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Puppy Time posted:I expect it depends on the individual, like how some people can function in a life-threatening emergency and some people go catatonic.
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chitoryu12 posted:I can speak as someone who actually came pretty close to that. Long story short, one of the residents across the street turned an argument with his girlfriend into attacking both her and their infant daughter who was in the car seat next to her. I was already watching them because of how loud their fight had gotten and the guy had reacted very poorly when I threatened to call the cops, which is why I was able to come out and order him away from the woman and their kid. No shots were fired and the family moved out soon after, the latest in a long list of renters of that house. cool story bro
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Ravenfood posted:Any idea how trainable this is? And how generalizeable that training is? If I remember my reading right, a lot of it depends on training the people involved until they revert to their trained motions in a fight-or-flight situation instead of most people's lovely instincts. Instead of reverting to flailing or freezing up, they revert to following their instilled training. This can unfortunately lead to some problems with things like poorly trained police officers: they get taught to fear civilians because "Anyone at a traffic stop could just whip out a gun and blow your head off for no reason!" and aren't given as much time learning peaceful conflict resolution and negotiation. When they panic, they revert to training that basically tells them to scream and point a gun at whoever's threatening them, or tackle them to the ground and wrench their arms around.
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These kinds of things are posted by people who say "I'm not racist, I just hate people...and let me tell you about black people..."  I really cannot wait until some gun nut shoots a mannish woman thinking it was a transgendered person, and the worst part, they'll be a hero and get off. twistedmentat has a new favorite as of 04:49 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Weatherman posted:cool story bro unironically
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twistedmentat posted:These kinds of things are posted by people who say "I'm not racist, I just hate people...and let me tell you about black people..." Please don't wish death on masculine women just for some schadenfreude
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so wait are they going to shoot children?
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Tardcore posted:so wait are they going to shoot children? You've got to admit, if you murder all the children then none of them will ever be molested again.
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chitoryu12 posted:If I remember my reading right, a lot of it depends on training the people involved until they revert to their trained motions in a fight-or-flight situation instead of most people's lovely instincts. Instead of reverting to flailing or freezing up, they revert to following their instilled training. This can unfortunately lead to some problems with things like poorly trained police officers: they get taught to fear civilians because "Anyone at a traffic stop could just whip out a gun and blow your head off for no reason!" and aren't given as much time learning peaceful conflict resolution and negotiation. When they panic, they revert to training that basically tells them to scream and point a gun at whoever's threatening them, or tackle them to the ground and wrench their arms around. I can't speak to any kind of fight or assault situation, but in my limited experience parachuting, we have to be prepared for a malfunction at any time. Even though I haven't had a high-speed or life-threatening malfunction, on my very first student jump I had semi-serious line twists, and after only a day of drilling, I remembered how to get out of it. I'm always afraid of panicking during an emergency, but you'd be surprised how easily your training comes back to you. Whether it's turbulence, another canopy nearby, or unexpected stuff in your landing area, you manage to remain calm until you make it to the ground, then strut around with false bravado about how "it really wasn't that big a deal landing in the prison yard" while internally shaking like a leaf and making GBS threads your pants. So basically, muscle memory, drilling, and not panicking really make a difference in whether you lose your poo poo and spray everyone with bullets or are able to keep your composure. I know there's not a huge parallel between parachuting and a dangerous fight situation, both involve staying calm in dangerous situations.
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Maggie Fletcher posted:I can't speak to any kind of fight or assault situation, but in my limited experience parachuting, we have to be prepared for a malfunction at any time. Even though I haven't had a high-speed or life-threatening malfunction, on my very first student jump I had semi-serious line twists, and after only a day of drilling, I remembered how to get out of it. I'm always afraid of panicking during an emergency, but you'd be surprised how easily your training comes back to you. Whether it's turbulence, another canopy nearby, or unexpected stuff in your landing area, you manage to remain calm until you make it to the ground, then strut around with false bravado about how "it really wasn't that big a deal landing in the prison yard" while internally shaking like a leaf and making GBS threads your pants. I've been dating this Iranian girl recently. You know, it's hard to be racist against someone if you're sleeping with them.
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Tardcore posted:so wait are they going to shoot children? Yeah that's what I thought too. Calling it a "vaccine" kind of carries that implication.
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twistedmentat posted:These kinds of things are posted by people who say "I'm not racist, I just hate people...and let me tell you about black people..." So we're going to shoot GOP congressmen now?
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I've been dating this Iranian girl recently. You know, it's hard to be racist against someone if you're sleeping with them. This is it, this is the solution.
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hyperhazard posted:I'm waiting for the inevitable TAG YOUR MUSLIM FRIENDS SO THEY HAVE TO OPEN THEIR PHONE AND LOOK AT THIS PICTURE OF JESUS CHRIST. Also you'd never get those types of people to accept that Jesus was anything but a light haired and pale caucasian
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 Some woman from my past I was vaguely angling towards getting back with shared several of these in a row and my thirst was gone. The Pledge one is super weird to me, my son apparently is lead in the pledge in day care, and can recite it at 3, in spite of obviously not understanding every other word, because he's 3. Making babies recite oaths they obviously don't understand is weird and cultish IMO. Has anyone spotted a liberal/progressive meme/image macro in the wild that used the whole shame/dare thing to get you to share it ("share it if you're not AFRAID to stand up to your beliefs, I know most of you wont!")?. It really seems mostly to be a creature of the conservomeme ecosystem.
