Facts of life you've found to be true

Czarcasm

Compu Global Hyper Meganet wrote: »

The rich keep on getting richer

I can point you to plenty of people who lost out financially in the last couple of years. One example off the top of my head would be, actually two examples- Sean Quinn, Shane Filan. Michael Dell has seen his company take a woeful nose dive, as has Bill Gates in Microsoft.

The world smiles on you if you are good looking

This one comes up so often that I decided a couple of months ago to try a little experiment- I'll tell you straight up I look like a gimp, and I'm chronically shy, but, nevertheless, I decided to smile and greet complete strangers. It's been an eye opener, I'll tell you that much- To see people's grumpy morning head expressions change to a smile, some I haven't a clue who they were but they'd stop and chat just because you smiled at them. It's done my confidence wonders, and I think that's reflected in how I carry myself.

It's not your looks that matter- it's your attitude.

Contrary to popular belief, you can tell a book by its cover (Knew 50 shades of Grey & Twilight would be abominations on sight long before I knew what they were actually about)

That was said at a time when books had plain covers, as opposed to walking into Easons now and you can judge ANY book by it's cover- you're supposed to, that's the whole idea, s'marketin', innit?

Patriotism is the lowest form of ignorance

Ohh I'm pretty sure bigotry, racism, xenophobia, homophobia are right down there too, and many would say ignorance is borne of a lack of knowledge and a fear of that which we don't understand. I've always said ignorance is a learned behaviour.

I know what you mean though- being proud of a coincidental set of circumstances is ignorant, but there's many equally low forms of ignorance, I'm not sure it could be measured on a sliding scale.


Right, I'm off to go smile at some strangers

K-9

CruelCoin wrote: »

€10,000,000,000 to kill your family.

I know you'd say "you monster, i'd never even consider it", but when it comes down to it, i'm not sure many people could say no to that kind of money.

Add enough zeroes and yes, everything can be bought.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Merrion

Saying "thank you" is not a just a reward - it is an investment.

sbsquarepants

Czarcasm wrote: »

It's not your looks that matter- it's your attitude.

Couldn't agree more

Czarcasm wrote: »

I know what you mean though- being proud of a coincidental set of circumstances is ignorant, but there's many equally low forms of ignorance, I'm not sure it could be measured on a sliding scale.

Gay pride? WTF is that all about? What's to be proud about?
I'm not proud I'm straight - it was hardly my doing, I just grew up fancying women - if I'd fancied men I'd have acted accordingly. No input, no effort, no achievement whatsoever - so no cause for pride whatsoever.

Czarcasm wrote: »

Right, I'm off to go smile at some strangers

My missus is always telling me I'm forever flirting (sometimes nagging tbh:)) But, I'm with you on this on - getting a big smile from someone you run into during the course of an average day is strangely uplifting. I usually reserve my efforts for the ladies, more out of laziness than anything else - they're just easier to get a response from!

Czarcasm

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Gay pride? WTF is that all about? What's to be proud about?
I'm not proud I'm straight - it was hardly my doing, I just grew up fancying women - if I'd fancied men I'd have acted accordingly. No input, no effort, no achievement whatsoever - so no cause for pride whatsoever.

Yep, this is one that really gets on my tits, I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good party as much as the next guy, but this "gay pride", and I know there's been some good points in the "heterosexual pride day" thread about this, but I didn't ask to be a straight white male either, I just am. I don't make a point of it. I know only too well other people don't think like me, but the whole "pride parades" have become about as effective in combatting homophobia as an occupy march has done for economics.

The whole "coming out" thing? If they didn't make such a big deal of it, people for the most part would carry on as normal - you surround yourself with people who you know care about you as a person, and you'll never have to do the whole ceremonial "coming out" nonsense. I know plenty of LGBT people and not one has ever sat me down and said "Czacasm, I'm gay...". They know the response they'd get. I wouldn't care, and the whole coming out thing feels like they need people to care about the fact that they're LGBT.

