[stephen1]

I adore Ferrier and that rendition, too. Kahlunk…that’s me hitting the floor. Thank you, Esme.

She always delivered her text beautifully, and it reminded me of this piece by Paul Robeson. It is sentimental, to be sure, but Robeson could make the phone book sound poignant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybK6-m0JFCM

Stephen

[stephen1]

THAT’s funny. :lol:

I was thinking of one for the woman, but could only come up with…

When upgrading from Girlfriend 5.0 to Wife 1.1; please advise that Blow Job 10.00 will no longer upload. :(

Stephen

[stephen1]

but unless you have actually been an addict of either drugs or alcohol, then you cant comment.

Whatever the original intent of the thread was, I don’t have a clue, so I will address the one comment.

To say, that unless we have experienced something ourselves, that we “can’t” comment is erroneous. We comment on, moralize on, make laws on, and pontificate on, all manner of things which we do not experience. In general, murderers don’t make laws against murder, yet most of us would hold an opinion, I dare say, on murder. However, it goes deeper than that; it goes to the root of our own sense of right and wrong. That is, holding counsel with ourselves allows us the opportunity to decide if a certain something is safe, prudent, or advisable. If we see a someone fall in the river and drown, surely we don’t have to experience that drowning to decide if it is a good thing, or if we should pass comment on it.

Sometimes we see the inadvisability of something, yet another something leads us forward, nevertheless. This is no doubt part of our make-up as humans, but willingly putting ourselves in harms way would seem pathological. This pathology might manifest itself in a myriad of ways; addictions of all sorts. One thing is certain, neither pity, nor condemnation will do a bit of good to cure these addictions, for the addict has no friend, only their parasitic condition.

When and if an addict reaches rock-bottom, and their desire to change is greater than their need to destroy themselves, then any helping hands should be austere, for an addicted mind will take softness as tacit approval of the addiction itself. It is not a matter of judgment at this point, but rather one of stark reality. Cheer for them, rally round them if you must, but boundaries must be laid down, and boundaries kept. Any other relationship will end up being toxic, indeed.

Stephen

[stephen1]

@esmeralda wrote:

@stephen1 wrote:

I was dressed only in a green wooly scarf wrapped round my neck, across my breasts and tied at the back, and was in a heated ..

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick! You were in a heated, dot, dot, dot? Why wasn’t I invited?

Stephen

Would y’all have come? :wink:

You have to ask? 8)

Stephen

[stephen1]

I was dressed only in a green wooly scarf wrapped round my neck, across my breasts and tied at the back, and was in a heated ..

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick! You were in a heated, dot, dot, dot? Why wasn’t I invited?

Stephen

[stephen1]

@esmeralda wrote:

@sir Actor wrote:

I heard Leon Jackson’s new single yesterday.
He won the X Factor last year but it’s pretty obvious he hasn’t really got the X Factor at all.
He never did have it and never will.
I’m sorry to upset the jocks reading this but there you go.

For me the “X Factor” is a certain something in your persona that turns heads.
Something that makes you different from the rest.
Call it charisma .. call it whatever you want.
Does anyone in JC have it?

You ask that in the presence of the splendiferous Esmeralda? You need a good throttlin’, boy! :wink:

Ah, Esme, if wit, charm, intelligence and the ability to beguile is the “X” factor then you do, indeed, have it in spades.

Stephen

[stephen1]

I LOVE my watch. I am not into “things” but it was given to me by someone very special. So, I wear it everyday.

Have you ever received a gift from someone you met on the Internet; even though you never met them in person?

[stephen1]

At least he went out blazing. At least his short life was spent living. I’d rather that than spend my puff not doing things out of fear, cowering away and feeling safe like some shell of a human being. Lesser human beings?

Huh, what does that even mean? Of course no one would choose to live a life of fear…it often leads them to doing drugs. Just like no one would choose to live a life of drug addiction, and the shocking mundanity of looking only to the next fix.

How can not experiencing something make you more? Riddle me that. I’m supposed to be freeborn Briton with a bit of derring-do. Drinking, drug taking, mountain climbing, motor racing, fighting, horse riding, footballing, sailing, adventuring, womanising, policeman hat knocking offing. If you see what I mean, that is.

Yes, I know exactly what you are trying to say. We can get more out of life if we will only take a risk, now and again. I couldn’t agree more that many of us might feel more alive by delving into areas that are beyond our comfort zone. But, just how uncomfortable do things have to become before they are weighted the other way? I also don’t think it makes a case for drug-addiction; which is, after all, what the thread is talking about.

The point is, none of these things are safe. Not even necessarily recommended. But they are a laugh and they are constructive. If you don’t think so, don’t ever post in the arts forum again. In fact, go to your ceedee collection, take out all the good ones and bin them. You can keep the shite. I can guarantee it was written and performed by soulless, non drug-taking chumps. They’re all probably still alive, as well. Mouldering away somewhere.

Uhm, bullshyt.

Drugs are dangerous and that’s an integral part of why they’re a good thing.

Sniffing gasoline is dangerous, too. Some of the young people who live in Canada’s North have succumbed to this addiction. I don’t think anyone, not one single person would qualify this “drug,” as a good thing. And it is a drug, as it is a substance that is ingested to get stoned, and is highly addictive.

They expand horizons in a genuine manner. Open up knew avenues in all sorts of unexpected and delightful ways.

Some can, most don’t. I’ve done enough of them in the past to know. Any kind of enlightenment is usually short-lived, repetitive, and self-indulgent.

There’s bound to be casualties. There is danger, though, in anything worthwhile. How many artists or philosophers have gone mad just from their contemplations? Yet you’d think picking up a brush or a pen would be safe.

I fail to see how the danger of drugs is aligned with the contemplations of artists and philosophers.

Not if you want to be good.

It’s a good thing Bach didn’t know about this drug taking thing, otherwise he might have blown our brains out, literally, upon listening to his music.

Stephen

[stephen1]

OK, Sian…Pete, yes that’s you. This is an intervention. Very slowly now lift your hands off your keyboards. Ah, yes, that’s right. Now…back up, and stand. Good, very good. Reach for the sky as you stretch out those strained forearms. Great, oh, just great. Next, think of each other naked and smile. Tut, tut, Pete, no getting aroused, we’re just having a laugh.:wink: This intervention is almost complete, only one more thing to do…yes, it will be alright, loves…turn your respective computers off. Night night…zzzzzzzzzzz.

Stephen

[stephen1]

LOL, when I first came to this site I thought “hot chocolate” was some kind of British slang.

ROTFLMAO.

Stephen

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