Biggest losers
The Human Race is in a reality show whose aim is to discover its most stupid members and for which there are no prizes.
History
Grey matter
My world is full of black and white birds today. Magpies and Butcher Birds and Pee Wits and Willy Wagtails and Currawongs. Odd then that I usually think in shades of grey.
Learn to suck eggs?
So, you can grow new brain cells even when you are ninety? But what are you going to do with them?
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That’s why the World’s a mess
The “Peter Principle” says that in any organisation, people get promoted up to one level beyond their level of competence, which explains why the organisations eventually become dysfunctional. Seems to me the human race has been promoted beyond its level of competence.
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Drought
“Scattered showers” says the forecast, but as an old man, in a dry year, waiting for rain, I have little confidence they will scatter over me. When you begin life your forecast is for scattered patches of good fortune. But you can no more control their arrival and departure than you can control Autumn rain
Disadvantage of hindsight
Searching for your own name on the internet, with the help of Mr Google, is said to be the result of vanity, but more often, I find, it stems from masochism.
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Now, where did I put that…
What a pity each event in our life isn’t tagged, automatically, with an ID code so that we could retrieve it, or not, easily. Instead mine seem to be scattered all over the floor like the overflow from a too small waste bin.
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Card games
Old postcards from more than a century ago tell the stories of a happy group of friends, now all long dead, their outings, and plays, and sport, and loves, and losses, all gone. Their innocence went first though, this last generation not to know what a world war would bring to their happy lives. I