Still though, any excuse to don my lime green mankini - ze goggles, zey do nothzing! :pac:

My missus is always telling me I'm forever flirting (sometimes nagging tbh:)) But, I'm with you on this on - getting a big smile from someone you run into during the course of an average day is strangely uplifting. I usually reserve my efforts for the ladies, more out of laziness than anything else - they're just easier to get a response from!

My wife a couple of weeks back we were at the counter in a coffee shop, she remarked that I'm worse than a cat marking his territory :pac: (the way I'll chat away to the girls behind the counter in all the coffee shops in town). Truthfully though, I don't think enough people recognise the effort, training and skill that goes into making a good coffee, the least people working there deserve is a smile and a thank you when the forty or so customers before you just want to grab and go!

Honey-ec

There is no such thing as fate. Not everything happens for a reason.

You will remember something important you've left at home at the exact point in your journey where it's no longer worthwhile turning back for it.

OldNotWIse

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

What about people whose parent(s) abused them?

I don't know that women are hardest on each other. It's 50/50 women/men I'd say.

I'm sure being really beautiful can have its pitfalls, but being ugly is obviously gonna be harder. Life is probably easiest in that regard though for people who are somewhere in between.

Well its stuff we found to be true for ourselves, I'm not necessarily speaking for everyone. I'm hardly trying to put my post out there as some kind of catch all that everyone fits into But I do know that nobody will ever love me as much as my parents do, it's just something I'm sure of. I know romantic love differs in any event. And I'm not too good at it!:p When I was a kid my mum told me that you love your child more than your parents, that its natural (for most). I told her I'd never have a child because I never wanted to love anyone more than I love them lol. Melodramatic kid :rolleyes:

OldNotWIse

Czarcasm wrote: »

This one comes up so often that I decided a couple of months ago to try a little experiment- I'll tell you straight up I look like a gimp, and I'm chronically shy, but, nevertheless, I decided to smile and greet complete strangers. It's been an eye opener, I'll tell you that much- To see people's grumpy morning head expressions change to a smile, some I haven't a clue who they were but they'd stop and chat just because you smiled at them. It's done my confidence wonders, and I think that's reflected in how I carry myself.

It's not your looks that matter- it's your attitude.

Right, I'm off to go smile at some strangers

edit: What if a pretty person smiles at everyone?
^Joking, but actually that reminded me, I'm normally a sour-faced b1tch not only because I'm grumpy as hell but even my natural "default" expression where I am genuinely not feeling inner rage looks grumpy (I'm told). I was walking past a guy one day and he had the cutest little dog that reminded me of mine and I found myself naturally smiling at the dog. The guy turns to me and says, "I'd give anything for you to smile at me like that" lol - hadn't even seen him

re the gay pride thing, totally get you. I'm bi and I haaaaate pride! If you want to be treated the same, act the same. You cant break the stereotype of promiscuity and alcoholism and partying by prancing down Dame street in the middle of the day, p1ssed and playing tonsil tennis with your OH while wearing nothing but 6 inches of leather and rainbow earrings. Same with coming out. Make a big deal? You silently give others the go-ahead to make a big deal too. I came out at work by bringing the OH to the Christmas party. Simple. Nobody really cares any more if you're gay.

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Nobody really cares any more if you're gay.

Plenty of people do care very much. You've been lucky if they don't for you, but they do for others. and I'm all for pride making the point that it's ok to be a gay couple in public and not hiding it.

sbsquarepants

Czarcasm wrote: »

Still though, any excuse to don my lime green mankini - ze goggles, zey do nothzing! :pac:

Ha, I can't decide if I really really want to see this, or really really don't want too!:D
Either way, i'm getting the outfit for myself!

Czarcasm wrote: »

My wife a couple of weeks back we were at the counter in a coffee shop, she remarked that I'm worse than a cat marking his territory :pac: (the way I'll chat away to the girls behind the counter in all the coffee shops in town). Truthfully though, I don't think enough people recognise the effort, training and skill that goes into making a good coffee, the least people working there deserve is a smile and a thank you when the forty or so customers before you just want to grab and go!

Has to be the same woman we're talking about - I'm told I've a particular weakness for anyone that gives me a cup of tea!

