mistermack

We might see this again, if he wins the election :

Every time I've pointed to people who might not share your values, you've characterised them as having mental issues. I'm not talking about mentally ill people, just people who don't and wouldn't get satisfaction from doing the things on your list. Not all people are well meaning, or care about the greater good. That's not mental illness, it's not even a behaviour disorder. It's human character with all of it's flaws. There are plenty of psychopaths who don't go serial killing, or run massive ponzi schemes. Many of them live successful lives. They're not ill, they are just of a personality type, one shade of grey out of many. Same with narcissus types etc. Really, your list is a personal list, just like mine would be, but don't expect it to make everyone else happy.

Not for nothing, but to fake his death someone might. It's going a bit far, I think it's unlikely, but that's because I wouldn't do it. But for some people, the lives of others are incredibly cheap. The limiting factor for some people is would it work, not is it moral. That's why I'm still unsure about the Diana crash. The motive was there, the people involved WOULD do it, I'm sure, but would they be convinced they would get away with it? With the Russians, they're not too bothered with the last bit. And Prigozhin was not the most sympathetic of characters. Putin is the only one I've heard of who's expressed condolences. 😪

No, it's because you get all of your mdna from your mother.

I'm still not convinced he's dead. It's going to be dental records or dna to confirm it, but really, the world will only be told what Putin wants them to think, so what's announced won't confirm anything as fact. All you can safely say, is that it's probably likely that he's possibly dead. Especially as his number 2 is also claimed to have died, so they would be faking two deaths.

It tells me it's something that they don't value, but they are low on empathy in general, so your list isn't likely to make them happy either. Self-worth will depend on what you value. Someone who doesn't value the things that you feel are positive won't get a boost out of them. If Bernie Maydorf valued screwing a sucker, then his self-worth will rise, when he rips someone off.

It seems to me that you're projecting your own attitudes on other people. What do you know of Bernie Madoff's true thinking? He might have been proud of the way he used his wits to defraud some very savvy people, and well aware that it would come to an end one day. He might have decided years before that he would kill himself when it finally all came crashing down, rather than do time in prison. He seems to have been a logical sort of person, and that would make sense to a realist. Many people with psychopathic tendencies regard their own lives as expendable, just like the lives of others.

I don't know the theory behind bimetallic coupling, but surely the important measure is not voltage but current. O.6 volts, across an infinite resistance, equals zero current. So what happens when a less than infinite resistance is connected across it ? Does the voltage drop to zero, and if not, what does it drop to? I believe that you can charge a human up to a high voltage compared to Earth, if you wear insulating shoes and walk on a nylon carpet. When you touch a conductor, you get a spark, and then nothing. There's virtually no useful current available, even though you've generated a high voltage. So put a known resistance across the circuit, and measure the current. Then you have some relevant facts.

From his point of view, he's right. There's nothing for him to win, and plenty to lose, in joining that debate. No matter how confident he was, it would be silly for him to roll the dice. And right now, they have plenty they can throw at him, so it's a no-brainer to skip it. Some will criticise, but others will view it as a sign of confidence, and a lot of his supporters will be impressed that he didn't feel the need to bother with it.

Not necessarily. He could pardon himself for federal convictions, but not for state crimes. I believe the charges in Georgia are state crimes, and so are the ones in New York. So even if he's President, he's still got to hope he beats the rap.

Our own good friends and allies are not too different. The world of elite golf is now owned and run by a man who had a journalist killed and chopped up into pieces not too long ago. I believe he's getting a state visit here soon? The only difference is that Putin doesn't really care who knows.

Donald Trump will be arrested tomorrow. They just mentioned on the BBC that there's a place on the form for his height and weight, which they thought he might be a bit touchy about. I wonder if they have to include the hair piece in those measurements? That would be brilliant.

That's what I thought. Pretty ruthless to kill all aboard, but not untypical. I've still got my suspicions about the Princess Diana crash.

No it isn't. It's really not. I did do it for a year, not for UPS but here in the UK, driving a 7.5 ton lorry, down narrow streets. There was the odd hour when we grafted, but generally it was pretty easy work. When you're on the open road in a truck, it's quite relaxing. A bit of loading and unloading was physical, but only in short spurts.

Under normal circumstances, companies have to weigh up the effect on sales, when they raise prices. The last round of price rises seems to have been coordinated in some way, maybe it's the effect of the internet or social media, but the fear of losing business seems to not have reined them in. When you can check the prices of your competitors in an instant, and match your price rises to theirs, the opportunity is there for coordinated price hikes, without actual collusion.

