Facts of life

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Some amusing facts of life:

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.

3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.

4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

6. Lazy man's idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

8. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention! It never fails.)

9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.

13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

19. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.

20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

25. It isn't the jeans that make your ass look fat.

26. If you had to identify, in 1 word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, & never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

27. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

29. You should not confuse your career with your life.

30. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

31. Never lick a steak knife.

32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

35. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

36. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

37. Your friends love you anyway.

38. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

39. If you are not replaceable, you are not promotable
Submitted by Der Alta

40. Man who goes to sleep with with an itchy butt, wakes up with a smelly finger.
Submitted by Wallrunner51

41. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
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42. Time can be money and your worst enemy at the same time.
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43. Don't lend people money, it gives them amnesia...
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44. The amount of people walking or driving slowly in front of you is proportional to how urgently you need to get somewhere.
Submitted by ultrabeat

45. You aren't totally useless. You can be used as a bad example.
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46.The one who laughs last, didn't get the joke.
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47. When you go shopping with the wife, after three hours of walking around, always expect to revisit the first shop she visited three hours ago, and then only to realize the item she now wants more than anything in the world is sold and out of stock.
Submitted by Sphinx

48. Having a clean conscience, is a symptom of memory loss.
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My favorite is no.3 :lol:

Post some of your own if you want....but they have to be good or funny!
 
They're all funny. But I have to protest #31. I lick knives all the time and I've never had an accident. I simply angle the sharp edge so that it's always coming off my tongue ass I slide it across. This ties in well with #24. If you do a little thinking, you won't slice your tongue in half.
 
Always have a back-up plan, and an exit strategy.

If you are not replacable, you are not promotable.
 
If you were once in charge, and continue to work in the same place after someone else is in charge, help them look good. You may never be the boss again, but you'll always have the boss' ear, and it WILL stand you in good stead someday.
If you go out of your way to make the new boss' life hard, or to make him/her look bad, you will pay, and pay until the day you quit, or are fired. And don't kid yourself, it's coming, and you will go down in flames in front of a great many people.
 
#3 and #38 are my favorites, but again, all of them are funny.

Here is one, more of a joke than anything but:
The man who goes to sleep with with an itchy butt, wakes up with a smelly finger.

Mods remove if it's to gross

From,
Chris.
 
When all your base is belong to someone else, don't worry. Just lie back and remember that you DO NOT WANT.
 
Had to chuckle at a few of them.

"Drunks always tell the truth, but that won't save you if you tell a women she's overweight."
 
I like the one where it goes on about religion where people like to share it with you but you cant share it with them or sumink.
 
#18 is so very true.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
-Compliments to quote of the day on Google. I'll post some more if any good ones come up.
 
If you are not replacable, you are not promotable.
My wife is absolute living proof of this one. She's the only one who gets anything done in her group, and she's the only one who keeps the rest of the idiots organized there. Of course, since she's got about 2.5-3 times the work output of anybody else in the section, they can't promote her to manage them, because the work output would slow to a trickle.
 
Doing somthing wrong is always infinetly easier than putting it right again.
 
What's the difference between time and money? You can't buy a PS3 with time. :grumpy:
 
What's the difference between time and money? You can't buy a PS3 with time. :grumpy:


Yes you can buddy!!!!. Time allows you to work and earn money. The shorter the time the less amount of money you are likely to make.

I'm studying to be an architect, clients give you a specific time to finish up the plans, the quicker you are, the more projects you're gonna finish...and guess what that gives you...;)






Ciao!
 
Slick Rick
25. It isn't the jeans that make your ass look fat.

Funny, but sometimes wrong. This notion leads many skinny girls to believe that anything they stuff themselves into makes them look good. It is possible to make a small butt look big, many women need to learn this.

SR
39. If you are not replaceable, you are not promotable

👍 Nice.
 
Dont trust a man with a scapel in one hand and a gerbil in the other.
I don't know what a scapel is, but if it's anything like a scalpel, count me out. :scared:

Copy/paste from an unknown site:

Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, understanding, economical, and a good cook. But the law allows only one wife.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Marriage is when a man and woman become one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with superheroes.
Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
 
Yes you can buddy!!!!. Time allows you to work and earn money. The shorter the time the less amount of money you are likely to make.

