Forums

#occupy chess.com

Sort:
bigpoison

I always liked the story of the grasshopper and the ant.

Lazy, good-for-nothing grasshoppers. 

The bummer is:  the grasshoppers of the world sure seem to enjoy life more.

ivandh

Why is that a bummer?

The ant misses out on good times and bad ones- the grasshopper lives for these extremes. If you want to live it up and accept that you'll have to pay for it in the morning- hell, knock yourself out. All too often though you get grasshoppers who think they can be ants when it's wintertime, or don't think winter will ever come (Wall St. comes to mind). There's the real bummer.

MyCowsCanFly

Seems to me the ants tend to over-react.

bigpoison
ivandh wrote:

Why is that a bummer?

The ant misses out on good times and bad ones- the grasshopper lives for these extremes. If you want to live it up and accept that you'll have to pay for it in the morning- hell, knock yourself out. All too often though you get grasshoppers who think they can be ants when it's wintertime, or don't think winter will ever come (Wall St. comes to mind). There's the real bummer.


 That's just typical grasshopper thinking.  "Oh, I can turn it on when things get tough."

I don't think you have a choice, you're either a grasshopper or an ant.

MyCowsCanFly

Wow...suddenly Kung Fu the TV series makes sense !

mdog21
bigpoison wrote:
ivandh wrote:

Why is that a bummer?

The ant misses out on good times and bad ones- the grasshopper lives for these extremes. If you want to live it up and accept that you'll have to pay for it in the morning- hell, knock yourself out. All too often though you get grasshoppers who think they can be ants when it's wintertime, or don't think winter will ever come (Wall St. comes to mind). There's the real bummer.


 That's just typical grasshopper thinking.  "Oh, I can turn it on when things get tough."

I don't think you have a choice, you're either a grasshopper or an ant.


or a grape.

mrguy888

Mircrowaving grapes is amazing.

theoreticalboy

The only sense to be garnered from the Kung Fu TV series is the sense that you should be watching Monkey instead.

shequan
theoreticalboy wrote:

After occupy Wall Street, solidarity occupations in other major cities have sprung up.  Now, finally, those of us less inclined to visit the outside world, particularly when it's overrun by students, have a venue all to ourselves.

chess.com; consider yourself occupied.

BWAHHHHHHHHHHH. LOL. funny.

theoreticalboy

What's funny is that this thread faded from relevancy in much the same manner as Occupy itself did; refusal to have anyone assume strong leadership.

AMERIKAN

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

theoreticalboy

If I want to leave it, will you pay for my travel costs?

TheGrobe

Duplicate account detected.

electricpawn
theoreticalboy wrote:

If I want to leave it, will you pay for my travel costs?

You'l make it up with cheaper health care and free college, if you choose make your mother happy and pursue an advanced degree.
theoreticalboy

England does not have free college, though, and I don't have many other options.  Still, the NHS does rock.

ivandh

Typical university undergrad degree: $80,000

Kinko's: $42.79

electricpawn

Is ut time to storm the Bastille yet?