American Psychological Association links 'masculinity ideology' to homophobia, misogyny

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

People being payed large sums of money have to do something to justify it, and when they can't think of anything (a lot of the time ) they can always use, point out the obvious.

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2019:

@DoctoralZombie You are misreading me, I said that I agree with it, just that is banal. A lot of triuth is. Grass is the colour that people usually call green. It is quite true, but what is the point of saying it. Useful in government to have a clear policy on the colour of grass no doubt, but of no interest to anyone else..

American Psychological Association links 'masculinity ideology' to homophobia, misogyny

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

People being payed large sums of money have to do something to justify it, and when they can't think of anything (a lot of the time ) they can always use, point out the obvious.

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2019:

@DoctoralZombie I have every respect for the science of psychology, but unfortunately in nearly every field of science there is some output which is only worthy of an ignobel prize.

American Psychological Association links 'masculinity ideology' to homophobia, misogyny

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

People being payed large sums of money have to do something to justify it, and when they can't think of anything (a lot of the time ) they can always use, point out the obvious.

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2019:

@DoctoralZombie No sorry, while I do not disagree with the basic premise. I found it banal in the extreme, riddled with cliche and journalism by numbers, using no doubt, sources which were the same.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

He was either very careful and very clever, or he was suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect.

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2019:

@THHA That is true, but more than that, I meant that you would have to be a supper human geniius to, either know or list all your friends and enemies, or to have any idea all the things they had done for or against you.

These were very accurate, for me. [huffingtonpost.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Funny thing is, that is exactly the same list that I would say makes a woman attractive.

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2019:

@Amisja Thanks.

So I have to post and do stuff like that to gain levels?

genessa comments on Jan 8, 2019:

yes. the idea isn't that you do this to gain points. the idea is that you do this because you find the site interesting, and then the site rewards you with points that let you participate even more, because you've shown that you're into it. the points are not the point (pun intended). ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2019:

@Amisja I did not mean that comments should be judged for quality, only that rewarding early posting encourages poor quality. However if you are offering to do the job, I think that the offer should be taken seriously, it could really work; imagine a world where Lancastrian culture was used as the bench mark for taste everywhere, that could be the best gift that the planet ever got from the internet. ( Well apart from Yorkshire culture of course, but Lanc's is a good second best.)

So I have to post and do stuff like that to gain levels?

genessa comments on Jan 8, 2019:

yes. the idea isn't that you do this to gain points. the idea is that you do this because you find the site interesting, and then the site rewards you with points that let you participate even more, because you've shown that you're into it. the points are not the point (pun intended). ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2019:

@genessa Yes no extra points for anything except the basic comment would I think be best.

A few of these are easier said than done.

Xuande comments on Jan 8, 2019:

That's awesome and Imma let you finish, but most of us can't leave a job, hate it or not, cause we gotta like ... buy food for our family and stuff. Carry on!

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2019:

Buy food for our family, surely comes under, "love with every ounce of your bones" and "stand up for things that matter". The lines, though basically good, are in some ways contradictory.

So I have to post and do stuff like that to gain levels?

genessa comments on Jan 8, 2019:

yes. the idea isn't that you do this to gain points. the idea is that you do this because you find the site interesting, and then the site rewards you with points that let you participate even more, because you've shown that you're into it. the points are not the point (pun intended). ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2019:

One thing that I find strange is. Why do you get extra points for being the first to comment, surely the only important thing about a comment is its quality, why is when it was posted important ? It maybe that it is to compensate for the fact that first comments end up at the bottom of the page, but so nearly do second comments, and while when the site was young it may have been needful to encourage comments, there are now lots of people commenting. All it seems to do now is encourage some to make quick shallow flip comments.

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth's Oceans ...

KKGator comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Time for another.

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2019:

Boy! I love it when you show how sharp your claws are.

One of the problems of living in the south is that you have to mow the grass in the winter, not ...

EdEarl comments on Jan 7, 2019:

"We should all know by now that lawns of green grass aren't so "green" for the environment. Keeping turf from turning brown wastes water; people use too much pesticide and herbicide, toxic chemicals that can contaminate the fish we eat and water we drink. And keeping lawns at a reasonable height ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2019:

@FrayedBear You should put that video up as a post, on the gardeners group page at least, it is really wonderful and everyone should see it.

One of the problems of living in the south is that you have to mow the grass in the winter, not ...

