davywavy | Some home truths.

In a nation of 60,000,000 people, you can find an exception to every social rule or law. Saying ‘This happened…’ isn’t necessarily a convincing argument to support a demand for change unless either the occurrence is statistically significant, or the prevention of reoccurrence is worth the upheaval of change or legislation. In modern society, the number of real loopholes is surprisingly small.

Half the people you meet will be of below average intelligence and ability. That includes half of the people reading this statement.

If you quit your job, dump your partner, and stop paying your rent, you won’t get any sympathy when you complain about being single, unemployed, and homeless.

If your argument for change can be summarised by the phrase “I don’t like this and I want other people to do the work to change it”, don’t be surprised when you don’t get much support from the people who’d have to do the work.

The best way to lose weight can be summarised in the phrase: ‘Eat less food and take more exercise’. Special teas, milkshakes, and tablets won’t work as well, believe me.

If you dig a tunnel to France, sooner or later the French are going to want to use it.

If you give the population firearms, don’t act all surprised when they start firing them at each other.

Trendy ‘bumster’ jeans with the waistband ripped off will make you look fatter than you are, no matter how slender you are in reality.

Socialist economic systems work perfectly until you involve people.

People who volunteer to do important, responsible jobs in their spare time tend not to have important, responsible jobs in real life. There is often a very good reason for this.

Don’t complain that your glass is half empty. Instead be grateful that you got a glass at all.

People won’t get smarter or friendlier if you bomb them.

If you want something decent, chances are you’ll have to pay for it.

Your cat is not intelligent, wise, or in any way mystical, nor does it understand you except inasmuch as you give it food. It is a fat bundle of domesticated fur and, no, it isn’t even as smart as that dog down the road.

Complaining that an inaccurate depiction is offensive to your religion is proof that your religion is crap. If your god(dess) isn’t capable of handling a bunch of people getting it wrong then your god(dess) isn’t worth the time. Stop whining and get a better one.

Most people think your baby is ugly, they’re just polite.

Accusing people of being stupid is the best way of ensuring that they will act accordingly.

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The best way to lose weight can be summarised in the phrase: ‘Eat less food and take more exercise’

For a home truth, that's palpably not true you know.

It should say
The best way to lose weight can be summarised in the phrase: ‘Eat less calories and take more exercise’

If I eat less food than before, but eat solid lard, then I'm probably not going to lose weight.
And in fact, the last half of that isn't necessarily true either, because taking exercise can cause you to trade fat for increased muscle development. Healthier, yes, but not necessarily lighter.

Next week, home near-truths.

Also, if you restricted the people you spent time with to an intellectual elite, then you wouldn't meet many people of below-(national)-average intelligence/ability.

*tuts*

I could hardly claim to be doing that...have you *seen* my friends list? *grin*

Very well, in that case begin the statement with teh words "Unless you're a pedant...", because my version is how the vast majority of people understand the case.

No. It's a dangerous misconception. More people attempt to diet by "starving" themselves, by denying themselves food, than anything else. And it isn't the best way to lose weight. The best way to lose weight is to replace high-calorific density foods with lower ones.

Robert

If people don't get the idea of doing things in moderation then no amount of advice will help.

Your cat is not intelligent, wise, or in any way mystical, nor does it understand you except inasmuch as you give it food. It is a fat bundle of domesticated fur and, no, it isn’t even as smart as that dog down the road.

Grin.

hurm...
you know I'm sure that they did a study and found worked out that cats are smarter than dogs. I have no idea how they did it (essay or multiple choice, I know not) and I freely accept that some of the mogs I have meet are only slighly more sentient than a brick whilst some pooches have a definete spark of light behind their eyes but as a whole I'm positive that cats got proved more on the ball. If I can find the reference I'll let you know, till then I'll just back it up with opinion and preference.

It was more this bit Your cat is not intelligent, wise, or in any way mystical, especially the last word, that amused me.
I fully accept that cats can be wonderful companions, smart, etc etc.
I just generally don't get on very well with the hairballs, being allergic doesn't help.

There's some correlation between brain size / mass (I forget which) and spine length. So giraffes are walking leaf eating machines, while elephants can be trained to work for reward. Similarly, those elephants are less intelligent than humans.

Could you train an elephant to work in McDonalds?

Quite probably with more success than some of the usual crop :)

...I agree with all but one of your points.

Socialist economic systems work perfectly until you involve ~~people~~ Americans.

*nods*

'Scuse me? I reckon any socialist system that involved me would hit trouble fairly quickly :)

... who rattled your cage today ;)?

Work, mainly. It's amazing how much a 14-hour working day makes me look on the bleaker side.

hmm conversly when I was workign 14 hour days I was much happier than I am now being unemployed

sitting around all day / being muchly bored even if i go 'out' makes things look much more bleak to me

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