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Thanks. Now I know I must keep any jokes I make here on CP squeaky clean and politically correct.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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#3 so funny and it's true. 
Wonde Tadesse
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A corollary to number three, and a favorite of mine: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, give a man a poisoned fish and you feed him for the rest of his life."
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I prefer my ('borrowed/enhanced' version of #4) ...
4) Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for/at anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs(*)
(*) seems to be attributed to Patricia Briggs/Walter Winchell
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6. A friend in need is a pest.
Will Rogers never met me.
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In Russian there is the phrase like your p.2.
Here is it in my translation (don't bit the pianist...):
"Money doesn't create the happiness, but helps to suffer it's absence".
My English is permanently under construction. Be patient !!
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Alternately, we have the following two rules, first propounded by anarchist theorist Mikhail Bakunin:
- There are no rules.
- Rule #1 is not binding.
I observe those rules scrupulously.
(This message is programming you in ways you cannot detect. Be afraid.)
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1. Pillage, then burn.
6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
14. "Mad Science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?"
17. The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.
from Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler.
http://schlockmercenary.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries[]
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Hilarious! I'll add one more that one of my bosses used to say.
6. A fool with a tool is still a fool. The tool just makes him more dangerous.
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Step away from the Spike Milligan and put the remote down. 
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Well eight out of ten at least.
I don't think to much before I speak, and I don't succeed on stage because I avoid it at any cost.
List of symptoms over here[^].
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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10 out of 10 for me I think.
I love showing off, giving a performance as long as I know what I am doing, everything carefully rehearsed though, I'd hate to just go and wing it.
I rehearse most things that I say out loud, which means I struggle in groups because I'm always waiting for my turn to speak or still thinking about something that has gone.
I cannot cope with small talk, can't see the point, I'd rather sit in silence, I'm comfortable with silence.
The thought of having to make a phone call makes me feel sick, and I have to build myself up to making one each time. The only exceptions to that are calling my wife, or my parents.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: I love showing off
Who doesn't?
chriselst wrote: giving a performance as long as I know what I am doing, everything carefully rehearsed though
But you can't be rehearsed enough can you?
chriselst wrote: still thinking about something that has gone.
And meanwhile I'm missing out on what's being said at the moment.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: chriselst wrote: giving a performance as long as I know what I am doing, everything carefully rehearsed though
But you can't be rehearsed enough can you?
When I was 19 I had a job doing direct sales in people's houses. I think that has helped me a lot, it was helish at first but I got over it, and used to get an incredible buzz doing it, it was the performance that got me and I didn't really care if I sold or not. Afterwards though I was glad to be out and on my own. That is why I didn't sell anything, finish the performance and get out before the unpleasantness of trying to trick someone into buying.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Since when is it linked to focus?
Doesn't read like a list of symptoms, but guesses.
--edit
Test yourself whether you're passive aggressive. Then try it out in an email to the website.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
modified 18-Nov-14 16:15pm.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Test yourself whether you're passive aggressive. Then try it out in an email to
the website.
Elephant the 'passive' bit - I'll settle for outright aggressive (just kidding, that's the 'inner me' that wants to get out speaking)
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They think before they speak.
I must be thinking a lot !!! 
I'd rather be phishing!
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10 out of 10, sort of...
There are a couple that don't apply in practice, but only because I make a conscious effort to counteract them...
Like you, I avoid the literal stage (Well, I was a band geek when I was young), but I think that one is more trying to make the point that introverts find it easy to "perform" when there's a specific topic that they can prepare for ahead of time, or are already very familiar with...
Like if I'm trying to teach some colleagues about an algorithm or framework that I know well, I find that easy... If the questions go too far afield, though, it gets more difficult and stressful.
As for thinking before speaking... I would, but as people expect quick responses, I've had to train myself to do so... The downside is that sometimes I'm saying something quickly while my brain is still working out the perfect way to word it... Thoughts collide, and I might end up jumping from one to the other mid-sentence, confusing everyone.
Blah, what a depressing subject...
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Thoughts collide, and I might end up jumping from one to the other mid-sentence, confusing everyone.
I'm way to familiar with that one. I'm even doing it when I'm writing.
Ian Shlasko wrote: Blah, what a depressing subject...
 Ehm. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Message Closed
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I thought that was Myer-Briggs. 
Anyway, I'm definitely an INT but possibly more P than J
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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