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Category: assumptions

  • eh?

    As I was driving home after spending an inspirational morning with one of our Chaplains I was listening to some music and realised for the first time that I had misheard some of the lyrics, and had kept that misheard interpretation in my mind for many years. Coincidentally I also saw a post on Facebook…

  • the one where I assumed I had put a title in and forgot

    I recently came across this image on t’internet which has significantly changed the way I look at things: Isn’t it interesting how many of us assumed that the picture on the left was a dress, when all along it was a silhouette of a female superhero?! (Yes, I know, but bear with me). We can only…

  • keystone

    Time for me to confess. I have a problem. It is something that clearly does not bother lots of people, but causes me some angst. The problem is keystone. Not the cops from the black and white movies. But the adjusting of video projectors so that the image on the screen has vertical sides instead…

  • firefighting

    When I was growing up there was a man who was famous for fighting oil rig fires. His name was Red Adair. On one occasion an oil well in Kuwait burst into flame and the alert went out: “Get Red Adair!” But Red Adair was fighting a fire in Texas and couldn’t help. The oil…

  • check your sump

    We all experience misunderstandings. We assume that someone has heard or understood us when they haven’t. We expect them to think on the same wavelength as us and they don’t. We expect that people will respond in the same way to an event as we would. We presume that someone acted in a particular way…

  • mind your language

    I’ve just had an interesting ‘moment’ caused by an inadequately phrased headline on the BBC website. The headline was: “Star Church settles over hacking.” This set all sorts of questions running in my head… What sort of church is a “Star Church”? Does it have something to do with Star Wars or Star Trek, so…