Comments on: I should know better… https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:00:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: blert https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-552447 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:00:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-552447 Whales may be the biggest mammals in the world… but they don’t have to be!

The Diet of Procrustes slims all.

]]> By: vps https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-551803 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:34:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-551803 I really like your blog. You write about very interesting things. Thanks for all your tips and information.

]]> By: RandomThoughts https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550822 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:27:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550822 The book will offer 185 “restorative” dishes, offering dishes that are sugar-free, vegetarian, non-alcoholic and wheat-free…

Well that takes everything worthwhile out of eating.

]]> By: stu https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550656 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:06:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550656 My wife 30+ years later weighs less than when we got married, yet still complains about her weight. Her friends are probably jealous and don’t appreciate talk about weight. Me, I smile,

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550647 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:53:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550647 Well, her idea to get attention worked, and got you suckered…

billy joel sang about it in “the entertainer”
“if i go cold i wont get sold”

she just go herself in the fore of your mind and pushed the others out… and your trying to make rational sense of it, which is why it works…

it also reminds me of one of the nastiest ways real sadists play with people. they put them in a situation in which they try to rationalize it to get out, and the secret is, there is no way out, so the rationalizations are the entertainment.

well, in this case its not so sinister, but the discordant thing gets you to try to rationalize as it has grabbed your attention BECAUSE it don’t make sense. the intent wasn’t to make sense, the intent was to get you to think about her more than you would normally.

not only that, but you woudl then go out and spread the infection…

think of it as a very abstract version of the joke
how do you keep an idiot in suspense? (wait silently)

it works a lot, you only have to see how often its used, and who its used on, and the size of the market it creates.

]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550554 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:28:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550554 I wonder who wrote the cookbook for her. I am really sick of celebrities.

]]> By: MollyNH https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550501 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:39:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550501 that pepto bismol pink dress she wore one time,
it looked like it was being suspended on a clothes hanger

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550487 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:18:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550487 Mrs Whatsit: 🙂

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550486 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:17:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550486 Jamie Irons: my goodness! I hadn’t remembered that, but here it is.

]]> By: Mrs Whatsit https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/13/i-should-know-better/#comment-550485 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:17:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=25946#comment-550485 Neo, you’re just a glutton for punishment.

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