Hello swingers my name's AWOL and I'm a hoarder!
I'm forever trying to clear my cellar and in the process making countless trips to my local recycling centre. It was ridiculous trying to get into my cellar because of huge amunt of clutter I collected over the years.
As a hopeless hoarder I sometimes bring stuff back home from the recycling dump - I know it's sad but can't help it. Sometimes things need a home. I can hear them calling "AWOL I'm homeless please take me home!"
At home I'm quite fond of keeping small sticks of wood for the sole purpose of stirring paint and I've only realised that I must have the equivalent of four trees in small sticks! I have a large collection of planks of wood that I think they'll come in useful one day.
I had about six computer cases and four large monitors and countless pieces of computer related equipmet - I manage to build four computers for friends to give away - felt good about that
I tend to hold onto things I think may come in useful for something, only to end up throwing it away later. The problem is that as soon as you decide to throw something out it is guaranteed you'll need it the very next day even though you haven't used it in 20 years!
There's no hope for me :cry:
Coming to London for a visit is wonderful. It is really a very grand, majestic city where a million things are always going on... you could never get bored in London.
However living in London is another thing everything is just so expensive, we're taxed up to our ears, the bleeming congestion tax doesn't work (or rather it works as far as filling Red Ken's coffers) and now we're being taxed for the London Olympics too - god do I sound like a whinger!
But don't let me put you off... London is a great place to come for a day out, nothing beats it - specially when it comes to do a cultural tour.
The best God is Inti as the Incas called it, or Ra as the ancient Egyptians used to know it.
Imagine without the Sun we're all fucked and there would be no Pradas, labradors, dogs, Homer, Jean Seams, atheists, Kali, etc... sweet FA basically.
So we'd better start praying to the Sun God to keep us alive for a few million years more.
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I would like to post more and start new threads but very early on I was a bit discouraged by the flaming of newbies and by the trigger happy modding. I remember threads used to get locked for no apparent reason - it was very odd.
Another reason newbies might not want to post that much is that it feels a bit clickey or at least that's the perception.
What I find off putting is when a very interesting thread is going on some people start making silly comments with their mates and the thread gets hijacked by one or two all posting banal stuff like:
Poster 1: oh you're so funny,
Poster 2: oh no you're funnier,
P1: I know hahahaha,
P2: oh no you'll be in trouble now, just laughed at me
P1: oh really? what you gonna do then lol
and on and on and on and it get sooo boring and I just think sod it those two/three just ruined a very good thread. The thread becomes a private conversation - and if they really want a private conversation they could easily have it in the chatrooms instead.
As for being oversentisite yes perhaps some people are but I suppose they longer they stay the less sensitive they'll become - maybe they just need time.
Another thing I've noticed is that sometimes a member who's not that well known starts a thread; for some reason it receives very little replies or attention. However if a well known member starts a thread - whether it's silly or serious it always gets a lot of replies... very strange that.
Am I right or is that just my imagination?
Just started reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini - so far it's brilliant.
I read his previous "The Kite Runner" which I thought was a wonderful book. It relates the story of a boy growing up in pre-Soviet and pre-Taliban Afghanistan
but with some universal themes that make it very appealing.
oh noo I look like a Weetabix!
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