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  • HoorooH Offline
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    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @voodoo said in Happiness Scale:

    Did you also crack yours when your mate nailed you with a flying drop-kick playing WWF on the trampoline ?

    Not this time, but that has happened to us all. Once you get to 50 all of your punk mates want to kick you off the tramp whilst shouting "my turn, my turn" (yes, intentional, sorry).

    Anyway - Possum out side. Get gun. Put on red bands.
    Wife has string poultry fences to keep ducks and geese from shitting all over the place (doesn't work - they can get out whenever they like, about as effective as self isolation as a preventative measure).
    Wife has moved fence. I catch gumboot in fence. Go over gun in hand. Hit side of ribs on corner of wife's large porcelain plant pot before landing on wife's pavers.

    It had nothing to do with me being a clutz, as you can tell from the above, it all the wife's fault. Might as well have pushed me.

    That's pretty impressive!

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  • JCJ Offline
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    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @voodoo said in Happiness Scale:

    Did you also crack yours when your mate nailed you with a flying drop-kick playing WWF on the trampoline ?

    Not this time, but that has happened to us all. Once you get to 50 all of your punk mates want to kick you off the tramp whilst shouting "my turn, my turn" (yes, intentional, sorry).

    Anyway - Possum out side. Get gun. Put on red bands.
    Wife has string poultry fences to keep ducks and geese from shitting all over the place (doesn't work - they can get out whenever they like, about as effective as self isolation as a preventative measure).
    Wife has moved fence. I catch gumboot in fence. Go over gun in hand. Hit side of ribs on corner of wife's large porcelain plant pot before landing on wife's pavers.

    It had nothing to do with me being a clutz, as you can tell from the above, it all the wife's fault. Might as well have pushed me.

    Ooh, that's a scarily good life insurance job. A weta in the toe of that gumboot and a couple of months from nw someone would've started a thread called "Whatever happened to Snowy? His posting has completely dried up."

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  • voodooV Offline
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    replied to Snowy on last edited by
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    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @voodoo said in Happiness Scale:

    Did you also crack yours when your mate nailed you with a flying drop-kick playing WWF on the trampoline ?

    Not this time, but that has happened to us all. Once you get to 50 all of your punk mates want to kick you off the tramp whilst shouting "my turn, my turn" (yes, intentional, sorry).

    Anyway - Possum out side. Get gun. Put on red bands.
    Wife has string poultry fences to keep ducks and geese from shitting all over the place (doesn't work - they can get out whenever they like, about as effective as self isolation as a preventative measure).
    Wife has moved fence. I catch gumboot in fence. Go over gun in hand. Hit side of ribs on corner of wife's large porcelain plant pot before landing on wife's pavers.

    It had nothing to do with me being a clutz, as you can tell from the above, it all the wife's fault. Might as well have pushed me.

    I'd pay good money for video footage of this

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  • HoorooH Offline
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    replied to voodoo on last edited by
    #150

    @voodoo said in Happiness Scale:

    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @voodoo said in Happiness Scale:

    Did you also crack yours when your mate nailed you with a flying drop-kick playing WWF on the trampoline ?

    Not this time, but that has happened to us all. Once you get to 50 all of your punk mates want to kick you off the tramp whilst shouting "my turn, my turn" (yes, intentional, sorry).

    Anyway - Possum out side. Get gun. Put on red bands.
    Wife has string poultry fences to keep ducks and geese from shitting all over the place (doesn't work - they can get out whenever they like, about as effective as self isolation as a preventative measure).
    Wife has moved fence. I catch gumboot in fence. Go over gun in hand. Hit side of ribs on corner of wife's large porcelain plant pot before landing on wife's pavers.

    It had nothing to do with me being a clutz, as you can tell from the above, it all the wife's fault. Might as well have pushed me.

    I'd pay good money for video footage of this

    Same and for the technology to read his mind as it all happened!!