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Same with coming out. Make a big deal? You silently give others the go-ahead to make a big deal too. I came out at work by bringing the OH to the Christmas party. Simple. Nobody really cares any more if you're gay.

I could possible see the big deal in the past when people actually were forced by society into "the closet". But these days - there is hardly a need. Just be yourself and I think most people will just accept it. I don't really know anyone my age or younger that would even consider someones sexuality to be an issue.
Maybe i'm slightly out of touch or something, but I think defining yourself as a gay man, or a gay woman - is every bit as stupid as defining yourself as a straight man, or even a white man. It may well be what you are at a passing glance, but if there isn't more to you than that, then I don't want to know you.

sbsquarepants

bluewolf wrote: »

Plenty of people do care very much. You've been lucky if they don't for you, but they do for others. and I'm all for pride making the point that it's ok to be a gay couple in public and not hiding it.

I can only speak from my own experience, but I've never cared and nobody I know well enough to talk about something like that has ever cared if anyone we knew was gay. The parade served it's purpose, but I think in Dublin anyway it's purpose is no longer required. There is no reason to be ashamed of your sexuality, but there is also no reason to be proud of it. It's like saying you're proud your eyes are blue - it's meaningless.

Czarcasm

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Maybe i'm slightly out of touch or something, but I think defining yourself as a gay man, or a gay woman - is every bit as stupid as defining yourself as a straight man, or even a white man. It may well be what you are at a passing glance, but if there isn't more to you than that, then I don't want to know you.

Not normally a fan of the thanks function, but if I could thank this a thousand times!

I love it when I read how people are able to articulate and express my ideas better than I can :pac:

swimming in a sea

I wonder has anybody changed their lives after reading one of these threads, just stood up from their work desk and said Fu*k it and walked out the door to a more contented life or the dole.

Lucena

OldNotWIse wrote: »

edit: What if a pretty person smiles at everyone?
^Joking, but actually that reminded me, I'm normally a sour-faced b1tch not only because I'm grumpy as hell but even my natural "default" expression where I am genuinely not feeling inner rage looks grumpy (I'm told). I was walking past a guy one day and he had the cutest little dog that reminded me of mine and I found myself naturally smiling at the dog. The guy turns to me and says, "I'd give anything for you to smile at me like that" lol - hadn't even seen him

re the gay pride thing, totally get you. I'm bi and I haaaaate pride! If you want to be treated the same, act the same. You cant break the stereotype of promiscuity and alcoholism and partying by prancing down Dame street in the middle of the day, p1ssed and playing tonsil tennis with your OH while wearing nothing but 6 inches of leather and rainbow earrings. Same with coming out. Make a big deal? You silently give others the go-ahead to make a big deal too. I came out at work by bringing the OH to the Christmas party. Simple. Nobody really cares any more if you're gay.

This what you had in mind?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/gaypride-parade-sets-mainstream-acceptance-of-gays,351/

OldNotWIse

bluewolf wrote: »

Plenty of people do care very much. You've been lucky if they don't for you, but they do for others. and I'm all for pride making the point that it's ok to be a gay couple in public and not hiding it.

What I meant was, it's not as big a deal as it used to be, especially in the workplace. People have their own lives and worries etc. Pride is a glorified p1ss up, there are other ways to make points. I'm actively involved with various animal rights organisations - we lobby politicians, raise awareness, take part in demos - we dont run around drunk and scantilly clad once a year! :P

CruelCoin

K-9 wrote: »

The love of money is the root of all evil.

War waged for religion (jihad, crusades, etc) were waged for imaginary friends, not money.

I would classify those wars, and the acts committed in them as evil.

Czarcasm

Lucena wrote: »

This what you had in mind?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/gaypride-parade-sets-mainstream-acceptance-of-gays,351/

Well, there's a mouthful! Honestly, show of hands please for anyone that could take this seriously -

The parade, organized by the Los Angeles Gay And Lesbian And Bisexual And Transvestite And Transgender Alliance (LAGALABATATA)

Jog on! :pac:


EDIT: From further down the article (read the rest once I'd got my breath back from laughing) -

But, for mainstream heterosexuals unfamiliar with irony...

