' Hanako, Dear, thou eatest feed from my hand
Then fondlingly suckest thou my empty fingers.'

Human-Carp relationships: the love that could never be.

Also, @ Haltingpoint

Personalities are [...] chemical/nervous reactions that cause the fish to respond in a certain way to specific stimulus.

Same kinda goes for people, doesn't it?

Whoa. Talk about uncanny valley...

I'm an artist, and sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the wishy-washy relativism of the art world...
I think I'll buy one of these paintings to remind myself that bad art does, in fact, exist.

What I found most interesting about this is why we should need this in the first places; I'm almost certain that in most cultures, the elderly are taken care of by the family well into old age, which would obviously make the fake bus stop as well as the fleeting desire to return home a nonexistent problem. Is my assumption false, or is this a new problem caused by the increasing average lifespan in developed countries?

I also find the idea of an elderly person attempting to escape a nursing home to return to a home where s/he is unwanted to be a really upsetting one.

I loved this video! I didn't even think 'blackface' until I read the comments...I think blackface refers to the Vaudevillian practice of impersonating 'black people' as collective, as opposed to a black individual. The fact remains, Ray Charles' skin colour IS darker than that of the Japanese man impersonating him, so to communicate 'Ray Charles', he had to darken his skin as well as don the glasses, jacket, etc...are we to ignore individual characteristics for the sake of political correctness? I don't think anything in this video (or for that matter, the toothpaste ad) was stereotyping towards an entire race.

I grew up Saudi Arabia and Egypt as a young woman, and the line that I find most resonant with my experience is this one:

“Sometimes the girls get really scared, there are so many cars chasing them. Sometimes they’re in their car, crying and screaming for us to go away. It’s fun to make girls angry.”

This immature and childish attitude was the way that every young man treated me there...and why wouldn't they? Your school, home, and workplace is segregated and steeped in misogyny's, so why should you how to treat women? It's infuriating but understandable.