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Liam Neeson played the Jesus-analogue in one of the adaptations of "Pilgrim's Progress" and also the Lion Jesus in Narnia. So he's more Jesus than Jedi now.
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It is every loving cult-ish. I dono about other western nations but Australia doesn't have anything like that. Can someone please explain what it is supposed to be to me? Because from my point of view it's some overly patriotic speech intended to tell children/everyone that you're super pumped on America and that it's one sentence away from signing your soul away.
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KiteAuraan posted:Liam Neeson played the Jesus-analogue in one of the adaptations of "Pilgrim's Progress" and also the Lion Jesus in Narnia. So he's more Jesus than Jedi now. Hey if anyone's white Jesus it's Liam Neeson.
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Gridlocked posted:It is every loving cult-ish. I dono about other western nations but Australia doesn't have anything like that. Yeah, we didn't even like singing the national anthem at the beginning of school parade  Seconding that the pledge of allegiance is some hosed up poo poo. It's the sort of thing you'd say "Did you know that in North Korea they make schoolkids put their hand over their hearts and recite this oath of allegiance to their flag?" and Americans would nod sagely and say "NK's hosed up"
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Didn't it only show up in schools fairly recently too? Or was that the God reference on dollars?
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We did a lot of stupid poo poo in response to commies, but some of it did serve a purpose. You have to motivate your population and we decided to focus on Godless Soviets. And  over no one saying the Pledge anymore. We get a pledge AND a moment of quiet reflection prayer in our school district.
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TinTower posted:whitest_kids_u_know_this_is_not_a_form_of_brainwashing.mp4 kill all men imo.
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Weatherman posted:Yeah, we didn't even like singing the national anthem at the beginning of school parade Haha, it seems US is the only country that does that? I'm very sure there's not a single Mexican kid that loves to sign the hymn and say the pledge every Monday at 8:00 am. I remember we would stand there, all sleepy and would just mumble the words,while sighing and whining why we had to do such boring stuff.
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Hey, don't forget the pledge's important role in the spiritual development of budding atheists when they realize that there's no consequences for refusing to say the 'under God' part. Not a single lghtning bolt! Heck yeah! In your face, Mom!
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I've been dating this Iranian girl recently. You know, it's hard to be racist against someone if you're sleeping with them. This isn't IOSM this is 
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I've been dating this Iranian girl recently. You know, it's hard to be racist against someone if you're sleeping with them. 
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Yeah neither in France not Germany exists anything like the pledge. We learned the lyrics to the national anthem but we never actually sang it at school. It really is pretty creepy.
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The pledge is literally worshipping the flag and yeah, the strangest part is how long it takes to realize how creepy it is. Ignorant American asking here. Before sports games in other countries do you also rise and sing your national anthems? It's not nearly as bad as the pledge but constantly and all the time we have to talk about how good and wonderful America is it feels like.
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Tracula posted:The pledge is literally worshipping the flag and yeah, the strangest part is how long it takes to realize how creepy it is. I'm not an expert, but with soccer when there's an international game (for instance, England vs Germany) they will play both respective anthems, but other than that not really.
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Tracula posted:The pledge is literally worshipping the flag and yeah, the strangest part is how long it takes to realize how creepy it is. I know from NHL games that Canada does.
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Tracula posted:The pledge is literally worshipping the flag and yeah, the strangest part is how long it takes to realize how creepy it is. If it's part of a world cup or something, yeah. Don't tend to otherwise that I'm aware of
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Henchman of Santa posted:I know from NHL games that Canada does. The best is when a Canadian team plays an American team so you get both, and you realize that Oh Canada is such a better anthem than ours.
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Most racing does multiple anthems for each person on the podium (they don't double-up in the case of 2 people from the same country), which is how I now know the tune to the German national anthem - thanks Vettel and Rosberg.
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Tracula posted:The pledge is literally worshipping the flag and yeah, the strangest part is how long it takes to realize how creepy it is. You'd think a puritanical culture would avoid the whole worshipping graven images thing and idolatry.
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You guys, I got quoted by LoB. Am I famous now?
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Tracula posted:The pledge is literally worshipping the flag and yeah, the strangest part is how long it takes to realize how creepy it is. I don't go to many big events in Aus; but IIRC we do bring out the national anthem for all the international events, the ANZAC day footy match and I think some of the grand finals for various footballs.' Oh and the Olympics, but everyone gets their anthems during the Olympics.
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Having a hard time telling whether dad's getting senile in his old age or just growing increasingly paranoid while being gullible as gently caress. I guess there's no real effective difference.
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