I said to my shrink the other day "One minute I feel like a Teepee, the next a Wigwam". "You are too tense" he replied.
Were you prescribed anything to get rid of your tension, or did you just have some rest and relax more?
This fella walks into a psychiatrists office, naked but completely wrapped in cling film. The doctor takes one look at him and says, "I can clearly see your nuts."
Shrink, Quack such enduring terms for a psychiatrist. Why would anyone want to be one?? That job would finish me off. I've tried phoning The Samaritans but they keep hanging up on me.
In that case they would just ignore the phone and not pick it up and hang up. But you're new on here so I shall let it pass this once.
I always find it easier to lift up the phone and put it straight back down again, as opposed to listening to it ringing for ages, so I would have to disagree with you on this one buddy.
Now the Chinese are at it: A Harvard study led some Chinese people to declare they were "black and proud." The study made headlines all over the world. Researchers at Harvard, led by Dr Alexandra Kimball, found that a lucky few people have a genetic makeup which protects their skin and can make them look years younger than their actual age. Although the research went beyond skin colour, one interesting side note of the study, not yet published but just presented at the World Congress of Dermatology in Canada, is that black people are twice as likely as white people to have the genetic combination for youthful skin. The study prompted discussion across social media. But, perhaps surprisingly to outsiders, it seemed to strike the strongest chord in China - because of the fact that pale skin has been traditionally associated with beauty. The discussion online there was huge: more than four million more were reading about the study on popular accounts and thousands were discussing the study on China's Twitter-like microblogging service Weibo, In a culture where darker skin has associations of inferiority, and people go as far as wearing face masks on the beach to avoid getting tanned, some darker skinned Chinese people felt emboldened by the study. One user, Jian Xian Ano said: "I am black and I'm proud." Others said paler skin would still be valued more in China, even if there's more chance of looking older. "In China, however, white skin is still regarded as beautiful," said user Track-08, a comment that was liked more than 200 times. Several made the point that the study didn't include a break down by racial groups, but merely a comparison between black and white Americans: "They're talking about black people, not dark skinned Asians," says Only Becca Muyou Re. A few commenters replied with crude racial stereotypes, but there was some push back against traditional idea that paleness equals beauty, and vice versa. Jasmine Jing said: "People who are born white are white, born black are black, born with beautiful features are beautiful. People born with beautiful features are not necessarily white." The conversation didn't dwell too hard on the science - much of the chatter was about comparing the skin tone of Western and Chinese celebrities. Notions of beauty are subject to change, of course, and in some Chinese cities, tanning salons are already starting to take off.
Some (but not all) natives of a land mass, not very far from Britain, in the Atlantic Ocean quite like to compare their troubles and bad treatment to that of black people but I'm buggered if i can remember the name of said land mass now.
