Admitting you have a problem

[amar]

…whaz rong bout alku.. algohooho.l…?



BELCH

[SirNick]

@NorCalMusician

Buying whistles to play music on is NOT a problem as long as you are not spending the rent money to do it. I am sure it is obvious, but there are dozens of other things one can do with their time of money that would be much less desirable:

Alcohol
Drugs
Prostitutes
Pornography
Gambling

These are just a couple I could come up with on the spur, but I think you get my drift.

That’s funny, gambling and alcohol are usually involved in my whistle purchases!!

[kevin_m]

At Last! SCIENTIFIC PROOF that WHOA is NOT our fault!
From 'New Scientist, 15 November 2003:

Steven Anderson of the University of Iowa and his team have studied a group of pathological collectors.
They found that damage to the frontal lobes of the brain impaired judgement and caused emotional disturbances.However,only when the injury extended to the right mesial prefrontal cortex,a tiny region of the Human prefrontal cortex,did the patients develop a serious collecting habit too.Anderson told a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans last November.
Previous work in Rodents (Whistling Rodents? k.m.)shows that more primitive.subcortical brain regions produce a drive to collect food or useless objects.No matter how much they had stashed away,animals will just go on collecting.Anderson maintains that we have the same basic drive;but the right mesial prefrontal cortex can normally discriminate between something of value and something useless,and keeps the drive in check.
When it is damaged,the more primitive collecting drive comes to the fore.

[SirNick]

@kevin m.

At Last! SCIENTIFIC PROOF that WHOA is NOT our fault!
From 'New Scientist, 15 November 2003:

Steven Anderson of the University of Iowa and his team have studied a group of pathological collectors.
They found that damage to the frontal lobes of the brain impaired judgement and caused emotional disturbances.However,only when the injury extended to the right mesial prefrontal cortex,a tiny region of the Human prefrontal cortex,did the patients develop a serious collecting habit too.Anderson told a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans last November.
Previous work in Rodents (Whistling Rodents? k.m.)shows that more primitive.subcortical brain regions produce a drive to collect food or useless objects.No matter how much they had stashed away,animals will just go on collecting.Anderson maintains that we have the same basic drive;but the right mesial prefrontal cortex can normally discriminate between something of value and something useless,and keeps the drive in check.
When it is damaged,the more primitive collecting drive comes to the fore.

Excellent! I’m going to print a copy of this for my wife and order some more whistles!!