Carl Manndick

05/27/2023

Never p**s on someone who's not themselves and trying to get better..... Especially when they were patient with you.

05/27/2023

When your body and emotions are almost numb, your excess to some is what it takes to feel.
Enjoy the ride.

It's nothing towards anyone, it's just how I am.

05/27/2023

Bagel dogs, bourbon, b movies.

05/18/2023

The Husband Store

A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs.

She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.

"That's nice," she thinks, "but I want more."

So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.

"Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework.

"Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop- dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

05/07/2023

You f**k up
You man up.
You be honest, you'll be ok.

02/15/2023

A Life Based on Metrics Alone?

42 years old

17 jobs

Based on metrics alone, my life is either fantastic, or a cesspool, depending on who you want to compare it to. But the trick to leading a good one is that you should never base your life on numbers,compare it to the trajectory of another, let alone base it on simply absurd quantifiers such as physical appearance, percieved anxiety you think you have or even don't have, how popular you are, or how much you can gossip and keep up with the joneses.

You either take yourself way too seriously and waste your life worrying what others think of you, or you realize that appearances and behavior (up to a point) have nothing to do with integrity, morality, character, and work ethic.

I choose to make light and make fun of odd behavior and funny behavior on my page because I realize that making fun of it makes it seem light. People's physical appearances and behaviors have absolutely nothing to do with their character and work ethic.

People are dependent on others on social media to make them jealous, make them upset, make them envious, make them lust, or simply just to show them how to feel about a particular issue. These same people that dictate every aspect of your lives will always tell you how to lead them and what to think, what to wear, who to follow and who to listen to and most of all.....

How to be forever dependent on other people, how to be dependent on government, how to be dependent on what you perceive others think of you.

You wanna know the secret to leading a valuable life? A life filled with accomplishments, goals, work ethic, integrity, character? (and yes - even if you choose to highlight the absurdities and make light of other's odd and funny behaviors because you realize that by making fun and light of a situation, you are dismissing it as absurd)

INDEPENDENCE.

Make today the day you wake up from the bu****it all around you. Make today the day that you realize that behavioral psychology is the biggest driving force in your life and even though you can use it for bad or good, you can choose to use that driving force and motivator for good. Make today the day that you forever cease to take yourself seriously ever again by allowing what others perceive of you to drive your every desire. Make today the day that you start believing in yourself and you start to also believe that physical appearance and behavior are totally in conflict and incongruent with character, morality, work ethic, and kindness.

Make today the day that you realize you are living in the greatest country on earth, a country that is so great that millions of its citizens have sacrificed their lives in order for you to taste that independence. Politics aside, no matter if you choose to live your life perceiving yourself to be oppressed by some injustice, act of racism, sexism, transphobia, hate crime, or some other driving force and motivator that you perceive is dictating your life, just realize that my country has allowed you to make a choice in how you can react. Are you gonna react to it in a hostile manner, forever perceiving yourself to be a victim?

Or........

Are you going to realize that if you are wise with saving money, if you are wise with how you conduct yourself, if you are wise with how you choose to invest your energies, if you are wise choosing where to go and where to live so you can carry out the sevices that you deem to near and dear to your heart.......

you have choices.........

And these choices are all around you. What's more democratic than that? Democracy is all around you. What you choose to do with that freedom and democracy is totally 100% up to you.

And that, my friends, is the greatest gift of Independence we could ever hope for.

01/06/2023

https://fb.watch/hUgwAMNhAg/?mibextid=NnVzG8

12/05/2022

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Republican!"

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."
The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Democrat."

"I am, replies the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."

07/15/2022

Stupid meta s**t. Can't get to anything

03/20/2022

Beautiful music to s**t by.

Track 01 from Ultra-Lounge: Rock 'n' Roll Hits On The Rocks, Part 1.