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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2021 05:17AM by mg.

That's quite a line.

yes, i'd say so.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

no?

It was just a line you dashed off, wasn't it MG?

Em, I find it best to accept my failures is all.

Mr. P - I like to erase them from existence, when possible.

lanAKB- it was a bad poem originally but I don't kow how to delete posts, so I edited it out.

Yes. But if we forget out mistakes entirely, if we refuse to look back on them, study them, keep that past in our thoughts, we will repeat those mistakes.

Well, you're right but its hard. Also, I prefer to have mistakes as memories in my mind -- avoid hard evidence, you know... Best would be to never make mistakes, but if mistakes must be made I'd rather no one knew about them.

Who said anything about other people? Mistakes will always be made, the only way to avoid this is to expect and accept mistakes as eventualities. Be prepared for repairs. How's that saying go? "What we call failing is not the falling down, but staying down."

alright, alright, I won't argue nothing to disagree with.

Ah, but I'm not looking to argue, only start a conversation, as always.

Boy I hate agreeing with Pete, but to agree with you P is unpalatable!!! Losing is not falling down, but staying down!!! Well said.

You'll pardon me, business to attend to, back soon.

I probably won't pardon you, but please do return quickly.

Magnesium, mistakes are unavoidable, we are human. Mistakes are lessons. Try not to make a fatal one until you are at least seventy. If others see them, everyone learns, or most have a good laugh, depending on the mistake.
Rise, dust yourself off, cowboy up, and proceed as if nothing had happened.
Ted Turner made a couple of doozies. He ended up nearly bankrupt, and now has over a billion spendable yankee dollars. He also married Hanoi Jane, and recovered from that too...
The Donald was in deep finacial dodo a few years ago, but I'd take his check today. Mistakes one and all. Lt. Col. Custer on the other hand..... well, never divide your forces and attack a superior foe.

Oh lord, we're agreeing again.

Merc, who's Lt. Col. Custer?

and thanks for the advice.

Mr. P - I thought you weren't looking for an argument..

Unknowing from whence you hail, I will try the easy answer to that...
If you are U.S.. he was known by the media incorrectly as General Custer of the Last Stand fame at Little Bighorn. In reality, he was a former General on 26 Jun 2021 he was a Lt. Col. in command of three battalions of the Seventh Cav. He took the First of the Seventh to what was later called Last Stand Hill. Sort of gives away the exciting end doesn't it? The 2nd of the 7th was under the command of Major Reno, who had the misfortune to live and was later courtmartialed for not saving the moron' butt. The 3rd of the 7th was under the command of Capt. Bentine who had a great quote that day. "If we are to be of any help to the Leftenent Colonel, we must wait for our wagons"
The 1st of the 7th much later under the command of Col. Harold G. Moore got handed their respective heads at the Ia Drang valley, Republic of South Viet Nam, back when there was such a place. This battle is detailed in Moore's book, "We Were Soldiers Once and Young".

thank you for the explanation