Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[Psinter]

It's revenge for when you were a baby and kept them up all night.

Probably.

While Psinter sleeps, outside the house:

Spoiler: Sleeping

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I feel like watching a war movie now.

 

[collinsmark]

Probably.

While Psinter sleeps, outside the house:

Spoiler: Sleeping

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I feel like watching a war movie now.

That reminds me of opening scene of Louie, Season 4, episode 1:



I love the show Louie. It's perhaps one of the most pertinent shows on the air. (I can't think of a more fitting adjective besides "pertinent" to describe it.)

 

[Psinter]

That reminds me of opening scene of Louie, Season 4, episode 1:



I love the show Louie. It's perhaps one of the most pertinent shows on the air. (I can't think of a more fitting adjective besides "pertinent" to describe it.)

I can feel the struggle.

 

[WWGD]

That reminds me of opening scene of Louie, Season 4, episode 1:



I love the show Louie. It's perhaps one of the most pertinent shows on the air. (I can't think of a more fitting adjective besides "pertinent" to describe it.)

I have so often heard of people being referred-to as being or acting impertinent, I could never make up what this meant. Impertinent how?

 

[collinsmark]

I have so often heard of people being referred-to as being or acting impertinent, I could never make up what this meant. Impertinent how?

I meant that Louie is pertinent (not impertinent).

It's difficult for me to describe what it is that I love so much about the show, except to say that from my perspective the show hits home -- it touches on the things that matter at this time and this place in life. It is "pertinent" to this day and age.

I know that might sound vague, but I am at a loss to come up with anything better.

 

[WWGD]

I meant that Louie is pertinent (not impertinent).

It's difficult for me to describe what it is that I love so much about the show, except to say that from my perspective the show hits home -- it touches on the things that matter at this time and this place in life. It is "pertinent" to this day and age.

I know that might sound vague, but I am at a loss to come up with anything better.

Yes, Louie has what the French would call a certain " I don't know what".

 

[Psinter]

A random face I just made. But I don't know what it is expressing... It's like talking perhaps?... I don't know.

http://imgur.com/mqNJsQe

 

[Sophia]

A random face I just made. But I don't know what it is expressing... It's like talking perhaps?... I don't know.

http://imgur.com/mqNJsQe

It's confusing to me. It might be a mix of surprise, anger and annoyance but not really.
Perhaps it might be feeling pain

 

[WWGD]

A random face I just made. But I don't know what it is expressing... It's like talking perhaps?... I don't know.

http://imgur.com/mqNJsQe

It is saying: " Psinter keeps making weird faces in this site, like this one and asking what they mean..."

 

[Silicon Waffle]

You and Zoobyshoe share the same work-space don't you ? Every time you are online, I see him too.

I love this movie and this song

 

[Psinter]

It's confusing to me. It might be a mix of surprise, anger and annoyance but not really.
Perhaps it might be feeling pain

It's okay, even I don't know.

It is saying: " Psinter keeps making weird faces in this site, like this one and asking what they mean..."

I'm going to make one specially for you.

You and Zoobyshoe share the same work-space don't you ? Every time you are online, I see him too.

I was going to say you and Sophie live close because I see you every time at almost the same time.

 

[Sophia]

I've watched a documentary about Asian food and once again I realized that to me all the people of other races look the same.
This is definitely not meant as a racist comment but it's simply something that I realized many times when watching movies or seeing pictures.
Maybe it's because my brain is not used to them at all. In real life, I've only talked to one boy of African origin and saw no more than 10 African people in the street. I meet Asians more often because there are a few Asian shops in my area but I still haven't learned to differentiate between them.
Once I heard that Chinese students say that all the white people look exactly the same to them.
Do you have similar experience?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Do you have similar experience?

No. I think your experience has to do with your prosopagnosia-like reaction to faces in general, as you talked about in the other thread. You said you needed repeated exposure to people before you could recognize them by their faces. For me it's completely different. A 10 second encounter with someone is all it takes for me to recognize them every time I see them thereafter (unless they've done something extreme to change their appearance).

 

[Sophia]

No. I think your experience has to do with your prosopagnosia-like reaction to faces in general, as you talked about in the other thread. You said you needed repeated exposure to people before you could recognize them by their faces. For me it's completely different. A 10 second encounter with someone is all it takes for me to recognize them every time I see them thereafter (unless they've done something extreme to change their appearance).

or it may be caused by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

 

[WWGD]

I can pull a lorry with my pubic hair.

No pictures, please.

 

[zoobyshoe]

or it may be caused by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

For some people, but I wouldn't suspect this effect in your case. You said it's really hard for you to remember anyone's face.

 

[WWGD]

or it may be caused by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

I have a similar issue, and it is poorly adaptive and therefore rare; ultimately I think we do not attach much importance to people's feelings in this respect, I have to admit.

