03 Jan 10
3 edits
Originally posted by divegeesterSo you're in your 30s when you are 40 years old? 😵
Holy huffing crap what is it with you people! A millennium starts at the beginning of year 1 and finishes at the END of year 1000; so the next millennium begins with the start of the year 1001. How complicated can it be for you chowder-heads.
Centuries are (generally) named in an ordinal fashion (1st, 2nd, etc.). Decades are not. They are named by the first digit of that decade (I mean, the digit in the tens place of that year).
It's really amusing that people are arguing that 1990 does not belong to the 90s.
03 Jan 10
Originally posted by PalynkaNor am I in my teens when I am 12.
So you're in your 30s when you are 40 years old? 😵
Centuries are named in an ordinal fashion (1st, 2nd, etc.). Decades are not. They are named by the first digit of that decade.
It's really amusing that people are arguing that 19[b]90 does not belong to the 90s.[/b]
04 Jan 10
Originally posted by zeeblebotJust the missus 😉 on da beach on New Years Day! ....
geez, mikelom, are you using your new avatar to distract opponents?
yep I am actually...... I message in every game, every move. I just got a draw from a game I should have lost....I changed my avatar on his second last move - and he offered a draw after a blunder! 😀
04 Jan 10
1 edit
Originally posted by PalynkaJealous are we? 😞
I love that album by Aphex Twin.
Edit:
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.
Otherwise, if you drop comparing, jealousy disappears. Then you simply know you are you, and you are nobody else, and there is no need. It is good that you don't compare yourself with trees, otherwise you will start feeling very jealous: why are you not green? And why has God been so hard on you -- and no flowers? It is better that you don't compare with birds, with rivers, with mountains; otherwise you will suffer. You only compare with human beings, because you have been conditioned to compare only with human beings; you don't compare with peacocks and with parrots. Otherwise, your jealousy would be more and more: you would be so burdened by jealousy that you would not be able to live at all.
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Each is unique and incomparable. You are just yourself: nobody has ever been like you, and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either.
God creates only originals; he does not believe in carbon copies.
A bunch of chickens were in the yard when a football flew over the fence and landed in their midst. A rooster waddled over, studied it, then said, "I'm not complaining, girls, but look at the work they are turning out next door."
Next door great things are happening: the grass is greener, the roses are rosier. Everybody seems to be so happy -- except yourself. You are continuously comparing. And the same is the case with the others, they are comparing too. Maybe they think the grass in your lawn is greener -- it always looks greener from the distance -- that you have a more beautiful wife.... You are tired, you cannot believe why you allowed yourself to be trapped by this woman, you don't know how to get rid of her -- and the neighbor may be jealous of you, that you have such a beautiful wife! And you may be jealous of him....
Everybody is jealous of everybody else. And out of jealousy we create such hell, and out of jealousy we become very mean.
04 Jan 10
Originally posted by mikelomIs your bank balance bigger than Very Rusty's?
Jealous are we? 😞
Edit:
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pas ...[text shortened]... And out of jealousy we create such hell, and out of jealousy we become [b]very mean.[/b]
04 Jan 10
Originally posted by mikelomJ'aime faire des croquettes au chien
Jealous are we? 😞
Edit:
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pas ...[text shortened]... And out of jealousy we create such hell, and out of jealousy we become [b]very mean.[/b]