Tall people are boring
10 Feb 2006Or, at least, I think they must think that everyone else thinks that they are. (Read that slowly).
A while back we filmed something and had a preview monitor underneath one of the cameras, which was pretty funny because whenever we were looking at it we appeared to be asleep (because our eyes were pointing down + eyelids followed, relative to the camera). It occurred to me on a bus today (observing someone’s eyes in a mirror overhead) that tall people must think that everyone they’re around must be constantly falling asleep, perhaps attributing it to their presence, as in other images people never look that sleepy!
Then again, maybe it’s just down to people who don’t make eye-contact enough (too-often me, as some have observed in the past!)
Shrug, struck me as being an interesting idea. Probably doesn’t actually work that way, but it’s kinda funny to think that the taller you are the more sleepy the rest of the world seems ;-)