EdEarl comments on Jan 7, 2019:

"We should all know by now that lawns of green grass aren't so "green" for the environment. Keeping turf from turning brown wastes water; people use too much pesticide and herbicide, toxic chemicals that can contaminate the fish we eat and water we drink. And keeping lawns at a reasonable height ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2019:

@EdEarl Best wishes, hope you soon well.

One of the problems of living in the south is that you have to mow the grass in the winter, not ...

EdEarl comments on Jan 7, 2019:

"We should all know by now that lawns of green grass aren't so "green" for the environment. Keeping turf from turning brown wastes water; people use too much pesticide and herbicide, toxic chemicals that can contaminate the fish we eat and water we drink. And keeping lawns at a reasonable height ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2019:

@FrayedBear Yes I love using a sythe, but there is a skill level required and it is hard to find teachers today, so I just said push mower because that is easiest for most people. The video is great, he is really good I don't think that I will ever reach that level, especially as the man with the strimmer is pretty fast too.

One of the problems of living in the south is that you have to mow the grass in the winter, not ...

EdEarl comments on Jan 7, 2019:

"We should all know by now that lawns of green grass aren't so "green" for the environment. Keeping turf from turning brown wastes water; people use too much pesticide and herbicide, toxic chemicals that can contaminate the fish we eat and water we drink. And keeping lawns at a reasonable height ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2019:

You could use a push mower, and get some healthy exercise too.

Why is Christianity called a monotheistic religion, when in church every one chants they believe in ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Don't expect logic or reason, the whole point is to make it difficult, so that those in control of the religion have a baffle screen to hide behind when they want to, and so that they can claim to be special because they claim to understand it, which helps to keep the sheep in the pen.

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

@greyeyed123 Great post, and yes. Make sense ? No.

I won the rat race! FuckingFlea (my petite tortie female cat) brought it into the house AND LET IT ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Rat vary in character a lot. I use a live cage type trap to catch the ones that sometimes come into my loft, then let them go several miles away. I have noticed that when I pick the cage up some of them cower in a corner, curling up to make themselves small, while others attack the bars of the cage ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

@SurvivorSteph Good, especially if you only had gloves.

I just finished reading this insightful book by David Frye ' Walls: A History of Civilization in ...

Charlene comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Walls..walls..walls

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

@Elganned Also true, there seem to be a lot of reasons why people do not like other people.

After hearing horror tales from my daughters, friends, and women on here, I feel compelled to put ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Part of the human tragedy is that people, men and women both, are not attracted to people they like. People are attracted to damaged people because they seem either exciting and dangerous or needy, and strong self reliant people without issues seem boring and dull. Only when the first excitement ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

@Wildflower That is true to a degree, but I used damaged in a very wide sense to include things like greed and narsisism, and even being victims of consummer culture. Healthy people yes may understand that strength often means reserve.

I enjoy collecting Jack Chick comics.

Amisja comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Wow, I am surprised that you have to endure this. JWs here have been advised against door to door preaching and I have never heard of the other publication. I do remember the Sally Army doing their bit for Temperance Movement when I was a child in pubs. (Yeah I was a child in pubs, usually with my...

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

@Amisja They used to come round every six to twelve months here in Lincolnshire, but I have not seen them for three or four years now. Though I did see some suited blokes with cases a few months ago, but they could have been any sort of loosers.

I enjoy collecting Jack Chick comics.

Amisja comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Wow, I am surprised that you have to endure this. JWs here have been advised against door to door preaching and I have never heard of the other publication. I do remember the Sally Army doing their bit for Temperance Movement when I was a child in pubs. (Yeah I was a child in pubs, usually with my...

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

I did not know that JWs had stopped going door to door, when and why did that happen ?

I won the rat race! FuckingFlea (my petite tortie female cat) brought it into the house AND LET IT ...

Seeker3CO comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Cats prey on mice... Rats are usually too big and fierce for them

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

I knew a cat once who would take on rabbits.

This came in the post today, hand writen address, no name, no return address.

John_Tyrrell comments on Jan 5, 2019:

What is wrong with their god that she cannot tell you these things personally? (These things are for sale in packs of 25. The author calls it a "book" - seriously, four pages constitute a "book" which says something about the intended audience.)

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

@LordOtto Certainly not, they would much rather you were told what was in there, especially by someone who had not read it either. If people knew what was in there, then the church could not use it to give their, so called god persons, authority to whatever they want, but would have to stick with whats in there. (Though that is even worse but less profitable.)

