San Francisco is a city of approximately 7 x 7 square miles, bounded to the East and North by the San Francisco bay, to the West by the Pacific Ocean, and to the South by the Peninsula.
It is considered by many to be a beautiful city filled with the charm of foggy hilly streets, old Victorian homes, a thriving modern downtown and an eclectic mix of people living in approximately 27 distinct neighborhoods, including a decade old Chinese community.
San Francisco is 7 x 7 square miles, and is often referred to by it's inhabitants as "49 square miles surrounded by reality"
A framework revealing how reality itself can mislead—by presenting only its surface, hiding its depths; by showing us only what we're prepared to see; by confirming our expectations while concealing the exceptions. Fooled by Reality Theory shows how experience can be systematically misleading, how what seems obviously real can be obviously wrong, and how the very givenness of reality can blind us to its construction. We are fooled when we trust appearances, when we mistake the map for the territory, when we forget that reality, too, has layers.
Fooled by Reality Theory "The sun rises in the east—obviously real. Except it doesn't rise; the earth turns. Fooled by Reality: trusting appearances, mistaking experience for truth. Reality fooled every human for millennia. It still fools us daily. The question isn't whether reality is real; it's whether we're seeing it right."
When you feel AMAZING because you finally got a word published in the Urban Dictionary, but that quickly fades because you realize your a 24 year old who has no job or money, who still live with his parents, and who is still in the 9th Grade because you can't pass Freshman English. Now you feel depressed.
You: BRO,BRO,BRO. Check this out, i got something published in the Urban Dictionary.
Friend:How long has that taken you?
You:*depressed*15 years.
Friend:How long has it taken you to pass English?
*A Good Feeling That Is Followed By a Reality Check.*
*you burst out in tears and start strangling your friend*
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'