I'm studying to be an architect, clients give you a specific time to finish up the plans, the quicker you are, the more projects you're gonna finish...and guess what that gives you...;)






Ciao!
Go find faults with other people's posts! :grumpy:

Edit: Try going to a store and trying to buy a PS3 or something with time. And howcome rich people never have time to do anything? (Or so it seems, I don't know for sure, but I'm sure they don't have more time)
 
Go find faults with other people's posts! :grumpy:

Edit: Try going to a store and trying to buy a PS3 or something with time. And howcome rich people never have time to do anything? (Or so it seems, I don't know for sure, but I'm sure they don't have more time)

You can buy PS3 with time, the more time you stay outside camping for it, the more you're likely to get it ;)

Rich people never have time do to anything that is not related to make money...i.e. less time with the family, friends, blah blah blah. (and that's when time becomes you're enemy ;) )

But I retract my statement though. You can have all the time in the world but what you really need, is initiative and desire to make money. *







* see street bums.

Ciao!
 
I'm studying to be an architect, clients give you a specific time to finish up the plans, the quicker you are, the more projects you're gonna finish...and guess what that gives you...;)
It gives you a whole bunch of last minute changes and 'revisits' that the client hands you in a final review meeting, 3 days before the plans and specs are due to go to the printer, when you already barely have time to go over the drawings in a locked conference room, alone, with no telephone, so that you can check every detail, note, and section reference for typos and mistakes, and to fix all the coordination mistakes made by the engineers, where ductwork runs through light fixtures and there's no room for a sprinkler head (even though the mechanical and electrical engineer sit directly across from each other), and you'll need at least 48 hours to get the engineers to stop using the old version and update to the current floor plan (which was given to them 2 weeks ago when you thought it was final).

Of course, the printing dealine is already a month later than it was supposed to be (and 2 weeks after you ran out of fee) because the county engineer has insisted the building be relocated on the site to provide additional runoff treatment complying with the new stormwater management regulations that went into effect while the building was being designed, and the client has been considering no decision to be final until the actual concrete is being poured (after beating you down on your fee at the beginning of the project).

And you have two other projects going.
 
....so that you can check every detail, note, and section reference for typos and mistakes, and to fix all the coordination mistakes made by the engineers, where ductwork runs through light fixtures and there's no room for a sprinkler head (even though the mechanical and electrical engineer sit directly across from each other), and you'll need at least 48 hours to get the engineers to stop using the old version and update to the current floor plan (which was given to them 2 weeks ago when you thought it was final).....

Well, if you actually write all the specs and notes on every project then yeah, you're doomed. We used to copy and paste what we needed from another similar project so we don't waste time checking for typos. Getting the engineers to use a different floor plan is not pretty at all though.

Of course, the printing deadline is already a month later than it was supposed to be (and 2 weeks after you ran out of fee) because the county engineer has insisted the building be relocated on the site to provide additional runoff treatment complying with the new storm water management regulations that went into effect while the building was being designed, and the client has been considering no decision to be final until the actual concrete is being poured (after beating you down on your fee at the beginning of the project).

I'm speechless on that....






Ciao!
 
Well, if you actually write all the specs and notes on every project then yeah, you're doomed. We used to copy and paste what we needed from another similar project so we don't waste time checking for typos.
...which is a great way to wind up with specs full of meaningless ASTM requirements that nobody in the office really understands, and that aren't relevant to the systems you're actually using, and specs that conflict with the drawings (spec calls for extruded aluminum coping/fascia system; drawings show a brake-formed steel system somebody pasted in from an old detail; so you pay for the expensive aluminum piece but the cheap steel is what gets installed on the job).

I edit all my technical specs from scratch, every time, except for the boiler plate stuff in the general conditions.
 
Another fact- the amount of people walking or driving slowly in front of you is proportional to how urgently you need to get somewhere.
 
...which is a great way to wind up with specs full of meaningless ASTM requirements that nobody in the office really understands, and that aren't relevant to the systems you're actually using, and specs that conflict with the drawings (spec calls for extruded aluminum coping/fascia system; drawings show a brake-formed steel system somebody pasted in from an old detail; so you pay for the expensive aluminum piece but the cheap steel is what gets installed on the job).

I edit all my technical specs from scratch, every time, except for the boiler plate stuff in the general conditions.

Yeah, THAT's what I'm talking about, the general conditions. Door/window schedules and other type of notes do have to be done from scratch.

However, If we're adding a new partition to an existing house, then the details and sections might very similar to a work that we have done before, so all we need to do is to change...umhh.. the roof type? probably the type of studs used, and the size of the exterior wall or something.

I don't know if you do residential work or mostly commercial, but I do admire the fact that you actually write all the specs and draw every detail from scratch EVERY single time. Apparently time is not your enemy ;)

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