1,320 Comments for Undercliff State Hospital

Take a course in grammar, Thomas. You tend to have a lot of spelling errors.

Childhood innocence/human nature satire here people, please read more thouroughly, least you miss the author's intent.

"Is fecal smearing the new "thing" for goth hipsters? Wow, I've been out of the loop."

Gee, if it is I am going to start getting a bit worried when my daughter and her friends take too long in the bathroom!

Scratch 'n' sniff!

I once worked in an office where they had several rooms that were no longer being used. They were dusty and dirty. Used mostly to store outdated equipment such as typewritters and adding machines. I inquired about the rooms (and admitted that I had explored them) and found out that when the building was built in 1949, it was the main headquarters for the whole company. By the mid 70's (when I was there) the main office had moved to a larger city. These things do happen. That wing, as well as the theater were no longer needed.

It's cheaper than spray paint.

Goodness, if we are going to pretend we read Skinner we must admit that he was usually contrasting positive reinforcement with punishment, as opposed to negative reinforcement. They are not the same thing.

Yeah, it seems like this entire wing has been abandoned for quite some time before the rest of the institution closed, including the theater.

Is fecal smearing the new "thing" for goth hipsters? Wow, I've been out of the loop.

There's a year's worth of reading in there and/or if you got little kids...a year's worth of scrap paper!!

This place was closed in the 90's? It looks like the places that were closed some twenty years earlier.

Somebody needed firewood?

Reminds me of an office building I ventured into a few years ago. The computers and phones were exactly where they were when the place closed up a couple years earlier. They had a filing cabinet full of floppy disks. I didn't think of taking any, but instead going for the paper files, and I got a full stack of inter-office memos which covered everything from personal phone calls to what kind of music should be played in the office. All very interesting.

And yes, I started with Netscape too. (LOL)

I love Skinner!

i visited a prison (drug offenses, assaults, break and enter, etc) as part of a university course, I was stricken by how all they have to do is walk around all day in circles in rooms just like these, marginalizing furthur.

I don't sympathize with criminals, but I DO comdemn the notion of "social punishment" as a tool other than deterance, which doenst work ANYWAY. POSITIVE reinforcement, as B.F. Skinner showed, is a MUCH easier and reliable tool than negative reinforcement.