"Don't mess with me. I'll kick your #ss!
Posted on 08/23/2004 3:22:24 PM PDT by Boot Hill
WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - It may be wise to check out a stranger's ears before picking a fight, U.S. researchers advised on Monday.
They found that women and men with asymmetrical extremities -- ears, fingers or feet of different sizes or shapes -- were more likely to react aggressively when annoyed or provoked.
This could make sense, the team at Ohio State University said. Factors such as smoking or drinking during a pregnancy could stress a fetus in various ways, causing not only slight physical imperfections but also poorer impulse control.
"Stressors during pregnancy may lead to asymmetrical body parts. The same stressors will also affect development of the central nervous system, which involves impulse control and aggression," said Zeynep Benderlioglu, who led the study.
"So while asymmetry doesn't cause aggression, they both seem to be correlated to similar factors during pregnancy."
Benderlioglu, Randy Nelson, a professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Paul Sciulli, professor of anthropology, reported their findings in the American Journal of Human Biology.
They told 100 college students they were taking part in a study of persuasive ability by asking them to call people to raise money for charity.
But their calls went to two experimenters who followed a careful script, either apologetically saying they did not have money to donate, or becoming confrontational and challenging the caller and the charity.
The researchers had rigged the phones so they could measure how hard participants slammed the receiver down after the call.
The more asymmetrical their ears, fingers and feet, the more force the volunteers tended to use when hanging up, they found.
Women were more likely to slam the phone when challenged, while men seemed angrier when politely turned down, they found.
"Research has shown that men are quicker to anger than are women," Benderlioglu said. "But while unprovoked men are generally more aggressive than women, the gender differences either disappear under provocation, or women may actually become more aggressive than men."
It could be men just dropped the aggressive call before it escalated, she added.
Just remember citizen your tax dollars goes to support this type of "research".
Hmmmmmm, take a detailed look at John Kerry's face.
Boot Hill
Good to hear from you again, EOD.
--Boot Hill
This is perfect for this post:______________________________The Winner
The Winner
(Shel Silverstein)
I walked up to a man with a beer in his hand,
He looked like a drunken fool
And I knew that if I hit him right,
I could knock him off his stool;
But everybody said, "Hey, watch out
That's Tiger Man NcCool
He's had a whole lot of fights
And he always come out the winner.
Well, I'd had myself about five too many
And I stepped up tall and proud,
Facin' his back, facin' the fact
That he had never stooped nor bowed.
I said, "Tiger Man, you're a pussycat!"
And a hush fell on the crowd,
I said, "Let's you and me step outside
And see who's the winner."
Well, he gripped the bar with one big hairy hand,
He leaned against the wall,
Slowly, he stood up from his chair
My God! That man was tall.
He said, "Boy, I see you're a scrapper
So just before you fall,
I'm gonna tell you just what it means
To be a winner.
Well, you see these bright white smiling teeth
You know they ain't my own
Mine rolled away like Chiclets
Down a street in San Antone.
But I left that person cursin'
Nursin' seven broken bones
And he only broke three of mine,
So I guess that makes me the winner.
Now behind this grin, I got a steel pin
That holds my jaw in place,
It's a trophy of my most successful
Motorcycle race.
And every morning, when I awake
I see this scar across my face
It reminds me of all I got
By bein' a winner.
Yes my broken back was the dyin' act
Of Handsome Harry Clay,
That sticky Cincinnatti night
I stole his wife away.
And you know, son, she gets meaner
And uglier every day,
But I got her, boy,
And that's what makes me the winner.
Well, you have to speak loud when you challenge me, son,
You know it's hard for me to hear,
With this twisted neck and this migraine pain
And this cauliflower ear.
And if it wasn't for this glass eye of mine,
Why I'd shed a happy tear
To think of what you're gonna get
By bein' a winner.
I got ar-thur-it-ic elbows,
I've got dislocated knees,
From pickin' fights with thunderstorms
And chargin' into trees.
And my nose been broke so often
I might lose it if I sneeze.
Son, you still say you want to
Be a winner?
