Pets Things that please me

[Caesar]

Paris-Roubaix.

 

[PP34]

That feeling you get once you're done and exhausted after hard work.

 

[Gough]

Paris-Roubaix.

Do you dig it because of the backdrop or the sport itself?
I love watching the TDF man, but it's the aesthetics of the countryside rather than the race itself is that is the pull factor.

 

[Dagless]

Do you dig it because of the backdrop or the sport itself?
I love watching the TDF man, but it's the aesthetics of the countryside rather than the race itself is that is the pull factor.

Paris-Roubaix is definitely my ultimate as a CYCLING event.

TDF has a couple of factors in its favour but doesn't match P-R as a sporting spectacle.

 

[The Passenger]

Who cares what dying people regret? They'll be dead soon.

If they were happy while they were actually living their lives, it doesn't really matter how they feel in retrospect.

having spent more and more time talking to people in their mid to late 30's (between my footy club, my brother's friends, where i work, and the fact i myself am not far off the 30 mark) the overwhelming feeling is that they wasted their youth.

when they had the energy, no commitments and the time to truly do what they wanted (whatever that may be) they slaved away over the desk and suddenly realised they were 30, not a whole lot to show for it outside of a massive debt. i don't think they were ever truly happy.

got a contract extension three weeks ago but i only agreed on the condition i cut my hours to 30 a week self-managed (within reason), and they've been the best 3 weeks i've had in this place. only deal with peak hour about 5 times a week now, often at home by 5 having already hit the gym or the running track.

 

[Caesar]

It's human nature to regret the path not travelled. Life is short and you can't do everything you'd like to. I know plenty of people who arsed around in their 20s doing what they wanted, get to their 30s and regret the fact they are working for someone 10 years younger than them, earning not much money and not being in a position to have a family.

People who are dying are always going to see work as pretty pointless and family as super important, because at the moment when you are about to die having a lot of people who love and will miss you seems a lot more important than having a good CV. They tend to discount all the satisfaction and sense of purpose they got from work at the time they were doing it.

That's not to say work is more important than family, just that things are always a little distorted in retrospect by your priorities at that point in time. My view is that - whatever you choose to do - if you enjoy (or at least obtain satisfaction from) what you are doing while you are doing it, and manage your path through life so you continue to do so, then you are doing pretty well.

Living to try to please the person who you will be at some unspecified point in the future is pretty futile, and of debatable importance anyway.

 

[Caesar]

Do you dig it because of the backdrop or the sport itself?
I love watching the TDF man, but it's the aesthetics of the countryside rather than the race itself is that is the pull factor.

I like the race. The cobbled sections are great because they bring the field together, and introduce the danger and potential for crazy accidents. I am not a massive cycling fan but the one day classics are awesome.

 

[The Passenger]

i think it's fair to say we will never agree on this subject

 

[Caesar]

It's not like I'm saying don't skive off and have fun in your 20s, or whatever.

I'm just saying - whatever you do, do it to please the person you are now. Don't try and please the person you are going to be in 10 years, or 20 years, or on your deathbead. Who knows what that guy is going to want?

More to the point, who says he knows what's best for you in this moment anyway? He just wants the memories, or the bragging rights, or the subsequent benefits. He isn't actually going to be the person doing any of it. And regardless of what you do, he'll probably regret the stuff you didn't anyway. Humans are like that, we always wonder 'what if'.

 

[The Passenger]

Humans are like that, we always wonder 'what if'.

perhaps. i might be lucky but there isn't much i would change at this point. having had this conversation with my best two mates they are pretty much in the same boat.

plenty of inconsequential things - wish i had chosen a team different to liverpool and the dallas cowboys, or that i hadn't got blind drunk the night before i was to fly from belfast to prague for 2 weeks of eastern european shenanigans and missed my flight.

probably the only serious thing i would change is that the software programming course i finished a couple of years back i had've started as soon as i left school in 2002. not a huge thing though.

 

[Plugger35]

Do you dig it because of the backdrop or the sport itself?
I love watching the TDF man, but it's the aesthetics of the countryside rather than the race itself is that is the pull factor.

Yeah the scenery in the TDF is awesome. Phil Liggett's commentary is great too, wouldn't be the same without him.

 

[Caesar]

perhaps. i might be lucky but there isn't much i would change at this point. having had this conversation with my best two mates they are pretty much in the same boat.

plenty of inconsequential things - wish i had chosen a team different to liverpool and the dallas cowboys, or that i hadn't got blind drunk the night before i was to fly from belfast to prague for 2 weeks of eastern european shenanigans and missed my flight.

probably the only serious thing i would change is that the software programming course i finished a couple of years back i had've started as soon as i left school in 2002. not a huge thing though.

You're not really at the midlife crisis stage yet.

 

[dales.girl38]

Being able to camp out on the streets of New York for SNL tickets, watching the AFL live on my phone (result was less pleasing, but still), and then have our standby tickets actually get us in the audience

 

[Catfish Alley]

Being able to camp out on the streets of New York for SNL tickets, watching the AFL live on my phone (result was less pleasing, but still), and then have our standby tickets actually get us in the audience

Who was hosting/performing?

 

[dales.girl38]

Who was hosting/performing?

Melissa McCarthy hosting, Phoenix performing.

 

[Gough]

150th edition of Wisden being published this Thursday. By my reckoning I need about 90 odd more for a full run.

 

[THRILLHO]

Was a bit bored watching Wrestlemania so taught myself how to juggle.

Almost got it going seamlessly.

 

[THRILLHO]

Wouldn't be much of a stretch to say I learnt it while Undertaker was making his entrance.

Goddamn, that thing just gets longer as he gets older.

 

[courtjester]

Conversations about life in the backyard with my girlfriend and our other awesome housemate while having a bbq and sinking beers at 2am.

3am threesome?

 

[Cruyff14]

I found this hilarious.

Especially the end

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=117832328413293

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Work Placement for Uni. Meant to be 9-5 but I got out very early, went to the gym and was home by 12:30. #winning

 

[LukasTheGreat]

I found this hilarious.

Especially the end

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=117832328413293

For some reason, I didn't find this funny at all. Not sure why, usually laugh at stupid shit like this.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Just racked up 3k of likes. What of it?

 

[Gough]

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Ah the Westboro baptist. A conservative approach to life. Well balanced as well