Quote from: Môr-ladron on April 20, 2017, 01:14:15 PM

What would watching pokemon and yugioh as a child at least 11-12 years ago count as?

Because that's about the only japanese stuff I've seen.

non-weeb; you're good

Well that was an easy STI test.

Weeb-Negative.

Meh. I've only seen the complete opposite through my time in education up to now. Sure, >anecdotal, but I'd hardly say I'm some crazy outlier who ploughed through education radically (or came out any better or worse for it).

Primary school;
Ireland - Male Head teacher, Female teacher for two years, Male for the other 2.
UK - Male Head teacher who also taught my only year there (skipped a year because apparently Irish schooling system is different)

Secondary School;
All STEM subjects barring biology were taught by men, and had male heads of department, at least while I was there. Languages, Social studies and other "soft" subjects were female taught, History being the only exception.

University is the only one I've seen a near 50/50 split in Lecturers by gender. The difference is in the class however; 60 students, 7 female. Geology is a male-dominated course, and preference for males as Professors, Researchers, etc, with unsurprisingly few women in the subject (it's more surprising how equal my university is in teaching my subject tbh).

I wouldn't say the education system has stymied men from being "innovators" or at least leading in research. In my course there are few exceptional students, and of those ~10 who are, 1 is female. Regardless, all have contributed to ongoing research in the field and elsewhere, fuck I've even chosen to do a bit myself as part of a module.

It's really down to aptitude, and a students' entusiasm. Lecturers, for want of a better word, groom the geniuses in the class towards research-based fields, eventually going on to do MSc's or PhD's, writing papers along the way, and bring the field forward a bit. It doesn't matter what gender they are, the geniuses are the ones leading the way. Whether that's preferentially biased towards males, females, or generally equal, I don't know, but I refuse to believe it's hampering scientific progress as a whole. Measuring by changes in GDP doesn't seem reliable at all given the so many other variables that would have a larger impact on it.

Lucy - A crappy version of Limitless with very little story

John Wick - Basically all the fight scenes of the matrix, but with Neo in the suit bashing Russians instead of Smiths. The sequel is the same, but bashing Italians instead. There is little-to-no story explaining any of this.

Human Caterpillar 2 - By "least favourite" I mean "I regret wasting time on this"

Hateful 8 - Wasn't completely terrible but it was soooo slow and barely anything happened.

Terminator Genisys - ruined the film with that spoiler in the trailer)

Gold - A film about an actual mining fraud, but fucked up most of the details to appeal to audiences (e.g. The little Indonesian geologist who faked the gold became this South American chiselled Hercules-type figure). Plus Matthew McConaughey was barely intelligible the whole film. Biased because was taught this as a case study on the Mining industry, but its annoying to watch regardless.

Chickens.

-Easy to feed (either pellet feed or food waste... not chicken products though, for obvious reasons)
-You can let them run wild in the day and lock-up at night (which they know to go back inside themselves)
-They lay EHGS, almost uncontrollably to a point where you'd get hives rather than giving the eggs away (or selling them)
-They kill rodents and pests. Chickens are the most vicious creatures I have encountered.
-Eggs are also a good indication of their general health. No eggs = old, ill, or dying.
-Best kept in groups, although frankly they don't seem to care too much.
-Their shit isn't too bad a smell and they don't care about it (but for god's sake, clean their huts)
-Funny to look at and watch, and you can get crazy breeds like this:


The only thing you have to watch out for is a cockeral which;
-Fucks bitches like no tomorrow, fertilises a tonne of eggs
-Those eggs are no longer edible
-Those eggs will hatch into more chickens, or worse...
-Cockerals are fiercely territorial and aggressive, will fight their sons and other cockerals unless separated.
-Does the sterotypical Cock-a-doodle-doo at any time, particularly in the AM.
So just don't get a Cockeral.

In fact, any farmed type of bird is a good idea for starters. Ducks are great too,just give them a pond to fuck around with in their field/enclosure.

It kind of fits the situation though, you're interacting with a trained monster with all sorts of different technology fighting a battle to the death with the perfect hunter, what else could it have meant?

Literally anything.

The Alien could grow for all she (and the audience) knows, hence why she had the cue for her to say "A bomb?" after the Pred. did it.

It was poorly done, and easily could've done without it.

Cool.

Can we have a snap election over here, too? Pretty please?

I'd prefer a snap-his-neck-tion tbh.

Another guy, bit of a chav but was smarter than the rest. Left school at 16, got his girlfriend pregnant a year later. Things sounded great, he seemed pretty happy about it all... 2 months later he put a rope around his neck and jumped off a bridge crossing the river. Was a total shock to everyone, even his mum thought someone had pushed him off the bridge and was asking for witnesses. Out of all of it, that was the most heartbreaking to hear.

There was rumours of this guy in my class, who was weird as fuck and had some sort of mental debility, how he'd fucked a horse. Obviously there was never evidence for it, but considering how weird he was I wouldn't put it past him.

Other than petty drugs and teenage pregnancies, that's about it, which is what I'd prefer.

OH! And one of my lecturers in Cardiff got stabbed after he left his wife and messed around with another lady. (the original source got taken down)

Nick Drake
Beck Hansen
Mark Oliver Everett

Irish. Final year Bsc Geologist in Cardiff.

Likes games more than rocks.

Poster's pretty damn aesthetic tbh

Reminds me of one of those Tyrion Lannister covers for Game of thrones.

Just shove a sword, Tyrion on the left and Jon Snow on the right and you basically have the same thing.

Saying it's a targeted strike whilst the ordinance used was the 2nd largest non-nuclear device built just seems like an oxymoron.

Can't miss if the bomb's the size of the target area, I suppose?

Okay hun, that's nice.

For some reason Ian reminds me of Edgar Bug;


Can't quite figure out what is, maybe the hair or something.

Quote from: Môr-ladron on April 10, 2017, 03:06:37 PM

I got a question, or sort of an observation with a "why?" at the end.

For other disorders and mental illnesses like extreme anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies, etc, other than counselling it's recommended that the person has company or encouraged to engage in social interaction. Don't isolate them, basically.

So why with BPD, if it's an underlying fear of being isolated, is the recommendation to isolate them?

I suppose I can't empathise with you having never experienced something on par with that, but I find that contrast in secondary/supporting treatment a bit odd.

It's not so much a recommendation to isolate them from the community, they aren't overtly dangerous in that regard. But the psychological damage they cause to family members is appalling, particularly in children/young adults (Most vulnerable to it). Making sure that they are looked after is as important as treating the person with BPD, which very often cannot actually be achieved for a good length of time.

BPD is a very complex disorder, from what I understand (which could easily be wrong) it usually starts off with some sort of abuse/trauma in the early part of someone's life, which without proper support at the time leaves them to develop these very twisted and warped ways of thinking. Unpicking these lines of thinking takes a lot of time, and willing engagement (which necessitates acceptance of the condition in the first place) by the person. Sadly you cannot treat a BPD person unless they want help, and getting them to realise they need it is not an easy task.

Sorry if this^ is a mess of a post, I've written it about 3 times now and been interrupted each time so it's a bit bleh.

No problem man. I can imagine it can be very distressing and can wear down a person over time without the proper support, or at least an understanding of the condition.