Envy

It would be nice to go to Ohio. Now, like.

Not for Christmas. With Jim's older brother who I want to hang by his toenails send on a one-way trip to Outer Mongolia. And away from California when I like it the most. No. I wanna go with cadhla...and now, ceolyn....well, because. It would be fun. Yanno.

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Jim just called - he can get the week between the holidays off - and whee, we can go to Ohio to see the family!

You'll forgive me if I'm not thrilled, jumpping up and down and clapping paws right now.

My holiday season just got cranked up another notch of unbelievably booked. And oh, yeah. Find some way to pay for it all. Right.

*facesmacks*

No, this is not shaping up to be the week I wanted it to be. Not in the least.

Envy

It would be nice to go to Ohio. Now, like.

Not for Christmas. With Jim's older brother who I want to hang by his toenails send on a one-way trip to Outer Mongolia. And away from California when I like it the most. No. I wanna go with cadhla...and now, ceolyn....well, because. It would be fun. Yanno.

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Jim just called - he can get the week between the holidays off - and whee, we can go to Ohio to see the family!

You'll forgive me if I'm not thrilled, jumpping up and down and clapping paws right now.

My holiday season just got cranked up another notch of unbelievably booked. And oh, yeah. Find some way to pay for it all. Right.

*facesmacks*

No, this is not shaping up to be the week I wanted it to be. Not in the least.

Envy

It would be nice to go to Ohio. Now, like.

Not for Christmas. With Jim's older brother who I want to hang by his toenails send on a one-way trip to Outer Mongolia. And away from California when I like it the most. No. I wanna go with cadhla...and now, ceolyn....well, because. It would be fun. Yanno.

..

Jim just called - he can get the week between the holidays off - and whee, we can go to Ohio to see the family!

You'll forgive me if I'm not thrilled, jumpping up and down and clapping paws right now.

My holiday season just got cranked up another notch of unbelievably booked. And oh, yeah. Find some way to pay for it all. Right.

*facesmacks*

No, this is not shaping up to be the week I wanted it to be. Not in the least.

Another one because some folks can't see it -

But tdj found another good one -

“Pathological liars can’t always tell truth from falsehood and contradict themselves in an interview. They are manipulative and they admit they prey on people. They are very brazen in terms of their manner, but very cool when talking about this.”

Aside from having histories of conning others or using aliases, the habitual liars also admitted to malingering, or telling falsehoods to obtain sickness benefits, Raine said.

After they were categorized, the researchers used Magnetic Resonance Imaging to explore structural brain differences between the groups. The liars had significantly more “white matter” and slightly less “gray matter” than those they were measured against, Raine said.

Specifically, liars had a 25.7 percent increase in prefrontal white matter compared to the antisocial controls and a 22 percent increase compared to the normal controls. Liars had a 14.2 percent decrease in prefrontal gray matter compared to normal controls.

More white matter – the wiring in the brain – may provide liars with the tools necessary to master the complex art of deceit, Raine said.

“Lying takes a lot of effort,” he said.

“It’s almost mind reading. You have to be able to understand the mindset of the other person. You also have to suppress your emotions or regulate them because you don’t want to appear nervous. There’s quite a lot to do there. You’ve got to suppress the truth.

“Our argument is that the more networking there is in the prefrontal cortex, the more the person has an upper hand in lying. Their verbal skills are higher. They’ve almost got a natural advantage.”

But in normal people, it’s the gray matter – or the brain cells connected by the white matter – that helps keep the impulse to lie in check.

The fact this is a USC study on compulsive liars just tickles me in some strange places. Go take a look.

Another one because some folks can't see it -

But tdj found another good one -

“Pathological liars can’t always tell truth from falsehood and contradict themselves in an interview. They are manipulative and they admit they prey on people. They are very brazen in terms of their manner, but very cool when talking about this.”

Aside from having histories of conning others or using aliases, the habitual liars also admitted to malingering, or telling falsehoods to obtain sickness benefits, Raine said.

After they were categorized, the researchers used Magnetic Resonance Imaging to explore structural brain differences between the groups. The liars had significantly more “white matter” and slightly less “gray matter” than those they were measured against, Raine said.

Specifically, liars had a 25.7 percent increase in prefrontal white matter compared to the antisocial controls and a 22 percent increase compared to the normal controls. Liars had a 14.2 percent decrease in prefrontal gray matter compared to normal controls.

More white matter – the wiring in the brain – may provide liars with the tools necessary to master the complex art of deceit, Raine said.

“Lying takes a lot of effort,” he said.

“It’s almost mind reading. You have to be able to understand the mindset of the other person. You also have to suppress your emotions or regulate them because you don’t want to appear nervous. There’s quite a lot to do there. You’ve got to suppress the truth.

