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Necrothatcher posted:drat, which part of London are you in? Want to get on this. I'm not in London I'm in South Wales! That's just the server the speed test thingy connected to. And I'm on the ground floor of a small block of flats so surrounded by buildings on 3 sides (but a river and field on the 4th). Catte Taxe: Since my last page snipe, the heating repair person has been. (This catte, Meggie, is blind).  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/reider/status/1201567491832442880 Nah that's just hiding in plain sight, you know he's antisemitic because he's showing he genuinely cares
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You love to see it. What was his original tweet that made him twitter's main character?
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Braggart posted:'manlet' It's a "funny cause it's so stupid" word, but I wouldn't use it in real life. Most of my best mates are wee folk, the only real difference is that they don't hit their head getting off the bus, and can fit in a plane seat.
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I still love that Long Island bagel racist short guy that went viral a while back this year and the woman they sent to interview this poor 4'10" or whatever dude was a 6'3" woman I say poor guy but he was a real shitbag so I don't feel sorry for him outside of the cruelty of sending the tallest woman they had on hand.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The brain's ability to adapt to new patterns of thought rapidly goes downhill after the age of 20, it's why people are so desperate to cram as much educating* into teenagers before that age. I'm not sure this is true, it sounds a lot like the Critical Age Hypothesis in language learning and a quick glance at Wikipedia tells me that neuroplasticity is generally considered to continue through adulthood. I remember reading an article in New Scientist that talked about how a professor with advanced dementia kept lucidity way beyond the norm because his job and hobbies meant that his brain was constantly rewiring itself around the loss of gray matter. So environment seems to be a key factor in how used to adapting to new thought patterns one is. It's true kids learn very fast, but is that because of their environment or is it a biological reality? Hard to say. It's probably combination of the two, and so if we can create material conditions that enable lifelong learning then we might be surprised at the number of geniuses that emerge.
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I got to 5'6" at the age of 10 then just stopped growing, so I was a giant for a little while and then just short for the rest of my life. I never really notice it except when I leave work at the same time as the local secondary lets out and I have to pick my way through mobs of impossibly towering 11-16 year olds on the way home. I got shouted at for walking out into the road once by one of their teachers because I was wearing a polo shirt roughly the same shade as their uniform one, and they clocked that before they clocked the beard and tattoos (and the fact I'm in my 30s).
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TBH I think so long as you haven't lost your compassion/empathy, your politics can change. My politics have changed quite dramatically from sort of "centrist dad that quite likes the NHS and thinks people that need them should get benefits" type to "guillotine the cunts and nationalise everything now" within the last couple of years, most of that since discovering UKMT and some other truths. e: In hindsight I hadn't yet made the connection between capitalism and conditions for those worse off and put it down to Tories are cunts that cut benefits, so I wanted a Labour government but my retirement plans still involved thoughts of "reasonably landlording". Making the direct connection from capitalism as a concept directly to those that are suffering is what made the "click" for me. The rest was just dealing with ignorance of things outside my own bubble (as my trans meltdown/re-education serves as a stellar example). NinpoEspiritoSanto fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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History Comes Inside! posted:they clocked the beard and tattoos (and the fact I'm in my 30s). Kids these days are hard, you wouldn't know for sure
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Yeah I'm never conscious about my height (what with being average) until I walk past a good 50 14 year olds in a row who all dwarf me. And even then it's more like "god drat it, mogged by the yoofs"
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Bundy posted:TBH I think so long as you haven't lost your compassion/empathy, your politics can change. My politics have changed quite dramatically from sort of "centrist dad that quite likes the NHS and thinks people that need them should get benefits" type to "guillotine the cunts and nationalise everything now" within the last couple of years, most of that since discovering UKMT and some other truths. Very much this. I've posted a lot in the past on the journey I took from being pretty goddamned far to the right (I was a full-on libertarian up until my thirties, and this place is the main reason I swung so hard in the opposite direction).
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When I was young and I suddenly shot up to 5,10 and grew a beard over the summer between year 6 and year 7. I have remained this way ever since and all my friends who I once towered over are now 6 foot and higher. I have experienced both worlds and it has been pleasant.
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I love this av.VideoGames posted:When I was young and I suddenly shot up to 5,10 and grew a beard over the summer between year 6 and year 7. I have remained this way ever since and all my friends who I once towered over are now 6 foot and higher. I have experienced both worlds and it has been pleasant. 
