draculina

Wimbledon is the one spectator sport I enjoy.

I agree wiht Mrs T – the Federer match was quite an endurance match.

Steptoe and Hancock’s Half Hour

Dad’s Army and Porridge

Not that taken wiht more modern comedies.

@tinks wrote:

The one thing you can’t do is fault the Queen……….she has always behaved with impecible decorum right throughout her reign ……I’m in no way a royalist but having to shake that man’s hand must have struck a serious chord with her…………and there must be guilt in that man’s mind too after everything that he’s been a part…

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there’s a lot of blood shed on all sides which can be remembered with bitterness and revenge.

I’m old enough to remember the start of the Troubles, back in 68-9, when the IRA’s main campaign was a small bunch of old hands who gathered for drink nights to sing the old songs and remember past times. It was Ian Paisley’s bunch, together with the…[Read more]

ride with it.

As age advance, sleep gets more difficult, so sleep Churchill.

Churchill used to work at odd hours and sleep at odd hours.

or you may want to get up, go downstaris and sing frm the English hymnal or some such songbook until you think you’d be happier going to sleep.

many tactics for a very unhappy condition which most of us have…[Read more]

they now seem to recognise that ect is not a good way of handling mental illness(!!)

But it’s still used in certain limited cases, though they must have the consent of next-of-kin.

panda – bet you had a fun time too. Would be nice to say that these things make us all better people, wouldn’t it?

hugs are temporary only, “for like a gun is touch”

@panda12 wrote:

Electric shock treatment. Incredibly barbaric. Do they still do it?

yes

J-in-France…I read she’d been involved in that abuse…if it’s the case I’m thinking of. Her hub is already in the hellhole, and I don’t think she’ll be in the same one

cosy…if those parents are guilty, then I really would like to understand why they did it. It’s beyond my ken.

@tinks wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

chicken of the walk hah

the original is c o c k of the walk.

now why did that not survive the censors?

Tinks..yes.

yes?

yes..that’s what can happen. Suicide, murder, self-harm, harming others (badly).

When I first became a dad, one schizo latched on to our unhappy family as we walked the pram. He knew mum. I…[Read more]

chicken of the walk hah

the original is c o c k of the walk.

now why did that not survive the censors?

Tinks..yes.

@Mrs_Teapot wrote:

Louis Wain

These two paintings illustrate his illness pretty well, the first is when he is well…. the second when he is in a schizophrenic episode….

I liked the second one – a lot.

Here’s Robert Lowell . When I once quoted him at one meeting – ‘I was expecting society to collapse any minute: instead, I did’ – I was…[Read more]

that’s interesting, Mrs T.

The poet Kit Smart was an 18th century schizo vicar who wrote a lot of poems about ‘my cat Jeoffrey’. Stramnge rhythms and a very physical description of Jeoffrey’s shape and moods.

Thomas Gray (of the famous and boringly normal Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) correctly prophesied that Smart “must come to a jail…[Read more]

the first time I came across someone who’d had the wonderful experience of est was when I was 22.

He was only about 3 years older than me, eyes that soemtiems seemed really hurt and sometiems full of a defiant humoour, but had a beard as long and rough as his hair, and walked with his arms swinging fomr one side to the other. All the kids…[Read more]

@rogue trader wrote:

hmm.seems to be a pattern emerging here,4 ran away,3 got ran over,while they were attempting to run away,moral of the story dogs ,dont go to cruella de villes house, even if your well behaved and say nowt,if your face doesnt fit, thats the end of you, they will either grass you up to the local farmer, or sell you to the…

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@jen_jen wrote:

Black humour as a coping mechanism when you’re in a situation is one thing, the sick mocking humour that is becoming so prevalent in modern comedians who try to emulate Lenny (who, incidentally, I never found funny either) is something that I personally find distasteful and the increasing acceptance of such humour disturbing.

No…

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@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

oh dear..do you reckon I could get banned???!!

The stupid dopes are idiotic enough to censor the name of a writer like Philip K Richard, just as Lenny Bruce was prosecuted by the courts, so maybe I will!!!

Help! mummy!!!

Hail to scep! The new Lenny . . . . . . . .

falls off chair laughing

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@Wordsworth60 wrote:

Hi Scep, I found Lenny Bruce too much the first time I heard him, avoided listening to him after that because I didn’t want to support something that might be harmful, not merely embarrassing. I’m a bit more sophisticated now, I can wear polo necked jumpers and adopt an ironic smirk as well as the next man. But I still don’t…

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oh dear..do you reckon I could get banned???!!

The stupid dopes are idiotic enough to censor the name of a writer like Philip K Richard, just as Lenny Bruce was prosecuted by the courts, so maybe I will!!!

Help! mummy!!!

@rogue trader wrote:

I DUNNO? im in two minds about this thread.

me too!!!!

contradict myself?

It happens..explain?