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Can you imagine if either Don Rickles or George Carlin were alive today what they would make of this conundrum of people taking everything from the price of kumquats to toilet paper as a personal affront upon their fragile wee ids?
That's possibly what the world needs more of at this particular time. Someone willing and able to tell us all to get over ourselves and grow a thicker skin along with a stronger back bone.
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My teachers taught me
Sticks and Stones
may break my bones
but names will never hurt me.
The Times are calling me to carry bigger sticks and bigger stones.
Too many sick people. Must be something in the water.
Can you imagine if either Don Rickles or George Carlin were alive today what they would make of this conundrum of people taking everything from the price of kumquats to toilet paper as a personal affront upon their fragile wee ids?
That's possibly what the world needs more of at this particular time. Someone willing and able to tell us all to get over ourselves and grow a thicker skin along with a stronger back bone.
I keep wanting to post something like this today. It's Mother's Day, just for an example, and people keep concentrating on how it could be a painful day for some. And I sympathize with anyone who has sad affiliations with this day. My SO does, for one. But it just seems like people are trying to escape pain or conflict by any means possible, and you can't. It's life, and there are about a million things that people could associate with a painful memory, but you have to accept that that's just how it is. Being protected from everything difficult in the world is not going to make you strong; it's going to make you weak. Again, I'm not trying to be callous about it -- why would I, I have my owns pains -- but you have to be reasonable and stronger than that, and let others celebrate what is good in life.
Carlin would have cut through the BS and identified it exactly for what it is.
And would have never backed down.
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Originally Posted by mike1003
I wish more would do the same
Me too. Some are. And I respect them for it.
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