Hey! My weight should be about 212-220 for my hight frame (striaght from the doctors mouth...and no..not the prostrate doctor)..and the additional weight is due to a rather large certain part of me and the rest pure muscle.
Hey! My weight should be about 212-220 for my hight frame (striaght from the doctors mouth...and no..not the prostrate doctor)..and the additional weight is due to a rather large certain part of me and the rest pure muscle.
My wife comes from an Islamic country and her thoughts on women's rights etc are pretty much in line with those generally held in the west. And people have more in common with each other than they have differences, it's just that everyone finds it easier to see the differences (and all groups are to blame for this).
Is there anything wrong with recognizing the differences...good or bad.....isn't it the differences that make the difference (!) and make the world a richer place to live. cue serene music playing in the background and a dreamy far away look
You don't understand statistics. Your own personal experience is far too limited a sample size to draw any useful conclusions from. Even combined with the personal experiences of everyone who has contributed to this thread it is impossible to draw any useful conclusions from such a small sample.
Nah I think you don't understand his point.....how an individual reacts and treats others is based on HIS personal experience...not what joe bloggs down the road says....
If he has only ever had negative experiences with that group of people then its natural that he would have a negative viewpoint on them.
Now what I think your refering to is if someone has limited experience with them and bases his viewpoint on others/what he has heard...then that is wrong.
Being honest....my viewpoint on a certain sect of people has gone worse during my time in America..this is based on my direct dealings with them....I am always going to base my viewpoint on my personal experiences and not what someone else tells me I should think.
'Bad differences' are just stereotypes. No person is an inherently worse person than anyone else when they are born and all people have the potential to contribute to society.
Gonna have to disagree with that...some people are just born bad....they know good from bad but choose bad anyway...
If there was no bad you couldn't have good!...gotta keep the balance....embrace it all
A newborn baby does not have the concept of good and bad. You have to have language before you can even begin to understand the concept. Ergo, no-one is born bad.
A newborn baby does not have the concept of good and bad.
Actually they do, there were a series of experiments done last year that tested this.... it clearly proved that newborns have a hereditary knowledge including good and bad.
Just like the animal kingdom where certain species are born with knowledge on how to survive without parental guidance... (turtles for example)
Hey! My weight should be about 212-220 for my hight frame
snap (6'3 1/2" and ~250lbs). BMI really is bollocks, my doctor can't run 5km as quick as me even if he is 100lbs lighter.
I mentioned a gay friend from my college waster years in another thread and as this is a great example of how liberals can be the most closed minded people of all I once almost got kicked out of college for calling him 'a fat black puffter' when the dean heard it while passing us in the corridor. Even when he stood in my defence and said "I'm a fat, black homosexual and I have no problems with one of my best friends saying that out loud in the corridors when we a messing around". They seemed to think I must have bullied him into saying it so he got him mother to come in and defend me. It was a surreal moment when I got called into see the dean and his (white, he was adopted, mother) was screaming at him about how it was his right to choose how his friends addressed him during a private conversation and none of his business. His mother knew how to call a spade a spade I learned a few new swear words that day which isn't something that normally happens at 18 ;)
But most people don't understand probability, this is quite evident in the number of people who play the lottery (a tax on people who are bad at maths). The lack of ability to assess risks and assess probability is why parents are terrified to let their kids out and play, lest they get abducted. The lack of understanding of probability resulted in the socially destructive "say no to strangers" campaign in the 70s, which has lead to a society where adult strangers don't even say hello to each other in the street any more - when the real tragedy was that it wasn't stranger danger, in reality, kids were far more likely to be getting molested by people they knew well.
It's a big shame that people don't even have the most basic grip on how to assess even simple probability.
in reality, kids were far more likely to be getting molested by people they knew well.
All children should be stored on island homes staffed by people known to be of no danger and at all costs be kept away from their families. May I suggest those tax dodging inbreds on Jersey do their bit and donate the island to the protection of children before it's too late and we all start copulating with our own children.
Yes I have been reading ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com all morning.
