February 02nd, 2012 | Author:
Ralph
Originally posted 2010-08-13 08:40:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Don’t waste your time
One of the benefits when you are a cantankerous old coot is the time you save. People can be so demanding – especially friends. They have to know everything. How are you doing. What are you thinking. And, of course, the ever popular How are you feeling? They really don’t care about any of that. What they do care about is being known as the kind of person who cares. They will go to any length and waste any amount of your time just to make sure that you (and everybody else) know that. What a waste of your time and energy. Today’s lesson will teach you how to take control of your time by not answering questions. You have an important mission. It is your life and it isn’t a team project or a collaboration. Anything that is important to share, you will share when and how you think is right. And when is never after someone asks you a question. Don’t pause. Don’t ponder. Just keep moving.
Don’t explain yourself!
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January 25th, 2012 | Author:
Ralph
Originally posted 2011-09-01 04:39:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Bummer!
Let’s face it Coots, we’ve been sold a bill of goods. We grew up in what seemed to be a golden age. The sky’s the limit. Anything goes. You can have anything you want. You deserve it all. Nobody got snookered more than the women. Back in the 70′s feminists announced that women were the superior sex-capable of doing it all and without any help. Men were just chauvinist pigs, easily expendable. It was great news for men and for women. Suddenly the burden of supporting a household was lifted from men while at the same time women were freed from domestic slavery. Everybody wins – or at last that’s how it seemed at the time. We all bought the story because it excused weakness and self indulgence. Nobody ever expected to pay the price because post war babies were raised to believe that all we had to do was ask and it shall be given. And nobody was ever going to have to pay.
But we forgot biology.
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January 25th, 2012 | Author:
Justin
Originally posted 2010-10-15 12:39:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
I like a little Canadian show called “The Red Green Show“. It is about a bunch of older guys who are just going through life with duct tape. Check it out on PBS sometime. The reason I bring this up is the basis for this lesson. The men on this show belong to the Possum Lodge and while their motto is “Quando Omni Flunkus Moritai” meaning “When all else fails play dead” they begin each meeting with the mans prayer.
“I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.” Lets face it, most people associate Cantankerous Old coots with Men. There are women too, don’t start sending me emails about equality and all of that BS, but the first thing that pops into most people’s minds are old cranky men.
I am a man, Ralph is a man and Bob is a real man’s man. We all exhibit levels of Cantankerousity that ebb and flow with the day. We can take a subject and jump all over it, reach down its throat and turn it inside out and return the bloody carcass to the owner. Or not. It just depends.
That is today’s lesson. While discretion may be the better part of valor, the laws of cantankerosity demand immediate action. They demand saying what you feel, (link to lesson 4), letting it show on your face (link to lesson 5), and not giving a rats ass about it (link to lesson 13).
The law also demands that you be able to change. Note that I didn’t say willing. If you are willing to change you become one of those namby pamby nancy boys from accounting. You must only be able to change. If you have to. I guess.
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December 18th, 2011 | Author:
Justin
Originally posted 2010-09-13 11:53:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Good Monday Folks! Well the time is upon us, fall. Kids everywhere are headed back to school in droves, from elementary students to college students.
We here at Cantankerous Old Coots are following suit in a way. We are opening the Cantankerous Old Coots University! Yes today brings in a whole new era in the pursuit of Cantankerosity.
The Coots University will be your ultimate source for all things Cantankerous. Forums to discuss cantankerosity and lessons to bring out your inner coot will be paramount.
Today We release the first set of lessons in how to be a Cantankerous Old Coot in the finest of PDF EBooks. This set of lessons is absolutely free for the time being when you sign up for our mailing list. Plus anyone who signs up for said mailing list between now and Labor Day (September 6) and the first day of Autumn, September 23, will be on a list to receive special discounts on tuition as well as other goodies as they come along.
Our first set of subscribers is very special. Become one of the students at Cantankerous Old Coots University today and you will be well on your way to becoming part of the faculty.
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November 27th, 2011 | Author:
Ralph
Originally posted 2011-06-08 04:59:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Today, for a change, we are serious!
You’re accustomed to light hearted, trivial musings about life here at Cantankerous Old Coots but today brace yourself for some deeper thinking. If you thought that checking out the Coots would be mindless diversion, today, the Coots are asking for more. Change is in the air. Lick your finger and check which way the wind is blowing. When you feel secure then read on.
One of the original ideas for the Cantankerous Old Coots was to provide a framework for people to shed their Casper Milquetoast personas and develop an unique brand of what we like to call cantankerousity- letting the chips fall where they may and standing up for yourself in a world that glorifies sheep. (We never said that we weren’t suckers for cliches). more…
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