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Funny Observations about Life

  • 20-02-2011 6:49pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭MLH1


    Say someone aged 28 takes out a 35 year mortgage, they have signed up for a contract thats 7 years longer than their life so far.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Wow, same would apply to anyone up to 34 years of age....:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Mortgages. Gas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    You start life in a nappy and If you live long enough, you may end up in a nappy at the end of it too

    Or

    You are born being squeezed out of a box and when you die you get put back into a box.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Agonist


    Just say someone who was 6 feet tall and bought a stepladder that was 8 feet tall, that would actually be 33% taller than him.

    Am I doing it right?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Thread title should be changed to ''Observations''.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Agonist wrote: »
    Just say someone who was 6 feet tall and bought a stepladder that was 8 feet tall, that would actually be 33% taller than him.

    Am I doing it right?

    What about the 6 ft person standing on the ladder, of course he can't stand on the highest steps safely. ah never mind, ............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    Survival of the fittest worked for millenia.
    Then we created the welfare system.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    Non-Irish think the Irish saying 'everything's grand' is hilarious


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    pajor wrote: »
    Non-Irish think the Irish saying 'everything's grand' is hilarious

    Actually no, we don't.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    Thread title should be changed to ''Observations''.

    And the word funny should be removed


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    Mena wrote: »
    Actually no, we don't.

    Good. They were Dutch so it mind explain something. Bit of a generalisation, sorry :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    If my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭phelixoflaherty


    The average person has less then 2 legs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Wow, same would apply to anyone up to 34 years of age....:p

    no, it wouldnt. it would be 1 year as opposed to 7.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Gaelic football is a dreadfully boring sport when you look at it for any extended period of time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Isn't sh1t sh1t?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Bog


    How about them airline peanuts?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    It is estimated that 99% of all species of life to have ever lived on planet earth are now, today, extinct.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,778 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Gaelic football is a dreadfully boring sport when you look at it for any extended period of time.
    Hence the 80,000 seater stadium:rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    How come whenever someone on a TV gameshow wins a sunbed as a prize they're always white?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    Every single person who has ever lived has spend their entire existence on a little pebble of a world whose presence would be practically undetectable by anyone viewing our solar system from the nearest star.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    THFC wrote: »
    Hence the 80,000 seater stadium:rolleyes:

    Full twice a year :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 Heisenberg89


    Jaysus ever notice us Irish drink a lot? We're mad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭Bykobap


    Irish supporting English soccer clubs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Zamboni wrote: »
    Survival of the fittest worked for millenia.
    Then we created the welfare system.

    Any form of government/attempt at social cohesion is, in essence, a 'welfare system'. Millennia of philosophy/thinking/experience has gone into creating some of the basic tenets that democratic socities, imperfect as they are, rest on today.
    Would you really like to live in a truly dog-eat-dog 'society'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Gee smells like fish but tastes like chicken


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Gee smells like fish but tastes like chicken

    ......and looks like rashers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,397 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

    ...and it's possible to eat more of them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    ascanbe wrote: »
    Would you really like to live in a truly dog-eat-dog 'society'?

    Nah. I was never a fan of canine oral sex.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭will1569reptile


    You always seem to find yourself at least once looking at your poo or looking at the toilet roll that you just wiped your arse with.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭whatswhat


    Dont take life too seriously, no one gets out alive anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭will1569reptile


    Every one loves there own brand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭ardinn


    Mena wrote: »
    Actually no, we don't.

    Your from drogheda! - according to google :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Just cos someone is smiling doesn't mean they are happy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    It is estimated that 99% of all species of life to have ever lived on planet earth are now, today, extinct.
    And most of them alive today are microorganisms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Every single person who has ever lived has spend their entire existence on a little pebble of a world whose presence would be practically undetectable by anyone viewing our solar system from the nearest star.
    But whats inside our heads has more complexity than anything in the known universe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Frogeye


    its always raining and windy when I go through cork airport. always.


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