Optimists live longer

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So engineers are optimists?
Or not?
I’m so confused.

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Then why is Donald Duck Trump still alive? That dude embodies pessimism.

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Both, of course!

ENGINEER#1: I can cut 40% off the height of that glass with a glass cutter, then flame-treat the rim of the glass, and you can have a glass just right for the amount of liquid you have!
ENGINEER#2: There’s no point to modifying the glass, because the next time they go to drink, some idiot will have specified 2x the liquid!

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I’m so jealous of all their extra years of being DELUDED FOOLS

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Well, that was a less than optimal size…

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Ah well, I figured I’d not live to be very old anyways.

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If insurance companies see this, they will try to raise life insurance rates for us pessimists. :angry:

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Man, I’m screwed.

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I’ll wait for some more studies.

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PHILOSOPHER: The glass is all the way full, just with air for the top half.

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Kathy: Sorry I drank your good scotch!

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" The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label. …"— James Branch Cabell

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Maybe it was, but Grumpy Cat died in May.

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Or you’re a realist, the best of both worlds! :grin:

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What is this thing of which you speak, optimist you say?

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I liked Pig Killer, the optimist from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

Max: How long are you in for?

Pig Killer: The big one. Life.

Max: For killing a pig?

Pig Killer: I had to feed the kids. Ah, it doesn’t bother me. Down here, life’s two, three years.

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I think it all boils down to the ratios of piss and vinegar. :thinking:

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Don’t drink either.

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Thank you for this! That has been my motto for decades, didn’t know that my theme song was out there, and from Mel Brooks, no less.

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But, couldn’t the causation arrow be pointing the other way?.. That people who are more healthy and have better prospects in life have a more positive outlook wouldn’t be all that surprising… I guess I’d have to like, read the paper to find out. Ugh

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