I just finished reading this insightful book by David Frye ' Walls: A History of Civilization in ...

Charlene comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Walls..walls..walls

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

@Elganned More often strong people build walls to keep out weak people, who have a bad habit of demanding social justice and their stuff back.

This is a really interesting story, well told with some fun graphics, but warning you will need an ...

TheGreatShadow comments on Jan 5, 2019:

I love cheese! Almost any type! Except "cheese food" or "cheese product". Except every once in a while I get nacho cheese for curly fries. Maybe some dip for chips. I also don't like american cheese. Even if it is real cheese, they put it on EVERYTHING. Cheddar, sharp cheddar, munster, baby ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2019:

Me too. But please stop, I could grow fat just reading this.

This came in the post today, hand writen address, no name, no return address.

Stephanie99 comments on Jan 5, 2019:

You are keeping us in suspense.

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

You need to be saved. You can not save your self. Jesus can save you. Trust Jesus. Plus some detail.

This came in the post today, hand writen address, no name, no return address.

nicknotes comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Any value in the 4 things?

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

You need to be saved. You can not save your self. Jesus can save you. Trust Jesus. Plus some detail. What I want to know is what is he saving us for, I will bet it is so that he can do something to us that we will not like, when he's ready.

This came in the post today, hand writen address, no name, no return address.

John_Tyrrell comments on Jan 5, 2019:

What is wrong with their god that she cannot tell you these things personally? (These things are for sale in packs of 25. The author calls it a "book" - seriously, four pages constitute a "book" which says something about the intended audience.)

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Very short attention span, do you need to read the bible to be a christian, no. Can you read the bible if you are a christian, not likely.

This came in the post today, hand writen address, no name, no return address.

ronin73 comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Is there supposed to be an attachment?

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Yes there is now, thank you for the heads up. Several people seem to have been habving difficulties with photos today.

This is a really interesting story, well told with some fun graphics, but warning you will need an ...

Charlene comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Mmmm..cheeese..I am feeling a bit Peckish..do you have any Stilton?

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Got some Stilton for Xmas, just ate the last of it, with some fried sweet potatoes.

This is a really interesting story, well told with some fun graphics, but warning you will need an ...

CaleBLaver comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Cool, I've heard that beer had a similarly important role in ancient cultures, giving a nutritional and sanitary advantage.

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Beer and cheese on the same page, that has to feed my wildest dreams.

This is a really interesting story, well told with some fun graphics, but warning you will need an ...

Robecology comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Didn't realize cheese was low in Lactic acid! Good video!

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Yes, that is why many east Asians who are not able generally to take lactose make cheese. It fueled the Mongol armies after all.

Admiral Nelson's flagship, undergoing restoration.

ipdg77 comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Is that Victory? It doesn't look like it. Are you sure that's not HMS Warrior?

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Looks like it to me too.

Is the image moving? Don't hurt your eyes now.

ipdg77 comments on Jan 5, 2019:

No this isn't, for me anyway. I guess it's how all your bits are wired. This one is moving though, clockwise (If viewed from above)...or so it appears to me :-)

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Yes that one does it for me.

So, as I've said before, I'd love to have a filter for selected topics.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

No you would end by making everyones view narrower, diversity is what makes this site not only exciting but useful as well, and if some posts are boring and shallow, well you just have to move on, that's life.

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

@josh_is_exciting True.

This will soon become a big issue if we are not careful. [youtube.com]

Markss76118 comments on Jan 5, 2019:

This reminds me of stories about "Peak Oil" and fear mongering since the beginning of the oil industry predicting we would run out of oil "soon". I'm not worried. Free market pricing (laws of supply and demand) can ensure we never run out.

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

As the video says, part of the problem is that the price is being kept down by deliberate dumping, which is still happening despite the shortage..

This will soon become a big issue if we are not careful. [youtube.com]

Cutiebeauty comments on Jan 5, 2019:

What's so important about helium? I don't understand...

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

That's what the video is about.

So, as I've said before, I'd love to have a filter for selected topics.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

No you would end by making everyones view narrower, diversity is what makes this site not only exciting but useful as well, and if some posts are boring and shallow, well you just have to move on, that's life.

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

@josh_is_exciting No we do not need news, and I don't see much, this is much more a place for opinion and thoughts, which is what I see. Would be better if a few people thought twice before posting some of the so called humour, but then not everyone has the same tastes and maybe some people do find them funny, so I just move on.

This will soon become a big issue if we are not careful. [youtube.com]

Cast1es comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Are we going back to dirigables ?

