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On gender and me.

... male - my fingers are perhaps a little too long/thin, and my skin is soft and smooth (perhaps a relic of years playing piano). My voice, also, is soft and more tenor than baritone. Behaviourally, I would say that I tread an interesting middle ground. I have habits, postures, gestures, and verbal ticks that perhaps belong to both of the traditional masculine and feminine poles. The proportion of ...

Pack Mentality - The Beast Of Group Behaviour

...the 1970’s where individuals where given roles in a make-believe prision; either Jail Guard or prisoner. Those involved ended up taking their roles very seriously and the students became behaviourally and psychological unrecogniseable to the students that began the experiment. Due to concerns for the wellbeing of participants the experiment was cancelled ahead of time and such experiments are now ...

Polar bear plus grizzly equals?

... the male hybrid is solid. But dark hair on the male's back is hollow, but with smaller empty regions than found in polar bear hair. The hair on the female contains a range of hollow regions. Behaviourally, the two hybrids have much in common with polar bears. When given large toys to play with, such as tractor wheels or barrels, both bears used their front legs to stamp on the object, just as ...

Finding Your New Pig & Avoiding Pet Stores

... of pigs, long haired, short haired, curly haired, and in all varieties and ages from baby pups to retired lap pigs. It's a complete myth that rescue piggies are in any way damaged or behaviourally challenged. Pigs are incredibly strong mentally in that they can forget about bad humans in the past, and love on new humans in their future. Any pigs that do have problems are permanent pigs of the ...

So in the time I've been absent from the interwebs...

...duty pain meds and needed to be woken up every two hours last night, just to make sure that he didn't lapse into a coma from some unforseen trauma. He also was forbidden to drive for a day and to work for two days. It's actually been pretty funny, because concussion!Shade is almost identical, behaviourally, to mildlydrunk!Shade, minus the balance issues. His pain is my hilarious entertainment. :D

[insert marilyn manson lyrics stuck in hed THANKS ROOMIE]

... . High school, in which I almost was (damn you, first-year biology and junior-year physics ... and phys. ed orz), didn't so much force me to work harder as to work more often. Behaviourally, this means that A) uni sucks at negative reinforcement and B) really, ultimately, my parents weren't actually strict enough . Which I'm sure was influenced by feedback from my own propensity to find new, ...

I know what you are

... prone to exploiting those who are most emotionally needy. Elderly relatives, those with infirmity, illness, those with the greatest vulnerability, or those who are emotionally needy or behaviourally immature family members are likely to be favourite targets for exploitation. The family bully encourages and manipulates family members etc to lie, act dishonourably and dishonestly, withhold ...

Warming Up To Summer

.... Just fucking no. I've had enough. I will not be co-operating this time. This time she gets the hard stare, and I explain in single-syllable words that my children have excelled themselves behaviourally under appalling circumstances, and that they are going home right now to bathe, put on their jammies, and enjoy the movie I have promised them, and there is no fucking way under the sun I am ...

Our Government, Let Me Show You It

... politics, and it is at least as lulzy as your favourite sitcom. True story. As insanely neurotic as this has made me, actually watching the politicians is hilarious. They're like small, behaviourally-challenged children. I feel kind of bad for the Speaker, actually: someone should amend the constitution to empower him to give people time outs or send them to the corner. Of particular note is ...