Christmas Psychology Puns

I think the timing of this event is carefully selected- not too close to Holiday season but not too far either.

By presenting this lootbox system that's so blatantly less worth it than previous Holiday boxes, one that doesn't add that much gold or credits but rather sneakily drains them - when the holiday lootboxes come around, they will seem so much better in value after this. Marketing psychology.

Now, players will be expecting that the Holiday boxes are as bad these ones- but if they are just like "your safe, familiar, biscuit & xmas- smelling lootboxes of yesteryear" - what a surprise, they will seem so much more better in value suddenly.

Man, they will sell like hot cakes again. Sneaky.

Of all the Christmas movies out there, Home Alone is the one with the best wrestling psychology.

The first 10 minutes tell you everything you need to know about the main characters. Kevin is an immature brat that needs to grow up, Buzz is a dick who exploits Kevin's immaturity, his neighbor Old Man Marley has a bad reputation, and that "cop," is suspicious.

Kevin gets a bit of shine standing up to Buzz and taking inventory of the suspicious "cop." Kevin's parents put the heat on him by exiling him to the attic and forgetting him, but he reverses it on them by making the best of it with indoor sledding, ice cream, and R-rated movies, until the cop from earlier is revealed to be part of the Wet Bandits, the dominant heels and tag champs in these parts -- I mean, a duo of local burglars. They put their own heat on Kevin by creeping on him and attempting to rob his house throughout the movie.

Kevin continues to get in little hope spots by driving off the Wet Bandits, and fending for himself in general. With each of these hope spots, Kevin grows up and becomes both brave enough and mature enough to not be intimidated by Old Man Marley, even befriending him on Christmas Eve. When the Bandits decide to rob Kevin's house once and for all, Kevin makes the big comeback against them by laying a bunch of deadly booby traps... except for the tar and feather trap, that doesn't really belong in Kevin's "moveset," as it just messes with the Bandits rather than deter them, but it still pops the crowd 30 years later, so we'll leave it alone. The hot doorknob, the blowtorch flamethrower, the paint cans to the head, and the spider on the face are four of Kevin's Five Moves of Doom (or Greatest Hits, if you've read Mike Quackenbush's books) that set up the finish.

Kevin calls the police and tells them to meet him at a neighbors house, then he escapes to the neighbors house for a good false finish, but the Wet Bandits cut him off and corner him for a nice falsie of their own. Before they can finish Kevin off, in comes Old Man Marley with the save and the REAL finish. Crowd pops, Kevin's music plays, and everyone enjoys the show.

Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong or suggest other best wrestling psychology movies!

The women in my family all share a love for reading but we prefer different styles. I need some suggestions for:

1. Mom — Interesting psychology books that aren’t self help, or psychological thrillers that aren’t dean koontz (she has almost every one of his books)
2. Sister — feminist classics, she loves the Victorians (pride and prejudice, Jane eyre) but am open to suggestions outside of the genre

Thank you and happy holidays !!!!!

Russell is 10 and Eve is 8. Ruby has announced this afternoon via the Connexions YouTube channel that neither of them will receive a visit from Santa this year because of “their long patterns of egregious selfish behavior.” She then goes on to explain that they haven’t properly repented their sins. That’s right, they will have to watch their older siblings open gifts while they sit there in silence and “contemplate their actions.” She goes on to explain that she pulled them out of school to mop the floors as punishment, but they enjoyed it too much. Wtf? This is an extremely damaging and unjust punishment that will inflict deep consequences beyond what Ruby is hoping to instill. I wanted to break some of them down here and invite you to add more:

• They will grow up and form a deep resentment for their parents: For now, they assume that this is Santa’s decision. It’s only a matter of time before they discover that Ruby was the mastermind. Especially since they are not fully capable of expressing selflessness yet at their current ages. According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, children lose their tendencies to think selfishly anywhere from 10-13 years old. Russell barely falls inside that range and Eve is not yet there, so it is ridiculous to assign such a large punishment at these ages for something that they can’t control.

• Christmas for the entire family will be uncomfortable: What kind of position does this put Chad, Abby, and Julie in? They will surely feel awful having to open presents in front of their younger siblings knowing that they received nothing. Knowing Ruby, she probably won’t let them share any gifts with their siblings either. Older siblings should not have to take part in discipline of their younger siblings.

• They’ll learn that they can get away with more: As Ruby said herself, “Taking away Christmas presents is the worst thing possible for little kids.” So, if they misbehaved worse in the future, they theoretically couldn’t receive a worse punishment. The punishment has to fit the crime. This one isn’t even close and seems to be their parenting style, much like sending Chad to Anasazi for getting C’s.

• They will pull away from religion: Associations between religion (repenting incorrectly) and being harshly punished will be instilled. The fear tactic may work while they’re young, but once they grow up and their world opens up to different backgrounds and experiences, they will realize tha

Well gosh, golly gee willakers, how about them Manchins cloggin' up the works. Yeah. Like anyone with a brain didn't see this coming. Imagine admitting this is our reality and then going off on political nihilists as if they don't have a point. I really don't regret unsubscribing to Kyle and checking out of politics, I really don't. Nobody in Washington is going to save me, and if anyone else here is reading this, they aren't gonna save you, either. Save yourself. Stop donating, stop, following this crap, and stop voting, even if you're in a swing state. ESPECIALLY if you're in a swing state. They force this "no really, this is the most important election in our lifetime" crap as if we never heard it before. They push the "minimum wage increase" lines like we've never heard it before. They push "healthcare access" lines like we've never heard it before. All the buildup. "Joe Biden Can Unify the Country, Biden can break the Washington Gridlock and get things done!" And then this is the result. This is always the result. Every time.

