New list. Please suggest and defend the above Ways. That point is that everybody, without exception, must fall into one category or the other. I’ll start.
1. You’re passing by a closed door and hear your name mentioned. People in the next room are apparently talking about you. Group A: You stop and listen. Group B: You walk away quickly to avoid hearing anything.
I look forward to additions. Also arguments and discussions of what it means to belong to one of the groups.
From JustKristin:
2. People who, when traveling near the edge of a cliff, worry about whether they’ll fall, and those who worry instead about whether they’ll jump.
3. People who see themselves, primarily, as a life or a soul which animates a body, and those who see themselves as bodies which contain a life/soul.
Question (from me): What about people who don’t see themselves at all, or people who, when they find themselves next to a steep dropoff, don’t worry about anything? Still, I guess these work provided we think of them as responses to a poll question (i.e., “When driving next to a cliff, if you found yourself worrying, would you be worrying about…?”). Right?
4. People who leave the thin plastic films on the face plates of electronics and such as a prophylactic measure, and those who cannot wait to peel them off.
5. People who organize their books or other media (alpha, genre, etc.) and those who prefer to let things organize themselves.
From Morgan Macgregor:
6. People who walk into a room and immediately turn on the television, and people who walk into a room and immediately turn it off.
Here’s a few:
People who, when traveling near the edge of a cliff, worry about whether they’ll fall, and those who worry instead about whether they’ll jump.
People who see themselves, primarily, as a life or a soul which animates a body, and those who see themselves as bodies which contain a life/soul.
Jeebus. You’d think this would be an easier list to make, but the more you really think about it, the harder it is to make truly binary distinctions between groups of people.
People who think there are two groups of people, and people who don’t… ;^)
I forget who said this originally, but I read someone that, “There are two kinds of people: the kind who walk into a room and immediately turn on the television, and the kind who walk into a room and immediately turn it off.”
How about people who leave the thin plastic films on the face plates of electronics and such as a prophylactic measure, and those who cannot wait to peel them off?
People who organize their books or other media (alpha, genre, etc.) and those who prefer to let things organize themselves?
People who feel they must put a new roll of toilet paper on the roll-holder, and those who say, “fuck em’, someone else can do it if it’s that big a deal.”
I’m in the latter group 🙂
Here’s something about food: some people are excited by food but feel disappointed after getting the actual taste in their move. The rest are disappointingly picky about food but get excited when they taste something that they wouldn’t have normally picked.
I think I’m part of the first one.
What do you think? Does this qualify?
Ooops! I meant “mouth,” not “move.” Sorry about that.
People who see a poor person and say “Wonder what the poor bastard did to screw up his life? Must be his own fault he’s poor.” (Republicans) and those who say “Poor soul, such a pity. Why doesn’t anyone give him a hand?” (Democrats)
The human race is divided into 10 groups: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Those who wait to be called as next in line and those who see a just-emptied window/register as a matador waving his cape.
Those who like to talk while eating breakfast, and those who prefer peace.
You arrive at work and hear “the boss is upset.” You think what did I do? or You think what did she do?