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Below is an email that's going around. Maybe it's been circulating for years, but I received it for the first time today. It makes a claim that seems dubious at first. But, upon experimentation, appears to be true. At least, it's true for me. There must be a scientific explanation for this phenomenon. The question is: does it hold true for everyone? And is it possible to counteract this reflex through force of will?
This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot. But you can't!!!
1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!
I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.
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What I could do:
-right foot circle, right hand "6"
-left foot circle, right hand "6"
-right foot circle, left hand "6"
-left foot circle, left hand "6"
It would be fascinating to see if non-geeks, er, people who don't use the computer a lot can do this with the same rate of success.
My foot doesn't even have a tendancy to change directions when I start my hand. Then again, I have done 8 years of marching band, which is very much a seperation of hands (playing music) and feet (marching). Also, I've done dance with flag, so that too my hands were doing flag work, while my feet were moving me around or doing cool dance steps.
And I had no clue that patting your head while rubbing your stomach was that kind of trick, I thought it was just people acting like retards.
What's next, you can't chew gum and walk at the same time?
I could outsmart my foot by writing "6" with my hand on a table, but not in the air. Odd.
(Inflammatory opening remark added to be cool like the other Tourette's people.)
I don't see any rule that says you can't start from the inside of the six and write it clockwise.
One of course now someone will try and change the rules mid game because they got beat.
I used to be able to do it really well, now it takes me three or four tries... I can move my hands in opposite directions with no effort at all, but it's kinda difficult for me to do this one
Every once in a while I have a hard time. But the majority time I can.
Who thinks of this stuff?
Praise diversity, praise our Creator.
So, why can't I drive a stick shift???? My husband will never stop teasing me about that.
I can also draw a cartoon with both hands simultaneously. That keeps it from being a very long drawn-out process.
That still doesn't help me drive a stick shift. But that's ok, I think the engine has stopped punning already.
😊
--ted
It doesn't work for me. I can do it.
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My staff and I did this at lunch time and we laughed so hard...we needed this..
Thanks,
Lucy
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If you find this a problem ( as your use of the word 'wrong' seems tio indicate) then I sugeest you discuss it with a neurosurgeon and talk about a thinning ogf the Corpus Callosum, often done for epileptics; In plain terms, they run a scalpel down the centre chasm of the brain to amke sure the connections are cut like most normal people's brains.
Or you can see at as part of the variance among human beings and adapt to being different from the bulk of humanity.