It’s just great to get behind someone like this on the highway. Speed up when you can pass, slow way down when you cannot. Guess they want to make you as miserable as they are.
Ah, he is channeling Somerset Maughm (via Bennet Cerf) :
“Octogenarian Somerset Maugham told a visitor to his French Riviera estate recently, ‘Now that I’ve grown old, I realize that for most of us it is not enough to have achieved personal success. One’s best friend must also have failed.’ "
The Book: What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won’t be troubling you much longer.
BE THIS GUY about 2 years ago
One way or another, Rat wants to be better off.
alasko about 2 years ago
Happiness is relative.
hariseldon59 about 2 years ago
Schadenfreude
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 2 years ago
That is the spirit of the Dow Jones, isn’t it?
sirbadger about 2 years ago
Please make the stock I invested in go up and please make the stock I shorted go down.
BasilBruce about 2 years ago
“Dear lord, if you won’t help me, for heaven’s sakes don’t help that bear!” —From the Andy Griffith song, “The Preacher and the Bear”
ronaldspence about 2 years ago
Sad, but a very prevalent attitude!
lavender headgear about 2 years ago
Rat thinks like Klaus Schwab. What’s the point of being rich if everyone else is too?
F-Flash about 2 years ago
It’s my life and I do what I want.
B UTTONS about 2 years ago
Dear Rat,
We chose your second option.
We gave everyone you.
Sincerely, Powers That Be in the Universe
iggyman about 2 years ago
“Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble”!
AndreasMartin about 2 years ago
Someone seems to hear Rat’s prayers.
Athelind about 2 years ago
Rat proves that wishes can and do come true.
rshive about 2 years ago
Whatever works, Rat.
Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 years ago
How about both?
Ellis97 about 2 years ago
If Rat isn’t happy, nobody deserves to be happy.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 2 years ago
That is the MAGA philosophy, make everyone else miserable as them.
gawaintheknight about 2 years ago
Make the universe great again.
Croc Holliday about 2 years ago
If your happiness depends on how you stack up against others, you may always find a way to be disappointed.
Zebrastripes about 2 years ago
You make your own happiness
YippiKiAyMofo about 2 years ago
Ah, so Rat’s a socialist! It all makes sense now!
Neil59 about 2 years ago
I would have expected nothing less from Rat.
Uninspired Artist about 2 years ago
I feel evil relating with rat here, but I do relate
HOTLOTUS1 about 2 years ago
take my wife, please
uniquename about 2 years ago
♪♫ “Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz…” ♫♪
Goat from PBS about 2 years ago
Dear Rat, How ’bout no? Signed, Powers That Be in the Universe.
old_geek about 2 years ago
It’s just great to get behind someone like this on the highway. Speed up when you can pass, slow way down when you cannot. Guess they want to make you as miserable as they are.
SofaKing about 2 years ago
“The Blues isn’t about making yourself feel better. It’s about making other people feel worse.” Bleeding Gums Murphy
Cricket rules about 2 years ago
I want the same thing as rat
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Is that the republigun plan for the USA?
KEA about 2 years ago
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.” — Gore Vidal
198.23.5.11 about 2 years ago
Happiness is a warm superiority complex
woodyweaver about 2 years ago
Ah, he is channeling Somerset Maughm (via Bennet Cerf) :
“Octogenarian Somerset Maugham told a visitor to his French Riviera estate recently, ‘Now that I’ve grown old, I realize that for most of us it is not enough to have achieved personal success. One’s best friend must also have failed.’ "
waes-hael about 2 years ago
The Book: What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won’t be troubling you much longer.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 2 years ago
I’m not sure where this goes but, 30 minutes ago Mudd said,
Ha,haa.
reverendike about 2 years ago
Rat thinks he lives in a zero-sum universe. Over the years, I’ve met a few miserable people who think the same.
willie_mctell about 2 years ago
Sort of like the rising tide thing.
splax about 2 years ago
They both make rat look good!!!!
Mostly Water Premium Member about 2 years ago
Maybe I missed a similar comment, but I think the only way that our individual lives can be made better is if that is the general trend in society.
zeexenon about 2 years ago
Schadenfreude all over again….
The Orange Mailman about 2 years ago
If misery loves company, and two is company but three is a crowd, then misery loves two. Unless you are Jack Tripper.
Sisyphos about 2 years ago
Not gonna happen, Rat. The (PBS) Universe doesn’t like you….
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 years ago
That’s not how life works.
Swirls Before Pine about 2 years ago
Unhappiness is relatives.
B E A N (the sequel) about 2 years ago
And so, the pandemic was born.