thankful

[treelizard]

from a forward
sorry for the all caps


I AM THANKFUL
FOR THE WIFE
WHO SAYS IT'S HOT DOGS TONIGHT,
BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME,
AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

FOR THE HUSBAND
WHO IS ON THE SOFA
BEING A COUCH POTATO,
BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME
AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS!

FOR THE TEENAGER
WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING DISHES
BECAUSE IT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME,
NOT ON THE STREETS.

FOR THE TAXES I PAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM EMPLOYED.

FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE
BEEN SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS.

FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE
ENOUGH TO EAT.

FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME WORK
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE

FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING,
WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING,
AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE A HOME.

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING
I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
BECAUSE IT MEANS
WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

FOR THE PARKING SPOT
I FIND AT THE FAR END OF THE PARKING LOT
BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM CAPABLE OF WALKING
AND I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH TRANSPORTATION.

FOR MY HUGE HEATING BILL
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM WARM.

FOR THE LADY BEHIND ME IN CHURCH
WHO SINGS OFF KEY BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT I CAN HEAR.

FOR THE PILE OF LAUNDRY AND IRONING
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE CLOTHES TO WEAR.

FOR WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES
AT THE END OF THE DAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE BEEN
CAPABLE OF WORKING HARD.

FOR THE ALARM THAT GOES OFF
IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM ALIVE.

AND FINALLY, FOR TOO MUCH E-MAIL
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE
FRIENDS WHO ARE THINKING OF ME.

Live well, Laugh often, & Love with all of your heart!

[DickHardman]

....**yawn**....

[Ghost]

yeah if my wife cooked hotdogs id tell her to piss off and find someone else.

[Guest]

Treelizard, thats a very sweet post, your intentions are good as I know its one of those chain emails that are designed to make people comforted and happy. And hey, personally speaking it worked.

It made me feel comforted and happy that I'm a fucking sociopath who will never see my life through such an inane, braindead, bullshit, soulless existence where I am told I should be grateful to have a job, a home, a church, a fat husband, high taxes, a lawn to mow, a pile of ironing and generally just bow down and be thankful for what God/Government (people confuse the two) "give" me.

Sorry sweetheart, my outlook is just a tiny bit different, and I've had a bad day. But thanks, it made me smile

[osopardo]

...I'm a fucking sociopath...I should be grateful to have...a fat husband...

Michael, you a chick or gay?
Anyways, you're all a bunch of ignorant, self-indulgent, spoiled, moronic brats who should be deported to some third world dictatorship for about a year just to get a very small taste of how most of the world lives in abject hunger, poverty and constant fear. Maybe then you'll get a different perspective and be grateful for the life you've been so undeservedly given to live.

More realistically, next Thanksgiving or even this coming Christmas maybe you should volunteer to serve dinners at some local soup kitchen, not as way of giving but as a form of education and to gain a different perspective.

Honestly, kids these days!

[Guest]

I'm both dude, you should check out my porn vids on the web. Nice edit by the way.

I don't give a fck about thanksgiving, christmas, soup kitchens, dictatorships or feed the fcking world. I'm just one of the few people on the planet who admits it, as opposed to hiding behind the pretence of the Sunday collection, charity standing orders, and seasonal goodwill.

My life is the life I have made for myself, it wasn't given to me, it has been forged from my own will. I won't apologise for being successful and happy, I have worked my arse off for what I have. The fact that I wasn't born into a culture that involves walking 50 miles for a cup of water every day wasn't my choice, and won't make me feel guilty for the rest of my life, or instill a burning desire to join Oxfam. I'm an individual who has made the most of every oppourtunity that has been offered to me, the fact that others in the world have not been afforded those same oppourtunities is simply not my problem.

Make of that what you will, frankly but perhaps not surprisingly, I couldn't give a fck.

[Ghost]

I'm both dude, you should check out my porn vids on the web. Nice edit by the way.

