If I buy it I’ll forget about it.
If I don’t buy it, I’ll spend the next twenty years thinking about that cool think I didn’t buy when I had the chance.
It was a stupid little statue of a fairy sitting next to a mirror and I still wish I’d brought it.
Ahh, the good old days, when a wife beating drunk was next to Dennis the Menace on every comic page.
USSR imploded with little help from the West.
Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan; Solidarity trade union in Poland was homegrown; Chernobyl wasn’t sabotaged; the old guard who went against Gorbachev hated the West more than anyone.
[off topic?]
Check out the graphic novel series “The Wicked And The Divine.”
Every year, a dozen young people reincarnate as various gods. They have incredible powers, but know that they will all soon die.
[joke]
Two students are talking and one says that according to the book she’s reading, mentally healthy people can recall stuff from before they knew how to speak. She asks the other what his earliest memory is?
“I remember being very nervous the first day of high school.”
Why did it mean a lot to you? If you don’t mind sharing.
They didn’t make me a manager until I had been on the job for over a decade.
One day I look at an old favorite, “The Dirty Dozen.”
Early on, the Major is ordered to meet with the General, who tells him he has to train twelve condemned prisoners for a suicide mission behind the German lines. The Major obeys the orders, but opines that whoever came up with the plan must be insane. The General tells him to shut up and go; then the General tells his staff that the idea is insane.
Then the Major has to meet the troops and convince each man that it’s in his best interests to join the mission.
Being given stupid orders and then having to lead a bunch of psychos and idiots to achieve the goal is the essence of being a middle manager.
You didn’t challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There’s a difference.
Cheers.
it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.
The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.
You said it couldn’t happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.
Also, if you don’t want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.
You are contradicting yourself.
Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn’t have changed things?
Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he’d taken even one seriously?
What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?
I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.
It’s one of those things that sound reasonable until you actually spend a minute thinking about the details.
Minting money. Starting a post office. Borders. People who work out of state.
If you want to learn to talk to people, start by talking to old people.
Folks who were around before the internet actually spent a good portion of their lives just making small talk with strangers.
Next, develop some hobbies/pursuits that involve socializing. Adult league sports teams, or volunteer work, or community theater.