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Realistically speaking?
Unfortunately this still suffers from the whole "Time Traveller visits you" part of the claim - our language doesn't handle it well. It's a realistic claim about counterfactual response of a real brain to unrealistic stimulus.
I'll be sure to ask you the next time I need to write an imaginary comment.
It's not like anyone didn't know what I meant. What do you think of the actual content? How much do you trust faul_sname's claim that they wouldn't trust their own senses on a time-travel-like improbability?
Anecdotal evidence of the reaction of normal people to seeing something impossible:
http://www.bcgreen.com/comments/not_kansas.html
I wasn't the pedant. I was the tangential-pedantry analyzer. Ask Lumifer.
Your comment was fine. It would be true of most people, I'm not sure if Faul is one of the exceptions.