Coronavirus - A pale horse,4 men and ....beer

[Archery1969]

If people are not happy living in the UK then there are another 194 countries in the world. Take your pick.

This is now becoming funny.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 57781.html

[superfrank]

Our history was well documented before people chose to settle here.

Sub-Saharan Africa has very few lessons to teach the rest of the world re democracy or humanity.

[jimibt]

maybe we all need to broaden our horizons and look beyond the many prejudices that we innately hang on to. reading thro some of the comments over the past few days, one would be forgiven for concluding that they'd encountered a forum on the soft arm of the EDL .

alas, as someone commented further back (quoting Francis Bacon - i think):

"Once a human intellect has adopted an opinion (either as something it likes or as something generally accepted), it draws everything else in to confirm and support it" - describing the phenomena now widely known as "confirmation bias" or "the backfire effect."

"Even if there are more and stronger instances against it than there are in its favor, the intellect either overlooks these or treats them as negligible or does some line-drawing that lets it shift them out of the way and reject them."

groundhog day!!

[Emmson]

maybe we all need to broaden our horizons and look beyond the many prejudices that we innately hang on to. reading thro some of the comments over the past few days, one would be forgiven for concluding that they'd encountered a forum on the soft arm of the EDL .

alas, as someone commented further back (quoting Francis Bacon - i think):

"Once a human intellect has adopted an opinion (either as something it likes or as something generally accepted), it draws everything else in to confirm and support it" - describing the phenomena now widely described as "confirmation bias" or "the backfire effect."

groundhog day!!

Yes!

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de Bono

“Many highly intelligent people are caught in the intelligence trap: they take a position on a subject and then they use their thinking skill solely to support that position.
The more able they are to support the position, the less do they see any need actually to explore the subject: so they become trapped into one point of view.

[sniffer66]

maybe we all need to broaden our horizons and look beyond the many prejudices that we innately hang on to. reading thro some of the comments over the past few days, one would be forgiven for concluding that they'd encountered a forum on the soft arm of the EDL .

alas, as someone commented further back (quoting Francis Bacon - i think):

"Once a human intellect has adopted an opinion (either as something it likes or as something generally accepted), it draws everything else in to confirm and support it" - describing the phenomena now widely described as "confirmation bias" or "the backfire effect."

groundhog day!!

Yes!

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de Bono

“Many highly intelligent people are caught in the intelligence trap: they take a position on a subject and then they use their thinking skill solely to support that position.
The more able they are to support the position, the less do they see any need actually to explore the subject: so they become trapped into one point of view.

I wish he would just stick to singing. And actually, as little of that as possible.

[Dallas]

Little Britain has now been removed from Netflix and BBC iPlayer because 'Times have Changed'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52983319

Does this mean "Rising Damp" and "Step Toe and Son" will be removed too ?

Almost certainly, UK Gold may start finding themselves short of shows it can broadcast.

This has also reminded me of 'In sickness and in Health' which has been on the 'never to be shown on TV again' list for a few years now but wondering if boxsets will shortly be banned or not sold by outlets
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sickness-Healt ... B003XMX5E0

[Emmson]

maybe we all need to broaden our horizons and look beyond the many prejudices that we innately hang on to. reading thro some of the comments over the past few days, one would be forgiven for concluding that they'd encountered a forum on the soft arm of the EDL .

alas, as someone commented further back (quoting Francis Bacon - i think):

"Once a human intellect has adopted an opinion (either as something it likes or as something generally accepted), it draws everything else in to confirm and support it" - describing the phenomena now widely described as "confirmation bias" or "the backfire effect."

groundhog day!!

Yes!

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de Bono

“Many highly intelligent people are caught in the intelligence trap: they take a position on a subject and then they use their thinking skill solely to support that position.
The more able they are to support the position, the less do they see any need actually to explore the subject: so they become trapped into one point of view.

I wish he would just stick to singing. And actually, as little of that as possible.

You still haven't found what your looking for!

Edward de Bono NOT Paul Hewson AKA Bono

[superfrank]

Most people's views evolve over time as they gain life experience. That's why I take the opinion of students with a pinch of salt. They were children a few years ago, most haven't worked, struggled, been anywhere or done anything much to speak of and yet think they have all the solutions. The voting age would be better at 25 or 30, not 16, imho.

[sniffer66]

Yes!

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de Bono

“Many highly intelligent people are caught in the intelligence trap: they take a position on a subject and then they use their thinking skill solely to support that position.
The more able they are to support the position, the less do they see any need actually to explore the subject: so they become trapped into one point of view.

I wish he would just stick to singing. And actually, as little of that as possible.

You still haven't found what your looking for!

Edward de Bono NOT Paul Hewson AKA Bono

I know. I was trying to be funny

[Archery1969]

HBO have removed 'Gone with the wind'.

In a statement, HBO Max said it would be "irresponsible" to keep the film on its platform without "an explanation and a denouncement" of its "racist depictions".

[Emmson]

"Gone With the Wind has been temporarily removed from HBO Max, and will eventually return with context added to address its outdated and racially insensitive elements."

[Kai]

Picture sums it up pretty well I think.

[greenmark]

Picture sums it up pretty well I think.

Ok, I'll bite. Protest is at the bleeding edge of democracy. It's ugly, violent and there is inappropriate behaviour. But I believe it is almost always valid. Obviously people get hurt. But humans don't subject themselves to danger without a strong motivation.

[Kai]

Idk, being mid 30s I can't fully understand some of these young people, might be a sign of getting older and I do have a few greys appearing in my scruff beard but their opinionated extremism (for complete lack of a better term) is starting to annoy me.

I don't think I could just stand there all day like these officers have to and let them hurl obscenities and objects at me without getting a strong urge to slap around some of them.

[Derek27]

I don't think I could just stand there all day like these officers have to and let them hurl obscenities and objects at me without getting a strong urge to slap around some of them.

I couldn't stand there all day without getting the urge to pull out a machine gun.