From memory, the Crimean vote was a referendum, not an opinion poll. And the turnout was about ninety percent, the yes vote was in the high nineties, and the result was monitored and called a genuine result by one of the biggest polling organisations in the USA. I did link all that originally, so I'm not going to look it up again. Without unbiased oversight, I wouldn't value any of the poll results, except that in the pre-war years, the fact that control went backwards and forwards would indicate some sort of even split. Before the Crimean referendum, all of the (pretty biased) western media were saying it would be a huge majority for joining Russia, and nobody in the western media was expressing surprise or calling foul after it, so it seemed to be common knowledge that Crimea was staunchly Russian-leaning. Actually, the removal of the Crimean voting bloc probably tipped the balance a bit towards the west, for the rest of Ukraine. Maybe not enough for landslides, but not negligible. I'm wondering how the did it. It was his own plane, run by his own organisation. Maybe a strong whiff of novichock after the fire? But it's not confirmed anyway. Maybe he has faked his death and done a runner.

I have no idea what the current opinion is in Ukraine. And I still don't. But if my life and freedom depended on my expressed preferences, I would keep my mouth shut.

I found that, but if I did the same in word, the formatting comes out ok.

So who does Israel belong to ?

I didn't see that in Crimea, but the union with Russia got support in the high nineties percent, and that was verified by western polling agencies.

The answer's exactly the same : It's hardly a state secret. If you have to ask, you clearly get your information from newspaper headlines. : "From the political perspective, one of the defining features of the politics of Ukraine is that for most of the time, it has been divided along two issues: the relation between Ukraine, the West and Russia, and the classical left-right divide.[154] The first two presidents, Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, tended to balance the competing visions of Ukraine,[155] though Yushchenko and Yanukovych were generally pro-Western and pro-Russian, respectively." Ukraine - Wikipedia Highly suspicious. You have tightly divided loyalties, then a coup, and then a landslide!! In a place as corrupt as Ukraine, why would you expect anything else? But even if it was legit, it wouldn't necessarily indicate a general change of historical loyalties, just dissatisfaction with the current guy on offer. Boris Johnson got a landslide in this country. He's out already, and his party are in the depths support-wise.

Meanwhile the war is not going great. Ukraine's endemic corruption rose to the surface about a week ago, when it turned out that the entire management of conscription to the military had to be sacked for taking bribes from people who don't want to be called up, or helping them escape the country. (which is illegal for fighting age men). Ukraine fires military conscription officials for taking bribes - BBC News I don't blame them, nearly half the country preferred to be linked to Russia, before the war, and it must be galling to have to risk losing your life and shooting at people that you'd rather not be fighting. The much-vaunted spring offensive achieved practically nothing, and Ukraine's allies are looking for ways out. One of NATO's bigwigs said the other day that Ukraine might have to agree to a settlement that ceded territory to Russia. He was quickly forced to take it back, but it shows the kind of thinking that's going on behind the scenes. Nato official apologises over suggestion Ukraine could give up land for membership | Ukraine | The Guardian It's a bit comical anyway, the notion of giving up territory you've already lost. And Zelensky would never do it, it would be humiliation for him, and "face" is everything. It's possible that Ukraine is on it's last legs reserves-wise, and could suffer a quick collapse if nothing changes. But hey, Zelensky's a great guy, a wise and charismatic leader, and I'm sure he did the right thing in losing huge chunks of his country and tens of thousands of his people.

In reality, Vagina and Penis are just as much slang as cunt and cock. It's likely they came into use after cock and cunt, and they are the "in" words for a certain gang, in this case, the middle and upper classes. We tend to regard words used by lower classes as the slang, but really, it's all slang.

A lot of slang originates with kids, getting it wrong. They confuse it, and then the adults copy the infants. That's how a lot of nicknames come about. An infant will call Michael Mike and it sticks, Same with Peter to Pete, Geoffrey to Jeff and so on. My youngest sister was always losing her favourite rag. We all had to hunt for it, when she realised it wasn't there, and went ballistic. Then someone would find it, and we would all crow "there it is" to stop her crying. So next time, she wanted us to find her "dere's it is" and the name stuck, and we still call it that now, years later. Those family things can migrate to other families. Words like car probably came from a baby trying to say carriage, and bus from one trying to say omnibus. It's probably more common to come down that way, than from adults shortening it. Adults adopt baby talk all the time. Maybe sometimes it comes down both ways. In England we say telly, for television, which might well have come from baby talk, whereas in the US they say TV, which probably came from adults trimming it. The word cunt is very old, many hundreds of years, there was an old narrow lane in England somewhere called "gropecunt lane" which used to be a haunt for prostitutes hundreds of years ago. Found it : Gropecunt Lane - Wikipedia It goes back about 800 years or more.

Nope. If you are going to pretend to be that ignorant, then I'll leave you in bliss.