Hold my flashbang, I’m going in!

So you’re trying sweet fuck all and that’s not working out for you. What’s your Plan B? Just bitching about it?

You’re the one missing the point. You can make your life better. You are choosing not to. Your loss.

Ah, so all the stuff you do have is ‘nothing’.

Stop deflecting and do some work.

when you have literally NOTHING in your life

Clearly not you then. You don’t appear to be dying from starvation, cold, or conflict. You’re articulate and capable of writing with perfectly acceptable spelling and grammar. You have access to the internet. You’re way ahead of 90% of humanity. Check that privilege!

Get off your self-pity cloud and do something. Learn some new skills - there’s plenty of free courses out there. Improve yourself. Learn skills, earn money, use money to better your situation. Stop blaming the world, it owes you nothing. You, and only you, are responsible for your happiness.

I’m always slightly saddened by my little boy’s “why don’t you just search it up” any time we don’t know something.

I happily remember the days of pub conversations or just chatting shit and arguing with friends over random stuff like how far sound travels per second so you can work out how far away a lightning strike is, or whether it was Paul Rudd or Ryan Reynolds who appeared in an episode of the X-Files, or whether an Amax Eagle Autogyro is faster than an actual eagle.

He doesn’t like to do that and knows I have my phone in my pocket so why don’t’t I just search it up?

If you haven’t already seen them you might like Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. They’re slower paced and more contemplative than most modern films which seek to pack in “exposition, explosions, endings” as quickly as possible. They give room for the characters to breathe and for the viewer to immerse They’re also beautiful stories.

Try a Cajun dirty rice sometime, it’s the only real competitor.

Tell me about the jollof rice!

Got a despairing sigh from my wife who is now regretting some of her life choices. Well one of them at least.

Good work!

OP should just brush that hype off.

Yes. Apparently, they can.

Bugger, But also, heil, leader Trump, I suppose.

Almost exactly 10 years ago. My wife and her best friend went away for a week and took the kids with them. I had a bunch of holiday saved up so I took the week off work and had the house to myself. I spent the first two days tidying, cleaning, and doing chores - so I wouldn’t have to end the week doing that and so when my wife got home she’d be happy because that means a lot to me.

But that still left five days of utterly selfish me-time.

I arranged to see precisely no-one (a combination of depression and a yearning for peace and quiet). I moved my XBox into the living room with the big TV. I slept in, ordered takeaways, played video games, watched films with more fights and car chases and explosions than my wife enjoys, went for the occasional pointless, destinationless drive (playing Metallica and Iron Maiden and Pink Floyd too loud), and the occasional walk just to shake off the cobwebs (and maybe visit an old-man pub where there are no jukeboxes or fruit machines or people who will talk at you). I even spent most of the last day just reading a book. I never get that much peace and quiet.

What a week.

I’d definitely pay for another like it.

Ugh. Well played!

Again, this is not the original, but I seem to recall seeing it in the late 90s.

And this was definitely 90s.

Lovely, thank you!

Yes please!

You got any good recipes for a harvest like that?

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