I’m talking about what I see and have seen, not about extreme metaphors or what “makes sense” within a pre-existing paradigm. I prefer to fit my theories to observed data and not the other way around. 
Edit, only slightly offtopic: when some people proposed that new members of a group I belong to not be allowed to vote until they’d been members for a year, I counterproposed that anyone who hadn’t been a member of the group longer than my pants should not be allowed to vote. I happened to be wearing very old pants that day, so that rule passing would have invalidated the votes of the people making the proposal. It made the people in question re-examine what they were doing when my amendment almost passed…
