Why do people not look up?

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12 Sep 2011, 2:58 pm

I notice that people never seem to look up. I am always looking up or down or all over the place, but it seems like the average individual does not look up. I did an experiment to see if maybe I was mistaken. When I used to have my apartment, I hung a key off an air vent in a prominent place in the living room. Out of the twenty or thirty something people that had been to my home, only one noticed the key.

Why dont people look up?

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12 Sep 2011, 3:06 pm

I took your advice and looked up.

I stared into the sun, and now I'm blind.

Thanks a lot, a**hole.

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12 Sep 2011, 3:09 pm

^ Rofl.

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12 Sep 2011, 3:14 pm

Jory wrote:

I took your advice and looked up.

I stared into the sun, and now I'm blind.

Thanks a lot, a**hole.

Oh, that's why.

Say, if I wrote a post asking why people dont hand me large sums of money, might you take that as advice as well? I could use the cash.

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12 Sep 2011, 4:50 pm

MisterJ wrote:

Why dont people look up?

Because our world is essentially two dimensional. Long time since we've been swinging in trees all day.

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12 Sep 2011, 5:02 pm

I look up a lot, especially when I'm out.

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12 Sep 2011, 5:03 pm

MisterJ wrote:

Jory wrote:

I took your advice and looked up.

I stared into the sun, and now I'm blind.

Thanks a lot, a**hole.

Oh, that's why.

Say, if I wrote a post asking why people dont hand me large sums of money, might you take that as advice as well? I could use the cash.

I also took your advice and promptly tirpped and fell on my ass!

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12 Sep 2011, 5:12 pm

I look up, last week I avoided being pooped on by a seagull.

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12 Sep 2011, 8:46 pm

I look up all the time. I like to look at the sky.

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12 Sep 2011, 9:05 pm

People don't seem to look down much either.

When I was a teenager, I had a job sweeping up popcorn off the floor of a movie theater. Sometimes I would notice a crowd of people walking over a $20 bill with nobody seeming to notice it. Naturally I was there to sweep it up in a hurry... :wink:

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12 Sep 2011, 9:15 pm

I'm forever looking everywhere but straight forward. This includes looking up. I didn't realize it was an odd thing to do.

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12 Sep 2011, 9:27 pm

Maybe its an auitie thing. We do tend to be more aware of our environments.

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12 Sep 2011, 10:16 pm

shrox wrote:

I look up, last week I avoided being pooped on by a seagull.

Doesn't anyone care about the elaborate calculations involved in tracking a constantly changing seagull flight path parameter?

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12 Sep 2011, 11:01 pm

I look up all the time, probably to avoid meeting someone's eyes. There usually aren't people in the trees or on the ceiling glaring back at me.

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12 Sep 2011, 11:03 pm

sterfry wrote:

I look up all the time, probably to avoid meeting someone's eyes. There usually aren't people in the trees or on the ceiling glaring back at me.

If there are, they're ninjas...act like you didn't notice them.

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12 Sep 2011, 11:09 pm

shrox wrote:

sterfry wrote:

I look up all the time, probably to avoid meeting someone's eyes. There usually aren't people in the trees or on the ceiling glaring back at me.

If there are, they're ninjas...act like you didn't notice them.

If they were decent ninjas I wouldnt notice them. Spiderman often clings to the ceiling. Does that qualify him for ninja status?

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