Wings Over Scotland

What’s hilarious is that since Bitcoin’s new expert came out in support of it, it has dropped from almost 19,000 USD to about 12,500 USD at the back of 6 a.m. this morning.

Of course, things like Bitcoin just increase in popularity…

link to en.wikipedia.org

Oh,wait.

The chap that was selling Chuck E Cheese tokens as Bitcoins gaining considerable sums of fish before being entertained by the forces of law and order suggests to me that the general public are not quite ready for virtual cash.

No issue with veggies, I increasingly lean that way myself. But I am fairly sure chickens are off.

I not give her any publicity, even bad publicity.

It’s actually hilarious how full of shite she is.

Herald pages for the next week I guess.
Having said that she is no worse than the avarage herald journalist
Has anyone heard any amount of bbc reporting of Catelonia
Total silence last night and I had to get onto their European section to find d anything
They trying to keep it quiet
Must call Kaye to ask
Ha ha

Roaster!

Happy Christmas everyone.

The Moanin’ wan is to be ignored.

I was clearing out stuff ready for the influx of more stuff and found this little ditty ‘what I wrote’,

Hey diddle diddle
MP’s on the fiddle
Nicking your money and mine.
They don’t give a stuff
Ain’t getting enough
Of that subsidised food and fine wine!

Merry Christmas one and all and I look forward to a surge of good natured,independent activity in 2018.

A very merry Catalan Christmas!

BREAKING from Pravda Quay
with Jackie Kim Ono

link to imgur.com

Congratulations to Michelle Mone on embracing vegetarianism, even temporarily. She’s still a shitebag though.

Glad she is around, a heads up that informs me what not to invest in, admittedly that does seem to be her intention.

I see the witchfinder journalist is out and about again in the Herald, he is outing all that bear the mark of a separatist.

What a total waste of paper, giving space to someone so thoroughly underserving of it, who really should have no authority on any matter of importance at all.

Being vegetarian is a choice, and a good one, if you eat meat, make sure it is from small farms, and had outside space, and fed a good diet. You can buy really good organic eggs totally free range from wholefood shops, and fab ones from the city farm. Organic dairy, not big chain stores’ ‘organic’, is best by far.

Don’t buy wool unless you know it’s local, watched a film about shearing (tearing) sheep in asia other day, the cruelty and actual violence used on the poor sheep is just horrendous. They are beaten, torn by the shears, stamped on, kicked, thrown against walls etc.
Breaks your heart to watch, but it’s real and it’s happening now.

Back to Mone, she is a self serving trougher, whose voice is loud and inane. So many talented people out there, but the right wing digusting media ignore those people, maybe they don’t have big tits to show off or something, Get lost right wing rags.

How dare you poke fun at the Baroness. Unlike you, she has realised that this is a fake vegetarian turkey. Her business history has provided her with unrivalled experience in such matters.
Push-up bras, fake tans, slimming pills, imitation jewellery, business tzarship, and now crypto currency. If she can’t identify a fake vegetarian turkey, no-one can.
You should humbly apologise to Baroness Mone forthwith.

O/T

BBC NEWS ……. Rajoy agreeing to speak to Puigdemont.

The News

I must admit in my defence that i don’t really know a lot about this woman, i do remember Rod Stewart and his wife falling out with her when she did the dirty on Rod’s wife with that modelling thing
Anyway, my take on a person like her is this, ….. they are never satisfied, allways striving to make more money than they will ever need, its a pretty sad existence when you think of it, measuring your worth in money terms and thinking your more important than you really are, i remember the great Peter Cook was on a show with Zsa Zsa Gabor, he had been interviewed by the host, then Zsa Zsa came on, and the host fawned all over her, then he turned to Peter and said, what do you think of Zsa Zsa Peter, and peter replied without a second’s thought, she’s vain, i think he would have put a wee sweary word in there, but it was live on the BBC…. lol

Really Rev did you hivtae its no if its ah slow news day, leave the Moaning one tae drone on an on .

She’s almost enough to turn me back into a carnivore. Is she really saying eating poultry is vegetarian? I’d have thought, in her case, it was cannibalism.

