For me. The thing that angers me a lot these days is incompetence. So … here’s my quote if I was to die and be remebered by it.
“I hate incompetent people. They are worthless piles to society. Then again, I want to trust you. I don’t want to hate you. So I give you these tasks to complete and finish and again and again you fail to complete them. You prove my trust in you unworthy over and over again. I was willing to believe you were competent, until I realized that I was being incompetent in trusting you. And so. You are fired.”
[quote]Xen Nova wrote:
pretty much the only piece of advice my father ever gave me…
“Don’t be a bitch”.
But wow does that cover a lot…[/quote]
You can put me in the same boat. My dad wasn’t much of a philosopher, but I remember when I was having troubles back in junior high, this other kid was bullying me(later found out some other kid paid him $20 to beat me up). I didn’t want to go to school because I was afraid of this kid. My dad sat me down and said something to the effect of: “Sometimes, you just need to deal with things you don’t want to, and it doesn’t get much easier as you get older. You don’t want me or your brothers to fight your battles for you, we are here for you and support you, but this is something you need to deal with for yourself.” At the time I didn’t quite understand what he was saying, I thought he was throwing me to the wolves because I was actually afraid of this kid. Few days later, the shit hit the fan with this “bully”. Not much happened, I blocked about 90% of the punches the other kid threw, and the ones he did land I was amazed at how little force they had behind them.
Now that I think about the whole deal, I don’t think my dad was ever all that worried, my dad and my older brothers were big on the rough-housing, and read “rough-housing” as beating the ever-living shit out of me. I think my dad knew there was nothing this kid could do to me that hadn’t already been done to me on a much larger scale, and I think he was right.
As for the kid that paid him, I never did get my hands on him. He works at one of the bars around here, he’s just this fat, beer-gut, trailer-park loser now. He didn’t even graduate from high school. Heh!
Hehehehe, someone else liked Chronicles of Riddick :o)
Ya my dad’s a pretty bright guy, just not of many words… he usually tries to explain something and goes into a whole long story and whatever then just says “forget it…just dont be a bitch”
We’ve sunk to being proud of competence? Merely being able to complete a task at the most basic levels? C-students are “competent”.
Now, admittedly…competence is getting rarer and rarer in these increasingly pathetic times, but to paraphrase Chris Rock, “You’re supposed to be competent, ya low-expectation-having motherfucker!”
Let’s have pride in excellence, not merely being “not inept”.
