And yet ask him and his friends what it's like to be gay in Moscow and they shrug.
And yet, ask the Finns, "Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001?" and chances are you'll get a precise answer.
And yet ask a chief technology officer to define big data and he or she will will stare at the floor.
And yet, ask the average person for the definition of rudeness – and I did, via the scientific method of an email straw poll – and the results are bizarre.
And yet, ask any GP or even the hospital doctors who spend precious overtime typing them, the typical discharge summary is unduly verbose, maddeningly unenlightening and notoriously unreliable.
And yet, ask a school child about her achievements and they will tell you how she walked around clumsily with radioactive isotopes in her pocket.
And yet, ask the people who knew Meghan Markle before she was soon-to-be duchess Meghan Markle what they think of this turn of events, and they will express, again and again, that this is all very unsurprising.
And yet asking the comfortable, the well situated, to pay taxes to help those who may not live or look like them and are even, at times, despised, is not the most obvious or easy way to get cheap love.
He accepts without serious questioning or research the figures quoted to him by the Sandinistas on land redistribution and yet asks members of the constitutional committee why the right to abortion on demand cannot be included in the new Constitution of this deeply Roman Catholic country.
Children are life's gift to women". And yet, asks the narrator, presumably Sada, how can these twins possibly get married when they are so yoked to each other?
