Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nice people don't need rewards, they're just nice.
Do you mean nice people don't need monetary/tangible rewards, or no reward at all?
I'm not sure what to make of either stance, really, but I think even nice people are more than happy to hear "thanks," if nothing else.
Hedgehog joke wins comedy prize:
"Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?"
Most of the top 10 jokes are pretty funny.
My cat just blocked Jesse.
I just unblocked her, but apparently either Jesse or my cat should not be trusted.
Even a cat can look at a cowgirl.
This right here is why I adore my husband (check out the fabulous pictures!): [link]
I think my favorite is Death on a Plinth.
I think even nice people are more than happy to hear "thanks," if nothing else.
But does it still count as being nice if you do it for the thanks? If nice is equated with altruism, not really.
Scrappy's husband is awesome!
our 2005 model children are matched in their bear fear!
Yes, but you had a bear in your area, so this is a justifiable fear. OMG, CHECK THE BATHTUB FOR ROUGE SHARKS !
eta: i is never going to make the text blinvisible, just slightly thinner and tilted. Why can't I remember the quick edits?
t cheery Also, I don't think there are enough nice people in the world to make altruism work as a sustainable system. People's capacity for nasty and mean and selfish is amazing and civilisation is a thin veneer that makes a lot of us look nicer than that while still serving our selfishness
t /cheery
Actually, Bhutan is an interesting example of ..something. I haven't fleshed it all out. It's definitely an outlier,but the national identity is something so tied up in being nice and mindful, but it's also small, isolated and pretty homogenous. And goodness knows there are some cranky nepali -bhutanese refugees living in Nepal... So.
Real nice, cat-of-tommyrot!!
But does it still count as being nice if you do it for the thanks? If nice is equated with altruism, not really.
This is the train that got my college philosophy professor to assert that Mother Teresa was the worst person ever.