America has become the most unappealing country to me - Page 3

gmku · 11.24.2006, 09:59 AM

Is America out on vinyl?

atari 2600 · 11.24.2006, 10:02 AM

In the paranoid form of this disorder, the sufferer develops delusions of persecution or personal grandeur. The first signs of paranoid schizophrenia usually surface between the ages of 15 and 34 (Ed. whereas many other types of schizophrenia usually manifest at earlier ages.) There is no cure, but the paranoid schizophrenia can be controlled with antipsychotic medications. Severe attacks may require hospitalization.
In the DSM-IV, paranoid schizophrenia is defined as:
A type of schizophrenia in which there are:

Preoccupation with one or more systematized delusions or with frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme.
None of the following: incoherence, marked loosening of associations, flat or grossly inappropriate affect, catatonic behaviour, grossly disorganized behavior.

The essential feature of Paranoid Schizophrenia is preoccupation with one or more systematized delusions or with frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme. In addition, symptoms characteristic of the Disorganized and Catatonic Types such as incoherence, flat or grossly inappropriate affect, catatonic behaviour, or grossly disorganized behavior, are absent. When all exacerbations of the disorder meet the criteria for Paranoid Type, the clinician should specify "Stable Type".
Associated features of Paranoid Schizophrenia include unfocussed anxiety, anger, argumentativeness, and violence. Often a stilted, formal quality or extreme intensity in interpersonal interaction is noted.
The impairment in functioning in Paranoid Schizophrenia may be minimal if the delusional material is not acted upon. Onset tends to be later in life than the other types, and the distinguishing characteristics may be more stable over time. Some evidence suggests that the prognosis for the Paranoid Type, particularly with regard to occupational functioning and capacity for independent living, may be considerably better than for other types of schizophrenia.

pokkeherrie · 11.24.2006, 10:04 AM

I didn't know America were considered country... although I only know that song "Horse with No Name" and I never liked that.

porkmarras · 11.24.2006, 10:04 AM

Thanks Dr David White.

Pookie · 11.24.2006, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by gmku

Is America out on vinyl?

America is still running on 8-track! (I don't know what that means)

jon boy · 11.24.2006, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Pookie

You're probably in the wrong place if your original statement holds true porky. You love Americans because they make good whipping boys.

racist.

porkmarras · 11.24.2006, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Come on......don't help Porker make his point! At the very least, it should be U.S. and U.S.A. would have been the best of all!!!

Hey Porkman: our federal government recently attached a law to the Home Land Security bill making it illegal to wager over the internet......our government helps keep local Bookies in business - that just ROCKS!!!

Racist.....and probably you also hate single mums too.

Danny Himself · 11.24.2006, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by SpankMarvin

(Is it safe to come out?)

America is just like every other country. The victim of it's leaders. Let's hope things get a little more reasonable with the new congress/senate situation.

It's also such a huge country that it invites generalisations. On the whole, I've found coastal states to be pretty decent places. And, in fact, (though it's not a coastal state) Phoenix is completely brilliant.

Re things of worth. I understand but I think it's simply a fact of who cares about worth? In what sense? They're producing plenty, I reckon, though it's not news-worthy except for that thing. That war? Yeah that's about it.

50% of that country, probably more now, have been entirely misrepresented by their foreign politics. It's not a perfect nation, but neither's mine (UK).

I've been doing a lot of travelling between the UK and US. I really feel that, in terms of percentages, we are dead equal for idiots. USA just has a larger population!

Well said.

I've done my fair bit of travelling around the world, and I must say America has the nicest people of all (yes, I've been to Canada), and that the UK probably has the least friendly, most arrogant and anti-social citizens.

That being said, I've never been to the east coast of the US, except for a day I spent in Philadelphia- which was okay.

atari 2600 · 11.24.2006, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Come on......don't help Porker make his point!

Exactly, do not respond to his repeated attempts at baiting.

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

At the very least, it should be U.S. and U.S.A. would have been the best of all!!!

Hey Porkman: our federal government recently attached a law to the Home Land Security bill making it illegal to wager over the internet......our government helps keep local Bookies in business - that just ROCKS!!!

