ginger ale not great with sambuca fwiw
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
got no real issues with the rest
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that seems true, wdn't mix sambuca tho tbh. ginger beer, not ale. I like ginger ale but it's a pretty low key mixer? have an unopened bottle that i might bring into play when the ginger beer runs out unless mrs v comes home and slaps me upside my head
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
which wd be a dece excuse tbh
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
we should totally go out on the lash, darragh, it would be most excellent times imo
no issues with that either, but no aristotle pls
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't do aristotle in the pub, or anywhere else really, dude was shit
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
most tedious fucking philosopher ever award or maybe leibniz or that twat brother of Henery James's's
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i forgot the old fake irish bar appendage to the mainbrace in my list of much loved pubs, and the mainbrace itself, spent a glorious new years eve in there one time off my swede on mushrooms thinking i'd got a glowing sign on my head saying "this dude's on mushrooms"
i miss hallucinogens
booze is a ready, loving, companiable buddy for ALL TIME tho
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
it was all-encompassing dismissal of discussion of all higher modes of though tbh
For drinking purposes, that is. Time and a place, time and a place
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
exackly
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
sport and giant animatronic goat-fucker tableaux are ideal pub convos tbh
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
don't even take my "oh pity poor me i is so sad" face to the boozer, it is NOT THE PLACE
i wouldnt trust booze with my money or missus but i'll go drinking with him alright.
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
not that i is so sad, i am kinda focused and edgy and probly not real level-headed but sadness is sort of not there except an impending "i like where this relationship is going" gif sadness and wondering hmmm can i keep up a veneer of not-great for another 10 years or so until the kids are all safely launched
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
goat fucker convo def has icebreaker value
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
he is an hull legend. shd definitely feature in the publicity blurb imo, also he is one of those dudes where everybody you meet knows somebody who knows him
but this is like the biggest village in the world so
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
six degrees of separation in hull = about 3
fond memories of P4ul H34ton allegedly fending off Poll Tax bailiffs with an air rifle from his Grafton Street mansion
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNffR-yTA4
our civic anthem
reckon a goatfucker or similar on the sound bridge would put achill on the map
Ok, on phone, in body lotion section of an actual irl fancy dept store, and my full attn is required. Continue at yr own pace will check validity of the remainder of thread later
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
suddenly I have Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough" with the lyric changed to "Just Can't Get It Up" stuck in my head as a good idea for a Weird Al song
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
am not even dressed yet but gotta admit the water on the windows did inspire a bit of "oh sweet (not)..." earlier. mostly just glad to be the not at work though evne if this afternoon fails in my quest to do anything productive 4th week running.
lucky I have the new Radiohead album to listen to, high spirits ahead!
― side splitting genital based username (fndgo), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"body lotion section" is boggling and lol
dude are you stuck in Dublin now I forget?
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i am inspired by people's not liking of the new Radionhead, and people saying it is all low key and tune-light, those are excellent qualities in a Radionhead rekkid to my mind
toothpaste aisle? I kind of love and hate Big Tesco
― side splitting genital based username (fndgo), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Big Tesco has some great shit in it but I hardly go in any more, also it feels like a chore to trek all the way to the back of it, also the bastards took the pork and pickle pies off the deli counter
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
conventional pork pies don't do it for me any more, i need pickle in there or i need to be at home where i can smother that shit in mustard
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
something 50 Cent-ish about that last line
― side splitting genital based username (fndgo), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQR0JgJO74s
This, btw gentlemen, is a FUCKING TUNE
is there much C&W on the Queen's jukebox, i don't remember and i feel a need? also lol my wife is gonna kill me hooray
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus no not in dublin ffs
Tho i have days, god help me, it almost tempts as a final surrender
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Pringles don't seem to do Wasabi flavour or Lime and Chilli flavour any more, I am a bit heartbroken, bastards
Marty Robbins fucking rules
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
wot big city u exiled in then D?
and why have we got no ice cube bags in the house bollocks
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so tempted to text my eldest boy for a sesh but ah hell i'm gonna fuck this
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm gonna. full stop. fuck this
nearest big city is an hour south, not sure galway is as big as hull tho?
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
not been to galway. i wd guess not, seeing as how Letterkenny is a teeming metropolis and it's about the size of the pit village i grew up in
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
it's what saturday is for! x-post...boozing i meant.
am about to get up and cook an omelette with some pancetta. might hold off boozing till this evening. have a lovely bottle of wine in the fridge tho...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit my eldest has gone to his mother's for the weekend the twat
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the boy, not his mum. we get along fine
just made a Snowball, feels mad decadent in February.
think it's Merle Haggard time
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XeBn3AXeUc
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
suspect that having a drink is gonna be took for being drunk, may need to flee the scene when i've done this snowball, badly need somebody to txt and give me an excuse
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the fact that there doesn't seem to be a Youtube of Merle's version of "Wishing All These Old Things Were New" is sort of a national disgrace.
