The Significant Otter and me had a tiff this morning. A barny. Une chamaillerie. Dadl. Eine Auseinandersetzung ! One of our numerous electrical contraptions wasn't working, and the green light was on. I pointed this out to the S.O. and she replied .. "what green light?" The thing was, she saw it as white. Totally white. But to me it was, is, and always has been bright, ferocious green. The S.O wasn't happy about this, and made her feelings clear. Needless to say, it was me who was wrong, not her. That was her strong position, and she was not going to budge. I was the barmy twerp not her. OK ...the facts. I am not colour-blind in any official way. I have a lovely copy of that book that has all those dotty diagrams in it where some people see an L and other people see a W ...or whatever. I get all of them right. Here's a couple of them ...some people see one number, some another .. and it's mostly males, because one of the commonest forms of colour-blindness is carried on the male chromosome. Anyhow, it occurred to me that this might be affecting some people's bird identification skills... especially males ... and birding is predominantly a male activity ... females have far more common sense. For some fairly unexplained and baffling reason.... people see that dress up at the top there in (mainly) two completely different ways ... what are its colours when you look at it ?... now try it with a few other people. It makes you think .... it can be quite disturbing. I've read several learned accounts as to why this happens, and I'm not convinced by any of them... and I don't think they are either. Now transfer these colour-perception issues to birding.. all those American Warblers, those superbright hummingbirds, all those foreign kingfishers, rollers, bee-eaters, our UK finches, buntings etc .Crumbs. There's plenty of scope for ID disasters there .. then there's thousands and thousands of moths ! Cripes" Beetles !!! Fungi ! Spiders!! "As all the Germans say .. Oh Weh! Oh Weh ! Oh Weh !" How true. Maybe if certain Rarity Descriptions from the past were scrutinised in the light of all this, there might be a few "changes of mind" ... who knows? But here's the best one ... years ago, there I was in an exam room, English Language GCSE it was. After about 20 minutes they all got to a question where you had to study a poster, and then answer questions about it. It was a rather garishly-coloured poster ... anyhow, hands started to go up. All male hands, as it happens... and guess what ...they couldn't make head or tail of the pictures ,,, they were red/green colour blind ! And of course exactly the same disaster was happening in hundreds of other schools all over the place. Oh, Calamity !! You would think that the exam boards might have noticed this ... but I have a very jaundiced view of the capabilities of all these managerial dolts. Most of them couldn't piss into a bucket. And the worst thing is, they'll blame somebody else for it too , and get them to clear up the mess. OK ... that's enough serious and worthy stuff .. let's have some music ... this is a real blast this is ... it's Manu and " Toi et Moi" .. turn it up to 11 !! It's "one more" isn't it. I'm going to ... who says the French can't do pop music eh !! Here's my ......... 4 RULES OF MANAGEMENT
[1] Management are all crap. [2] Management looks after itself. [3] Management despises all below them. [4] Management expands ... and keeps on expanding. Here are my " Rules of the rules of management [1]When dealing with Management, keep these handy Rules in mind. [2] Never reveal the Rules of Management to The Management. [3] Make sure everybody else knows The Rules Of Management.
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