Commenter who goes by the pseudonames World Mustache Champion, Jorge Videla, Robert Mugabe etc wrote:
there’s only one horror movie worth watching.
all others are shit for prole retards.
of course 2001 and Dr Strangelove and Apocalypse Now might be classed as horrors by some…but i wouldn’t.
it was nominated for best picture before i was born.
it was re-released a few years ago (in theatres) and i went to see it.
that was The Exorcist.
peepee needs an exorcism.
the same director made the best picture winner The French Connection…a movie i hated when i was younger but loved when i was older
An excellent short clone of The Exorcist is Tales from the Darkside Season 2 Episode 9 The Trouble with Mary Jane:
It is true that the The Exorcist is one of the horror films that appeals to the higher social classes (though not exclusively so). Other relatively higher class horror includes:
Frankenstein (1931)
Psycho (1960)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Carrie (1976)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Halloween (1978)
The Shining (1980)
Creepshow (1982)
Beloved (1998)
The Dark Hours (2005): I personally crowned this the greatest Canadian horror film of all time.
Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
The Strangers (2008)
Pumpkin Person 
I saw the Shining for the first time recently. I liked the actors (especially Jack Nicholson) but it wasn’t scary at all.
I think a lot of “high class” horror lacks in both the scary and gruesome department (especially in the gruesome department, gruesome is really low-class). I remember watching the Ring when I was 12 or 13 and being thoroughly underwhelmed, even though people were hailing it as the start of a new wave of “subtle and thoughtful” horror films. I remember laughing at a few parts, like when the horse fell of the ship when the mother was going somewhere off the coast of Washington State (the details are vague now since I haven’t seen it a long time).
The inimitable and genius economist Robin Hanson has written a few posts lately on how media preferences reflect deep and highly genetic aspects of ourselves. More cerebral types seem to avoid horror altogether. On the flipside, though, horror seems to be mostly created by the more intelligent races (whites, and to a lesser extent Asians). I wonder why?
You should also add The Birds to your list of highly class horror. Just saw that recently too.
Anyhow, Happy Halloween Pumpkin!
when i did my research on demographic correlates of IQ, media preferences was a fairly strong independent cognitive predictor
But it was hard to rank media preferences on a unidemsional scale given how much diversity there is
I’d love to read the research you’re referencing
And happy halloween to you too
I’ll probably go out & get drunk tonight. Don’t feel like it but its halloween so i must celebrate
And yes, the birds is high class
He’s written several posts about this:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/10/media-genre-more-basic-than-politics-or-personality.html
Research shows that political and media interests show more stability over time than personality traits, which are pretty stable themselves. He also argues pleiotropic genes influence personality/media preferences/political preferences, and personality is not the cause of the other factors.
to rephrase, personality per se doesn’t cause media/political preferences but they tend to correlate, giving the impression of such…
Interest in classical music is the single best predictor of a triple-digit IQ according to Linda Gottfredson:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/03/music-signals-status.html
I wonder if that’s a causal connection of high IQ -> interest in classical music, or just a correlation.
Interest in classical music is the single best predictor of a triple-digit IQ according to Linda Gottfredson:
Well of course an IQ test would be the “single best predictor”; I meant among media preferences.
How’s this for horror?
https://pumpkinperson.com/2014/10/03/pumpkin-person-is-getting-trashed/#comments
A year ago, Jorge admitted to drinking 375ml of vodka per day. His posts were neutral to pleasant to read, and he only posted 4 comments in the thread. Compare to today, where he posts 20+ unpleasant comments per thread regularly. Makes you wonder about the long term effects of daily binge drinking.
except Jorge never admitted to drinking vodka in any quantity you fucking fucktarded fucktard.
why?
because I DON’T drink vodka. EVER!
vodka is for prole retards.
and I’ve never been a binge drinker. when I drink I don’t get drunk.
the long term effects of heavy drinking vary enormously, but whatever they may be for some people the effects are like those of smoking in that “long term” means DECADES, not years.
and though I’ve been drinking almost every day for the last 18 years, it’s only in the last TWO years that I might have been described as a heavy drinker.
and unlike other heavy drinkers I eat well and take megadoses of thiamine and folic acid.
paradoxically perhaps the biggest threat to the health of very heavy drinkers is a heart attack.
stick that in your butt and set it on fire.
