"We all make mistakes"


I am sick of this line.  I know it may be irrational.  We all make mistakes and the jail system is not empirical but I think sometimes it is a pretty good line to draw.  

A few examples.

I am watching a video about Kurt Angle.  The presenter says we all make mistakes before going into Kurt's 3 drunk driving offenses and a domestic assault charge.

A girl I now work with was coming home from a wedding.  Her husband is passed out in the passenger seat.  Kid is in the backseat.  She hits a cop car.  Drunk driving.  But we all make mistakes.

Person I meet through the trail running community sits me and a friend down to tell us his past life so we don't find out about on google.  He prefaces his explanation with, you guessed it, we all make mistakes and then goes on to tell the story of back when he was doing drugs, that he got in a fight with a guy and stabbed him.  Received a suspended sentence and walked.  Then incidentally went to a party and slept with a girl he swears told him she was of age but was a minor and was a prominent man in town's daughter so, he gets pinched on sleeping with a minor.  Gets his old sentence revoked and gets a new sentence slapped on top of it.  Serves them both concurrently in prison.  While in prison he aligned with skinhead gangs and get tattoos.  Because we all make mistakes.

Now, I am not saying these people are bad people or their pasts necessarily are inexcusable.  I am friends with the trail runner with skinhead and Nazi tattoos.  He is not that guy now.  But what ribs the crap out of me is the equivalency of we all make mistakes.  It's true we all do.  But comparing my mistakes your mistakes is not apples to apples or even apples to oranges it's apples to amphibious assault vehicles.  Not even remotely the same.

This song pretty much sums up that mentality.

What's weird is I went to the bank recently. I gave them all those magic eraser phrases. We all make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. The past is the past. And you know what they did? Still did a hard pull on my credit. WTF?

My favorite phrase has always been; "It's not rape if you yell surprise".

"it's apples to amphibious assault vehicles." - theend

I don't think anything else that gets posted in this thread (or possibly even on PW today) will top that line. Love it. Definitely want to bust it out at work. Is it a theend original, or does it come from somewhere?

Try my line at work, 🤯

🤯,amphibious assault vehicles was on my mind as I was debating online about the use of the term "assault" rifle. I feel if you can have an amphibious assault vehicles you can have assault rifle.

So, yep original today creation.

I'm actually a lot more mellow these days in some things...


"there but for the grace of God, go I"
I really get this, what are we if not bags of meat with preprogrammed genetics and life experiences we didn't choose?
If you had Adolf Hitler's genetics and life you would make the same decisions he did.

The phrase "we all make mistakes" does sound grating but it's true. I mean like I have in the past texted while driving but will still shake my head when it's on the news that someone did it and ran over a cyclist. We all make bad decisions but we don't all get the repercussions.

Prefacing this, my favorite comedian ever, George Carlin, also made this observation...but I was annoyed with it before I saw that routine.

"Near miss."

If you barely don't hit something, that's just a miss. Now if you just clip that son of a bitch, barely any contact...that's a near miss. It's a pretty easy distinction, you either missed it, nearly missed it, or didn't even come close to missing it.

RagnarokMike,bragging rights: I got to see George once live.

Apr 6, 2019 7:04:00 GMT theend said:

RagnarokMike ,bragging rights: I got to see George once live.

My two least favorite words this week are:

'Going forward...'

Seriously irritating.

I work with a few people, that end sentences with " at the end of the day " and half the time, it doesn't even warrant it.

At the end of the day we can't be having PW posters getting irritated, so as admin I hereby ban the use of these phrases going forward.

You didn't start your post with 'going forward' therefore I am not irritated.

I hate 'moving forward' because it usually gets said after someone does something wrong on purpose and gets caught but doesn't get punished. but 'moving forward' we'll do it the way we're supposed to

I have noticed a decent increase in "didn't used to" which is jarring as is "for all intensive purposes"

“God is good”

Fucking hate that as a way of celebrating good things

“When you’re ready”

I’ll be serving someone at work and the person behind them will say “i’ll get a ___ when you’re ready”

If I was ready I’d be doing it 🤦🏻‍♀️

I absolutely hate ‘it is what it is’.

I never noticed it as a phrase before and then one person begun saying it around me a lot and then I noticed a lot of people say it, I don’t know why but it drives me nuts.

System also loves to say ‘you get that on the big jobs’ and that drives me nuts as well -_-

May 25, 2019 15:14:08 GMT System said:

“When you’re ready”

I’ll be serving someone at work and the person behind them will say “i’ll get a ___ when you’re ready”

If I was ready I’d be doing it 🤦🏻‍♀️

I do this... It's just good manners

May 26, 2019 18:55:11 GMT iNCY said:

May 25, 2019 15:14:08 GMT System said:

“When you’re ready”

I’ll be serving someone at work and the person behind them will say “i’ll get a ___ when you’re ready”

If I was ready I’d be doing it 🤦🏻‍♀️

I do this... It's just good manners

How is it good manners?

My last job a lady made "it is what it is" her catchphrase because she used it every conversation I ever had with her. It's really a nothing phrase, but I'll always think of her when I hear it. Wonder if her boyfriends still beats her?

I absolutely hate ‘it is what it is’.

I never noticed it as a phrase before and then one person begun saying it around me a lot and then I noticed a lot of people say it, I don’t know why but it drives me nuts.

May 26, 2019 19:19:56 GMT @ness said:

My last job a lady made "it is what it is" her catchphrase because she used it every conversation I ever had with her. It's really a nothing phrase, but I'll always think of her when I hear it. Wonder if her boyfriends still beats her?

The plot thickens 🤔
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“six of one, half a dozen of the other”

Hear this a lot at work, normally delivered like it’s the most witty saying ever.

I just don’t get baby boomer humour, millennial humour makes much more sense.

May 26, 2019 18:59:36 GMT System said:

May 26, 2019 18:55:11 GMT iNCY said:

I do this... It's just good manners

How is it good manners?

It's not demanding it's me asking for something but making it clear I know you are busy and I am happy to wait. 
I wouldn't say "when you're ready" I would say "when you have a minute" 

It is what it is IS a term I commonly use in life.

May 26, 2019 23:54:57 GMT KING KID said:

It is what it is IS a term I commonly use in life.

Maybe you should stop. Kidding lol.
My boss uses it heaps now because he knows it drives me nuts haha

May 26, 2019 19:43:43 GMT iNCY said:

May 26, 2019 18:59:36 GMT System said:

How is it good manners?

It's not demanding it's me asking for something but making it clear I know you are busy and I am happy to wait. 
I wouldn't say "when you're ready" I would say "when you have a minute" 

I usually tell people ‘when you’re ready’ when I’m working and they are paying by card. As the eftpos machine is just up front for customers and we don’t have to touch it. I imagine it sounds different as a server verse a customer. Usually if a customer says when I’m ready, some don’t bother me but some say it with quite a rude tone? And then that bothers me. (It’s usually elderly people asking a billion questions about a chess board they aren’t going to buy)

I'm getting really sick of "hot take".

May 29, 2019 23:54:11 GMT @admin said:

I'm getting really sick of "hot take".

I have never heard that in my life until just now.  Use it in a sentence please.  

Also, I got to start an email to the 'going forward' nazi today as he copied the vendor on an internal email where some of our team had pretty much called them liars. 'Going forward don't fucking copy the vendors on an internal email chain dumbass'.

I used 'it is what it is' yesterday to make me feel better about a situation that sucks ass.