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Some people are still building them and blips, and I think that a lot of them still use helium, think of the vast amounts that uses.

'Ultima Thule': Nickname for New Horizons' Target Celebrates Exploration, Not Nazis, Scientist Says...

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Make a positive use of the name and win it back from the Nazis. In any case I for one have been long familiar with the name , had no idea of its use by the Nazis. If you do enough research you will after all find that there is hardly any name they did not use at some time. OK not many people are ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

@Jacar Yes.

I think you will like this one if only because he is such a keen young man. [youtube.com]

MikeInBatonRouge comments on Jan 4, 2019:

I like It! Of course, the point is not to critique the merits of currents specifically. They are just one example of many that are options for propagation. I have propagated countless roses from cuttings over the years. Just this autumn I started a couple hydrangea that are now potted up and ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2019:

Yes, the problem with cuttings is that so many people who are new to gardening get sucked in by commercial hype, then they buy propagators and other equipment from garden centres, often then failing and giving up. So they never get to understand, that for woody plants at least, growing cuttings indoors in propagators etc. is actually the hardest way to do it, while hardwood cuttings outside are almost problem free for most plants. Just stick it in the ground and wait.

The Psychology Of Materialism, And Why It's Making You Unhappy | HuffPost Life

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

There is of course one irony here, which is that the big spenders tend to make things cheaper to buy, and that helps those who are happy on low incomes afford the few things they do need more easily.

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

@KKGator Yes that is true.

I write as an English observer across the pond.

Spinliesel comments on Jan 4, 2019:

And this comes from the country of Boris Johnson, Teresa May and Edward Miliband?

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

@David1955 Some people really pay money to hear him talk! I would pay money to be let out if he was in the same building.

I write as an English observer across the pond.

Amisja comments on Jan 4, 2019:

If you are British, why do you write using American English?

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

@OwlInASack I type fast too, and it does not come easily to me because I am on the autistic spectrum and dyslexic, but I have trained myself to go back and check everything because it is a kind thing to make it easy for others to read. Having said that I am totally forgiving of everyone else, so I will not point out the missing space and full stop in your reply.

I write as an English observer across the pond.

Spinliesel comments on Jan 4, 2019:

And this comes from the country of Boris Johnson, Teresa May and Edward Miliband?

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

@David1955 Blair. The man who gave his wealthy chums tax relief on second homes in a country with a housing and land shortage, gave religious sects the right to create indoctrination schools and deny children education because he was a closet catholic who dared not come out, and invaded two foreign countries on false information just for the ego trip of proving he was a world statesman. Is that the one you are talking about ?

I write as an English observer across the pond.

Amisja comments on Jan 4, 2019:

If you are British, why do you write using American English?

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

@Amisja Sorry, you may only get it if you use a pc then, though it does, appear on both my pc and my tablet.

I write as an English observer across the pond.

Amisja comments on Jan 4, 2019:

If you are British, why do you write using American English?

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

@Amisja Yes I prefer UK as well, but this is an American based site so really you should be marked down on it for the same reason if you use UK English. Actually I am happy with both, and sometimes do stick with UK. The spell checker is standard, if you are not seeing it you may be using an outdated programme/program to view the site.

I don't know if this is the same for any one else, but.

sapiofile comments on Jan 4, 2019:

I always try to practice empathy and one way is to not react (honking, cussing, etc.) when on the road. You don't actually know the other driver's motivation for doing stupid or rude things do you? So imagine a sick baby is being rushed to care or a loved one has just been rushed to hospital. ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

Someone going fast could yes, be going to the hospital, with someone haemorrhaging. Someone going slow could be looking for something, have a fault with the car, a delicate cargo. Who knows, tolerance is the heart of good manners and safety.

I write as an English observer across the pond.

Amisja comments on Jan 4, 2019:

If you are British, why do you write using American English?

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

As British too/two, I do tend to use American English on this site, because I hate the way the spell checker colors/ colours things pink. Gray/grey would be better. Although I am a sceptic/skeptic about whether/weather spelling is really at the centre/center of how you enjoy this site/sight. But now I have hit on a great way to bore/boar/bour people if I want to, which/ witch is really a great idea for the future. P. S. I don't/do not think that his "homour" is found in either.

This is a part of the life story not so often told, yet it is a good telling, enjoy.

JacarC comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Hyenas live in a society of tyrannical matriarchal hierarchy. What can we learn from this?

