One of the most ridiculous things people do

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I find it ridiculous when people, not just NTs, Contradict themselves. It is like the articles about how you shouldn't use social media because it's bad for your health, and the publisher posts it on their twitter.
It seems like the thing humans are best at is self-contradiction.

Just wanted to say that.

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Yeah, it can be very annoying when people contradict themselves.

A radical educator in the Seventies proposed a "bookless curriculum" for teaching highschool kids. And outlined that idea in....a book...he wrote, and published.

A young man from India came onto wrongplanet a few years ago and demanded that "industrial civilization must end", and among his complaints was the "insanity of the Internet".

He demands the downfall of industry and of the internet...ON the Internet.

In a way those are both contradictions, but in a way not.

One thing that really gets me going is parents who go ballistic at their children for swearing and using the f word and other obscene words to tell them off and who swear themselves. Of course their children will swaer. They copy their parents examples. If the parents refrain themselves from swearing then the children will learn by their example and decide not to swear.
Here in the UK in my area the F word was almost unheard of until the mid to late 1980's when it was heard on TV in American films. Within 5 to ten years if became so common it was rare here not to hear it in a conversation. People copy other people. I maybe an exception as I don't swear. It is an insult to intelligence. I may not be incredibly intelligent, but at least by controlling what I say I can appear to be!

Looking back, I was a child in the 1970's to '80's, and I never heard the F word until around the midle part of the 1980's. I remember coming home from secondary school and asking my parents what it meant! Was usually my parents... They were funny. Mum would go red with embarissment and say "Ask your Father" and Dad would go red and say "Ask your Mother" and usually that's as far as it went. Haha. Well. I was always hearing new words and not knowing what they mean, but when I had the ask your father/ask your mother type of thing I wrote those words off as being swear words!

That's why the phrase 'I'm a walking contradiction' is relatively popular when people refer to themselves. I know I am. Walking and sitting. Since you usually are not walking when using social media.

One of the most ridiculous things human beings do is that they exist.

Things like Y2K, the Mayan Calendar and zombies make the whole world become hysterical, but mention climate change and they just laugh at you, call you disgusting names, send death threats...

Celebrities begging ordinary people to donate to charities when they're the ones with millions of dollars.

Saying they'd rather let their infants die and go to heaven to be with the lord and bla bla bla than have their bodies pumped up full of those horrible, autism-causing, worse than cancer vaccines.

Saying that fermented cabbage juice and sea salt and aged urine are safe "cures" because they're natural. So why aren't they eating destroying angel mushroom while rubbing poison ivy juice all over their bodies?

Saying fast food places and video games should be banned but not having any problem with bars or casinos where the alcoholics and gambling addicts go to ruin their lives.

Being in denial that alcohol is a drug, just like heroine and meth and cocaine are all drugs.

Blaming victims of bullying, rape, and hate crimes for the incident while the pieces of human garbage who committed such horrors escape karma over and over again.

The current world leaders all being completely blithering idiots, and none of us are in a position or power to do anything about it.

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When I die, I want to be buried face-down so that the entire human race can kiss my cold dead ass.

I don't believe in karma, at least, not in this life. It's the opposite, if anything. It makes bad people feel validated though, I'm sure 'XYZ deserved it'

Contradictions are everywhere and it irks me sometimes.

People on WP: Autism functioning levels don't exist
Also people on WP: [Thread named "why wasn't I diagnosed until now?"] If you're mild or high-functioning you're less likely to be recognised as much....
....hang on a minute - I thought no autistics are mild, severe, low-functioning, high-functioning, moderate, etc?

Some information on owning pet rats: If you give your rats a piece of banana, only feed them green bananas
Some other information on owning pet rats: If you give your rats a piece of banana make sure it's yellow, not green
....how can I keep my little rats healthy if everything is contradicted? Which is right?

I wonder if information for new parents on caring for their first baby contradicts itself too? Contradictions makes life so much harder. So I usually just go by common sense and hope for the best.