I don't give a fck about thanksgiving, christmas, soup kitchens, dictatorships or feed the fcking world. I'm just one of the few people on the planet who admits it, as opposed to hiding behind the pretence of the Sunday collection, charity standing orders, and seasonal goodwill.

My life is the life I have made for myself, it wasn't given to me, it has been forged from my own will. I won't apologise for being successful and happy, I have worked my arse off for what I have. The fact that I wasn't born into a culture that involves walking 50 miles for a cup of water every day wasn't my choice, and won't make me feel guilty for the rest of my life, or instill a burning desire to join Oxfam. I'm an individual who has made the most of every oppourtunity that has been offered to me, the fact that others in the world have not been afforded those same oppourtunities is simply not my problem.

Make of that what you will, frankly but perhaps not surprisingly, I couldn't give a fck.

you mean you arent grateful for the mess after the christmas party because it means you have fwwweeends, i mean friends.
Perhaps i should copy and paste a hymn in to save you.

[Ghost]

Michael, you a chick or gay?
Anyways, you're all a bunch of ignorant, self-indulgent, spoiled, moronic brats who should be deported to some third world dictatorship for about a year just to get a very small taste of how most of the world lives in abject hunger, poverty and constant fear. Maybe then you'll get a different perspective and be grateful for the life you've been so undeservedly given to live.

More realistically, next Thanksgiving or even this coming Christmas maybe you should volunteer to serve dinners at some local soup kitchen, not as way of giving but as a form of education and to gain a different perspective.

Honestly, kids these days!

Forgiveness is more than saying sorry (sorry sorry sorry)

Forgiveness means accepting people's flaws

To forgive is divine
So lets have a glass of wine
And have make up sex
Until the end of time (time time time time time time)

Forgiveness does not mean compromising
Lets forgive and forget
And solve this African debt
Just like the Cheshire cat
Who says MEOW your running out of time (time time time time time hahaha)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2QnANVmrU

[Bjjexpertise@be]

Forgiveness is more than saying sorry (sorry sorry sorry)

Forgiveness means accepting people's flaws

To forgive is divine
So lets have a glass of wine
And have make up sex
Until the end of time (time time time time time time)

Forgiveness does not mean compromising
Lets forgive and forget
And solve this African debt
Just like the Cheshire cat
Who says MEOW your running out of time (time time time time time hahaha)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2QnANVmrU

Lol that was such a good movie. I laughed pretty hard throughout. Best part is when he's lip-synching some Back Streets Boys song. Ryan Reynolds is the shit.

[DickHardman]

im thankful for all the broken, empty shells of human beings i see everyday who tell me all their horror stories about how their ex wives divorced them and took all their hard earned cash, ensuring that they would need to work well past retirement in order to just get by day to day. at least when i see the emptiness in their eyes, and that broken emotionless look on their faces as they tell me these stories, i can know for certain that there is no hope for any of us.

[Knuckles&Knees]

Michael, you a chick or gay?
Anyways, you're all a bunch of ignorant, self-indulgent, spoiled, moronic brats who should be deported to some third world dictatorship for about a year just to get a very small taste of how most of the world lives in abject hunger, poverty and constant fear. Maybe then you'll get a different perspective and be grateful for the life you've been so undeservedly given to live.

More realistically, next Thanksgiving or even this coming Christmas maybe you should volunteer to serve dinners at some local soup kitchen, not as way of giving but as a form of education and to gain a different perspective.

Honestly, kids these days!

Actually, my good friend, for the first time in human history (for at least the last decade or so) the world has more *overweight people* than skinny people.

Most sociologist today prefer not to use the terms "first world," "second world," and "third world." These terms were created by members of the capitalist democracies during the Cold War to distinguish between democratic societies and socialists societies they classified as "second world." Nations classified as "third world" as you may know, were poor nations neither socialist nor democratic. Ultimately, these terms do not accurately reflect the great cultural and economic diversity in many nations they lump together - furthermore they lack much merit to todays political landscape post Cold War.

