Doorstop
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Putting Things in Perspective.I thought I'd end this year with a thought to nullify all the bad vibes coming from the whole Christmas situation ... take a look at the place all your problems start ....
It's pretty big isn't it, this place all your lifes big bugbears begin?
But your problems could be bigger if you lived elsewhere ...
So, my problems started to feel a little pathetic really. In fact all the problems under the Sun looked pretty feeble, in the great scheme of things, when you look at the size of the sun ...
I found this humbling, until I looked beyond our Solar System and found that even if I took all the problems under the sun, our sun, and multiplied them exponentially they still don't amount to very much really in the great scheme of things .. do they?
Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.
It is more than 1000 light years away ... that's 5,878,630,000,000 miles to those slow at arithmetic at this time in the morning.
Just to put that in perspective it's over 3½ billion times round the Earth. Well over.
How big are your problems now?
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Now TRY to wrap your mind around this.........
This is a Hubble Telescope Ultra Deep Field Infrared View of countless "ENTIRE" Galaxies Billions of Light-Years Away.
Remember, every one of those Galaxies is choc full of stars like Antares .. and bigger
Below is a close up of one of the darkest regions of the photo above.
Humbling, isn't it?
And now how big are the things that upset you recently?
Keep life in perspective and have a happy Christmas.
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james73
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James H
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Hugo Drax
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Nah doesn't help me at all. I am still utterly fecked!
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Doorstop
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| Hugo Drax wrote: | | Nah doesn't help me at all. I am still utterly fecked! |
I sent it as an eMail to my brother, he sent me one back saying "Antares isn't sending the fecking bailiffs round though, is it?"
 
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Hugo Drax
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Just ignore me as I have had a bad year. Next year will be better hopefully.
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james73
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On a similar theme, this is the Earths water and air supplies compared to
the size of the planet...
James H
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Doorstop
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The air is pink?
I've seen it blue at times but pink's a new one on me.
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Lone Groover
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The air is always pink
Get ye hence to an optician ! 
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Doorstop
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Does specsavers do rose-tinted spectacles like yours then Dave?
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Lone Groover
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"Tucks handbag under arm and strides off purposefully "
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Doorstop
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Reminds me of the joke where a gay guy goes onto a local pub. He sminces over to the bar and says, in his best camp twang "Can I have a Campari and soda please?". The barman says "fcuk off! We don't serve your sort in here."
The gay bloke replies "And what sort would that be?". The barman retorts "Shirtlifters and their ilk."
Affronted, the gay guy leaves and vows to come up with a plan to allow him to beat the ban and get one over on the homophobic barman. And what a plan it is .. his strategy is to hit all the Army/Navy stores in Glasgow and acquire all the apparel and equipment to pass for a fcuk-off hardman Para/Marine/SAS Commando .. this, he reasons, will get him past the initial visual inspection.
After two months of purchases he starts acting and voice classes to alter his flowery diction in favour of something more bestial and guttural. After many weeks of hard practice and heart breaking criticism he finally cracks it and can fake the accent of a rabid Andy McNab on steroids.
He borrows his Grandfathers old army rifle gets clobbered up and heads off to the pub.
Standing outside he bolsters himself, takes a deep breath, adopts a steely expression and, with a ramrod back, marches forcefully in through the front door .. walks up to bar and grunts out "a pint of Tennants and a double whisky mate."
The barman takes one look at him and says "fcuk off .. we don't serve poofs in here!".
Struggling, but admirably succeeding, in maintaining his SAS persona he raises himself up and growls "What do mean poof? What makes you think I'm a poof? Look at my kit man, Army boots, combat trousers, flack jacket, combat medals, bergen rucksack, loaded rifle, handbag ........ ach, fuckin' handbag!"
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Lone Groover
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Did you get much flogging that gear on E bay ?
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Doorstop
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I've gotten most of it sold, although not on eBay.
The zoom/macro lens went to a mate of a mate for £30 and the camcorder (I didn't post the camcorder as I had a buyer in mind) went for £80.
That was 50 bangers profit I reckon .. the Pentax and the standard lens are still waiting for a new home, I'll probably try eBAy after the Christmas spending pain has subsided, although I don't hold out much hope for any additional profit there as there's loads of lots going for roughly the same as I paid for mine.
Still, £50 is £50 ... it'll probably pay for one shoe of a pair of fancy-dan trainers for my daughter come the sales. I'll have to fork out the other half obviously but a flesh wound is worse than a direct hit I suppose.
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Lone Groover
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| Doorstop wrote: | I've gotten most of it sold, although not on eBay.
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Unusually for you, you missed the point....
Army boots, combat trousers, flack jacket, combat medals, bergen rucksack, loaded rifle,
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Doorstop
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Aye ... walked right into that one.
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Lone Groover
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 I guess the penny drops at a slower rate in your part of the town !
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