Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!

[Forum]

Sounds like Saville was into dead bodies as well as women and children

[DiegoSapiens]

Since the uni has finished i cant stop thinking is sex the whole day

[hubb]

great timing

[ezza]

Imagine two people: one shares all these images on fb and thinks for hours each day about how bad life must be for these people, the other sees one of these images and laughs and says haa good these people deserve it.

They both have the same impact on the brazilian people, i.e none.

loooooool sick

[OGLemon]

yeah i suppose any form of sympathy is pretty pointless, apart from from an ego stroking perspective.

You know yawning is contagious, right?

Same goes for empathy and it's hardly pointless. On a biological level it's probably the main trait that has evolved us as a group past....hmmm .. dunno badgers?

lol yh that was a pretty ridiculous statement.

What i meant was in this specific example how does my sympathy for these people help their situation? They are ignorant of my sympathy and would be in exactly the same position whether i was sad for them or if i was cheering their eviction.

Well sympathy became prevalent in humanity as a way to ensure group survival. Since the facilitation of the movement of information a human could feel sympathy for someone on the other side of the Earth. Also sympathy is meant to elicit a reaction that would help the person that you feel sympathy for. That is where the helping part of the situation comes from. Relating to facebook, people on the website replace effective methods of helping with a share in a hope that it increases awareness. However as long as people share the information without acting on the information then the sharing is rendered ineffective in helping the people in turmoil. Finally, whether or not you feel sympathy for the people is rendered, to a point, useless because you are neither helping or worsening the situation.

[hubb]

[+] Spoiler

[hubb]

Sorry didn't mean to post that right after your post OG

But tbf what you said about groups we just agreed on and you even quoted it.

[Sheff]

How is Stop/Start technology in cars more economical than leaving your engine to idle?

Remember the episode of Top Gear where they tested it and concluded that if you're planning to nip into a shop for a minute or two you save more fuel letting the engine idle rather than switching it off, as starting up from static uses more fuel?

[OGLemon]

Sorry didn't mean to post that right after your post OG

But tbf what you said about groups we just agreed on and you even quoted it.

solidarity ma bredda

[rockonin]

How is Stop/Start technology in cars more economical than leaving your engine to idle?

Remember the episode of Top Gear where they tested it and concluded that if you're planning to nip into a shop for a minute or two you save more fuel letting the engine idle rather than switching it off, as starting up from static uses more fuel?

Interesting

[hubb]

Yeah it's fully on to park your hummer outside of the bakery with exhaust SHOOTING OUT LIKE AIR MADE OF LAVA....

[Sheff]

I can only speak for myself but the heat from my hummers exhaust is only lukewarm, at best

[RKM]

i had that, it's why i started running mine on leaded fuel again, harder to get but so worth it

[Sheff]

I have a similar setup to this to dissipate the heat because the bakeries were complaining too often

[RKM]

just noticed someone in the comments on neverland/stuck on discogs offering compa's dem a talk for a trade

if you do this trade u are a straight fool

[Johoosh]

just noticed someone in the comments on neverland/stuck on discogs offering compa's dem a talk for a trade

if you do this trade u are a straight fool

Saw this recently re: Compa. Made me chuckle also

[chekov]

it helps to create an awareness of things that are happening beyond your immediate (privileged) experience of the world

if you can't see why that's a positive thing it's not really worth the effort to try and explain

No, please explain.

In what way is it objectively a positive thing?

When i first read somewhere that all these people are being evicted, nothing positive happened, i just felt sad for these people. The situation has in no way improved for the Brazilians from my knowledge of their misfortune.

well what i was saying isn't about being able to actively improve these people's situations yourself, but i think any sort of information which brings your attention to new injustices is worth sharing about - especially in this case where poor locals are being evicted for the benefit of richer people throughout the rest of the world. understanding at whose expense you gain privilege can't be a bad thing... too easy to take things for granted

also re the worldview thing, i think the more you understand different people's experiences of life, the more nuanced your own can become and you can step outside your white, middle class, home counties upbringing and try to understand why different people feel differently about things. only seeing things from one perspective is the kind of ignorant anti-intellectual mindset nobheads like the ukips can thrive in

also, your general mindset of people never being able to achieve anything (not just on this topic) is the kind of apathy which really irritates me and is in my opinion why this country is gona go down the shitter over the next few decades as politicans reckon they can get away with fucking off everything that made britain kind of alright since the end of ww2 and dismantle the welfare state

[chekov]

just noticed someone in the comments on neverland/stuck on discogs offering compa's dem a talk for a trade

if you do this trade u are a straight fool

lol to discogs i go

edit - ahh fuck, read it the wrong way round, thought i was gona get neverland then

[RKM]

ahahah jokes, god what a status

i hope this doesn't start the i the compa hate thread again, that always spirals out of control

but i fucking hate his dem a talk remix, it is so dry and my housemate has it and always plays it when we're mixing

[Johoosh]

^make him swap it for Neverland then