 

[WWGD]

For some people, but I wouldn't suspect this effect in your case. You said it's really hard for you to remember anyone's face.

She is one of Podesta's aliens.

 

[WWGD]

Hee hee. . I'm not saying that I want a hairy woman (or lack thereof, for that matter). Rather I'm saying that hairy or not hairy is not a big deal to me. Either way. The things I find attractive in a woman far outweigh hair or lack of it.

Even a 'stache, you know, tying someone up on the railroad tracks and laughing maliciously 'stache?

 

[Astronuc]

Footage shows the moment police overran Turkey's largest newspaper using tear gas
http://www.businessinsider.com/todays-zaman-turkey-police-2016-3

"Police dressed in riot gear seized the headquarters of Turkey's highest-circulation newspaper in a midnight raid Saturday, in arguably the biggest blow yet to press freedom in President Recep Erdogan's Turkey.

The government takeover of Today's Zaman was evidently in response to Erdogan's perception of the paper as a front for the Gülen movement . . ."

And Turkey is supposed to be an ally?!

 

[Psinter]

I'm in terrible pain right now. I made this because I wanted to make Evo laugh, but I'm in so much pain that I don't even find it funny anymore :

Why I am in pain you wonder? This:

I'm in so much pain that the birds chirping outside are annoying me really bad with their chirping. Am I the only one who gets in bad mood when in pain?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I'm in terrible pain right now. I made this because I wanted to make Evo laugh, but I'm in so much pain that I don't even find it funny anymore :

...

She looks like Candace in Phineas and Ferb

 

[Psinter]

She looks like Candace in Phineas and Ferb

I wish I could laugh with you. But I'm in such a bad mood that I don't care about anything.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm in terrible pain right now.

You must get to a dentist! As soon as possible.

 

[Psinter]

You must get to a dentist! As soon as possible.

It was the doctor the one who took that out. It was the doctor who put me in this pain.

Edit: And I am still bleeding. I hate it. He said I should stop bleeding soon and gave me recommendations which I don't even remember anymore. My mom was there listening, she must remember, I'll ask her later if I snap out of this pain and bad mood.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I wish I could laugh with you. But I'm in such a bad mood that I don't care about anything.

Oh sorry to hear that. Is that the wise one ? Looks like a good keepsake.

 

[Sophia]

For some people, but I wouldn't suspect this effect in your case. You said it's really hard for you to remember anyone's face.

That is something different. I can easily see difference in people's faces. I just can't remember them long term. It's that I can't connect face to name when I see the person later. At the time I see them, I clearly see the unique shape and colour of their eyes, nose, mouth etc. It Is that I am unable to store it in memory. (I eventually remember everyone, after I see them many times)

In the case I was describing now, I tried to say that people of other races have very similar features for me and they seem more similar to one another compared to how I perceive Caucasians. It's not that I can't see any differences between them, but that they seem relatively smaller.
Of course, it is possible that these two may have common cause in some pathology in my brain.

 

[Sophia]

It was the doctor the one who took that out. It was the doctor who put me in this pain.

Edit: And I am still bleeding. I hate it. He said I should stop bleeding soon and gave me recommendations which I don't even remember anymore. My mom was there listening, she must remember, I'll ask her later if I snap out of this pain and bad mood.

I'm sorry that you're in pain :-/
It will pass soon I'm sure.
The wound needs to be kept dry, don't wash it with water or clot will not form.
Put there a cotton wool or tampon and press. It should stop bleeding in few minutes.

 

[zoobyshoe]

That is something different. I can easily see difference in people's faces. I just can't remember them long term. It's that I can't connect face to name when I see the person later. At the time I see them, I clearly see the unique shape and colour of their eyes, nose, mouth etc. It Is that I am unable to store it in memory. (I eventually remember everyone, after I see them many times)

In the case I was describing now, I tried to say that people of other races have very similar features for me and they seem more similar to one another compared to how I perceive Caucasians. It's not that I can't see any differences between them, but that they seem relatively smaller.
Of course, it is possible that these two may have common cause in some pathology in my brain.

I don't know what to tell you. I just don't have this they-all-look-the-same experience. It's entirely possible that is due to pathology in my brain. I can remember as a little kid being overwhelmed by the discovery that everyone in the world didn't look like a member of my immediate family. I instantly saw incredible differences such that other white people in my town, all of the same ethic stock as me, all looked like their own kind of individual alien creature to me. So, my brain may latch onto differences and exaggerate them for all I know.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It was the doctor the one who took that out. It was the doctor who put me in this pain.

Edit: And I am still bleeding. I hate it. He said I should stop bleeding soon and gave me recommendations which I don't even remember anymore. My mom was there listening, she must remember, I'll ask her later if I snap out of this pain and bad mood.

Sorry, I misunderstood. Didn't he recommend something for the pain?