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[Motterman]

Topanga....

http://2clicks.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/topanga-top.jpg

[Republic of Mancunia]

I would ^^^


RoM's random thought (and it's much more boring than that)

I was online yesterday and came across a joke that I ended up repeating to a group of 3 at work. It was:

A lesbian signed up to weight-watchers and one day the instructor said; "You are what you eat."

To which the lesbian replied "Are you calling me a cnut?"

Whether or not the joke is funny is up to you but it's not the main premise here. The person who laughed the most, and whose eyes I actually spotted watering slightly admitted to me later that they didn't get the punchline, that they didn't associate being a lesbian with eating vayjay (as Joelzinho might say) and they were simply laughing at the cnut word.

Got me thinking about how people might react in certain situations just because they think they're supposed to. I told a joke and maybe he laughed because he thought that was the right thing to do, that kind of thing. Don't think he faked it either because of the eye-watering I already mentioned. Wonder if theres any psychology in all of that?

I also wondered if you were to take a group of people who only spoke English and dropped them into the audience of a Japanese stand up comic, would any of them laugh along with the rest of the audience just because everyone else was, even though they wouldn't understand what the hell was going on?

Thus ends RoM's random musings for today.

[Howard Zinn]

I knew a girl in college that would laugh at anything so long as you laughed at it too. Now, what was really irritating about her is that she took it to the extreme level of niceness and would always react however she thought you wanted her to react as opposed to her naturally responding to anything. This lead to her being asked out by several guys over the span of a couple of months that she had no interest in simply because she couldn't react in a negative manner to their come-ons, and of course she had to reject all of them because she didn't actually want to go out with them.

One of these guys was a friend of mine, so I just asked her why she accepted all of his advances if she didn't like him. She said that she was just being nice and that she didn't want to hurt his feelings. I told her that it hurt him much more to be allowed to keep going to the point that he thought she liked him instead of just being shut off from the get go. Even then, it seemed as if she just responded to my irritation by saying what she thought I wanted to hear.

Eventually, I just stopped talking to her because I could never tell when she was being genuine. I didn't see much of a point in bothering with someone if you can't even trust them to give you an honest opinion on, say, a movie you watched together because they're trying to be nice. I don't care if you disliked a movie that I liked, but it bothers me tremendously to never give an honest opinion about anything.

So, to answer your random thought RoM, yes, I think there are people that just go with the flow and will just do what everyone else is doing.

[Numquam Moribimur]

Topanga....

http://2clicks.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/topanga-top.jpg



My 1st ever crush ........I ********ed loved Topanga ! :o

[mhtwins113]

Topanga....

http://2clicks.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/topanga-top.jpg

My 1st ever crush ........I ********ed loved Topanga ! :o

Yeah she's cool. She's my ex-girlfriend's cousin, very very nice. EXTREMELY short.

[iDiveStevieG]

Topanga....

http://2clicks.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/topanga-top.jpg

The things I would do to her..:D

[Dark Savante]

Anyone from UK know who the girl is in the those next adverts? - the main girl.

[Republic of Mancunia]

Her?

YouTube - Next TV Advert - September 2009 - The Model (50 second version)

Emanuela de Paula. (http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=emanuela+de+paula&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7SUNA_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi)

YouTube - Body by Victoria - MY BODY - Emanuela De Paula

[Republic of Mancunia]

So, to answer your random thought RoM, yes, I think there are people that just go with the flow and will just do what everyone else is doing.

Ta.

That's the sort of thing I was getting at. Obviously there's general politeness and appropriate behaviour that people feel they should be displaying in certain situations and there's nothing wrong with that imo. Then there's going way beyond that which your example would fit into.

Got some more pondering to do now. I've tried to type a couple of longish responses now but have ended up going all over the place. Think I'm in for a giant session of reading up on a few things in the near future on topics like herd mentality, the need to please, to fit in, the psychology of it all, how far you could take someone out of their 'genuine behaviour' if they thought it was the right thing to do, the power of suggestion, whether some of these are sub-conscious acts or conscious ones etc. etc. This has sparked an interest in that kind of stuff for some reason.

Not sure if I'll ever come to any conclusions about anything but it can't do any harm to explore a few topics/theories.

[sdotsom]

Anyone seen this?

http://www.clarkandmichael.com/

It's a 10 episode Web TV show by Michael Cera and a buddy of his. Pretty funny stuff.

[sdotsom]

Best gif everrrrrr

http://i32.tinypic.com/25gt92b.jpg

[sdotsom]

Also, does anyone here skateboard?

[johno]

I've done some writing on the subject RoM. I looked at 3 specific theories... take a look if you are interested. This is tip of the iceburg though. The 3rd segment, Relief Theory is particularly relevant to your discussion.

[quote=Johno]Superiority Theory states that all laughter, in some way, is linked to the laugher feeling superior to his subject. “The oldest and probably still most widespread theory of laughter is that laughter is an expression of a person's feelings of superiority over other people.” (Morreall 4) Like the stereotypical high school jock who makes a one-line joke at the expense of someone who is lower on the social totem-pole, Superiority Theory (ST) suggests that laughter accompanies a feeling of superiority. “Laughter, then, is self-congratulatory; it is based on our finding ourselves better off in the struggle of all against all than someone else is, or than we used to be (Morreall 6).”

Incongruity Theory
The basic idea behind the incongruity theory is very general and quite simple. We live in an orderly world, where we have come to expect certain patterns among things, their properties, events, etc. We laugh when we experience something that doesn't fit into these patterns (244).

Relief Theory
The hypothesis of the Relief Theory is that laughter results as tension is released from the body. Spencer defines the hypothesis simply in his work The Physiology of Laughter. He offers brief justification for his theory: "Nervous excitation always tends to beget muscular motion; and when it rises to a certain intensity always does beget it." Freud and Schopanhauer are among the scholars whose works support the concept of release or relief triggering laughter.
Menon also agrees with the psychophysical explanation of laughter in which he observes: “an increase and accumulation of energy; a sudden breaking up of this energy; a consequent sense of relief and relaxation” (16).

Although he is one of the proponents of the relief theory and one of the first to make the physiological connection to relief during laughter, Spencer identifies much of the physiological reaction to a joke or something funny as incidental and unimportant. He explains them simply as a means to expend pent up energy:

[FIFARay007]

Best gif everrrrrr

http://i32.tinypic.com/25gt92b.jpg

Must spread...

Jesus Christ that was classic!!! :)

[Rakim_22]

Must spread....great work finding that sdot.

[iDiveStevieG]

Does anyone know where I could find serial numbers for photoshop cs3 (mac) ?

[sab456]

Does anyone know where I could find serial numbers for photoshop cs3 (mac) ?

torrents ?

[iDiveStevieG]

torrents ?

No, I have the program, just need the serial numbers to plug in..I lost mine. :o:p

[johno]

ahhh.

soweee... I can give u one for pc, cs2 :(

[iDiveStevieG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCiTAJi1yRk Just saw this commercial on comedy central, couldn't tell if it was a joke or not at first..sadly, it's completely legitimate.