What is the best rationalising you have ever done?

Akrasia

I remember when I was about 20. Walking home from the pub with some friends we passed a building site . there was a JCB parked near the road and the gate was open. for the laugh we went in and tried the doors to see if they were open. They were. I ended up inside a JCB at 2am with a girl I liked while drunk. I of course I pressed some buttons. The feckin engine started. What? How do we turn it off? It was dark we couldn't see any off button so I pulled at a wire and when it snapped the engine cut out. The we jumped out and ran off...

We broke into a building site and caused thousands of euros of damage and they hired a security guard costing thousands more, but but it wasn't our fault. they left the gate open, and the JCB was unlocked and JCB themselves decided that a hundred grand of pure destruction should be operated without a key.
Anyone else justify their criminal damage with such blatant Rationalisation?

ForeverYoung90

Akrasia wrote: »

I remember when I was about 20. Walking home from the pub with some friends we passed a building site . there was a JCB parked near the road and the gate was open. for the laugh we went in and tried the doors to see if they were open. They were. I ended up inside a JCB at 2am with a girl I liked while drunk. I of course I pressed some buttons. The feckin engine started. What? How do we turn it off? It was dark we couldn't see any off button so I pulled at a wire and when it snapped the engine cut out. The we jumped out and ran off...

We broke into a building site and caused thousands of euros of damage and they hired a security guard costing thousands more, but but it wasn't our fault. they left the gate open, and the JCB was unlocked and JCB themselves decided that a hundred grand of pure destruction should be operated without a key.
Anyone else justify their criminal damage with such blatant Rationalisation?

It was not rational for you to trespass onto a building site and damage their machinery and run off,gate open or closed end of! /Thread

starbelgrade

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

It was not rational for you to trespass onto a building site and damage their machinery and run off,gate open or closed end of! /Thread

Hence the difference between 'rational' and 'rationalise'.

Lando Griffin

Don't worry. A JCB can be started with a 10 pence or a spanner and the wire would have caused no more than a few pound old money.

General General

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Don't worry. A JCB can be started with a 10 pence or a spanner and the wire would have caused no more than a few pound old money.

Old old money or new old money?

Fight_Night

Did you end up bangin the girl later that night?

ygolometsipe

MGS 1 level 4 I rationalized a lot!

BrokenArrows

ygolometsipe wrote: »

MGS 1 level 4 I rationalized a lot!

relax, it was just a box.

kowloon

Fight_Night wrote: »

Did you end up bangin the girl later that night?

I was sure the 'girl that I liked' part was going to come back into it at some point. Maybe it was a bit like those false clues they put in murder mysteries. It was to throw us off the scent.

B.A._Baracus

I like to rationalise downloading as for demo purposes. I like to tell others that afterwards I went out and bought it even tho, I didn't.
Hi. My name is "that typical lying knob end who only downloads for demo purposes who posts on boards"

Pottler

I've a couple of JCBs and the nephews and neices seem to be attracted to them like catnip-any gobsh1te can start them, but usually they come running for help to stop them. Kids, don't start JCBs unless you know how to stop them. You look like a plank when you panic and can't undo the vroominness.

General General

Pottler wrote: »

I've a couple of JCBs and the nephews and neices seem to be attracted to them like catnip-any gobsh1te can start them, but usually they come running for help to stop them. Kids, don't start JCBs unless you know how to stop them. You look like a plank when you panic and can't undo the vroominness.

Thinly veiled I own a couple of JCBs post.

girl in the striped socks

If I buy a pair of shoes for €200 & wear them twenty times then each wear only costs me €20 which is a small amount of money to pay in order to have gorgeous shoes to finish off an outfit.
I'm instantly up money if I wear them more than twenty times.

Beat that.

Pottler

General General wrote: »

Thinly veiled I own a couple of JCBs post.

ich Habe eine neues JCB. Es ist schon und toll. Und es costet vil geld. Aber das ist nicht neu.:D

Scanlas The 2nd

Anal doesn't count as cheating.

Scanlas The 2nd

Pottler wrote: »

General General wrote: »

Thinly veiled I own a couple of JCBs post.

ich Habe eine neues JCB. Es ist schon und toll. Und es costet vil geld. Aber das ist nicht neu.:D

Schleiss den mund, dummkopf.

