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I cut my middle finger on a tin can in the sink yesterday - thanks for trying to save the planet Rich. Turns out the guy who I heard on Jeremy Vine years ago refusing to do recycling because he thought it was insane to wash his rubbish might have been right.
Incidentally I think about that guy at least once a week. Jeremy Vine didn't stop this guy laughing at his own cleverness by saying, "But surely it's not insane if by doing so you'll help save the world." My only consolation is that the guy who won't recycle is probably dead now. Plus George Monbiot pointed out that anything we can do as individuals is a drop in the ocean and really the rich people doing the majority of the polluting need to change their ways.
Still it's got to be worth helping out where we can? Wash your rubbish. Even though it's insane and dangerous.
It wasn't that bad a cut and I got a plaster on it pretty quick, but the cut was on the pad of the finger and so was the plaster and this led me to realise how losing the use of your middle finger pad on your dominant hand (even temporarily) has a surprising effect on modern life.
Not just because having a plaster on your middle finger is an unwelcome distraction when giving someone the middle finger. Is he being rude to me or showing me he's hurt his digit? Even a momentary confusion can null the effectiveness of the gesture.
Mainly though because you use that middle finger for more stuff than you realise. No, not that. Come on. And you can just go non-dominant handed for a day or so if that's important to you. Or use waterproof plasters (ew).
At least if you use an Apple computer you will discover that you use your middle finger a lot more than you think. If you want to scroll through your screen or select some text to copy you need two fingers and you are used to using your middle one. It's possible to do it with any two fingers, but you're so used to doing it unthinkingly with the middle finger that it becomes extremely complex to do it without.
Maybe someone makes plasters that you can still use to operate touchscreens, like they do with gloves. But I struggled all day with this and also kept forgetting that it was an issue so kept on trying and failing and getting more frustrated.
The plaster is off now, so using the computer is fine again, though the would is still sensitive so I get a tingle of pain with every word I type, which might turn some of you on (I know it's turning me on).
I just thought it was interesting that we do so much unconsciously and it becomes routine so quickly that we can't cope without it when something goes wrong.
I was wrong. It wasn't interesting. But at least I have another blog done and I will be able to copy and paste the links below with relative ease now.
