Why Are We The Way We Are?
Posted by Bill on March 26th, 2009
Many thanks to everyone who sent in their essays following my request on Twitter yesterday:
@RealBillBailey: Ok, your task for today, to write a 140 character essay on “Why we are the way we are”..
Yes – he I did say “140 word essay” originally, but you knew what I meant. Here are my top 25 answers!
@AlmightyHoogs Why we are the way we are is that due to our surroundings and our lifes……err balls i had it there for a second
@deanomarr mam,dad;siblings;peers;love,life,work,play;kids;past,present and future; the sum of all the above + time and experience = me
@dsabar Essay:We propagate in the shade of our parents beliefs & knowledge, then cast adrift on the seas of
our peers’ prejudices
@emmacoomber Is it nature, is it nurture? There are proponents of both, most likely a complex interaction
between the two…
@english_teeth Because we operate within constraints, we are bound by higher forces and must find ways express to ourselves within 140 char
@foxiehaha The Media and custard creams.
@glaikat easy, scrumpy and acid.
@HelenHenderson We are the way we are because Chuck Norris says so 
@joeadamfry Nature, Nurture, Sex and Biscuits; and our desire for all four, mediated only by gravity, ignorance, inertia and solipsism.
@JohnnyKGB : Because what else would we be…?
@machupiku essay – because that is
what the Flying Spaghetti Monster (by the power of His noodley appendages) made
us!
@mattimago Due to living in a socially and morally bereft epoch, dependent on the inadequacies of others to feel superior.
@MickPuck (with apologies to John Cooper Clarke) To express oneself with any accuracy in a hundred and forty characters is very diffic
@Monfitz A world where resources are scarce has evolutionarily ingrained a deep sense of greed that affects all the aspects our mind
@noseyparker1 Any chance of you coming to southport? (I JUST LIKE THIS COS IT”S SO RANDOM AND
UNCONNECTED WITH ANYTHING ELSE!!)
@OhDaniB Choice. We always have choice, and we choose how and who we “be” at any given moment. Simple, and so complicated.
@P2C2E Because of varying ratios of ingenuity to stupidity as they interact with cause and effect.
@patientman Life is a battle between animal instinct & misunderstood emotions. The only winners are money,
stupidity & laughter.
@philhepple The sun burns us, the night scares us, we are occupied by time/weather, we applaud those who are complete idiots. then death
@RealTamster humans evolve adapting fight love forage being adventuresome mischievous beautifully creating and hatefully tearing down.
@red1hols I am the way I am because if I am facing any other way, I can’t see my monitor.
@reeetpetite A convergence of evolution, genes, environment, experience and general cussedness. And wine.
@tullyapple We are as we are because if we weren’t as we were we wouldn’t be as we are, we would be as we weren’t or rather wouldn’t be.
@VicksG Because of society, it’s expectations and the demands it places on people.
@WGDurrant We are the way we are because of the way we are. If we weren’t the way we were we wouldn’t be the way we are! Us being us makes us us.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
lol, how very random.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
@red1hols I am the way I am because if I am facing any other way, I can’t see my monitor.
That one is my absolute favourite. Though there are some very thought-provoking ones, which I love, too.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Oh, well done the lot of you.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Why are we the way we are? Maybe split personalities come into it? No they don’t! SHUT UP! We are talking to Bill now! NO, YOU AREN’T!
March 26th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Evolution, my good fellow.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I am under the influence of mind controlling squirrels which is why I am the way I am. Sometimes the bluetits and robins like to have some say in the matter but not always.
But as a general rule, I obey when they knock at the window. I am their slave
March 27th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I am the weight I am ‘cos of what I eats…….oh wait……eh…….yes
March 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Too many people…Too many people…Too many people…Too many people…Too many people… Too many people…..I could go on…
March 27th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Aha! Good question. Love it. Right up my street this sort of thing. So, the reason why we are the way we are (in less than 140 characters) is gr
March 27th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I know this one. Is it anything to do with honey and feathers?
March 27th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Why are we the way we are
In a 140 characters? Sheesh man that’s a toughie especially for a female of the species!
Does that include spaces?
March 31st, 2009 at 12:12 am
If I weren’t me, someone would have to be, I might as well do it myself.
April 1st, 2009 at 2:47 pm
If I wasn’t the way I am – I would be an entirely different am! … or would I…
April 5th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Hellohello? Bill twittered me to contact him “Over the Webpage”. Is this like the right way to do it? ^^
April 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Yes, that’s the way to do it. There’s a few handy contact details in the ‘About Bill’ section
April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
because of cockney music. (I think)
April 16th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Because my mother told me so……..
April 19th, 2009 at 9:11 am
We are all the fantasy of a giant sloth who ate too much curry and drank too much beer on a night out with the boys.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:19 am
“What is a man, but the sum of his experiences”
May 10th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
it doesn’t matter who we are, in the end, we all shall be human slaves, in an insect nation. AAA-AA-A-A-AAAAH.
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Am i too late? well anyway Hectors House made me what i am.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
i know its late but;
Nothing of me is original. I am combined effort of everybody I’ve ever know.