What have I learnt this week

[fido4us]

No matter how bad things look or you think your life sux, take five minutes to look around you, there are people in far deeper poo or are worse off than yourself.
Get outside every day, Miracles are waiting everywhere

Whole heartedly agree - life's too short for self pity. If you don't like it - change it!!

[speewa158]

Whole heartedly agree - life's too short for self pity. If you don't like it - change it!!

OR you are exactly where you want to be right now , & the only constant in life is change 

[Tom]

Do not wash the BBQ's with hot water, while the wife is in the shower.

[Bird]

What have I learnt..


Australian drivers are getting dumber and worse.

[griz066]

That people who hide behind the anonymity of their keyboard, aren't as tough & hardcore in person

[Matto]

Australian drivers are getting dumber and worse.

You need to come to Cairns for a while. As much as I'd like to blame the tourists (and there's certainly some of them that need re-educating with a sack of half-bricks), the locals are just as bad.

Contrast this to when I was driving in LA a few years back. Everyone was courteous, left room, let you change lanes if/when you needed to, etc. I was dreading it, we've all heard stories about the lawlessness of the LA freeways, but it was wonderfully refreshing. Even when I did do something silly, right in front of a cop as it turns out, he just smiled at the useless tourist and waved me through - here it would have resulted in a half-hour verbal barrage. Whenever I get cranky on the roads here, I try and remember that if people in LA can behave in a civil fashion, then I'm sure I can too.

That people who hide behind the anonymity of their keyboard, aren't as tough & hardcore in person

Some people. Doesn't apply to me - I'm actually tougher. But even I pale before the sheer hardcoreness of D4D.

This week I've learnt that Friday is the best day of the week - it's just such a shame that there's 4 work days in front of it.

Cheers,
Matto

[Bird]

Contrast this to when I was driving in LA a few years back. Everyone was courteous, left room, let you change lanes if/when you needed to, etc.

Victoria was like that the first time I moved here in 92-93.. Couldnt believe it (Coming from Sydney, Russia would havse been better)

But now Melbourne is just as ****ed

[chester ver2.0]

That whenever i cycle to work it will always be a head wind home no matter what

[Matto]

Couldnt believe it (Coming from Sydney, Russia would havse been better)

Sydney must be worse than I thought then!

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(and yes, at 1:42 he really is shooting at the driver...)

Cheers,
Matto

[Bunyip]

Ah, the commute to work everyday :-)

No wonder so many people have dash mounted cameras!!!

Bunyip

[ralphedward]

My learning has lead me to the belief that no matter how old I am (52 years) and no matter how much I have experienced I will never know as much as my  30yr old, 21 yr old and 17 yr old children (I've still got the 13yr old bluffed).  One day I hope to be young enough to know everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kylarama]

One day I hope to be young enough to know everything!

You did!  about 35 years ago... but you've forgotten it all now

I love the retort we get when we remind our oldest that we were 15 once too.  " yeah nah it's different these days, like you guys had it so much easier back then"

[corynmelnkids]

I learnt that Fridays are terrible days when you have no Internet and no Computers all day when your business relies on them to do just about everything. Just glad its over but still have 4 hour tomorrow to struggle through hopefully it may all be working tomorrow.

[Jeepers Creepers]

I learnt not to stuff up my dates and rule out the wrong Friday in my diary.

Thinking the Kilkivan Xmas drinks was next Friday, i'd booked in 7 mows for yesterday and a further 3 today.

I've now started taking jobs for next Friday..... May as well, seeing as how i cant tell my arse from my elbow.

[briann532]

My learning has lead me to the belief that no matter how old I am (52 years) and no matter how much I have experienced I will never know as much as my  30yr old, 21 yr old and 17 yr old children (I've still got the 13yr old bluffed).  One day I hope to be young enough to know everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mt sentiments exactly - Well said........

I've also learnt that everything now is "like"something. It never "is" its "like"

So the car was like super cool. It wasn't super cool it was like super cool.

Ah the digital world.....................
At least beer is still real.

Oh no sorry, I've been told its "like"awesome. Not actually awesome, "like"awesome...................

Get a haircut and learn to talk. Lets hope Gen Z has some direction and hope.......

[Paul (SA)]

For some reason, it is taking me much longer to get up off the floor when wrestling with the kids, dogs etc.....

[xcvator]

For some reason, it is taking me much longer to get up off the floor when wrestling with the kids, dogs etc.....

That's coz the floor gets further away as you get older