Giggles For Men With Good Enough Humour To Laugh

• Don't imagine you can change a man - unless he's in nappies.
• What do you do if your boyfriend walks out? You shut the door.
• If they put a man on the moon - they should be able to put them all up there.
• Never let your man's mind wander - it's too little to be out alone.
• Go for the younger man. You might as well, they never mature anyway.
• Men are all the same - they just have different faces, so that you can tell them apart.
• Definition of a bachelor: a man who has missed the opportunity to make some woman miserable.
• Women don't make fools of men - most of them are the do-it-yourself types.
• Best way to get a man to do something is to suggest he is too old for it.
• Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
• If you want a committed man, look in a mental hospital.
• The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40 years. Even in Biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.
• If he asks what sort of books you're interested in, tell him cheque books.
• Remember a sense of humour does not mean that you tell him jokes, it means that you laugh at his.
• Sadly, all men are created equal.

An Irishman was terribly overweight, so his doctor put him on a diet.

'I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you should have lost at least 5 pounds.

When the Irishman returned, he shocked the doctor by having lost nearly 60lbs!

'Why, that's amazing!' the doctor said, 'Did you follow my instructions?'

The Irishman nodded....'I'll tell you though, be jaesuz, I t'aut I were going to drop dead on dat 3rd day.'

'From the hunger, you mean?' asked the doctor.

'No, from the f**kin' skippin'

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'Allo Allo'

I have always made clear that I don't like to talk about politics, nor am I even interested in the topic. The only political reference, just about, was an old TV series made in 1982, which I saw not too long ago repeated here in the Spanish channel, called 'Allo Allo'. The one depicting the period of the world war 2, with the central characters, every one of them, brilliantly portrayed. You looked at them and start to laugh even before they ever said a word.

You know them, don't you? The bar owner Rene, his wife Edith, the waitress and occasional lovers Yvette and Maria, and Michelle the dead serious spy; Colonel Von Strohm, Lieutenant Gruber, Otto Flick of the Gestapo, the General Klinkerhoffern ... Just naming them conjures up in my memory each and every one of these hilarious characters, all so cleverly created, delightfully portrayed and remain so vivid still even now so many years later, that I can't help smiling from ear to ear.

I am sure many of you know it well and had enjoyed it as much as I did. How can we not remember the French with their fervour in overdoses of collaborationism, the British spies disguised as French citizens, simply by speaking accented and thus thought of as disguised English, and therefore becoming French (!!), with a string of onions round their necks and a beret on their heads, on bicycles circulating the city on the left side of the road ... delicious details.

A most entertaining comedy, parody of the war, a burlesque imitation of a serious subject, patriotism and many aspects of human nature, that had been shown in nearly every country of the Globe, even in Mongolia, but not in Germany. Until 2008 I think. A delay of more than a quarter century. The Germans in all the episodes are illustrated as somewhat idiotic bumbling morons in uniforms. No doubt this manifestation, and that of the senseless and cruel war, was the reason for the 26 year delay you think?

It's apparently doing extremely well in Germany, creating immediately the most viewed record. Who says the Germans are generally lacking humour?

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Consumed By Consumption

How often do we hear people say if we want something badly enough, we would be able to achieve it? In Spain, they also say: " Quien quiere hacer una cosa, busca un medio; quien no quiere hacer nada, busca una excusa, which means 'Those who wish to do something, seek ways; those who wish to do nothing, seek excuses.' The fact is, reality is not that simple.

Wanting something is one thing, getting it is quite another. The desire is nothing more than an image we have of what might be, a picture we painted for ourselves of an ideal result. To get anywhere near that, what's required is to actually, physically go about getting it, which is not as easy as conjuring up a pretty image in our mind. Reality imposes results of all the decisions we have made and actions we have taken. It puts us on the hard ground even though our head is up in the clouds. It's important to differentiate between desire and possibility. In other words, our limitations. The desire is necessary as it acts like an indispensable motor for our life force but, we need to bear in mind that desire has no limits whereas we humans do.

The statistic says at least half of the working class people live in debt, apart from the major part being the mortgage, most owe in credit purchases, to acquire a lot of things they don't even really need, just fun or fashionable to have. The fierce marketing publicity and the easy credit contribute to making people lose sight of the long term damage, getting themselves deeper and deeper in debt, borrowing more to cover what had been borrowed. A vicious circle with no possibility of ever being free of debt.

People have lost their perception of value and priority, consumed by consuming more and more. The publicity and commerce create each day the fictitious needs of this and that products, and people become feverish in their endeavour, trying to get everything they are told they must have. Sound economy of any society should be based on organizing things, with respect to dignity, in such a way so that the everyday, indispensable and ordinary things are available and affordable to all, not just the privileged few. Dignity over frivolity.


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