For enoch-Uhhh, at the end of the day, who are we to judge, period? My gentle chiding of Sagemind was more was more of an atomic bomb indictment of his take on 'reality' ( a personal construct ), the loaded use of language to parrot a framework for a way of thinking whereby so-called intelligent peeps give power away rather than embracing it, and my own coluratura-filled vitriolic on the overall tone and timbre easily recognized by anyone who doesn't think too hard about how they are being ass-fucked daily by shit-think.

Your own reductio ad absurdum with the dick-sucking options available to hard-working individuals well, I can appreciate your coming to the defense of a wayward soul but....Maybe the smarter and more fastidious folks in the herd should get more creative with such actions suggested later like tax fraud or even homicide if they want to see some tangible changes to digression of systems they so fervently defend.

I'm no expert but everything I've ever heard/read from informed sources (i.e. people who study these things rather than random people on the internet) concurs with exactly you you just said there.

Traffic Jams supposed to act like longitudinal waves that snowball as they go due to people driving too close and needing to overcompensate. i.e. what starts as a few people braking a bit too much becomes 100's of people at a standstill a few miles down the line of traffic.

I think you are entirely correct to suggest that if everyone maintained a healthy distance and steady pace traffic would flow considerably more smoothly and many jams wouldn't even happen in the 1st place.

There are choke points but these need never take up more than a lane if people had some perspective and collective sympathy....

Unfortunately they don't and most (or at least enough) tend to drive like the impatient selfish twats they are. This makes biking gently past all of them in their self inflicted gridlock misery all the more satisfying (wouldn't be the 1st time I've sung the Trololol song while doing so either )

Honestly, I would have gently taken the phone from her hand, given her a sweet, understanding smile, and thrown it as hard and as far away as I could.

I then would have sweetly winked at her, folded my arms back, and proceeded like nothing happened.

Ooh-Rah Marine Aviation!

My grandfather was a crew chief in the Air Force for decades.
One of my favorite stories that he told was of the first time an AV-8A (original British Harrier, before US adopted them) landed at his base for a demonstration. He, along with everyone else on the flightline, watched in awe as it gently slowed to a halt mid-air, before decending to the runway. It apparently about gave them all a heart attack for fear of a stall.


*quality

That's not a tank slapper that's a high-side!

A tank slapper is when the bars repeatedly flick violently from side to side due to a resonant oscillation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1srcQMa_0
(for reference: off the brakes, don't fight the bars and accelerate gently out of it before changing your underwear)

This video however was a high-side: You accelerate too hard exiting a corner causing the rear to break traction and slide. When you come off the power this makes the rear wheel grip again suddenly causing the bike to violently flick back into line and throwing you up and out of the seat (and usually off the bike all together). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J4fdc_G2cA

Who says motorcycles are dangerous eh?

Re-entry might be gently falling like a feather, but it sounded like they were fighting several gee during the ascent around 0:28 - 0:44.

Not sure how many civilians would be able to handle it, myself included.

Would be a shame to pay all that money for a trip into space and then be blacked out for half of it.

^ Just to be clear people with Schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions do have an elevated risk of committing violent acts. It's about 20% of pre diagnosed patients and around 9% of post treatment/diagnosis patients. As opposed to around 1-2% of the "normal" population.

The only big exception to this is in hospital itself where it can rise as high as 50%, however this is pretty well understood to be a product of the environment and circumstances (i.e. you are forcibly being held against your will). It's also one of the reasons you managed to evoke such hostility from me, the idea that people should just be committed/sectioned because they appear somewhat unstable is one that causes a great deal more harm that good.
There are people that are a genuine danger to themselves and or others when in the grips of an "episode", such people are why mental health sections exist, however extreme care and attention must be applied when considering someone who has yet to commit an "index offence".

If she's attacked people (or herself) before when displaying the same symptoms fine, if she has a history of refusing reasonable treatment fine, if she goes and attacks someone fine. But you can't just go around locking people up because they behave strangely. For all we know this lady has never hurt anyone and is not likely to do so, you can't make the kind of judgements your making without fully understanding the patient and the nature of their condition.
There are people I work with you'd instantly label as crazy and possibly dangerous. One guy has a trait of sometimes staring hard at you (esp strangers) while talking intensely under his breath to himself. If you saw him doing that to you and you'd never met him you'd probably shit yourself a bit (I know I did) but the dude is about as gentle as they come! He'd only ever act violently if you cornered him while he was confused and even then probably not. (never been a problem in the 2 years I worked with him)

I'm not saying this lady definitely isn't in any way dangerous, or even that it might not be better to taker her in under a section. I'm simply saying that making assumptions like that is extremely damaging both to the sufferers and to our ability to understand and help them.

Now the whole Gay/Lesbian/Transgender thing has started to become a normal part of our culture mental health is the perhaps one of the last great bullshit taboos left.

Their not crazies, THEIR FUCKING PEOPLE!!!

And I know this because I've yet to meet a truly "sane" human in my life.

I really liked this---enjoyed the uncomfortable comic edge that devolved into gentle laughter and then chest bumps.
Cool.
*promote

Don't be gentle, it's a rental!

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I have wanted one of these for ages. AGES. I want one so bad. Not even a proper musician, but if I could get my hands on one I'd spend every weekend chilling in a local public park and just hammering away the gentle resonances of love.
Amazing instrument.

Mental health issues.

I hate seeing the pitbulls get such a bad rap, I have a pit/golden retriever mix and I've known close to 10 pitbulls. ALL were loving, caring, gentle and friendly with other people and dogs. While there are many breeds that stem from fighting dogs including the pitbull. It's not the breed, it's the owners.

We have a ban in my city so my pit mix is labeled as a golden mix everywhere we go (vets idea)

"It gently shakes the cells of the body, so that they function better."

That's some might good science right there!

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