Every so often it becomes very difficult to come up with a topic to blog about. Today was one of those days. But just as I was about to cave and say “piss on it”, it came to me.
If I may quote Michael Caine’s character, Nigel Power's in Goldmember, "There are only two things I hate in this world; people who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch." Be that as it may, we can now thank Dutch researchers who have determined that important life decisions may be best made while practicing bladder control. Yes, having control over our bodily needs can potentially offer up a wider array of choices.
Subjects in the testing group were divided into two groups. One group drank five cups of water and the other group just sips. After allowing time for the liquid to reach its destination, the two groups were asked to make choices. One of those choices was to receive $16 dollars now, or wait 30 days and receive $35 dollars; almost twice as much. Results showed those with fuller bladders held out for greater rewards.
Is it just me? I’m not convinced. Are the researchers telling me they dangled money in front of a teenager, street person, the famished, someone who just saw the price of a gallon of gas and rather than take the money and run...........to the washroom, chose to wait? What is it they say, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?” “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth?” No that’s “I’ve got to see a man about a horse.”
The results will be published in the journal, Psychological Science. I’m going to conduct my own experiment. Maybe blog topics will come to me with a full bladder. With any luck the ideas will, um, just splash over me.
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