Nah I think you don't understand his point.....how an individual reacts and treats others is based on HIS personal experience...not what joe bloggs down the road says....
If he has only ever had negative experiences with that group of people then its natural that he would have a negative viewpoint on them.
Now what I think your refering to is if someone has limited experience with them and bases his viewpoint on others/what he has heard...then that is wrong.
Being honest....my viewpoint on a certain sect of people has gone worse during my time in America..this is based on my direct dealings with them....I am always going to base my viewpoint on my personal experiences and not what someone else tells me I should think.
Many things that I base on my own experience I would consider to be 'my prejudices' rather than my rational thoughts. I often get buses to my parents home near birmingham.
I am not sure to be honest that when confronted with a group of black kids in Birmingham city centre at midnight i would react in the same way to if they were white...
I've a feeling it would be a physical 'flinch' reaction to double my walking speed and get out of the situation even tho' I know my fears are not justified by anything rational.
I am not proud of this - but as a teacher i personally have been threatened violence and at one point punched by black children before but never by white ones. It's not a common problem and I get on with the vast majority of all students of every creed and race. (In the case where I was hit the kid was actually having an argument with another student - and I was lucky enough to get in the way! :))
But I'm not the only one : For example I know that I am wasting my time trying to teach kids that smoking is bad for you. You just cannot overcome their prejucides.
Maybe 1 kid in a class of 30 has lost someone close to a smoking related illness.
About 15 kids in the class know someone who smokes pretty regularly and seems pretty old to them (anything over 25) so it must be okay as they have not died yet.
They'll also be several 4th hand stories of how someone in the family smoked 40 a day yet happily lived to the age of 112.
The kids ultimately base their decision to smoke or not on their own prejudice which is based on their own experience. As Andy says the sample size any one person sees at a given time is far too small to be scientifically valid.
But showing them a graph that PROVES that statistically smokers are more prone to respiratory diseases just doesn't seem relevant to them.
Everyone prefers a story with real characters that they can relate to rather than a graph and a load of numbers.
Im a Doorman in my spare time - If theres one type of person you dont want in your venue - its a pikey. Time and time again we have thrown them out fot fighting/nicking/being generally offensive. Nothing against them, its just these are the 'Pikeys' I have meet, hard to think otherwise. Maybe you should'nt judge a campsite by the front caravan?
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ah thats why there are only 3 people in denmark.
As I already explained, you could have left out the (oxy)moronic "positive" without changing the meaning... :roll: ;)
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.Or we could just call a spade a spade.
that only helps if you are a motorhead tribute act.
Now you're using a term which is offensive to dark[strike]ies[/strike]-skinned people. :p :D
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.It's only offensive to the namby pamby ones...
but you wouldn't want to say it to the big bruiser types.
Im 6'4' and 250lbs....so yeah I am the big bruiser types! :lol:
oh rite, didn't realise you were a big fella, i'll show some more respect to you.
fat bastard
Hey! My weight should be about 212-220 for my hight frame (striaght from the doctors mouth...and no..not the prostrate doctor)..and the additional weight is due to a rather large certain part of me and the rest pure muscle.
your big fat arse i persume.
:lol:
Good work..I set that up for you.
still haven't managed to knock this thread off topic yet though.
Is there anything wrong with recognizing the differences...good or bad.....isn't it the differences that make the difference (!) and make the world a richer place to live.
cue serene music playing in the background and a dreamy far away look
Nah I think you don't understand his point.....how an individual reacts and treats others is based on HIS personal experience...not what joe bloggs down the road says....
If he has only ever had negative experiences with that group of people then its natural that he would have a negative viewpoint on them.
Now what I think your refering to is if someone has limited experience with them and bases his viewpoint on others/what he has heard...then that is wrong.
Being honest....my viewpoint on a certain sect of people has gone worse during my time in America..this is based on my direct dealings with them....I am always going to base my viewpoint on my personal experiences and not what someone else tells me I should think.
Gonna have to disagree with that...some people are just born bad....they know good from bad but choose bad anyway...
If there was no bad you couldn't have good!...gotta keep the balance....embrace it all
Why is it irrational??
