DIY Planner - The Sky Is Falling...Maybe. - Comments

It's o.k.

steves — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:14:12 -0400

Group hug:)

Apologies

rlaundry — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:42:12 -0400

I also apologize, Anonymous. I have seen a few too many responses to something that, to me, is obviously humor and/or sarcasm, so perhaps jumped down your throat a bit too quickly. Sometimes we ALL need to just step back and take a breath.

Note to self: Never post

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:50:59 -0400

Note to self: Never post when I'm stressed out after a long week at work and I'm about to rush out the door. =^/

I apologize for going apoplectic in the parent post. (I am the anon from the parent of this post, but I am not the same person as any other anon(s) in this thread).

You know how things can just sort of build up, and if you're not careful you can take it out all at once on the wrong person? Um, yeah. Sorry, again.

Okay, everybody take a deep breath...

steves — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:19:22 -0400

O.k., one last time and this is my very last comment on this (please note the various other comments I have already made on this issue). This was meant to be a joke. A small joke. Apparently, it wasn't a funny joke. Dad didn't write that part, I did. In an attempt to be humorous. Using a joke. Ha. Ha.

I was just referring to how young siblings don't trust each other. When they're young. It was meant to be cute. Evidently "cute" is relative. Speaking of relatives, you're absolutely right: I still don't trust my brother and he's a doctor. These things take time I suppose.

I should say that my Dad doesn't have trusting issues with people of any races, sexes or religious creeds...though he may not entirely trust me anymore, since I messed up his column. Oh well, live and learn.

Steve Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

Well, I think we ALL know

rlaundry — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:01:29 -0400

how much trouble all short, skinny, brown-eyed, patrician-nosed redheads who like baseball - especially the Red Sox, can be! :) Oh wait, that's just guys, not ALL of them...

Please. A quick glance towards reality would help here.

So, ONE INDIVIDUAL did

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:49:37 -0400

So, ONE INDIVIDUAL did something bad to you, and now you blame half the human race for it? You blame three billion people for the act of one person?

Your piggy bank was not raided by "girls". Or by "women". It was raided by an individual person. Had you had a brother instead of a sister, and the brother raided your piggy bank, would you now make blanket comments deriding men? Is a woman justified in insisting that men, all of them, (or at least most) "are pigs" if one man did something harmful to her at some time in her past?

By YOUR logic she should carry a chip on her shoulder about each of the three billion men on the planet for the rest of her life.

(Well, now at least we see where your son gets his attitudes from...)

Do you really think it's reasonable to make generalizations about three billion people based on the actions of one? Do you do this based on race, religion, and national origin as well, or is your over-generalization limited solely to gender? How about based on someone's height? hair color? nose-shape? eye color? weight? Favorite baseball team? Favorite sport? Or is it just gender?

as a girl

Jigglypuff — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:45:58 -0400

as a girl i will say that all OTHER girls have cooties, and my sister has the worst case of cooties ever, ever in well ever.

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Levenger stole ALL of my money, but they left me all these nice, shiny organizational tools.

i must say i agree. i dont

Jigglypuff — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:43:59 -0400

i must say i agree.

i dont trust sisters with my piggy bank, i also dont trust experts

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Levenger stole ALL of my money, but they left me all these nice, shiny organizational tools.

Chicken Little

henrys — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:09:24 -0400

I always learn something from these rambling discussions. "Headless chocking" I will treasure. This is especially true for someone who was forced to kill chickens by chopping their heads off. They do some serious headless chocking! Thanks.

Henry Sharam
WWW.whenrealityknocks.com

They're working on that

steves — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:11:14 -0400

Evidently Dow Chemical is working on a treatment for boy cooties, but it's not available yet. You're very right to point out the seriousness of boy cooties, but it's even worse than is generally realized. While girl cooties usually clear up during puberty, boy cooties gradually transform into acute testosterone poisoning in grown men. Sad.

Steve Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

Cooties have Sex ?

ygor — Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:38:33 -0400

I mean gender. Well, I guess that they would have to in order to continue the species.
>:D
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

Yep!

Tournevis — Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:44:15 -0400

I'll second that.

Boy Cooties

CathMac — Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:08:39 -0400

Steve,
In the interest of fairness please note that brothers have Boy Cooties. I should be careful about how I say this since I wouldn't want to be accused of casual sexism but I'll just say it. Strong anecdotal evidence suggests Boy Cooties is way worse than Girl Cooties. It has something to do with snakes and snails and puppy dog tails.

