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 This is going to be a heck of a lot more relevant than the last one. Okay then, first of all there's a thing called Gaussian distribution, also known as the normal distribution or the bell curve which works a lot of the time when you look at a range of quantities.  It looks like this: You're supposed to label axes, but on this occasion I haven't because it applies to so many things.  One straightforward thing it applies to is heights.  If you take a hundred like-gendered adults at random and measure their heights, then arrange them in terms of, say, people who are 5'6", 5'7" and so on, you will find they're distributed something like this.  It also applies to IQ.  There's a formula to make this but I've never used it and can't remember it.  If I want to make a normal distribution curve in software, I'd start with a value in the middle of the range and add or subtract one at random, or rather pseudo-random, a few times until I let it se...

Credit where credit is due on this one.  This is based on a dream a friend had a few years ago about someone being arrested for living too far up the road.  More recently, I spent too much time considering how this could conceivably happen.  I say "conceivably" because the way my thoughts went, it isn't actually possible.  Unfortunately it's now occurred to me that there are circumstances in which it really could happen.  For instance, in Apartheid South Africa it's possible that people of a certain ethnicity could be arrested for living in the "wrong" area and in some places this amounts to "living too far up the road", but that isn't really how things worked there because people wouldn't've been able to move into such an area in the first place.  Nonetheless, such a situation is, unfortunately, possible. After some cogitation, I realised there is a pre-existing fictional setting into which this would fit quite well:  the sitcom ...

  I could be talking about the Mandela Effect at this point.  In fact, in one way I am talking about it but it would have to be carefully defined.  The Mandela Effect is, for the purposes of this post, the situation where a number of people have memories inconsistent with those of another large number of people.  This is the most diplomatic way of putting things.  The fact that it's a number of people means that an individual having different memories doesn't count.  Because of this large number, it would have to be generally the kind of thing which has been publically experienced, such as the death of a famous person or pop song lyrics, or a scene in a Hollywood blockbuster. I have described a number of my memories which are different from other people's.  In my case, some of these are backed up by others and it's possible to list them, but they're not usually the memories which popularly appear as Mandela Effects(MEs).  Consequently, my interact...