And, bleah, Zen and Burrell, those two are sucktastic.

I still kinda want to track down whoever expressed boundless empathy to erika by pointing out that s/he was crippled by the tragic inability to be a fighter pilot and punch 'em in the neck.

"Everything happens for a reason."

Some of those reasons are just shittastic, is all.

More that I found:

'God only gives special babies to the special parents.'

Failure to plan is planning for failure.

No it isn't.

Ooh. Now I remember.

When you assume, you make an ass of you and me.

I make a million assumptions a day - such as, the sun will rise, gravity will continue to work, etc....

Timelies all!

Nova is batting at a Sharpie on Gary's desk. This cannot end well.

But do people actually say that? I mean, to someone who's going through a difficult time?

Oooh, I know this one!

One of my uncles died exactly 1 month after Tim's mom did (I didn't post in Beep Me because I was just shredded; I don't need brackets, as I'm posting to make a snarky point). So I was understandably upset and grieving.

A friend said to me something along the lines of "It always happens in threes; that's what my grandmother always said to me. I'll never forget that. So just hang on to that."

I *think* he was trying to be consoling, but the takeaway message for me, who had only as yet lost TWO loved ones was that THERE'S STILL ONE MORE DEATH WAITING! Woo.

Maybe not the best thing to say to someone who lost 2 family members in 30 days.

t edit And I *am,* actually, kind of still edgy. Tim's mom died on August 4; my uncle died on September 4. So I'm counting the days until October 5, because I would goddamn well like to go more than 1 month without anyone keeling over.

Some of those reasons are just shittastic, is all.

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

DCI Tennyson vs. Cracker (for Comic Relief)

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

I always thought it was meant more along the lines of "the reason will have meaning," at some point.

Some of those reasons are just shittastic, is all.

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

I think that *is* the implication, yeah, but I like to be a smartass and reply to people's platitudes with things like "Sure, but some of the reasons are shittastic."

I don't play well with others.

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

I always think of that when I'm up before dawn, in a musing about the conditions under which it is literally true way. It's always coldest before the dawn is more often true, I suspect. Though I am assuming, in my interpretation, that "before" means "just before". It is almost always darker before dawn than after dawn, I suppose.

What's that line? Optimists believe we live in the best of all possible worlds, pessimists fear that that is so. Something like that.