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true. but does Grizzleb have to make these (totally accurate) caveats every time they want to raise some point about the economic status of poor w/c British whites specifically? it is going to be in all our minds when we discuss it, i just don't think we necessarily need to insert these caveats...

all fair comment, i sounded like a bit of a cock earlier, my bad. i just meant, the two chaps you know of there who literally fall into an online-only stereotype, well, i guess i was running rather too imprecisely w something someone else brought up earlier... (some of my phrasing in this thread...

haha caned is great, i do like that one! 'tanned' is a similar one. i used to use them both myself a lot. i don't know about other Anglophone countries but certainly in the UK caned is also a synonym for drunk. (or i guess other substances too.) and if you are caning it you are imbibing.

cheers hucks, nice one. (granted, i fear i may have overstated my credulity in quite how stark differences were in implying that i felt the graph's pictorial representation was the be-all and end-all of rating the differences across states.) interesting you said Canada specifically, as i know...

mates and i after a while drinking pints in the pub (so, yes, shoring up your initial example) will definitely sychronize the speed at which we drink, lifting and putting down pints at exactly the same time, and you end up compensating if someone is slurping down volume quicker than others...

must admit that's completely what i read into it as well; we all know our history round here after all, tbf.

how dare you m99188868! why, i had my own half-arsed mention of ancient afternoons in school (the usual scottdisco pseudo-profundity) a few pages ago. true to form, i didn't actually say anything, but the thought was there ;)

does anyone know any geeks? i mean in the classical, stereotyped sense of people who game a lot, sustain themselves socially through online gaming networks etc almost exclusively? (stop me if this is a one-dimensional or plain wrong view of what you can call geek culture. i mean, there are...

fair comment. Mixed_Biscuits and Polystyle have some interesting thoughts from page 4 of that cultural differences thread that kind of fit w Grizzleb bringing up hikikomori. (though i know you were on that thread too, G.) Grizzleb's legitimate quibbles w some aspects of Nomad's generally...

thanks much Nomad, you're a star, your first two paragraphs are the sort of thing i was hoping to hear about. and agreed re yr fisking 'people are now more depressed than ever'...

ach man, that's horrible to hear. i'm sorry :( isn't it the case (please stop me if i'm crossing over into some mythic line the outside world gets wrong about Japan) that you do get plenty of office joes offing themselves for (the ostensible 'reason', anyway) some minor professional...

agreed yes; the quiet stultifying and repressed salaryman cliches, etc etc etc., "no hope" for reals i guess. think the most ossified is a fair shout. to get back to that graph, i knew that the USA, followed by Portugal and the UK, were the least equal wealthy societies, but seeing it in that...

btw i am acquainting myself w a few things four_five_one and Nomad, etc, said from around page 14 of the night owl or lark thread here re SSRIs, etc, (came across it accidentally when searching for board mentions of Sasha Grey * so please take my simplistic warblings re these issues w a kindly...

incidentally i've just been reading Nomad talking about SSRIs in the 'bloody miserable' thread (in Misc., that swears commented in today)...

bit off-topic maybe but i thought as long as Nomad (or anyone really, but i respect Nomad's background on these matters) has recently been on thread i would ask her a question inspired by something M_B says here. over-medicalisation in the US: what does anyone think? my following own...

yeah, interesting that. incidentally, i know Scandinavian countries are - of course - not as ethnically diverse societies as say Canada, but i gather - i have no hard stats here, just half-remembered readings etc - these days aren't they becoming more and more cosmopolitan, more and more...

i admire anyone who has a sociological stab at this Biscuits, and realise the following tiny nitpicking is going to look churlish in the context of a thoughtful, sizeable post from you, but (my bolded emphasis follows) purely wrt the frames of reference of Matt's graph (which sparked these...

it's not addressing y'all very interesting interventions re suicide etc but i found the following from the bloke who wrote Matt's book (and so is therefore the man responsible for the framing of the graph i assume). the rest of it is from a blurb taken from here (no discussion of statistics or...

all true facts and the USA is the least equal nation on earth among wealthy countries of course (goes w out saying i use 'developing economies' blah blah and all that as convenient shorthand)

(my bolded emphasis.) think you're on to something there, Matt. i'd admittedly be interested in studies comparing these sorts of things from developing economies as a case by case, too. for eg Paraguay's one of the least equal societies on earth, no? maybe there w a slightly more egalitarian...