Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 18, 2024

Definition: An ist who isn’t fake.

As an engineer (= ultra- mega- realist) I have to agree with Pig.

The more you know the more it hurts! Sometimes ignorance is bliss!

Pessimists: They expect the worst so they’re happy when things go bad… but they spend their lives kinda sour. Optimists: The expect the best so they’re disappointed when things go bad… but they spend their lives feeling pretty good. Realists know the pessimists have the better system.

Like is what you make it!

Wrong Pig. You can be realist and still be happy.

My father used to try to smackdown people with the phrase, “Well you see, I’m a realist.” He certainly wasn’t. A pipe dreaming narcissist yes. Realist not so much.

Ignorant people are happier.

I think everything is funny since I realized “They can’t scramble the dregs without breaking the eggheads.” It’s especially funny since the orange puppet is part of the dregs but he thinks it’s only the fools who voted for him who are dregs and meanwhile it’s the moot eggheads who still think “All men are created equal” in some Turing machine sense. (But that original egg was somewhat rotten as regards women, native Americans, and slaves…)

The reality one sees is always subjective.Never the same as your neighbor.

Nice to see a happy pig X

Some people are just happy when they’re miserable.

I dream of Realism….

It’s hard to be positive in a world filled with negativity.

I’m with Pig. Some days are better, some days are worse—so look for the blessing instead of the curse!

A pessimist is someone who sits sadly at the party all night long, thinking about the mess that there will be in the morning. The Optimist is the person who spends all night enjoying the party and then takes 5 minutes to clean up the mess while the pessimist is still sitting there gloomily thinking about how hard it’s going to be to clean up the mess.

I’m definitely a realist. Too blunt for my own good.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Which one would you rather have writing the software for a nuclear power plant? (Or designing pretty much any system, including political ones?) The one who thinks only the “happy path” needs to be implemented, or the one who realizes that 90% of any robust system is to deal with the various unhappy paths?

I’m disappointed that pessimism is underrated.

Pig has a joyous soul.

Only half?

I’m a pessimist so I never thought Trump would win. Imagine my unbridled joy when I saw he won in a landslide. I still have a smile on my face. I have an optimist friend who thought Kamala was a shoe-in. He hasn’t smiled at all. My vote is pessimism is better.

Realists see what is; dreamers imagine what isn’t.

I can’t get into these labels to define people

From an article written by Sterry Butcher in the New York Times Magazine:

The act of noticing will improve horsemanship, but the heightened awareness also leads to becoming a better person — better at communicating, better at listening, better at being still and calm and in the moment. “People are quite passionate about their horses,” Schiller says. “If they stay passionate for long enough, and they keep asking the right questions, they tend to make changes in themselves that they wouldn’t make for their boss or their co-worker or their husband or their kids. But they make it for their horses. Then it carries over into the rest of life. That’s the amazing thing about what horses do for us.”

An optimist invented the airplane, a pessimist invented the parachute.

Misery loves company.

Well, ironically we are also divided 50 / 50 on that and ready for war over it.

Optimist believe this is the best of all possible worlds. Pessimists agree with them.

Wow, now I know why so many philosphers are out of a job.

Me, I like a combination pizza.

I’m a day behind because this site is so slow and I got fed up, but did anyone see yesterday’s Lio?

Some things are fun and some aren’t. A lot of things are in between.

I’m a realistic dreamer. Which works fine when I’m asleep.

Pig wins

There’s a lot to consider but Pastis always reminds me of Archie and Mehitabel, and there’s always a brick headed for Krazy. Wit with a pen, another reminds me of: Dorothy Parker: You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.

Nice to see Pig get the diss in instead of being dissed upon.