Stink Eye for the Old Guy: Cynicism and Aging

I don't think us cynics are grumpy......because we can laugh at ourselves..and realise the mistakes we have made are a lot less than most of the rest of the world..
 
Since I lent a life long friend some money to get his business out of a bind, & never got even 50% back, well!!
His business is going great guns now but still no sign of the rest of the loan, so now YES I AM VERY CYNICAL.
Other friends have noticed the change in me & though we are still great friends they support me.
We all lost one friend!!!!
 
GDAD said:
Since I lent a life long friend some money to get his business out of a bind, & never got even 50% back, well!!
His business is going great guns now but still no sign of the rest of the loan, so now YES I AM VERY CYNICAL.
Other friends have noticed the change in me & though we are still great friends they support me.
We all lost one friend!!!!
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See I would see that as a betrayal by ONE friend and it wouldn't make me cynical about friendships in general. One rotten apple...don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, etc., etc., etc.
 
Gael said:
See I would see that as a betrayal by ONE friend and it wouldn't make me cynical about friendships in general. One rotten apple...don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, etc., etc., etc.
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I never understood that expression - "don't throw out the baby with the bathwater".

I mean, HOW ignorant would you have to be to DO something like that? If you finished bathing the baby and tossed the water out the back door into the yard, don't you think you would NOTICE a soapy baby laying on the grass?

And if you simply poured the bathwater down the drain, well then, unless you have a mighty large drain there's STILL no harm done, other than having a slippery baby laying in your bathtub. Sure, maybe his big toe could get caught in the drain, but a little Liquid-Plumr should free it up nice and quick.

Honestly, these silly people ... :rolleyes:
 
SifuPhil said:
I never understood that expression - "don't throw out the baby with the bathwater".

I mean, HOW ignorant would you have to be to DO something like that? If you finished bathing the baby and tossed the water out the back door into the yard, don't you think you would NOTICE a soapy baby laying on the grass?

And if you simply poured the bathwater down the drain, well then, unless you have a mighty large drain there's STILL no harm done, other than having a slippery baby laying in your bathtub. Sure, maybe his big toe could get caught in the drain, but a little Liquid-Plumr should free it up nice and quick.

Honestly, these silly people ... :rolleyes:
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Speechless, absolutely speechless....:distrust:
 
I was doin good until I joined this site:beerandwhistle:

SifuPhil said:
Something Bee had mentioned in another thread got me to thinking ...

As you have aged, have you found that you have become more cynical and pessimistic? Or have you changed into more of a hopeful, trusting type? An optimistic senior, so to speak?

Or have you stayed the same?

I have certainly become more cynical as I've grown older. I credit my early exposure to the Evils of the Big City for instilling in me a buyer-beware attitude for everything in life. I was stung too many times to blithely skip through life seeing only rainbows and unicorns. My scientific training reinforced in me the need for testing ideas, and only my metaphysical training saved me from becoming too lop-sided in the direction of complete and utter pessimism.

So what about you?
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nwlady said:
What is stink-eye? I know it's another stupid thing to do around here, but I don't have a clue??
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Along the cliff, we refer to stink-eye as starin' down a stranger you don't want around.

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That Guy said:
Along the cliff, we refer to stink-eye as starin' down a stranger you don't want around.
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Over here in The Flats "stink eye" is "The Look" on steroids. Usually given to someone whose brains you desire to see upon the pavement. People have actually been beat up because they had given the stink eye to a stranger.

Moral of the story: spray perfume in your eyes to avoid stink eye.
 
cynical, pessimistic,back stabbers,idealistic, undecided
OK Ill say it.
I have no idea what the heck I am.
Im in a different world then all of you since Im hearing impaired since the age of 3,not deaf ,but its a totally different world out there that I have to deal with all my life and with the hearing I do have.
Ill explain to you all maybe later,it a long story.
 
SifuPhil said:
Over here in The Flats "stink eye" is "The Look" on steroids. Usually given to someone whose brains you desire to see upon the pavement. People have actually been beat up because they had given the stink eye to a stranger.

Moral of the story: spray perfume in your eyes to avoid stink eye.
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It's also a regional expression I think. They didn't use it much in the northeast where I come from I know.
 
Gael said:
It's also a regional expression I think. They didn't use it much in the northeast where I come from I know.
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Back in NYC there was the "evil eye" - malefica in Italian. Little old Italian ladies dressed all in black would give you their version of the stink eye, and a day or two later some part of your anatomy would usually wither and fall off.

"Stink eye" itself I don't remember being in use until at least the late 1980's.
 
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