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"I think if you have something, there is always someone else wants it", he said. I wish I'd torn the ticket up. -- Jack Whittaker, biggest ever American lottery winner - AU$170 million.

Jacks wife divorced him and took him for a mint. His granddaughter died from a drugs overdose.

http://www.lotterypost.com/news/148710
 
2020hindsight said:
Quick reply kennas - thought for the day if you prefer.
Poetry thread has 64K hits (not started by me conceded, but I've been the major sponsor).
I believe that approx 50 "social discussion" threads started by you (Why do models marry ugly millionaires etc) have a total of about double that. So you're right - you win.
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but then again , I've not counted the threads I've started ;)
 
Probably excellent advice for this thread at the mo'.

Always pee around your lemon tree, for best results - Burt Munroe, Kiwi motorcyclist great who's word record in 1967 still stands to this day.
 
2020hindsight said:
so wayne ...
you agree with calliope that we should celebrate the death of the spaniard -
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or you don't?
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I said nothing in my post about asking anybody to celebrate the death of a Spaniard. That is a figment of your imagination and uttered with the intention of making mischief. This is how you operate. You think that if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it.

I thought that during your sabbatical you might have tried to sort yourself out, but, like the Bourbon kings, you have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.
 
A thought really, that can possibly make you numb to quite important and or serious events. After my life crashed in 1987 there were a number of deaths in the family in 1989 that seemed to come one after another, and I was very depressed still and could really do without it.
I attended one funeral in January 1989 of my Great Uncle Jack aged, I think, about 98. His wife died in the following March and I found I could not go. A cousin committed suicide a few months later and at that moment I wanted out and soon after I flew out of Australia.
I found no understanding of my deep depression then that was suicidal. I left most of what I had with my brother, seems strange, very strange now, but I drove to his house left everything and then drove many hours on to the airport.
As I flew out I do not quite know how I felt, somehow I survived.

I understand how people just leave, even though some damn them for ever more and just cannot understand.
 
Old age tends to miss the new and the obvious, and increasingly and stubbornly ignores, and if not that, forgets it soon after.

Young age sees the obvious automatically and at speed and rarely checks its accuracy, sees little danger, and ignores the pitfalls and mistakes.

Middle age feels it looks after young age and old age, and in fact it does. But feels it must protect the young age from what it should not see and hides it from the old age as well, and falls into those self same traps because of it.
 
noirua - sometimes everything comes at you at once and you just do what you have to do, it builds gradually then all of a sudden you cant think of a reason to wake up in the morning.
It will pass, you only get one chance as far as we know so it would be a shame to cut it short.

The old try to teach to young using their own experience but in the end you realise there's only one way to learn and thats from experience.
The cycle goes round, with the young repeating the mistakes of the old and living the same life.
 
This too shall pass ...

King Solomon, feeling blue, asked his advisors to find him a ring he had once seen in a dream.

"When I feel satisfied I’m afraid that it won’t last. And when I don’t, I am afraid my sorrow will go on forever. Find me the ring that will ease my suffering." he demanded.

Solomon sent out all of his advisors, and eventually one of them met an old jeweler who carved into a simple gold band the inscription, "this too shall pass." When the king received his ring and read the inscription, his sorrows turned to joy and his joy to sorrows, and then both gave way to equanimity.

You see, the great King found himself unable to be content. He felt sorrow when he was happy, and sorrow when he was not, because he was unable to see his way forward. The ring served to cancel out his sorrow. By constantly having something to look forward to, he found himself content. What he previously thought was satisfaction was only a superficial feeling that was brought on by his great wealth, which was only temporary, thus his satisfaction could not last forever. True satisfaction could only be found when he recognized his wealth for what it was.
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well I can sure identify with wealth being temporary. :eek:
 
noirua said:
Probably excellent advice for this thread at the mo'.

Always pee around your lemon tree, for best results - Burt Munroe, Kiwi motorcyclist great who's word record in 1967 still stands to this day.
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Agree, noirua, Burt got it right.

gg
 
2020hindsight said:
This too shall pass ...

well I can sure identify with wealth being temporary. :eek:
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Wealth is only usually temporary if we do not put an armored wall around some of it. Sometimes we can think diversifying risk is putting money on many horses instead of just one, "it just isn't so".

In theory, the richest man in the world could bring down all the gambling empires in the world with a simple betting theory, because his money would not run out to achieve this. Unfortunately for him, they do not have to take the bet.
 
MrBurns said:
noirua - sometimes everything comes at you at once and you just do what you have to do, it builds gradually then all of a sudden you cant think of a reason to wake up in the morning.
It will pass, you only get one chance as far as we know so it would be a shame to cut it short.

The old try to teach to young using their own experience but in the end you realise there's only one way to learn and thats from experience.
The cycle goes round, with the young repeating the mistakes of the old and living the same life.
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Sometimes it can pile on top of you in just one week and then continue for years afterwards to try and bury you. I remember the cry's of agony by so many on the Stockhouse Australia website ( Australia site now defunct) after the dot-com crash - not a time to explain my 70% - 80% cash and bond stance. And now the recent crash in the mining sector must still bare heavily on many.
 
noirua said:
Sometimes it can pile on top of you in just one week and then continue for years afterwards to try and bury you. I remember the cry's of agony by so many on the Stockhouse Australia website ( Australia site now defunct) after the dot-com crash - not a time to explain my 70% - 80% cash and bond stance. And now the recent crash in the mining sector must still bare heavily on many.
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After my marriage went bad and it cost me a large 7 figure sum a friend of mine looked me straight in the eye and said "it's only money" and he was right.

Same thing really except in my case it was more than just money.
 
MrBurns said:
After my marriage went bad and it cost me a large 7 figure sum a friend of mine looked me straight in the eye and said "it's only money" and he was right.

Same thing really except in my case it was more than just money.
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A few high flyers in Australian business reportedly going broke atm in the gfc, had marriage breakups some years ago where their wives took cash !!

Maybe we should leave investing to the ladies.

gg
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
A few high flyers in Australian business reportedly going broke atm in the gfc, had marriage breakups some years ago where their wives took cash !!

Maybe we should leave investing to the ladies.

gg
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The meek shall inherit the earth after all they did bear all of us.
 
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

" I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. "

" We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender " ... Winston Churchill
 

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