A new inspiration from demotivators.com

[farmerjumperdon]

They've got a few new ones, including this gem:

The picture is a nice fish-eye view from behind the plate of a batter stroking one out of the park.

POSSIBILITIES

With focus, dedication and steroids, men can achieve impossible dreams. Like breaking a world record. Or growing their own breasts.

Then there is the one with a very nice picture of a comet:

WISHES

When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.

Sure, the words and picture are not technically correct; but it's the though that counts.

[Trocisp]

I love despair, Inc.

Always good for a laugh. I had a poster that said...

"Elitism."

It's lonely at the top. But it sure is nice looking down at all the people below you.


I lost it in my recent move though. :(

[Moose]

Demotivators is awesome. There's one from a few years back that was a direct spoof of a motivational print hanging in this very building. The original was something about Perseverence about this guy climbing stadium stairs (yellow benches) for exercise.

The demotivator had a guy in the same yellow bleachers, sitting by himself, kicking back. I forget the caption, but I've been tempted to get that one and swap 'em on some April 1st for kicks.

[NEOWatcher]

Interesting site.
...When you wish upon a falling star,
...
Sure, the words and picture are not technically correct; but it's the though that counts.
True, but picking on it is fun.
Wouldn't a meteor that large have graduated from falling star to fireball?

I like the one that pops up on opening the site....not just demotivating, but something that I beat people with over the head every day at work.
TRADITION: Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.

[farmerjumperdon]

My daughter has found the site and loves it. She reads each one, says "That's meeeeeeeean" and then giggles herself silly. Supposed to be a surprise, but I saw the order confirmation email. I'm getting a couple items from the store for my birthday.

[Celestial Mechanic]

Demotivators is awesome. There's one from a few years back that was a direct spoof of a motivational print hanging in this very building. The original was something about Perseverence about this guy climbing stadium stairs (yellow benches) for exercise.

The demotivator had a guy in the same yellow bleachers, sitting by himself, kicking back. [Snip!]
I just happen to have that very print (the motivator) on the wall of my office at work. (I "inherited" it, don't blame me.) Now I've got to see the demotivator version of it.

[Swift]

Here is the despair.com website (http://www.despair.com/), for all your demotivation products.
Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots

[Larry Jacks]

The entire set of posters can be seen here (http://www.despair.com/viewall.html). I like them all but some are personal favorites:

Achievement (http://www.despair.com/achievement.html)
Agony (http://www.despair.com/ag24x30prin.html)
Consulting (http://www.despair.com/consulting.html)
Doubt (http://www.despair.com/doubt.html)
Get to Work (http://www.despair.com/gettowork.html)
Goals (http://www.despair.com/goals.html)
Inspiration (http://www.despair.com/inspiration.html)
Limitations (http://www.despair.com/limitations.html)

and especially Motivation (http://www.despair.com/motivation.html).

[Moose]

I just happen to have that very print (the motivator) on the wall of my office at work. (I "inherited" it, don't blame me.) Now I've got to see the demotivator version of it.

Laziness (http://www.despair.com/laziness.html).

[Swift]

Laziness (http://www.despair.com/laziness.html).

Perfect for
- Exhausted TQM adherents
- Slackers
- Unpersistent runners
- Fans of the color yellow
- Disaffected college students

:lol:

[The Supreme Canuck]

I've always wanted their glass coffee mug - "This glass is now half empty" with a horizontal line halfway down.

[mike alexander]

My son made one of his own last year. It shows a small dragon with tiny wings standing at the edge of a cliff with the caption

FUTILITY: Trying doesn't pay medical bills

[Gillianren]

There's a gaming site that some of my friends check for one thread, which is nothing but gaming-themed posters, some motivational and some demotivational, along those lines. I don't know what site it is, though. I know it's a board and that the posters are made by its members, but that's about it.

[Trocisp]

Gillianren, you might not want to link to that even if you find the link.

Gamers (of all ages) tend to be rather.... crude. I should I know, I'm one of them.

Not all of the fake posters made are always so safe.

[Larry Jacks]

Don't forget the Star Trek Inspirational Posters (http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html).

My favorite is Expendability.

"Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back."

[AndreasJ]

There's a gaming site that some of my friends check for one thread, which is nothing but gaming-themed posters, some motivational and some demotivational, along those lines. I don't know what site it is, though. I know it's a board and that the posters are made by its members, but that's about it.

The site is www.rpg.net, and the thread's called Rpg motivational posters (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=364257). It's pretty civilized, but I wouldn't recommend accessing it from work.

[Whirlpool]

Truly, Bittersweets® are the perfect gift for you OR for someone you love, especially if that special someone is one who doesn't want to hurt your feelings but just doesn't feel that way about you but still wants to be friends so they can torment you with stories about their crushes on someone who doesn't appreciate them like you do, can't love them like you can, and actually takes pleasure in corralling a herd of fawning "just friends" behind themselves as they indulge in one self-destructive relationship after another, with no hope of ever finding true love, despite an army of souls eager to lavish it upon them.

Supplies are limited. But the pain that accompanies them may not be.

That is interesting .

:think:

Now I'm demotivated . :doh:

[farmerjumperdon]

Don't forget the Star Trek Inspirational Posters (http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html).

My favorite is Expendability.

"Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back."

A group of us went out for Halloween one year as the crew of SNG. I was Ensign Expendable. I entered first wherever we went.

[Moose]

An improv theater group (made up of most of the original actors from the Canadian teen consumer-skepticism series "Street Cents") did a partially improvised show called Star Trick: the Musical.

It featured Captain Girth (Jonathan Torrens), Mr. Spork (Jamie Bradley), Scotchy (not sure), "Guts" DeCoy (Brian Heighton), Ensign Toast (an audience member whose red shirt had a bullseye), and the "disembodied super-intellect" named "BaaaaaAAAAaaAAaaaaaall" (dunno who voiced it.)