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I like constellation tattoos. Or the watercolour abstract ones. But dude, it’s your tattoo!
same! And I’ve always been fond of the Orion constellation!!!
When you look at Orion, do you see a human figure who’s standing on his head? Or do you mentally draw the lines some different way? Or is it just a geometric arrangement of stars?
I think my perception has been permanently warped by H.A. Rey. But his stick figure of Orion is Northern Hemisphere-specific.
Oh, as long as I’m thinking about differences in the north/south perceptual landscape:
On the day after Christmas I was watching the start of the Sydney-Hobart race, and the website of the Aussie TV channel that was streaming it was showing the whole broadcast feed, including the local (Sydney) commercials. And I don’t know quite what I was expecting, but it was weird to me that Australian TV commercials (at least on this channel) were _exactly_ as inane, and were inane in exactly the same way, as US TV commercials. Literally the only thing different was that the announcers had a different accent.
I guess I thought that TV in Australia would have been different than the TV I’m used to. But nope; same exact thing. Same exact (depressingly awful) mirror held up to the audience.
I guess we really are one global culture in that respect. At least TV channels in the US and Australia are.
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