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Not so much a question but a quick story you might appreciate. When quite young and impressionable I wandered in for one of those "free eq test" death traps in my city. The whole thing went as I suspect it is generally meant to (ie. 2hrs of waiting around for tests and results then "wow, you are really smart, see this line going up? That's how smart your are... but according to this other graph with the bold scary colours - the one that I'm supposed to frown when I talk about - you are also completely fucked up emotionally and in general as a human being. It's cool though, we can fix that. How much money do you have?").

The thing is. I might have been susceptible to all of that (despite having no money whatsoever), I was pretty naive. However it just so happened at that time I was working in a retail store selling rugs. When I walked in I had immediately noticed all their fucking rugs were upside down, and my first thought was "why are all of your rugs upside down? Like, every single one of them? You fucking nutbags". So it's something I kept asking each of the interviewers about, but none of them could tell me why and they would just look very confused that I was asking such a thing because that evidently isn't in their script. They'd try to get back to taking about how much I needed to read their science fiction shit, and I would just keep on it: "ok, sure. I'll check it out, but first you've got to tell me what is up with all the rugs."

So I basically just looked at that situation and went "no, you people are monsters, I'm out" (I mean, in my head - I'm not a rude person). I guess the moral is my shitty part time retail job saved me from a cult.

My guess is he maintained the bridge to some sort of pyramid or secret druidic site of magical power. That or a 7-11.

Yeah! What the fuck, right? I was personally offended.

Edit: my only explanation later on was clearly they don't need rugs on their spaceships and volcanos and whatever, so while trying to pretend to know how to convincingly human in the context of earth buildings and such they're going to inadvertently slip up once in a while. Nobody told them which way up a rug goes because a genuine earth person would already know that.

Woody Harrelson and James Corden are having a beer together while they read this AMA. They're so happy right now.

to make sure I don't accidentally some words,

Oh, I like this. Nicely done.