The Maiden Voyage of the 'Tottanic!'

coys1882 is watching out for ice cubes

There is a condition defined in psychology, a cognitive bias, known as 'normalcy bias'. Now, I very rarely pay any attention to the drivel uttered by psychs, but on this occasion, this observation of the human condition is, in my experience, an accurate one.

It describes a fundamental human flaw whereby "... people disbelieve or minimize threat warnings,…