Risk (p.110 & Leonard nose surgery & Extreme Sports)
Spiderman, Alain Robert, climb skyscrapers because he started with this sport.
What is solo rock climbing?
500 million tweet per day.
How many tweets are there per day in Jan 2014?
The most fascinating archeological sites on the planet.
What is Machu Picchu?
Raj needs drink alcohol.
What does Raj use to build his confidence to talk to girls?
Big Bang Theory: 1/300
What are the odds of Leonard dying from his nose surgery?
not harmful or offensive.
What is innocuous?
A work of hindsight
What is the Lost City of the Incas?
1) I am treated to be as equal
2) My name is to be mentioned in any published paper
3) No lecturing on my own culture.
What are very cogent and reasonable conditions?
A sport that can knock you out immediately if your opponent has a strong arm and huge palm.
What is slap contest?
Living off grid.
What is the best security?
The walls were build without using a glue to bind the stones together.
What is mortar?
Behaviours that the victim finds unacceptable, from minor, harmless arguments to – at the opposite extreme – physical violence.
What is bullying?
Big Bang theory
A little something that turns routine sinus surgery into a frontal lobotomy.
What is a tremor / an earthquake?
People do weird things.
What makes Del Harvey’s job particularly challenging?
When you know a second language, you can hear other people’s confession towards you.
What is eavesdropping?
Sheldon rejects all of Raj’s conditions and request him to laugh at his jokes because he is his boss.
What is superiority?
Frightening incident involving an aeroplane, many of us will choose to avoid air travel and instead get behind the wheel of a car. (1.24 million deaths in 2010 on the road vs 720 deaths in an airliner)
What is relative risk?
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them
What is cognitive dissonance?
When a subtitle does not do good job at the translation, you say this phrase.
What is “doesn’t do it justice”?
A form of psychological manipulation which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt.
What is gaslighting?