When i was Grade 7, i had been bullied by Grade 9 boys because of this toy.
They bullied me by showing some Tazos i didn't have yet, made me wanted to get them, they passed the Tazos to their friends and one of them tore the Tazos into several pieces in front of me. I had been humiliated by them. šš¤
@ThanosReXXX You could always use NL's version of the Snap, the Ignore button. š
@rjejr No, NEVER. That's not a finger snap, that's bending the knee to losers. I don't bow to losers.
As for the "beezin", that's just kids being stupid and doing things that all kids do at one point. Look in the mirror and tell me that you, like me and plenty of others didn't do stupid things when we were of that age.
Nowadays, it's just the world of stupid internet challenges, and also with many thanks to social media, it's just spreading faster and getting worse than in our time. But to be honest, I don't know that if we would have had access to it in our day, we'd not also be eating cinnamon and snorting wasabi, not because we wanted to, but because of peer pressure and so on, and you can't say for certain that you wouldn't, because in hindsight as an adult, all of the things that kids do and did, look stupid, so nothing strange for us to see there. Doesn't mean their future is ruined, yet.
Don't know why you mentioned Mark Beezos, because I don't like him either, so I don't consider him to be my kind of people. And no sane person should want to be in a world full of glass half empty people, unless you're a barman with enough booze to fill 'em all up, and make some money off of them in the process.
Glass half empty people are useless folk. They are incapable of seeing bigger pictures, primarily think in problems instead of solutions, and have a whole range of other negative tendencies, that don't do themselves, or the world, any good.
For the record: I'm not considering you to be one of them. You're just a New Yorker, but that's perfectly fine.
There's grumpy, and then there's tunnel vision...
@ThanosReXXX Not Mark Beezos, Beezos as in Bozos. That might not translate over there but over here Bozo was a clown on TV and growing up if you wanted to insult people you called them a Bozo or you'd say "a bunch of Bozos" to a group. So you put Beezin and Bozo together, you get Beezos. Or so I thought.
And who's Mark Beezos? Did you mean Jeff of Amazon? We just ran him out of town.
And I am a glass half empty person. Cant' help it, like Lady Gaga I was born that way. And from our point of view glass half full people are just sheep who don't think for themselves and simply believe whatever they are told w/o question. Basically fanbois. Who do you think told the Emperor he had no clothes, a glass half full person or a glass half empty person?
So really, the world would be better off w/ only glass half empty folk b/c we see what's wrong and we would all be working to make the world a better place, w/o us all the glass half full people would just be sitting around like this.
Gotta be careful w/ stereotypes, they can be a double-edged sword. Like, which of these is better:
Look before you leap
or
He who hesitates is lost
Stereotypes, generalizations, over-simplifications, seeing the world in black and white.
"I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light."
Also
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Don't confuse glass half empty folk w/ trolls. Glass half empty folk see whats wrong with things and want to make them better, it used to be called "critical thinking" but I think our idiot President banned that concept. Trolls dont' care if something is good or bad, they just want to make everyone around them miserable. I had a friend like that once growing up. We nicknamed him "The Instigator" b/c he was always causing trouble. He was glass half full, one of the happiest people I knew, but he loved to watch people fight and be miserable, part of what made him happy I suppose.
But nobody wins if you Ignore people except you, you don't have to waste your time on them by reading their posts or replying. You're not bending the knee or giving them any power by ignoring them. Only a glass half empty person would see it that way. š
Someday we'll find it
The rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
@rjejr Ah, yes, Jeff Beezos. Me not even knowing his correct name, goes to show you that I don't like him or have any interest in anything to do with him...
But yeah, I know Bozo the Clown, and I understand the connection, now. Just blame me being on morphine-like pills for not being my usual clear-headed self...
I hope you don't take any offense, but you have a VERY weird view of what glass half empty people are. Your description of them is not at ALL how I perceive someone being glass half empty. The terms I used, apply. Being careful, having some healthy skepticism, critical thinking and speaking (as long as it is constructive) is not glass half empty. And real glass half empty people definitely don't have the capacity to see what's wrong with the world, let alone make it better, because they are inherently negative, short-sighted, and can't see bigger pictures, which is exactly the thing that's needed to make improvements in the first place.
