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Are there any 'rules' in life?

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    #62
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    andrew wrote: »
    "Don't be a dick" works well as a general rule.

    Then why did you become a moderator? :p


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    #63
    PennyLane88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭PennyLane88


    holystungun9 wrote: »
    Does that imply that another rule is 'sh1t on someone else's doorstep'.

    Ha, i dunno about that :)


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    #64
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    previous user wrote: »
    But wouldn't it be satisfying to retaliate with vengance and kick him in the nuts and then use his head like a football.
    I know I feel like that everytime I pass scum on the street.

    Not really tbh. Firstly that would make me just as much scum as him and secondly, the type of person who'll head butt a stranger is also the type who'll have ten equally thuggish mates or a weapon with him because he's a coward. I don't want to waste one second of my time thinking about someone like that, never mind end up dead because I took it upon myself to show him the error of his ways


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    #65
    Zen65
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    .... i've heard my share of cowards say "i only fight when i have to defend myself" as excuses - thats not a dig at you as I dont know you. However, its what cowards say.

    I've heard a father say "I wish my son had been big enough to walk away after that guy threw a punch at him, then maybe he wouldn't have been stabbed to death". There are too many mindless deaths caused by the kind of testosterone-fueled revenge fights.

    Anyhow, OP asked for rules, so here are my favourite rules (fellow karateka may recognise them):
    • Seek to develop perfection of your own character.
    • Be faithful and sincere in whatever you choose to do.
    • Cultivate your own spirit of perseverance.
    • Respect the principles of etiquette and respect others
    • Guard against impetuous courage and refrain from violent behavior.


    Z


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    #66
    cowzerp
    Registered Users Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Barrt2 wrote: »
    he hit me once if he attacked me sure i'd defend myself but over one drunken headbutt which led him to fall over after ? tell me would you hit some one when there down?

    There is no honour in letting a creep get away with assault just because he falls over-i would have volleyed him as he fell right in the mush.

    cowards are just as bad as this muppet probably headbutt some other innocent after this as he knows he'll get away with it-for the record, most people are cowards.

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



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    #67
    Spacedog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Spacedog


    Don't be a complete prick all of the time.

    If everyone followed this rule the world would be a little better...










    ...but they don't.


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    #68
    NothingMan
    Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    I play by my own rules and nobody elses. Not even my own.


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    #69
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I'm with the previous poster(s) who said:

    8=/=D
    Don't Be a Dick

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #70
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    2 rules to live by:

    Don't trust a fart and don't waste a boner :)


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    #71
    flutterflye
    Registered Users Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Always try to grow as a person and learn from past mistakes.


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    #72
    guitarzero
    Registered Users Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭guitarzero


    At the very core people are selfish, work from the core outward and you should come to some understanding.


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    #73
    mattjack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Deleted User wrote: »
    2 rules to live by:

    Don't trust a fart and don't waste a boner :)

    especially dont trust the fart..if its not your own..


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    #74
    Barrt2
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭Barrt2


    cowzerp wrote: »
    There is no honour in letting a creep get away with assault just because he falls over-i would have volleyed him as he fell right in the mush.

    cowards are just as bad as this muppet probably headbutt some other innocent after this as he knows he'll get away with it-for the record, most people are cowards.

    It wasnt a case where i needed to defend myself? he was pissed drunk? most people are cowards? yeah because they need to hide behind guns knives etc. whos to say if i hit him back that his mates would've started on me? sometimes taking the bigger picture into account is worth looking at. and besides he'll get what he deserves at some stage in life Karmas a Bitch :P


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