Pack a' pricks! :pac:

Lucena

To be honest, although I find it silly to be proud of something like being gay, I don't think that 'pride' was exactly what was meant initially. In a time when people took a lot of sh1t for being gay, it was more a way of saying 'we are who we are and we're comfortable with that and you should accept it'. Pride was/is just an easier way of saying that.

A lot of people here seem to think that the war for acceptance of gay people is over. A lot of battles have been won, but I still think we're a long way from having two same-sex 14-year-olds kissing or walking hand-in-hand down the street in some village in rural Ireland, and it being a completely normal thing.

Wacker The Attacker

CruelCoin wrote: »

War waged for religion (jihad, crusades, etc) were waged for imaginary friends, not money.

I would classify those wars, and the acts committed in them as evil.

Not all wars were started for religion either.

illeagles_mcc

Billy de Bollix wrote: »

Hard embarrassing fact: Michael D Higgins is an embarrassing little ork as a figure head of our country. Seriously...dress him up in a little green suit and ginger beard and just listen to him!!! And why has every Government party leader of this s**thole had the most embarrassingly non masculine name Berty? Enda? Amongst the rest of the heads of state on European t.v.? The only one who had a decent name had a face like a plumbers toolbag/ pitbull licking piss off a nettle!

now that you say it i suppose "mary harney" does sound kind of masculine :pac:

BeerWolf

That a lot of people on LiveLeaks are worse than scum.

Just read the comments, and you'll know what I mean... load of degenerate 'human beings' with not a single ounce of compassion for their fellow man or living thing.

Wacker The Attacker

99.99999999% of people neither know of or care about your existence.

BeerWolf

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

99.99999999% of people neither know of or care about your existence.

100 people?

That's way more than what I know would care for me

OldNotWIse

BeerWolf wrote: »

100 people?

That's way more than what I know would care for me

aaaaaawwwwww

We care for you! :pac:

CruelCoin

BeerWolf wrote: »

100 people?

That's way more than what I know would care for me

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VONSHIRACH

Kieran McGeeney was so successful as a GAA manager.

Orangebags

Life is inherently pointless, so take control and enjoy it as best you can.

Penny Dreadful

CruelCoin wrote: »

War waged for religion (jihad, crusades, etc) were waged for imaginary friends, not money.

I would classify those wars, and the acts committed in them as evil.

Quite often it was about control of land, ports, passages for goods and so all about money.

Czarcasm

Orangebags wrote: »

Life is inherently pointless, so take control and enjoy it as best you can.

Take control of something you feel is inherently pointless? I don't think you've thought this through very well.

BeerWolf

Orangebags wrote: »

Life is inherently pointless, so take control and enjoy it as best you can.

We got an Anarchist here!

Where's the authorities ?

IvaBigWun

swimming in a sea wrote: »

I wonder has anybody changed their lives after reading one of these threads, just stood up from their work desk and said Fu*k it and walked out the door to a more contented life or the dole.

And if they do can they get someone to film it so we can all see it.

Capt'n Midnight

A good deed rarely goes unpunished.

Meangadh

mikemac1 wrote: »

On their deathbed nobody wishes they spent more time in the office

Well I'm a young 'un but have seen far too many co workers made redundant and all those late evening unpaid and working through lunches didn't save them.

Or get ignored at promotion time.

Working free overtime in an office if you are not the owner or top brass getting a bonus is a suckers game.

So true. A friend of mine seems to be constantly working and constantly exhausted and completely stressed out by her job. I know the bills have to be paid but Jaysus how anyone can live a life like that I don't know. Working from 7 in the morning til 7 at night Monday to Friday and sometimes on a Saturday on top of that. I would rather have a lesser paid job with normal hours. Life is way too short for that $hit.

mikemac1 wrote: »

Everyone thinks their wedding is special and unique.

Having spend years as a barman and working 2 of these every week from May to September they are all a blur.

I can't recall a single one that stood out in any special way.