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2019:

Nothing we are the same.

Two shots from Olbrich Botanical Gardens Conservancy, featuring a blooming Alocasia and an Amaryllis...

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Were those taken recently ? I looked up the Olbrich Gardens they look wonderful, you are very lucky to be near such a beautiful garden.

Fernapple replies on Jan 3, 2019:

@Leafhead Thanks, I am learning so much about the US climate and growing since I joined this.

This evening at dusk and in heavy rain a person was driving a black car without their headlights on...

Jnei comments on Jan 2, 2019:

It seems bizarre to me that such requirements would not be law! Throughout the EU, all new models of car since 2011 must have "daytime running lights" front and rear which are illuminated whenever the car's engine (or motor) is running and are estimated to reduce accidents by 5-15%. In the UK, all ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2019:

It would also cost no one anything, for a law to be passed saying that all new vehicles must be painted with a high visibility paint, yet no government seems interested in things that cost nothing.

My wife is going on a cruise, I drove her to Chicago airport.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

You have to make the most of every second of not hurting you get with everyone you meet, even those you only half like let alone the ones you love. They all get hurt or leave one day.

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2019:

@IamNobody Hope she gets safe back.

Over the holidays I was back in Ga, and visited my family, that included the ones on the trump ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Old saying. "The only things that are important are the things you can escape a shipwreck with."

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2019:

@AmmaRE007 Perhaps you may also include, memories, skills and education, plus enough clothes to keep you warm.

Hello everyone i have just joined this group.

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Hello and welcome this is the place, check out the members map to see if there is anyone near you.

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2019:

@Larika Look under browse members. You should see a button "Map View"

Most plausible theory on the Princes in the Tower?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

High infant mortality in those days. Especially when locked in cold dark towers and not fed much, the connection between food and staying alive was not well understood then.

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2019:

@AnnaMD It could have been intended, but remember at least one pope starved to death in prison, if you did not have the money in those days to pay the guards for food, and no one bothered to do it for you.

I highly recommend this book.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Thanks, it is good to get a book recommended, especially since having seen some of your posts I now have an idea of your tastes. It may be that you have to forgive the lack of mentioning the facts on paternally inheritable mitochondrial DNA as this is fairly new science and it can take five or more...

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2019:

@Donotbelieve Thank you I have manage to order it.

Can you live without the Lifeforce Harmonizer...?

Mitch07102 comments on Jan 2, 2019:

This falls under the heading "You just can't make this up."

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2019:

Oh. I could make one up. Take me about two days, less cost of copper wire, base, pegs, paint, transport, say 45 max. That works out at about two thousand two hundred dollars per day. Any takers.

Is my brain weird?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

If your brain is not weird you should not be on this site. Thanks for the images they are now lodged in my brain too.

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

@rogueflyer Well said.

One of the things I've always noticed about the bible belt is they have a grudge against "book ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

If you only read one book, bad enough. If you only have one book selectively read to you for half an hour every Sunday ? But if there is an intellectual elite in charge of the state in the US, why do they allow people to finish school without a suitable education anyway ?

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 I thought that could be the case, and the sad thing is of course, that the political establishment is viewed by many as the same thing as an elite, (which it is not) including an intellectual one. So that in the popular mind, intellect gets the blame for many of the political establishments crimes, which of course the political establishment loves and encourages. I think that you have a saying in the US "Catch 22".

One thing that I have noticed, is that many of the people who say they believe in homeopathy, and ...

MattHardy comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Herbal medicine according to the excellent David Colquhoun: Giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety. At least with homeopathy you know the dose ;-)

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

@MattHardy Yes agree with that completely.

Is my brain weird?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

If your brain is not weird you should not be on this site. Thanks for the images they are now lodged in my brain too.

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

@kauva No of course agnostics and atheists are not weird, but this site is fun, so the ones on here must be.

One thing that I have noticed, is that many of the people who say they believe in homeopathy, and ...

MattHardy comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Herbal medicine according to the excellent David Colquhoun: Giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety. At least with homeopathy you know the dose ;-)

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

I do not think that is quite true, many active components of herbals are known, the veg you eat for dinner are not tested for safety either, and though herbals may not be measured to exactitude, is a pill from the doctor sized according to your body mass. Do not however get me wrong I am not a herbal enthusiast, it is just that I think that an inexact dose of something/anything is generally better than where you know the dose, and it is zero. And remember any green stuff is an improvement on a junk food diet, so when the doctors tell people they lack fibre, they are promoting herbalism too.

