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1christian1

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tasha66 said:
Try living with people who don't even CHANGE the toilet roll, aka, my Dad! He just has a thing about it, and I don't know why. So annoying!!
And we all know men put it on the wrong way anyway, ha ha ;)
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tasha66 said:
Try living with people who don't even CHANGE the toilet roll, aka, my Dad! He just has a thing about it, and I don't know why. So annoying!!
And we all know men put it on the wrong way anyway, ha ha ;)
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You do know the only reason your dad had kids is for you to do this... LOL
 
Solemateleft

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One of the more profound posts that I have seen on FB in a long time...
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Lynx

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I have observed if a person looks hard enough for betrayal, he will find it even if it is not there to find.

In fact you can find a lot of things that are not even there if you look hard enough. Confirmation bias is insidious.
 
Lynx

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I used to think some people gradually became more crabby as they got older. Now I think I was wrong. I think people just get more tired.

Some people are crabby their whole lives, but hide it behind a smile because it's polite, or because they want people to like them, or just because they don't want to put up with the junk. But the older a person gets, the less energy there is available to maintain the facade. What appears to be a gradual progression of crankiness is really just a gradual erosion of the socially acceptable mask. As we get older, we just can't keep it up any more.

Then there are some elderly people I know who are not crabby. THOSE are the people who have been truly nice people all along.

Kinda makes me think... if I know what people are like when they are wore out, maybe that is the best way to know what they are really like, and what they will be like when they grow old. It also makes me want to pay more attention to what I am like when I am worn to a frazzle.
 
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Lynx said:
I used to think some people gradually became more crabby as they got older. Now I think I was wrong. I think people just get more tired.

Some people are crabby their whole lives, but hide it behind a smile because it's polite, or because they want people to like them, or just because they don't want to put up with the junk. But the older a person gets, the less energy there is available to maintain the facade. What appears to be a gradual progression of crankiness is really just a gradual erosion of the socially acceptable mask. As we get older, we just can't keep it up any more.

Then there are some elderly people I know who are not crabby. THOSE are the people who have been truly nice people all along.

Kinda makes me think... if I know what people are like when they are wore out, maybe that is the best way to know what they are really like, and what they will be like when they grow old. It also makes me want to pay more attention to what I am like when I am worn to a frazzle.
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I believe that I am approaching the worn to a frazzle stage. My wife says that I get snippy when I'm tired.
 
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tourist said:
I was planning to semi-retire but finances are stil a little tight so I wok when I can, which lately, is 6 days a week. I will cut back after the holidays I hope.
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i feel for you sir. that entitles you to some grumpiness imo.
 
Lynx

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Yesterday while I was mixing up bread dough I made the observation that a really big container makes even a large thing seem small, and a tiny container can make even small things appear large.

I make bread in 30-ish loaf batches, so I mix it up in a 17 gallon feed bucket. I knew it was a lot of dough in the bucket, but it just looked so small down there in the bottom of that big thing... of course when I started putting the dough in loaf pans it made 32 loaves.

Then it occurred to me that this may explain why so many people have really dumb ideas and think they are very intelligent ideas. It's all a matter of perception because the idea is in a tiny mind. :p

It might also explain why so many people do really dumb things when they are drunk or high. Alcohol and drugs tend to shrink the mind.
 
G00WZ

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The world is what it is, and it does what it does, but at the end of the day you should ask yourself " How did i respond, and what did i choose to be in the midst of it all?"
 
Lynx

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It is possible to intentionally make friends. I can act nice and go out and find people to be nice to, with the purpose of making them my friends. I can throw parties where people have a good time. I can supply people's needs. I can even bring candy to work every day. But if I ever drop the act, stop the parties, turn off the cash faucet or stop bringing that candy, I will lose the friends.

I never did really care about how many friends I have though, or even if I had any at all. I went through my life, did what was right, helped a few people when they needed it as I was able, and basically tried to do "life" the best I could. And I have quite unintentionally gained a few friends. Not nearly as many as if I had tried to get friends, of course. But the friends I have, I can be certain they will be my friends even when I have had a bad day, or when I'm broke, or when I just don't have anything to benefit them.

(My best friend and I still trade chocolate bars though - if either of us finds a new brand of really good chocolate, we gotta pick one up for the other guy. Not because we have to in order to retain our friend, but because we know each other will like it.)

Given what I just said... why do people think I should go out and look for a wife? If I did find a girl, and change myself to what she wanted, or provide her needs, or do whatever it took to make her want me... would I really want what I got?

And THAT, friends, is why I'm still single. And happy.

Mind you, I might find The One For Me tomorrow, and we might get married next week. But I'm not going to look for her, and I'm not going to try to make anything happen.
 
Lynx

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Life is like a video game. It has a story line. It has resources to gather and tools to use. It has rules for how to play the game right, and cheaters who try to exploit what they think are glitches they have found to get ahead.

Some people get really focused on the mechanics of the game. They get the idea that to be successful at the game you need to amass a large amount of the tools you need to get through the game - mostly money, influence and possessions. Sometimes they even take a lot of pride in how they have mastered the game mechanics.

Some people are more interested in the story line. They deal as much as they need to with the things you need to survive in the game, but what they really like about playing is seeing what happens next.

Some get really bored with the part of the game they can see from where they are, or sometimes the game has been somewhat hard to play, and they decide they really don't like this game. But they keep playing because there's nothing else to play, and once you stop playing you can't start again.

Then there are those who spend all their game time trying to figure out what the game's programmer was trying to say with this game.
 
zeroturbulence

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Lynx said:
I used to think some people gradually became more crabby as they got older. Now I think I was wrong. I think people just get more tired.
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It's because there's less in life to look forward to. Maybe even nothing left to look forward to in some cases. Everything going forward is watching you lose what you once had (your health, your wealth, your youth, etc... )

That's how I see it anyway. .... Yes, there are things one can do to hold on to what they have, but it's really just prolonging the inevitable unless you happen to be rich or immortal..
 
KhedetOrthos

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Jewel5712 said:
How so? One of the first things God did was give Adam a job...work was never meant to be toilsome...
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Um...

“ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.”
-Gen 3:17

Believe me, at the end of the workday I know the meaning of that.
 
Lynx

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If God gave me blessings, God will be able to give me what I need in the future. Hoarding what I have and worrying that it might be taken from me is illogical, the result of either greed or fear. Either way it demonstrates a profound lack of faith in The God who blessed me before.
 
Lynx

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I was breaking down a box at w*rk and the guy who takes the trash out thanked me for doing so. We're all supposed to flatten boxes as we go, but few do and the guy who takes out the trash usually has a lot of boxes to break down before exporting them. I shrugged and said I take out the trash in the afternoon so I know what it's like.

That made me stop and think though... How many things do people ask me to do that I ignore, that I would understand if I were doing the same job? Or to broaden the scope of the concept, how many things do people insist on, and I see them as whiny because I do not understand why the matter is important to them?

How many things would I gladly do for others, if only I had once been in their places?
 
G00WZ

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You can teach Lynx how to fish, but you can't teach a fish how to lynx.
 
Lynx

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G00WZ said:
You can teach Lynx how to fish, but you can't teach a fish how to lynx.
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How did I miss this back in March?

You don't need to teach a lynx to fish. Felines already got this covered. Instinct y'know.
 
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