enough is enough, this needs sorting out NOW!
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I thought it was the 'glass half emptyers' that had the special glasses 
Colin
Colin
I believe they should be called realists. They see things without the benefit of hope. 
TheOne said:Linda!!!! I don't have that one in my poll!lol
Sorry!
OK, DT's then!
rackmsuckr said:I believe they should be called realists. They see things without the benefit of hope.
The word is "possiblist":
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner
Here's some more quotes on the subject that you may find applicable:
Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
Lewis Mumford
A pessimist is a person who has not had enough experience to be a cynic.
Mary Pettibone Poole
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion (1926)
Cheer up! Things may be getting worse at a slower rate.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
My friend thought he was not gonna make it. Then he started thinking positive. Now he's positive he's not gonna make it.
Brother Sammy Shore
Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big.
George Carlin, Brain Droppings (1997)
Optimism: the noble temptation to see too much in everything.
G. K. Chesterton
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.
Maureen Dowd
Only the stoical and the cynical can preserve a measure of stability; yet stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. So none escapes.
Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1945, 1958)
Hope, we are taught, springs eternal; we are told less often that hope is a moron.
Tony Hendra, The Book of Bad Virtues: A Treasury of Immorality (1994)
For many years I have been described as a cynic: I told the truth. W. Somerset Maugham
And props to Fast Mikie for giving me this one:
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
This one is especially for BlackJack, who I suspect is trying his best to trim the sails even as I type this:
Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change and the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward, Risk
Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change and the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward, Risk
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And finally this one is for the inimitable Mr. Trudau:
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking
TheOne said:
I'm torned about this one. KT has called us naysayers and prophets of doom. Why not asked KT which term he prefers?
I'll Drink To THAT
And, I propose that people that aren't optimists, pessimists, doubting Thomases, naysayers, prophets of doom or
doommongers, be referred to as 'munchers'...
Doug
( munch, munch, munch )
And, I propose that people that aren't optimists, pessimists, doubting Thomases, naysayers, prophets of doom or
doommongers, be referred to as 'munchers'...
Doug
( munch, munch, munch )
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I as an EX IPT EXEX would say this. The trueness of ones statements is evident by ones actions. If you understand and agree to that then there can be many opionions about wheter or not the IPT will survive. All I know is Kevin has broken many promises to many people. How shall one ever believe him even if the players get paid. Actions = Trusth, Words are just letters on a page.
Smorgass Bored said:
Sometime you crack me up there bored one ... don't worry, other times I wish you'd fall in a crack (canyon ?), but that avatar and title had me laughing, good one !
<edit, a day later> it's changed, my comment was about the animated gif with Michael Jackson loosing his nose and putting it back, title "Plain as the nose on your face" or somesuch .... methinks the current Monte Python one might be directed in my general direction
</edit> Dave, who doesn't like popcorn
PS, I'm sure I heard the joke "An optimist thinks the glass is half full, a pessimist thinks it's half empty, but an Engineer knows the glass is twice as big as it needs to be" well before 1997 ...
PPS, I voted for the last all-squiggly choice speaking only to myself
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I kind of like Prophet of Doom - or Enthusiastically Negative Person - I LMAO when Kevin tossed that one out in Reno. I heard from a player not too long ago that I was being referred to as the Apostle of Gloom. FWIW I have yet to get into the name calling game after 16 months of this and I don't intend to change that. They can call me whatever they want, it doesn't change much.
I bet my avatar for a small length of time that the players would get their money before the Chicago tournament. It took 300 views before someone took the bet.
I think they should just be called chicken$hits.
(Except for Russ Chewning of course)
Edit- Sorry for the earlier spelling error Mr. Chewning, it was not deliberate!
I think they should just be called chicken$hits.
(Except for Russ Chewning of course)
Edit- Sorry for the earlier spelling error Mr. Chewning, it was not deliberate!
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What is Russ chewing?
Da Poet said:I bet my avatar for a small length of time that the players would get their money before the Chicago tournament. It took 300 views before someone took the bet.
I think they should just be called chicken$hits.
(Except for Russ Chewing of course)
What is Russ chewing?