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It makes perfect sense, though. It's another oft used one, and probably misquoted, but Oscar Wilde definitely said something about the only thing more tragic than not getting what you want being getting what you want. Humans get very little from 'owning' something, they thrive on striving for something, getting a little closer each day, but at the point when they actually have something, they lose interest and want something else. Look at yourself for a moment. It's absolutely indisputable. Life holds little pleasure for someone who doesn't have to strive for anything. My father was a carpenter's son, but he went on to begin a very successful IT company, and retired at 40. He's told me many, many times that money isn't worth the effort, and that I should just do what I like doing. S'why I'm here, I suppose. Edited by BlankOBlank! at 16:34:25 12-01-2005 |
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hulahoops 2,311 posts
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On CSI last night Grissom was chatting to afro-man saying that he once was on a plane sat next to a harvard professor and they got chatting. The proffessor told him a story:
"One morning i took a leak and just after I flushed, a brown soider appeared in the bowl and was scrabbling to climb the sides. Every morning for a week the same happenned. I would take a leak and there would be the spider trying to climb out. Then, one morning I decided to save this spider and so I picked it up and placed it on the floor. The next morning, I go for a leak and I see the spider dead and on its back legs in the air. Why? Because of human inteference."
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markypants 2,860 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI agree Blanky, my Dad was the son of a fireman and went on to become a TV producer and owner of largest design company in Europe... And all he ever wanted since he was a kid was to able to buy a Gibson Les Paul guitar. To this day he still won't let himself have one. Not until the day he retires...
Hasn't stopped him owning every other fucking guitar under the sun, but I get where he is coming from.
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hulahoops 2,311 posts
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Registered 20 years agomarkypants wrote:
Heh, interesting, and very very telling.
I agree Blanky, my Dad was the son of a fireman and went on to become a TV producer and owner of largest design company in Europe... And all he ever wanted since he was a kid was to able to buy a Gibson Les Paul guitar. To this day he still won't let himself have one. Not until the day he retires...
Hasn't stopped him owning every other fucking guitar under the sun, but I get where he is coming from.
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMadder Max wrote:
Ah dun geddit
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sam_spade 15,745 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYou are the spiders struggling up the side.
Once you've made it, there isn't much in life to challenge you. AND YOU DIE ON YOUR BACK, WITH YOUR SPINDLY LEGS STICKING UP IN THE AIR - FROM BOREDOM
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mal wrote:
Madder Max wrote:
Ah dun geddit
Obviously the allegory here was to forensics but I'm sure that money could be associated with this lil' tale.
Well, the cute lil' spider kept scrabbling up that toilet bowl to climb out as he may not have liked being wet and covered with pee, in the same way that those of us of limited financial means are scrabbling to get money to make life easier.
The proffessor saves the spider. The proffessor could represent money and the spider may simply have died of boredom or depression, because he was the best 'toilet-scrabbler' in Spiderland, and now he had no place to use his skills, other than perhaps setting up an indoor Toilet scrabbling venue. But because he was on a different social setting for spiders, the other spiders did not want to be reminded of 'toilet-scrabblers' and so the business venture might have failed, and therefore the poor lil' spider fell into a depression from which he never recovered.....and all this in the space of a day!
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jrolla 219 posts
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Registered 17 years agocoulda just been a coincedence 
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MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoA friend brought CSI around last Saturday to show us. He said it was 'supposed to be really accurate'. I watched two episodes and had to leave the room.
Apparantly I know too much about corpses to enjoy CSI. That program must drive pathologists up the wall.
And the lead character's a twat.
Back on topic... kinda
I'm aware of why money took over trade and barter and so forth. Trouble is, it's taken over our lives - and the lives of those poor bastards with nowt. How did we let that happen? Why do we put up with it?
We all know, in our hearts, that in this country money will let you get away with things that the poor would get banged up for. I don't know why we put up with that. Mind you, fame is rapidly becoming worse on that score. You can even be famous for being famous. Why do we care? It's all very odd.
Regarding the quote about what God thinks of people with money, I believe what Ms Parton was implying was that most of the people with /lots/ of cash are complete cunts =) Because, let's face it, you kind of have to be to hang onto that much wonga when you're well past the 'comfortable' level already and still accruing(sp?) more.
Another random thought... I know several people who aren't very happy. They have a fair bit of disposable cash, so they keep buying things. Lots of /things/. Retail therapy, I guess. It's seemed to me for a long time that gaining new aquisitions fills a hole in our hearts, but only on a very temporary basis. I wonder why it fills us at all, more than I wonder why we keep trying to fill ourselves up with crap. Temporary relief being better than none at all.
I do agree that having enough cash to live in security (I don't) and to be able to live where you want to live (I wish), would probably ease a lot of most people's troubles. I sure as hell woudln't say no - I'm not claiming I would.
I'm not sure that they wouldn't just find new problems, though. I mean... take the poor folk who can't buy medicine. They're not going to be unhappy because their trainers are unfashionable, their favourite t-shirt just ripped and their teeth are unsightly. Give them the money and they might start to be unhappy about those things.
I'm not going anywhere with this. Just random thoughtage. I don't even know why I chose to inflict it on you lot this time around. I spared you the 'Do pigeons get bored when it rains?' notion and the 'When we started to call people 'stranger', was that a tacit admission that even the people we knew were strange?'.
Well, up till now, obviously.
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIt's cool to spend the odd weekend without money. Well, not really without money, as that's postentially a bit dangerous. But without spending any money, except in an emergency. So no sitting at home spending electricity.
Most people call it camping. 'Tis good, anyway, for the above reasons.
Retail therapy is a cruel joke in my opinion. Buying new things is cool, but only in the same way as reading a good book or playing a good game is. But it's the nuclear fuel of hobbies - the downside is that you end up with all this crap you have to put somewhere. Yet I don't hear people claiming that a book or a game can cure your blues, despite the fact that that's perfectly possible. Buying stuff just distracts you for a moment. -
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