December 2011
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On the Death of a Politician
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician’s corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept : for I had longed to see him hanged.
~ Hilaire Belloc
September 2011
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August 2011
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June 2011
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“I will follow you into the dark”
– Orpheus (via historysaidwhat)
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“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
– George Carlin
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Embryos and Flies
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and...
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“Dude looks like a lady.”
– Louis XV to Chevalier d’Eon
My submission!
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A Thought Experiment - Any Answers?
psychologeek:
Lawrence Kohlberg spent many years developing the findings and theories of other psychologists such as Piaget on the subject of moral development. To test his theories, he devised a number of dilemmas for his subjects. Have a go at the most famous, I will add discussion of the findings at a later date :)
Heinz and the Druggist.
Heinz’s wife is near death due to cancer. The doctor...
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Anonymous and Nato
hypertroll:
Dear members of NATO
We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us…
Dear members of Anonymous, We are NATO. We have many legions of soldiers, tanks and fighter planes. We do not sit in front of our computers all day. We do not pretend to be important (we actually are). Expect us…
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hypertroll asked: I like to believe it was from Faust, though whether it was or not has no bearing on the fact it's an awesome quote :)
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“Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici
(By the power of truth, I, whilst living, have...”
– Faust (supposedly; no direct citation)
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“That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight, I’m losing my religion.”
– Rodrigo Borgia / Pope Alexander VI (via historysaidwhat)
Haha! Very clever indeed!
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“Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit.”
– Cicero
Translation: Nothing is so fortified that it cannot be conquered with money.
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The Effect of Cigarette Prices on Youth Smoking →
From the abstract of this 2001 University of Illinois paper (click above):
‘The results confirm that higher cigarette prices, irrespective of the way they are measured, reduce youth cigarette smoking.’
The paper also found that:
‘If state average prices would rise by $0.50 (i.e. 26.5%), the youth cigarette demand can decline by 17.5 percent: participation would drop from 27.8...
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WatchThis page lets you create your own Star Wars introduction crawls! It’s quite good fun, actually.
May 2011
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Do socialists have brains?
psychologeek:
The study; According to a news article, hot off the press in this month’s Psychologist, Colin Firth has co-authored a neuroimaging study and resulting paper investigating difference in brain structure according to political inclination. Rees from UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience took brain-scans of a Tory and Labour politician. The study was then extended to comparing the...
psychologeek asked: My blog's going serious. Care to check out the new--improved blog which has moved away from pop-psych and more into what actually interests me? :)
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WatchThis is absolutely amazing. Slow-motion cameras at 2700 fps record what actually happens when a balloon bursts in a variety of conditions.
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“I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences - he saw...”
– Mona, in the Cell Block Tango from Chicago
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Bad Jokes
hypertroll: I might not watch Wimbledon this year, it’s always a bit hit-and-miss.
Me: Yeah, same with me and the Tour de France - it’s up and down, really. Highs and lows.
hypertroll: I always feel as if i should be nice about the Formula 1 drivers. After all, what goes around, comes around.
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“der Wille zur Macht - the Will to Power”
– Nietzsche, the man who looked at Plato and said ‘No, people don’t want to be at one with Good’; the man who announced to the utilitarian: ‘No, people don’t want to be happy’; and the man who denied Schopenhauer, arguing: ‘No, people don’t want to...
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Old England
Man looks up on a yellow sky And the rain turns to rust in his eye Rumours of his health are lies Old England is dying His clothes are a dirty shade of blue And his ancient shoes worn through He steals from me and he lies to you Old England is dying Still he sings an Empire song Still he keeps his Navy strong And he sticks his flag where it ill belongs Old England is dying
- Mike Scott, of The...
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Die Welle - The Wave →
This is one of my favourite foreign-language films, and it’s back on iPlayer. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it! It’s a chilling examination of the formation of an autocratic regime, made all the more scary (to my English ears) by the guttural sounds of the German language!
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,...”
– Oscar Wilde. Oh the irony.
@schofio
subconscioussecurity:
Thanks for following.
You’re very welcome. I have to say I was delighted at your multiple Doctor Who posts - I’m something of a crazy fan myself. I even have a genuine working replica of the Master’s pocketwatch :P Thanks for reblogging that video, btw, we’re trying to get it as close to viral as we can! 200 today, 2000000 tomorrow!
Cheers,
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“Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit...”
– Otto von Bismarck - Translation: Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided […] but by iron and blood.
I post this because I saw a production of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Evita last night, and one of the most chilling scenes is a song called...
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April 2011
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March 2011
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Intolerance in practice
finkm:
I’m sorry if my insensitivity towards your beliefs offend you. But guess what - your religious wars, jihads, crusades, inquisitions, censoring of free speech, brainwashing of children, murdering of albinos, forcing girls into underage marriages, female genital mutilation, stoning, pederasty, homophobia and rejection of science and reason offend me. So I guess we’re even.
Let me go...
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