This post: circa 1,400 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes Criminalising a smack on the leg The Telegraph and others are currently covering Scotland’s proposed law to make smacking your child a criminal offence. e.g. I smacked my four-year-old – does that make me a criminal? People that make these laws are, IMO, pretty clueless. […]
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On his Facebook page Bernard Jenkins (mp) – who I greatly respect – added a post. It was raising an important point, for those affected. In some ways it was and is a good thing, a right thing to do. But, yer, well, this is me. I tend to look and things from several angles
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Paranoia is a funny thing… Ever wonder if Blizzard employs psychologists to work out how best to screw with your minds and, while laughing at your stupidity and gullibility, then happily take all the money they can from you, and then wait for you to gushingly thank them for every least scrap? Ever heard of
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How sensitive is your OCD radar? It will probably not come as a surprise to some people that I scored 100% on the Playbuzz test (linked at the bottom of the page). However, you could argue as to whether the short quiz demeans people genuinely suffering from crippling OCD, as opposed to simply being a
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Read this article in Psychology Today – Why Do Some of Us Get Déjà Vu More Often Than Others? – and thought I’d share a few thoughts and experiences. I did reply there, but I thought it might interest folk here as well. As an advisory, if you are studying this phenomenon, I’m over 50
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The Definitive 5 Factor Personality Test I know psychology professors that would gag on the heading. Clinical psychology are known to place the Briggs-Myer test a notch below where astronomers shove astrology, so it’s anyone guess what they think of a ‘definitive’ Playbuzz personality test. Anyway, I got ‘Very Conscientious’: You are a type A
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Black Friday descends once more on the UK and the world. Frenzied crowds pushing and shoving, fights in the ailses as literally millions of people pile into Asda, Tesco and other stores promising slashed price bargains for the first few through the door. Riots ensue, store are closed within minutes, police called out, ambulances called
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You know in all the ‘action movies’ where the besieged heroes are valiantly crossing the decrepit rope bridge, rotten boards breaking off and falling hundreds of feet down into the chasm, rope or vines on the main cable coming apart, one strand at a time? Well, that’s life. Stuff happens. You get over it. Sometimes
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