Fag hag and turkey baster
who says romance is dead?
I have one best mate who I rather envy, as he has just the most perfect job. He's a goldsmith in a small goldsmiths shop, which he got after being made redundant from the packing shed at Westinghouse. Lucky git. I had my perfect job, but lost it through bad business circumstances, and things have never been the same, sadly. 🙁
somafunk's is the one of the only posts i have any respect for on this thread.
why are you all chasing money so hard?
it is little bits of paper made in infinite quantities..... the time you get going round the sun it the only thing you have no control over..... live life.
enjoy every second.
you will regret every moment of envy on your deathbed.
i promise you.
what you have right now is incredible, and most of you will only realise when it is too late
I've got a couple of friends who have absolutely brilliant kids and I look at both of them in awe as they have done such an awesome job bringing them up. All the other stuff is just stuff.
oh yes definitely, although I like myself quite a lot, I get sort of envious of other peoples traits sometimes.. I'm mostly envious of other peoples apparent Confidence, it comes so easy to them, but for me is so hard. I sometimes wish I could have a confidence switch then everything I think I can be, would be. And if someone could take away my overpowering self-doubt, that't be good.
I have no envy of things though, no matter how expensive, they are just things, or jobs, it's quite an odd mindset I have I think. If my circumstances were different I'd probably think different maybe? (40, single, no kids, renting, shit wage job) I don't envy marriage or kids (yet)
In a way I think this thread is what this forum has come to be about, the polar opposite of why I came here in the first place- People riding bikes n stupid banter.
All this middle class angst is ****ing boring. Go away.
I could be jealous of certain friend's drive to get things done, other has mad skills on bike and one has fantastic job arrangement which allows him to spend a lot of time for travelling and outdoors stuff.
However, none of them are living my life and I'd like to think that my family and happy marriage might be source of jealousy for some.
I'd like to think that 99% of the time i'm the one people are envious of. Whilst i have a small house, a 2002 Mondeo, everything else in my life is truely exceptional. I walk 2 mins to horses stables, i can be riding trails in less than that.. i live in an area where crime is almost 0 and have the most amazing son on the planet, a beautiful wife and 3 x 1000cc motorbikes...
Nah not really, though I have done at times in the past, but it's not healthy really. I have mates that earn a lot more than me but they also work a lot more and don't really do anything creative, which I get a lot of pleasure from. Sometimes I wonder if I chose the right path but then I get paid to do something ridiculously fun and remember why.
I did have a mate who would boast about everything he had and everything he did as if envy were required of me, but I never felt the need to validate him.
For all those with envy about all the great things you see / experience about your mates, ask yourselves, do you really see what goes on behind closed doors / when your back is turned?
Very often every silver lining has a cloud.
Cheers jonah tonto, Well said 🙂 , there is one thing in life that is certain - if you desire or chase ££££ over quality, meaning and friendship throughout your life there will be only one outcome available to you and i can read that into quite a few posts on this forum, not necessarily on this thread i might add, If your ever up in the Galloway area give me a shout up (mail in profile) and i'll show you some of the wild riding we have, also got some excellent trail centres but i guess you know that.
On a wee side quip : Quite a few years ago i invited a few folk from this forum whom i'd never met in real life to come up to Galloway, stay with myself and i'd show them round a few of my riding spots. I didn't tell them i stayed in a 1 bedroom council bungalow (nice bungalow in a nice town in a nice area) but why should that make a difference?, my attic is all floored out and i have a couple of decent comfy double airbeds up there so i set it all up for them and they eventually arrived - welcomes and proper introductions were made etc - etc, off out to my mates pub for a drink and we talked bout stuff in general and had a cracking weekends riding out and about, i genuinely thought they were pretty decent and cool folk and as they left they thanked me for the riding, hospitality and the food i cooked for us all (i do like cooking!), and i found a nice surprise hidden in the cupboard after they'd gone - A bottle of malt whisky, i was touched.
A few months later i met up with other folk (decent folk) i know at one of the SSUK races (i use the term race in it's most loose form) and i mentioned the fact i had "such and such" staying a while ago for a riding weekend in the hills and they said (not verbatim but as best as i remember) "yeah....we know.....they've been slagging you off to f-cuk bout you living in a 1 bedroom council house at your age" they also mentioned something disgusting about one of my friends who is no longer alive (overdose) who used to come round to visit and get away from his situation for a few hours every week and i will not repeat what they said but if i ever meet them again when i return to the race scene next year i promise i will break their f-cuking jaws so they'll never be able to utter another word again....
