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03 Apr 16 - 07:45 AM (#3782979) Subject: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Mr Red talk on TED.com apparently there is a sweet spot between planners who have it all scheduled now and crammers who spend too much time with the Instant Gratification Monkey Something about allowing space for ideas to develop in your head. And years I was told of a huge company that always wanted to be second to market with an idea, one assumes they wanted to see where the mistakes were made and make fewer of them themselves. I was going to post this a day or two back but - you know - Farcebook, and the Irish session in the ...................... Ooh look what's on TV ! |
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03 Apr 16 - 07:56 AM (#3782982) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw I'll think about all this and get back to you later. I have some shopping to put off. |
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03 Apr 16 - 09:00 AM (#3783006) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Rapparee Oh, that! I think I thought about that already. |
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03 Apr 16 - 09:31 AM (#3783022) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Bee-dubya-ell If I wait a few days before posting to this thread, there's a reasonable chance someone else will say roughly what I was going to say, thus saving me the effort. |
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03 Apr 16 - 10:47 AM (#3783046) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Dave the Gnome I'm just not so sure... |
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03 Apr 16 - 12:42 PM (#3783078) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw Put kettle on. There's no rush. |
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03 Apr 16 - 12:50 PM (#3783083) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: gnu Procrastination is the thief of time, I always say. I may call the authorities and report him... or not. |
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03 Apr 16 - 12:52 PM (#3783086) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw Do I agree with you? Dunno. I might ask around. Ah well, tea time soon. |
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03 Apr 16 - 12:55 PM (#3783089) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: DMcG I'm too busy. I will procrastinate tomorrow |
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03 Apr 16 - 01:37 PM (#3783107) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Mr Red I was being serious but what the hell: Did you hear about some Spanish trying to translate their text into Irish and they had trouble with the word manyana because they couldn't find an Irish word that had quite the same urgency! |
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04 Apr 16 - 04:47 AM (#3783243) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: BobL Not quite the same thing, but, Unpreparedness is the key to flexibility. |
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04 Apr 16 - 04:52 AM (#3783244) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Kenny B (inactive) Anyone know where I can get a round tou-it ? I have spent years on the net looking for one I may post again when I get one |
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04 Apr 16 - 06:06 AM (#3783262) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw Before I lost weight, Mrs Steve used to call me a round twit. |
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04 Apr 16 - 06:21 AM (#3783266) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw Always put off until tomorrow what you realise that what you put off yesterday until today was never going to put you off putting things off. That's my philosophy and I might get around to living by it sometime. Put kettle on love and mash a tea bag for me. |
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04 Apr 16 - 09:20 AM (#3783303) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: punkfolkrocker It's quarter past 2 in the afternoon, I just got out of bed.. what's going on then... have I got phone calls that need making...??? Oh sod that I'm still sleepy and my eyes are tired.. I'll have a mug of tea.. should I have something to eat or a shit first.. oh.. decisions.. decisions.... 😜 |
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04 Apr 16 - 11:36 AM (#3783341) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Kampervan Steve, did you mean 'a round tuit'? Just asking, ??I'll understand if you can't be bothered to answer though. |
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04 Apr 16 - 01:20 PM (#3783365) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Bill D Hmmmfff.. we amateur crastinators occasionally manage to put off stuff the pros never bother with! |
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04 Apr 16 - 01:39 PM (#3783368) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw Nah, Kampervan, that was Kenny. I thnk. I'll check later. Maybe. |
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04 Apr 16 - 01:41 PM (#3783369) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: punkfolkrocker what.... nearly 7.00 pm already... ?? oh well.. I'll phone their offices tomorrow........ |
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04 Apr 16 - 01:48 PM (#3783371) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Mr Red Unpreparedness is the key to flexibility Very appropriate, and if you listen to the video, that is one of the tenets. |
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04 Apr 16 - 02:46 PM (#3783382) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: meself Has anyone gotten 'round to watching this yet? |
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04 Apr 16 - 03:17 PM (#3783385) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Bee-dubya-ell One good reason to procrastinate is that circumstances may change between now and a deadline. A good example is the change in circumstances produced by one's own death. If I have a month before something has to be done, why should I do it today when I might die tomorrow, in which case it's no longer my problem? |
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04 Apr 16 - 03:26 PM (#3783391) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Kenny B (inactive) Isnt a procrastinator the act before the Spanish dancers |
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04 Apr 16 - 10:55 PM (#3783457) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: gnu Well then! I... ahhh... never mind. |
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05 Apr 16 - 12:10 AM (#3783463) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: michaelr On a related note: If you want something done efficiently, get a lazy man to do it. |
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05 Apr 16 - 12:23 AM (#3783464) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: olddude I will put off dying for as long as I can |
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05 Apr 16 - 06:25 AM (#3783484) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw I've been thinking about doing that myself for quite a long time now. |
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05 Apr 16 - 08:32 AM (#3783495) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: punkfolkrocker what about all that reincarnation business... do you have to come back to Earth at regular intervals over the eons to set deadlines... or does the cosmos give you a bit of leeway if you oversleep or get a bit distracted and lose track of time pottering about in the spirit world.. ??? |
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05 Apr 16 - 08:52 AM (#3783497) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Doug Chadwick I don't believe in reincarnation. I didn't believe in it last time, either. DC |
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05 Apr 16 - 03:30 PM (#3783545) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: olddude I think you can procrastinate for a while |
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05 Apr 16 - 03:52 PM (#3783550) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Steve Shaw What, now?? |
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06 Apr 16 - 06:17 AM (#3783676) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler I look at all these home improvement and House building programs on TV where they construct an entire house inside 4 months and compare it to the seven years that we have spent changing and adjusting the layout of ours. We would not have had anything like such a useful room layout if we had not waited and done things slowly changing our minds and inventing new bits. |
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07 Apr 16 - 04:09 AM (#3783929) Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points From: Mr Red We would not have had anything like such a useful room layout if we had not waited and done things slowly changing our minds and inventing new bits Sort of sums up the advantage, though I think the timescale echoes Robert Louis Stevenson - "Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." Which in finding that quotation was not the case, it took a lot of internet prodding to prove it wasn't Oscar Wilde (as I imagined). I wonder if my memory banks (Wilde stub) have re-booted. |