Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755474Ab3FPSv4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:51:56 -0400 Received: from mondschein.lichtvoll.de ([194.150.191.11]:42262 "EHLO mail.lichtvoll.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755408Ab3FPSvz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:51:55 -0400 From: Martin Steigerwald To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.10-rc6 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:51:50 +0200 Message-ID: <2647146.cMTilapJ01@merkaba> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.4 (Linux/3.10.0-rc6-tp520; KDE/4.10.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <2626868.kqkN4bgvmz@merkaba> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1491 Lines: 39 Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 08:09:03 schrieb Linus Torvalds: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Do you really think your cursing controls how other people behave? > > Yes. In three ways: > > - I have magic mind-powers, and cursing releases them, and makes […] > - It turns off small-minded people who care more about tone than […] > - it is a signal for people who have some sense that I'm getting > irritated, […] Thanks for sharing. I especially love the part about your magic mind powers. So its more or even something different than attacking a person for you and as I guessed also tells something about your beliefs. Good to know. > In addition, it turns out that it affects not just other people, but > the person cursing too: there has also been scientific studies that > cursing relieves stress and actually relieves pain, and is not the bad > thing that the PC crowd thinks it is. It turns out that all societies > have cursing, and it really has an impact. > Seriously, I'm not just making that sh*t up. Google it. I think I will have a look at this. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/