I'm very excited about this group! I delight in ridiculing woo!

Kafirah comments on Dec 31, 2018:

This is gonna be so much fun!

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

The only thing that worries me is that they may all run and hide, now they know theres a group watching them. You never know, we could be working for the illuminarty..

Inspired by a recent post, I made this - which I thought might be fun to add to some of the more ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Boy that would be brave. Having said that there was a post just today, on this very site, about how alien genetics could account for hybrid animals in mythology. A woo hooter would be really useful, if it does not get you banned.

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

@Jnei Found it. Well done.

Mythology’s Hybrids: Human Imagination or Alien Genetics?

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. People have a general lack of misunderstanding about myth. Myth is a language of metaphor and allegory. Hybrids in myth arise for various reasons, but genetic manipulation by aliens is not one. For example, the Greek centaur...

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2019:

Fossils may be another source, the Cyclops may be based on the misunderstanding of the skulls of extinct elephants, and griffins on dinosuar fossils.

How do I redeem myself from being an asshole?

genessa comments on Dec 30, 2018:

stop being an asshole. that's the only way. g

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@genessa, @Gwendolyn2018 Thank you for that, I love the way that myth and folklore hold up a mirror to the human condition it is always interesting.

How do I redeem myself from being an asshole?

genessa comments on Dec 30, 2018:

stop being an asshole. that's the only way. g

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@genessa Try the Fliess Weininger, Swoboda and Freud story, also if you can find it there was if I remember an old BBC documentary "Timewatch" I think, which detailed a number of his fictional cases.

How do I redeem myself from being an asshole?

genessa comments on Dec 30, 2018:

stop being an asshole. that's the only way. g

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@genessa I would have to spend some time on that, it is the distant memory of things learned at coll., but I can say that I do bash T. Edison and I always use Tesla strips. The history however is out there and I will try to get back to you,; if not you will surely turn it up with google.

How do I redeem myself from being an asshole?

genessa comments on Dec 30, 2018:

stop being an asshole. that's the only way. g

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@genessa Yes it was only the Feudian view of that story that I was reffering to, but having said that, many would say that he set the science of the human mind back, more than he pushed it forward, though I am no expert. But he was certainly one of histories worst plagiarists and frauds, who was happy to quote other peoples findings as his own, and he completely misunderstood and largly ignored Darwinian evolution, which at that time was barely forgivable.

How do I redeem myself from being an asshole?

genessa comments on Dec 30, 2018:

stop being an asshole. that's the only way. g

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@Gwendolyn2018 It is true that many fairy tales have great depth, and many are often retellings of myths, ( Beauty and the Beast, is part of Cupid And Psychi, for example.) But the common usage of fairy tale, here in the UK at least, though it may be different in the US, is, to quote Longmans Dictionary. "A very improbable story." Which was the usage intended.

How do I redeem myself from being an asshole?

genessa comments on Dec 30, 2018:

stop being an asshole. that's the only way. g

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@Gwendolyn2018 Yes, Oedipus is often regarded as the achitype, especially in post Freudian world views, because of the direct sleeping with his mother and slaying his father fantasy, it is said to include. Though Gilgmesh is certainly a lot earlier and I always thought that the Feudian view was overrated. But I was using fairy story in a derogatory and generic sense to include myths as well.

How do I redeem myself from being an asshole?

genessa comments on Dec 30, 2018:

stop being an asshole. that's the only way. g

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@Gwendolyn2018 Yep. That is where the Jesus story starts, in fact most fairy stories.

Does anyone else enjoy reading about the War of the Roses and the Tudors?

Donotbelieve comments on Dec 30, 2018:

I do! Only non-fiction, though.

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

Nice to hear that, it means I am not alone. Why read historical fiction when you can read the real thing ?

Tragedy of human beings

powder comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Tradition.

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

I was going to write culture, but since you though of a better word I won't bother.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions - Confucius

Marionville comments on Dec 30, 2018:

There is no such thing as someone who has the answer to everything....although some like to think they do.

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2018:

@pmar074 The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Oliver Goldsmith.

Slut Shaming Preacher

JK666 comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Destined never to get laid!

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2018:

It would be nice to think so and that he may learn from that given time, but unfortunately crazy is not just a male trait.

