Sometime in 2011 or 2012, I bought a Jo Malone perfume. This is a brand that specializes in interesting, unusual scent combinations. I really loved my scent but then, for a variety of reasons, I moved on and didn’t buy from this brand again.
Then last November I passed by a Jo Malone stand in Montreal and saw that they had new, attractive fragrances. I went over many of them and chose one that I really liked. N gave it to me for Christmas.
Today I was looking for something and found the old bottle from my 2011 Jo Malone perfume. It was the exact same scent I selected 12 years later.
There were all those options but, without wanting to, I went with the same old one. I’m telling you, people, I have a rigid, rigid brain that needs to get exercised to avoid getting completely ossified.
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Totally. The darn spell check.
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Joe Malone is a former hockey player though.
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Does it smell like a hockey player?
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I hope not, given he’s dead since 1969!
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The average person is more rigid yet. You both overemphasize your own rigidity and underestimate others’. You are middle of the pack at worst.
For example, the average political person comes to certain political beliefs when they’re young (the college years are common for this), then retain these precise beliefs for the rest of their life, no matter how the world changes around them. Most people are also unwilling to move to another country. Many people are even unwilling to, say, try Indian food.
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” the average political person comes to certain political beliefs w… then retain these precise beliefs for the rest of their life”
Actually what most people do is choose a political community very early on and then adopts the views of the community. Actually looking at individual issues on an issue by issue basis is vanishingly rare.
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Extremely rare! People subscribe to a feeling of belonging and adopt a package of beliefs that comes with that feeling. I wish I were capable of that because it must be very enjoyable.
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I dunno. I did that when I was young and dumber– a proud Rothbardian libertarian. The problem was that I didn’t *want* to belong to that crowd. Like, some of that I still sympathize with in theory, but… cooties.
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“I still sympathize with in theory, but… cooties”
I know the feeling. I still have some libertarian sympathies but as a political movement…. no…. (shudder) just…… no……
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which scent?
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Nectarine blossom and honey.
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