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I am glum about work. However! I am attempting to remedy this by semi-actively searching for other jobs. Also, it pays me to go out on the piss so it can't be all bad.
Plus points to teenage self: live in house in London with four fab flatmates, enjoying the single(ish) life with them, having almost enough money to do the things we want to. Living in London full stop and always having people and places and excellent things to do. Stopped being quite so obsessive about weight/looks etc, actually feeling happy and content in my own skin. Miles more confidence than I had back then (although not hard: a roadkill bunny would probably have had more self-belief). Knowledge that life without man is not the end of the world.
There are more pros than cons.
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Purple (deep) Green (grass) Blue (sky)
ETA: this is to Nwode, not a cryptic response to Philomel. Also! Please note: blue = most preferred, purple = least. Am I really going to get a t-shirt? Cor!
quote:Originally posted by Astromariner: Purple (deep) Green (grass) Blue (sky)
ahh, thats like beautiful pome. i feel happier now.
i am not depressed boy racer! it was good hair but the lack of it has absolutely no impact on my every day life! you need to get over yourself! now shut it or i will rite boy racer meets babyboy racer and embarrasss you totally.
quote:Originally posted by Astromariner: Am I really going to get a t-shirt? Cor!
Yes, if there is a Buddah, then you will receive a sky blue t-shirt with 'Toss' written on the front.
Can you e-mail me a preference of size (i.e. standard t-shirt medium or say skinny fit small etc) to my e-mail. This is because you are a lady and I would not ask such a thing publicy.
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As I believe I have said before, I had no solid expectations of my life or what it would be like when I was older as a teenage. I remember thinking about this, both in the year 2000, and last year when I turned thirty, because people asked me about it directly. No idea. It wasn't until I was eighteen and at Art College that I realised I wanted to, could, pursue a career in film, and I never expected it to come quickly or easily.
What would the teenage me think of my life now?
I think he'd like it, mostly. Much like me.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Not when he saw that you now like rap noise.
Also he'd be gutted that you callously chucked all your VHS tapes away, including the secret gore collection, nurtured and hidden for years on the shelf behind more respectable films.
Why are you trying to darken my sunny disposition? Golden Age Thorn liked rap - but it was bad rap, like the Insane Clown Posse, and it's hardly as though I don't listen to metal anymore. As for the gore thing - I didn't throw out anything I couldn't replace. Even better, 18 y/o me would be breathlessly giddy with excitement if exposed to my current collection of anti-social movies especially the ones that I keep hidden under the bed, like Ilsa the Wicked Warden. So you see - I've been able to take core elements and improve on them.
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The teenage me would most likely stare in sullen horror from beneath his ear-length hair and wonder where the hell mine went to, would no doubt point and laugh at my beer gut, but would probably be pretty impressed by my cosy job and resultant vastly improved financial situation, not to mention my ability to drink more than 5 pints of beer without spending the rest of the night hunched over the toilet bowl..
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I didn't! I didn't! I just don't use it at work because I'm scared that I will get in trouble. And I don't use it much at home because there's this guy called Paul I'm trying to avoid.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: He also got to nob VP, so he's clearly a man worth paying attention to.
Indeed - but it is to be expected, after all she does have a pretty name.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I even managed to try nobbing VP again and being met with a sneering rejection
Why?
Veep, what was it that so inspired you about teenage Thron that you were willing to let him rummage in your lady-garden and what has he lost that now means you don't want him?
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The bit about trying again was a jokk based on the premise that my teenage advances were usually met with steely-eyed rejection.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I think my teenage self would be pleased and I think he'd also say "nice work on the porn collection and the computer games".
quote:Originally posted by Astromariner: That's a horrible picture. I hate clowns. They look depressing even when they're in a good mood.
They scare the pants off of me. And ventriloquist dummies are the absolute worst. Nightmares for weeks if I see one.
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quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: I'm thought Minj was depressed, I just assume Louche is
I don't think I've been rancidly depressive and nihilistic of late. In fact, I did think I was being relatively positive, if a bit of a twat at times. But evidently people get glued to a persona perception and in order to change that I shall have to metamorph into a disposition sunnier than an afternoon in the Sahara desert.
NWOD, if you were depressed; look at your beautiful hair in the sunshine:
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Teenage me wanted to be fluent in every language in the world, make it in a band, have hoards of screaming fans, be famous for having both popular appeal and an intellect and for being a really nice, funny person to interview, and eventually use my wealth to benefit children in the third world.
