A brief history of cheese

[aunty_zig]

There is a certain smug logic in pessimistic (or for that matter cynical) thought and it goes something like this: The optimist will tell you that the metaphorical glass is half full, these people go through life thinking that everything is really swell and there is always hope. The pessimist will veer to the other side of things and find the

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[lord_zed]

Haha you've nailed that metaphor on the head there, that describes my long weekend too.

If you ask me the glass is half empty, dirty, chipped and there's a dead bug floating in it.

Congratulations on your ummmm.... hard earned win??

[aunty_zig]

the glass is poisoned

[lord_zed]

Actualy the glass can't be poisioned, as this would mean that the glass being half empty would become positive not negative, essentialy creating a right from 2 wrongs.

[aunty_zig]

unless of course you have already supped of the poisoned glass

[jen_jen_jen]

I agree with that whole pessimist arguement, & reminds me very much of the Sandman way of thinking. Then again, he also believes in using the second last toilet in public bathrooms, & for some reason I still follow that valueable lesson today. Anyway, I agree with you, that is all.

[aunty_zig]

Maybe it is linked to the "Alien effect"; it is the person who goes first and the one that follows last that get knocked off by aliens, killed by traps, assassinated etc.