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'''Lavatories & similar''': It also means lavatory cubicles, phone booths, priest-holes and small apartments are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref> | '''Lavatories & similar''': It also means lavatory cubicles, phone booths, priest-holes and small apartments are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref> | ||
From there, readers, it gets only worse. Ms. Mayer seems to urge those in wrong rooms to get out of them. But, since each of the world’s occupied has, by definition, a smartest occupant, ''no'' room on the planet has a stable equilibrium. Occupancy will dwindle, tending quickly to zero. It is as if the world should be engaged in | From there, readers, it gets only worse. Ms. Mayer seems to urge those in wrong rooms to get out of them. But, since each of the world’s occupied has, by definition, a smartest occupant, ''no'' room on the planet has a stable equilibrium. Occupancy will dwindle, tending quickly to zero. It is as if the world should be engaged in a perpetual, collective, fire-drill, calmly evacuating and reassembling in a blustery square somewhere near the office. | ||
Indeed, on this topic I have just had an argument with my daughter about who should leave the kitchen. We agreed [[Antagonista Contrariana|Antagonista]] should go. But, dilemma! The minute she left ''I'' became the smartest person in the kitchen,<ref>Lucille, our retriever, is not allowed in the kitchen.</ref> so I had to leave, too. | Indeed, on this topic I have just had an argument with my daughter about who should leave the kitchen. We agreed [[Antagonista Contrariana|Antagonista]] should go. But, dilemma! The minute she left ''I'' became the smartest person in the kitchen,<ref>Lucille, our retriever, is not allowed in the kitchen.</ref> so I had to leave, too. | ||