How do you deal with failure? - Page 2

Pekka · November 13, 2003, 18:43

I have an idea. Maybe we should hold a contest, who fails biggest. I mean lets make it art.. art of failing. Lets take it to another level! Discover the new hights of loserism, and say NO MORE will I succeed or fail just a little. Oh no.. we will start failing like there is no tomorrow. And when we are gone, they will make songs about us and teach them to children and future generations of future.

Who's with me?!

st_swithin · November 13, 2003, 18:52

Nah, that's what we have country music for - those guys sing about losing their jobs, getting divorced, putting down their dog Rufus, crashing the pick-'em-up truck, and getting shot down by that pretty waitress named Lurleen - all in the same song.

Anyway, if you're posting to Apolyton, you're already a card-carrying member to loserdom, right?

Chemical Ollie · November 13, 2003, 18:52

One humilitating failure was the guy who tried to run up the wall in "The Full Monthy" and dropped flat to the ground.

Otherwise I don't know who is the loser of the losers. Perhaps Hitler or something, but that kind of failure is not so fun to discuss in a thread like this.

Pekka · November 13, 2003, 18:53

Is that membership binding? I'm sure my trained buttocks compensate.

Pekka · November 13, 2003, 18:55

Chemical Ollie, yeah I don't mean Hitler types of losers.

I mean like fun failing. You know, missing your appointment, that is very important, because you forgot about it, got drunk and possibly even naked and arrested, and then tried to lie something pathetic why you didn't show up only to be caught from it.

Fun failing.

Whaleboy · November 13, 2003, 18:59

This thread reminds me of college...

Minus the pot and the gothic girls. I dont know why I both go on the internet any more

Chemical Ollie · November 13, 2003, 19:00

There was a Swedish TV comedy about a loser. He had lost his job, his dog had died and his wife run off with some nerdy clerk. He thought the only option was to kill himself, so he sat down by the railroad track to jump in front of a train. He waited and waited, but no train came, because they had permanently shut down the operation of that rail.

The guy had a motto: It's never to late to give up!

st_swithin · November 13, 2003, 19:00

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Originally posted by Whaleboy
Sounds like we got our summer planned!

That's what I did last summer. Now you know.

Pekka, here's one:

Bagging on a horrible movie to the director of that horrible movie, then realising that you were going to try to get a job working on that guy's next horrible movie.

LA is so fvcking cool.

Pekka · November 13, 2003, 19:02

THat's a good motto. I heard a radio show years ago and there was a loser too and his motto was 'if I don't finish last, I'll give up'.

Japher · November 13, 2003, 19:09

I like: If at first you don't succeed, it probably wasn't worth doing right anyway...

Chemical Ollie · November 13, 2003, 19:16

When I was 19 or something, some buddies and I was preparing a "surprice box" for a guys birthday. It was full of technology and the idea was that he should press a button and step back, then the box should open by itself, sound a loud car honker, flash a police light, blow off a smoke bomb and finally spray water in they victim's direction. My job was to rig the smoke bomb. I checked the triggers switches several times to make sure they were off before I attached the cords. As an extra security measure, I put a plate to protect my face from the bomb if it would go off anyway. When I attached the cords, the bomb blew, and my friends garage was filled with smoke. The trigger switches had been on all the time, despite my checks.

Zopperoni · November 13, 2003, 20:47

MichaeltheGreat · November 13, 2003, 21:25

I wouldn't know.

Urban Ranger · November 14, 2003, 01:51

There are no failures, only setbacks.

st_swithin · November 14, 2003, 14:36

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
There are no failures, only setbacks.

GO TO OPRAH!! GO TO OPRAH!!

Theben · November 14, 2003, 14:37

I make other people feel worse about themselves.

Cruddy · November 14, 2003, 14:38

Try to find out why you failed. Find out your weakspots and strengthen them.

Violence is not going to prevent a repitition.

Absinthe and Amsterdam are OK in small doses, but it's too easy to get sucked into the latter. I only went for the Millennium and stayed there 6 months!

rah · November 14, 2003, 14:49

Give it your best, and if you still fail, learn what you can from it and move on. Your control over the situation already ended.

And for those of you that have never failed.......
just means that you've never really challanged yourself enough.

(except for MTG, he's probably that good.

)

st_swithin · November 14, 2003, 20:22

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Originally posted by Cruddy
Try to find out why you failed. Find out your weakspots and strengthen them.

My problem is maintaining structural integrity under stress.

Quote:

Originally posted by Cruddy
Violence is not going to prevent a repitition.

But it sure makes ya feel better to hit something!

Quote:

Originally posted by Cruddy
Absinthe and Amsterdam are OK in small doses, but it's too easy to get sucked into the latter. I only went for the Millennium and stayed there 6 months!

Or as some of us like to call it, time travel.

Pekka · November 14, 2003, 20:24

Why learn from it when you can.....just....CRUSH ALL...

Ben Kenobi · November 14, 2003, 21:39

MtG:

How do you keep it up? Surely the pressure must be building.

As for failure:

I try to see what I can do to fix the problem. If I can't I just have to deal with it and move on. Depending on how badly I've messed up will usually correspond to how long I hibernate before moving on.

MichaeltheGreat · November 14, 2003, 23:01

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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
MtG:

How do you keep it up? Surely the pressure must be building.

I pick and choose my engagements, and generalized apathy takes most of the pressure off.

Tuberski · November 14, 2003, 23:07

How do I deal with failure?

I've learned to live with it and nuture that resentment that failure brings.

That way I can always cast the blame at someone else.

ACK!

Ted Striker · November 15, 2003, 03:48

my haiku:

failure is not an option

Ted Striker destroys everything in his path

losing is homo-gay

Drogue · November 15, 2003, 15:28

a 7-11-6 syllable haiku? Maybe a haikai, but a haiku is in a strick 5-7-5 syllable format. Therefore, to put your haikai into haiku format:

Failure option, not
Ted Striker decimates all
Losing is homo

The first line doesn't work so well, but couldn't think of better way to shorten it. Jamski is the haiku master though.

Dis · November 16, 2003, 03:04

I never try anymore

I know it sounds like something from the simpsons. I guess you can say I gave up. But I really have everything I need in life now. So it's no big deal.

Urban Ranger · November 16, 2003, 03:13

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Originally posted by Ted Striker
losing is homo-gay

What is with all this "homo-gay" business?

Dis · November 16, 2003, 03:39

I said SO is gay- because it is.

But something being gay isn't necessarily a bad thing. gay is just... well gay.

Urban Ranger · November 16, 2003, 03:42

Yeah? You don't want to meet my SO

Ted Striker · November 16, 2003, 08:03

Quote:

Originally posted by Drogue
a 7-11-6 syllable haiku? Maybe a haikai, but a haiku is in a strick 5-7-5 syllable format. Therefore, to put your haikai into haiku format:

Failure option, not
Ted Striker decimates all
Losing is homo

The first line doesn't work so well, but couldn't think of better way to shorten it. Jamski is the haiku master though.

Nice