Absobleedinlutely. The more weddings I go to the more cynical I'm getting about all the bells and whistles that go with them. They're all the flippin' same. Even the ones abroad are the same only the weather is nice and people have paid more to be there. Ultimately the fellas end up with their ties around their heads and the girls in bare feet or flip flops- no matter how classy or expensive the day was. Nothing wrong with that of course- but just seems mad money to spend on something that is the same as every other wedding.

I've learned that often the people who have been dealt the toughest blows in life are often the ones who pick themselves up and get on with their lives as opposed to people who have little wrong in their lives but continue to moan nonetheless.

Similarly it's often those who are most badly off are the most generous, and the better off are the most miserly. They're rich for a reason I suppose.

I've also noticed I'm agreeing with mikemac1 a lot!!

Femme_Fatale

It's surely true that your looks affect how people behave towards you. E.g. there's a massive difference in how women not wearing make-up are received compared to when they wear well-applied make-up.

Femme_Fatale

The gay pride thing isn't about being proud of being gay, it's about being proud of fighting the prejudice (which still exists, doesn't matter if it's far less - it's still there) and it's about not being ashamed and no longer having to hide it. Sure, there is an attention-seeking element and those who are just out for a piss-up, but for many gay people it is an important symbolic event.

wilkie2006 wrote: »

Yep, here's another fact: Anyone who wears Dr Dre headphones * in the gym is a dickhead.


* If you don't know what these are: they're not normal headphones.

Are they not just headphones but with the Dre thing written on them?

Honey-ec wrote: »

There is no such thing as fate. Not everything happens for a reason.

This I've started to question: there are too many coincidences and patterns for me to accept it's all random, e.g.

You will remember something important you've left at home at the exact point in your journey where it's no longer worthwhile turning back for it.

The above kinda phenomena, Murphy's Law etc - why do they always, always happen without fail.

BOHtox

Live by this video!

edit: already posted. Wear Sunscreen video

Break80

No Matter how bad things are for you. There is bound to be someone in a worst position on this planet.

joeguevara

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Are they not just headphones but with the Dre thing written on them?.

They are just headphones with a large b on each ear. They don't say dre. Decent headphones. Loads of guys(and girls) the gym wearing them minding their own business.

OldNotWIse

Break80 wrote: »

No Matter how bad things are for you. There is bound to be someone in a worst position on this planet.

...and that generally doesn't make one feel even a smidgen better about their own problems anyway...

Gummy Panda

Penny Dreadful wrote: »

Quite often it was about control of land, ports, passages for goods and so all about money.

I agree. Its always about money and power. Religion is just dressing for the same theme

Femme_Fatale

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Are they not just headphones but with the Dre thing written on them?

They're incredibly expensive headphones with average-poor quality, apparently

greentea is just wrong

bluewolf wrote: »

They're incredibly expensive headphones with average-poor quality, apparently

The same could be said for iphones. Each to their own. Who really cares if they want to wear them, leave them to it.

greentea is just wrong

greentea is just wrong wrote: »

The same could be said for iphones. Each to their own. Who really cares if they want to wear them, leave them to it.

I'm hardly running around ripping them out of their heads

Legs.Eleven

bluewolf wrote: »

I'm hardly running around ripping them out of their heads

Hilarious image is conjured up in my mind's eye. Chuckle chuckle.

BeerWolf

Break80 wrote: »

No Matter how bad things are for you. There is bound to be someone in a worst position on this planet.

Likewise, there's always someone better than you.

Penny Dreadful

Break80 wrote: »

No Matter how bad things are for you. There is bound to be someone in a worst position on this planet.

This was never more true for me than this morning.
I was feeling a bit down over certain things and then I heard a report from Syria from one of the Newstalk journalists and I was so ashamed of my first world "problems". :(

donegal__road

It is not a secret if three people know it.

IvaBigWun

Break80 wrote: »

No Matter how bad things are for you. There is bound to be someone in a worst position on this planet.

If you compare anyone in a first world country to someone of the same age in a third world one then the first world guy/girl wins every time.

Those "there's always someone worse off" statements are only ever acceptable when they are in some way among the realms of realistic.

donegal__road

donegal__road wrote: »

It is not a secret if three people know it.

Not even if two people know it.

EdCastle

Cash & killer looks are king.