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Happiness is a state of mind that cannot be achieved while you still yearn for something, be that material, revenge, love, fame or whatever.

Some people believe that love by itself can make you happy, but it is not so. Being in love only temporally blinds you to your other desires, but that euphoria wears off and soon you will have to face reality again. To be happy, you have to at peace with yourself, satisfied with your surroundings and reconciled with the fact that you cannot have everything.

This is why poor people are often happier than rich people. They can accept it easier that they will never own a Mercedes Benz or a large house while the rich always have another mountain to climb. Keeping up with the neighbors can be a tiring job.

There is nothing wrong with working towards a realistic goal, but as long as you yearn for something that is out of reach, you will continue to miss out on complete happiness, even if you have all the other things that your heart desires.

With revenge it is even worse. You cannot be happy while smarting for vengeance. It engulfs you in a cocoon of hate and even if you can extract your revenge in the end, it will not make you happy. Revenge is not sweet. It is an anticlimax that leaves you empty and without purpose.

So to be happy, you have to put your grudges behind you, accept the things that you cannot change, set reasonable goals, live in harmony with your surroundings, and most of all, be at peace with yourself.

Hey Guys, It is Friday! Enjoy the weekend.

Sometimes I forget that I’m an Idiot and from time to time I need the services of another Idiot to remind me that I’m an Idiot.

One such Idiot did put his hand up for the job but he was too big an Idiot thus overqualified for the job and methinks he rates his own idiotic advice way too high. Actually, I think he’s just over-inflated and believes that he’s the only Idiot in town. And then the same bloody Idiot sent his application to the wrong place by dropping it off on another blog. He should have brought it straight to me.

Anybody wishing to apply for this position may drop his/her résumé or business card (with the word ‘Idiot’ clearly written on it) at any of my existing or future blogs for swift processing. I cannot guarantee my regular appearance at any of the other blogs and dropping it off there may disqualify the applicant. I don’t pay peanuts and therefore monkeys should stay out of this. Only professional Idiots need to apply and no apprentices will be interviewed.

This is not a job for sissies; it entails long hours of vigilant watching and the reading of miles of boring blogs and comments to find something to pound on.

The successful applicant will be handsomely rewarded with diarrhoea-rich verbal abuse whenever he (or she) does the job properly by calling me an Idiot. Sorry, no basic salary; strictly commission only. No work, no pay.

This is a position of equal opportunity and any suitably qualified Idiot will be considered irrespective of race, religion, skin color, ethnicity, or gender. No hawkers, lawyers, female doctors or artificial inseminators please.

As it is not certain how many Idiots are around or how many may be interested in this post, I must request applicants not to mill around but to form a neat line to await their turn so not to block the way for my regular visitors.

Ah, no need to tell me now; I can still remember what I am.


Now go out there and have a glorious day

Are far more superior than men but its the men that give them that superiority and power,...............

There is an old saying.. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but, words will never hurt me", however, it seems this is not the case when it comes to bloggers.

No point in getting in a huff then deleting or hiding your profile whilst you go away and sulk.

What is it with you people that come and go like yoyo's, either grow a pair of balls (metaphorically speaking) or piss off!

Have a nice day!

Do you believe in such an entity? One word answers please....A simple 'yes' or 'no' will more than suffice.

That is one of the basic laws of nature. That is why we plant seeds and why we breed animals. Providing food for ourselves is the largest industry on the planet. We don’t just harvest; we produce, we process, pack, and distribute food. We even preserve food for later use. This set us apart from other higher order animals.

But it is while producing food where we have the largest impact on nature. We need space to produce food and in the process, we deprive wild life of their natural habitat. And that brings us back to our basic law; eat or be eaten.

If we were to leave the animal population unchecked, we will soon be without food. Rodents and predators will spoil our harvest long before we can get to it.

Some animals are downright destructive. If a fox gets into a chicken pen, he does not catch one and leave. He will kill all before he leaves. A porcupine will not dig out one or two potatoes; he will ruin the potato field as far as he goes. A baboon in a cornfield is the worse nightmare to a farmer. He will leave hundreds of corn heads on the ground while he ate only one.