I drink vodka occasionally.
They sale a brand called “Taaka” where I live. It tastes like gasoline but it’s only $12 for 1750 ml, so it’s pretty much the cheapest brand in existence. And if you mix it with something, it’s not too bad at all. It’ll get you drunk fairly quickly, that’s for sure 🙂
If Jorge really drinks half a fifth in a day (375 ml), and if he does it regularly, I’m scared for him. Although I’ve done half that amount once with few side-effects. Luckily I don’t get hangovers, and if I drink a lot, I tend to space it out over several hours. But I think generally, drinking 375 ml daily is a sign of a problem.
Vodka is probably the worst alcohol you can drink. Since the proof is so high (80-100), you’ll get drunk fast, plus it has relatively little odor and taste compared to other strong alcohols, so some might tend to drink too much of it. Russian men tend to drink it a lot, and they have an average age of death in the 50s (of course, you can’t say if that’s causation of correlation; probably just the latter).
*causation or correlation
LOL, I have no idea if this is true or not. Scary…
Pumpkin, is this guy coming from the same IP address as the Dictator Persona Guy?
Pumpkin should swing by and perform some redactions…
Pumpkin should swing by and perform some redactions…
I was busy laughing too hard…but yes I’ll start redacting them now.
what’s happened in the last 40 years in america-stan and canuckistan too…
the sub-human have outbred the human to such an extent that the human can’t “adapt” in the same way a human infant can’t be raised by chimps.
that is, proximally and for the most part, the present day american elite is the trash of 40 years ago. the former herrenvolk can only run from the herd of sheeple, it can’t shepherd them. all contemporary would be cowboys have been gored or trampled by the cows.
peepee is a great example…
of a human – shit hybrid.
the Lords was and the lords were right. give the proles an inch and they’ll be 100 times worse than the lords they replaced.
not an insight of mine.
my dick is bigger than average…
even for a black guy.
so was my dad’s and so is my brother’s.
but niggas can’t think of anything except sex.
dass why dey all in prison.
VODKA means two different things at least.
when Russians and other Slavs refer to vodka they mean something other than what americans mean.
if it’s labeled vodka in the US it must be alcohol and water and almost nothing else BY LAW.
that’s why only proles drink it. even if it’s Grey Goose or Absolut…it’s just alcohol and water.
gin is just flavored vodka, but I do drink G&Ts.
the Eastern European vodka is to American vodka what Brazil’s cachaca is to American rum. it will FUCK YOU UP. because it’s got longer chain alcohols in it and other toxic “congeners”.
it takes a whole bottle…750 mL 40% abv to give me a hangover…suggesting that my own GENETICS make me fairly resistant to the damaging effects…though I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve consumed so much in a 24 h period.
i can still stand on my non-dominant leg with my eyes closed for…for ever.
’cause dick size is GENETIC.
DUHHHHHHHHHHH!
cause dick size is GENETIC.
Genetic doesn’t mean everyone in the family necessarily has a big dick you idiot.
what’s happened in the last 40 years in america-stan and canuckistan too…
the sub-human have outbred the human to such an extent that the human can’t “adapt” in the same way a human infant can’t be raised by chimps.
Says the guy who denies HBD.
peepee is a great example…
of a human – shit hybrid.
But norms of reaction remember? I’m only a human-shit hybrid when I enter your shitty environment. In the environment suited to me, I’m a human-gold hybrid.
And aren’t you forgetting about your moronic reaction norms theory? Your family only has bigger dicks than the average black guys you size up in locker rooms because you all were born in America. Had your family and those same black guys been born in Africa, they’d all have bigger dicks than you and your family do.
yeah it does.
’cause it’s GENETIC.
DRRRR!
my bro’s stage name is Johnny Sins.
I don’t deny sheeple-fication.
But I do deny that one race is any more or less sheeple-fied than another.
It’s just that industrialization and the post-scarcity preening economy and the jew media’s dumbing down of the population has FAVORED…
SHEEPLE.
