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“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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“Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.”
― Marc Maron, Attempting Normal
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."---Sartre
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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra


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“Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?” ― Steven Wright
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“Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if you ask me, the sheer quantity of normal in the world today. I think that's the real horror of modern life.”
― James Greer, The Failure
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“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”
― Dave Barry
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(Jul 20, 2019 06:32 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: “It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.” ― Dave Barry


There was this old Deutschland tv magazine show (captioned in English) -- whose episodes were dated to the late '80s and '90s -- that traveled around exploring different aspects of Germany. During the period when West and East Germany were re-integrating, the host/hostess and film crews ventured to these heavy machinery industrial and roadwork sites in the former communist state.

One of the managers expressed as a consensus view about why they hired women to operate these giant cranes, earth-movers, and other things. Paraphrasing from memory: "Women are initially less accident prone because they're not afraid to ask questions about how to run the equipment and what they need to do in various situations. Whereas male employees new to a specific task tend to posture themselves as knowing everything, afraid to inquire too much because they feel it makes them look weak."
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(Jul 20, 2019 06:32 PM)lol Magical Realist Wrote: “It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”
― Dave Barry

Lol Well, science says so.

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