But look! Look how lively AOC is! Look at her overexaggerated arm movements and enthusiasm so artificial she breaks the uncanny valley barrier. So animated and really proud of herself, and yet refuses to explain why she voted present on a police budget increase bill that passed by a single vote or why she refused to force the vote for M4A.

No single-payer. Perpetual military budget increases. Urban construction regulations that favor car dependency. No UBI. No federal jobs guarantee. No free public college. University tuition skyrocketing and nothing to keep it and textbook rates from going up. No intercity train transit systems that even come close to the speeds of other developed nations. Privatization dominating the space industry. Teachers are underpaid while tax breaks for corporations happen in nearly every omnibus bill. No accountability for politicians. Mainstream media becoming corporatized and partisanized to the point where objectivity evaporates and hard policy discussion becomes a distant memory

My guess as to what's been happening the last couple weeks: the holidays/Christmas is the time when most people have the highest stress levels and money's the tightest. We all know that Citadel is playing a game of psychology, one we've been impervious to up to this point and I suspect moving forward. But if they're going to have one last ditch, mother of all short "short it to fuck" attempts, what better time of year to do it?

Thing is, paper hands are long gone. They're only digging their hole deeper and I suspect those of us left are going to be buying even more moon tickets.

I fully expect this to go on even longer, but it's only more rocket fuel. Get fuk'd SHFs.

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Other qual: Well, as the HIT title states, you need to be giving someone - a partner or friend (2 HITS avail.) a BIG gift for Christmas!

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I found this comment in a post Ran linked.

>This Christmas is going to be a disaster. I work for a major dept store that carries toys and we’re expecting to be sold out of everything by like November. Even regular clothes and stuff, we’re still waiting on some products to show up from factories that were supposed to arrive in like July. We’ve basically had two years of crippled production across the board but because of shipping times, we’re only really just starting to see it. Do your Christmas shopping now. Or yesterday

I'm not particularly interested in the shortages but I would like to hear any wild speculations people have about how much this will cause a rupture in the fabric of society when the weird American Consumerist zeitgeist spell is slapped upside the head like lady holding the last PS5 in Walmart on black Friday.

There are so many people whose life consist of torture doing thing they hate all day for not enough money , never having time to really think about anything, who just engage in "retail therapy" where they buy stuff to temporarily fill their empty soulless existence with a moment of hedonic pleasure which then subsides until they get their next hit on payday. Whole families having expectations of presents.

Life IS consumerism for tens of millions if not 100 million . What do you think will happen when consuming is a battle among an entire cohort of fierce aqisitive yuppies fighting for the scraps at the tail end of the consumer era. The Christmas crescendo or catharsis.

Will it be a most violent Christmas?

I'm going to be 13DPIUI on Christmas Day. I am really trying not to test until 14DPIUI at the earliest (why waste a test if my period is going to start). My SiL has told the all of the immediate family that she is 8 weeks pregnant (WTF right?! way to early to tell everyone) and is coming over for Christmas brunch. She has one and has aborted two before this.

The experiment: how long can I be around her without

• testing
• crying
• drinking

Update: I tested (negative) and cried and plan to start drinking in 30 minutes (have to wait 30 minutes after levothyroxine) and she isn't supposed to show up for another two hours. Science is disappointed.

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ONLY ELIGIBLE IF YOU CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR. A bit of writing.

"He knows when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!"

Santa Claus encapsulates the essential relation between the individual and authority. The desire to "be good" originates not from the moral development of the subject but from an external, overwhelming and--perhaps most importantly--simplifying external force. The relation between the child and Santa (i.e. the individual and social/political authority) is mediated through material rewards and punishments. This system both stunts the moral development of the individual and creates the conditions for them to desire the same scrutiny that they fear. For Santa is watching people when they are bad, ready to mete out punishment, but he is also watching when they are good and will reward them for goodness. To a child, this system is overwhelming. Adults may think that they have superseded the desire for material rewards and thus escaped the relationship of child/Santa, but in fact they merely reproduce it in more advanced ways. The adult seeks a sense of safety or comfort from knowing that Santa is watching and approving of his actions and feels guilt when he judges his own actions to run against Santa's approval. Adults do not "believe in" Santa, but this necessarily means that they will recreate the relationship in their own minds, reproducing the will of Santa that they were taught to understand as children. This is the essence of guilt. The adult makes himself to feel like a punished child for disappointing Santa, an invisible force which he no longer thinks is real, yet which governs his every move.

The most brilliant and insidious piece of the puzzle is that Santa is not, of course, watching--at least, not all the time. Santa is only one man. He cannot be everywhere at once. And he does not have the resources to devote to a vast spy network of elves to track everyone's behavior at all times. But this does not matter. Indeed, it only reinforces Santa's power. If Santa or his elves were visibly watching in all times and places, people would seek out shelter from their eyes. Inevitably they would find a few secluded locations where they could perform naughty acts with impunity. Perhaps they would even discover that some so-called naughty actions do not have negative consequences. This ability to practice defiance in safety would begin to free them from the guilt of defying Santa, eventually allowing for the possibility of mean

We are creating an advent calendar in our lab and I would like to contribute to this with some puns or funny memes. However, I fear that I may not be creative enough for that endeavour.

Can you help me think of any? They can be really bad ones as well - those are often the best ones!
Please help me make my colleagues giggle and get into the christmas spirit.

Thank you very much in advance!