People are generally unfamiliar with the visual language thus perhaps this is why so-called optical illusions exist?

FORBES: A Flabbergasting Video Optical Illusion

Spurs reached the Champions League qualifying round for the first time in May by pipping Manchester City to fourth place in the Premier League, thus breaking the stranglehold of the so-called "Big Four" of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

BBC: Spurs target Euro elite

France, Germany, Belgium, Finland and so on (the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and so on are not part of the euro or the eurozone and thus cannot be called upon).

FORBES: Saving the Euro Might Bankrupt France

The aggregated cost of being without electricity for the 655, 000 people plunged into the cold and dark by the so-called Nemo storm, are distributed among the sufferers, and thus that cost is invisible, as is everything if one closes one's eyes hard enough.

CNN: Don't treat snow as an emergency

One of these changes, which would promote global warming, is a rise in the level of so-called greenhouse gases (particularly carbon dioxide) which trap heat from the sun and thus warm the air.

ECONOMIST: More evidence that global warming is man-made