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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrumpyOldMan" data-source="post: 1726615" data-attributes="member: 16469">I deal with the ‘public’ on a daily basis, every so often I have to remind myself that they’re not all idiots, but that it’s only the idiots that I remember.I attended my first World Science Fiction con in 1979, the place was full of people like me, long-haired leather jacket & denim wearing blokes. Not smelly, not particularly scruffy (at least no more than was fashionable at the time). There were thousands of people at the con, listening to authors talks, buying books, drinking in bars. The TV cameras were there too.There was a half hour documentary about the con aired a couple of months later (IIRC – it’s a long time ago). The documentary showed the one (rather odd) slim and moderately attractive girl-fan who walked around every day in a different costume, the couple of dozen overweight Trekkies in Starfleet regalia, and a few of the more eccentric (short, myopic & bald; grossly overweight; extremely tall; generally weird looking) attendees. The vast mass of normal folks were visible, out of focus, in the background.Bottom line, it does not matter how reasonable you are1) People (I assume that booth babes are people) only remember the out of the ordinary.2) Any filmmaker will not want to make a film about normal people doing normal things, he wants wierdos and craziness, otherwise no-one is interested.</blockquote>