To people who like to post about how stupid everyone else in the world is, or how bad something is, or how nobody else does anything correctly....
I challenge you.
One positive post per week.
Frankly, life is too short and too fun to sit and read through all the sanctimonious whining.
;D
[laugh]
I just posted something not-positive over in TOSAT
ok, I will try. :)
(although, I think He Man should be exempted from this challenge)
Here's a positive.
I had someone help me get my car unstuck in my girlfriend's driveway which spurred me to help 5 other cars get unstuck in about 1 hour!
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34995.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34995.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34992.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34992.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34962.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34962.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=198.msg610477#msg610477 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=198.msg610477#msg610477)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=198.msg609977#msg609977 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=198.msg609977#msg609977)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=8227.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=8227.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=32073.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=32073.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=198.msg602692#msg602692 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=198.msg602692#msg602692)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34552.msg602362#msg602362 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34552.msg602362#msg602362)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=33292.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=33292.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=328.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=328.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=10036.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=10036.0)
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?board=95.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?board=95.0)
Good posts abound my friend.
Focus on the positive rather than the negative.
:)
why does everyone have to be so freaking positive? it's annoying. [cheeky]
[laugh]
Quote from: Monsterlover on February 17, 2010, 06:48:49 AM
Good posts abound my friend.
Focus on the positive rather than the negative.
:)
of course there are positive posts everywhere. [beer] Look at the authors and participants in them all. This thread wasn't for them at all. ;)
I thought it was for me since I posted the hitler kid video
;D
Get bent Chris.
Yer right...this positive thinking shit is working wonders!
[evil] ;D
make the beast with two backs off, wanker. >:(
sac
I'm glad you posted this. I have recently been thinking about how negative the comments on the Internet seem to be. I had to stop looking at the Youtube comments and the inane posts on IMDB (seriously, every page for a moderately well known actress has a topic titled something like "Looks Like") make me think people need to go out to a bar/club/bowling ally and just talk to someone without the use of an electronic device.
I was jogging on a heavily trafficed road yesterday, and I see this 70 year old man, try to run accross the street without getting hit. Well, he crosses into oncoming traffic and falls. He tries to get up twice and can't. The oncoming SUV stops in the road. Puts his hazzard lights on and gets out. The Hispanic gentleman then helps the eldery man up and accross to the other side of the street. This is while a line of cars all honk and flip him off.
I was proud of the guy. Good samaritan and doesn't care what the wankers behind him thought. Of course... I felt guilty about not wanting to rush accross 4 lanes of deadly traffic to help him up... but hey... there is some positive in the world... even if it wasn't from me.
My snarky swearing post aside, here is why I think people spew inane vitriol on the internet. First, there is the "internet tough guy" factor. Powerless people who let themselves get shit on by everyone in their lives can get a moment of exhilaration by shitting on some one else for a change. Something they would never do when face to face with some one. But there is also a vicariousness to this that I think is the real point. Miserable people who vomit up hate on to their computer screens are prentending at actually having a life. Things aren't really that bad for these people. Things aren't good either. Things aren't anything. There is nothing there. They watch the news so they can get scared because that is thrilling. And because they know deep down that they will never have the slightest brush with terrorism or date rape or paedophiles or car jackers but they can pretend that there is eminent threat and that is thrilling. So they piss on eachother on the internet for the same reason: to manufacture something in their minds that matters, because nothing around them in reality matters. To anyone. Including themselves. Unfortunately some splashes on those of us that actually choose to particpate in life.
But I think whining about the pregnant doging and pregnant doging about the whining is not helpful. Its just stepping in the piss and tracking it around the house. It shoudn't matter to you. Let the retards sling poo at eachother on YouTube. Fine. As for this site, you can also just ignore the negative people here too. Or be tolerant even. Not everyone is chipper all the time. Let people be moody. So long as it is a genuine reflection of a genuine emotion I say have at it. And if some one wants to just sling poo here I propose this: Every time that person is being Debbie Downer for no reason at all every post there after should include the phrase: "[Poo Flingers Name] shut up, you cock!"
sac
/also there are people who are unfriendly and don't like people
//like me
Yeah, things are that miserable right now. I'm a hate filled pissed of person... if you don't like it, don't read my shit!
Have not worked full time since Nov 13.... my attitude is piss poor and is going to remain that way for a while.
Life is not all make the beast with two backsing Woo Hoo another beautiful day of getting what I want and doing what I want for some of us.
People suck! The world sucks!
