[ExI] police

Thu Jun 18 00:02:07 UTC 2020

Actually I was thinking about the ones reading sex slave that would be
giggling.

Sunniness of disposition is genetic.  At one end we have those who got the
full sunniness and are hard to depress.  Other end - grouchy all the
time,mostly.  One girl in my class said that she was a bitch and was never
sunny - just the genetic breaks.  "I ain't got but one nerve left and you
just got on it".  Or  ""I am running out of estrogen and I have a gun."
Seen on a T shirt.  But I cannot go along with the idea of exhaustible well
of emotions.  Some other metaphor will have to do.

I am glad you mentioned Feynman.  I have been meaning to re-read all his
books and keep forgetting.  I do wonder what it is like to be that smart
and lose it.  No genius that I know of makes earth-shaking discoveries in
his older age (do you?)   My memory isn't what it used to be and neither is
my analytical ability.  Just a tad off - just a bit slow.  Synthesis,
arguably the highest cognitive function, shows up rarely.  I hope I don't
get much worse.    bill w

One day I went to a senior level class with my shirt buttoned up wrong -
higher on one side.  I kept getting looks during the class but wasn't told
about it till the class was over by one guy.  I was not exactly
embarrassed, but I did make up a story that I did it intentionally to test
them. I think he bought it!  I don't embarrass easily - I was reading a
novel at home when I got a call from the office saying that a class full of
students were awaiting my arrival for their final exam.  I went, gave the
test, which was  easily finished with the time left, and acted like nothing
had happened and said nothing.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:38 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] police
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>  the proles who hang out here know me.  I figure we are all among friends
> here.
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> spike
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> I mention 'pantyhose' and get a whimsical reply.  You mention sex slave.
> Is there an emoticom for 'embarrassed giggle'?   bill w
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> BillW, probably there is such an emoticon, but I fear I lack the actual
> emotion that goes with embarrassment.  I have a theory on this.  We all are
> born with a certain reservoir of emotions, beyond which one cannot go.  Or
> perhaps just becomes inured to it, at which time it becomes one’s natural
> state.  All this is another way of saying: emotion is relative.
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> For instance, many of us know those who seem to go around annoyed all the
> time.  The person may not even realize she is angry, for after a number of
> years, that is just the normal state: she wakes irked, goes thru the day
> miffed at everything that happens and everything that is said and done, is
> still irritated at dinner, goes to bed still pissed.  For her, all that was
> ordinary.  She didn’t even realize there was any other emotional state.
> She wore out that emotion, or became so accustomed to it, the different
> shades of angry are subtle to the point of near irrelevance.
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> I did and said so many goofy things in my misspent youth that by the time
> I reached adolescence, I had lost my capacity to feel embarrassment, wore
> it out, exhausted my reservoir of shame.  This becomes a form of freedom,
> which is just another word for nothing left to lose.  If one has burned
> away all human dignity, then one is free to do or say any goofy thing that
> comes to mind.
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> This too has its advantages, even in the business setting.  Example,
> suppose the engineering team is up against a really tough problem.  The
> boss calls everybody together to think, think outside the box.  She goes
> around the room having people come up with some idea.  When each engineer
> is out of ideas, he or she can pass, and we go around until everyone
> passes.  In those exercises, if one crazy goof is unafraid to suggest some
> silly idea which would embarrass anyone with any actual dignity, that one
> guy can rattle off idea after idea after idea, when every other prole in
> the room sits in silent awe, or is debilitated with laughter at how silly
> are the absurdities being spouted by their embarrassment-immune colleague,
> as even the eternally-pissed boss seems genuinely amused, an unaccustomed
> state for her.   She specializes in angry, I specialize in creative
> self-embarrassment.
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> Most of the time, a solution can be derived from one of the most absurd
> notions.
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> Had I not worn out my ability to experience embarrassment, I could not be
> that guy, for I would be far too abashed to even propose the course we
> eventually chose.
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> Richard Feynman writes about this phenom in his marvelous book “What Do
> You Care What Other People Think?”
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> I really relate to that guy.  He and I are alike in so many ways.  Of
> course he was a brilliant physicist and I suck.  But other than that… we
> are alike.
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 3:48 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat
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> >…How the term was used in your spouse’s great-great-grandfather’s time
> probably isn’t a guide for how it’s used now. For California law — and be
> prepared for some legalese — see:
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> http://www.clrc.ca.gov/pub/2001/MM01-09.pdf
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> >…Is this mistaken? Or is there some official local title in your area of
> constable?
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> Thanks for the article Dan.  We use the term to mean the city law
> enforcement who go about under flashing lights, as opposed to the office
> guys, the detectives, the ranking officials in the local PD: constables are
> the line-level guys we see enough to recognize their faces.  In some cases
> we know their names.
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> I am fortunate to live in a community which is on good terms with our law
> enforcement.  It is said to be the first city in California to require a 4
> year college degree as a requirement to be a police officer.
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> >…You also keep using the term bride also to mean wife, I presume. Or is
> your marriage to her quite recent? I mean recent as a week ago or less…
> Dan
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> I did use that term when we had been wed a week or less.  I just never
> gave it up.  We recently celebrated 36 years of wedded bliss.  She is still
> my bride, I am still her dedicated manservant, catering to her every wish,
> fulfilling her every random whim.  She doesn’t mind my referring to her as
> my bride.  I don’t mind her referring to me as her sex slave.
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> Eh, the proles who hang out here know me.  I figure we are all among
> friends here.
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