https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_th...

I think the author of the article missed that this punchline talks about the giant floating seed of a coastal species of plant, that spreads itself by drifting out into the open sea, following the sea currents and eventually finding new islands to colonize. In other words: that coconuts do, in fact, migrate.

I'm aware, both of my parents are retired GPs.

Back when they retired, about a decade ago, they already had spent a decade complaining that the a constant increase in excessive administrative work got in the way of the actual work of being a doctor that helps their patients. So much that they had joined the strike (remember when that was a big deal because it happened for the first time in Dutch history?)

Anyway, the situation got more complex since then but a lot of pressure is also still administration. Yes, now we have assistants taking on more complex tasks leaving the "important" things to the real doctors, but I think that the need for that is also is in large part due to doctors not getting enough time to be doctors.

And I feel like automation will help fight back at that about as much as IBM's 1967 prediction came true that their office machines would fight back at the "paperwork explosion". Which is to say: Jevons paradox said no.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

It's kind of infuriating to hear Dutch people cite these chatbots without bothering to check https://www.thuisarts.nl/.

The fact that only one copy was made suggests it wasn't really intended as a mass-produced book, but as an individual item, perhaps to show to visitors or clients.

A book's illustrations don't have that problem, and the pages aren't exposed to the air or sun as much either, if kept on a shelf in a dry place most of the time.

Does make me wonder how expensive the blue pages were to make though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine

(also funny that our forward slash is a descendant of it, meaning it's a "cousin" to the integral symbol)

It's been a growing problem for two decades now.

[0] https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/495903

[1] https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/558516, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2Z23SAFVA

Well, this is also interesting, because I was born in Ghana and spent the first four years of my life there, and since then have always had insomnia issues, first in the Netherlands and now Sweden. However, the one time I visited Ghana as an adult for a month I slept like a baby.

I actually had a gut feeling that the much quicker shift from day to nighttime darkness and back played a big part in it, but wasn't sure why that might be the case. I assumed it was psychological somehow, that on some subconscious level I felt more "at home" in Ghana's natural environment because it's what my brain was "calibrated" on in the first years of its life. Would be interesting if that actually is the case in a circadian rhythm sense.

> That’s the endogenous period, that really only comes out as is in total darkness over many days.

And speaking of Sweden, I wouldn't be surprised if the short winter days probably do give enough "leeway" to approximate that effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5l_fGY-EfA&list=PL65tAzyNzM...

... and then the episode becomes a parody of Westerns as it switches to the "imagination vision" of the characters, and the story and gags are not really comparable to The Wrong Trousers at all after that.

I mean, I watched taped episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh religiously as a small child and has strong nostalgia goggles for it, and even I don't think that it is on the same level. Even childhood me would have agreed: I remember loving and enjoying this episode (just like all the others), but the first time I watched The Wrong Trousers as a child I was genuinely laughing so much I had sore core muscles the day after, because I had never seen a film that funny and amazing before in my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ7qKKQrSBY&t=581s

"The Wrong Trousers" also has one of the best heist scenes in cinema imo, up there with Rififi. It gets overshadowed by the action sequence though.

I'm not saying that these can't be factors, but the original question was asked in a way that suggests it might be a general explanation, and it clearly cannot explain everything.