“Our argument is that the more networking there is in the prefrontal cortex, the more the person has an upper hand in lying. Their verbal skills are higher. They’ve almost got a natural advantage.”

But in normal people, it’s the gray matter – or the brain cells connected by the white matter – that helps keep the impulse to lie in check.

The fact this is a USC study on compulsive liars just tickles me in some strange places. Go take a look.

Another one because some folks can't see it -

But tdj found another good one -

“Pathological liars can’t always tell truth from falsehood and contradict themselves in an interview. They are manipulative and they admit they prey on people. They are very brazen in terms of their manner, but very cool when talking about this.”

Aside from having histories of conning others or using aliases, the habitual liars also admitted to malingering, or telling falsehoods to obtain sickness benefits, Raine said.

After they were categorized, the researchers used Magnetic Resonance Imaging to explore structural brain differences between the groups. The liars had significantly more “white matter” and slightly less “gray matter” than those they were measured against, Raine said.

Specifically, liars had a 25.7 percent increase in prefrontal white matter compared to the antisocial controls and a 22 percent increase compared to the normal controls. Liars had a 14.2 percent decrease in prefrontal gray matter compared to normal controls.

More white matter – the wiring in the brain – may provide liars with the tools necessary to master the complex art of deceit, Raine said.

“Lying takes a lot of effort,” he said.

“It’s almost mind reading. You have to be able to understand the mindset of the other person. You also have to suppress your emotions or regulate them because you don’t want to appear nervous. There’s quite a lot to do there. You’ve got to suppress the truth.

“Our argument is that the more networking there is in the prefrontal cortex, the more the person has an upper hand in lying. Their verbal skills are higher. They’ve almost got a natural advantage.”

But in normal people, it’s the gray matter – or the brain cells connected by the white matter – that helps keep the impulse to lie in check.

The fact this is a USC study on compulsive liars just tickles me in some strange places. Go take a look.

Oh, what the hell -

Oh, what the hell -

Oh, what the hell -

I'm blonde. Not stupid. Good grief -

I came home last week on my lunch hour to meet with a very nice man from a contracting company associated with the Gas Company here in California to see about replacing windows in our house.

Very nice. Had to skip out to go back to work because, well, I have to make a living and my lunch hour is over. Gotta run.

But were were given a quote - a little over $7,000, to replace 12 windows. Okay, I don't have that in the bank (without touching my 401K, of course) - so go ahead, see if you can finance it.

Just got off the phone.

The dirty bastards tried to write it as a second on my home mortgage. A $7,000 loan. They wanted a $500,000 house (I just got a comp yesterday for a smaller lot with a duplex on it for $612,000 down the street) as collateral for a $7,000 loan.

Okay. Livid now.

Told them to go back and get an unsecured (don't know how unsecured it can be, they can come back and take the windows, fer crissakes) loan - or forget it.

Boy, they can forget it. They can SO FORGET IT.

Getting with the bitey stabby death here. Big time

I'm blonde. Not stupid. Good grief -

I came home last week on my lunch hour to meet with a very nice man from a contracting company associated with the Gas Company here in California to see about replacing windows in our house.

Very nice. Had to skip out to go back to work because, well, I have to make a living and my lunch hour is over. Gotta run.

But were were given a quote - a little over $7,000, to replace 12 windows. Okay, I don't have that in the bank (without touching my 401K, of course) - so go ahead, see if you can finance it.

Just got off the phone.

The dirty bastards tried to write it as a second on my home mortgage. A $7,000 loan. They wanted a $500,000 house (I just got a comp yesterday for a smaller lot with a duplex on it for $612,000 down the street) as collateral for a $7,000 loan.

Okay. Livid now.

Told them to go back and get an unsecured (don't know how unsecured it can be, they can come back and take the windows, fer crissakes) loan - or forget it.

Boy, they can forget it. They can SO FORGET IT.

Getting with the bitey stabby death here. Big time

I'm blonde. Not stupid. Good grief -

I came home last week on my lunch hour to meet with a very nice man from a contracting company associated with the Gas Company here in California to see about replacing windows in our house.

Very nice. Had to skip out to go back to work because, well, I have to make a living and my lunch hour is over. Gotta run.

But were were given a quote - a little over $7,000, to replace 12 windows. Okay, I don't have that in the bank (without touching my 401K, of course) - so go ahead, see if you can finance it.

Just got off the phone.

The dirty bastards tried to write it as a second on my home mortgage. A $7,000 loan. They wanted a $500,000 house (I just got a comp yesterday for a smaller lot with a duplex on it for $612,000 down the street) as collateral for a $7,000 loan.

Okay. Livid now.

Told them to go back and get an unsecured (don't know how unsecured it can be, they can come back and take the windows, fer crissakes) loan - or forget it.

Boy, they can forget it. They can SO FORGET IT.

Getting with the bitey stabby death here. Big time