The milliHelen is an internationally agreed unit for measuring beauty - the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship, or to topple a single tower.
There is an evident need for a like measure of cuteness. There is only one viable unit for this, the Kitty.
This is defined as the cuteness of a single average, awake kitten, just sitting, in ordinary surroundings. The existence of this unit does make other measures necessary. It is not just the cuteness of something that causes an effect. It also depends on the susceptibility of the observer to cute. There is an obvious measure of this available - the w-number. This is defined as the number of w's that are put on the word aw when encountering a one Kitty degree of cuteness. So a w number of one implies that the observer goes aw when seeing a one Kitty; two and they go aww; and so on. Equally, if someone has a resistance to cute rather than a susceptibility, then their w-number is negative. This represents the number of w's in the reversed word - wa; wwa; ... It is essential that this word is pronounced with vigour, and with a gurning and ferocious face. Then a -1 w-number encountering a one Kitty goes wa.
Siem Reap appears to have no other industry than tourism. In addition with Angkor and the surrounding temple complexes being such a vast, and important site, there are severe restrictions on who can live in and around the various complexes. These limitations ensure that everybody living there is directly involved in the tourist industry. They are also (obviously) native, and they and their families have lived in the area since time immoral. As a result many of the souvenir sellers; the restaurant staff; the people producing souvenirs - mainly paintings and drawings; all live close to their work, and naturally take their small children to work with them. On the evidence of my visit to Angkor Wat and the surrounding temple complexes, these children's first words are likely to be in English rather than Thai; and are very likely to be "Ten postcard, one dollar", as they get into the family business from the word go.
These children are undeniably cute - I reckon they rate 10-15 Kitties. They do however meet their match with a few tourists, who, like me, have a w number of -10 to -15. They are not successful in selling their postcards, or pens, or whatever. They do though show a degree of persistence that is greater than that of the adults, who very quickly recognise a determined ignoring of their wares and sales pitch. So today's picture is of belated recognition that the sales pitch didn't work.
[I dislike this name for the unit - my favourite Kitt, Eartha, has a cuteness rating of about -1000. Though there are a lot of adjectives and descriptions that do fit her, cute is not one of them. Indeed calling her cute might lead to shredded skin].
This is defined as the cuteness of a single average, awake kitten, just sitting, in ordinary surroundings. The existence of this unit does make other measures necessary. It is not just the cuteness of something that causes an effect. It also depends on the susceptibility of the observer to cute. There is an obvious measure of this available - the w-number. This is defined as the number of w's that are put on the word aw when encountering a one Kitty degree of cuteness. So a w number of one implies that the observer goes aw when seeing a one Kitty; two and they go aww; and so on. Equally, if someone has a resistance to cute rather than a susceptibility, then their w-number is negative. This represents the number of w's in the reversed word - wa; wwa; ... It is essential that this word is pronounced with vigour, and with a gurning and ferocious face. Then a -1 w-number encountering a one Kitty goes wa.
Siem Reap appears to have no other industry than tourism. In addition with Angkor and the surrounding temple complexes being such a vast, and important site, there are severe restrictions on who can live in and around the various complexes. These limitations ensure that everybody living there is directly involved in the tourist industry. They are also (obviously) native, and they and their families have lived in the area since time immoral. As a result many of the souvenir sellers; the restaurant staff; the people producing souvenirs - mainly paintings and drawings; all live close to their work, and naturally take their small children to work with them. On the evidence of my visit to Angkor Wat and the surrounding temple complexes, these children's first words are likely to be in English rather than Thai; and are very likely to be "Ten postcard, one dollar", as they get into the family business from the word go.
These children are undeniably cute - I reckon they rate 10-15 Kitties. They do however meet their match with a few tourists, who, like me, have a w number of -10 to -15. They are not successful in selling their postcards, or pens, or whatever. They do though show a degree of persistence that is greater than that of the adults, who very quickly recognise a determined ignoring of their wares and sales pitch. So today's picture is of belated recognition that the sales pitch didn't work.
