Originally Posted by flows101

Anyone who has read or watched RSD the Blueprint probably knows about the term pinging, if not the short of it is that basically human beings learn by what is socially acceptable and ok by looking at others.

I’ve been going out 3/5 nights a week for a while now so I’m beginning to understand and notice it more and even abuse it a little.

Here is an example of pinging in everyday life remember as a kid when you were learning to cross the road your mum or dad would always tell you to wait for the green man before crossing the road especially on a busy crossing and obviously because everyone else does the same, most of the time it makes sense and also the fact that if you cross at the wrong time you could get hurt.

Now sometimes when you reach traffic lights on a busy road and the green man hasn’t appeared yet but there are no cars passing and there are pedestrians on your right and left side waiting for the green man to appear, what usually happens, is that one person will cross 1st without waiting for the green man to appear, then everyone else will cross as well without waiting for the green man to indicate it’s ok to cross.

I guess their thought processes would be something like this “there are no cars passing at the moment, but this is a busy road so I should probably wait for the green man, ohhhhhhh look at that guy he’s crossing ANYWAY and he hasn’t been hurt so it must be OK to cross NOW then.”

Now me being the crazy scientist I am, I decided to TEST this a couple of times. I timed my own crossing so I was the first one to cross without waiting for the green man to appear but I did it when I could see an oncoming car ahead, I timed it so there would be enough time for ME to get across to the other side but because of the DELAY in pinging, if the other pedestrians followed my lead they would almost get run over, and hold and behold when I crossed there would be a DELAY of about 1 or 2 seconds and the other pedestrians would cross without waiting for the green man to appear and the oncoming car would be like BEEP BEEP and they would almost always have to do a mini sprint across to the other side HAHAHAHAHA.

P.S. DO NOT FUCKING GO OUT AND GET YOUR ARSE RUN OVER :-D