Random Thoughts

[Mower Liberation Front]

If the Winnie the Pooh serial killer film does well enough, will that mean a spinoff featuring Eeyore as a suicide bomber will follow?

[astfgyl]

Yup for fuckin Friday.

Got me thinking about how feelings about certain days of the week become so ingrained over time. Even during the lockdown when Friday made no difference, it still made a difference.

[Carnage]

Yep. I work part time and can essentially pick my hours, so days of the week are meaningless. Even so, I stayed late yesterday to finish what I was at, so I'd have an extra day for the bank holiday weekend. TFI Friday and all that.

That said, I'd be a much better bank holiday weekend if I had my bloody wages.

[astfgyl]

Ah don't feel too bad, I got mine and I'm still broke!

[Eoin McLove]

At what point in a century does society start referring to the decade as, say, the 90s and not the 1990s? We aren't in the 20s right now, we are in the 2020s- the 20s are the 1920s. Is there a tipping point in a century when enough people from the previous century have died off when you are able to drop the prefix? Hmmm.....

[Eoin McLove]

Imagine travelling back in time and spending an evening drinking with your 17 year old self. You're not allowed to give sage life advice, or recommend buying shares in this, that or the other, and you can't strangle 'him/her'; you simply have to hang out and endure an evening with your young and all- knowing vacuous self.

I think there might be a good idea for a horror story in that.

[astfgyl]

I was going for it until the no strangling part

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Just worked my way backwards through these, in stitches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9XbSH_-jY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4rpogDsiY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asqTYoJ75U4

[Mower Liberation Front]

Actually that going back to hang out with your 17year old self thing sounds like it'd be a blast. It'd end up being a video game marathon.

[StoutAndAle]

Probably the wrong thread to post this but I'm not starting a new one. And Random Thoughts probably covers it.

A lad that I grew up with died last week. He was 2 or 3 years older than the rest of our group but he seemed to fall in with us because on our estate he was too young to hang out with his brothers and their crew.

This lad was born in 1978 or 1979 and there was nobody else on the street the same age as him. There appears to have been either a fallow period in terms of riding or a few successful years of the rhythm method in Ireland because most of our street was born in 1981. Maybe it was something to do with the Pope's visit, I dunno.

Anyway. This poor fucker died. On his own. In a house that he shared with his mother. She was away on holiday. His older brother got the call from the hospital to say that he was gone.

I hadn't seen this lad properly in 20 years bar in the local pub or GAA club at Christmas but yet his death seems to be hovering over me since I went to his wake and funeral.

Not a contemplation of my own mortality. Just a general sadness that I can't seem to shake off.

I suppose as we all hit 40 these things start to come at us in far more frequent bursts.

[open face surgery]

I suppose as we all hit 40 these things start to come at us in far more frequent bursts.

That's it in a nutshell.

[astfgyl]

In cork city here and not a large bottle of Guinness to be found anywhere. Some bullshit.

Then to make matters worse, when I ask for one they offer me the pint instead and I'm haunted by the quote from pulp fiction because it "ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport" as is well known by anyone who has ever drank the large bottle.

Then there's no cd shops other than golden discs, to which the same quote applies when it comes to looking for good cds.

[open face surgery]

Guinness pint bottles are the business. I love pints as well though.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Had two bottles of the West Indies stuff there over the weekend, one of them with the last of the full Irish stock we had from last trip back. Heaven.

[Ollkiller]

Aye that West Indies stuff is class.  Had a few of the Guinness pint bottles recently for the first time. Bloody gorgeous.