09 March 2011

lies as lethally as the rest

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What is the difference between an ugly lie and a pretty one? I know, I know, there have even been hit songs about about wanting to be told sweet little lies and etc, which sets you up to feel warmly toward the pretty ones, but, in actuality, now, in real life reality, lies are completely unacceptable. They are the building blocks of mindfucks, of steering delusion in one's favor, and the consequences to the victims are not negligible.

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love, 99
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12 comments:

  1. Yer not negligible link yields:

    The URL contained a malformed video ID.
    Sorry about that.

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  2. Alright, you've got me pulling my hair out...

    Who is that and what movie?

    Charles Laughton came to mind - Witness for the Prosecution, but I don't think that is right, now I can't get it unstuck from my head!

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  3. That's Lionel Barrymore, who played Mr. Potter, the villain, in It's a Wonderful Life....

    Laughton was much uglier and a much better actor.

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  4. A Ha!

    Witness is one of my long time favorites. Whenever I see coming on TV I put it on my schedule.

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  5. You are forbidden to turn on your TV unless it is for an old movie... with NO commercials. That leaves you PBS on Saturday nights and TCM the rest of the time. If you TiVo out commercials, you are allowed to watch certain other programs.

    Do NOT even try to assert your autonomy here. You must simply OBEY.

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  6. But then I would lose my pressure release of yelling at scientists when they say such stupid things as 100 times!

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  7. Good! They WANT you losing pressure.

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  8. stupid things as 100 times!

    WTF? Where did Less go?

    I swear I typed 100 times less!

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  9. I'm really glad you clarified that! I thought you'd gone off your rocker, or I had. But... well... isn't one a hunnert times less than 100? I mean, .01 X 100 = 1, so couldn't you say one is a hunnert times less than a hunnert? So, actually, anything can be a hundred times less than whatever's a hundred times more than it, can't it? Or is that just not done? If I saw 500 stars last night and only 5 tonight, couldn't I say I saw a hundred times less stars tonight? Or would I have to say I saw a hundred times more stars last night?

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  10. My friend, Jim, goes batshit crazy when people say "hopefully" wrong. I go batshit crazy when people say "that" when they mean "who".

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  11. one time less would be zero

    1-1=0

    one hundred times less would be a negative number

    1-(1x100)= -99

    (not to imply you are negative!)

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  12. Well, it's the word "times" that messes people up.

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