X-ray wrote:
See a doddering tramp, his grubby hands outstretched for a few pennies while he surreptitiously guards a scuffed bottle of White Lightning behind his crooked legs? See his divergent gaze, no doubt made even less sharp than usual by the vapours of this cheap alcohol? See the lack of focus and incomplete faculties of this sorry example of an upright species?
Yes, I have observed the sorry fellow. I and the few other people unfortunate enough to have met you have mistaken him for you on occasion based his general appearence and mein. However, it became apparent it was not you when he managed to string together a semi coherent string of syllables, which combined with his outstretched hands conveyed enough information for one to deduce he was asking for money.
So, despite the pitiful worn rags, the multilayered strata of dirt concealing his features and the discordant ensemble of rank odours from the drink, urine, excrement and other bodily secretions that are in all respect identical to you in your most presentable state, the demonstration of communicative ability was decisive in the differentiation.
You, by comparison, just sit there and drool, occasionally mumble in a manner consistent with someone raised by wild apes and missing a part of their mouth as a result of being attacked by a dominant chimpanzee for having made solicitous advances on his female. The only variation on this behaviour that you can manage is a sporadic convulsion that could be signature of someone with a serious, irrecoverable brain injury.
