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But I had no idea (wow, that's almost as good as the poet but didn't know it nonsense  )
Here I'd always thought I was an optimist. But, the amusing explanations on the poll made me think a little. Things will mostly work out - if you are prepared to put in some effort. I love my life, but if I was too lazy to work at it maybe it wouldn't be quite such fun to live it.
I guess we do learn something new everyday after all 
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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I knew there was a reason I like you... a natural engineer.
Megan Forbes wrote:
the poet but didn't know it
Longfellows, eh? And here I'd had you pegged as a size 6 or so.;)
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Every failure is the customer's fault. Every success is the result of my great foresight.
Marc
Microsoft MVP, Visual C#
MyXaml
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Sounds like a programmer to me.
Wait thats wrong! Thats a feature not a bug!
INTP
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*cough* closet pessimist in the making *cough*
:P
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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This must become a perfect pessimist, for the making is going on for 10 years..
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
sighist || Agile Programming | doxygen
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Marvin, the Paranoid android, from H2G2, is one of the
most depressed - pessimistic being in the multi-verse
(multi-verse being equivalent to the whole general mish
mash of universes and parallel universes)
Its more difficult to be optimistic that being pessimistic.
I am optimistic, but I feel depressed much of the time because
reality lets me down.
I imagine a pessimistic being, who whould cheer up, because
he-she doesn't expect much from our multi-verse, occasionally
is surprised into experiencing something positive.
Well, I am getting tired to pick up pessimistic folks around
me - it takes away from my limited pool of energy. Those with
an optimistic outlook on life have to expand a larger amount
of energy than those with a pessimistic outlook.
I disbeleive in reality. But that's another story...
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Bamaco2 wrote:
reality lets me down.
The Guide is authoritative; life is frequently wrong.
Bamaco2 wrote:
it takes away from my limited pool of energy
One negative person can suck the life out of an unlimited number of victims. I call such people 'energy vampires' and avoid them at all costs. If you're stuck on a project team with one, fire him/her, or find that loser a better job somewhere else - preferably working for your competitor.
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Roger Wright wrote:
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
INTP
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Bamaco2 wrote:
Its more difficult to be optimistic that being pessimistic.
Being self dillusional is easier than facing reality.
Bamaco2 wrote:
I am optimistic, but I feel depressed much of the time because
reality lets me down.
If you where truly optimistic then you would not feel depressed because you would be ignoring reality.
Bamaco2 wrote:
I disbeleive in reality. But that's another story...
Reality is realitive!
INTP
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I don't know about you guys but life is pretty bloody marvelous even at the worst of times for most of us.
That you had a girlfriend in the first place to dump you is awesome. That you can even vote on a poll like this is incredible. That you even have a glass and some water to ponder over is something to appreciate.
I swear, these happy pills I take are the key to life! 
Cheer up chaps, life's good.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Damn - you ate all of them again, didn't you? 
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
sighist || Agile Programming | doxygen
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Paul Watson wrote:
Cheer up chaps, life's good
Just good. C'mon Paul you know its better than good.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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hehe, indeed. I have to warm these chaps upfirst though. If I hit them with "stupendous", "awesome", "fantastic" and "just cor blimey brilliant" at the outset, they will shy away.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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All right send me some of those pills (pleassssssssssssse).
I have a mantra, when ever I get depressed, I just say "life is wonderful" (over and over again). Some how the saying that "life is a bitch and then you die" does not work for me.
INTP
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Ballons pop. People die. What can I do about it?
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
My Articles
While much is too strange to be believed,
Nothing is too strange to have happened.
- T. Hardy
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Realists are closet pessimists.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Paul Watson wrote:
Realists are closet pessimists.
A cynic is a disappointed romantic.
Gavin Greig
"Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye."
Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.
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a disappointed romantic is something most people found interesting like Romeo and Juliet?
Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio
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No, Romeo & Juliet was a tragic validation of love, something most young people think of all too often. Then you grow up a bit and realise it does not have to be so tragic all the time 
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Then you grow up a bit and realise it does not have to be so tragic all the time
Well, life is getting too easy now and people start not to appreciate things around.
Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio
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A romantic is someone who hopes to find ideals in the real world. A cynic doesn't believe those ideals are attainable. The cynic may share the same ideals as the romantic, and even aspire towards them, but is sufficiently bruised and worn by experience to be very pessimistic about them being attained.
They're not quite the same as optimism and pessimism, but you can see they may be closely related.
I thought it was mildly amusing that Paul, usually one of the more romantically inclined members of CodeProject, responded to Aaron's fatalist comment with a cynical comment which effectively reduced Aaron's "realism" to "pessimism".
Gavin Greig
"Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye."
Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.
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I was being tongue in cheeck with my reply, we all enjoy a bit of poking-the-other-side
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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