Tip 171: Sometimes, when you feel really stressed at work, take a moment and make a paper airplane, and shoot it across to a colleague. Then proceed to have an office competition of whose plane will fly farthest.
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Tip 171: Sometimes, when you feel really stressed at work, take a moment and make a paper airplane, and shoot it across to a colleague. Then proceed to have an office competition of whose plane will fly farthest.
Tip 172: Eat chocolate, without guilt.
I think it looks right with a d, but I get the feeling I'm wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I, too, have long eaten porrige. You too could have a mind like mine! - eat porridge/ porrige.
173 - Eat Muesli with Fresh Fruit
(Bacon and Eggs is nice too)
174- If someone looks like they are about to go for you, hit them first.
According to my packet of Scott's its porage!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Spend a little time everyday doing something that you enjoy.
Life's to short to spend it just fulfilling duty.
Keep a dictionary handy
I feel better about it now. It must be the porridge/ porrige/porage.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I've often been a work my dic in my hand... I'm sorry. Shall I just quietly go now?...yes... that's the best thing...Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
176. Learn how to spell porridge. ;)
What??? :lol: ACKKK!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
It makes me extremely happy to be able to laugh and be an idiot in a world with so much prescribed wisdom and misery and obvious smarts. There is nothing like sucking thumb and running away from any impediment to do it.
177. If you aren't happy then fake happiness by all means. Anyway there's a chance you become so adept at faking it that it begins to feel real.
There was this little flowchart (in Russian though, but still contained useful advice) that I think I need to share.
http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/...tuff/nenoi.jpg
My Russian's not very good, but it vaguely translates to
Universal problem solving, version 1.0
Is it very bad/Are you feeling very bad? (No) ---> Good
(Yes!)
|
\/
Are yo doing anything to improve the situation? (Yes)------>Good
(No)
|
\/
Then don't whine! DON'T WHINE, *****!
It is a d! I looked it up on wikipedia to check. Also porage.Quote:
Originally Posted by NikolaiI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge
Can I just say that I am an English Tutor and I often have cause to handle one in the classroom. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
I'm not sure I'm convinced Paul.... it followed this tip:
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Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
Sounds more like mischief than an attempt to fulfill duty to me! ;)
I can do my duty too...:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
Tip 3746: Do your duty.
I duly do my duty
I'm not being smart or cutey
And certainly not fruity
I just do my duty.
I'm convinced of this! You've got a weird little facet to your personality, which when I see it makes me think that people were not so intellectually deprived who grew up before all the technology - dutiful and clever, too! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Tip 180 - (I think!:hat:) don't forget to check out your local amateur theatre groups.
People often do and there are a few little gems there sometimes, certainly better than being stuck in the house trying to avoid trash TV! Had a good night last night watching a good amateur production of Chekov's Three Sisters.
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
And are you happy now?
I imagine he is. If you watch Paul, isn't it funny what he can so creatively entertain himself with? (and us, too!) He must have learned early on to entertain himself with what was readily available to him. He puts "do your duty" way down the list at 3746 because duty doesn't feel like duty since he's having fun at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Tip 181 - Entertain yourself
No! That would be triumphalist.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I'm merely exuding a self congratulatory confidence.:smile5:
I learnt early how to creatively play with myself. :smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
Yeah, big win there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Tip 182 - Find time for at least one quality meal every day or every other day at least.
Feed your soul as well as your belly!
I had a pot noodle and jaffa cakes today. I'm living it up...hopefully not bringing it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I occupy myself constantly...Quote:
Originally Posted by NikolaiI
Tip 183 - Have good belly laughter every day.
An indispensable skill!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
I think the phrase you're looking for is "play by myself," no?
No :biggrin5:Quote:
Originally Posted by NikolaiI
Tip 184: Always wash your trousers before you put them away in the wardrobe - especially after a couple of weeks - and don't leave them there and forget they need washing and pack them in your workbag a year or so later having forgotten the state they're in.
I did this today and had to make a special trip home to get some suitably clean ones. They were so sticky and shiny that they nearly looked two-tone. It's been another warm day today and I thought I might attract flies...
Tip 185: Make sure your trouser pockets haven't got big holes in them.
The ones I got out today had holes in the pockets which I had forgotten about until I put my change in there and it fell down my trouser leg. Annoying...
Heartwarming to see you taking your first hesitant steps back into the community though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
It's the realising that does it.
Tip 186: Have complete faith in placebos
:lol:What with his pot noodle and jaffa cake business lunch?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Tip 187 - Refuse to eat pot noodles.
:yesnod:
I had no time - I was changing my trousers. (Not as bad as it sounds if you're just on this page).Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Tip 188: Impress your relatives with a Christmas Pot Noodle.
http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/845...mas-pot-noodle
It really does have an edge of stuffing. (They were selling them off in the summer at the shop near where I work. If you carefully peel off the lid, it can be used as a Christmas bauble for the tree). Mmmmmmm
Tip #189 - If you come on the forum and say, "I have brain cancer," and someone responds, "The perfect cure is to have your entire head amputated," - rather than expecting that poster to prove to you that this is most effective method of treatment, even if he is a neurologist or oncologist who can provide you with some kind of data to support his claim, it's best to assume that, even having the best of intentions, a poster could be mistaken.
This isn't bad, but funny. "Trousers" is one of the funniest words you British use. We don't say trousers, we say pants. Very occasionally someone will say "slacks." And short pants are capris. But trousers is just so funny! No one would ever, ever use the word trousers!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
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Originally Posted by Vonny
If by 'no one', you mean 'no American', I think I'd disagree. I have heard Americans use 'trousers' but they tend to mean formal wear of some kind - though even then, not exclusively. I think there's a lot of regional variation on this within the US.
True. Americas think we're the only ones. Even for those of us who are glad to discover we're not the only ones, the speech forms are habit.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
But where I live anyway, if someone spoke of "trousers" they would get a very strange look, especially if they were under 70. Mostly, it's jeans here. But I like seeing "trousers" on the forum - so funny!