James Stuart
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Haemorrhoids are better than Dracula: Untold.
Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.
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gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Yes, and you can cure them, as well. Unfortunately, you can't undo Dracula: Untold, asides from applying damnatio memoriae on everyone who ever watched it, a feat only done by rabid Stalinists.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Curses! WebMD has lied to me. Again.
Curing rhinitis by putting garlic and honey is the worst idea that has ever been put into existence.
Curing rhinitis by putting garlic and honey is the worst idea that has ever been put into existence.
I think haemorrhoids are more like period pains - you can take medication to mitigate them, but if they go away by themselves, they don't need to be 'cured', and if they don't, well, then you have more fun.
(N.B. I am so ridiculously not a doctor, it's funny.)
(N.B. I am so ridiculously not a doctor, it's funny.)
SS-18 ICBM
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No, you don't get to claim significance with a P-value cutoff of 0.10.
"Regardless of actual gender or performance, students rated the perceived female instructor significantly more harshly than the perceived male instructor, which suggests that a female instructor would have to work harder than a male to receive comparable ratings."
-MacNell L, Driscoll A, Hunt AN. 2014. What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching. Innovative Higher Education.
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Comparison of the mean of student ratings across actual instructor gender (left two columns) and perceived instructor gender (right two columns). The difference between the right two columns is significant to the p < =0.10 level.
"Regardless of actual gender or performance, students rated the perceived female instructor significantly more harshly than the perceived male instructor, which suggests that a female instructor would have to work harder than a male to receive comparable ratings."
-MacNell L, Driscoll A, Hunt AN. 2014. What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching. Innovative Higher Education.
Figure 1
Comparison of the mean of student ratings across actual instructor gender (left two columns) and perceived instructor gender (right two columns). The difference between the right two columns is significant to the p < =0.10 level.
SS-18 ICBM
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That too.
Anyway, I don't think waterboarding is that newfangled, Mr. 3raqi. And tu quoque is of course a logical fallacy.
"How can you call the islamic state barbaric? Look at the psycopaths in your prisons torturing people with methods never seen in history."
-Abu Bakr Al 3raqi (@dodo1924d), in response to the CIA torture report
Anyway, I don't think waterboarding is that newfangled, Mr. 3raqi. And tu quoque is of course a logical fallacy.
"How can you call the islamic state barbaric? Look at the psycopaths in your prisons torturing people with methods never seen in history."
-Abu Bakr Al 3raqi (@dodo1924d), in response to the CIA torture report
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
It occurred to me, earlier, that the common thread running through all these tortures is the lack of bloodshed. Things like water-boarding or exposure are brutal and barbarous, no doubt, but there's a certain distance, an extent to which you can say "he died" rather than "I killed him". And while that appears entirely disingenuous, a fig leaf to keep the warhawks on board, I wonder if it's playing out on some more immediate psychological level, too, that by avoiding more traditional, blood-spilling tortures, they can say to themselves "This isn't torture, I'm not a torturer". I wonder if the lie is for them, as well as for the rest of us.
James Stuart
King
Like the way the Nazis developed gas chambers specifically to avoid causing their own soldiers trauma from massacres? You might well be on to something there.
Borachio
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OK.
I think if the body is somehow "intact", it's not provable that torture took place at all.
How do you feel about purely psychological torture? How about being played a Justin Bieber track continuously for 6 months? Would that constitute torture?
How about sleep deprivation?
How about staged fake executions?
James Stuart
King
I'm pretty sure playing Justin Bieber for 6 minutes is considered torture.
madviking
north american scum
"clear channel communications sued for torturing 80% of america"
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
I'm not sure about that. You still hit a button. When you lock someone in a gas chamber and hit the button that inserts the gas, you're killing them. You don't get the blood on your hands, but yet you murder them, and that'll stay with you.
Borachio
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I'm pretty sure that dropping a bomb on someone from 30,000 feet up doesn't have the immediate impact on the perpetrator that strangling someone with one's bare hands does.
People have traditionally sought to put some distance between themselves and their victims. All in the name of efficiency, of course. And in the interests of their own safety.
People have traditionally sought to put some distance between themselves and their victims. All in the name of efficiency, of course. And in the interests of their own safety.
Ephesian429
Chieftain
The Dumb and Stupid Quotes thread has turned into a discussion of torture. Irony is dead.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Irony doesn't stand a chance against reality, to paraphrase my sig quote.
