"cybercat" > wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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>> "cybercat" > wrote in message
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>> > "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote
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>> >> > Need a bigger shovel???
>> >> > Andy
>> >>
>> >
>> >> Or, try looking out the window and thinking once in a while.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > He does, he just does it a little more effectively than you do, Joebob.
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>> >
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>>
>> Apparently not, if he thinks peoples' physical shapes don't affect the
>> way
>> they interact with the world around them.
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> That's not what he said.
>
> And observation tells me something else. I see fat people who mince around
> like they are afraid of stirring the air, and little people charging
> around
> like bulls, quite frequently. Look at adolescent boys and how much room
> they
> take up! (And I had four of them in my house for a few days last month, so
> I
> did have the chance to observe this.)
>
> The most hard and fast generalizations I can think of about how people
> move
> about in the world tend to be based on cultural practices. For example,
> middle eastern people really do have a different idea of "personal space"
> or
> "comfort zones" than Germans and English people, or Americans of German
> and
> English descent. Many people from the middle east seem to want to talk to
> me
> at such close quarters that I have to fight the urge to back up. That sort
> of thing.

Good. At least I've got you thinking now, and expressing interesting
thought, rather than behaving like a little George Bush clone.