As we cannot reason with them or prosecute them in our courts, we have to control their numbers in order to survive. And if the culling process can produce more meat at the same time, why not utilize it? Rodents, like rabbits and porcupines, make good meat and should not be wasted. They breed fast and will never be eradicated. Warthogs and other wild pigs cause massive damage to vegetable harvests while they are very edible.

And this affects you whether you eat meat or not. If animals are allowed to destroy our harvests, you will soon be without vegetables to eat. Animals have to die to put veggies on our tables. A lot of animals died to produce the corn flakes you had this morning; probably more than what it took to produce my bacon and eggs.

To those who object to an animal being killed quick and clean: Have you seen how they are killed in nature? Predators start eating their prey while they are still alive. Wild dogs does not even bother to kill their prey. They tear off chunks of flesh while the animal is still running. No, I fear humans kill their prey much more humanely.

Cruel as it may sound, and civilized as we are, we still have to eat or be eaten.


I wish you a grand day and try to keep your food down.

Terrorism is, in its broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror or fear, in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim. It is classified as fourth-generation warfare and as a violent crime.[citation needed] In modern times, terrorism is considered a major threat to society and therefore illegal under anti-terrorism laws in most jurisdictions.[citation needed][dubious – discuss] It is also considered a war crime under the laws of war when used to target non-combatants, such as civilians, neutral military personnel, or enemy prisoners of war.
Although "terrorism" originally referred to acts committed by a government, currently it usually refers to the killing of innocent people for political purposes in such a way as to create a spectacle ( WIKIPEDIA)

Funny, how many people refer to all Muslims as terrorists...isn't the great US of A and other countries guilty of terrorism when they invade other countries and killed millions and millions of innocents? or they is it simply their way of helping and making the world a better place , by murdering millions of innocents ?

From Patti. RoseHipster.

It doesn't take an iota of intelligence to know why this site is free.

What is it to the owners and the mods? Exactly. Think.

The more views a topic gets, the more participants it has, the more advertisers.

Simple.

Complain all you want, these topics will stay. And on the front lines.

Yes. You didn't say it should go away, you want it isolated or hidden. Good luck.

Certain items are normally found in sets of two and are therefore rightly referred to as a pair. Some examples of such items are shoes, slippers, socks, boots, stockings, shoelaces, gloves, cuff links, earrings, eyes, lungs, kidneys, skis, skates, speakers, chopsticks, knitting needles, etc.

Then there are items like handcuffs and headphones that are referred to as a pair although they may appear to be one item. However, upon closer examination, one can see it as two items joined together and we can reconcile ourselves quite easily with it as a pair.

But there is another category of items can causes more confusion as these items all appear to be single items and yet it is referred to as a pair. Examples of these are pants, trousers, trunks, shorts, jeans, glasses, sunglasses, binoculars, goggles, scissors, pliers, clippers, tweezers, tongs, and shears. The list can be split op in three sub-categories;

a garment to cover you from the waist down,
eyewear and optical instruments,
a tool with two jaws that can open and close.

Although they appear to be unrelated, they all have one thing in common. They started off as a pair of two separate items.

The trousers it had its humble beginnings as two legs worn to keep the legs warm. Later it gained flaps that overlapped at the top where it was tied around the waist. In time it became one single garment but the pair stayed.

Glasses also started off as a single lens called a monocle. Eventually two lenses were mounted in a single frame and once again the pair could not be dislodged from the item. After all, it is a pair of lenses in a single frame. Ditto for a pair of binoculars that can be seen as two telescopes made into one instrument.

But the last category, (pliers, tongs, scissors, etc) is the most interesting. Before the invention of the rivet they were in fact two separate pieces that had to be hooked into each other to be used. It was a true pair.

My grandfather had two giant pairs of these pliers – about a meter in length - that he used in his furnace. It worked the other way around. You had to open the legs to close the jaws and I believe this kind of technology is still in use today because the expansion of the rivet or stud, when used inside a furnace, makes it hard to open and close the pliers.

But the question I cannot answer is why a single item without legs is called a pair of panties while a bra is not a pair when it is clearly two cups joined in the middle.


Have a wonderful day.