Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • HOMOPHOBIC CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS I’m from New England. English heritage. We’re ‘

    HOMOPHOBIC CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    I’m from New England. English heritage. We’re ‘huggy’. Still familial. And teasing is still part of our language.

    In business I pretty much hug everyone. Despite what people say about being uncomfortable, demonstrated approval both reduces people’s fear of you as ‘the boss’ and creates a more relaxed atmosphere.

    In every company I use and try to propagate this kind of affection. It works.

    So, here in Ukraine it’s just not OK. I hugged a guy yesterday and he said “this is making me uncomfortable”. I laughed. Said it was cultural.

    But you don’t see three drunk guys walking down the street with their arms around each other here.

    I like our way better. Men are men here. That’s true.

    But if you’re confident in your masculinity then you shouldn’t be offended by false threats to it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-08 05:47:00 UTC

  • What Do Foreigners Find Most Annoying About Americans?

    GENERAL NOTE ON AMERICAN IGNORANCE AND ANNOYANCE
    1) Our nationalism was intentionally created in order to fight the world wars, then to win the cold war against the plague of international communism. Americans are actually naturally insular.  THe problem is that we’re stuck with running this empire that we inherited from the brits, and the europeans won’t carry their own water.

    2)  Americans are wealthy enough so that even our ignorant lower classes can afford to travel. Like every other culture, our ignorant lower classes outnumber middle and upper middle classes.

    3) I think our ignorance is not the issue that’s so frustrating – the entire world has the same distribution of ignorance in their societies. But Americans have the highest measurable CONFIDENCE in the world (an intentional goal of our education system).  And its the combination of average ignorance and overstated confidence that’s so annoying.

    Heck. I find it annoying.  ;/

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-foreigners-find-most-annoying-about-Americans

  • ISN”T THE SCIENCE WE CLAIM IT TO BE: PEER REVIEW. (SIGH)

    http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6577844SCIENCE ISN”T THE SCIENCE WE CLAIM IT TO BE: PEER REVIEW. (SIGH)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-28 22:50:00 UTC

  • SILLINESS ORDERING FLIGHT TICKETS I want to give up my US passport someday. But,

    SILLINESS ORDERING FLIGHT TICKETS

    I want to give up my US passport someday.

    But, when buying tickets online, in the selection box for countries, there isn’t any choice for “The Land Of Milk And Honey”. So I have no where else to be from (unless the queen takes the monarchy private. 🙂

    One of the great things about brand identity, is that your employees, or in the cast of governments, have to live up to the brand promise, or face the wrath of consumers.

    No wonder it’s not a choice. No state could live up to the brand promise.

    Libertarianism: the constitution of land of milk and honey. 😉 lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-28 10:49:00 UTC

  • IN AN HEROIC MYTHOS… the loss of community participation caused by the state c

    IN AN HEROIC MYTHOS…

    the loss of community participation caused by the state conquest of previously voluntary institutions, and the loss of the nuclear family, and the lack of scarcity for labor caused by immigration has left the men in the middle without the vehicle for obtaining status signals.

    It is unlikely that without supporting access to status signals, these men will retain their affectation and pursuit of heroic signals in the face of futility.

    Instead they will adopt resignatory urban metrosexuality, mediterranean and middle eastern bravado, and technological entertainment escapism. Others will check out of society and simply live de minimus lives. Others will try, fail, become enslaved to child support, and perpetual poverty in their maturity.

    They will degenerate into this state until either the culture of abandonment becomes pervasive or they find some idea around which to organize.

    The dream is still sufficiently familiar that drop outs do not consider themselves a class with common interests and goals.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-26 15:34:00 UTC

  • OVERHEARD IN KIEV. “I don’t hit. I’m a woman. I don’t want to have scars on my h

    OVERHEARD IN KIEV.

    “I don’t hit. I’m a woman. I don’t want to have scars on my hands. I’throw things. Anything. Especially bottles.”

    WTH?

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-26 10:13:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : COFFEE FILTERS I can’t find paper coffee filters in the

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : COFFEE FILTERS

    I can’t find paper coffee filters in the coffee shops or the local grocery stores. It seems everyone I talk to just uses paper towels, if they have a drip machine. Even though most people seem to have espresso machines at home.

    Feels a little gauche when I use paper towels to make Nepalese dark roast in a Russell Hobbes coffee machine… lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-23 05:41:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/13/0956797612466415.abstracthttp://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/13/0956797612466415.abstract

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-20 14:04:00 UTC

  • RATES OF DEPRECIATION I write a great deal about this subject, but some pictures

    RATES OF DEPRECIATION

    I write a great deal about this subject, but some pictures do the subject greater justice.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-17 02:56:00 UTC

  • NO NEURONS TONIGHT Going to have to go kill zombies or aliens with a mouse ‘caus

    NO NEURONS TONIGHT

    Going to have to go kill zombies or aliens with a mouse ’cause there is nothing working between my ears tonight. 🙂

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-15 14:50:00 UTC