Pottler

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

If I buy a pair of shoes for €200 & wear them twenty times then each wear only costs me €20 which is a small amount of money to pay in order to have gorgeous shoes to finish off an outfit.
I'm instantly up money if I wear them more than twenty times.

Beat that.

Soo, you spend €200, but are up money? Ring the Govt, they need your kind of economics at the moment. BTW, I reckon the shoes were worth it, if they match the stripey socks.

admiralofthefleet

in the months leading up to my wedding i lived off €50 a week, that included smokes and a couple of pints and food shopping. was tight but i managed

Sulla Felix

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

If I buy a pair of shoes for €200 & wear them twenty times then each wear only costs me €20 which is a small amount of money to pay in order to have gorgeous shoes to finish off an outfit.
I'm instantly up money if I wear them more than twenty times.

Beat that.

Twenty into two hundred is ten. Girl you saving even mo' money than you thought!

mark renton

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

If I buy a pair of shoes for €200 & wear them twenty times then each wear only costs me €20 which is a small amount of money to pay in order to have gorgeous shoes to finish off an outfit.

Maths?

Esoteric_

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

If I buy a pair of shoes for €200 & wear them twenty times then each wear only costs me €20 which is a small amount of money to pay in order to have gorgeous shoes to finish off an outfit.
I'm instantly up money if I wear them more than twenty times.

Beat that.

You're up money if you wear them more than 10 times, at 20 euro a pop... :pac:

Pottler

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Schleiss den mund, dummkopf.

Ich bin keiner dumbkopf weil ich habe meine JCBs. Sind sehr schon. Und Gelb.

passremarkable

everybody ssshhh..did u bury your one that night..lets hear about the fruitiness!!

Madam Marie

When I rob post offices, I think: "Fcuk it, everyone loved Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid!".

girl in the striped socks

Sorry I hit the wrong button.
Feel like a proper fruitcake now

eth0

Similar to OP but it was an ould hape of a tipper truck. A right pile of shoite now. The bit of wire to fix the JCB would have been worth more

If a bird flew over and shat on it the value would go up

mark renton

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Sorry I hit the wrong button.
Feel like a proper fruitcake now

You should have tried to rationalise it, or justify it -- what was this thread about again?/

Fight_Night

kowloon wrote: »

I was sure the 'girl that I liked' part was going to come back into it at some point. Maybe it was a bit like those false clues they put in murder mysteries. It was to throw us off the scent.

Exactly, I was expecting something to happen, it's the only reason I read the post.

token101

Stood on the bridge in Cork city pissing into the river, because pissing in the street was 'manky', as I told the homeless lad with the dog. I wish I could say I was young when this happened.

ygolometsipe

BrokenArrows wrote: »

relax, it was just a box.

the worst sound in the world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk

Herb Powell

Pottler wrote: »

Ich bin keiner dumbkopf weil ich habe meine JCBs. Sind sehr schon. Und Gelb.

===> weil ich meine JCBs habe.

Lexxxie

Is Pog mo thoin around?

im invisible

in before...

marshbaboon

I think you're confused as to what rationalising means.

The word you were looking for is "imagining".

Pottler

Herb Powell wrote: »

===> weil ich meine JCBs habe.

Rusty, the Deutsch and the JCBs.:o

Einhard

The biggest drawback with drink isn't the hangovers, the beer bellies, or the premature liver damage. Nope, it's the tendency to justify any purchase, no matter how ridiculous, or how expensive, with reference to nights out.

"Hmmm, I'd like that replica light sabre signed by the guy who applied Mark Hammill's make-up in the movie...bit steep at €150 though....ah feck it, sure I'd spend that in two nights out..."

"A film frame from Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail with Certificate of Authenticity signed by John Cleese...always wanted one of those...€400??...that's kinda steep....ah sure, I'd spend that over the course of a heavy long weekend"

Stupid light sabre doesn't even make any noise.:mad:

Chuck Stone

Rationalisationismusisims.

Mickey H

ygolometsipe wrote: »

the worst sound in the world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk

Hmmm, worst sound. Not even close. Try this one:

"BEEP! Stand clear, luggage doors operating."

Herb Powell

Pottler wrote: »

Rusty, the Deutsch and the JCBs.:o

Just your friendly neighbourhood Grammatik-Nazi