America, most of the southern
>> hemisphere was water.
>
>> OK. That's interesting. I always thought the equator was all desert...
>
>    I really think you should cut the "being deliberately ignorant of things
> that would become clear with 10 seconds of googling" trait. I don't know if
> you are doing it genuinely or simply to try to be amusing, but it does not
> give any positive image of yourself.
>
>    Try to make a habit of every time you have the urge of writing "I always
> thought that..." or "what does this mean?" to spend 10 seconds on google or
> wikipedia, and if you don't find the answer, *then* perhaps say it. (Although,
> it's probably better if you spend at least a couple of minutes before doing
> it.)
>

In general I do agree with that, however in this case...
This gave for me the impression of confusing two major events in our 
evolution, i.e. the crawling of fishes onto the land to give rise to 
land vertebrates and the out of africa theory. The image this evoked was 
of an adam and an eve crawling out of the southern hemisphere ocean onto 
the deserts of the equator (possibly mixed with a monty python intro). 
In short I found this mix-up the work of a true genius. (ok, or perhaps 
the work of a complete fool that accidentally struck gold).

-- 
tip: do not run in an unknown place when it is too dark to see the 
floor, unless you prefer to not use uppercase.

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