1. Athletes must be penalized for excessive celebration after a good or game-changing play. 2. All little athletes will be awarded trophies at the end of their sports seasons no matter how they did. 3. Elementary school teachers cannot hold back a student unless the student's parents agree. It's called Social Promotion. 4. A parent cannot share their children's accomplishments with Leftist friends/relatives. It's called bragging. 5. We are not allowed to be excited about a new house, car or any of the finer things in life. It's being material.
Feel free to add your pet peeves about the way Americans are no longer allowed to enjoy anything.
Live your life the way you want, and don’t pay attention to a**holes and losers.
When my kids Halloween Party and Parade became an “Autumn Harvest Celebration”. When Christmas and Easter Vacation became “Winter and Spring Recess”. I could go on and on. When I was in grammar school, Jewish kids sang “We three kings” in the choir, and I happily sang “dradel dradel dradel”. It pervades all aspects of life now and it’s not going away. I don’t know when it started but I feel like we lost out chance to nip it in the bud.
You know the old George Carlin routine? Shell Shock, became Battle Fatigue, became Combat Exhaustion, became post traumatic stress disorder.....
“When I want it to stick, I give it to them loud and dirty.” George S. Patton
Tonight my cousin posted on facebook that she can’t afford medical care.
The only problem is that she posted from a motel on the other side of the country where she’s playing dress up at some kind of gamers convention.
Well, it isn’t fair. The words like “winning”, “more”, “better”, “first” should be removed from the English language... only./s
I hate it when they call me handsome and intelligent too.
“Why aspire to be successful when you will just be called greedy and selfish?”
Why?
The good results and empowerment generated by financial independence ripple outward to many people. Many successful people enjoy helping others who are sincerely trying to better themselves.
Ignoring people who display personality disorders isn’t that hard, nor is it much price to pay, considering the good accomplished.
Who is John Gault?
I don't think many understand that we are about to see the most violent, vicious, racist, and dishonest Dem presidential campaign ever.
Why try to rack your brain solving a problem that would help people when it might make one “successful?”
Why risk giving others a chance to be a part of that success?
I guess true success is now defined as solving all the world’s problems but never gaining the means to live in more that a hovel. And you have to smell bad and have a scruffy beard—and if you do gain the means to live in more than a hut or have the ability to afford a razor, well, you have to give all those undeserved financial gains to big givernment so no one will have more than another.
Well, unless your a democrat like Michael Moore or Al Gore, that is...
It occurred to me today that one needs to be able to “change bearings” with the change in the tide. Success is still a goal but if you don’t adapt to the new reality quickly you lose a lot of ground quickly when the current shifts, maybe even your life. Keep swimming on the old bearing and you simply will never get there.
There are a bunch of FReepers who whine about the rich not paying their share (whatever that means). Pretty disgusting, actually.
If someone cares whether they will be called greedy and selfish I doubt highly whether they are cut out to be successful...
Americans aren't allowed to enjoy anything..give me a break if an individual needs the permission of the government to enjoy life then they have a serious problem..
Why aspire to be successful when you will just be called greedy and selfish?
And have to fill out endless federal and state forms and jump through endless feedral and state forms
And kiss the butts of endless Marxist bureaucrats
And pay enormous taxes on income, capital gains, and inheritance, and everything else
And deal with a nearly hopeless economy...
Socialism failed in every, single place it’s ever been tried, and has destroyed very nearly as many societies as has war.
But, hey, here in America we’ll do it right!
It is our civic duty to get people off the counch in their grandmother's basement and get them some exercise so they don't become morbidly obese....
Because it gets the lazy and useless having cartwheeling fits because someone dared do what they would not. Not that they don't get rich complaining about other people doing things by which they prosper.
Besides, I really don't care what they think (if you can call that thinking).