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Bang!

I loved this when I was a kid, but the 80s remake is much better.

The last minute is great

@Trapper wrote:

“simple” depression ?

yes…

depression can come with a lot of other problems, and that involves a lot of other solutions…but one person I knew ended up in a high-security hospital to prevent self-harm..a victim of the NHS drugs brigade and ect unit (their answer to depression), but something could be done even there..not…[Read more]

That guy calling God on the phone is going tog et one hell of a big bill unless he reversed charges.

And if he did reverse charges, God is going to be really angry when the monthly bill arrives. :shock:

@Trapper wrote:

Sooner that than be told to buck up..if i could I fucking would

If you’re suffering from simple depression, then go to the doctor and get referred – for CBT, maybe.

It does depend on the severity of the depression, but to tell you the truth, you can only expect ppl to tell you to buck up for a basic reason. It’s their way of…[Read more]

everybody believes in the caring society..that we should all care for each other

or if they don;t, they won’t say so openly.

As Desmondy points out, the devil is in the detail.

In terms of personally caring, that is hard enough just in itself, and very limited to the number of people we meet.

@tinks wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

There is a real danger of getting into platitudes when discussing depression, as there is in discussing mental illness in general.

The effect can be patronising.

people who suffer depression, and other mental problems are suffering.

To have do-gooders coming having a weep and telling the uncaring off actually…

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you want more, ask for more…a good motto for anything lol

stands behind Trapper, ready with the Viennese slice lol

@Cherriepie wrote:

I like Charlie Chaplin :)

“for like a gun is touch”

Where is that from?

it’s a line from a poem by Delmore Schwartz

the dance begins about 1.20

and life can be hard..just live it

There is a real danger of getting into platitudes when discussing depression, as there is in discussing mental illness in general.

The effect can be patronising.

people who suffer depression, and other mental problems are suffering.

To have do-gooders coming having a weep and telling the uncaring off actually sounds worse than people who tell…[Read more]

Tobias is right.

Men don’t have the same problem but a lot of women seem to think of themselves as a laughing stock on some catwalk. They go into real terror at first, then just withdraw, with low self-esteem.

Any man who looks on a woman in such a brutalist, short-sighted way is really, really not worth worrying about.

Be yourselves, and…[Read more]

I hate to say I’ve not only seen Emmylou, but also wept to this one from the McGarrigle Sisters

but twas embarrassing, coz the song has all the horrors of mixed metaphor etc

“look out, Jack, that son of a b it ch is coming”

Actually there is at least one redneck song which avoids easy-tears, good-ol-boys, cheap sentiment, and as I’m hardly an expert there must be more.

Goy Clark’s Desperados Waiting for a Train…about an old folks home where these old guys with unshaven chins and no teeth in their heads sit, like…[Read more]

I remember Right, Said Fred. We al laughed away at it and nodded our heads – when I was 11..

Benny Hill is superior..

What do you mean, a wrong un??? I started the Lou Reed post. You saying that Lou reed is a wrong un???!!

@Trapper wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poueMAJjOxE

well, Trapper’s song brought the tears a-flooding, if only for the bad spelling.

I noticed someone had written about it – “They said it was the greatest love song ever wrote. I said its the saddest love song ever wrote for those who know the pain”. There is a fitting Confederate flag…[Read more]

the camel brigade is on its way…

Been thinking of dances in response to Rusty’s long-ago challenge..

so…this isn’t the best dance, but….it’s very romantic..

the tune is Moon River…the film, Angels in America..

the guy is feverishly ill, and his long-dead ancestors have come to taunt and calm him..

then the lover who ditched him reappears in fantasy, walking down steps…[Read more]