‘Conflicted’ doesn’t even begin to describe

HYPERMENTALISED FEELINGS

GOT to hand it to some people, honestly speaking.

Read this Internet tosh:—

Why do I feel so much envy and pain when I hear about male students sleeping with their female teachers?

The amount of pain and envy I feel afterwards knows no bounds. I am so angry and frustrated that this didn’t happen to me, even though I know it would have been really harmful psychologically and the teacher having committed a despicable and immoral act. What are your theories on this?

Wut the eff did I just read?

Is doublethink actually possible?

LESSONS FROM REAL LIFE

IS doublethink as portrayed in George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four” actually possible?

You and I and everybody else practise doublethink every day without noticing.

In everyday life, we call it compartmentalisation.

Ming vase blue

HABITS

WHICH colour ink do I prefer to write in?

I absolutely prefer to write in blue.

The funny thing is many people say my handwriting looks wonderful in black, which is not my preference but I have nothing against it.

It’s blue, but looks too dark because of my potato-quality phone camera

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Americans make for a lonely lot

CULTURAL LITERACY

AMERICANS leave their parents’ house when they become adults. Even their divorce rates are relatively higher than anywhere else. Doesn’t that make Americans a lonely bunch?

(Smiles)

Well done for spotting this.

If anyone’s wondering…

4.16pm local time, 33°C (92°F), rel. hum. 66%, hot and muggy

Yes, I know. I last posted six months ago on Christmas Day 2016.

Conditions have not been ideal and my disposition has not been salutary, let’s put it that way for general convenience.

© The Naked Listener’s Weblog, 6 Jun 2017. (B17059)

Supermoon 2016

11.43pm local time, 25°C (77°F), rel. hum. 88%, warm and muggy

I’VE not gone missing but just went to the Moon, so I was out of cell range.

I was responsible for this:—