Thanks for the first paragraph. There's more to it from both points of view and valid points either way because of the nature of ASD with circumstances forming a large component but thanks for saying that

It really puzzled me why people would travel in large groups for hours on the trains I was working, to a well known scenic seaside holiday town, and they went straight for the pub. They did not even see the sea. There were beaches, a castle. Lots of touristy shops. Nope. They stayed in the pub for hours before heading back to the station.
So I asked them why not save a lot of money and time and just go to the next stop because there were a few pubs there. They looked at me daft. "Why do we want to do that?" I said "You mean you have already been there?"
"No. We haven't".
So I asked what was so special about the pub in the place they went to. Did it have difderent beer or different drinks? "No. Same beer and same drinks".
"Then why go?"
The only sensible reply I had was from one person who said "Different colour wallpaper".

Their yearly holiday to the different pub really confuses me why they travel so far. They have all those things to se and visit and yet they don't even look? It is confusing!

^Wow but that's dumb to travel all the way to the seaside just to spend all the time in a pub. They might just as well have gone to a shopping mall as they're also essentially the same. Some people are really weird that way. Non-NTs usually make more sense because we want to know things and are curious about the fascinating world around us.

I would get the same large groups each summer. They did not tell the train company that they were coming (We are talking around 45 people a time or more on occasions) and they would ask why the trains were so crowded! We had the peak time summer holiday people at the same time who did go to see the beach and area.

Talking about crowded trains. I never forget a Wales verses someone else (I think it was England or France or someone (Five nations... Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland and France, so it would be one of them) Rugby match in Cardiff. Something had happened where the TV film crew who were supposed to be filming it decided to cover the other event instead. The other event was not really important to our life, but was some event which was socially attractive.
Now because the TV filmcrew could not cover the rugby match, they cancelled thw match and put it on about a week or two weeks later. They let 80,000+ people down who had bought tickets to watch the match as many of them had taken the day off work to travel up to Cardiff and were then dissapointed and had to come back.
But as extra trains to cater for such big events (For some reson about two times this number of people or more travel up to Cardiff during such an event as for every one person in the stadium (I was told it will hold up to 90,000 people which is a huge amount of people to fit in the stadium)) take a few months to arrange. It is common to have long motorway traffic jams during the event, and the main roads have to be closed through Cardiff to cater for the huge crowds of people who go there.
Now consider how many people go up there where every pub which has a big screen TV (They know when they are onto a good thing!) is crowded to the point that people are trying to watch from looking through the pub windows...
You can imagine why we were soo puzzled why the event was cancelled just because the one TV company could not be there to film it. To me, the TV company should have hired the film crew from another TV company as there were others availble and they could pay them for the day so everyone would be happy. The origional TV company could then do both, and all the Rugby fans who made sacrifices to get a day off on a saturday (Not easy to get when many rugby fans work at the same workplace).
Now this new date set, the train companies simply did not have enough time to hire extra trains and extra staff (Or arrange overtime to cater for it etc), so they didn't cater for it. How could they?
I worked trains on that day and I had a brief glimpse of the queues down the main long street down from the station in the city of Swansea and they were wide coming out into the road and as far as the eye could see. I was told the queue was over a mile long by the few who could squeeze on my train.
People were complaining to me about why extra trains were not provided. I told them straight what had happened. I told them to blame the TV company who wanted to monopolize the event and had left them without transport. I told them it takes months of planning to arrange for extra trains. I told them how many of the extra trains had been run without passengers the few weeks before so the train companies had lost out in huge amouts of revenue as hiring extra trains and staff was very expensive. I told them it was all because the TV company would not hire a filmcrew from another company (I know one filmcrew from one local TV company was available and they were professional at their jobs). I told them straight where the blame was. On that day the traffic queues into Cardiff on the motorway (Let alone the roads from the motorway into Cardiff) were soo crowded that there were hour long traffic jams for the non rugby traffic passing through to try to negotiate as due to their being no extra trains, many people tried to go by road.

It was crazy. Why didn't they hold the rugby match without filming it or ask people to film it on their phones and give them the money the TV people were going to get for filming it as a reward.
Now I did not like working crowded trains and I am not into rugby, but I soo much sympathsed with the fans. They were really let down and the sheer cheek of the TV people who blamed the railway for not being able to cater for the fans. The fans were blaming the train companies!

I so agree with you! I quit drinking alcohol and it has made travelling so much better because I have no interest in going to bars in far off lands!

I think NTs do that because they feel they can "let go" when they get drunk away from home.