Awoke this morning, always a plus for me, and a thought crossed my mind, (a second plus), any way, ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

It is not a matter of wanting. The religious mind set and the skeptical one approach life from completely different ends. The skeptic sees truth as something to be sought at any cost, even if it hurts and means changing your world view in painfully difficult ways; the religious see truth as being ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 29, 2018:

@HankSherman The best way, I think, is just to set a good example of being a good human, as there get to be more and more of us that alone is bound to get those on the edge asking questions, of their own.

We put a "habitat" garden in our yard mostly to attract humming birds and butterflies.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

And we will be left quite alone with only our parasites for company. Every garden can be and should be a nature reserve.

Fernapple replies on Dec 29, 2018:

@JackPedigo Yes I was including rats and roaches under parasites, we will be the only food and more and more things will find ways to feed on us. Humans and human waste, Yum!

Awoke this morning, always a plus for me, and a thought crossed my mind, (a second plus), any way, ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

It is not a matter of wanting. The religious mind set and the skeptical one approach life from completely different ends. The skeptic sees truth as something to be sought at any cost, even if it hurts and means changing your world view in painfully difficult ways; the religious see truth as being ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 29, 2018:

@pasha-one-nine Thanks for the appreciation.

"If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, he will spend it's entire life believing it is...

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Hard to argue with Albert, as he himself said, his career as an artists model was second to none. So he would be the best go to on the subject of being multitallented.

Fernapple replies on Dec 29, 2018:

@maturin1919 Perhaps not, but I do not know of any comments by Da Vinci on the subject.

So seriously, I think this is the root of our problems.

Varn comments on Dec 28, 2018:

It appears the crux of world-wide problems. Purposely limited my reproduction to ‘replacements’ … only to watch the ignorant continue to bread, ‘christians’ included.. Do my best to limit consumption ..while watching others gobble it up. Fuckers indeed!

Fernapple replies on Dec 29, 2018:

@marmot84 We will grow ever less intelligent and ever more dependent on technology to keep us alive, until a point is reached where we no longer have the means to repair the technology when it fails. Then we go extinct. Or the second possiblity is that as we are now a number one food source for parasites, so that sooner or later there will be a global pandemic, and there are not enough resouces left for us to rebuild civilization, this is the better outcome since we will not then go extinct.

My crab apples "Red Sentinel" often linger right through the winter, they cover the tree and look ...

JackPedigo comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Really nice form and color. I also have a crab with purple leaves. The fruits are pea sized. Crabs are the universal pollinator (which reminds me I don't have one in my orchard).

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2018:

@JackPedigo No not a root stock a cutting from the top.

My crab apples "Red Sentinel" often linger right through the winter, they cover the tree and look ...

JackPedigo comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Really nice form and color. I also have a crab with purple leaves. The fruits are pea sized. Crabs are the universal pollinator (which reminds me I don't have one in my orchard).

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2018:

@JackPedigo Try rooting a cutting if you like the tree, often trees are just graphted by nurseries as a cheap way to increase the stock, many trees will do fine on their own roots. It is getting late now but just take some prunings, of many lengths and sizes, and put them in the ground with just two buds showing. If you take enough some are bound to root, and that way you will almost certainly end up with a new tree that does not sucker.

My crab apples "Red Sentinel" often linger right through the winter, they cover the tree and look ...

JackPedigo comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Really nice form and color. I also have a crab with purple leaves. The fruits are pea sized. Crabs are the universal pollinator (which reminds me I don't have one in my orchard).

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2018:

They do make good pollinators, and evemn crabs can be used. These are much bigger than pea sized however at about 2cm or 3/4 inch across.

My crab apples "Red Sentinel" often linger right through the winter, they cover the tree and look ...

Cast1es comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Lovely when they bloom , as well .

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2018:

Yes they have a very long season.

It appears that to thrive on this site one must hate our President....

Amisja comments on Dec 28, 2018:

You fail to recognise that this site is not only for Americans. I am British and there are a number of us, in addition to Canadians or Australians. Saying that...Trump is a plonker

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2018:

@carlyhorton Plonker. "One who gets drunk on cheap wine, and/or sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend/wife and his male friends." Could be.

The apples and onions in store from the harvest, are now getting old.

glennlab comments on Dec 26, 2018:

It looks like you used an egg white wash on the crusts, I do that, but I add a little bit of brown sugar. It looks rough, but the taste more than makes up for it.

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

Mainly yoke of the egg on top, I us the whites in the bottom to stop the mixtures soaking into the lower crust.

The apples and onions in store from the harvest, are now getting old.

