Science Conversion of Conservatives

[barfo]

Interesting.

Conservatives, please just use some hand sanitizer.

barfo

 

[riverman]

Interesting.

Conservatives, please just use some hand sanitizer.

barfo

Now we know who watched Fear Factor and made reality tv popular

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

All I got to see was the title. I'm assuming some brain damage was the final result.

 

[barfo]

All I got to see was the title. I'm assuming some brain damage was the final result.

Here's a couple key bits:

Conservatives, it turns out, react more strongly to physical threat than liberals do. In fact, their greater concern with physical safety seems to be determined early in life: In one University of California study, the more fear a 4-year-old showed in a laboratory situation, the more conservative his or her political attitudes were found to be 20 years later. Brain imaging studies have even shown that the fear center of the brain, the amygdala, is actually larger in conservatives than in liberals.

But if they had instead just imagined being completely physically safe, the Republicans became significantly more liberal — their positions on social attitudes were much more like the Democratic respondents. And on the issue of social change in general, the Republicans’ attitudes were now indistinguishable from the Democrats. Imagining being completely safe from physical harm had done what no experiment had done before — it had turned conservatives into liberals.

In another study, using hand sanitizer after being warned about the flu virus had the same effect on immigration attitudes as had being vaccinated. A simple squirt of Purell after we had raised the threat of the flu had changed their minds. It made them feel safe from the dangerous virus, and this made them feel socially safe from immigrants as well.

barfo

 

[riverman]

Here's a couple key bits:







barfo

just realized today that your avatar is ECU's logo.....happened to notice them on a college scoreboard..Eastern Carolina U?

 

[barfo]

just realized today that your avatar is ECU's logo.....happened to notice them on a college scoreboard..Eastern Carolina U?

Yep. I have no affiliation whatsoever with that school. On one of our former boards, before the days of being able to upload your own avatar, this canned one was my choice.

barfo

 

[riverman]

Yep. I have no affiliation whatsoever with that school. On one of our former boards, before the days of being able to upload your own avatar, this canned one was my choice.

barfo

well a pirate is gonna pirate!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

before the days of being able to upload your own avatar

It's a pirate. don't you mean avataaaaarrrrrrrrr.

 

[Orion Bailey]

It's a pirate. don't you mean avataaaaarrrrrrrrr.

OMG YOU are on the lame joke roll lately!@!!! lmao.

 

[MarAzul]

Interesting.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

OMG YOU are on the lame joke roll lately!@!!! lmao.

Hahahhahahahahah lately?

Lately? Really?

The only thing I think he avoids is knock knock jokes but I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a few.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Hahahhahahahahah lately?

Lately? Really?

The only thing I think he avoids is knock knock jokes but I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a few.

I've got a few about your wife I've been saving for just the right time to use.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I've got a few about your wife I've been for just the right time to use.

Knock knock?
Sly...who's there?
Me if you say shit about my wife. I ain't HCP.

 

[Further]

Fascinating article

 

[MARIS61]

Seems the author is a bit of a fraud:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...on-bargh-psychology-study-doyen/#.WhqJKzdrzIU

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Apparently the biggest morons on the planet, you know those guys who walk on skyscrapers and cranes without tethers and take selfies and jump from building to building like they're Spiderman are liberals.

Knew it

 

[MarAzul]

Seems the author is a bit of a fraud:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...on-bargh-psychology-study-doyen/#.WhqJKzdrzIU

Might not be fraud this time though. Just old fashiion BullS.

 

[Further]

Might not be fraud this time though. Just old fashiion BullS.

Seems the author is a bit of a fraud:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...on-bargh-psychology-study-doyen/#.WhqJKzdrzIU

Why are you two so afraid?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Yep. I have no affiliation whatsoever with that school. On one of our former boards, before the days of being able to upload your own avatar, this canned one was my choice.

barfo

This was mine:

 

[Rastapopoulos]

It always puzzled me how (American) conservatives were simultaneously:
* adamant that the Life To Come was the only important one (so usher Jesus into your heart) but
* the black and brown folk are coming to kill you so stock up on guns and ammo until you're getting lead poisoning just from the stockpiles in your house
But if you're afraid of everything it kind of makes sense.

 

[barfo]

This was mine:

The proud bird with the WTF tail.

barfo

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

So uhhh, I'm to assume people will run with this and think liberals aren't scared of anything.

Don't think so people....

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/24/ink-coffee-denver-gentrification-protest/

 

[rasheedfan2005]

GLOBAL WARMING IS GOING TO KILL US ALL! STOCK UP ON PRIUS EVEN THOUGH THE BATTERY FACTORIES COMPLETELY DESTROY THE EARTH AROUND THEM! EAT TOFU SO COWS STOP FARTING!

 

[rasheedfan2005]

GLUTEN IS ATTACKING MY SOULESS BODY! THERE IS NO GOD BUT I NEED TO STORE UP GOOD KARMA BY BUYING TOMS SHOES! THE WAR ON DRUGS IS RACIST! BUY CASPER MATTRESSES OR BUDDAH WILL SHIT ON YOUR CHAKRAS

 

[rasheedfan2005]

POLICE ARE RACIST AND TRYING TO KILL ME, I THINK WE SHOULD MAKE GUNS ILLEGAL SO ONLY POLICE CAN KILL ME AND NOT CRAZY WHITE GUYS!

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

POLICE ARE RACIST AND TRYING TO KILL ME, I THINK WE SHOULD MAKE GUNS ILLEGAL SO ONLY POLICE CAN KILL ME AND NOT CRAZY WHITE GUYS!

Good idea. Way too many crazy white guys. Of course there are tons of crazy white cops so what about them having guns?

 

[theprunetang]

GLUTEN IS ATTACKING MY SOULESS BODY! THERE IS NO GOD BUT I NEED TO STORE UP GOOD KARMA BY BUYING TOMS SHOES! THE WAR ON DRUGS IS RACIST! BUY CASPER MATTRESSES OR BUDDAH WILL SHIT ON YOUR CHAKRAS

Dude. Have you ever had someone shit on your chakra? I wouldn't even wish that on the illegitimate hate-child of PapaG and Tunchi.

 

[stampedehero]

This was mine:

Pins for legs and a radioactive fart. I like your premier ECU logo!

 

[BrianFromWA]

Dude. Have you ever had someone shit on your chakra? I wouldn't even wish that on the illegitimate hate-child of PapaG and Tunchi.

 

[MarAzul]