Please bear in mind that when people bandy about accusations of narcissistic personality disorder, they usually get it all muddled up with anti-social personality disorder, aka psychopathy.
Don't take any notice One2, they're not worth the laundry bill.
PS. It's Sunday. Have you put the bins out, yet?
PPS. And put them tidy, not all skewiff like a junk yard.
Maybe it's not necessarily looks, or the eye when we meet up.
As a deaf old git I've become aware of how much we hear through feeling vibrations, maybe with our skin, our bones, our hair.
When we look, 94% of our neurones follow one pathway to the visual centre in the brain. 6% go different ways.
People who have a disconnection in the 94% pathway can't see, but have been known to be able to point to objects in a room when asked.
People who have a disconnection in the 6% visual pathways have reported a sense on unreality, one man so convinced his father was an android, he cut off his head to prove there were wires inside.
So, before we even get onto the complexities of smell and information we may glean from others through aroma; before we even discuss body language and the way we give off information about even our most formative experiences, hearing and seeing are way, way more complex than prettiness, or handsomeness can ever touch upon.
It's good to have spiders in the house because they get rid of flies.
Unless they are the size of my palm - anything that big pays rent, or gets evicted.
To answer your question, we all make leaps of logic. Experiments have shown we are more likely to rely on stereotyping if we are cognitively challenged, in other words, if our minds are occupied with other tasks. It's a kind of survival function where we make quick decisions when we don't have the resources to weigh up information.
Of course, some people are more aware and skilled than others when it comes to weighing up information, but we all do it to some extent.
In the UK, I think SSSRs are prescribed largely for that reason.
There is so little other support available and so many people with this illness, prescribing anti-depressants simply creates an illusion that people are getting help and that they aren't on their own.
That's often enough to stop people from topping themselves...the rest they mostly have to deal with on their own.
Unless they have a bad reaction to the most commonly prescribed SSSR, widely known to result in severe self-harm especially amongst young women, in which case they might end up dead anyway.
Although direct payoffs have now been banned, GPs still get perks from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing certain drugs.
I've been kind of wondering where you've been slinky-ing off to as well.
No doubt gliding down alleys, making other people's gardens your territory and if you've ever landed on your butt with a thump, jumping up and pretending you meant to do it like that anyway.
I find out when each grocery store makes it's lowest reductions on fruit and veg.
I either buy as I need, or have a cooking session and make ready meals for the freezer.
Charity shops are great for clothes. Again, there's a bit of an art to it - look for high quality garments, preferably made of natural fibres. Work out which clothing companies are the best tailored and produced. Also, your money is going to a good cause too, rather than funding sweat shops and child labour. Not to mention the environmental advantages of reusing and recycling.
Use grey water, like bath water for your garden to save on water bills.
Fill a couple of plastic drink bottles with water and put them in the toilet cistern to reduce how much water is used in each flush. In an old cistern, you can half fill it with bottles and there will still be enough water to flush.
Not because my farts are evil. I'm much too posh to fart.
Terms and conditions: Exclusions apply. Dogs of any genetic combination are allowed in my atmosphere, even if they contribute to it. I'm not speciesist, some of my best friends aren't dogs. It's just that I loved my dogs so much, I thought they smelled nice even when they were wet.
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RE: Which is better for men?
If men go their own way, how can they be a group?