Who among us has a "right" to complain?

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quade

I know I don't. Not really.

Is my life what I wanted it to be? Not really.
Is it as bad as it could be? Not really.

I heard a story about a big Hollywood star the other day. He was offered $3 million dollars to fly to another country, do essentially a walk on role of shooting for 4 days and he bitched and moaned that he wanted $4 million for the work; a million for each day. He thought he was irreplaceable and the producer would just roll over and give him the extra money. Of course, he got fired.

Over the weekend a skydiving friend of mine on FB was bitching because he got weathered out and didn't get to go skydiving. The first person to respond to him was a former team mate of mine who became a quad in a skydiving accident.

Yeah, I've got no damn right to bitch about anything.

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A few months ago there was a hispanic man going door to door asking people if they wanted their lawn mowed. [He was very polite but was looking rather rough] They came to my house and asked my wife if we wanted our yard mowed, to which she said that I mow our lawn and politely said no. She stayed outside to smoke..[this was before she quit] and she noticed the man talking to Franchesca, a young 12 year old girl who lived with her parents two houses down and noticed Franchesca giving the man 20 dollars. My wife asked her later why she gave the man money when her father mowed their lawn and he was always very timely their lawn is always kept to perfection. Her answer? "He needed it more than I did"

This put quite a few things in perspective for me.

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.. the planet is not going to hell if we have kids like that to follow us.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[CazmoDee 3]

^THAT!

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Darius11

I’ll give an old Persian saying,
“The shoe or the foot”.

The story goes one guy has lost a shoe, and another his foot, yet the anguish and frustration they each feel is the same.

Unfortunately that’s just being human. You can always say it can be worst because it can, but the reality is it can also be better. That’s just life trying to put any system or reasoning to why something is the way it is, is a waste of time. It simply is what it is.

The question I have is did the guy that lost his foot lose his shoe too?

'Cuz then he could have more reason to complain.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[diablopilot 2]

First amendment in this country provides the "right" to complain. And there's no amendment that says any of the rest of us have to listen or solve anyone else's whiney ass problems.

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

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riddler

This is why Americans should travel. Not to Hawaii or Disneyland - travel to the places they tell you not to go, because they're "too dangerous". Very few times I have gone to other countries and felt any sense of being threatened. I live next to low income, drug-ridden apartments, and have come close to being killed more times living in my own house than going to another country.

Point is, I've been to Indonesia and seen entire families living in piles of garbage. Not just a few people, like an old man (of maybe 28 years, who looked 50), his ragged wife, and their children. Babies, super skinny dogs. They built shanties out of the garbage discarded by the mini-mall, behind which they lived. 30 years is the average male life expectancy, and wars between islands claim more people than they can estimate.

I've been to the Mennonite villages of Belize, where the young boys' swim and dive into crocodile-infested rivers, and the parents raise kids only to work the farms. Many of them are missing limbs from the farm machinery.

I've been to Fiji, where the villagers ask people to bring boxes of band-aids, because the kids are all walking around with maggot-infested scrapes and wounds from living on a harsh island.

My dad is a vet and I would sometimes visit him in the psych ward of the VA hospital, where the men from overseas wars, who were too functionally incompetent to live in the real world, would tell horror stories of things they did to the people in SE Asia, and what those people did to them. Here, they get treatment, and a place to stay. Over there, their war veterans that can't live in the real world just curl up and die with no one to take care of them.

You get back to your air-conditioned, Internet-fed, kitchen-appliance, manicured lawn house in the States, looking forward to your next jump out of an airplane, just for entertainment, and realize that life here isn't so bad.

This is the reason that the owner of the company I work for states "We have all won the lottery just by being born in this country."

[Bolas 5]

I have that right

Will be credit card debt free in a week.
Wedding plans underway to marry the love of my life on a beautiful beach.
Will finally get the new car and laptop we need.
More Skydiving.
We're healthy and gainfully employed.

BUT..

I can't beat this damn Candy Crush level. It has bombs and jellies. If you concentrate on the bombs you don't get all the jellies and if you focus on the jellies the bombs get you. Been stuck on it a week and it's not even a section end level.

AAARGH!!!! #FML

TO HELL WITH EVERYTHING!!!

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

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diablopilot

First amendment in this country provides the "right" to complain. And there's no amendment that says any of the rest of us have to listen or solve anyone else's whiney ass problems.

That's why I used "sarcasti-quotes."

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[champu 1]

We all have a right to complain but most of us are not right to complain.

Whether it's friends, family, coworkers, or twitter, I try to make it a point not to bring up problems until I've already figured out the angle from which the problem is funny. And in my life, there's always that angle if I'm willing to look for it. It's asking a lot less of people to share a laugh with you at your own expense than it is to always be fishing for pity.

Example: "My car battery was dead this morning, so I used my bicycle to run over a nail on the way to work instead."

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champu

Example: "My car battery was dead this morning, so I used my bicycle to run over a nail on the way to work instead."

