A pessimist or an optimist?
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JWFilips
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Years ago I heard a good joke Pessimism Vs Optimism :
A room was filled with horse manure...3 kids were asked go inside and play and the door was closed! Within a minute one of the kids knocked on the door and wanted out...complaining that it was a room full of crap....a-minute or two later the 2nd kid did the same and was totally disgusted and left.
After 1/2 an hour the people conducting the test decided to check on the 3rd child. He was no where to be found and all of a sudden his head appeared from the horse poop but he went down again! Fearing he was in trouble they started looking for him and soon found him and they wanted to take him out of the room but he insisted that with all the horse poop in the room there must be a horse somewhere! A true optimist !
A room was filled with horse manure...3 kids were asked go inside and play and the door was closed! Within a minute one of the kids knocked on the door and wanted out...complaining that it was a room full of crap....a-minute or two later the 2nd kid did the same and was totally disgusted and left.
After 1/2 an hour the people conducting the test decided to check on the 3rd child. He was no where to be found and all of a sudden his head appeared from the horse poop but he went down again! Fearing he was in trouble they started looking for him and soon found him and they wanted to take him out of the room but he insisted that with all the horse poop in the room there must be a horse somewhere! A true optimist !
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Petrol & Powder
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And coming from a family of engineers, I immediately think of this:
The optimist sees a glass that’s half full.
The pessimist sees a glass that’s half empty.
An engineer sees a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.
The optimist sees a glass that’s half full.
The pessimist sees a glass that’s half empty.
An engineer sees a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.
Petrol & Powder
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Depends on the type of engineer.I thought Engineer's always wanted to build bigger, not smaller.
The difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers is that mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets.
Come on guys, I don't drive a train - but a friend does. Dad was an engineer, His Bro was an engineer. I have two engineer brothers, 3 engineer nephews. I am an engineer. She doesn't get engineer jokes. A half full glass of water is exactly a half full glass of water. I will admit that thermodynamics was my poorest grade. Interesting but 'steam tables' was most of test material.
RBHarter
West Central AR
Steam 17,000-1 ....... Wet , dry , heat , process , work ......yep that's all I know about it . 16# drips , sweats , nice radiant heat though . 160# or there about cuts the straw off a broom with a pin hole . Ordinance , power plants , and aircraft carrier sling shots make up the major current uses commercially .
Dad was a pipe fitter ....... I retained just enough to look really stupid .
Dad was a pipe fitter ....... I retained just enough to look really stupid .
Hawk
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I drive my wife crazy watching TV shows and movies with outbursts of "that can't happen, no way they can do that" and "that's just not possible".
She says I have to "suspend my disbelief " when I watch anything with her.
My favorites are how they can get all the way across Los Angeles in five minutes and basically everything they say about guns and ammunition in TV shows.
She says I have to "suspend my disbelief " when I watch anything with her.
My favorites are how they can get all the way across Los Angeles in five minutes and basically everything they say about guns and ammunition in TV shows.
Charles Graff
Moderator Emeritus
I am a cynical optimist.
hawk, I love the quick drives across LA (ha,ha). And the brass coming out of the auto rifles. Must have a motor driving them out. At least sometimes they get the 3 shot burst right. Still like the old westerns, 100 shots from a six-shooter without reloading. Hoppy was good a 'throwin' lead too. Riding that white horse and every shot was an 'overhead' motion. At least from the smoke they musta used BP loads. That ditz lady on FBI finally learned how to keep her finger off the trigger. Musta learned from the 'chitown' show she was on before.