This could be a long list... but I wont rant about everything
1. People that wont make eye contact when they talk to you.
2. People that seem to be using 'the force' when driving.
3. People that think it is funny to mock the disabled (whether mentally or physically disadvantaged).
4. Those phonecalls you receive, typically Thursday and Friday evenings offering new windows, doors, guttering, etc for free..!!!! And they wont take no for an answer.
5. Tripe (nuff said)
6. Watching football in the pub. When you are surrounded by muppets that know the 'square root of f**k all' about football.
That will do for the moment
Paul
Hopefully I'm not being too morbid today (reaches for another ciggie)
Chris Rea is one of my favourites
Opening verse from Tell me there's a heaven
The little girl she said to me
What are those things that I can see
Each night when I come home from school
When mama calls me in for tea
On every night a baby dies
And every night a mama cries
What makes those men do what they do
To make that person black and blue
It is, for me, Rea's best song... full of emotion. Reduces me to tears
Paul
This strikes such a chord with me. Now having nearly reached the venerable age of 49 and I still can't completely quit smoking. My 14 yr old son moans at me all the time and even bought me patches as a Christmas present... and still I don't have the willpower to quit.
My mother died of cancer - a sight so appalling that I would have ended her life to stop the suffering ... and still I have not quit
I 'packed up' a couple of years ago and made it through two weeks - eating sweets (and i don't like sweets - well apart from wine gums) and then thought maybe I'll have a cigar (and i hate cigars) and there i was back on the smoking treadmill.
My son suggested that maybe i should start with a smoking free weekend. Of course I said - I can do that. He caught me smoking in the bathroom. How pathetic is that to cheat on a promise to your son.. and still I smoke.
In fact I am smoking as I type this.
I smoke more when under pressure - so my job was killing me so I took a severance payoff. Well, no pressure now, so I should be able to give up. Well, that does not work. I now have so much free time I can smoke myself to effing death.
I have 40 cigs left. I've told myself in no uncertain terms that they will be my last. But of course I've already devised a plan to have say one or two cigars a day.
Good luck to all who are trying to give up (and I include myself in that)
Paul
Very simple really. I take a photo of my son
Paul
I read this twice and thought that I must post a response.. But i must admit that i cannot find the words. This was so moving it reduced me to tears and made me think about how lucky I have been - even when I have thought that life has treated me hard at times
You have my upmost respect
Paul
Whilst never wanting to sound negative...
Is " Intelligent 307" an oxymoron?
I find it very sad that some people are critical - or maybe they are trying to be funny......
Maybe I will shut up before I get annoyed
Paul
I just wondered. I have a propensity (?) for using the term 'Sweetie' with ladies that I get on well with. Lord knows why I do this - and I actually find it rather 'naff' but I still do it.
Just wondered what other people use as 'terms etc , etc'
Note: To Mods - if this is a completely stupid thread the please feel free to delete
Paul
This is a topic that could run and run and keeps me thinking
8 Mile (Eminem is actually very, very good, the soundtrack is superb and closing out with One Shot - brilliant)
Deliverance (bought the DVD last year. First time I'd seen it since the original release. Duelling Bango's scene still electric)
The Dish (Bought the DVD as a present - watched it and kept it. Tells the 'true' story of the first moon landing and the trials and tribulations at the Aussie earth station. Funny, in a quiet sort of way)
Shrek (bought for my son. This is seriously funny - and the outtakes at the end are superb)
Blade (Wesley Snipes - it's just great action. )
Enough for the moment
Paul
Tricky this ...but some faves
Lord of the Rings (all three)
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Seven
Blade Runner (Directors cut)
Apollo 13
That's it for the moment
.. and he said that he'd come back as a Great White Shark. "coz they are cool and no other creatures (apart from man) attack them"
I want to come back as a horse. Not a horse that gets ridden (in the horse riding sense) but rather one that gets up late, has a splendid breakfast, stroll down to the stream with his mates and whiles the day away; chatting, playing cards and generally having an easy life.
Paul
A very simple joke indeed
' A shire horse walks into a pub. He strolls up to the bar and leans his front legs on the bar. He orders a scotch.'
The barman says "Why the long face"
