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[Misc] Is it just me or is everything shit? Again...







spongy

Well-known member
Aug 7, 2011
2,780
Burgess Hill
When I was a kid there used to be a little footbridge over the railway line between Tarring Road and Pavilion Road, I used to go over the bridge with my mum to get some shopping and we would often stop on top and wave at the train drivers as they drove their trains under us.

The bridge now has not been repainted in about 30 years, the lights that lit your way over it have been smashed and broken countless times, different types of lighting were tried and all broken but left in place as a sad legacy of failure. A higher vertical fence was fitted to the bridge in order to stop people jumping off or throwing and dropping things on passing trains..... this proved ineffectual so they then rigged an upside down U shaped fence to completely enclose anyone who goes over the bridge, as you look through the steps you can see the accumulation of years of empty wine and spirit bottles and small bags of rubbish dumped through the gaps in the steps, the approaches now have CCTV warning signs up on both sides but it does not deter the hoodied youths and drug dealers that meet up there.

The other day as I walked over that bridge a young mum was holding her toddler up and waving at a train, I went back 50 years in a flash but all I felt was deep sadness of loss and decay.

This just brought a massive smile to my face.

My 4yo daughter loves getting on trains. So every Friday when I pick her up from school I jump on the train from BUG to HSK just so I can take her on the train home again.

She loves it. She makes us go the the station right away to just watch them go past before ours is due just to watch them...

We always wave at the drivers and the majority always give a toot as they pass. Her face when they do is just EPIC.

Perhaps we just need to all be 4 years old again. When everything is exciting and an adventure.

As adults I think we begin to lose sight of good things as responsibilities grow to burden us.

I used to try and stop my girl jumping in muddy puddles because I didn't want her to get wet feet. Or get my car seats dirty. Now I see one and it's a shout of "PUDDLE!" The last one in loses. Who cares?! Cars can be cleaned and feet warmed up. (As long as we're on our way home. Getting wet on the way out is actually ****).
 




D

Deleted member 22389

Guest
I suppose it's both.

On the one hand it's a beautiful day, I've got a lovely family, Brighton are in the Prem, we don't live in the third world or the stone age etc etc.

On the other hand, you have to be incredibly ignorant of current affairs not to worry that .....

We're ruining our planet
There are more people with extreme views and this is impacting world politics
Global financial inequality and global warming are likely to create disruption on a level not seen since WWII
The UK is becoming a worse place to live, (on probably every metric)

I could list probably 100s of things which are going south if I had the time. Sorry, can't be happy clappy about life in 2019

Come away from the news for a couple of weeks, you will feel a lot happier. Nothing you can do about those things you list either, so why waste your energy.
 


LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield
This just brought a massive smile to my face.

My 4yo daughter loves getting on trains. So every Friday when I pick her up from school I jump on the train from BUG to HSK just so I can take her on the train home again.

She loves it. She makes us go the the station right away to just watch them go past before ours is due just to watch them...

We always wave at the drivers and the majority always give a toot as they pass. Her face when they do is just EPIC.

Perhaps we just need to all be 4 years old again. When everything is exciting and an adventure.

As adults I think we begin to lose sight of good things as responsibilities grow to burden us.

I used to try and stop my girl jumping in muddy puddles because I didn't want her to get wet feet. Or get my car seats dirty. Now I see one and it's a shout of "PUDDLE!" The last one in loses. Who cares?! Cars can be cleaned and feet warmed up. (As long as we're on our way home. Getting wet on the way out is actually ****).
That's really cool. My son was like that with buses when he was about 3. He'd memorised all the numbers and destinations so would point at every one saying "76, Meadowhead!" and so on.

The best thing was when he saw a "Sorry Not In Service" bus as he'd celebrate as if Brighton had scored a goal.

A friend of ours lived near one of the main bus depots and took him there one day. She managed to charm a driver to let the nipper sit in the driver's seat of a "Sorry Not In Service" bus...... You can imagine his little face.

Can't buy that shit.
 




Juan Albion

Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
I don't know how old you are. Trust me, nothing is any worse now that it has ever been. The 60s had openly racist MPs ('if you want a n***** for a neighbour, vote labour'), rampant sexism and corruption...by the late 70s the racism had dipped a bit but we had rampant homophobia, that liberal tosser (now 'out') smearing Peter Tatchell to get elected in Bermondsey, violent corrupt police framing the nearest mug for whatever, three day week....by the 80s we had the first wave of 'no compromise with the electorate' trotskyite tosswombles infiltrating labour, Derek Hatton, rioting, the Poll tax, the Miners' strike....in the 90s we had 'back to basics' (shagging your secretary), mortgage defaulting due to insane interest rates (Lawsonomics) and Bill Archer. By the noughties everything slowly settled down. This allowed a lot of grumpy self-entitled old etonians to agaitate about Europe, and here we are, after the moronic Cameron let the dogs out, facing Brexit. But in the great scheme of things, life has improved. People smell better. Racism is regarded as a bit weird. Even NSC is relatively pleasant. Cheer up, FFS.

