"If life is shite, you're doing it wrong." - my mate Tom.
He's right, too. It's a question of attitude. Circumstance can get you down, but you're attitude to it makes the difference.

CF Terry Waite, Nelson Mandella, etc.

It's good to remind someone who's moaning of the above two people.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Sun 23 May 2010, 11:24, 6 replies)

A rubbish do-gooder and a terrorist?
I say: If your life is shite you should do the rest of us a favour and end it instead of wasting precious resources the rest of us could use.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 23 May 2010, 13:40, closed)

Well, yes.
But then, you're a troll.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Sun 23 May 2010, 16:24, closed)

Am not.
^{fol de rol}
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 23 May 2010, 16:28, closed)

The thing with Nelson Mandella is
he hid weapons at his house that he knew were likely to be used to murder people with. So it's not entirely unjust that he was banged up, even if the thing he was convicted of wasn't the thing he was actually guilty of.
(Vlad the Inhaler forgot his password, Sun 23 May 2010, 17:57, closed)

One of my mates
is convinced that Mandela is a cunt.

Mind you, he also thinks that Gandhi was a paedophile.
(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Sun 23 May 2010, 18:51, closed)

then again
if someone is having a really shite time of it, then completely invalidating their feelings by reminding them of other people who have had it worse isn't exactly the most supportive thing a friend could do.

Unless you are 100% of the MTFU brigade
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Sun 23 May 2010, 20:54, closed)