and heres his not too well planned response....
Posted on 01/08/2016 7:22:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
He’s thinking “STFU! I didn’t call you when your evil sniper husband died and I don’t want to hear from you now”
telltype signal, it mean's they're suppressing themselves. A poker pro would consciously do this as it disguises any tells that may or may not be readable. Watch poker after dark or something from youtube. You'll see lots of pros do this when the flop turn or river is coming down.
If that’s the wife of the American Sniper dude, this means Obama is earnestly listening and opening his mind to absorb the meaning of what she is conveying. Very strong signal, easily done by an expert as part of an act.
He’s saying please STFU!
He’s doing the “I’m PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES” and I’m
giving you the SHUT UP signal with my finger, while
scowling treatment. - I think it’s the “ASS FACE”
treatment.
This is pretty common body language.
When someone covers their mouth, no matter how subtly, it indicates a desire not to speak what is in the mind.
It is a subconscious gesture to keep things from coming out you don’t want heard.
At least that is what the books I have read say about it.
See my post at #48. I have read a few books on body language, and it is a fascinating subject.
It means he doesn’t want what he is thinking to exit his lips.
In one book I read, they said that the study of body language has three interesting components to it.
1.) Body language in the uneducated (uneducated meaning those who have no conception of body language or what it is) can, in certain situations, provide important cues regarding emotion and attitude of an observed subject to someone who is looking for them. And you don’t have to be “educated” to pick up those cues on someone, many of us pick them up instinctively.
2.) Body language can be used as a tool to effectively fake a message to manipulate another person who is observing you. If you know body language, you can use it in sales, politics, personal relationships, etc. Negotiators read body language and exhibit it in a very conscious way, often with the knowledge the other party is doing exactly the same thing.
3.) This last one was most interesting to me: body language you assume can affect yourself. I thought this was outlandish, but they gave the example: Stop for a minute, and think of yourself going into a dentist’s office and laying down in the dentist chair. Think: What posture do you assume? Many people (myself included) assume what is known as a “guard or defense posture”, face set, arms often folded, and feet crossed at the ankles. I thought about it, and it was true, and I never gave it a second thought. Then, next time I went to the dentist, I watched people as they went into examination rooms and lay in the chair. Almost all of them did it. Then, when I went in and lay down, without even thinking about it, I could feel myself WANTING to assume that posture, almost of its own accord. And in the book, it said that you can manipulate yourself by refusing to assume the posture! I tried it. I forced myself not to cross my ankles or my arms, and it really does work. (It is like that old saying about smiling-if you are in a foul mood, the simple act of forcing yourself to smile can result in a decrease of the anger or frustration you feel. Sounds crazy, but it is absolutely true. It works.
Yes and since it is Taya Kyle wife of a beloved hero he can’t just shut her down.
I’m surprised it wasn’t his middle finger. That’s a regular with him.
In another part of the book about gestures, they had an index of hundreds of gestures from cultures all over the world, and talked about their origins and what they meant in various cultures.
For example, the middle finger that originated in Roman times is recognized nearly universally everywhere (though not everywhere, as some of the American POW’s in Korea from the USS Pueblo found out when they were asked about the finger gestures they made. They told their captors they were giving the “Hawaiian Good Luck Sign”, and would have been fine if Time Magazine hadn’t decided to trumpet the fact of what the finger REALLy meant. After that, the Korcoms beat them ferociously.
One of the most interesting and tragic examples of a conflict in interpretation between differnt cultures of the meaning of some gestures happened during WWI (I think) where there were groups of soldiers approaching the enemy to surrender with their hands up. (can’t remember the nationalities) As they approached, the enemy was covering them with their weapons in one hand, and shooing them away, gesturing them to leave the area with their other...indicating they didn’t want to take them prisoner, telling them to go back to their lines.
When the soldiers turned to run back to their lines, they were all shot in the back.
This happened in multiple areas during this part of the war.
Come to find out, the gesture that was being used by the soldiers who shot them in the back was the fingers held together, pointed at down at the ground with the back of the hand facing out, and a sweeping motion away from the body and then back to the body, what we in many parts of the western world interpret as a ‘Shoo’ gesture, commonly given by old folks to young children to get them to leave.
However, the culture that the shooting soldiers lived in interpreted that same gesture as “come here”. (We in the west point our fingers pressed together towards the sky with the back of the hand facing the subject, and we perform the same sweeping motion fore and aft instructing the person to “come here”.
Neologisms. . .made up words. . .trait commonly found in schizophrenics. . .and Leo Gorcy.
Or 'wordventions' as I call them. Who said that? *looks around*
Watch him in this clip. No real empathy or even a give a damn. He is dead inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqnxvwOnPBU
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