Bonus point for somehow not mentioning Maggie Thatcher by name.
 


blue-shifted

Banned
Feb 20, 2004
7,645
a galaxy far far away
Come away from the news for a couple of weeks, you will feel a lot happier. Nothing you can do about those things you list either, so why waste your energy.

Surely these problems exist because everyone takes that attitude. Maybe we should all spend a bit less time trying to forget these things are happening and a bit more trying to so something about them?
 


Weststander

Well-known member
Aug 25, 2011
69,320
Withdean area
That's really cool. My son was like that with buses when he was about 3. He'd memorised all the numbers and destinations so would point at every one saying "76, Meadowhead!" and so on.

The best thing was when he saw a "Sorry Not In Service" bus as he'd celebrate as if Brighton had scored a goal.

A friend of ours lived near one of the main bus depots and took him there one day. She managed to charm a driver to let the nipper sit in the driver's seat of a "Sorry Not In Service" bus...... You can imagine his little face.

Can't buy that shit.

Is the Hillsborough bus the one with glum faces peering out and carrying a drum?
 




Weststander

Well-known member
Aug 25, 2011
69,320
Withdean area
Surely these problems exist because everyone takes that attitude. Maybe we should all spend a bit less time trying to forget these things are happening and a bit more trying to so something about them?

Only if one’s mental health can take it. The most important thing is to gain some personal contentment first, before channelling energy into saving the planet or whatever, otherwise it may well may one pretty unwell.
 




megcat

New member
Sep 6, 2012
29
Chelwood Gate
Football aside, I struggle to see anything remotely positive that's happening in the UK at the moment; education, transport, crime, the list goes on and on on...

And I've not even mentioned the 'B' word...
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten,
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle.
That's the thing.
 






This just brought a massive smile to my face.

My 4yo daughter loves getting on trains. So every Friday when I pick her up from school I jump on the train from BUG to HSK just so I can take her on the train home again.

She loves it. She makes us go the the station right away to just watch them go past before ours is due just to watch them...

We always wave at the drivers and the majority always give a toot as they pass. Her face when they do is just EPIC.

Perhaps we just need to all be 4 years old again. When everything is exciting and an adventure.

As adults I think we begin to lose sight of good things as responsibilities grow to burden us.

I used to try and stop my girl jumping in muddy puddles because I didn't want her to get wet feet. Or get my car seats dirty. Now I see one and it's a shout of "PUDDLE!" The last one in loses. Who cares?! Cars can be cleaned and feet warmed up. (As long as we're on our way home. Getting wet on the way out is actually ****).

Bless - my mum used to take me to Grove Junction in Tunbridge Wells in my pushchair to watch the trains on the HGS line, also to see trains heading off to Tunbridge Wells West and exotic far away places like LWS and EGR (you could still get there then). Still a sad train spotter at the age of 60 :)
 


Durlston

"You plonker, Rodney!"
Jul 15, 2009
10,017
Haywards Heath
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten,
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle.
That's the thing.

The lyric I like is "Your team's losing 10-0 to Barnet!" It was just after they had made it into the league in 1991 I think.

Given how bad the (latter) nineties were - on and off the pitch, whoever wrote it was clearing taking the piss. :laugh:
 




8049

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2015
342
Berkshire
Perhaps we just need to all be 4 years old again. When everything is exciting and an adventure.

Absolutely this. I remember my boy when he was 4 going out into the garden and saying "Wow, the moon!". I try to remember to have that level of enthusiasm for the amazing and wonderful things we just take for granted. Don't often succeed but that's another story.
 






Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,512
Worthing
I keep trying to inject some humour into NSC, but that seems to get overruled by arguing, tribalism and school playground pettiness.

Some posters like [MENTION=259]Jack Straw[/MENTION] seem to be comedyphobic as he clearly in incapable of laughter.

Maybe it’s just that you are not funny Stato. Just maybe.
 




Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,512
Worthing
My daughter spoke to me for the first time in eight years last week, life is better. It might be another eight years before she speaks to me again but it's a step in the right direction.

My wife called me a drunken git who makes her flesh crawl. I told her she was an vindictive bitch.

I think it’s good that after 32 years together we still manage to talk to one another.
 


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