THAT’S NORMS OF REACTION…
OVER TIME.
part of social intelligence is knowing when people mean it and when they don’t peepee, and when they both mean it and don’t mean it or neither mean it nor don’t mean it at the same time.
no tick ‘r treaters this year…fucking mormons.
and peepee-tard…
i have also always maintained that physical traits and soi disant “psychological traits” and FUNDAMENTALLY different in human beings.
it’s not even clear to me that there’s any such thing as a “psychological trait”.
i have said this many many many…throw up…many times.
BUT I HAVE ALSO SAID THAT IT IS A COGNITIVE BIAS OF HUMANS IN GENERAL, BUT ESPECIALLY OF STUPID HUMANS (STEVE SHOE FOR EXAMPLE) TO ASSUME THAT EVERY NOUN REFERS TO A THING AND EVEN MORE THAT THE THING TO WHICH IT REFERS IS ALWAYS THE SAME SORT OF THING BOTH EPISTEMICALLY AND ONTOLOGICALLY.
…traits” are FUNDAMENTALLY…
part of social intelligence is knowing when people mean it and when they don’t peepee, and when they both mean it and don’t mean it or neither mean it nor don’t mean it at the same time.
Yes, that’s very convenient isn’t it? So you’re allowed the luxury of nuance but HBDers are not…typical.
As for your reaction norm claims, can you think of some traits other than allegedly IQ, for which group A ranks higher than group B in environment X, but group B ranks higher than group A in environment Y?
i have also always maintained that physical traits and soi disant “psychological traits” and FUNDAMENTALLY different in human beings.
But there are physiological traits that correlate strongly with IQ (chronometrics) so this mind-body distinction you’re making would have you laughed out of the room as a dualist
no peepee.
i don’t deny that big-headed people tend to be smarter than small-headed people.
but when you combine two correlations the resulting correlation may be quite small.
that is, if you combine heritability of head size or brain volume with the correlation between these and IQ, the resulting heritability of IQ could still be 0.
http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/5747/if-a-and-b-are-correlated-with-c-why-are-a-and-b-not-necessarily-correlated
Hey Pumpkin,
Have you ever seen A Serbian Film? It used to be on Youtube.
Talk about brutal! That movie is neither prole or high-class; it’s pretty much beyond classification!
No. never seen it
Where is santamuerte???
”- Scherrrrman, is you???”
Funny. 4 years before Tarkovsky
The original Village of the Damned is pretty classy too, though pretty mild compared to the creature features.
Why have my comments been held up in moderation all week? I was just trying to complement your recent post on height and basketball success.
Your comment was fantastic, but due to technical changes I’ve made to my blog, it’s stuck in moderation with a lot of other comments (especially those coming out of Europe)
Jorge,
You mentioned once that you consulted a professional on depression. Did you find a way to overcome it? I haven’t, despite having tried damn near everything for about 15 years. Well, everything except for drinking, which isn’t compatible with my constitution.
I only went out of curiosity. I thought a pill might change my perspective. It didn’t.
Depression and anxiety especially, but all psychiatric “disorders”, are social in origin, but changing the world or one’s own situation in it is much harder than just taking a pill.
The same goes for drug addiction and alcoholism. They are ways of coping and not diseases in themselves. It’s reality that sucks. When people have good reasons to give up their addictions…they do.
The heritability of psychiatric conditions is greatly exaggerated. And even if they were heritable, they would be heritable in the same sense that obesity or high blood pressure is heritable. That is, what’s really heritable is a greater sensitivity to a toxic environment.
Psychiatry is 90% ideology, 10% medicine.
There are lots of anti-depressants, and they can be prescribed for sleep or chronic pain too. It could be none will work, but you’d have to try a lot of them to know.
In my own case there’s only one thing that’s made me depressed…really depressed. Girls. It’s a weakness I’m ashamed of.
that reminds me. anti-depressants are sometimes effective for one and ineffective for another…
norms of reaction.
the tetracyclic anti-depressant mirtazapine extends the lifespan of c elegans under one set of experimental conditions and not under another…
norms of reaction.
norms of reaction is the norm.
yet the very concept is simply beyond the grasp of the behavior genetics people and steve shoe.