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's funny, in my head i'm 20 but in the mirror i'm a fat old cunt
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
OH THE IRONY OF MORTALITY
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
there's something out there that's not in here, but i don't think anybody knows what it is, for two gross of broken statues, for a few thousand battered books. it's a poor do really. don't think we've made the best of the situation as a species
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi Noodle. John Terry tried to do a stepover in the corner a minute ago, kicked the ball onto his standing leg and out for a goal kick. Blue Saturday nothing.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Please don’t kill yourself
― calstars, Sunday, 5 February 2023 19:52 (one year ago) link
i'm sorry i shdn't have written that out
i'm sure i'm not gonna
the noise of it has been bouncing round my head all week tho
thanks both for responding
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
stupid thing: i've done safeguarding as part of work stuff for years, if i was checking in on myself i'd be "ok no immediate plans, no immediate risk"
so i guess i know that this noise is not full emergency but ffs i'm just a bit tired of it
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
No pressure from here but this internet rando quite likes your posts so please stick around. Plus, your new user name is pretty much my essence. Apart from the 'full of beans' bit.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
guilty confession is i have an uncontrollable moptop
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
I've been told to tell you that the bald community will let this one pass and will not be taking any further action!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
sorry for edgelord
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
surely you mean shinelord?
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
lol
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
it's only recently I've discovered that sometimes talking about desperately unpalatable shit that is going on in your life in a semi formal kind of manner with a mh worker can actually help. But now after 6 months of it they've closed my file for now because there are other similar basket-cases like me who are needing help and they have to ration it out. I don't know what point I'm trying to make here, but I think sometimes it does help to get things in the open - even if it isn't good stuff.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
i've had to sit thru 4 zoom lectures about CBT just to earn the right to get a counsellor. irony is i've been making solid progress since the start of the year, this weekend has been a wobble but i'll get thru. the internal suicide mantra, been a week or more, idk i think it might be my inner demon shouting louder for want of attention
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
problem with self-loathing is how can you be sure you're not right?
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:51 (one year ago) link
i think i wish i could unstick my gears, but i'm not sure if i don't revel in being stuck, else why would i stick like this?
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 March 2023 10:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pOe92skrBg
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 March 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link
I have started to say"A quarter of a century"Or "thirty years back"About my own life.
It makes me breathlessIt's like falling and recoveringIn huge gesturing loopsThrough an empty sky.
All that's left to happenIs some deaths (my own included).Their order, and their manner,Remain to be learnt
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 11:36 (eleven months ago) link
Huge passages of time have the capability to really mess with your mind and sense of self.
I still have things on my mental 'to do' list that I added in the early 2000s and haven't got round to yet - and that seems like just a few years ago. I alternate between despair/regret at 30 -40 years gone, and the thought that it's meaningless to think about now those years have vanished into the past. The only thing that matters - if anything matters about those years - is whether they contained beautiful or interesting moments that I appreciated at the time. Hopefully more interesting and beautiful moments to come.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 1 July 2023 14:05 (eleven months ago) link
Sometimes when I’m half awake I think of a pleasant memory from 20 years ago and it puts me in a nice relaxed state and I fall back asleep
― calstars, Saturday, 1 July 2023 14:15 (eleven months ago) link
i think mostly i don't "regret" because time's an unstoppable movement and as you say Bob it's kind of meaningless. the loops and whooshes in that Larkin poem tho - i remember reading it at 18 and understanding what was said but not having any sense of that feeling. now that feeling and that poem spend days hanging around
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 14:38 (eleven months ago) link
I have more problems with the present I think: eg often instead of enjoying this present moment, I’m so often cranky and irritable from the indignities of life and unable to relax despite my best intentions and the knowledge that I’m just sabotaging myself.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 1 July 2023 14:58 (eleven months ago) link
well yeah, that's one of the reasons it seemed best to mostly abandon this thread
i'm weirded out sometimes now by what feels almost like performing my age. it probably doesn't belong on the pile of things that are actually bad and make me sad tho
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:00 (eleven months ago) link
akshully maybe the majority of things that are making me sad now are things that people in their mid-fifties don't have to deal with if they made better life choices than me
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:03 (eleven months ago) link
i wonder if we can all do this but forget that we can do it when we're too focused on the downers
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:07 (eleven months ago) link
Houellebecq wrote in one of his worst novels when ruminating on nostalgia that the present is like an "abscess of suffering" we have to drag about with us, caught between the infinities of happiness and peace that are the past and the future. It was one of them beautifully concise lines of writing that rung a bell with me at the time and stuck with me, wasn't so sure about him including the future in this though!
― calzino, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:04 (eleven months ago) link