A Black Hole of Happiness

[andViolins]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
You shouldn't have mocked the curse.

Feel free to kick me when I'm down. Its ok. Really.

aV

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Much like penske and the cow, I no watcheh the futbol. Link?

TM

Neither of these clips is ideal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rafX9C8uSI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iiep0lNQ_c&NR=1

~10 minutes later, Honduras equalized:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PHw5...elated&search=

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Don't sully that good woman's name. My earliest fond memories of TCBing are to the nude scenes she did in "Cat People."

Perky, perky breasts on that woman.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Cat People. Discovering HBO for the first time at my aunt's house in Florida (my parents knew not of this thing called "cable") changed my erotic life forever. My internal erotic life, at least.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ironweed
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Cat People. Discovering HBO for the first time at my aunt's house in Florida (my parents knew not of this thing called "cable") changed my erotic life forever. My internal erotic life, at least.

Two words for you:

"My Tutor"

Was there even a plot?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Cat People. Discovering HBO for the first time at my aunt's house in Florida (my parents knew not of this thing called "cable") changed my erotic life forever. My internal erotic life, at least.

Internal? Malcolm McDowell charged you up to experiment that way?

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Tony sits every second wondering if the next guy through the door is the bullet, he has lost Melfi, and everyone he trusts is gone. It's the least happy happy ending. Plus Agent Harris has a hot girlfriend- AND picked sides. C'mon now.

I liked it. The first part was claustrophobic and tense -- Tony moving from dismal safehouse to smelly hideout, looking over his shoulder all the time. It reminded me of the final coked-up, "where's the helicopter?" ride around the neighborhood in Goodfellas, though nowhere near as frantic. And even when they get to come home there's no relief -- they're all trapped in one way or another and things don't look promising for any of them.

Over the course of this season I've found all of the family being written less and less sympathetically, especially Tony. Maybe this was all a tribute to the "Seinfeld" finale?

And if Tony had been arrested, or shot or any one of the widely expected endings had come to pass everyone would be bitching and moaning anyway. Chase wants his movie - fair enough.

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Internal? Malcolm McDowell charged you up to experiment that way?

I knew I'd regret taking you off ignore just to see what you had to say about The Sopranos.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
I knew I'd regret taking you off ignore just to see what you had to say about The Sopranos.

my favorite moment from the whole series hapened about 2 seasons ago. you know how Tony always is somewhat articulate, and thoughtful? he is always seen from his filter. He wrote Malfi a letter when she wouldn't date him and she reads the letter aloud. It turns out he is crude and can barely write. It was a short moment, but this neat look at how he really is.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I believe it was Bilmore who warned us all, years ago, that this is true of all television. Wake up before you waste more of your youth in front of the idiot boX!!!

At least Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN (my usual) gives you an ending.

[ltl/fb]

The next time you are plagued with indecision and need a clear way out, it might help to get angry, according to a surprising new study.

Despite its reputation as an impetus to rash behavior, anger actually seems to help people make better choices—even aiding those who are usually very poor at thinking rationally. This could be because angry people base their decisions on the cues that "really matter" rather than things that can be called irrelevant or a distraction.

Previous research has shown that anger biases people’s thinking—turning them into bigger risk-takers and making them less trusting and more prejudiced, for instance.

But little has been done to study how, exactly, anger affects a person’s thinking.

So Wesley Moons, a psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his colleague Diana Mackie designed three experiments to determine how anger influences thinking—whether it makes people more analytical or careful about their decisions, or whether it leads people to make faster, rasher decisions.

In the first experiment, the researchers induced anger in a group of college students by either asking them to write about a past experience that had made them very angry, or by having their stated hopes and dreams harshly criticized by another participant. In a second group of students, anger was not induced.

The researchers later checked to be sure that the subjects were as riled up as they were supposed to be.

The two groups were then asked to read either compelling or weak arguments designed to convince them that college students have good financial habits. The strong argument cited research from numerous scientific studies, whereas the weak argument contained largely unsupported statements. The subjects were asked to logically evaluate the strength of the arguments they read and indicate how convinced they were by them.
The researchers repeated the experiment with a second group of students, this time giving the subjects an additional piece of information: who had made the arguments. Some students were told that the argument was made by an organization with relevant expertise in financial matters; others were told that the argument was made by a medical organization whose expertise was irrelevant to the financial topic being considered.

In both studies, the researchers found that the angry subjects were better at discriminating between strong and weak arguments and were more convinced by the stronger arguments. Those who were not made to feel angry tended to be equally convinced by both arguments, indicating that they were not as analytical in their assessments.

The angry students were also better at weighing the arguments appropriately depending on which organization had made them.

The researchers repeated the experiment a third time using a different argument—one that supported the implementation of a university-wide requirement for graduating seniors to take comprehensive exams. This time, they tested only those subjects who were the least analytical, or in other words, those who were the least likely to make logical decisions. This way, the researchers would be able to see whether anger also makes typically non-analytical thinkers more analytical.

Once again, they found that the angry subjects were better able to discriminate between strong and weak arguments than the ones who were not angry—suggesting that anger can transform even those people who are, by disposition, not very analytical into more careful thinkers.

Their findings, detailed in this month’s issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggest that anger helps people focus on the cues that matter most to making a rational decision and ignore cues that are irrelevant to the task of decision-making.

This could be because anger is designed to motivate people to take action—and that it actually helps people to take the right action, the authors wrote.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
the researchers induced anger in a group of college students by ...........having their stated hopes and dreams harshly criticized by another participant.

how fucked up is that? did they later tell the students they were just kidding?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
how fucked up is that? did they later tell the students they were just kidding?

Think of it as prep for hanging out here.

[handsome boy model]

Originally posted by ironweed

And even when they get to come home there's no relief -- they're all trapped in one way or another and things don't look promising for any of them.

Like life in the law. I can relate. Kudos to Chase.

best regards,

hbm

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Think of it as prep for hanging out here.

is this your passive way of telling me the answer to my proposal is no?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
is this your passive way of telling me the answer to my proposal is no?

what proposal?