Venting here, and seeing that you are not alone in your observations actually make things seem better. The "winter driving thread" made me feel a little better knowing that I'm not the only one who gets pissed off while trying to navigate the make the beast with two backstard filled roads every winter.
Sh!t... i find some of the best humor on this site to come from people's rant threads.
It's been a long winter for some of us on here. It happens every year, people get cabin fever and release their frustrations on the net. Not to fulfill some need to be an internet tough guy, but because we're sick of winter.
I challenge the same to you, sir.
Positive:
I just got an employee terminated.
Why you ask?
He was abusing a corporate credit card and by me catching it, I saved even more potential financial loss to my company in this dwindling economic time and also allowed my Department to re-assess our procedures as this somehow slipped through on our reports we are given by our nameless credit card provider.
Not positive for said person, but positive for myself and my two employees.
Mac Sledge: "I don't trust happiness. I never did, I never will."
I am actually a very happy person in real life, I just find pregnant doging and complaining fun.
I have a beautiful wife, 1.5 good dogs, a loving family, a roof over our head, just re-financed and saved 145$ a month on my payment.
Maybe my more than usual negativity is due to the fact I make the beast with two backsing hate my shoulder and fear it will never get better.
4 shoulder surgeries later and it still is not right.
Time to find a new doctor. He can't give me the answers I seek.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on February 17, 2010, 10:54:48 AM
I challenge the same to you, sir.
Positive:
I just got an employee terminated.
Why you ask?
He was abusing a corporate credit card and by me catching it, I saved even more potential financial loss to my company in this dwindling economic time and also allowed my Department to re-assess our procedures as this somehow slipped through on our reports we are given by our nameless credit card provider.
Not positive for said person, but positive for myself and my two employees.
What was he doing? Going with more expensive hotels than necessary because he was annoyed with his company or something?
I would like to counter-challenge: I don't mind a pissy attitude as long as someone has something funny or insightful to offer. So, step up your game a bit and entertain us with your negativity.
Now that I think of it, I would take intelligent pessimism over shallow optimism.
Quote from: Rev. Millertime on February 17, 2010, 10:31:12 AM
It's been a long winter for some of us on here.
Yeah, I have detected some SAD/Vitamin D deficiency here in the last few weeks.
Quote from: MrIncredible on February 17, 2010, 11:04:45 AM
What was he doing? Going with more expensive hotels than necessary because he was annoyed with his company or something?
Personal Charges.
^
It's a wonder people think they can get away with that. Same as theft.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on February 17, 2010, 11:02:10 AM
1.5 good dogs,
wtf happened to the other half. or do you mean its half good half bad ???
Quote from: il d00d on February 17, 2010, 11:06:26 AM
I would like to counter-challenge: I don't mind a pissy attitude as long as someone has something funny or insightful to offer. So, step up your game a bit and entertain us with your negativity.
Now that I think of it, I would take intelligent pessimism over shallow optimism.
Yeah, I have detected some SAD/Vitamin D deficiency here in the last few weeks.
I made exactly 50% last year than I did the previous year.....noone's buying custom cabinets.
The bright side is it opened my eyes to other income sources and now I am selling Solar Thermal Hot Water Heaters. People are excited about the process and about how much the Gubment defers the cost not to mention their realized savings and quick payback.
Best part, no friggin employees and workmans comp insurance!!!
Quote from: He Man on February 17, 2010, 11:45:10 AM
wtf happened to the other half. or do you mean its half good half bad ???
Cyrus' 1.5 dogs means he has one normal dog and one tiny, hand held portable dog
;)
Quote from: Monsterlover on February 17, 2010, 11:32:30 AM
^
It's a wonder people think they can get away with that. Same as theft.
It is most definitely theft as we are now liable to pay off his balance.
Unfortunately, it is too costly to sue him for the amount as the legal fees would eat away if not negate the money owed.
And we are not talking about a couple hundred dollars here. last I checked it was nearly 12k.
Quote from: He Man on February 17, 2010, 11:45:10 AM
wtf happened to the other half. or do you mean its half good half bad ???
Quote from: Monsterlover on February 17, 2010, 12:01:07 PM
Cyrus' 1.5 dogs means he has one normal dog and one tiny, hand held portable dog
;)
He Man would be most correct. Let's just say Alex is not the most friendly canine friend. They tend to be one owner dogs and it was my wife's before we met, so he has the bond with her. He tolerates me and sometimes is nice, but usually isn't.
Monsterlover again is close since he is very portable.......unfortunately, I am rarely able to pick him up.
holy shit, 12k?!?
So he gets nothing but fired and walks?
