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…it’s about learning to dance in the rain. (Vivienne Green)
Thats my forum contribution for the day, enjoy.
[i][b]You are one day closer to death. What have you achieved since yesterday? (WCA)[/b][/i]
That's the thought I go to sleep with
What storm ? Storms don't exist if you don't let them 🙂
Positivity is king 🙂
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STATION!
live
laugh
love
DrP..u OK hun...
[i]What storm ? Storms don’t exist if you don’t let them 🙂. Positivity is king 🙂[/i]
Your thinking of ghosts. Ghosts don't exist. Positivity is a bad think in a storm, especially with lightning around.
What storm ? Storms don’t exist if you don’t let them
Of course storms exist.
Much as i hate that dancing phrase, the person I first heard use it was one of our kids schoolfriends mum. She'd already had breast cancer and it came back as brain cancer. She died a year later.
Sure, you decide your response and she was determined to extract as much enjoyment from her remaining days as she could, but telling her to not let her storm exist....what bollocks, frankly.
You're very good at 'ignoring' whatever problems life might throw at you, and i admire you for it, but telling people that whatever is going on in their life to ignore it and not let it exist has actually made me quite angry.
best get your dancing shoes on then
Your thinking of ghosts. Ghosts don’t exist.
I thought that was birds? Jesus it gets harder to follow the plot. And no I'm not going to rise to the obvious grammatical error, planted to hook in the unwary...
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Way to go with belittling mental health 👏
"Live every week like it's shark week" - Tracy Jordan.
I' ve let storms pass which is perhaps why I haven't died of exposure, been crushed by a falling tree, burried in an avalanche etc.. Fair weather fairy me. Storms are recovery time.
On the basis that its never your successful friends who post motivational quotes, theres a great Facebook page called 'dissapointing affirmations' . A coupld of recent examples...
I might be lying in the gutter but Im looking at the stars.
Eagles may soar but weasels rarely get sucked into jet engines.
Nothing like mumsnet, we would have to improve our swearing game massively
“Live every week like it’s shark week National Pie Week”
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the
cheese.
Take happiness from the small things in life.
Stay away from social media (actually all media) as much as possible.
Balance is key, try to stay away from extremes in life.
Food is much more tasty and fulfilling after exercise.
Manners cost nothing but pays huge in return
You must lash out with every limb, like the octopus who plays the drums.
Sphinx, Mystery Men 1999
"but telling people that whatever is going on in their life to ignore it and not let it exist has actually made me quite angry."
I wasn't telling you to ignore it... I was telling you how i deal with it. Jeez this place at times picks and interprets things differently to how they're written.
Jonv, have you missed the point of the OP?
Embrace it all. (Neutrality is king)
On the basis that its never your successful friends who post motivational quotes, theres a great Facebook page called ‘dissapointing affirmations’
I quite like 'A friend in need is no friend of mine' 😉
"Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't go to for advice"
- someone prophetic.
"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it's going on when you don't have the strength"
Roosevelt... I think.
Also,
"Remember the sunshine; forget the rain"
Stanley. When looking back on the last year or two.
Do not go gentle into that good night....
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
I bought AccuWeather Premium and it's been great until they introduced Premium plus. I'm going to be mighty sore if that tier detects storms.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Those lines have also kept me going a few times over the last couple of years!
" Jeez this place at times picks and interprets things differently to how they’re written."
That is the the nature of any form of communication though isnt it. Artists put out a work of art and the viewer òr listener re-interprets it. Same thing with communication on here, and actual person to person conversation , well there the re-interpretation is instant.
Terrifying isnt it😁
Same thing with communication on here, and actual person to person conversation , well there the re-interpretation is instant.
Terrifying isnt it.
It's almost like pithy one liners aren't the best way of conveying a complex message.
Jeez this place at times picks and interprets things
If a post annoys you on here... ignore it... leave it for an hour or 2. Then you realise how inconsequential it all is.
I try to stick by that, but sometimes people are dicks aren't they!? 😂
Conquer your fears before your fears conquer you
Ro5eyFree Member
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Nah - it's nowhere near as NSFW
It’s almost like pithy one liners aren’t the best way of conveying a complex message.
That’s me shit out of luck then.
That's pretty much my entire act.
A pithy one liner a day keeps the complex problems at bay👍
Don't worry about it, Weeksey, I made a comment denouncing racism which was contrived to be racist by the same member. 🤔
'Everybody's fed, nobody's dead'. Parenting Job done.
Before you criticise (Ask Alexander O'Neal) walk a mile in their shoes. Then when you're a mile away, say anything. They won't hear you, and you have their shoes.
I wasn’t telling you to ignore it… I was telling you how i deal with it. Jeez this place at times picks and interprets things differently to how they’re written.
You didn't. You wrote 'Storms don't exist' not 'I don't let storms exist' In fact I even paid you a compliment because i know you can do that, but many of us suffer from real physical and / or mental health difficulties and don't have the ability to just not let them bother us. Denying someone that their feelings are very real, or the 'there's plenty worse off than you' is a trigger EVEN IF YOU'RE TECHNICALLY CORRECT.
