Quetelet knew that his calculations were not offering a simple description of reality. We still call this “normal distribution”. As revolution brought chaos and disruption to Belgium, Quetelet found that on paper, all measurable human qualities - from height and weight to propensity for suicide - fell into the quiet and simple order of the bell curve. (Auguste Comte had thought of it first, but coined another word - “sociology” - to ensure nobody confused their work.) Taking data on the chest measurements of 5,738 Scottish soldiers from a two-decades-old copy of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Quetelet plotted these numbers on a graph to produce an average chest size, rather as astronomers used multiple readings to establish the length of a planetary orbit. But in 1840, along came Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer and statistician who loosed the term into the space of a new discipline he called “social physics”. In 1800, “normal” was a mathematical term designating a straight line perpendicular to the tangent. In essence, her book is an account of an escape. Her first lesson about “normal” as we understand it today is that its history is short. Chaney’s new book, Am I Normal? takes a single term and, like a long, chatty entry from Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords (1976), traces its sources and explores the different uses to which it has been put.
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These are questions for Sarah Chaney, research fellow at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, which in recent years has produced exciting work on British weeping, shame in early modern Spain, and Busman’s stomach (a psychosomatic disorder that troubled double-decker drivers around the time of the 1937 Coronation). I’m starting to worry how I’ll get through the weekend.More from this author Could you spot a conspiracy theorist? Hello! Bye #GBNewsFails /73a9O0FUmU- GBNews Fails June 18, 2021 Submitted by Jason – does anyone have video of this? #GBNewsFails /5Sbhco075c- GBNews Fails June 19, 2021Īm I doing it now? Yes! No! After the break… Bye. GB News looks like when an ITV drama has a newsflash and they’re not allowed to make it look too realistic in case it confuses viewers /DyzSXUllUX- Glenn Moore June 13, 2021Īlso a Twitter account was set up called GBNews Fails, so you can whack the numerous gaffs on there. Thanks to GB News for finally answering that perennial question: what would it be like if the shopping channels decided to try their hand at current affairs?- David Baddiel June 17, 2021
GB NEWS: This next comment comes from FuckoMcFistyBalls oh no- TechnicallyRon June 16, 2021 GB NEWS: Please stop pranking us with fake names Just heard GB News called GBeebies and I think it should stick.- Yes Sir, I Can Guffers June 13, 2021 Millennials finally have a “just be quiet and watch that for a few hours” channel for their parents. This wicked logo was created by a facebook chum – it’s perfect in every way and I encourage you to use it whenever possible #GBeebies /g4cGjo4ooL- Polly Phluid June 15, 2021 But GB News will thankfully end their marginalisation.- David_Osland June 14, 2021
Until now, rightwingers have only had the Sun, Express, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, UnHerd, LBC, talkRADIO, two dozen dodgy think tanks and an increasingly authoritarian Tory government to speak for them. Launching it & immediately becoming a national laughing stock, not so much.- James O’Brien June 16, 2021 since Monty Python.- Mr Ethical June 17, 2021Ī TV news channel for people sick of being reminded by all the real news that they’ve turned the country into an international laughing stock is a great idea, actually. GB News is the best thing to happen in the U.K. GB News is basically North Norfolk Digital TV.- Robert Popper June 17, 2021 Life moves pretty fast.- Matthew Smith? June 16, 2021 He’s now on GB News begging viewers not to write in using the names Hugh Janus and Mike Hunt. Simon McCoy was, just a few months ago, a respected and liked BBC newsreader. Someone has just referred to that new channel as “Wetherspoons TV” and I can’t stop thinking about this- Jim Pickard June 16, 2021 (repeat forever from a Long Play VHS tape)- Michael June 15, 2021 Simon McCoy JReactionsĪs expected social media have had their say on the channel and here are some of the best comments.ĩ.00 Andy’s Prehistoric Adventures (with Andrew Neil) The audience is there – and is supportive.
Presenter Simon McCoy made a please for viewers to stick with the channel.
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