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Not what you're thinking...
I'm watching the soccer, and I notice that , when there's a near miss, my reaction is (amongst other things) to shut my eyes.
Usually accompanied by a gasp then a sigh.
This sometimes means I miss a bit of the action, and I wondered - is it just me (I don't think so) and if not, what possible evolutionary advantage cold this hold (unless it's learned behavior, I suppose)
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Why do players put their hands to their heads when they miss?
I'm guessing they have to do something with them after aborting the raising of hands in celebration.
As for closing the eyes, imaging what could have been perhaps?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: what possible evolutionary advantage cold this hold
Why would it need an evolutionary advantage at all? You seem to have it the wrong way round, there would need to have been an evolutionary disadvantage for it to have been removed - but again that is a huge oversimplification of evolution.
Now, I admit that, faced with something startling, closing one's eyes may well have not been a good idea if the thing doing the startling is a sabre-toothed tiger 
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Well, quite. I do feel it must be a disadvantage when, on seeing your mate nearly taken by a sabretooth, you shut your eyes .
While it doesn't have to have been an evolutionary advantage, the fact is that , assuming it isn't learned behavior, it must have evolved (unless it's just me) so (to really oversimplify) offspring who kept their eyes open whensurprised have failed in the long run to reproduce.
Maybe it confus the predator who use doge eyes to target vulnerabilities
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I tend to close off all senses that aren't focused on my computer, if there's a TV with sports playing in the room.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes but I usually get slapped.
_Maxxx_ wrote: Usually accompanied by a gasp then a sigh.
That too!
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I think part of it is simply trying to shut out the world ... if you can't see that your team just missed from 5 yards, then maybe it didn't really happen. But you raise an interesting question. I wonder if it is to allow us to process what just happened in detail without being distracted by the aftermath.
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BobJanova wrote: I wonder if it is to allow us to process what just happened in detail without being distracted by the aftermath.
That seems like a sensible suggestion.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Actually, that much dedication to soccer (or any professional athletics) whilst a mere spectator is clearly an evolutionary cu-de-sac.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: when there's a near miss,
I assume the fact that Emile Heskey has just joined your league is not a coincidence.
I'm an England supporter so when I watch the football there is a lot of swearing at the TV, so much in fact that the kids actually get scared when I watch it and the missus had to take the kids upstairs during the Euros this year.
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Heskey is scoring so many goals in Australia there is now an option to watch games with a single camera that follows him and him alone.
This'll cheer you up, I have a story about Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey too. It's not particularly interesting but it does involve a nightclub and a Norwegian girl.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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We were in a dark little club in Leicester called Pu Na Na's back when Emile played for them.
We were out with the half Norwegian girl from the flat upstairs and her flat mates.
Meretta (or something like that) was on the dance floor when we noticed frantic hand gestures. A closer look showed that Emile was dancing close behind her, very close, very very close indeed.
So someone went over and extricated her.
When asked what the problem was she said "He's really ugly", so we laughed and said that's Emile Heskey, England footballer.
She turned round and headed straight back for the dance floor. "Where you going?" we asked.
"If he plays for England I'm getting back in there" she replied.
But she'd missed her chance.
Remarkably in all the time I saw him on the dance floor he never once needed to be help off the floor by a physio.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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ChrisElston wrote: Pu Na Na's back when Emile played for them
Don't remember that stage of his career.
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