I sometimes listen to the Stuff You Should Know podcast during my long commute to work.
Today’s was about yawning. They talked about contagious yawning: basically you see someone yawn, so you yawn.
I can attest that just hearing people talking about yawning can cause yawning. I yawned the whole way to work while listening to it.
So, if you read this and yawn, then sorry (actually, I’m not sorry at all, bwah-ha-ha-ha-haaa).
yawn
Is this the very definition of a boring conversationalist? Are you trying to make me [stifles it] yawn? Well, we Pepperwinkles are of a sterner [stifling another] stuff than that, my friend!
I refuse to let it out, so bwah-ha-ha-ha-haaa yourse… {Yawn!}. Damn.
Just passing the thread title made me yawn. I am enormously susceptible to contagious yawning, much to the cruel delight of my little cousins.
Last night, reading a book with the Celtling, a picture of a cartoon ape yawning made me yawn.
:sigh:
The good news: it’s a function of empathy, and therefore a sure sign that you are not a psychopath. So there’s that.
Nice little litmus test for second dates.
Damn you, sparky!
I’m glad you posted this at the end of the day.
I think I once started a GQ thread years ago about yawning. If it triggers yawning in others as a sympathetic response, are sociopaths immune to it?
Even if this were the case, a sociopath who found out about that little tidbit would quickly learn to fake it.
Think that is contagious, when you are in a public waiting area, like a doctor/dentist office, train station, bus stop, or other public place where people are waiting, as soon a someone gets a call/text on their phone, everyone grabs their phone and starts futzing with it.
Oh, by the way, I just got a call…
I thought this was going to be about how Terry and Holly are no Sarah and Dubleena.
Yawn.
Holy cats. I yawned just reading the mouseover text.
Hooray, whatever my faults, I’m not a sociopath! Woo!