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4 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 1 reply · +3 points

It's clearly one of Julia's daydreams that Brian is picking up, where they cycle together towards a lake of whipped cream, on which Sarah and Isaac share a small rowing boat and Julia is skinny-dipping with... well, take your pick - anyhow, that's my grand theory of Sylvia's next masterpiece and I challenge you to prove me wrong!

4 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 0 replies · +3 points

Augh Friday mornings, when TBYT was the first thing I went to on my laptop, will never be the same again... Thanks, Sylvia, and hope the next comic is just as good!

4 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 0 replies · +1 points

LOL - exactly what came to mind!

4 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 0 replies · +2 points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

For those born and raised in the back end of beyond who may not get the reference...

5 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 0 replies · +2 points

For years, my Dad made me believe he could steer the car with no hands. He blew it when he took me for a ride in his articulated lorry one day: he asked me to pour him a cuppa from a thermos because he couldn't steer an artic with his knees like he could with a normal car. Busted!

5 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 0 replies · +7 points

Surprisingly - at least, it was to me when I started working in Offender Learning - many prisoners take the opposite stance. By presenting no threat, they fall under the radar of the more aggressive prisoners and avoid trouble that way. Some prisoners have no choice in the matter - their self-esteem is so low that their reactions to interpersonal stress situations are based entirely on base fear responses - fight or flight/freeze/submit. You are right about a significant proportion of prisoners who are keenly sensitive to any outcome which reduces their dominant position: even getting a maths question wrong may provoke an aggressive response. Submissives, for want of a better descriptor, are likely to just give up. My job in both cases is to identify and moderate the triggers and shape their reactions into something positive.

5 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 0 replies · +3 points

Love the expressions in the last frame - particularly his!

5 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 2 replies · +9 points

If you're interested, and are of an academic bent (it's a bit TL;DR), this article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483... is very informative. I am a prison maths tutor and meet adults whose default position is to lie - or, at least, to never admit - error, fault or culpability. When I first started in this business, I used to believe that they had been "let off" by their parents. Now, I feel that their parents may have been both too strict and not involved enough with them as children to teach them the social skill and appropriateness of lying, and setting bad examples themselves.

5 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 0 replies · +6 points

My Mum promoted the idea that she could see round corners and through brick walls. I didn't believe her, but sometimes was amazed when she knew *exactly* what I was up to.

5 years ago @ Think Before You Think - Think Before You Think... · 3 replies · +3 points

Every kid's nightmare - psychic Dad!

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