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Old 09-20-2016, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by rubicon View Post
On the serious side I do not care much for the phrase "you can't fix stupid" Its demeaning, unfair and unnecessary. There is not one person posting or viewing these pages that hasn't done something stupid. and it certainly wouldn't make me feel better about myself by calling other people stupidly unfixable
Yep...I agree.

In fact, considering that not a single one of us that hasn't done something stupid in our lives at least a few times...the premise of that saying is totally false.

'Fixing stupid,' for the overwhelming majority of people, simply goes by another moniker called...'experience.'

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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde