I had to manually delete the words duck and ducking from my keyboard dictionary. Now when I talk about ducks, they autocorrect to fucks, and it amuses me every time.
Old dude here. This could actually be a real book. The Choose Your Own Adventure series were huge in the 80s and 90s. They produced dozens of books across multiple collections. This weird ass cover is par for the course.
There’s also the opposite problem, when you can’t sleep because you don’t want to fast forward to all the bullshit you’ll have to get back to tomorrow.
The counterargument for this line of thinking is that it’s just theoretical. You don’t have actual experience with the scenario, so you can’t truly know how you’d behave.
We all like to think we’re paragons of virtue. But when the chips are down, most people behave in ways they never expected to.
In the words of an eminent poet, “Everybody got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Gotta say, it was delightful to see the range on Matt Smith. He can go all cheeky and charismatic as the The Doctor, then to being creepy as hell on HOTD. He’s freaking great!