Unfortunately the scientific community is not yet taking Cooties seriously. I can only hope that when they do they will start working on a vaccination for Boy Cooties first.
~Cath

I like that one

steves — Tue, 2 Oct 2007 04:02:53 -0400

Headless chooking...You Aussies have the best expressions:P

Steve Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

So true

Katrina — Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:39:05 -0400

Like many people, I often want to take the easy path and believe the "experts," because they sound like they know what they're talking about, but this is not always the case. With the recent correction in the stock market I have heard endless "experts" testify that the financial markets have fallen in. To hear them talk, it is the stock market crash of 1929 again and we are all going to be in the poorhouse.

Yes, I'm getting rather sick of hearing "it's never been..." at the start of statements from supposed experts.
'It's never been this warm' - what, not even when the earth was covered in volcanoes? ;D
'It's never been this cold' - OK, so the mammoths had big coats because it was fashionable?! ;D
'The stock market has never been this bad in my memory' - Yes, well you are a 25 year old stock trader and the last moderate crash was more than 5 years ago. ;D

P.S. The experts may well be panicking because their personal stocks have dropped. But "headless chooking", as we Aussies like to call panicking, is very counter productive

The Sky Is Falling...Maybe.

henrys — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:51:19 -0400

Henry here, once again filling in for my son Stephen. His friend moved into a place with a hot tub. We have not heard from him in some time, nor do we expect to for some time to come.

I have been managing my financial portfolio since I was a young man. A very, very young man. Back then my investment bank of choice was shaped like a pig. When I was about 4, I started to collect old coins. They were donated to me by people who had been holding them for years. Mostly they were old pennies which were in use before legal national tender was created. There were still a few of those kicking around. I had a piggy bank which gave of a very satisfactory rattle when I shook it. I felt as rich as King Midas. Then disaster struck.

I came home from school one day to learn that my sister had raided my investment pig and taken my coins to buy ice cream. I was shattered. A whole piece of my world had crashed down on my head. My sky had fallen in. Of course, in the end it wasn’t as bad as all that and I did eventually get my investment portfolio back on track, though I have never again felt quite so rich as I did back then. I learned two important lessons from this experience: One, problems with the bank are not usually as severe as the innitial shock would make them appear; and two, never trust a girl, especially if she's your sister.

Recently I have revisited this experience and have once again been handling my own investments, hopefully with more success (my sister is being closely watched). I spend a lot of time listening to CNBC television. Like many people, I often want to take the easy path and believe the "experts," because they sound like they know what they're talking about, but this is not always the case. With the recent correction in the stock market I have heard endless "experts" testify that the financial markets have fallen in. To hear them talk, it is the stock market crash of 1929 again and we are all going to be in the poorhouse.

Hopefully there's not much chance of that: They seem to have been wipping each other up in a frenzy of panic. There have been incesent calls for the Federal chief Ben Bernanke to rescue everybody. Recently he, along with the President, seem to have calmed the market and reassured everyone.

This episode reminded of an old fable, which we all learned as children, which comes from a large body of folklore dating from around around the 6th century BC: The Sky Is Falling.

The story goes that as Chicken Little is eating lunch, an acorn falls on her head. Being a little slow on the uptake and prone to panicking, Chicken Little runs around the country telling everyone the sky is falling and eventually even the king is panicking, all over an acorn. The fox is there to reap the benefit of this collective hysteria. As Wikipedia says:

In (some) versions the moral is usually interpreted to mean "do not believe everything you are told". In the latter case, it could well be a cautionary political tale: Chicken Little jumps to a conclusion and whips the populace into mass hysteria, which the unscrupulous fox uses to manipulate them for his own benefit.”

The experts were all acting like someone had raided their piggy bank and left them penniless. But despite their opinion, the sky had not fallen in. We would have been foolish indeed to believe everything they told us.

I think this ancient fable reminds us of repeated experiences in our own lives when we would be very foolish to listen to the "experts". What about you? Have you run into Chicken Littles in your travels? What were they like and what were they panicking about?

Henry Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

D*I*Y Planner - The Sky Is Falling...Maybe. - Comments

It's o.k.

Apologies

Note to self: Never post

Okay, everybody take a deep breath...

Well, I think we ALL know

So, ONE INDIVIDUAL did

as a girl

i must say i agree. i dont

Chicken Little

They're working on that

Cooties have Sex ?

Yep!

Boy Cooties

I like that one

So true

The Sky Is Falling...Maybe.

DIY Planner - The Sky Is Falling...Maybe. - Comments