From Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick on Matthew Simmonds, through 'roasting' scandals, to numerous players' drunken antics in hotels and nightclubs, football's familiarity with some of human nature's baser instincts is well-established.
Keep zooming and the temporary relief of human familiarity is ripped off like a scab, as every tooth, every ear, every pimple, every scar, becomes a singular visual event. .
We all know that the butts in fashion magazines are outliers, and one Discovery channel show won't give viewers familiarity with the range of human bodies that say, a massage therapist or a person who frequents nudist colonies has, but I do think it's a step towards counteracting the "Bikini Ready Body" headlines that dominate the covers of women's magazines every spring.
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There is something faintly encouraging, just barely hopeful, in the human familiarity of the counsel being given by the Keynesian economists.
In the post-war years, there were signs of an increasing familiarity with human capital and the economic value of education among academic economists.
"Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behaviour but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability," he wrote at the start of a passage criticising earlier economists.
Hyper-consumption, big screen televisions, fast food and Facebook can never compensate for the warmth and comfort of home food, the familiarity of traditional rituals and actual human company.
Mouse investigation time was also compared to other aspects of human olfactory perception represented by intensity and familiarity ratings (see Materials and Methods): no correlation was found, either with intensity (t 89) = 1.048, p>.05) or familiarity rating (t 89) = .340, p>.05).
Of the different parameters of human olfactory perception measured here (hedonic, intensity and familiarity ratings), mouse investigation time thus correlated only with human olfactory pleasantness.
