Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

1…145146148150151…177

Posts

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's ok @Wilderbeast. I find myself doing that Homer Simpson thing - if I retain a new piece of information in my brain, it pushes another bit out....

    Well - that's my story and I'm sticking to it  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    I think it's how the majority of the world thinks. The problem is that, as soon as we 'achieve', we forget where we started from.
    '...The working class can kiss my a***, I've got the foreman's job at last....' syndrome.
    No more obvious than in the North here eh? I bet the vote isn't the same at the next election though.
    I wonder if Covid or Brexit will be remembered at the next election - we have such a short attention/retention span as a species.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I think Donald is a warning to us all.
    He won in 2016, because so many people had total distrust in their politicians, and even this time got 49% of the vote.
    More and more countries have leaders like him, and until people start to have more faith in their leaders [ when their leaders become trustworthy ] the situation will get worse.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Mother and I have just come home with a sun lounger, a coffee table, a pair of table lamps, two jumpers and six assorted shower gels and skin creams, and only spent £25.  I don't think I'll ever understand why some people don't use charity shops.  (Braces oneself for {possibly indignant} replies.)  OH says he's not letting us out unsupervised any more.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I do use charity shops, with gusto, as do my teenagers (thank goodness). But they're all closed at the moment due to the lockdown in England. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited November 2020
    My RTBC today is that I seem not to have poisoned myself with Ricin. Fingers crossed for the next 24 hours.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    steveTu said:
    I think it's how the majority of the world thinks. The problem is that, as soon as we 'achieve', we forget where we started from.
    '...The working class can kiss my a***, I've got the foreman's job at last....' syndrome.
    No more obvious than in the North here eh? I bet the vote isn't the same at the next election though.
    I wonder if Covid or Brexit will be remembered at the next election - we have such a short attention/retention span as a species.


    Another verse is "The workers' flag is deepest red, I'll draw the dole and stay in bed"
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Gosh, @LG_ - what have you been playing at??  Chewing plants?   :o
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I've been foolish, but not quite that foolish @Liriodendron ! My Ricinus flowered v early this year and this morning I noticed some properly dry seed heads (they don't usually get that far) so I thought I'd save them. No gloves - intending to wash my hands thoroughly afterwards - and v careful of surfaces and containers. But the dried pods are very tough indeed and whilst grappling with one I stabbed myself with a piece under the nail and drew blood. Called 111 for advice, who spoke to the poisons hotline thingummy and said to go to A&E. So that's where I spent my morning. They didn't seem to know anything about ricin, but I'm taking comfort from the fact that it's been nearly 6 hours and I don't have any adverse symptoms so far. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited November 2020
    I was feeling a bit down because The Don lost the election and I thought I wouldn't be able to hear about his Tweets any more. How wrong can you be?
    I think he will end up being a real life ghost in the White House - the Orange Man seen wandering the corridors of power, with his wig under his arm, muttering 'But We Won, We Won...It was probably the greatest win ever...'.
    The Don - the gift that just keeps giving.

    Edited to add: I thought that getting a second term was a difficult thing - but apparently only 10 Presidents who ran for a second term have failed. Which then made me chuckle again as it brough to mind the UB40 song '1 in 10' - the whole lyric just seems apt for the ghostly Don haunting the White House:

    I am the one in ten
    A number on a list
    I am the one in ten
    Even though I don't exist
    Nobody Knows me
    Even though I'm always there
    A statistic, a reminder
    Of a world that doesn't care
    My arms enfold the dole queue
    Malnutrition dulls my hair
    My eyes are black and lifeless
    With an underprivileged stare
    I'm the beggar on the corner
    Will no-one spare a dime?
    I'm the child that never learns to read
    'Cause no-one spared the time
    [Chorus]
    I am the one in ten,
    I'm the murderer and the victim
    The license with the gun
    I'm a sad and bruised old lady
    In an ally in a slum
    I'm a middle aged businessman
    With chronic heart disease
    I'm another teenage suicide
    In a street that has no trees
    [Chorus]
    I am the one in ten,
    I'm a starving third world mother
    A refugee without a home
    I'm a house wife hooked on Valium
    I'm a Pensioner alone
    I'm a cancer ridden specter
    Covering the earth
    I'm another hungry baby
    I'm an accident of birth.

    ....yep...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
This discussion has been closed.