Donto101 comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Those delicious but wondering what kind of pies you made with onions? Lol

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

Cheese and onion.

The apples and onions in store from the harvest, are now getting old.

Redheadedgammy comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Yum, those look so delicious.

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

@Redheadedgammy Today I did some; pear and marmalade, apple and sultana with cinnamon and some cheese and onion.

The apples and onions in store from the harvest, are now getting old.

Redheadedgammy comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Yum, those look so delicious.

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

The finish is a bit rough, but there is plenty inside.

Please be selective and vigilant about clicking on links.

genessa comments on Dec 26, 2018:

one good thing to remember, apart from just plain not clicking on anything suspicious or even unfamiliar, is that if you hover your mouse over a link without clicking, you will be able to see, at the bottom of your browser, its true destination, even if it's called something else in the post. if ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

Good tip, I usually just use gut feeling, but that is a much better way. Thank You.

I've been thinking about some of the people I have met along the way in my journeys here and there ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;- Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on a desert air. T Gray

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

@CallMeDave Not at all. And is it not special if you see a bloom by a forest track, to know that, you, and perhaps you alone, have met with it and given it a moments appreciation, in all the vast unthinking universe.

Hercules versus Jesus.

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

You can also fit Osiris into the myth, as well as Mithra, and half a dozen other demigods, many of whom like Osiris predate both Jesus and Hercules by centuries. The fact of the matter is, that the basic myth had been around for ages before the new testament. In fact if you think about it even Moses...

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

@johnprytz It makes you wonder just how much the gospel writers were going along with the fashions of the times, and how much they were just plain stealing copy.

Speculative perhaps but interesting none the less. [youtube.com]

MojoDave comments on Dec 25, 2018:

That's pretty interesting! Lots of non-existent places.

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2018:

Full of non-existent people, doing unreal things on non-specific dates.

It is Christmas Day here in England, and I feel completely numb.

skado comments on Dec 25, 2018:

Hint: (fiction isn’t *supposed* to be taken as literal truth. It’s metaphor. Art is to be *felt*, not analyzed.)

Fernapple replies on Dec 25, 2018:

@skado Basically I agree with you rcandlish. But I think that you missed the most important one of all, “nature”, from your list. I grew up running wild in the fields and woods, (lucky yes), so that I know how deep and meaningful a (especially early) connection with nature can be. I think that it is no accident that the Abrahamic religions grew up in the parts of the world where nature is at its harshest, or that they try to deny nature even to the point of being anti-environmental because they must certainly always have known that nature is the great emotional rival of religion.

Its a cool gray winter so far, suits the cool gray deer perhaps.

Hathacat comments on Dec 24, 2018:

Lovely picture!

Fernapple replies on Dec 24, 2018:

Thank you. I took it on my way home today.

People asked Agnostics.com "Is there a God?" and the site said "There is now"......

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

That is a very very old joke. It was it is so old, it is even used as evidence against young earth creationism.

Fernapple replies on Dec 24, 2018:

@IamNobody Young at heart. Keep taking the pills.

Any one watch Richard Dawkins on YouTube?

Spinliesel comments on Dec 23, 2018:

The writers of these "love letters" are surprisingly limited in their vocabulary. That's what happenes when you do not read books.

Fernapple replies on Dec 23, 2018:

Yep, as long as someone his happy to read one book to you every sunday, why bother.

The Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

There was once a rich man and a poor man. The state decides to help the poor man, so to get funds it raises a tax. The rich man's tax adviser tells him where to move his money, when and how to move his money, so he pays very little of the tax, the poor man has no tax adviser and so pays a lot of it....

Fernapple replies on Dec 23, 2018:

@Veteran229 The left wing statest would say that they can spend the money more effectively, the right wing statest would say that he will spend it on sugar and tobbaco not boots, so he is better of without it. Of course they could provide the poor man with a good education, so that he would know why tobaco and sugar are bad for him, but see, that would cost money, and then they would not have any to spend on sugar and tobbaco.

The Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

There was once a rich man and a poor man. The state decides to help the poor man, so to get funds it raises a tax. The rich man's tax adviser tells him where to move his money, when and how to move his money, so he pays very little of the tax, the poor man has no tax adviser and so pays a lot of it....

Fernapple replies on Dec 23, 2018:

@Veteran229 Then the rich man said. "I am glad you bought your house off your dad, but I hope you are not involved in any coruption?" And the son said. "No it is just left over expenses money." "Oh that's Ok cos' that's legal like tax avoidance."