How do you deal with failure?

[Pekka]

I have an idea. Maybe we should hold a contest, who fails biggest. I mean lets make it art.. art of failing. Lets take it to another level! Discover the new hights of loserism, and say NO MORE will I succeed or fail just a little. Oh no.. we will start failing like there is no tomorrow. And when we are gone, they will make songs about us and teach them to children and future generations of future.

Who's with me?!

[st_swithin]

Nah, that's what we have country music for - those guys sing about losing their jobs, getting divorced, putting down their dog Rufus, crashing the pick-'em-up truck, and getting shot down by that pretty waitress named Lurleen - all in the same song.

Anyway, if you're posting to Apolyton, you're already a card-carrying member to loserdom, right?

[Chemical Ollie]

One humilitating failure was the guy who tried to run up the wall in "The Full Monthy" and dropped flat to the ground.

Otherwise I don't know who is the loser of the losers. Perhaps Hitler or something, but that kind of failure is not so fun to discuss in a thread like this.

[Pekka]

Is that membership binding? I'm sure my trained buttocks compensate.

[Pekka]

Chemical Ollie, yeah I don't mean Hitler types of losers.

I mean like fun failing. You know, missing your appointment, that is very important, because you forgot about it, got drunk and possibly even naked and arrested, and then tried to lie something pathetic why you didn't show up only to be caught from it.

Fun failing.

[Whaleboy]

This thread reminds me of college...

Minus the pot and the gothic girls. I dont know why I both go on the internet any more

[Chemical Ollie]

There was a Swedish TV comedy about a loser. He had lost his job, his dog had died and his wife run off with some nerdy clerk. He thought the only option was to kill himself, so he sat down by the railroad track to jump in front of a train. He waited and waited, but no train came, because they had permanently shut down the operation of that rail.

The guy had a motto: It's never to late to give up!

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
Sounds like we got our summer planned!

That's what I did last summer. Now you know.

Pekka, here's one:

Bagging on a horrible movie to the director of that horrible movie, then realising that you were going to try to get a job working on that guy's next horrible movie.

LA is so fvcking cool.

[Pekka]

THat's a good motto. I heard a radio show years ago and there was a loser too and his motto was 'if I don't finish last, I'll give up'.

[Japher]

I like: If at first you don't succeed, it probably wasn't worth doing right anyway...

[Chemical Ollie]

When I was 19 or something, some buddies and I was preparing a "surprice box" for a guys birthday. It was full of technology and the idea was that he should press a button and step back, then the box should open by itself, sound a loud car honker, flash a police light, blow off a smoke bomb and finally spray water in they victim's direction. My job was to rig the smoke bomb. I checked the triggers switches several times to make sure they were off before I attached the cords. As an extra security measure, I put a plate to protect my face from the bomb if it would go off anyway. When I attached the cords, the bomb blew, and my friends garage was filled with smoke. The trigger switches had been on all the time, despite my checks.

[Zopperoni]

[MichaeltheGreat]

I wouldn't know.

[Urban Ranger]

There are no failures, only setbacks.

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
There are no failures, only setbacks.

GO TO OPRAH!! GO TO OPRAH!!