On a more positive note...

[KenHigg]

Natural Highs

1. Falling in love.

2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.

3. A hot shower.

4. No lines at the supermarket.

5. A special glance.

6. Getting mail.

7. Taking a drive on a pretty road.

8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio.

9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.

10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer.

11. Chocolate milkshake (vanilla or strawberry).

12. A bubble bath.

13. Giggling.

14. A good conversation.

15. The beach.

16. Finding a 20 dollar bill in your coat from last winter.

17. Laughing at yourself.

18. Looking into their eyes and knowing they love you.

19. Midnight phone calls that last for hours.

20. Running through sprinklers.

21. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.

22. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.

23. Laughing at an inside joke.

24. Friends.

25. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.

26. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.

27. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner).

28. Making new friends or spending time with old ones.

29. Playing with a new puppy.

30. Having someone play with your hair.

31. Sweet dreams.

32. Hot chocolate.

33. Road trips with friends.

34. Swinging on swings.

35. Making eye contact with a cute stranger.

36. Making chocolate chip cookies.

37. Having your friends send you homemade cookies.

38 Holding hands with someone you care about.

39. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or
bad) never change.

40. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you.

41. Watching the sunrise.

42. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day.

43. Knowing that somebody misses you.

44. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply.

45. Knowing you've done the right thing, no matter what other people think.

 

[Tasslehoff]

Natural Downer

Butter Milk is nasty....

Bleck!
Just thinking of Buttermilk makes me quesy. That stuff IS nasty. Try to chug a gallon of it after you have already: chugged a gallon of regular milk, run around a house full speed, threw it up, chugged the rest of the 2 gallon milk jug, ran some more, and then threw up. I puked some more the instant the buttermilk hit my taste buds, and then twice more before I finished the gallon.

Now THAT is not a happy thought for me.

(In case you are wondering why I was crazy enough to do that...all I can say is "pledging")

GOOD THOUGHT: Opening The Hobbit for the first time and reading the opening paragraph.

 

[ColinEssex]

1. Falling in love.
2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.
3. A hot shower.
4. No lines at the supermarket.
5. A special glance.
6. Getting mail.
7. Taking a drive on a pretty road.
8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer.
11. Chocolate milkshake (vanilla or strawberry).
12. A bubble bath.
13. Giggling.
14. A good conversation.
15. The beach.
16. Finding a 20 dollar bill in your coat from last winter.
17. Laughing at yourself.
18. Looking into their eyes and knowing they love you.
19. Midnight phone calls that last for hours.
20. Running through sprinklers.
21. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.
22. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.
23. Laughing at an inside joke.
24. Friends.
25. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.
26. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.
27. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner).
28. Making new friends or spending time with old ones.
29. Playing with a new puppy.
30. Having someone play with your hair.
31. Sweet dreams.
32. Hot chocolate.
33. Road trips with friends.
34. Swinging on swings.
35. Making eye contact with a cute stranger.
36. Making chocolate chip cookies.
37. Having your friends send you homemade cookies.
38 Holding hands with someone you care about.
39. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or
bad) never change.
40. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you.
41. Watching the sunrise.
42. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day.
43. Knowing that somebody misses you.
44. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply.
45. Knowing you've done the right thing, no matter what other people think.

Jesus Ken, I just don't know how you can come up with such sickly clap-trap

Some of those things you'd be needing treatment for
'running through sprinklers' and 'laughing for no reason' for starters, you'd need to be loopy

'make eye contact with a cute stranger'? yeah, and get your face smashed in or a knee in the boll*cks

'hot chocolate'? what the hell is special about that - its a drink and thats it

'playing with a puppy' - yeah right, nice till they chew up the carpet

'getting mail' - bills, junk mail. . . . . . just wonderful

'swinging on swings' - and get arrested for using childrens area under the pretence of having a mental age of 8

Like I said earlier - you need to get out more, why not go out and kill something, maybe thats what you need to do to lose this sentimental streak

Col

 

[Rich]

46. Looking in the mirror and seeing you've no hair left on your head

how can you have a vanilla chocolate milkshake?

 

[ColinEssex]

5, "A special glance" - the one you get when you've just spilt a 20 stone chaps beer, just before he nails you to the bar

15 "The Beach" - broken glass, coke tins, stones, loads of fat people, freezing cold sea. . . . . .

Col

 

[Rich]

15 "The Beach" - broken glass, coke tins, stones, loads of fat people, freezing cold sea. . . . . .

Col

Turds floating on the oil slicks

 

[Rich]

47.
When you look in the mirror and see you have more than one chin.
48.
When you look down and can't see past your stomach

 

[KenHigg]

You guy's are extra negative this fine Monday morning...

 

[ColinEssex]

You guy's are extra negative this fine Monday morning...

Well, first thing monday morning, logging in and reading all that American smultz sugary sweet stuff made me feel ill

Col

 

[KenHigg]

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Sorry...

 

[Rich]

You guy's are extra negative this fine Monday morning...

It's not fine, it's raining!

 

[KenHigg]

It's not fine, it's raining!

Come to think of it, it's been raining here all weekend . But we need it bad so I guess I'd better not grumble too much...

 

[ColinEssex]

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Sorry...

I don't know why you do it surely nobody in the real world believes it.

Col

 

[Brianwarnock]

From Col

Some of those things you'd be needing treatment for
'running through sprinklers' and 'laughing for no reason' for starters, you'd need to be loopy

In one of our squares we have a newish fountain in Liverpool consisting of 2 rows of dancing sprays, it is situated on a grid system for drainage, and yep you've guessed , the kids love running between them in the warm weather.

Brian

 

[KenHigg]

Clay Vessel

A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake. They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.

He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!


Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls.
Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left. Then it struck him. He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!


It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it. We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.


There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.


May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have
thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden
in bits of clay. May we see the people in our world as God sees them.


I am so blessed by the gems of friendship I have with each of you.
Thank you for looking beyond my clay vessel.

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[ColinEssex]

There is a treasure in each and every one of us.

Col

 

[Tasslehoff]

The sun on the meadow is summery warm.
The stag in the forest runs free.
But gather together to greet the storm.
Tomorrow belongs to me.

The branch of the linden is leafy and
Green,
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen.
Tomorrow belongs to me.

The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee.
But soon, says a whisper;
"Arise, arise,
Tomorrow belongs to me"

Oh Fatherland, Fatherland,
Show us the sign
Your children have waited to see.
The morning will come
When the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!​

Heartwarming, isn't it?

Bonus points if you get this, and super bonus points if you know where this comes from.

 

[KenHigg]

Screwdriver / Feral House

 

[Ron_dK]

From Tomorrow Belongs to Me, a song from the movie musical Cabaret ?
I figur this originated from a sort of an Anti Jewish, Hitler jugend thing.
Not the most brilliant of selection of the Rhine (uber) country.

 

[Tasslehoff]

From Tomorrow Belongs to Me, a song from the movie musical Cabaret ?
I figur this originated from a sort of an Anti Jewish, Hitler jugend thing.
Not the most brilliant of selection of the Rhine (uber) country.

Correct in where it came from. To clear things up:

Ken said that even though something looked bad on the outside, everything is good on the inside. I countered this with a song that sounds good, but was sung by a Hitler Youth; my point being that NOT everything is good on the inside, actually most things look good but are rotten to the core. Take, par example, politicians.

I did not mean to sound anti-jewish, anti-german, or whatever. I only meant to sound anti-headintheclouds

I did not originally state all of this as I was trying to be subtle and didn't want to turn this into a Hitler party while still making a valid point...maybe I failed horribly