Robert M Pirsig attempted to define quality in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence" and a few people on this forum might learn to be more satisfied with their standing in life if they took themselves away for a while to digest his musings, I regularly re-read "Zen" and whilst i find myself getting confused regarding some of his metaphors and in no way claim to fully understand the messages within, i do find the book has an extremely calming effect on my soul and thought process - right.....that's the hippy-dippy-trippy shit over with, promise! 😀
Kevevs :Nah!....The forum has always been like that - perhaps not to such an extent as it is currently but you have to understand the STW middle class demographic which i guess is rather well off but time poor and not really satisfied with what they've got..... chasing the promotion,the cars,the bigger house etc...etc... I may be entirely wrong though and if so i'll give you a few nice pictures to relax with that i took a few hours ago as i walked the dogs round the farm and checked on the beasts when the sun was coming up (see earlier thread if you missed it - I don't own a farm, just farm sitting), A stunning morning that went from torrential downpours to bright sunshine to torrential downpours in a matter of minutes - i got soaked to the skin and wrung my boxer shorts out when i got back but it was exhilarating and filled my chest wi that funny happy swelling feeling that i guess so many on here have lost somewhere along the road.
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Old "one horn" - she can be a bit cantankerous and will chase you down
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This is daisy, she's lovely and friendly - follows me like a dog
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The new Limousine bull, he's a big lad wi mahoosive knackers
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My fav tree in the house grounds, i talk to him every time i pass as he's over 400 yrs old so i guess he's pretty knowledgeable bout stuff, he doesn't say much but he's a good listener.
top post somafunk.. you summed it up nicely for me 😀
A few months later i met up with other folk (decent folk) i know at one of the SSUK races (i use the term race in it's most loose form) and i mentioned the fact i had "such and such" staying a while ago for a riding weekend in the hills and they said (not verbatim but as best as i remember) "yeah....we know.....they've been slagging you off to f-cuk bout you living in a 1 bedroom council house at your age" they also mentioned something disgusting about one of my friends who is no longer alive (overdose) who used to come round to visit and get away from his situation for a few hours every week and i will not repeat what they said but if i ever meet them again when i return to the race scene next year i promise i will break their f-cuking jaws so they'll never be able to utter another word again....
Thats awful. 🙁
Though also some people like to stir shit up and one person's light hearted piss taking comment is another persons vindictive bitchy comment.
PS can I come and stay in your scummy council bungalow and go biking some time? 🙂
A stunning display of mass assumptions and disrespectful tosh there Soma but interesting reading nonetheless. You have nice Cows.
grum - MemberA few months later i met up with other folk (decent folk) i know at one of the SSUK races (i use the term race in it's most loose form) and i mentioned the fact i had "such and such" staying a while ago for a riding weekend in the hills and they said (not verbatim but as best as i remember) "yeah....we know.....they've been slagging you off to f-cuk bout you living in a 1 bedroom council house at your age" they also mentioned something disgusting about one of my friends who is no longer alive (overdose) who used to come round to visit and get away from his situation for a few hours every week and i will not repeat what they said but if i ever meet them again when i return to the race scene next year i promise i will break their f-cuking jaws so they'll never be able to utter another word again....
Thats awful.
Its also based on hearsay. Why get wound up / make assumptions about it and then take action based on that? Maybe contact the chaps and have a polite discussion asking them what there comments were first.
Making assumptions about them based on someone elses interpretation (with respect) lowers you to thier world if indeed what was said is true.
My fav tree in the house grounds, i talk to him every time i pass as he's over 400 yrs old so i guess he's pretty knowledgeable bout stuff, he doesn't say much but he's a good listener.
🙂 I thought I was alone in that activity.
A warming post - good stuff.
Grum : Sure if you like, I've been off the bikes totally for 4yrs so wait a few months till i regain some semblance of bike fitness, drop me an email if your ever heading up this way next year, I have a lovely penthouse suite available upstairs, admittingly not much of a view, and for access you'll have to negotiate a ladder and pass through a hatch 😀
If you like i'll take you out interval training with old "one horn" above, perfect training partner as she'll punish you if you don't sprint fast enough.
Heres one of my fav coastal path routes, not much chance for error but arse-clenchinly good fun with good pub n' grub at the end. Cracking night ride route if you're confident on the trail as there is zero light pollution and the stars are almost touchable, or seem to be. It usually blows quite a strong s-westerly so if you do fall or stumble it should blow you up the cliff rather than the 200ft drop 😯
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NZCol : Apologies Col, it wasn't meant nor implied to be read as a sweeping generalisation of every stw'r (christ, i'm one after all) but from what i've experienced certain aspects do ring true in my eyes n' ears.
Nah....Definitely wasn't hearsay as such but hey-ho.....there's lots of good folk in this world, certainly enough to go round anyway.
Right..... i'm off, not posting anymore as i've monopolised this thread quite enough and bored everyone shiteless. Might actually go and ride my bike seeing as i'm back home.