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  • SnowyS Offline
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    replied to JC on last edited by Snowy
    #151

    @JC said in Happiness Scale:

    Ooh, that's a scarily good life insurance job.

    I had the same thought and cancelled it the day after (and I let her know, several times).
    Just too premeditated.
    Planted possum outside, gumboots by the door, handing me the gun. No mention of moving fences dangerously close to ceramic pots and pavers.

    @Hooroo said in Happiness Scale:

    Same and for the technology to read his mind as it all happened!!

    I suspect that you all know what was going through my mind. It is all unrepeatable.

    Given the nature of this thread, I have to look at the upside. There is no - "can you just" - chop down that tree, mow the lawns, grade the driveway, fix the roof, etc. I just remind her that is was all her fault (actually that's not going so well).

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  • RapidoR Offline
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    Approx 7/10 on happiness scale.

    I am a relative (not extreme) introvert, and also laid back. So I don’t really push myself. So in terms of happiness from ‘achieving’, I do just enough to get by.

    Had a bit of a very mild mid-life 'crisis' a few years back. My father was a high achiever who died young. I was invited to a reunion of his organization and was a bit blown away by it all. Made me reflect on that I had achieved at the same age ….. and the opportunities missed etc. The very mild outcome of that was a resolution to get out into the great outdoors while I’m still young enough.

    Came to conclusion our personalities must have been very different.

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    @voodoo said in Happiness Scale:

    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @voodoo said in Happiness Scale:

    Did you also crack yours when your mate nailed you with a flying drop-kick playing WWF on the trampoline ?

    Not this time, but that has happened to us all. Once you get to 50 all of your punk mates want to kick you off the tramp whilst shouting "my turn, my turn" (yes, intentional, sorry).

    Anyway - Possum out side. Get gun. Put on red bands.
    Wife has string poultry fences to keep ducks and geese from shitting all over the place (doesn't work - they can get out whenever they like, about as effective as self isolation as a preventative measure).
    Wife has moved fence. I catch gumboot in fence. Go over gun in hand. Hit side of ribs on corner of wife's large porcelain plant pot before landing on wife's pavers.

    It had nothing to do with me being a clutz, as you can tell from the above, it all the wife's fault. Might as well have pushed me.

    I'd pay good money for video footage of this

    er, onlyfans?

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  • SnowyS Offline
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    @nzzp said in Happiness Scale:

    er, onlyfans?

    Only person who could have filmed it was the wife because she set it up.

    Probably did it in portrait too...

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @nzzp said in Happiness Scale:

    er, onlyfans?

    Only person who could have filmed it was the wife because she set it up.

    Probably did it in portrait too...

    that spiteful bitch!

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  • SnowyS Offline
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    @mariner4life Stop bloody making me laugh!

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    wrote on last edited by
    #157

    Upon a bit of self reflection, i think a lot of my happiness is based around an ability to let shit go. The wife hangs on to things for ages, or over thinks absolutely everything. And it affects her

    I will have a blow up and move on. Which can get you in trouble with the wife for not caring enough. But, if we are honest with ourselves, a lot of the shit we "hang on to" is very unimportant in the grand scheme of things

    Kevin Hart's latest special has a ripper of a bit about how women always have to find a fuck to give.

    Give less fucks about unimportant shit gents! it will help you immensely

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @mariner4life Stop bloody making me laugh!

    i tried to play rugby with cracked ribs once. it was one of my dumber moves

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  • JCJ Offline
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    #159

    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @nzzp said in Happiness Scale:

    er, onlyfans?

    Only person who could have filmed it was the wife because she set it up.

    Probably did it in portrait too...

    You're not married to @jegga 's ex are you? I reckon she's done him in.

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  • SnowyS Offline
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    replied to JC on last edited by
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    @JC said in Happiness Scale:

    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @nzzp said in Happiness Scale:

    er, onlyfans?

    Only person who could have filmed it was the wife because she set it up.

    Probably did it in portrait too...