If a post annoys you on here… ignore it… leave it for an hour or 2.
I agree - and i did (maybe not for an hour or two but that wasn't my first response). Ask me again now and I'm still annoyed by it, so i stand by my comment.
Storms do exist. For some they are small, for some they are large, others may just find them inconsequential. Right now my storm is very big, so please don't tell me I shouldn't feel like I do. Sure, I'm trying to dance through it too.....
Don’t worry about it, Weeksey, I made a comment denouncing racism which was contrived to be racist by the same member. 🤔
Did I? Remind me of it and I'll either apologise or stick by it.
He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions
"You didn’t. You wrote ‘Storms don’t exist’ not ‘I don’t let storms exist’ In fact I even paid you a compliment because i know you can do that, but many of us suffer from real physical and / or mental health difficulties and don’t have the ability to just not let them bother us. Denying someone that their feelings are very real, or the ‘there’s plenty worse off than you’ is a trigger EVEN IF YOU’RE TECHNICALLY CORRECT."
Errrrm sure. If what i wrote offended you then it wasn't my intention.
Stay away from social media
Anti-social media is acceptable though 😉
You have to run between the raindrops if you want to see the sun - Pat Benatar
That line got me married unfortunately
plumberFree Member
You have to run between the raindrops if you want to see the sun – Pat Benatar
You sure it's not just a pipe burst? You should probably get onto that.
I'm not sure this thread has gone quite the way Kryton hoped
If at first you don’t succeed! Remove all trace of having tried in the first place 🙌🏻
D Brent
That bit wasn't you, theotherjonv.
Next time I'll multiply quote and analyse.
The thread started with a simplistic meme of the motivational nonsense variety then some people get upset when others take the Mickey out of motivational nonsense with their own motivational nonsense. It's a silly thread that needs to be read as such and not taken seriously
It’s almost like pithy one liners aren’t the best way of conveying a complex message.
And/or maybe we shouldn't attribute profound insights to mundane observations just because they come from people with a tallent for phrasing.
Affirmations are generally for people in need of affirmation, those of us who are already awesome just don't need them... 😉
It’s almost like pithy one liners aren’t the best way of conveying a complex message.
Utter tosh, just look at what a roaring success "Brexit means Brexit" was?
and who could forget the genius of "Get Brexit Done" or "Have cake and eat it"?
I’m not sure this thread has gone quite the way Kryton hoped
Some people think the answer to life’s problems is to “MTFU”, others bury them, others attempt to forget them and live day to day and others take pithy little nonsense motivational sentences and seek a deeper meaning to them that helps them with acceptance or living for the moment.
YMMV
The man who nevers misses the train wastes too much time at the train station.
I really can't emphasise this enough, but it's ok to not be ok.
It’s better to burn out, than fade away
The Kurgan
The Kurgan
… via Joe Elliot off of Def Leppard via Neil Young
“If you’ve got half an hour to spend, don’t spend it with someone who hasn’t” - my neighbour used to say that to me, often!
That’s me shit out of luck then.
That’s pretty much my entire act.
And we love you for it! 😁🫶🏻
je he ce que mord
Painted on the back of 13-14C portrait “I hate things that bite”.
“The dead may be invisible, but they are not absent”
St Augustine
"Whatever you can do to have a good time, let's get on with it so long as it doesn't cause a murder" - Frank Zappa.
Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination - Lang (not KD, despite her negative binomial cravings)
Until you learn to master your rage, your rage will become your master.
"It's over, I have the high ground"
- every poster from post #2 onward.
Listen to your surroundings
speak to your horizon
love all the people.
Go outside ??? But it's bloody raining.
If some pumped, motivational consultant, whooping your company up tells you nothing is impossible, simply point out that they’ve obviously never tried to stick a trifle up their arse.
If some pumped, motivational consultant, whooping your company up tells you nothing is impossible, simply point out that they’ve obviously never tried to stick a trifle up their arse.
But what if they have?
YMMV
We should just leave it at that really.
You play with feathers, you get your bum tickled.
Big Vern
If some pumped, motivational consultant, whooping your company up tells you nothing is impossible, simply point out that they’ve obviously never tried to stick a trifle up their arse.
Piping bag. Next.
Next.
Have you ever tried shoving cooked spaghetti up a dog's arse?
Just grab a fistful
Next
No-one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun...
[“Whatever you can do to have a good time, let’s get on with it so long as it doesn’t cause a murder” – Frank Zappa.]
"I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I get me a golden shower" - Frank Zappa
If some pumped, motivational consultant, whooping your company up tells you nothing is impossible, simply point out that they’ve obviously never tried to stick a trifle up their arse.
But what if they have?
Then they're not to be trifled with.
“I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I get me a golden shower”
I guess the alternative to dancing in the rain is enjoying being pissed on from a great hight ...
Barely an extension of the metaphor
"Why trust one drug and not the other? That's politics isn't it?"
Which is what I think as I work my way through ADs.
"they’ve obviously never tried to stick a trifle up their arse."
A fudge is what you want . It's just enough you know
Don't let arseholes spoil your day.
It's easier to destroy than it is to create.
If it wasn't for blinds, it'd be curtains for us all.