Hey, at least you have a bike to be able to run over that nail. My shoe has a hole in the sole and the nail went into my foot.

Poor me.

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monkycndo

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Example: "My car battery was dead this morning, so I used my bicycle to run over a nail on the way to work instead."

Hey, at least you have a bike to be able to run over that nail. My shoe has a hole in the sole and the nail went into my foot.

Luxury.

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monkycndo

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Example: "My car battery was dead this morning, so I used my bicycle to run over a nail on the way to work instead."

Hey, at least you have a bike to be able to run over that nail. My shoe has a hole in the sole and the nail went into my foot.

Poor me.



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"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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My son had a rabies scare this week !

He was treated, the cat quarantined, both son and cat are doing fine!


Kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

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monkycndo

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Example: "My car battery was dead this morning, so I used my bicycle to run over a nail on the way to work instead."

Hey, at least you have a bike to be able to run over that nail. My shoe has a hole in the sole and the nail went into my foot.

Poor me.



Hey, at least you have a shoe and a foot. Some old Persians only have one or the other. Now you have a nail, too. (maybe a tetanus farm, too.)

[NWFlyer 2]

These seem relevant:

http://twentytwowords.com/2013/09/04/middle-class-problems-people-on-twitter-overreacting-about-small-annoyances-15-pictures/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/middle-class-problems

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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diablopilot

First amendment in this country provides the "right" to complain. And there's no amendment that says any of the rest of us have to listen or solve anyone else's whiney ass problems.

Or even hang out with 'em.



I have a mansion forget the price
Ain't never been there they tell me it's nice
I live in hotels tear out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all

They say I'm crazy but I have a good time
I'm just looking for clues at the scene of the crime
Life's been good to me so far

My Maserati does 185
I lost my license now I don't drive
I have a limo ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I'm attacked

I'm making records my fans they can't wait
They write me letters tell me I'm great
So I got me an office gold records on the wall
Just leave a message maybe I'll call

Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through
Everybody says I'm cool (He's cool)
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Life's been good to me so far

Joe Walsh

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Ijits.... peeling pomegranites!

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Yeah, I've got no damn right to bitch about anything.

My father in law passed away early this week, we've been in LA for a month since he went into the hospital...I was up with him for his last 60 hours holding his hand and talking to him.

I'll never lose the image in my mind of how he looked at me knowing death was coming but wanting to live and be with his wife & daughter just one more minute.

His life was a hard one but seeing how he loved it, the immense value he put on things we often take for granted, saddens me all the more. I understand now better than ever, just how precious our time here is & how important the people around us are.

He was 85, vibrant and outgoing...he had a really rough childhood, little in his world came easy & he had plenty of cause to 'complain' about his life, about his circumstances
- - - but he NEVER did.

He was always positive, always funny...had the same sarcastically dry sense of humor I do. I really liked the guy.

Spending these last weeks with him gave me pause to take a hard look at MY life & problems...

I always knew I was a lucky guy that Forest Gumps his way through life...I think I now have an even greater appreciation for MY circumstances.

Marty loved his life and his family...that's all he cared about - watching him fight for life with every ounce of strength in his body for a month certainly has changed how I look at mine. Realigned the priorities a bit.

I know without a doubt where my wife gets her guts, her tenacity...

It's not about what we have or don't have...the things that go sideways or give us grief - it about having the day, the time to live, to laugh & to love...what else really matters?



I saw the sun rise this morning...I have NO complaints!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

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This thread SUCKS! WTF are the moderators thinking?

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airtwardo

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Yeah, I've got no damn right to bitch about anything.

My father in law passed away early this week, we've been in LA for a month since he went into the hospital...I was up with him for his last 60 hours holding his hand and talking to him.

I'll never lose the image in my mind of how he looked at me knowing death was coming but wanting to live and be with his wife & daughter just one more minute.

His life was a hard one but seeing how he loved it, the immense value he put on things we often take for granted, saddens me all the more. I understand now better than ever, just how precious our time here is & how important the people around us are.

He was 85, vibrant and outgoing...he had a really rough childhood, little in his world came easy & he had plenty of cause to 'complain' about his life, about his circumstances
- - - but he NEVER did.

He was always positive, always funny...had the same sarcastically dry sense of humor I do. I really liked the guy.

Spending these last weeks with him gave me pause to take a hard look at MY life & problems...

I always knew I was a lucky guy that Forest Gumps his way through life...I think I now have an even greater appreciation for MY circumstances.

Marty loved his life and his family...that's all he cared about - watching him fight for life with every ounce of strength in his body for a month certainly has changed how I look at mine. Realigned the priorities a bit.

I know without a doubt where my wife gets her guts, her tenacity...

It's not about what we have or don't have...the things that go sideways or give us grief - it about having the day, the time to live, to laugh & to love...what else really matters?



I saw the sun rise this morning...I have NO complaints!

You Sir, set the bar pretty darn high, one hell of an example of what it means to be a man.