Finger on the forehead.






Instead of me going to go college this year, I basically elected to go to a year long summer camp in Israel. This is a disgustingly true assessment of it. The games they play just make me long for the adult maturity of an Ernest movie. I mean, it's annoying when you're on the phone, to have the other people playing the penis game in the background. It's not just that, the entire mentality goes back to sleepaway camp. The best example I can think of is this finger on the forehead game. This shows the true maturity of the group. It's a very simple game. When you hear somebody burp, you stick your thumb on the forehead, then wiggle your fingers. Then, if you see somebody who hasn't got their thumb on their forehead, you punch them. ^The postal service must have lost these people's invitations to Mensa. I can't think of any other possible explanation.^

However, the game provides an amazing study on the Pavlovian theories. I mean, here is a game, where you literally are hit if you do it wrong. I mean, these geniuses are probably going to restart the jinx bit, or some other elementary school game, that we would just as soon forget about.

Probably the worst part about this game is that it forces you to be immature, or you get hit. It's rather embarrassing when you are talking to a speaker or somebody that you respect, or at least trying to show that you're not just-some-dumb-teenager, and you suddenly, in the middle of the conversation stick your thumb on your forehead, and wiggle your fingers. I challenge you to do this with any dignity. If you try to be somewhat incognito about it, and just rest your head on your outstretched thumb, either to falsely signal concentration, thought, or contempt, then it doesn't count, because the hitter will invariably say that he "didn't see you do it."

The whole thing epitomizes in Machlon, when we had this great speaker come talk to us. He is this incredibly captivating Scottish speaker, always has great classes, speeches, dialogues, whatever. It's always great. We were sitting in a circle, enjoying the class, when somebody burped. It was like a wave. Everybody's hand goes on the forehead. Three seconds later, in slight disgust, the speaker warily stuck his finger on his own forehead.

I think I here Pavlov laughing somewhere.

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Michael Kadish

"He gives you free will, and then a long list of opposing rules you have to follow. God is the world's biggest Sadist. Me, I'm the biggest humanist." --Satan in Devil's Advocate (Like it's a surprise to anybody that the father of the antichrist would be born in Jacksonville...)
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