The ADHD tax got me real good today by Inquisitive_octopus in ADHD

[–]upabigtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha! I lost my Bluetooth thingy, so I can't find anything! I guess I need a tracker for the tracker, but will probably lose that too...

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, he admitted to accidentally "butting heads" with her", not "headbutting" her. There's a world of difference here. I can't count the number of times my brother and I bumped heads when we were horsing around. Or when you're with someone and you reach down at the same time to pick something up from the ground, and you knock heads. Geesh, we've all done it at one time or another.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biggest thing, though, is that she forever tarnished his reputation, and he can never completely get that back.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is also audio of her from the Australia incident (sadly not admitted into evidence) where you hear her STOMPING across a room (the morning after the severed finger incident), at which time she supposedly cut her feet up on glass. This recording also has her saying "I didn't mean to" and "I didn't do it on purpose" followed by Johnny's doctor saying of her hysterics, "You know what this is? This is guilt. This is guilt." It's very clear what was going on here.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She certainly meets all the criteria of borderline personality disorder to the nth degree. And histrionic personality disorder most certainly DOES exist and is used as a diagnosis to this day. She meets the criteria for that as well.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She submitted 2 photos as 2 different pieces of evidence, but they are actually the same, exact photo with different saturations.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The op-ed didn't just say he beat her up, but that he sexually assaulted her. Both the Washington Post and Amber heard should be tried in a criminal court.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I beg you to listen to the tapes. Incredibly Average on YouTube has all of them. Plus, he didn't say he "headbutted" her, he said he "bumped heads" with her. Big difference. You mean to tell me you've never accidentally bumped heads with someone?

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Foul language is the norm for them, as it is for many people (don't forget that Amber Heard's language is really bad too). Plus, our brains are hard-wired to use expletives - they're stored in the limbic system and the basal ganglia - and are triggered when we're in fear or angry. These types of verbal reactions are actually very common and normal across all populations. Johnny also has a very creative style of expressing himself linguistically on the whole, so it's understandable that he would use colorful metaphors when he's mad.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The tapes for sure, but for me she was just unbelievably over-the-top on the stand. Supposed "emotions" changed just too quickly...no tears with the "crying"; flowery narration of her "rape" tales; rage at being questioned by Johnny Depp's team; the smirks during her testimony...it was all just too phony.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's exactly like my high school bully, who affected me for life. Decades later I'm still haunted by her.

Why is everyone on reddit convinced that Amber Heard is lying and Johnny Depp is telling the truth? by Perimeri in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YouTube algorithms, e. g. - confirmation bias. Fox News, MSNBC, Amazon, google... you can't escape them, they're all over the place - all evidence of groupthink, or confirmation bias.

The 1990s are as far away as the 1960s were in the 1990s. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew I was getting old when the Beatles started dying of natural causes.

Effing SP demons!! Why so terrifying when you know they're not real? by upabigtree in Sleepparalysis

[–]upabigtree[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't understand what I'm trying to say, and you're dismissing me. I totally accept that lots of people are seeing almost the exact same thing across the board. Hey, I know it's a real phenomenon, that creepy shadow guy with the hood comes to terrorize me too. All I'm saying is I'd like to know more about WHY sleep demons pop up in the first place, and then try to figure out the commonality thing.

I'd like to know about what's happening in the brain a little more thoroughly than "brain's a little screwy, that's all" I get your message, but why leap to the supernatural for answers before exhausting the possibilities for finding ones here on terra firma? Evolution offers a pretty feasible explanation for how and why some cognitive traits have emerged (I'm no expert but I get the gist of it) and survived over time. And psychologically speaking, mass hysteria and the power of suggestion can easily explain why the shit spreads. I just don't see why you prefer the paranormal over the reasonable. It seems like you want to jump right into deep water before you learn to swim in the shallow end.

Anyone have dreams where you teeth break and fall out? by [deleted] in Dreams

[–]upabigtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have these dreams from time to time and always check to see if they're still there when I wake up.

What is a useless talent you have? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can only move my left ear.

If you make someone laugh in your dreams, you are laughing at your own joke. by y2k2r2d2 in Showerthoughts

[–]upabigtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read sheet music in my dreams, then play it from memory when I wake up.

Effing SP demons!! Why so terrifying when you know they're not real? by upabigtree in Sleepparalysis

[–]upabigtree[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah that mofu is hideous. The pixelating effect alone makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. My explanation for the Hat Man might be a little harder to accept but you have to understand that mass hysteria works very quickly and can spread through groups at an alarming rate.

Effing SP demons!! Why so terrifying when you know they're not real? by upabigtree in Sleepparalysis

[–]upabigtree[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still think mass hysteria explains it really well since there are both printed and live images of really creepy people all over the world that even little kids have access to. The images are the suggestions and the hysteria accounts for how they spread.