The Book Is Better

In any group of people discussing a film adapted from a book or theatre script, there will be at least one person who says that the book is better. If no one will else will step up to claim that, I will call it George's Law and I've never seen it fail. Not once. There are other, similar, laws of human behaviour which are so common that one wonders whether its something hard-wired in the language centres of our brains. Take people who solve Rubik's cubes, I'm pretty certain that each such Rubik's Cube solver has been told the following at least once: How do you do it?! You know, when I was a kid I just took the stickers off each side of the cube and stuck all the same colours on the same side. Now, just in the interest of full disclosure, I did do that to a cube I had, and now half the stickers are missing because I didn't stick them back on properly.

Why do people do stuff like that? You know, standard lines.