Brain playing tricks...
daffy2
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I imagine you are all familiar with the way that our brains do a predictive text type manoeuvre on what we read - for me a classic from childhood onwards is reading shopfitter as shoplifter. Yesterday I was doing a quick check of the weather for today and read 'Warning of yellow snow'. I wasn't really concentrating and thought 'yuk' and moved on. When the synapses had caught up sufficiently I went back and realised it was a 'Yellow warning of snow', ie the colour coded system to indicate level of risk/severity. Trouble is I can't erase the 'wrong' version....
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Predictive brains. So misleading.
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