Random Thoughts

[Giggles]

The 'stache has been trending since last summer. Long may it continue 

[ochoill]

I've a beard like a found animal at the minute so I can't give out here.  Also often had handlebars over the years but they got much harder to get away with as I got fatter lol

Can't stop thinking about jambons this morning, starving, waiting for a delivery in work.  Surely, outside of rolls and sandwiches, they are the best deli item of the lot?  They have it all.  Fair enough the chicken curry slice is pretty good too but they make me feel like i'm time travelling back to secondary school, jambons are much more contemporary and less distracting that way.

I often get two, with a black pudding or two and a hash brown, and make a sort of sandwich of it all using the jambons as the bread.  Unreal.

[Eoin McLove]

A jambon is a nice thing alright. As long as it hasn't been cremated!

[ochoill]

A jambon is a nice thing alright. As long as it hasn't been cremated!

Absolutely, it has to be done right or it is terrible.  This is what made me pivot away from the hot dog lattice, everywhere cooks them until they are like porcelain, they need to be slightly soft or they're no good

[astfgyl]

Ah the famous glass lattice the fuckin cunts

[astfgyl]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/14/opinions/saddam-hussein-iraq-war-interrogations-george-piro-bergen/index.html

Dunno where to put this, just thought it was an interesting read that I'd come across

[Eoin McLove]

Following on tangentially from part of a weird dream I had last night,  imagine meeting yourself and having a conversation. I don't mean meeting an older you who might impart some important wisdom or life lesson or an earlier you who you could maybe give a bit of positive direction to, but the you of right now. The you who has the exact same thoughts, mental capacity and limitations, ability and limitation in terms of articulating your thoughts and emotions, the exact same hobbies and interests of the moment. What the fuck would you say to each other* 

* you might just end up punching each other in the face. 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

What the fuck would you say to each other*

"Are our missuses doppelgangers too? Doesn't matter, you call yours, I'll call mine, game on." 

[Eoin McLove]

It's like thinking outside the box, but not quite, and better 

[ochoill]

Following on tangentially from part of a weird dream I had last night,  imagine meeting yourself and having a conversation. I don't mean meeting an older you who might impart some important wisdom or life lesson or an earlier you who you could maybe give a bit of positive direction to, but the you of right now. The you who has the exact same thoughts, mental capacity and limitations, ability and limitation in terms of articulating your thoughts and emotions, the exact same hobbies and interests of the moment. What the fuck would you say to each other* 

* you might just end up punching each other in the face. 

The more I think about this, the madder it gets.  There is no conversation you could have because the other you would rapidly come to the same thoughts and opinions but it wouldn't even qualify what you're thinking since you are just agreeing with yourself.  You'd have nothing to say.  Definitely just end up scrapping lol.  Wasn't there a TV series with Paul Rudd in it that was this concept?

Anyway better dreams than I have, when I remember them they are bizarre, though last year I woke up laughing from one where I found a copy of a CD and it broke the illusion completely.  Ended up making a mock up of it to send to someone:

[Eoin McLove]

Waking up laughing is such an odd experience, especially when the dream rapidly slips out of your grasp as you come back to consciousness. Or you have some vague impression about the joke but it makes zero sense in the real world. Slightly mind bending.

[ochoill]

Waking up laughing is such an odd experience, especially when the dream rapidly slips out of your grasp as you come back to consciousness. Or you have some vague impression about the joke but it makes zero sense in the real world. Slightly mind bending.

I always remember what it was that made me laugh, probably from trying to think about it again so quickly, but yeah the context and sense of it is always totally gone.  I love it though.  Do wish in general I could remember dreams better but seems to be slipping away altogether as I get older.

[StoutAndAle]

I always remember what it was that made me laugh, probably from trying to think about it again so quickly, but yeah the context and sense of it is always totally gone.  I love it though.  Do wish in general I could remember dreams better but seems to be slipping away altogether as I get older.

Paul McCartney says in the "Anthology" documentary that he got "Yesterday" fully formed from a dream. He woke up and it was in his head.

I never heard music in my dreams (that I can remember) until a few months ago. And now it won't stop. Odd.

I wish that I was a better musician so that I could grab a guitar and play one of them.

Probably end up being the theme tune from "Bosco".

[StoutAndAle]

Does anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?

Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.

Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.

This may stem from my years working in pubs...

[ochoill]

Paul McCartney says in the "Anthology" documentary that he got "Yesterday" fully formed from a dream. He woke up and it was in his head.

I never heard music in my dreams (that I can remember) until a few months ago. And now it won't stop. Odd.

I wish that I was a better musician so that I could grab a guitar and play one of them.

Probably end up being the theme tune from "Bosco".

  I was in a band with a lad who presented the Inspector Gadget theme as a riff one day, convinced he came up with it (and that it was good), Bosco would be an improvement on that anyway.

Re. dream music - I often hear of lads coming up with music like that, one that stuck with me was Devin Townsend.  Where not necessarily from a dream, he would have ideas going to bed or very late that he would act on, and set up his home studio to accommodate this particular whim of creativity.  It stuck with me because countless times I have thought of something lethal musically either way too late to deal with or when already in bed and, of course, forgot it completely when a guitar finally came to hand.  Voice notes only do so much.