Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted February 19, 2012 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 19, 2012 TheBigBoot probably. Â Zing! Â Whatever happened to Zing who posted here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted February 19, 2012 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 19, 2012 He's still here, he's called Duke now. Top bloke if his posts are anything to go by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbins Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Is there an automatic thread-lock function that activates whenever the cognitive dissonance goes off the scale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 19, 2012 Moderators Share Posted February 19, 2012 Someone's got a subscription to the Readers Digest, I see. Â We used to get it here, although I never bothered with "Improve your wordpower" as I preferred the crappy inspirational stories. There was one once about a coach of Alabama's College Football team and his son had Down Syndrome. And it was all very heartwarming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted February 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2012 Duke is/was Zing? Never knew that. Agreed, he is a decent poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Duke Posted February 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2012 He's still here, he's called Duke now. Top bloke if his posts are anything to go by. [soppy] you're a peach Frankie. I've always thought I post too little of note to be noticed and always half expect to come up for white noise. So ta for that [/soppy] Â On a seperate note, I'm typing on my phone and when I typed in "Frankie" it suggested I may have meant "crablike". So there we are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2012 (edited) This is weird - crazyshady's online. Yet his account is disabled. Is this some kind of sick joke? Edited February 19, 2012 by Gladstone Small Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted February 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2012 THERE'S TWO OF THEM??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbins Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Someone's got a subscription to the Readers Digest, I see. We used to get it here, although I never bothered with "Improve your wordpower" as I preferred the crappy inspirational stories. There was one once about a coach of Alabama's College Football team and his son had Down Syndrome. And it was all very heartwarming. Don't be shy, just ask.  One example of cognitive dissonance is when people try and justify behaviour in themselves that they would normally be opposed to, or consider themselves opposed to within their own mind. The conflict created when you behave in a certain way (say for example making racist jokes, making allusions about black people being monkeys) that you would normally oppose (say by being outraged at a footballer being charged with racist abuse) so you have to justify it to yourself by crouching the racist joke or allusion under the guise of "this is what a racist person, or someone who is perceived to be defending a racist would say lol" in order to reduce the dissonance in your mind. And when that person presents themselves and actually believes that they're taking the moral high ground and fighting a crusade against that behaviour, even the mock-racist behaviour itself is considered within their own mind to be part of that moral fight against racism, the dissonance is incredible. It takes a special kind of idiot to be that hypocritical. But for someone else to come along and do the same thing even AFTER I've pointed out the flaw in the thinking, you need to be Pitcos-level stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 19, 2012 Moderators Share Posted February 19, 2012 There was also an article in an issue from 1995 that's still on a bookshelf in The Mill, Cefn Mawr, about educational computer games and how games like Carmen Sandiego would make all the kids geniuses. Didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted February 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2012 Carmen Sandiego... I haven't thought about her in years. I wonder where she is now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Seven Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Just noticed bobbins' member title. When did that happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Just noticed bobbins' member title. When did that happen? Someone gave it to him via a mod challenge/award prize not long after he went full mong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted February 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2012 Trev won a mod challenge to post a pic of him doing something I can't remember. If he lost, he would've been banned. If he won, he could nominate someone to have a 'Trevors Bitch' title. About a month ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Someone's got a subscription to the Readers Digest, I see. We used to get it here, although I never bothered with "Improve your wordpower" as I preferred the crappy inspirational stories. There was one once about a coach of Alabama's College Football team and his son had Down Syndrome. And it was all very heartwarming. Don't be shy, just ask.  One example of cognitive dissonance is when people try and justify behaviour in themselves that they would normally be opposed to, or consider themselves opposed to within their own mind. The conflict created when you behave in a certain way (say for example making racist jokes, making allusions about black people being monkeys) that you would normally oppose (say by being outraged at a footballer being charged with racist abuse) so you have to justify it to yourself by crouching the racist joke or allusion under the guise of "this is what a racist person, or someone who is perceived to be defending a racist would say lol" in order to reduce the dissonance in your mind. And when that person presents themselves and actually believes that they're taking the moral high ground and fighting a crusade against that behaviour, even the mock-racist behaviour itself is considered within their own mind to be part of that moral fight against racism, the dissonance is incredible. It takes a special kind of idiot to be that hypocritical. But for someone else to come along and do the same thing even AFTER I've pointed out the flaw in the thinking, you need to be Pitcos-level stupid.  Oh, do shut up. You're just so boring. When did you get this boring? You used to be alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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