Home-made axioms

[Reverend Conehead]

No matter where you live, there will be people there who claim it's the greatest place on Earth.

 

[Runwildboys]

Whenever someone starts a sentence with, "No offense, but ..." they will say something offensive.

One of my buds at work reversed that, sort of. There were a few of us drivers standing around talking, and he stepped in and said, "I was in the city today and some fat guy....no offense, Dave...."

I couldn't stop laughing. I said, "You know, Dave wouldn't have been offended if you hadn't associated him with the fat guy, right?".

I still bring it up once in a while and laugh like Hell. Lol

 

[Runwildboys]

No matter where you live, there will be people there who claim it's the greatest place on Earth.

You use that as an axiom?

 

[Reverend Conehead]

You use that as an axiom?

It's true. The town could be an ugly hell hole that offers nothing, and there will be someone living there who thinks it's the greatest place on Earth.

 

[CouchCoach]

Actually one that I use, and have for quite some time, that brings me some calm and relief. It could always be worse.

That doesn't necessarily minimize something that is bad but it does give me perspective. And this doesn't always work.

 

[BoysForLife]

Anyone who tells you some variety of "I choose to never have a bad day" is either a brazen liar, or totally delusional.

I mean--I get the whole "positive outlook" thing and candidly I should probably be more optimistic and thankful sometimes than I am. I can admit that honestly.

Same time--someone who tells you that "never having a bad day is merely a matter of attitude" is not dealing in reality. Sometimes, life happens. Sometimes, there are things beyond your control that will wreck a day and you have to grit your teeth and get through it and try to have a better day tomorrow.
But bad days still happen. To Everyone. Law of averages. And some people like to pretend that they don't happen to them, I think it's a way of insulating themselves against the reality of life. Like, if I pretend it didn't happen, then maybe it didn't happen. LOL

Anyways, as I'm sure you probably figured out, I had an awful day today. Pretty much nothing went right and pretty much everything I touched turned to crap. So maybe I'm a bit sensitive. Lord willing, tomorrow will be better....

 

[BoysForLife]

Someone who says they do not understand why they cannot reach you by phone, it is obvious they do not understand Caller ID either.

Well done, that's hilarious.

 

[TexasBoys2288]

Not home-made, but a classic.

Stupid is as stupid does.
- Forrest's Mom

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Anyone who tells you some variety of "I choose to never have a bad day" is either a brazen liar, or totally delusional.

I mean--I get the whole "positive outlook" thing and candidly I should probably be more optimistic and thankful sometimes than I am. I can admit that honestly.

Same time--someone who tells you that "never having a bad day is merely a matter of attitude" is not dealing in reality. Sometimes, life happens. Sometimes, there are things beyond your control that will wreck a day and you have to grit your teeth and get through it and try to have a better day tomorrow.
But bad days still happen. To Everyone. Law of averages. And some people like to pretend that they don't happen to them, I think it's a way of insulating themselves against the reality of life. Like, if I pretend it didn't happen, then maybe it didn't happen. LOL

Anyways, as I'm sure you probably figured out, I had an awful day today. Pretty much nothing went right and pretty much everything I touched turned to crap. So maybe I'm a bit sensitive. Lord willing, tomorrow will be better....

You're right. Zig Ziglar once said (and this is from memory, so it might not be word for word), "You can't be on 100 percent of the time. Life just has too much hardship for that. Anyone who's on 100 percent of the time is on something."

 

[kskboys]

People who walk very slowly across the road while traffic waits on them are very rude and deserve to be run over.

 

[Fredbeard]

If we truly loved our job our bosses wouldnt have to pay us for our work

 

[Fredbeard]

It's true. The town could be an ugly hell hole that offers nothing, and there will be someone living there who thinks it's the greatest place on Earth.

That's true . Especially if some grew up in said hell hole and has a emotional attachment to it. I wonder if people who live in Chernobyl think it's the greatest place on earth though.

 

[Fredbeard]

People who walk very slowly across the road while traffic waits on them are very rude and deserve to be run over.

Especially jaywalkers sho bring flowing
Traffic to a standstill

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Especially jaywalkers sho bring flowing
Traffic to a standstill

People who drive slow in the left lane are part of a Martian plot to take us over.

 

[aria]

From my mostly pessimistic outlook on life...

If you always expect the worst you’ll never be disappointed.

 

[Runwildboys]

From my mostly pessimistic outlook on life...

If you always expect the worst you’ll never be disappointed.

If only that were true.

 

[aria]

If only that were true.

Oh...but it is! It’s taking me decades to master, even wrote a paper in college of the benefits of being a pessimist. Ya get that? I wrote a positive thinking paper on pessimism!

It’s can’t just be a mindset, it has to be a way of life

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Anyone who disagrees with me is a commie.