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Keep It Real wrote:That's Daryl Strawberry BTW.

According to your 'hypothesis', he should be at the very least worried that he might become a strawberry. Do you think he is?

Feel sorry for the journalist Roger Boyes.

Fallible wrote:Outline how it can be tested.

Keep It Real wrote:Its all good SAM - on 5th and final 440ml can of 4.8%, 1st one 3 hours ago, taken bedtime olanzapine, off to bed ETA 15 mins, share share share etc.

Keep It Real wrote:Maybe search Fury too - Tyson Fury is most certainly a violent man. The conviction rate for those to whom the N word might apply is well known to be statistically significant, although weeding out causation is, as always, tricky. Perhaps it's because black people are frequently less well off than the average

In a new study to be published in the March issue of Social Science Quarterly, David Kalist and Daniel Lee, economists at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, find that adolescent boys with unpopular names are likelier than other boys to be referred to the juvenile-justice system for alleged offenses. The researchers conclude that the Ernests, Prestons and Tyrells of America are significantly more delinquent than the Michaels and Davids. Why?...The short answer is that our names play an important role in shaping the way we see ourselves — and, more important, how others see us.

Animavore wrote:I see the value in the OP. I only became an arsonist because of my surname.

Hermit wrote:

Animavore wrote:I see the value in the OP. I only became an arsonist because of my surname.

Another argument in favour of the matriarchy: Before my mother married, her surname was Nimmerfaul. I'd actually get work done if I were not cursed with my dad's surname - Feyerabend.

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:This is hilarious.

Psychology The Science of Mind and Behaviour by Richard Gross Third Ed p805

1 Thought Process disorder.
The inability to keep to the point, being easily distracted/side-tracked, especially in the form of clang associations (e.g. 'big', 'pig' 'twig'), where words are 'thrown' together based on their sound rather than their meaning; this produces an apparently incoherent jumble of words ('word salad'). The inability to finish a sentence, sometimes stopping the in the middle of a word ('thought blocking'). Also, making up new words (neologisms) and interpreting language (e.g. proverbs) very literally.

aban57 wrote:

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:This is hilarious.

Until you realize KIR really believes in this shit.

Thommo wrote:

Psychology The Schience of Mind and Behaviour by Richard Gross Third Ed p805

1 Thought Process disorder.
The inability to keep to the point, being easily distracted/side-tracked, especially in the form of clang associations (e.g. 'big', 'pig' 'twig'), where words are 'thrown' together based on their sound rather than their meaning; this produces an apparently incoherent jumble of words ('word salad'). The inability to finish a sentence, sometimes stopping the in the middle of a word ('thought blocking'). Also, making up new words (neologisms) and interpreting language (e.g. proverbs) very literally.

I remember when we did this in class and am occasionally reminded of it in these threads. Our lecturer told us a story about one case where a man went to the police to report that the country was being invaded by Poles, because he kept seeing poles everywhere (in fact lamp poles, telegraph poles, barber shop poles and so on) and was alarmed that everyone was ignoring them.