Interesting Lives, anyone?
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Interesting Lives, anyone?
Slightly needled by a bish thowaway line (I pm'd, he ignored it ) it set me wondering. Do you reckon, when looking back, that your life's been 'interesting'? Or has it been dull as ditchwater?
Personally speaking, I've made the most of mine I can, coz there's only one of the fxckers and there's no point wasting it.
Personally speaking, I've made the most of mine I can, coz there's only one of the fxckers and there's no point wasting it.
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For example: Potted biog:
Born in Cheshire to a Derbyshire family that has lived on the tops of the Peak since time immemorial, I was inducted into being a Wanderer by my grandfather whose grandfather's son used to play for Bolton.
Brought up in Derbyshire then horribly transferred to Yorkshire at my parent's whim: Having to abandon well loved pets to god knows what fate...(father being an ex-naval bully, prize fighter, overbearing tosspot, with major OCD rituals)
I ran away at 17 to Riccarton and then lived on Morningside before taking a joint honours degree in Biochemistry & Microbiology in Liverpool.
After that in the era of Thatcher, got dragged down into homelessness and a fxckin good time.
Became a punk. Was in some bands. Rioted during the big riot.
Got rescued by a woman who transported me south to the shithole of London from whence she left to teach EFL in Japan...
(and that is just 1/3) of life so far. Interesting/ Boring as shit?
Born in Cheshire to a Derbyshire family that has lived on the tops of the Peak since time immemorial, I was inducted into being a Wanderer by my grandfather whose grandfather's son used to play for Bolton.
Brought up in Derbyshire then horribly transferred to Yorkshire at my parent's whim: Having to abandon well loved pets to god knows what fate...(father being an ex-naval bully, prize fighter, overbearing tosspot, with major OCD rituals)
I ran away at 17 to Riccarton and then lived on Morningside before taking a joint honours degree in Biochemistry & Microbiology in Liverpool.
After that in the era of Thatcher, got dragged down into homelessness and a fxckin good time.
Became a punk. Was in some bands. Rioted during the big riot.
Got rescued by a woman who transported me south to the shithole of London from whence she left to teach EFL in Japan...
(and that is just 1/3) of life so far. Interesting/ Boring as shit?
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You see, just reading that back, I've missed out a Major claim. My parents weren't exactly liberal, and (looking back on it, probably because my father was a batard, whose father was a bastard, whose father in turn was a bastard) I was never allowed any social freedom as a teenager. So when my mother's sister ( who was one of the first graduates from a working class background to be a university student - she later designed engines for aircraft in Seattle) colluded in a surreptitious enterprise it ended with.me seeing, experiecing, and forever altering my life, by being one of the audience when Jimi Hendrix played at the IoW. Interesting, fxcking right it was.
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Certainly wouldn't change the era - it's been just brilliant - or my life in general, but I'd do some things a whole lot differently if I could go back. On reflection, made a lot of errors, done a lot of things blatantly wrongly and been more than a little selfish in the strict meaning of the word. Spend some time on reflection now and I think I'm a better man for the facing up and admitting of it. I don't believe in stating the good that we do, the satisfaction comes for that from just keeping it to yourself. Boring life? never. Interesting one, massively so. Done a lot, seen a lot and I'm still dancing.
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I like to think I'm just getting to the interesting bit.
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Nope. Done f'call.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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So far, that's between a Parisian balcony and a West London O'Neill's.
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Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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I'm only halfway through. Hopefully.
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Isn't there a famous Chinese curse - 'May you live in interesting times...'?
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William the White wrote:Isn't there a famous Chinese curse - 'May you live in interesting times...'?
Utilised by Terry Pratchett in, coincidentally, Interesting Times.
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I'm waiting for the afterlife. It's gonna be great.
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Not where you're headed it's not, Sunshine.Worthy4England wrote:I'm waiting for the afterlife. It's gonna be great.
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Not fcking Skegness?Bruce Rioja wrote:Not where you're headed it's not, Sunshine.Worthy4England wrote:I'm waiting for the afterlife. It's gonna be great.
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Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Just me then...
Yes. Only you have/ has had an interesting life.
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Can I just establish something here .... do we ACTUALLY have to have lived these lives, or can we just make them up ?
Coz that's going to make a fair chunk of difference.
Coz that's going to make a fair chunk of difference.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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bobo the clown wrote:Can I just establish something here .... do we ACTUALLY have to have lived these lives, or can we just make them up ?
Coz that's going to make a fair chunk of difference.
You've not really got the hang of this internet thing have you Bobo?
And yes, I do realise the massive irony of what I have just written. So AT, Prufrock and Bruce can all just feck off!
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Gary the Enfield wrote:bobo the clown wrote:Can I just establish something here .... do we ACTUALLY have to have lived these lives, or can we just make them up ?
Coz that's going to make a fair chunk of difference.
You've not really got the hang of this internet thing have you Bobo?
And yes, I do realise the massive irony of what I have just written. So AT, Prufrock and Bruce can all just feck off!
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Mine is all in my autobiography.
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Beer to Eternity?Worthy4England wrote:Mine is all in my autobiography.
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