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Manipulator tries to play dumb by pretending they do not know what the victim is talking about or is confused about an important issue brought to their attention. The manipulator intentionally confuses the victim in order for the victim to doubt their own accuracy of perception, often pointing out key elements that the manipulator intentionally ...
In the United States, the novel was first published with the title The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, at the insistence by the publisher, Dodd, Mead and Company, that no one would buy or read a book with the word "nigger" in its title, [4] not because the word was deemed offensive but that a book about a black man would not sell ...
Stupidity is a quality or state of being stupid, or an act or idea that exhibits properties of being stupid. [4] In a character study of "The Stupid Man" attributed to the Greek philosopher Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC), stupidity was defined as "mental slowness in speech or action". The modern English word "stupid" has a broad range of ...
Image credits: frusciantefango #5. Cut my hand on a broken, frozen chicken nugget. Edit: This is by far the most upvoted comment I've ever made, so thanks. My first job was in a chip shop.
There's a famous saying: "There is no such thing as a stupid question."Even astrophysicist Carl Sagan thought that "every question is a cry to understand the world." Yet the questions that the ...
A Crazy, Bad, Dumb, Bad, Bad, Dumb, Crazy, Bad Idea [ edit ] During the planning of a fete by the school, Andy gets a "good, great, brilliant, great, great, brilliant good, great idea" to try flying like a kite using a large number of helium -filled balloons (including four weather balloons which spell "FETE") with Danny holding a rope to ...
A movie’s central character needn’t be someone we admire, but he should probably be someone we’re drawn to, someone we vibe with in sympathetic fascination, who we feel we know and ...
The cover of the album features a rendition of Édouard Manet’s painting Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe featuring the band members. The band's then-14-year old lead singer Annabella Lwin is nude on the cover. The cover caused outrage in the United Kingdom that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard, instigated by Lwin's mother. [11]