..despite having tried damn near everything for about 15 years…
cocaine would work too.
so would amphetamine.
so would any opioid like oxycontin.
you can get amphetamine from a doctor for depression. in low doses it’s not dangerous, and it used to be the primary drug treatment for depression.
mirtazapine, mentioned above, is the best sleep drug there is if you have trouble maintaining a 24h clock.
venlafaxine and other so called SNRIs are helpful for chronic “neuropathic” pain.
all these drugs affect the entire body, not just the brain.
of course best without drugs is intense aerobic exercise.
climb a mountain. run a mile.
you WILL feel better…at least for a while.
LOL there was a recent meta-analysis of intelligence GWAS and it turns out the earliest SNP hits have been v3r7 vv3ll r3pl1c4t3d indeed. These are the GWASes in question
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3751588/
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/38/13790.full.pdf#page=1&view=FitH http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0100248#close https://pdf.yt/d/fjT7cvDy_E_tMpY7
your posts are so brief carl.
have these putative hits been confirmed multiple times in other GWASs?
i’d like to know. because they’d be the first of their kind if they had been.
or are they like the jewish gene for curly hair?
Read those papers, replications with huge samples. Read this too while you’re at it. http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421
both charlie sheen and DAVID CARR, a hero of peepee’s, have said…in so many words…
drugs work!
one of the best, if not THE best illustrations of IDEOLOGY is the trajectory of incarceration rates in the US from Ford or Reagan to the present…driven by “the war on drugs”.
the US is just like UNCLE JOE.
it DENIES…
REALITY!
the reality is that the US economy simply doesn’t work for large parts of its population…it’s supposed to work for all…BUT IT DOES NOT…
so…
1. there’s a large part which can only make bank by selling drugs…
2. and a large part that can only tolerate their shitty lives by USING.
the unites states is a uniquely EVIL country.
and this change is again an instance of norms of reaction.
my own father was a prosecutor.
and a GOOD prosecutor…in every sense…
BUT he quit the DA’s office because…
the sentencing guidelines had become…
IMMORAL!
had he staid he’d be in much better financial shape today…
as would I.
he’d likely have become the DA.
he was a harvard grad and top 10% in his law school class.
JUST ANOTHER CASUALTY OF SHEEPLE-FICATION.
thanks cachaca…(CU…SASHA)
what peepee CANNOT grasp, in so many words, is…
that…
the pope is catholic!
what do i mean by that?
i mean that…
in order to become pope one must have risen in the ranks of the church and rising in the ranks REQUIRES that one BELIEVE in the one holy catholic and apostolic church.
could a secret jew become pope?
could a secret muslim?
could a secret atheist?
it would be really really REALLY hard!!!
so the fame and fortune which peepee worships and thinks results from an ability to “adapt”…
results from no such thing…
it results from:
1. affinity for the ruling elite,
and if the affinity is lacking,
2. sociopathy…worshipping satan.
peepee is a prole combo of both.
she’s ozzy osbourne.
I agree that sociopathy is a huge competitive advantage in life, but you underestimate the importance of adaptability.
You need to step out of your box and look at things from a different perspective. That’s part of the ability to adapt: Lateral thinking..executive function
Remeber, IQ only explains perhaps 16% of the variation in lifetime income. 84% are explained by other factors. What percentage does sociopathy explain? It’s a fascinating question
wtf? i thought you were funny. now i’m thinking you want to play the “who can be crazier?” game.
yet more playing chicken…apparently…i hope.
i’m not playin’ playa.
i’m bailin’.
reminds me of this…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VZIoT9bzTo
and only one other guy has ever called me jorgeous.
are you pink martini?
or what?
peepee’s ideology:
hey i followed duh rules.
i conformed.
i’m a retarded prole cunt.
SHOW ME DUH MONEY!
The ultimate comeback to Videla’s rants:
if peepee ever said what she did for a living…
this would POINT BLANK…
150%
OBVIOUS!
peepee has A LOT TO HIDE.