Now me has managed but two languages, is a total media whore, working in an office in the one city in which I swore I would never live, has just joined a local chamber orchestra just to save me from utter cultural desertion (rock and roll), living in a recently burgled house.
I give ten pounds a month to Oxfam. This is about as far as it goes to realising dreams.
And isn't that photo of NWOD? (not the ventriloquist one, the one before)
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: The bit about trying again was a jokk based on the premise that my teenage advances were usually met with steely-eyed rejection.
oh.
It didn't work.
But it brings up an interesting point....
Veep - what would you speed dating assesment of Thron be?
Gusset Whump?
Call again?
Run screaming?
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quote:Originally posted by scrawny: And isn't that photo of NWOD? (not the ventriloquist one, the one before)
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What I don't understand is why Thorn's gore collection was required to be in any way secret. Is there anyone who's known Thorn for more than five minutes who would actually be suprised at the existence of such a collection? I doubt even his parents would be shocked. Hell, at this stage in the game even mild disappointment would be like looking back to a bygone and more pleasant era for them.
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quote:Originally posted by Astromariner: That's a horrible picture. I hate clowns. They look depressing even when they're in a good mood.
They scare the pants off of me. And ventriloquist dummies are the absolute worst. Nightmares for weeks if I see one.
How come so many people are 'scared' of clowns? And loads more are scared of spiders for fuck's sake. Spiders. Those little weeny things with eight legs and eight eyes. You can't even see the eyes unless you look through a magnifying glass.
SLUGS and SNAILS on the other hand! Jesus! They stick their eyes on fucking big wiggly stalks so they can psyche you out from any approach angle, and they slime around all over the place, especially with all this rain. We've got one of those sensor-activated security lights outside our door and I went out in the dark last night, stepped away from the door and the light flicked on to a scene of pure horror. SLUGS! Fahsands of 'em!
Shall I tell you something even worse? I trod on a snail a while ago on the way out in the dark, and when I came back an hour later there was a SLUG EATING THE SNAIL If I'd tripped and bumped my head in the dark then that slug could've been eating me! Think of that. A spider, though, would just keep the flies off till I was found. And a clown would just poke my leg a bit with his toe, from a metre away, to see if I was alive, then take me to hospital in his car.
I tell you, it's slugs and snails we should all be scared of.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: And a clown would just poke my leg a bit with his toe, from a metre away, to see if I was alive, then take me to hospital in his car.
Today is a sad day Dang, thanks for cheering it up.
I am bothered by clowns for this reason: their smiles are painted on to their faces. This means they look like they are smiling, even when they are not. This means they can lie to you, because you cannot read their faces. Plus they caper insanely, like Jack at the end of The Shining, and he was fucking NUTS.
Never trust anyone who smiles all the time anyway.
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I was convinced a slug screamed at me when I was a kid. Me and my mate were going to crush it with our gola trainers and it let out a terrible tiny wail. So we didn't squash it.
Only recently have I started thinking maybe someone was playing a practical joke.
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disco: you know i said about the drugs? disco: yeah, im very excited by the drugs. disco: yes, you might want to look at that for a start. im not going to tell you not to do anything, and anyway youll get into far more trouble with the drink. but i will give you one piece of advice. disco: go on you self-satisfied bint. disco: when dancing around leafy blackheath gardens on acid in the pitch black, always wear flip-flops. disco: whys that? disco: slugs, my child. disco: what? ohhh... ewwww. disco: now, its just 'ewww'. you wait until youre on one and a half black microdots and youre scraping the liqufied grey remnants of another living being off your sole. disco: sole? or soul? disco: both, my love. both. disco: clever wording. disco: cheers.
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I am wearing a pair of gola trainers right this very moment! They have little rainbow stripes down the side.
I accidentally trod on a slug in a pair of sports socks once. I must say, I'm not their biggest fan, but those people that put salt on them to watch them bubble and dissolve are sadistic fuckers.
ETA: I was wearing the sports socks, of course, not the slug. The slug wasn't wearing anything.
quote:Originally posted by squirrelandgman: I was convinced a slug screamed at me when I was a kid. Me and my mate were going to crush it with our gola trainers and it let out a terrible tiny wail.
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you need to get over yourself! now shut it or i will rite boy racer meets babyboy racer and embarrasss you totally.
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If I'd tripped and bumped my head in the dark then that slug could've been eating me! Think of that. A spider, though, would just keep the flies off till I was found. And a clown would just poke my leg a bit with his toe, from a metre away, to see if I was alive, then take me to hospital in his car.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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