    You're not married to @jegga 's ex are you? I reckon she's done him in.

    Hmmm. Wonder what her MO is?

    Surely not the old, possum, gumboots, gun, duck fence trick?

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  • JCJ Offline
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    @mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:

    Give less fucks about unimportant shit gents! it will help you immensely

    That is actually great advice. One of the perspectives that can come with getting older is how few of the things that you spent time stressing over actually mattered in the long run.

    I still get pissed off alright but I am determined I won't hang onto my anger. People who fuck me around don't get the added bonus of causing me stress. That took a lot of work to be honest. I always cared too much for what other people thought and probably overcompensated by being pretty hard-nosed. That worked pretty well for me professionally but it cost me a marriage and a few friends. It didn't help that I worked in The City at the height of it's hard-drinking heyday. I'm glad to say I've cut way, way back on the drinking, which probably saved my life.

    In general though my life's pretty good. There's not much I realistically wanted to achieve that I haven't. The one upside of not having kids is that it became pretty clear a while back that I was going to run out of years before I run out of money. So every year now I set aside some money that I will donate or give away at Christmas and I've found that pretty good for my mental health.

    I have to say that going on the Grumpy Old Man thread you'd be excused for thinking that this place is full of misery, but this thread gives me hope that maybe we're not all fluffybunnies, at least not all the time.

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  • JCJ Offline
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    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @JC said in Happiness Scale:

    @Snowy said in Happiness Scale:

    @nzzp said in Happiness Scale:

    er, onlyfans?

    Only person who could have filmed it was the wife because she set it up.

    Probably did it in portrait too...

    You're not married to @jegga 's ex are you? I reckon she's done him in.

    Hmmm. Wonder what her MO is?

    Surely not the old, possum, gumboots, gun, duck fence trick?

    Who knows, he's not around to ask, which is ominous.

    To be completely honest, I'm amazed you fell for this. A duck fence isn't a thing. Seriously. IT'S A TRIPWIRE.

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  • SnowyS Offline
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    replied to JC on last edited by
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    @JC Certainly was in this case.

    It can be electrified so I'm a little surpised that she didn't have it turned on. It is appently for larger stock than poultry, but I'm still hoping for ready made fried chicken or peking duck (yes ours are called that) if I plug it in.

    That would raise happiness levels considerably, not for the chickens, ducks, or wife obviously, and happy wife, happy life really is a thing even if they are trying to kill you.

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    @Snowy who knows, you might develop a kink 😉

    We'll know when the lights start dimming that Snowy has the jumper leads going!

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  • MN5M Offline
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    replied to Rapido on last edited by
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    @Rapido said in Happiness Scale:

    Approx 7/10 on happiness scale.

    I am a relative (not extreme) introvert, and also laid back. So I don’t really push myself. So in terms of happiness from ‘achieving’, I do just enough to get by.

    Had a bit of a very mild mid-life 'crisis' a few years back. My father was a high achiever who died young. I was invited to a reunion of his organization and was a bit blown away by it all. Made me reflect on that I had achieved at the same age ….. and the opportunities missed etc. The very mild outcome of that was a resolution to get out into the great outdoors while I’m still young enough.

    Came to conclusion our personalities must have been very different.

    Career wise I’m going good and I’m classified as a high earner, there has been a few ebbs and flows to get there though ! I can relate to what you’re saying as the old man was outstanding in a very tough field.
    I say ‘was’ as he’s retired now as 76 years olds tend to be.

    But....my Mum says with great pride that I’m a much more hands on Dad to my boys than he was to me. Seems harsh as I have some fantastic memories with him, but she reckons I ‘do’ more with the boys. Am I making a big effort cos I don’t actually live with them full time ?

    It’s extremely tough to have absolutely everything in life.

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    @MN5
    That’s the natural way of things though, isn’t it? We want to do better for our kids than our parents did for us. As no doubt they did too. That’s not to denigrate what ones parents did, just that it is in the nature to strive for better. However we see that.

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