And calling actual glass half full people sheep or ignorant, well... that's actually ignorant in and of itself.
If you have a mind to see the solution instead of thinking in obstacles, if you are able to stomach constructive criticism without flying off the handle, or getting so distraught that you either fall into a depression or worse, and being able to help other people by also making them see what's possible instead of what's not, aka the bigger picture, THAT's a correct description of a glass half full person, and it is an accurate description of a big part of who and what I am.
I'm not a gullible person at all, so that's kinda stepping on my toes, my friend. But I take no offense, because
I don't find the description accurate, so I don't feel that it concerns me or any other glass half full person.
I just think that people should look forward, not as in always happy-go-lucky and all sunshine and rainbows, but in a realistic way, but still positive. That's grey, not black or white. Looking at all the possibilities is already a sign of that. Just looking at obstacles, or worse: only seeing obstacles/problems, actually IS black or white. And always looking back or over your shoulder might make you walk into a lamp post, because you fail to see all that is ahead of you...
So, that picture isn't accurate either. That's just clueless and dumb. I'd be looking at solutions to get me out of there, like a real glass half full guy would do.
And that friend of yours? Not a glass half full person either. Gaining some kind of satisfaction out of people feeling miserable or fighting is not something I could ever see myself do, nor would I consider it positive or constructive behavior.
I don't think in stereotypes either, but if you'll have me choose, then I'll actually make a choice of my own instead of the either/or that you proposed:
Look before you leap or He who hesitates is lost, are just two sides of the same coin, and I actually agree with both of them. You SHOULD look before you leap, and hesitation can indeed be very harmful. So, there...
The thing with the ignore button is not about me winning, it's just that I've found that it creates a situation where comments sections start looking weird or making no sense, because references to the removed people can still be found, so you see weird, unfinished conversations, and I am one of those crazy people that actually reads ALL the comments, before posting myself, because I simply HATE saying something that has already been said 20 times before me, and I hate that it might make me look dumb in the process.
The other reason is that I feel that having to use an ignore button because someone else is doing something wrong, is punishing the wrong person, which would be myself. Why would I have to do something to hamper my site experience because of something that someone else did? That's basically the world upside down, in my opinion, and on top of that, I'm just not a submissive person. I'm assertive, I manage, I lead. I don't follow, or bow. It's just not in my nature.
Combine all that with me on the other hand also being highly empathic, and you might be able to imagine all the "feels" that come with that, both towards others and for myself. Continually having to hamper/obstruct myself, would ultimately stress me out like crazy, well, probably. In any case, it wouldn't be beneficial for my own mental health.
I'd sooner quit the site altogether, probably, but thanks to a handful of good people, I still find that I like to hang around here, and visit the various forum topics, regardless of the steadily growing number of tunnel-visioned numbskulls...
@JackEatsSparrows And live through another 852 years of this crappy society? Thanks, but no thanks.
If that would happen, I'd probably volunteer for a deep space journey, or a one-way ticket to Mars...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX If I was gonna live that long no matter what I did, you better believe I'd make it as miserable as possible for everyone else. Soil myself, only speak in whispers, wear moonshoes all the time.
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Tazos used to come with Doritos and cheetos in Brazil back in the early to mid 2000s.
Ahh, the childhood memories...
This blue eye perceives all things conjoined. The past, the future, and the present. Everything flows and all is connected. This eye is not merely seen reality. It is touching the truth. Open the eye of truth... There is nothing to fear.
Some people I asked said they didn't like Rango (2011), because the characters were too realistic and somewhat creepy. I t's still one of my favorite animated movies of the decade though.
This blue eye perceives all things conjoined. The past, the future, and the present. Everything flows and all is connected. This eye is not merely seen reality. It is touching the truth. Open the eye of truth... There is nothing to fear.
Also, Iāve decided Iām going to restart my 100+ hr BotW file. I never fought Ganon, but Iāve completely lost track of where I have and havenāt been. Itās easier this way.
I also will try to finish my South Park this weekend so I can trade it for a $15 profit.
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