28 Jul '12 02:53>1 edit
Originally posted by twhiteheadUpsetting the status quo always seems to trigger a kneejerk reaction from ... knee jerks!!.
To give some respect to buckky who is going through a hard time, I am moving this out of his thread as other posters have suggested I do.
This thread is about the question of why we ridicule others who hold different opinions from us, whether or not doing so is effective, and whether or not it is a 'good' or 'bad' thing to do.
Why do we do it?
1. Becau dicule others, and are some groups more likely to be the subject of ridicule? If so why?
For me when I was going through school (yr1 to yr 12) our school was the most americanized schools in the area - especially when it came to sports and also film and television.
Those doing maths 1 and maths 2, physics, chemistry, and there were a bunch - mainly all attending virtually all those classes.
Sidetrackedc. ooops.
Anyway the background setting - The Gold Coast was an ever imposing player in the decision making processes . Do this, jump through that.
You'd go away for 6 months and come back and you wouldn't recognize your 'home town' because of the ever imposing multilevelled high rises going ahead.
It's really weird. I go back to my primary school about 12 years later. When I left it was the same size as all the other buildings around it now it is dwarfed by all this real estate land grab. Seems the Gold Coast gave the go ahead to a whole bunch of highrise apartments as the Gold Coast's profile become a firm world name for party goers around the world to check it out.
f*&%#@ the locals, specially the aboriginies - we have the money so we will take the place!! We'll throw you a bone after the dust settles, ok. cya then 😉
for this ( you can read a whole lot more to those brief descriptions, with some of your thoughts would probably not far from the mark 🙂 )