Updated Thoughts

I have had a grand total of two conversations today. They have covered:

• The American reluctance to tell sad stories to children (or indeed, anyone) and how this might engender a detached attitude to 'terrible things'
• Who would be damaged first by a Trump presidency, the US or the rest of the world
• Using cocaine as a topical anaesthetic for corneal sunburn during the Heroic Age of polar exploration
• Correlation (or not) of crankiness with miniaturism
• The atomic weights of carbon and oxygen and whether it's more humane to kill lab mice with CO or CO₂

I think I'll stay.