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Having the smugness shaken out of me.

When I was a mere slip of a lad (back when flared trousers and long collars were standard issue and when no-one had heard of Margaret Thatcher, the Internet or Madonna), I learnt about differing climates around the world.
I learnt about the freezing north and south poles where penguins and polar bears huddled together to keep out the bitter cold. I learnt about the stupendously hot tropics with crippling water shortages and poisonous snakes and spiders. I learnt about the driest of deserts where nothing but sand and scorpions survived. I learnt about American cities on the San Andreas Fault and the Japanese Islands constantly besieged by seismic activity such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
And, I learnt to be smug.