Quote from: Monsterlover on February 17, 2010, 12:16:57 PM
holy shit, 12k?!?
So he gets nothing but fired and walks?
Yeah, pretty much. I am sure legal is looking in to garnishing his last paycheck (only 2 days worth) and of course his vacation hours not used against it. Also, I heard they are looking at suing, but who knows.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on February 17, 2010, 12:37:29 PM
Yeah, pretty much. I am sure legal is looking in to garnishing his last paycheck (only 2 days worth) and of course his vacation hours not used against it. Also, I heard they are looking at suing, but who knows.
Shouldn't the police be involved?
Quote from: NorDog on February 17, 2010, 01:00:27 PM
Shouldn't the police be involved?
No reason for them to be. Nothing illegal was done.
Quote from: Rev. Millertime on February 17, 2010, 10:31:12 AM
It's been a long make the beast with two backsING SHITASSED winter for some of us on here. It happens every year, people get cabin fever and release their frustrations on the net. Not to fulfill some need to be an internet tough guy, but because we're TOTALLY BATSHIT make the beast with two backsING sick of winter.
Fixed.
Otherwise right on, brotha.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on February 17, 2010, 01:01:50 PM
No reason for them to be. Nothing illegal was done.
I think you're wrong there.
as barbaric and outdated as it seems...
I got cyrus to pay the bar tab for ZLTFUL and myself with his company cc.
Life is good. ;D
Did you drink Mothers Milk?
aka tequila
Quote from: NorDog on February 17, 2010, 02:11:50 PM
I think you're wrong there.
No, I am not. Unless our entire legal department is wrong, I maintain I am right. Trust me. This wasn't reviewed and decided by me. It made it to our General Counsel who I am sure contacted our retained 3rd party employment counsel.
Quote from: ducpainter on February 17, 2010, 05:02:54 PM
as barbaric and outdated as it seems...
I got cyrus to pay the bar tab for ZLTFUL and myself with his company cc.
Life is good. ;D
I was fine with the bar tab.......but that douche had the audacity to order dinner!!!!!!!!
WTF
FYI: I expensed that as non-employee entertainment
bwaaaaaaa
Quote from: NorDog on February 17, 2010, 01:00:27 PM
Shouldn't the police be involved?
Only time I had jury duty was a trial regarding a woman that ran up a similar CC bill on her employer buying electronics and toys for her home. She was charged with grand larceny and a couple of other counts. It was a criminal trial. She was guilty in my book and in the jury foreman's book. Every other jurist agreed with us until one woman thought we should take pity on her because she was in financial trouble (WTF!). We were asked to judge whether or not she made the purchases ILLEGALLY, not whether or not she deserved to treat herself to useless gifts because she had a rough life......we hung that jury because of that moron.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on February 17, 2010, 12:05:28 PM
It is most definitely theft as we are now liable to pay off his balance.
Unfortunately, it is too costly to sue him for the amount as the legal fees would eat away if not negate the money owed.
And we are not talking about a couple hundred dollars here. last I checked it was nearly 12k.
The guy sitting 2 desks down from me is the compliance guy for our org. He came across a guy charging $30K on the company AMEX card for personal use, amount other small items. He was also terminated. Can't believe people actually rationalize and think it's ok to do that.
What did the guy buy with $30K, you asked? A Harley. [bang] And yes, he had to repay the $30K.
Now that's a feel-good-story for the rest of us who follow the rules. :)
Quote from: cyrus buelton on February 18, 2010, 08:17:24 AM
<snip>
I was fine with the bar tab.......but that douche had the audacity to order dinner!!!!!!!!
WTF
FYI: I expensed that as non-employee entertainment
bwaaaaaaa
he was hungry
Quote from: ducpainter on February 18, 2010, 12:11:31 PM
he was hungry
Yeah, but he was traveling for work and probably had a per diem account!!!!
I owed you drinks and probably a lot more.
Quote from: angler on February 18, 2010, 08:49:22 AM
Only time I had jury duty was a trial regarding a woman that ran up a similar CC bill on her employer buying electronics and toys for her home. She was charged with grand larceny and a couple of other counts. It was a criminal trial. She was guilty in my book and in the jury foreman's book. Every other jurist agreed with us until one woman thought we should take pity on her because she was in financial trouble (WTF!). We were asked to judge whether or not she made the purchases ILLEGALLY, not whether or not she deserved to treat herself to useless gifts because she had a rough life......we hung that jury because of that moron.
Interesting.
I wonder why our legal department won't go after him?