A Place For Your WTF Moments

[Holy Shit]

There is a line that goes, ‘If you are not losing friends you are not growing up.’ Cannot remember the author.

Or,slightly out of context,”the last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect on other people “ William Boyd.

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Friends are a strange concept. I have...... 2? Maybe 3 people I would call friends. Don't see them for years, and when we do get a face to face it's like we were talking just yesterday.

I don't use faecesbook, twatter, instashit, or any social network. I'm more an antisocial network kinda guy. Misanthropes unite!... Err. Oh... Hang on...

My patch that I earned from some years back..

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

We definitely need the full details of that incident

Was it as bad as the incident you told me about in total confidence?

The one involving the Nuns, alcohol, narcotics a box of chocolate ring donuts & the transvestite dwarf?

It was all going so well until the transvestite bit

 

[Doc Strange]

What went wrong with all these folks? Who switched off their thinking? (I guess that’s a rhetorical question )

Yep, get that - as I've got older I've seen a lot of folks I hung out with when we were younger just turn into their parents.

Funny thing how many of them think they are still so 'radical' too, because they like Banksy and voted for Corbyn!

I've many acquaintances these days, but very few close friends, and those I do have, however 'normal' they may appear on the surface, are genuine 'outsiders' who have seen a bit of the world and don't really fit in anywhere. It's why we get on

DS

 

[Old Nick]

It was all going so well until the transvestite bit

Don’t worry Duck the dwarf was only there for the Tossing

 

[Holy Shit]

Don’t worry Duck the dwarf was only there for the Tossing

FFS,let’s hope BB3 doesn’t see your comment.

 

[Capt. Drunkey]

There is a line that goes, ‘If you are not losing friends you are not growing up.’ Cannot remember the author.

I see the point Sarky and I do exactly recall the friends I lost while „growing up“.

But there is another point to be considered:
Some people (yes, even close friends) you see in a totally different light once you went on a holiday together (seriously)…
…or upon encountering a psychologically highly demanding situation like ours is now!

To give folks some credit: we all deal differently with stress and trauma; some get aggressive, some ignore reality and lots become utterly submissive.
This way each of them finds a way of staying „sane“.

Meanwhile, I never met so many people who preach high morale and tolerance while at the same time acting utterly fascistic towards anyone with a different view.

This, paired with a traumatic and potentially threatening situation gives a highly explosive mixture!

 

[DD67]

Meanwhile, I never met so many people who preach high morale and tolerance while at the same time acting utterly fascistic towards anyone with a different view.

Dear certain members of The Triumph Forum,

Capt D didn't mean that. It's just that his emotions are currently running very high.
Please try to find it in your ever so (plastic) liberal hearts to forgive him for his comments

 

[Capt. Drunkey]

Dear certain members of The Triumph Forum,

Capt D didn't mean that. It's just that his emotions are currently running very high.
Please try to find it in your ever so (plastic) liberal hearts to forgive him for his comments

I had been thinking rather locally…
But now that you mention the old wounds: tolerance should be the mother of forgiveness…
So I hope, I will be forgiven

 

[DD67]

I ha

I had been thinking rather locally…
But now that you mention the old wounds: tolerance should be the mother of forgiveness…
So I hope, I will be forgiven

You will no doubt have noticed how nobody on this forum has mentioned the war. Or the fact that your lot started it & lost it, twice!
That's how tolerant & inclusive we are Capt D

 

[Holy Shit]

Now,now Basil.

 

[Capt. Drunkey]

lost it, twice!

We have a German proverb: Aller guten Dinge sind drei.


(First, you build a tunnel. Then, years later at 5 p.m., when all the British have tea, you roll in with your tanks, beach towels (we drape them across every empty chair and you all will be standing around getting very tired, then fall asleep…) and naturally Lederhosen…
Then suddenly we are everywhere…
…you vill bee Shoeplattlering in no time ent ve vill haff us such much fun togesser!)

 

[Holy Shit]

Mein Deutch ist sehr schlect ,vas ist der translation?

 

[DD67]

We have a German proverb: Aller guten Dinge sind drei.

"My Schnitzelwiesels are at the back door. I think it must be time for their daily walk"

Ok mate, but I'm not sure how that's relevant to this conversation?

 

[Holy Shit]

Ok I’m guessing all good things come in threes?
Yet another BB3 faux pas I believe.

 

[DD67]

Ok I’m guessing all good things come in threes?

Nah!
It's time to walk the Schnitzelwiesels.
You need to brush up on your German HS

 

[Sarky B’stard]

I see the point Sarky and I do exactly recall the friends I lost while „growing up“.

But there is another point to be considered:
Some people (yes, even close friends) you see in a totally different light once you went on a holiday together (seriously)…
…or upon encountering a psychologically highly demanding situation like ours is now!

To give folks some credit: we all deal differently with stress and trauma; some get aggressive, some ignore reality and lots become utterly submissive.
This way each of them finds a way of staying „sane“.

Meanwhile, I never met so many people who preach high morale and tolerance while at the same time acting utterly fascistic towards anyone with a different view.

This, paired with a traumatic and potentially threatening situation gives a highly explosive mixture!

I think this comes down to a simple quirk of human psychology. Most of us find comfort in crowds. The more we think alike the less we challenge our assumptions, prejudices and fears. And fear is the driver. What if I have made the wrong decision? Well if I can bully, persuade, cajole other people to my way of thinking I can’t be wrong. But if if they don’t knuckle under I panic that I might be.

It’s why I am naturally more of a goat than a sheep. I am not desperate to be part of the herd and I happily climb and eat thorny bushes. I can even remember her name.

 

[Sarky B’stard]

Mein Deutch ist sehr schlect ,vas ist der translation?

Good things come in threes.

But that’s open to misinterpretation!

 

[MartytheMartian]

Personally I think I'm a pig or maybe a Wild Bore (spelling deliberate).
The recent years seem to have brought out the worst in humanity. We used to turn to fisticuffs when the arguments got heated and, once someone had won or even if it was just a draw it was all over and we got on with life. Now we have become a world that communicates largely at a distance and there is no fight to end the argument but rather we have given this new communication system the ability to utterly destroy lives. Merely say something considered to be wrong by a certain group and you will be at risk of losing your job, friends and family and become a social pariah. I never thought I would see a Radio presenter advocating that someone who made a 'racist' comment against an England Football player should have their entire life, livelihood and access to public services stripped from them but that indeed has happened. We treat murderers and rapists better than we treat those who just have a different opinion.

Extremism has now been given a home where it doesn't need weapons to destroy and that extremism masquerades as 'Right' (or should that be left?) standing proudly on the Moral High Ground with it's foot on the neck of Freedom.

 

[Sarky B’stard]

Personally I think I'm a pig or maybe a Wild Bore (spelling deliberate).
The recent years seem to have brought out the worst in humanity. We used to turn to fisticuffs when the arguments got heated and, once someone had won or even if it was just a draw it was all over and we got on with life. Now we have become a world that communicates largely at a distance and there is no fight to end the argument but rather we have given this new communication system the ability to utterly destroy lives. Merely say something considered to be wrong by a certain group and you will be at risk of losing your job, friends and family and become a social pariah. I never thought I would see a Radio presenter advocating that someone who made a 'racist' comment against an England Football player should have their entire life, livelihood and access to public services stripped from them but that indeed has happened. We treat murderers and rapists better than we treat those who just have a different opinion.

Extremism has now been given a home where it doesn't need weapons to destroy and that extremism masquerades as 'Right' (or should that be left?) standing proudly on the Moral High Ground with it's foot on the neck of Freedom.

Ach stop whingeing ya great jessie!