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John Cleese Carefully Considers Your Futile Comments (Original Post) geefloyd46 Nov 2013 OP
I love John Cleese...he is so English. zeemike Nov 2013 #1
learned long ago PatrynXX Nov 2013 #7
Someone needs to get a clip of that last explanation! Baitball Blogger Nov 2013 #2
The Dunning-Kruger Effect progressoid Nov 2013 #3
Oh, this explains so much. Thank you! Baitball Blogger Nov 2013 #6
And Elderberries are...... DeSwiss Nov 2013 #4
Elderberry syrup = best flu remedy I've ever tried!! BrotherIvan Nov 2013 #8
palin...beck..... unionthug777 Nov 2013 #5

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
7. learned long ago
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 01:31 PM
Nov 2013

99 % of great humor is British. (I type a bit fast so I might have used the wrong words. eep.. so if I have little down ahem doubt I really should re read wtf I just typed out... why is it the letters on notebook computers disappear ?? crap plastic.

most American humor is Low brow humor. Fart gags fat jokes etc

There's normal comedy (mid brow) then High brow comedy. Americans rarely know how to do high brow humor. Maybe George Carlin and we miss him. Johnny Carson fairly close..

But if I'm watching something with Sir David Jason in it and it happens to either be a dangerous mouse or something in a Terry Pratchett movie . i have little doubt 20 years from now I'll still consider The Hogfather a classic The Color of Magic (where by then everyone kinda remembered his voice as Danger Mouse and now he had a new partner (Sean Astin ) even though the character is supposed to be Asian. (Twoflower white?) so they up played his voice in that movie and so 20 yrs from now maybe. It's more of a knock on uh Monty Python. hello magic sword anybody hello... and Going Postal that one very great humor so much so you will not be laughing off your arse. You'll be thinking and eventually go fruity on all the nutty things in the movie o_O lol ie there are people from Monty Python's films that either are in Going Postal or just love it silly. But it goes for shows as well. the Vicar Of Dibbley (too much fun) Wallace and Gromit?? Cheese? Just some things the British always did better and Comedy was one of them.

Sarah Palin though. I wouldn't entirely call her stupid. Basically all the guys on the right and making fun of her and using her. It might come back to bite everyone but anyone on the left who thinks the Right loves her because of her brains is not very smart. They are voting on um Hot Lips? (blush) I can't deny I think she has great eyes. Much like some first lady I know. (blush)


and again why is Any Day Now now allowed out on dvd? Want a good debate on race? That one did it in everyway possible the way Thirtysomething did with homosexuality.

progressoid

(49,824 posts)
3. The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 01:49 AM
Nov 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1]

Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University conclude, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others".[2]

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Although the Dunning–Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, Dunning and Kruger have noted similar historical observations from philosophers and scientists, including Confucius ("Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.&quot ,[3] Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision", though this is actually a misquote, see Wikiquote),[8] and Charles Darwin, whom they quoted in their original paper ("ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge&quot .[2] Geraint Fuller, commenting on the paper, noted that Shakespeare expressed similar sentiment in As You Like It ("The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole."

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
8. Elderberry syrup = best flu remedy I've ever tried!!
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 07:18 PM
Nov 2013

The minute I start feeling yuck, I start downing the stuff which also tastes delicious. Whilst everyone around is down for a few days with the flu, it doesn't get me. If for some reason I don't get it before it starts, taking elderberry lessens it to one day and makes it much less severe. It's fantastic stuff. The pre-made stuff is pricey, so now I make and bottle my own. I encourage everyone I know to have it on hand. With that and treating my gut flora like royal persons, I haven't been sick since I can remember. There are recipes all over the web for making it. This is not alcohol, it's basically cooking down the fruit with honey and spices to taste. It's also very safe for kids and it's no trouble giving it to them because of the great taste.

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