Best Of
Re: Funny Stuff
She’s a keeper!!!!
This happened at a New York Airport.
This airline gate agent deserves an award for how she handled a passenger who probably
deserved to fly as cargo.
A crowded flight was canceled.
A single agent was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.
Suddenly, an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS."
The agent replied, "I'm sorry, sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these folks first who were in front of you; and then I'm sure we'll be able to work something out."
The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?"
Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. "May I have your attention, please?", she began, her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him with his identity, please come to Gate 14".
With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the airlines agent, gritted his teeth, and said, "F*** You!"
Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to get in line for that, too."
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain...
Shoshin1
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
27°C? Spring? That is bordering on a summer heatwave here … 
lobster
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“It is a vicious circle: the society creates the sick saint, the sick saint creates the sick society -- and it goes on and on. I have no part in this sickness, the so-called spirituality. I am just a contented, fulfilled human being. What more do you want? And what more can spirituality be?
We want people to be fulfilled and contented, and this journey towards contentment, fulfillment, enlightenment should start with the body. You cannot begin from anywhere else. You can begin only from the beginning.”
— Osho
Jeroen
Re: Addicted?
@Bunks said:
I smoked a lot of weed myself in my young days but it started to exacerbate my anxiety so I gave it away...
Who to ?
Shoshin1
Re: Addicted?
@Bunks said:
@David said:
@federica said:
This forum, dot painting, canal boat painting and MahJong on my phone! So addicted! I barely have time for all the cannabis I'm growing...!Whoa... I seem to recall some sort of lecture from somebody around here about cannabis some time ago... Change the only constant, indeed!
I suspect she may be kidding...
I'm leaning that way myself but she has gotten into Wim Hof lately so...
My best friend turned 50 last week and a couple of us went over to see him. His parents were there and we reminisced about the past where they would get riled up if we were high and now they drink it for tea.
Re: Addicted?
@federica said:
This forum, dot painting, canal boat painting and MahJong on my phone! So addicted! I barely have time for all the cannabis I'm growing...!
Whoa... I seem to recall some sort of lecture from somebody around here about cannabis some time ago... Change the only constant, indeed!
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“And all these beautiful names -- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Bodhidharma, Nagarjuna, Pythagoras, Socrates, Heraclitus, Epicurus -- all these beautiful names which have been a great inspiration to many people were themselves never inspired by anybody. That's how they protected their originality; that's how they remained themselves.
I have been with masters, and I have loved them. But to me the very desire to be like them is ugly. One man is enough; a second like him will not enrich existence, it will only burden it.”
— Osho
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“ I have never had a master, and I am fortunate that I never had a master. I have been, in my past lives, with a few living masters. They were beautiful people, lovable, but one thing has been clear all along to me -- that nobody can be a source of inspiration for me, because that word `inspiration' is dangerous.
First it is inspiration, then it becomes following, then it becomes imitation -- and you end up being a carbon copy. There is no need to be inspired by anybody. Not only is there no need, it is dangerous too. Just watching, I have seen... each individual is unique. He cannot follow anybody else.”
— Osho
Jeroen