Placing a nation like Brazil (which has a massive GDP) in the same context of category with a nation like Cambodia just isn't right. A city like Sao Paulo, which has an economy larger than many if not most Latin American *nations*, and is comparable to industrial Chicago and cosmopolitan New York, is every bit "first world." True, in international cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro the "first world" exists right alongside the "third world" (favelas) but make no mistake this use to be the case with the United States also when in its early industrial days around the turn of the century (1800's to early 1900's). The area that is now New Yorks famed Central Park use to be a squatters camp before it was cleared and landscaped for what is today.

By the way, Sao Paulo city has the most helicopter taxi services in the world, where rich businessmen fly from helo pad to helo pad on top of skyscrapers. That's a far cry from business life in Cleveland, Ohio.

The United States also has many cities that boasts homicide rates equal and sometimes above that of so-called "third world" nations. Rio de Janeiro (a massive city of something like 6 million just excluding it's suburbs) has a murder rate of something like 50 people per 100,000. The *former* industrial city of Gary, Indiana has a murder rate of something like 55/100,000. The small L.A. suburb of Compton, California has a murder rate of over 60/100,000. Every major U.S. city in the Midwest has a murder rate comparable to "third world" nations. In fact at least 30 major U.S. cities have murder rates considered by "first world" nations to be "third world" level. Santiago, Chile a major metropolis with over a million people has a murder rate generally equaling or falling below Western European nations murder rates.

The United States also incarcerates more of its citizens than any nation on earth. The U.S. has more people in prison than all of the European prison populations combined.

At the close of WWII, with major European industrial cities bombed to h*ll, the United States arose as manufacturing and *export* monopoly. Today that is no longer the case, in fact the number one export in the United States are U.S. jobs. Sao Paulo city has a number of auto plants, and at least one U.S. auto plant (I believe it might have more) in that city. The direction Detroit and Sao Paulo have taken economically are very different. Both Detroit and Sao Paulo have similar murder rates too and similar unemployment rates I believe also (Sao Paulo's is 20% I think and Detroit's is 15% I think).

It is true the U.S. consumer culture consumes massive amounts of energy and material, and the U.S. still has a pretty excellent infrastructure from coast to coast, but there are variables in everything. Some how Western European nations supposedly have raised their standard of living above that of the U.S. while at the same time consuming less energy and materials than the U.S. population. I think many Americans would be flabbergasted if they went to the Islamic UAE and visited Dubai. The order, safety, and prosperity is far above that of most U.S. cities - it has wealth rivaling San Diego, California.

Speaking of San Diego and her ultra-wealth and beauty she is a completely different "America" than some of the poor rural areas in the U.S. South where you can find people living in shacks that look like they are about to fall over. These people have no running water, no electricity, and use outhouses because they don't have bathrooms. In fact, Oprah Winfrey lived like that as a small child in the South, and she has stated that the poor South African kids living in shanties reminded her of the very early parts of her life in the U.S. South.

[DickHardman]

this guy is so totally uke on another name.

[Hardball]

Nice post.

[DickHardman]

Nice post.

thanks, glad you liked it.

[GonzoStyles]

im thankful for all the broken, empty shells of human beings i see everyday who tell me all their horror stories about how their ex wives divorced them and took all their hard earned cash, ensuring that they would need to work well past retirement in order to just get by day to day. at least when i see the emptiness in their eyes, and that broken emotionless look on their faces as they tell me these stories, i can know for certain that there is no hope for any of us.

Wow Nancy I can't believe I missed your annual Thanksgiving day pity party!

please accept my apologies and rest assured I will be there next year

I always wanted to make it to one of these gatherings of the worlds great pessimist nincompoops.

Polly Prissy Pants says at this rate its allmost a given that you will be voted queen of the Nihilistic end-timers association very soon Nancy!