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From: Jeff Jones on 30 May 2010 01:31 On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:15:42 -0700, Mike Russell <groupsRE(a)MOVEcurvemeister.com> wrote: >You would not make fun of >someone with a physical disease, and a mental disease is no different. That depend on the situation. A quadriplegic, for example, flopping around on the dance-floor loudly proclaiming he's going to be a famous ballroom dancer one day with all his limitations just as they are, or worse, eventually gets pretty funny. I believe it's the combination of mental and physical illness and nobody caring enough to stop him from making a fool of himself, egging him on even, which would lead to it being nothing but humor. There's nothing left to do but laugh at all of them involved. A similar situation would be that of a blind photographer.
From: Mike Russell on 30 May 2010 02:10 On Sat, 29 May 2010 22:33:12 -0700 (PDT), Twibil wrote: > Mike, I majored in psychology and worked in a mental hospital for two > years after college. Don't try to teach your grandfather to chew > cheese. LOL. We say suck eggs on this side of the pond. So how long would you have continued to hold your job if your supervisor learned that you used your mental health training to torment the inmates? Not very long. By the same token, I suggest, neither should you torment the inmates of this newsgroup. -- Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com
From: Chris Malcolm on 30 May 2010 06:45 In rec.photo.digital Peter <peternew(a)nospamoptonline.net> wrote: > "Mike Russell" <groupsRE(a)MOVEcurvemeister.com> wrote in message > news:ltaezkq3gq58.dlg(a)mike.curvemeister.com... >> On 29 May 2010 10:52:30 GMT, Chris Malcolm wrote: >> >>> I don't understand why anyone should have a problem with touchscreen >>> hygiene who doesn't have to disinfect money before touching it. >> >> They actually may. OCDC is a fairly common problem affecting thousands of >> people, and has only been diagnosed in the last several decades. The cost >> of making fun of these people can be very high, in human terms, and IMHO >> not worth the couple of laughs we may get. > To a certain extent all of us have our quirks. I have known several of these > people and see their life as sad, not funny. I suspect when we make fun of > them we are expressing fear that we may have the problem, too. My > psychologist friends tell me that our laughter is a form of denial. Many people are drawn to the study of psychology because they find it as difficult to understand themselves as other people. They may if they do their homework end up knowing a lot of interesting and useful psychological research. But their opinions should be treated with polite scepticism. -- Chris Malcolm
From: Me on 30 May 2010 07:49 On 28/05/2010 5:05 p.m., RichA wrote: > And yet they look so pristine in the commercials... > Like on Star Trek, all the touch-screen computer and ship control.. > They probably went through more Windex than anti-matter. > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268602440574716.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird > There's an "oleophobic coating" on the screen, to resist oily fingerprints. It appears to be a fluorochemical coating. These are quite effective as oleophobic treatments, but for one problem - they don't repel silicones. Silicone oils tend to spread out as a monolayer over the fluoropolymer surface, and as the silicone isn't oleophobic, then the surface completely loses it's oleophobic property. It's then very hard to remove the silicone oil without damaging the fluoropolyomer or substrate. So, perhaps a useless fact for the day, but particularly for women who use hand cremes and moisturiser, most of those contain silicone oil (often stated in ingredients as dimethicone, sometimes PDMS), then I wouldn't expect the oil/finger grease resistant treatment to last very long at all.
From: Peter on 30 May 2010 15:00
"Chris Malcolm" <cam(a)holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message news:86ettuFj0rU4(a)mid.individual.net... > In rec.photo.digital Peter <peternew(a)nospamoptonline.net> wrote: >> "Mike Russell" <groupsRE(a)MOVEcurvemeister.com> wrote in message >> news:ltaezkq3gq58.dlg(a)mike.curvemeister.com... >>> On 29 May 2010 10:52:30 GMT, Chris Malcolm wrote: >>> >>>> I don't understand why anyone should have a problem with touchscreen >>>> hygiene who doesn't have to disinfect money before touching it. >>> >>> They actually may. OCDC is a fairly common problem affecting thousands >>> of >>> people, and has only been diagnosed in the last several decades. The >>> cost >>> of making fun of these people can be very high, in human terms, and IMHO >>> not worth the couple of laughs we may get. > >> To a certain extent all of us have our quirks. I have known several of >> these >> people and see their life as sad, not funny. I suspect when we make fun >> of >> them we are expressing fear that we may have the problem, too. My >> psychologist friends tell me that our laughter is a form of denial. > > Many people are drawn to the study of psychology because they find it > as difficult to understand themselves as other people. They may if > they do their homework end up knowing a lot of interesting and useful > psychological research. But their opinions should be treated with > polite scepticism. Even if it a conclusion drawn from meaningful, peer reviewed research? Yes we should be skeptical about the research and carefully look to see if the research supports the conclusion. -- Peter |