In some countries I've been to it's frowned upon to eat on public transport and sometimes you can even get fined. This might deter most citizens, except perhaps the hungriest, as I've known people on the Hong Kong metro system taking sneaky mouthfuls (me included!). In London there are no constraints and blatant munching on public transport is common.
The other morning on my tube to work, the carriage was filled with a greasy smell coming from a woman who was sat with her face in a foil package on her lap. At the intervals when she came up for air I could see that she was demolishing cold roast chicken, sucking and spitting out the bones.
Most of the commuters played the usual public transport ignore card, but it made for an alternative kind of Early Morning Breakfast Show.
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6.3.06
What Time Is It?
Well, wasn't it only New Year's a few weeks ago and how come we're in March already? The first quarter of the year is nearly over and 2006 is already becoming a blur. How is it that the years seem to fly by as an adult when childhood summers seemed to last a lifetime? That might be as simple as being young and carefree with no real worries as opposed to the stresses of grown-up life causing the perception of time to differ. A new BBC series called Time is to show soon, discussing this thing which waits for nobody and allegedly heals all things.
The general idea of time is as a regulating force, something which controls our days and patterns as we go about our lives. It is something there in the background whether we like it or not, affecting us both consciously and subconsciously. Our body clocks generally work with the 24 hour daily cycle and travellers to different time zones face jet-lag because of disruption to their bodies' rhythm.
Culturally, time is a major part of the human psyche. Philosophers such as Kant and Hume have theorised time as being subjective for us, whilst some scientists have expressed it more definitively - Einstein's Theory of Relativity stating the effects on time of speed in terms of spacetime. There are many accounts of people believing time to have slowed down during moments of crisis which might give some credence to the subjective viewpoint (car crashes in slow motion etc), whilst present technology has not yet allowed us to fully prove scientific theory about time.
It's clear that time and our perception of time, is an area yet to be fully explored and understood. Hopefully this series wont' be a complete waste of it...
The general idea of time is as a regulating force, something which controls our days and patterns as we go about our lives. It is something there in the background whether we like it or not, affecting us both consciously and subconsciously. Our body clocks generally work with the 24 hour daily cycle and travellers to different time zones face jet-lag because of disruption to their bodies' rhythm.
Culturally, time is a major part of the human psyche. Philosophers such as Kant and Hume have theorised time as being subjective for us, whilst some scientists have expressed it more definitively - Einstein's Theory of Relativity stating the effects on time of speed in terms of spacetime. There are many accounts of people believing time to have slowed down during moments of crisis which might give some credence to the subjective viewpoint (car crashes in slow motion etc), whilst present technology has not yet allowed us to fully prove scientific theory about time.
It's clear that time and our perception of time, is an area yet to be fully explored and understood. Hopefully this series wont' be a complete waste of it...
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