Tips on becoming a great writer?
I love to write, I am currently a college student trying to decide between being a journalist or a lawyer. I eventually want to be a full time fiction writer. Any advice?
What is the best sarcastic one-liner you have heard?
If I wanted to kill myself I would climb to your ego and jump to your iq.Yes, I know there’s a special place in hell for me. It’s called a throne.If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.I’d slap you but that would be animal abuse.I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.Don’t judge me because I am quiet. No one plans a murder out loud.Why don’t you slip into something comfortable, like a coma?You have a great face for make-up.Shock me- say something intelligent!You bring out the best insults in me.I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.You bring everyone a lot of joy when when you leave the room!You are a proof that God has a sense of humor.Looks like you fell off the ugly tree and hit every branch the way down!So you’ve changed your mind, does this one work any better?Your face makes onions cry!My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.He who smiled in the crisis has found someone to blame.I didn’t say it was your fault. I said I was blaming you.Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others….. whenever they go.Keep rolling your eyes. Maybe you’ll find a brain back there.I would love to insult you but I afraid I won't do as well as nature did.I wasn’t insulting you, I was describing you.Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist, while you were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it. Sincerely, the opportunist.No actually I am not wrong, you’re entitled to your incorrect opinion.Of course I talk like an idiot, how else could you understand me?If you listen closely, you can hear me not caring.I would explain it to you, but I’m all out of puppets and crayons.You are so fake, even China denied they made you!
Name of wrestling movie???
I am looking for the name of a wrestling movie about a kid who has to lose a lot of weight in 3 weeks. The movie is at least a few years old. Thanks for your help!!!
How do rich people waste money?
A few months ago a wealthy friend invited me and another friend to fly with him on his plane from Austin to New Orleans for a World Series Poker event.It turns out that his plane is a $17MM jet. I ask him the approximately cost of each person to take the trip. He said the short trip would cost him about $25,000 an hour. We flew for about an hour and a half.I didn't feel like sitting backwards…thankfully the seats swivel so we could all face each other and have a wonderful conversation during this nice flight.I asked him why he would fly when it was so expensive. He said that he drives an old pick up truck, he lives well below his means, but still in the most exclusive address downtown, in an exquisite townhouse.He doesn't waste money on anything at all. He is extremely analytical when it comes to spending, but said that this is the one thing that he rewards himself with: having a jet waiting on him and always ready to go. There were five people on the plane: the three of us, the Captain/pilot and a co-pilot. It was going to cost the same whether we flew with him or not, so since we were each going to play cards in the World Series that week, he thought that we would like to fly with him.I appreciate what he was saying, and truly appreciated the ride to New Orleans, but couldn't help but think that it was a waste of his funds.The thing that I appreciate the most is that he made his money by selling his business and by continuing to invest wisely… and as a result, he is entitled to use his money how ever he sees fit.
What are the best ways of getting out of poverty?
Honestly, you cannot escape poverty. I've seen poverty and, to some extent, lived it. But I know that I will never be homeless, starving, etc. So, you could say that I have never experienced true poverty. But I will tell you this. Those whom I know who were truly poor BUILT their way out of it. They did not escape it. They did things that I would never have the guts or even the physical strength to do.I will give you one example. I teach illiterate adults basic reading and comprehension skills (at no charge). One of my earliest students was a youngish man. We were both in our thirties at the time, though he was a few years younger than I was. He came to the library (which provided materials and space for the class) in a BMW. He had a stunningly beautiful wife. He told me that he lived in a million-dollar home. Yet he was illiterate. He was intelligent, but not brilliant. And he grew up poor -- poverty beyond my experience. He was, quite literally, born on the streets. By the time he was able to walk, speak, etc. his parents had vanished. He survived, somehow -- I have no idea how -- until he was ten, just wandering the streets. Then he started to sell flowers that he had either stolen or that someone had given him. He made very little money this way. Then someone gave him a box of vitamin bottles -- 100 bottles -- for free. How and why, I don't know. He sold these 100 bottles by going door to door, in ONE DAY. This was in Miami. It is hot there. And a little boy wandering around, half-naked, selling stuff door to door, is not welcome in most places. But he managed to do this for YEARS. He finally saved enough money to buy himself a house, when he was in his twenties. So, for more than TWENTY YEARS, this guy literally lived on the streets.I think I would die in my first 20 hours, on the streets. He finally married a beautiful, educated woman who had a good job. He got himself a job as a grounds-keeper. And he had been employed for 10 years or so when his wife finally convinced him to become literate. I still have a t-shirt that he gave me as a gift when we were done.So, my friend, you can build yourself a way out of poverty. It is difficult. But it can be done. Frankly, I don't know if I could do it. But I hope you do. I am not a rich guy myself. But let me know if I can help, in any way.
What is the difference between cynicism, skepticism, criticism, and sarcasm?
Skepticism is is refusal to believe without evidence or scientific, sound reasons. It is sort of a lazy version of rationalism. It is a way of entertaining ideas. It is about the truth of things. A skeptic doesn't believe anything without strong reasons, which is why it is also associated with doubt, especially when something hasn't been experienced yet.Cynicism is believing the worst of something or someone. It has nothing to do with evidence. It is an outlook on life. It is about the purpose or the end result of things. A cynic believes that people are selfish and always act out of self-interest. (S)he believes that nothing good will come out of anything.If I'm skeptical about an upcoming project, it is because I don't have reasons to believe it is good, but I know it's an uninformed opinion. If I'm cynical about it, I'm assuming nothing good's going to come out of it. But doubt also often has a negative connotation. In such cases, we use the two words interchangeably.I can be skeptical about, say, global warming. I can't be cynical about it, because it doesn't have a purpose or an end result. It is simply a conclusion made from observations. But I can be cynical about the people who are trying to raise awareness about it. I could think they have an ulterior motive which will serve only them.Criticism is picking on the imperfections of everything. It is also an outlook on life, in a way. A critic points out everything that's wrong with something, and is really trying hard to find faults. It may be constructive or destructive. A critic may just be trying to perfect things, or to insult everything that's not perfect.Sarcasm is different from all these and unrelated. It's not a general way to look at things. It is aimed at specific persons, and is a form of insult. It's a caustic remark about someone, meant to attack and disparage them, using humour and irony as a means to that end. Of course today, the meaning has been diluted to 'a harmless form of humour', but that's nowhere close to being as hurtful as the real thing.