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\"wise-man\"<\/a>One of the benefits of being in my forties is that I find I am a much smarter person. This is not wisdom, so much as it’s just the result of forty years worth of accumulated observations.<\/p>\n

Here are some of them.<\/p>\n

If someone has to tell you they\u2019re good at something, they are not.<\/p>\n

Everyone will like you more if you dance like an idiot.<\/p>\n

Nobody on Earth will ever be able to fully justify why I was forced to study trigonometry in the 11th<\/sup> grade.<\/p>\n

Everyone has directly engaged their genitals in a conversation at least once in their lives.<\/p>\n

I have been to roughly 1,390 meetings in the last twenty-six years. Eight of them have been useful.<\/p>\n

The only person who can ruin a harmless joke by taking it too seriously than a staunch conservative is a staunch liberal.<\/p>\n

There is no correct answer to these questions: Does this make me look fat? or Who are you voting for?<\/p>\n

Nobody cares about your dreams. Nobody. Not even your psychotherapist.<\/p>\n

If there is a God, I am fucked.<\/p>\n

Before you send a naughty message to a crush, jerk off.<\/p>\n

Everyone turns into their parents; then they go \u201caha.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned more of a second language in stressful situations than I ever have in a classroom.<\/p>\n

As astoundingly bad, stupid, ignorant, and downright insane you think Donald Trump is, someone worse than him is going to show up in 8 years.<\/p>\n

If George Carlin and Bill Hicks were alive Donald Trump would have committed suicide by now.<\/p>\n

Cats are vindictive.<\/p>\n

Pigeons are dicks.<\/p>\n

The two days your flat or house is the cleanest it\u2019ll ever be are on the day you move in and the day you move out.<\/p>\n

If something is running smoothly, the Czech government will change it.<\/p>\n

If you give your seat to a woman on public transport because you think she may be pregnant, but you aren\u2019t 100% sure, walk briskly to the farthest point from her that you can get while still inhabiting the vehicle and bury your face in reading material and don’t look up.<\/p>\n

If you never want to talk to someone again, tell him that he\u2019s a bad driver.<\/p>\n

Nobody is funnier or more popular in a pub than a person who has a lot of cocaine.<\/p>\n

When someone fronts a sentence with the phrase \u201cI\u2019m not trying to be a dick,\u201d that is exactly what they\u2019re about to be.<\/p>\n

There are two types of people: those who travel with a pillow and actual travelers. Even if you haven’t traveled, you are one or the other, you just don’t know it yet.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll reach a point in your life when pizza and sitcoms help you cope with your problems better than beer and whiskey. That point is called \u201cmiddle age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Never, ever lick a steak knife.<\/p>\n

The number of hemorrhoids you suffer in your life is the number of times you were a pain in someone\u2019s ass in a previous life.<\/p>\n

90% of the time my boss directly addresses me, my life gets 4% more annoying. The other 10% of the time they ask where someone else is.<\/p>\n

My penis knows exactly when it’s back in my pants after a pee.<\/p>\n

If you have one friend who both truly cares for you and is smarter than you, you are the luckiest person you know.<\/p>\n

Oh wise people, please add to this list of observations<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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