The overwhelming majority of the now banned internet gaming sites did their banking in London, UK.
This same law delivered a blow to the British economy by stripping it of billions of dollars in annual income coming into the country.

gmku · 11.24.2006, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Pookie

America is still running on 8-track! (I don't know what that means)

It makes sense to me! Oddly enough.

!@#$%! · 11.24.2006, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by porkmarras

Very odd of me thinking that,but the place just seems to be inhabited by idiots.Nothing to do with the war as that is a different thing alltogether.This is not even an anti-american thread either(enough of them now).It's just that the place doesn't seem to produce anything of any worth anymore.

i haven't read the rest of this thread porkie,, but let me just say that the title immediately made this answer pop in my mind:

"try sudan for a week"

iran?

cuba?

afghanistan?

shall i continue???

Glice · 11.24.2006, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny Himself

....the UK probably has the least friendly, most arrogant and anti-social citizens...

Hooray! I felt a small pang of national pride at that comment.

!@#$%! · 11.24.2006, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

Hooray! I felt a small pang of national pride at that comment.

ha ha that is funny. 2 countries i've never been too keen on visiting are england and germany. my only experience with germany was a 6 hour stopover at the frankfurt airport, horrid enough to dissuade me from ever going again. about england, well... it's full of english people

11.24.2006, 01:58 PM

no country is good for you

atari 2600 · 11.24.2006, 02:12 PM

!@#$%! · 11.24.2006, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Jico

no country is good for you

me or the porkie, you meant?

11.24.2006, 02:30 PM

his majesty porkmarrass

cryptowonderdruginvogue · 11.24.2006, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by porkmarras

Very odd of me thinking that,but the place just seems to be inhabited by idiots.Nothing to do with the war as that is a different thing alltogether.This is not even an anti-american thread either(enough of them now).It's just that the place doesn't seem to produce anything of any worth anymore.

atari 2600 · 11.24.2006, 02:49 PM

Your post above is a bit ironic, crypto, considering that Texas recently deemed Rodin's "The Thinker" an obscene sculpture. An exemplary, well-liked public school teacher of more than twenty years was fired as a scapegoat after the school district received many angry complaints from backwoods parents. The instructor had taken her classes to view the reproduction at the Museum of Fine Arts right there in Houston.

cryptowonderdruginvogue · 11.24.2006, 02:57 PM

just cause im a texan doesnt mean i agree with them

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atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,213	In the paranoid form of this disorder, the sufferer develops delusions of persecution or personal grandeur. The first signs of paranoid schizophrenia usually surface between the ages of 15 and 34 (Ed. whereas many other types of schizophrenia usually manifest at earlier ages.) There is no cure, but the paranoid schizophrenia can be controlled with antipsychotic medications. Severe attacks may require hospitalization. In the DSM-IV, paranoid schizophrenia is defined as: A type of schizophrenia in which there are: Preoccupation with one or more systematized delusions or with frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme. None of the following: incoherence, marked loosening of associations, flat or grossly inappropriate affect, catatonic behaviour, grossly disorganized behavior. The essential feature of Paranoid Schizophrenia is preoccupation with one or more systematized delusions or with frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme. In addition, symptoms characteristic of the Disorganized and Catatonic Types such as incoherence, flat or grossly inappropriate affect, catatonic behaviour, or grossly disorganized behavior, are absent. When all exacerbations of the disorder meet the criteria for Paranoid Type, the clinician should specify "Stable Type". Associated features of Paranoid Schizophrenia include unfocussed anxiety, anger, argumentativeness, and violence. Often a stilted, formal quality or extreme intensity in interpersonal interaction is noted. The impairment in functioning in Paranoid Schizophrenia may be minimal if the delusional material is not acted upon. Onset tends to be later in life than the other types, and the distinguishing characteristics may be more stable over time. Some evidence suggests that the prognosis for the Paranoid Type, particularly with regard to occupational functioning and capacity for independent living, may be considerably better than for other types of schizophrenia.
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atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,213	Your post above is a bit ironic, crypto, considering that Texas recently deemed Rodin's "The Thinker" an obscene sculpture. An exemplary, well-liked public school teacher of more than twenty years was fired as a scapegoat after the school district received many angry complaints from backwoods parents. The instructor had taken her classes to view the reproduction at the Museum of Fine Arts right there in Houston.
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