Well, you remind me a lot of my younger days
With your knuckles clenchin' white,
But boy, I'm gonna sit right here
And sip this beer all night.
And if you've got something to gain or prove
By winnin' some silly fight,
Well OK. I quit. I lose.
You're the winner."
I stumbled from that barroom
Not so tall and not so proud;
And behind me I still hear the hoots
And hollers of the crowd.
But my nose still works and my eyes still see
And my teeth are still in my mouth
And, you know, I guess that makes me
The winner!
note: This is a folk-processed, shortened version. See WINNR2 for original.
Copyright Shel Silverstein
RG
These people were picked on as children and so they grew up tuned into and ready to respond to any hostility or unfairness directed toward them.
Case in point: Look at Kerry's grotesque, distorted head. Tell me he wasn't picked on as a kid. This is why he now has such an obnoxious personality, no friends, and he is compelled to lie to cover up his weaknesses and he harasses and talks down to people to get his own way.
"Don't mess with me. I'll kick your #ss!
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Johnny Paycheck
music here Well, I was sittin' in this beer joint down in Houston, Texas.
Was drinkin' Colorado Kool-Aid and talkin' to some Mexicans,
An' we was....what's that you say?
What's Colorado Kool-Aid?
Well, it's a can of Coors brewed from a mountain stream.
It'll set you head on fire an' make your kidneys scream,
Oh, it sure is fine.
Yeah, we was havin' ourselves one of them real good times.
But you know every beer joint that you've ever been in,
Some big, mean drunk who just ain't got no friend,
Sure enough, he wants to fight,
Yeah, he's gonna whip everything in sight.
Well, he took him a big swallow of beer,
And he spit in my Mexican friends ear.
And, sure enough, that made my buddie real mad.
That's somethin' like he ain't never had.
Well, sir, he pulled out a big, long switch blade knife;
Quick as a whistle he began to slice.
An, that big mean drunk stood back, his face full of tears,
Lookin' down at the floor, an' one of his ears.
Ha, he cut that thing off, even with the sideburns.
You might say the little Mexican fella, he just didn't give a durn.
But he was a gentleman about it, an' bent over and with a half way grin,
Picked it up and handed it back to him.
He said: "Now big man, you get the urge to spit a little beer,
"Just open up your hand there, and spit it in your own ear.
"Won't be no trouble that way." That's what I heard him say.
And I said: "Barmaid, set us up a round of that Colorado Kool-Aid.
"An while you're up their, bring this big fella, here, a box of Band aids."
Now let me tell you: if you're ever ridin' down in south of Texas,
Decide to stop an' drink some Colorado Kool-Aid,
An' maybe talk to some Mexicans,
An' you get the urge to get a little tough,
Better make damn sure you got your knife proof ear-muff.
Hey, ain't that right big man? I said ain't that right big man?
Ah, hell he can't hear, not on this side anyway, he ain't got no ear.
Hey barmaid, bring us all a big, tall glass of that Colorado Kool-Aid.
How about it?
How you doin', big man? Still got your ear there in your hand?
Fade out.
Written by Phil Thomas.
( © Sherrill Music / Universal Songs of Polygram.)
From "Take This Job And Shove It", © 1978, Epic.
Coquet Shack, © 2004, John D. Lewis.
screw the goofy lookin one... it's the QUIET one at the end of the bar you don't want to mess with yeah it's an old saying, but i've seen it happen too many times
This thread appears to be a very fertile place for some of your pictures of Kerry.
Asymmetrical fingers? Are they all supposed to be the same length?
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"Asymmetrical fingers? Are they all supposed to be the same length?"
An interestin tidbit about finger length...
The male index finger is shorter than the ring finger in
virtually all cases... the shortness of the index relative the ring finger is a very good indicator of the athletic abilities of the individual male. (for real!)
Many females have an index finger longer than the ring finger...sometimes only one hand has this characteristic.
Almost never is the index finger of a female a lot shorter than the ring finger...
And almost never is the index finger longer than the ring finger in a male.
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