h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some people are so clever I invent the million times bigger tanker cos it is so big it can be loaded and unloaded at the same time. cor it is hard work going to lunch

There are many shopkeepers who are brilliant in the sense that they can keep knowledge of their entire inventory in their heads. Then computers come along, and they don't have to have such great memories any more.

There is a "rain man" employed in the archive of our national broadcast corporation. He is said to w*rk faster than computers

The human brain is an amazing computer. Its downfall is the strange mix of emotions and neuroses and delusions that take control of it from time to time.

I can pour a drink faster than a computer

I can drink it faster than a computer

I can multitask. I can simultaneously drink a , think of a silly thing to post here, wiggle my ears and nose, stomp my foot, and think of having *another*

I hope it didn't sound as if I was bragging.

Girlfriend of my niece claims women are great because they can multitask. "We can laugh and wet our pants at the same time", she says

At the risk of putting the cat among the pigeons,
multi-tasking isn't just the province of women.
Anyone who's worked in engineering will know you have to multi-task
a lot of the time.

Aye, as do jet pilots, sub-editors, drivers and a lot of other people

Tests seem to show that females are better at it. I congratulate them

Tests *also* seem to show that multitasking often means that you aren't doing *anything* well. You'd save time and get better quality if you focussed on one thing at a time and did it right. (I'm serious. That's what some of the studies have shown.)

I don't call it "multitasking", I call it "having a short attention span". I'm good at that.

Whatever floats your boat, Mistadrong. Scientific studies do a pretty good job of showing what large groups of people can do, on average. However, they don't mean that an individual can't do better.