Interesting Links for 16-07-2012

[andrewducker]

• Forget teenagers, toddlers are the most terrifying creatures on Earth
  (tags: parenting children )
• 15 Rape Jokes That Work
  (tags: humour jokes funny rape )
• Coalition to unveil biggest investment in rail since Victorian era. But not until 2015. Can we not move faster?
  (tags: politics uk transport rail )
• MPs who repaid expenses got money back in secret deal
  (tags: money uk government expenses )
• The World’s Last Guinea Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication
  (tags: extinction worm disease )
• London 2012: 32 mile queue as first Games lane opens
  (tags: driving traffic roads london olympics )
• What Google Is
  (tags: viaNWhyte google technology )
• O2 handled the Twitter rage over their outage magnificently.
  (tags: twitter o2 socialnetworking mobile_phones )
• In the Current System, I’d Be Corrupt Too:An Interview with Bao Tong (one of China’s best-known political dissidents)
  (tags: politics china corruption )

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I find most people are far more like the description of the toddler than they'd ever probably realise... just some of us hide it a bit better, and develop a tad more cunning :-). Or maybe not, maybe I'm just biased, because I like the kind of people who have that kind of curiousity and love of life...

...probably because my own sensibleness/logic/controlfreakery often disconnects me from that and I need the reminders!

I'd also say that as a teenager I should probably have followed a path guided by what I loved rather than railroading myself so hard into a sensible one. I think I'd have been happier and actually achieved more. Easy to say, not so easy to do - at any age. Takes a shitload of proper courage.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I think the problem with toddlers is that they *can't* hide it - the toddler-brain just isn't wired to understand logic like "do X now and you can have Y later" or "do X now to avoid Z later". Most adults can at least manage to channel their selfish desires through more than one step.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

true. we just get better at trying to get what we want. Emotionally it feels just the same....