When you're 8, it's hard to comprehend a variety show if you haven't seen one. And other than the circus I hadn't seen any live performances, it was all television, so I sort of thought if an awards show needed an emcee (once it was explained) then the back stage directors weren't doing their jobs right. Once I got the idea that the other "performers" might be amateurs, it made a lot more sense why you'd need someone like an emcee. Most of the people coming up on stage for the awards shows are used to their lines being pre-scripted, so they're effectively amateurish.
It's more than 30 years after the fact, so I know what would have worked for me based on the knowledge I had at the time. It's just a strange thing trying to explain something when the other person has zero reference points. And your idea of defining a range so at least the confused person could get the vague concept was really useful.
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The problem is that if you have people who are at -1 on the scale and want a compromise at 0-ish, if there are no +1s or even +.5s every compromise brings the overall situation more negative. But not sitting down with the people is how rebellions are fomented.
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Date: 2011-01-09 10:02 pm (UTC)It's more than 30 years after the fact, so I know what would have worked for me based on the knowledge I had at the time. It's just a strange thing trying to explain something when the other person has zero reference points. And your idea of defining a range so at least the confused person could get the vague concept was really useful.
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The problem is that if you have people who are at -1 on the scale and want a compromise at 0-ish, if there are no +1s or even +.5s every compromise brings the overall situation more negative. But not sitting down with the people is how rebellions are fomented.