Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 18, 2024

Definition: An ist who isn’t fake.

As an engineer (= ultra- mega- realist) I have to agree with Pig.

The more you know the more it hurts! Sometimes ignorance is bliss!

Pessimists: They expect the worst so they’re happy when things go bad… but they spend their lives kinda sour. Optimists: The expect the best so they’re disappointed when things go bad… but they spend their lives feeling pretty good. Realists know the pessimists have the better system.

Like is what you make it!

Wrong Pig. You can be realist and still be happy.

My father used to try to smackdown people with the phrase, “Well you see, I’m a realist.” He certainly wasn’t. A pipe dreaming narcissist yes. Realist not so much.

Ignorant people are happier.

I think everything is funny since I realized “They can’t scramble the dregs without breaking the eggheads.” It’s especially funny since the orange puppet is part of the dregs but he thinks it’s only the fools who voted for him who are dregs and meanwhile it’s the moot eggheads who still think “All men are created equal” in some Turing machine sense. (But that original egg was somewhat rotten as regards women, native Americans, and slaves…)

The reality one sees is always subjective.Never the same as your neighbor.

Nice to see a happy pig X

Some people are just happy when they’re miserable.

I dream of Realism….