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@Hooroo said in Happiness Scale:
I imagine he would have listened but been uncomfortable about it. I really don’t know.
Ditto with me. Once I was 20, I was expected to have pretty much expected to just get on with life like a man.
Not too sure it was the healthiest of approaches mentally, and not one I've taken with my kids.
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@junior said in Happiness Scale:
I once told my dad I was feeling a bit anxious about my financial situation and that it was affecting my relationship. He called me a poof and told me to harden up. He then swiftly moved the conversation on to the rugby. Good times.
After the wife and I got our first house back in 2000 - and could barely afford that - my parents came to visit.
We were having a few drinks and started talking about lottery wins. I magnanimously said that if we won, we'd pay the house off, then I'd pay Mum and Dad back for the university costs they supported directly. Much poo-pooing of the idea and not to worry about it.
"So, Dad, if you won the lottery what would you give us?"
He looked puzzled. "But if I gave you a big pile of money, you wouldn't learn anything"
I was waiting for the outburst of laughter from either parent, indicating the nature of the joke, but it never came.
When I look back at some of the financial decisions they made through my earlier life, I came to realise they were both pretty shit with money, and that's why, when they argued - very rarely - it was the central topic.
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@Snowy said in Happiness Scale:
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@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
er, onlyfans?
Only person who could have filmed it was the wife because she set it up.
Probably did it in portrait too...
You're not married to @jegga 's ex are you? I reckon she's done him in.
Hmmm. Wonder what her MO is?
Surely not the old, possum, gumboots, gun, duck fence trick?
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@Godder said in Happiness Scale:
My personal rules for maintaining some semblance of happiness:
- Don't sweat the small stuff
- Don't worry about the stuff you can't control
- You don't have to keep up with the Joneses
- Don't let the bastards grind you down.
5. Masturbate as required.
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
@chimoaus said in Happiness Scale:
@NTA Still plenty of bargains in regional Victoria and you are never that far from Melbourne.
The downside being it is full of Victorians
Melbourne is a nice city.
Couldn't live there of course, because as soon as anyone finds I lived in Sydney for 20+ years they'll constantly be asking me the specific ways in which Melbourne is better
Easy answer "Because I moved here, you furry hipster mouthballs!"
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I learnt early on not to sweat the small stuff.
Then when I became a dad I learnt not to sweat on the small stuff.
Personal Growth, #101 -
Crying.
Top notch ferning.
What you've all done here may have been therapeutic to yourselves, but you will definitely have helped at least one other person by sharing it. -
@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
Kevin Hart's latest special has a ripper of a bit about how women always have to find a fuck to give.
This is a brilliant meme, guaranteed to piss off female and male archaeologists!
On another topic, I moved to Melbourne from Sydney. Never got any hassle about that, perhaps due to my velvety Snagglepuss tones.
On a Happiness scale, I should be a 1. But hey shit happens even to us deludedly idealistic fuckers...still, why does karmic shit so seldom happen to those bastards who deserve it? I've decided karma only happens 1/20 times but positive reinforcement, Hollywood formula movies, pulpJoseph Campbell lit and schadenfreude means that is enough for most to keep plodding on..
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@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
On another topic, I moved to Melbourne from Sydney. Never got any hassle about that, perhaps due to my velvety Snagglepuss tones.
I know exactly one person from Sydney in Sydney, and he couldn't tell you which street is George St, he's the worst local ever!
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@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
my velvety Snagglepuss tones.
You are not quite who I thought you were.
Stay away from the GOM thread - you are likely to fail there.
Oh, and Karma I have found to be far better than 1 /20. I go out to shoot a possum and get a broken rib? Spooky ay? It's all around you...
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@Nepia said in Happiness Scale:
@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
On another topic, I moved to Melbourne from Sydney. Never got any hassle about that, perhaps due to my velvety Snagglepuss tones.
I know exactly one person from Sydney in Sydney
How is that possible???!!!!!
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@Nepia said in Happiness Scale:
@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
On another topic, I moved to Melbourne from Sydney. Never got any hassle about that, perhaps due to my velvety Snagglepuss tones.
I know exactly one person from Sydney in Sydney
How is that possible???!!!!!
Well I'm sure "I know" more but there's only one I hang out with and nearly all my workmates are from places other than Sydney as well.
Bloody hell, what is the Fern coming too, we can't exaggerate for effect anymore.
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@Snowy said in Happiness Scale:
@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
my velvety Snagglepuss tones.
You are not quite who I thought you were.
Stay away from the GOM thread - you are likely to fail there.
Oh, and Karma I have found to be far better than 1 /20. I go out to shoot a possum and get a broken rib? Spooky ay? It's all around you...
- Oh it's a life goal. Certainly don't look like him. Or sound like him tbh (I just don't have a strong accent). But he had the best lines.
- Recoil?
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@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
Recoil?
No.
I wasn't using a blunderbuss to scatter bits of possum all over the garden, although I would like to.Was the wife's fault, a clumsy oaf never admits to it. The whole embarrissing saga is in here somewhere - I think earlier in this thread.
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so, in the spirit of this thread, was talking to a guy on saturday night who was confronted by some of these very questions
had a good, if high pressured job that paid well, but took all of his time and energy. He had nothing left to give his family. So he resigned and took a job at Boating Camping Fishing for a third of the pay, but twice the time at home.
I can't imagine the guts that took. But he doesn't regret a bit of it. He's really fucking happy with where he is now.
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@mariner4life awesome.
I don't get people who say they'd keep working if they won the lottery. Sure, it needs to be enough of a win to quit work, but FFS anything north of $3M and you can't quit, you need to have a look at yourself...
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