Bloody vegetarian, post-structuralist, entrepreneurial peers of the realm. Next thing you know, she’ll be supporting ableism, feminism, LGBTQ rights and other tenets of socialist thought, such as human emancipation. Oh…

Ethics and Personality: Empathy and Narcissism as Moderators of Ethical Decision Making in Business Students

Abstract

Many studies have reported that business students have been more apt to act in self-interested ways when compared to their counterparts in other academic fields. Beginning with the premise that ethical behavior derives in part from personality characteristics, the authors tested whether (a) measures of an empathetic or narcissistic personality predicted self-reported ethical decision making in business students and (b) individual business majors have a tendency to exhibit these personality traits. First, findings demonstrate that empathetic and narcissistic personality traits are significant predictors of ethical decision making. Second, they found that finance majors showed a marked and statistically significant tendency to be less empathetic and more narcissistic as compared to other business students.

link to tandfonline.com

Seriously though folks, the Establishment thrives on grooming narcissistic fuckwits.

Organizational Narcissism and Virtuous Behavior

Abstract

Extreme narcissistic organizations are unable to behave ethically because they lack a moral identity. While such organizations are not necessarily unethical intentionally, they become self-obsessed and use a sense of entitlement, self-aggrandizement, denial, and rationalizations to justify anything they do. Extreme narcissistic organizations might develop formal ethics programs, but such programs will have little effect on behavior.

link to jstor.org

Why We Might Feel Lonely Around Narcissism
Research links lack of emotional empathy with identity instability.

….Empathy comes in two flavors: cognitive and emotional. Of course, cognitive and emotional empathy can work together, but they can co-exist separately as well. It turns out that the balance of empathy may be connected with how narcissistic one’s personality is. While more narcissistic people can be entertaining and often great fun to spend time with, their inability to pay attention to other people’s needs can make it feel lonely to be around them even when we’re not alone.

In literature reviewed by Di Pierro et al. (2017), who conducted a recent research study discussed below, the authors note that early on in the field, the relationship between empathy and narcissism was not very clear. There was consensus from clinical and diagnostic theories that narcissism was associated with reduced empathy, leading to intrapsychic and interpersonal problems, but findings were mixed with regard to what kind of empathy, if there were any differentiation. Subsequent research arguably began to detect a pattern: In general, narcissism is associated with greater cognitive empathy, but reduced emotional empathy….

link to psychologytoday.com

I’m Number One! Does Narcissism Impair Ethical Judgment Even for the Highly Religious?

Abstract

Can an assessment of individuals’ narcissism help explain the quality of a respondent’s ethical judgment? How is the relationship between religiosity and ethical judgment moderated by the effects of narcissism? With a sample of 385 undergraduate business majors, this study uses a taxonomic approach to examine the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity as well as orthodox Christian beliefs on ethical judgment. Three distinct clusters were identified: Skeptics, Nominals, and Devouts. Surprisingly, of the three clusters, Nominals and Devouts were the only groups impacted by narcissism, although Skeptics overall demonstrate the worst ethical judgment.

link to link.springer.com

Absolute rocket.

With apologies and acknowledgements:

Michelle

Michelle, ain’t belle
These are words that go together well
‘Bye Michelle

We hate you, we hate you, we hate you
That’s all we want to say
Until we find a way
We’ll say the only words we know that
You’ll understand

We need to, We need to, We need to
We need to make you see
Oh, what you mean to us
Until we do we’re hoping you will
Know what we mean

We hate you

We want you gone, gone, gone
We think you know by now
We’ll get to you somehow
Until we do we’re telling you so
You’ll understand

We’ll say the only words we know
That you’ll understand: ‘Bye Michelle

@ mogabee – I’ve heard the cows calling anxiously, for days, for their calves who have been taken away from them for the convenience of the dairy and meat industry.
The Tories say that animals are not sentient beings. But I know that they are.
Add to that the hormones and antibiotics which seep into the milk and meat fed to humans.
It’s a personal choice but at least we owe it to ourselves to be informed.
Even so, I can’t watch the films of conditions under which pigs and chickens are kept. Factory farms should be banned.
One thing I can do – refuse to finance the industry by buying their products. Ticks a lot of boxes for me, I.e health, environment and animal welfare.
Arable farms are the beneficiaries.

Yet more news of a Bitcoin heist too, it doesn’t look too secure if script kiddies can come along and steal your stash. Also there is nothing akin to a bank guarantee in Bitcoin.

When a tealeaf lifted my wife’s cards just before Xmas about 15 years ago leaving us almost penniless for a period we got all the money back, eventually.

The blockchain was supposed to be utterly traceable and secure, but it obviously isn’t. The billionaire twins who sued Zuck over Facebook and have billions in bitcoin keep their blockchain numbers on paper cut into bits and stored in different safety deposit boxes in different banks. You have to be a savant to memorise it as it is too long.

link to independent.co.uk

The thing about rollercoasters is you might get your dinner back, but they don’t refund the ticket price.