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hahahaha he's absolutely bricking it that trump might insult himquote:According to Joe Murphy and Nicholas Cecil in the Evening Standard, No 10 sources have been keen to insist that Boris Johnson was not one of the world leaders joking about Donald Trump at the reception last night. Here is an extract from their story.
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Braggart posted:*Yes, there is short man syndrome I think you might be conceding too much here even. There is a large group of people (women) who are shorter on average than others (men) and we all know how they're described if they're assertive - I reckon a similar thing happens to short men. Meanwhile all really huge people have to do is not hit people and everyone fawns over how 'gentle' they are. Which is particularly annoying when they get to dominate conversations with their great booming voices too. Not that I have a chip on my (low) shoulder or anything.
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VideoGames posted:When I was young and I suddenly shot up to 5,10 and grew a beard over the summer between year 6 and year 7. I have remained this way ever since and all my friends who I once towered over are now 6 foot and higher. I have experienced both worlds and it has been pleasant. You just need to eat more large people.
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Oh dear me posted:I think you might be conceding too much here even. There is a large group of people (women) who are shorter on average than others (men) and we all know how they're described if they're assertive - I reckon a similar thing happens to short men. Meanwhile all really huge people have to do is not hit people and everyone fawns over how 'gentle' they are. Which is particularly annoying when they get to dominate conversations with their great booming voices too. I'm not sure why but I have one such voice. It's very useful but does mean my conversational volume is audible through multiple walls unless I consciously dampen.
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I used to play handball as a goalkeeper (and was pretty good at it), but being only 6 feet made me a bit depressed (handball players are tall)
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Bundy posted:I love this av. We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to. ___________/
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Tesseraction posted:I'm not sure why but I have one such voice. It's very useful but does mean my conversational volume is audible through multiple walls unless I consciously dampen. If you talk from the chest rather than the throat you will naturally tend to project your voice. I just tried it and realised my throat voice sounds weird as hell.
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Got my postal vote today lads  Have done the customary triple check to make sure I've not hosed up the complicated procedure of drawing an X in a box
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Rarity posted:We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnEAH5wCzo
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Oh dear me posted:Which is particularly annoying when they get to dominate conversations with their great booming voices too. Do tall people have booming voices? I just sound like a mumbling Irish nerd
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Oh dear me posted:I think you might be conceding too much here even. There is a large group of people (women) who are shorter on average than others (men) and we all know how they're described if they're assertive - I reckon a solar thing happens to short men. Meanwhile all really huge people have to do is not hit people and everyone fawns over how 'gentle' they are. Which is particularly annoying when they get to dominate conversations with their great booming voices too. Absolutely. I was purely using a term people are familiar with and not trying to be exclusionary. Women are not taken seriously by so many people in their lives all the time, so it's unsurprising that it can leave them a bit raw about it. And there's always uncertainty about precisely why some smug bastard is being condescending. It it sexism? Is it about stature? Are they just an arrogant prick? Is it a combination of all of these (yes)? I am a short person with a big booming voice. Sometimes that surprises people  (But I try to only use my powers for good! I try to let everyone speak, and sometimes I even shut down people who are intentionally dominating a conversation in favour of those who are less confident in their speaking. Not that I'm looking for kudos for that - it's just the right thing to do if I am capable of it  )
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Purple Prince posted:If you talk from the chest rather than the throat you will naturally tend to project your voice. Oh yeah I know the mechanics of why - I push from the diaphragm whereas most people tend to go lung. I'm just not sure why I ended up doing it given it's more of a singing technique and I have a trauma-related inability to sing in front of people.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Do tall people have booming voices? I just sound like a mumbling Irish nerd I'm 6'2" with like a 48" chest (so broad as well as tall) and I have a weirdly high-pitched voice. Though that's probably down to residual poshness as much as anything else.
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TACD posted:It’s the age-old defence of “We’re not lying, we’re just incompetent” The Starscream defence https://youtu.be/eTEBJBESCo4
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I think there is an argument to be made that language spoken has an effect on depth of voice. Not one I can make at the moment though, but now I'm curious about studies...
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oh yeah this guy exists https://twitter.com/sebastiansalek/status/1202164071698718723
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Camrath posted:I'm 6'2" with like a 48" chest (so broad as well as tall) Weird Bowflex but ok
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Tesseraction posted:hahahaha he's absolutely bricking it that trump might insult him 
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I'm 6'2" and I think it's about the only thing that let me have some confidence at all growing up.
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