Rant: My patience

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Rant: My patience

Post by Jamie Bond » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:33 am

I feel over the past couple years I have slowly been losing my capacity for patience.

I think I need to go on a meditative retreat to India or something and meditate with the Hindi's

I dunno. I just get pissed off a lot easier now than I used to.
Maybe I just need to quit my job
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Post by Tigger » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:05 pm

Jamie, I feel your irritation. I have often wondered if the world is getting stupider or if I just have less nerves for it to get on. I am of the theoretical mindset that we are born with a limited amount of patience - the more stupid crap we have to deal with, the less patience we have left. As it gets towards the end we start to notice and wonder where it all went!

I quite often resist the urge to run away - into the mountains, down the road with no goal in mind, I don't care. (I hate the outdoors and am not fond of driving for long periods of time, so both of those should give some indication of how desperate it can get.) I wish I had some sage words of advice, but I don't. All I can say is: You are definitely not alone.
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Post by Spongiform » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:55 pm

[quote="Tigger";p="694160"]I have often wondered if the world is getting stupider...[/quote]

I think so.
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Post by mikehendo » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:01 pm

[quote="Spongiform";p="694183"][quote="Tigger";p="694160"]I have often wondered if the world is getting stupider...[/quote]

I think so.[/quote]
and here is proof:
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And a whole new level of stupidity..
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Post by Blaze » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:31 pm

I think I need to go on a meditative retreat to India or something and meditate with the Hindi's
You're just looking for an excuse to try "alternative medicine".
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Post by Deacon » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:49 pm

...and hook up with hot Indian girls :)
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Post by bagheadinc » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:54 pm

[quote="mikehendo";p="694217"]And a whole new level of stupidity..
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Post by mikehendo » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:41 pm

[quote="Deacon";p="694271"]...and hook up with hot Indian girls :)[/quote]
woohoo! I would imagine the tantric possibilities would be limitless.. ;)
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Post by HTRN » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:16 pm

Hmm, The Kama Sutra did originate in India... :mrgreen:


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Post by mikehendo » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:22 pm

it did indeed.. or at least in what can be historically referred to as the Indian empire..
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Post by Negative Polarity » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:19 pm

[quote="Lucksi";p="694143"]Nah, you are just getting old. Soon you will be complaining about today's youth (if you aren´t already), will be taking afternoon naps and wonder where your hair is going.[/quote]
With the exception of losing my hair, I do all of that now... and I'm only 23. Of course, I haven't really entered the "real world" yet, and it scares me to death.
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Post by RubyJ » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:27 pm

I find that I'm really starting to lose my patience at red lights. I've begun a terrible habit of just running them late at night. I've been lucky so far.
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Post by Deacon » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:28 pm

Yeah, when there's no other traffic on the road I sometimes treat red lights as stop signs.
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Post by Jamie Bond » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:32 pm

haha
There's one light I absolutely HATE on the way home from work, because I drive home from work around midnight or 1 AM when no one else is on the road. Longest freaking light ever, and 90% of the time theres about 1 or 2 cars waiting with me, and I chicken out har. Lots of ghost cars in BC.
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Post by kaiju01 » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:52 pm

I was driving through some suburban area of Los Angeles last week and got stuck behind this tortoise of a utility van. I maintained my composure at each gate of the stop sign gauntlet. However, there was this red light in the middle of the area that we hit. So we're sitting there and the green persists the other way with no traffic in sight. The driver perceives the onset of yellow and starts inching into the intersection. Yellow doesn't come. He's still inching. Yellow comes. He's thru the crosswalk on the far side. At this point he realizes his error and slams on the brakes. He then sits there for the next three or four seconds until he saw me accelerate.

I just loved those few seconds of guilt.
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