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Friday, September 15, 2006
Maybe the heat makes you dumb...
If you think about it, most prominent discoveries and inventions have come from non-equatorial climates. Now why is that? Are all sun drenched folks too busy stirring their drinks with little umbrellas tied up being an appliqué of lotion to a local back? Surely hot people need inventions too. Was the folding lawn chair inventied by someone who couldn't appreciate it at the time? Gasp!
Just because it's sexier with a crystal ocean as your backdrop, doesn't mean that a lightbulb or direct fuel injecton wouldn't come in handy too. Us hotties need the juice too you know.
It begged being looked into.
Clearly, google can help with this.
So, i started searching, hoping to find some study or graph that has inventions plotted against latitude or something equivelent. No dice.
"Inventions discoveries latitude" - nothing
"Discoveries equitorial" - not really anything
"Advancement northern climate" - not so much
Frustration quickly set in. Google has spoiled us. After three i-tried-as-best-i-could 'I thought that would work' searches (no idea why i went from dashes to quotes), one quickly digresses into stupidity:
"You get dumb when it's hot"
"Why are Mexicans so stupid?"
"When it's hot, you don't do shit"
"Hot nations and potholes, discuss"
"Bikinis"
After looking at all the suggested links for the above, with a little bias to the last one, i ended up at an impasse: It seems like you're dumb when it's hot and what inventions ever came out of the jungle?
I mean honestly.
The Russians have literature
The north Europeans have design
The British have cuisine - JUST KIDDING!!
The Americans have lightbulbs, assembly lines and creative governmental accounting
The Italians have art and design and fronting
The Japanese take everyone elses ideas and perfect them to a degree which was previously thought impossible
Wait. I think this is really becoming terrible. I take back everything except the British food part.
See, i'm British. Well kinda, i'm Canadian but everyone else in my family is British and they don't believe me when i say "Man British food is bad hey?" They say "What?" Like i'm being UnAmerican - i mean - UnBritish, but the truth is that British food IS really bad and they just don't know it.
I'm not sure what this has to do with northern inventions.
Perhaps it cancells out, because the northern climates have crap food, and the equatorial climates have amazing food, and at any particular moment, if you were asked if you wanted a great dinner, or a lightbulb and some literature, i know i would ask for the dinner.
So i guess it cancels out.
2 Comments:
Awww, you're having one of those "I'm away from home and everything is so wierd that I have to try to make it all make sense so I'll catagorize every nationality into something I can understand" moments. When I moved to Prague I did that too and Germans out weighed every other culture in the wierd department. Italians were too loud and Brits need to stop taking so many pills and washing them down with beer!
And sadly Canadians need to stop behaving so badly in foreign countries...I means seriously, if you're going to lounge around a subway car with you feet up on the seats all dressed like a barenaked ladies reject you need to unstitich the mini Canadian flag from your backwards ball cap, it makes the rest of us look like hosers. Oh and also, saying your NOT American isn't the same as being Canadian. Two words to shut up those refusing to see the difference between us and them "Underground Railroad".
There's a lot riding on you Adam, make Canada proud!
7:26 AM
Just so it's clear, and i'm not suggesting anyone thought this, but i don't actually think Mexicans are stupid. It was a joke.
In fact, it's been proven that there's more variance of intelligence within any race than between them. Look at Claudia Schiffer. She's Aryan and a door knob. Whoever came up with enchiladas is a genius. I think this goes beyond proving my point.
8:18 AM
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