One of them is about the phrase "Everything happens for a reason." I recently read a comment at reddit that will stay with me, and I will use it whenever necessary. "Everything happens for a reason. And sometimes that reason is that you're a moron."
Wow, I never thought about it before, but the advent of talkies was a game-changer for people who couldn't read and wanted to see movies. I'm sure that in the 1920s, that was a lot of people.
I read the daily newspaper cover to cover even as a child. It was part of our "lack of choice" that actually bound people together, although we didn't realize it at the time. There was one TV in the house, and it only got two channels, so the family watched TV together, even the 6 o'clock news. We listened to the same songs on the radio, because we didn't pick up many stations. The theater had one movie at a time, and no video rentals. Fragmented media and entertainment choices have their drawbacks.
In a related scenario, I recall an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in which Laura was worried that their marriage license wasn't valid because (she confessed to Rob for the first time) she lied about her age when they wed, and said she was 18. Rob says that's okay, honey, a lot of women lie about their age to seem younger. But no, she admitted that she had actually been only 16. Rob was shocked, but they'd already been married for years by then. If I recall correctly, they met when Laura was a dancer on a show Rob worked on.
Yeah, I seem to recall that this is some sort of brain filtering, reducing the signal-to-noise ratio. I should look it up. The same thing works with audio, and even with touch. Adapting to light levels is a mechanical process.
Checked two decks nearby, and they look exactly like that.