Let me give you an example again...
If I had 30yrs personal bad experiences with...say....frogs...every time I got near one I would have an outbreak or something bad happened to me....
would it be irrational for me to avoid going to the pond during spawning time or wise to stay away from it?
what about damien from the omen?
Actually they do, there were a series of experiments done last year that tested this.... it clearly proved that newborns have a hereditary knowledge including good and bad.
Just like the animal kingdom where certain species are born with knowledge on how to survive without parental guidance... (turtles for example)
There would be no need to "appreciate" the good if everyone and everything were good. It just would be good and that would be that.
snap (6'3 1/2" and ~250lbs). BMI really is bollocks, my doctor can't run 5km as quick as me even if he is 100lbs lighter.
I mentioned a gay friend from my college waster years in another thread and as this is a great example of how liberals can be the most closed minded people of all I once almost got kicked out of college for calling him 'a fat black puffter' when the dean heard it while passing us in the corridor. Even when he stood in my defence and said "I'm a fat, black homosexual and I have no problems with one of my best friends saying that out loud in the corridors when we a messing around". They seemed to think I must have bullied him into saying it so he got him mother to come in and defend me. It was a surreal moment when I got called into see the dean and his (white, he was adopted, mother) was screaming at him about how it was his right to choose how his friends addressed him during a private conversation and none of his business. His mother knew how to call a spade a spade I learned a few new swear words that day which isn't something that normally happens at 18 ;)
Well, there was that little spell of unpleasantness between 1939 and 1945!
Miles already mentioned that...see my response about the Empire being already on the decline before that.
I guess that is a point though for the ones that 'jumped ship' during and after that period though.
So is pi, but that doesn't stop it being useful...
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.Nobody ever, ever says 'conflating' in real life.
They do on Radio 4!
But most people don't understand probability, this is quite evident in the number of people who play the lottery (a tax on people who are bad at maths). The lack of ability to assess risks and assess probability is why parents are terrified to let their kids out and play, lest they get abducted. The lack of understanding of probability resulted in the socially destructive "say no to strangers" campaign in the 70s, which has lead to a society where adult strangers don't even say hello to each other in the street any more - when the real tragedy was that it wasn't stranger danger, in reality, kids were far more likely to be getting molested by people they knew well.
It's a big shame that people don't even have the most basic grip on how to assess even simple probability.
All children should be stored on island homes staffed by people known to be of no danger and at all costs be kept away from their families. May I suggest those tax dodging inbreds on Jersey do their bit and donate the island to the protection of children before it's too late and we all start copulating with our own children.
Yes I have been reading ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com all morning.
Many things that I base on my own experience I would consider to be 'my prejudices' rather than my rational thoughts. I often get buses to my parents home near birmingham.
I am not sure to be honest that when confronted with a group of black kids in Birmingham city centre at midnight i would react in the same way to if they were white...
I've a feeling it would be a physical 'flinch' reaction to double my walking speed and get out of the situation even tho' I know my fears are not justified by anything rational.
I am not proud of this - but as a teacher i personally have been threatened violence and at one point punched by black children before but never by white ones. It's not a common problem and I get on with the vast majority of all students of every creed and race. (In the case where I was hit the kid was actually having an argument with another student - and I was lucky enough to get in the way! :))
But I'm not the only one : For example I know that I am wasting my time trying to teach kids that smoking is bad for you. You just cannot overcome their prejucides.
Maybe 1 kid in a class of 30 has lost someone close to a smoking related illness.
About 15 kids in the class know someone who smokes pretty regularly and seems pretty old to them (anything over 25) so it must be okay as they have not died yet.
They'll also be several 4th hand stories of how someone in the family smoked 40 a day yet happily lived to the age of 112.
The kids ultimately base their decision to smoke or not on their own prejudice which is based on their own experience. As Andy says the sample size any one person sees at a given time is far too small to be scientifically valid.
But showing them a graph that PROVES that statistically smokers are more prone to respiratory diseases just doesn't seem relevant to them.
Everyone prefers a story with real characters that they can relate to rather than a graph and a load of numbers.