Evenunk bitches!


Enter at your own peril!
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:17, 48 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

* is feeling perilous *
* enters *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:22, Reply)

i ain't scared...
much...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:23, Reply)

*Is brave*
*jumps in*


Edit - What now?
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:25, Reply)

Mwhahaha
Feel my....



...wrath
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:27, Reply)

Fear is in the subconscious
Bravery is in the conscious.

Groove is in the heart.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:29, Reply)

* feels the wrath wash over me *
* absorbs wrath and gains strength *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:29, Reply)

well i can defo feel...
yer presence!


/runs...


edit: bravery is feeling teh fear and doing it anyway!!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:29, Reply)

Don't talk to me about bravery.
I had and still suffer with panic attacks for years.

Every day was a day of bravery and gumption.

*puffs up chest*



*realises her chest doesn't need any more puffing*
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:32, Reply)

*puffs on
bgb's chest*
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:33, Reply)

has some
dutch courage.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:35, Reply)

Evening all!
I'm feeling fine! In fact, I feel bloody great!




I've gotta stop sniffing the Tipp-Ex......
(The Stig, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:37, Reply)

Bravery
AKA Braggadicio - over-rated. Causes fights and wars and other unpleasant stuff.

Gumption - commendable. Inspires inventiveness AND cleans your kitchen.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:37, Reply)

@BGB
God on ya for surviving!

As a sufferer of shyness keen to overcome my shyness, I too can relate to the "Every day was a day of bravery and gumption" thing - especially in my university-years.

* hugs *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:38, Reply)

Hey Stig
Be careful, you may tippex-out your nose.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:39, Reply)

I get my gumption from my dad's side of the family.
*Is a Northern lass*


I didn't get where I am today by hiding behind the sofa when the world seemed a big and scary place.


Instead I only converse with other people via the internet from the safety of my spare room.

Edit - Thanks Spakka.
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:40, Reply)

@Spakman
A white nose on my face......that would be quite interesting! I may get on my local golf course!

BGB

"Shy northerer"? That's a oxymoron, surely?

But you're still lovely! :O)
(The Stig, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:44, Reply)

I'm a Northern Boy
From the very scary bit of the coast.

And I hid behind the sofa for the whole of Dr. Who. And StarTrek. And Bonanza.

Now I communicate only by internet and prehensile grunts at persons I encounter externally.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:46, Reply)

@Disappointed.
'Scary bit of the coast'

Blackpool?
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:48, Reply)

@ TD
"AKA Braggadicio - over-rated. Causes fights and wars and other unpleasant stuff."

ain't nothing wrong with bravery, only what those with no control do with it. much like all of our other emotions and ting, innit?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:49, Reply)

@BGB and B69
The bit of the coast between Sellafield and Heysham - where they make nuclear subs.

(But I'm now safely domiciled in Bradford where I'm safe from everything except taxi drivers.)

Bravery - bravado - take any root you wish - is safe in the right hands but terrifying in a chav with a flicknife or a redneck in the White House.

It's ambiguity means it ought to be banned for the good of mankind.

Better to live on your knees than die on your feet? Discuss.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:59, Reply)

Well I have had some fun on my knees I must admit but still.....
She who dares wins.
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:03, Reply)

@BGB
Is that really fun for a lady?
(The Stig, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:06, Reply)

@TD
not quite as far north as me, and i'm still south of teh border!! only just!!

i would agree that bravery in the hands of the stoopid or just plain ignorant is not a good thing, foolhardy is a good word. emphasis on fool.

my line about bravery and doing it anyway is the conclusion i came to many years ago after reading "death in the afternoon" whilst lying in hospital. i guess if hemmingway was a yorkshiremen it would have been "death in't 't'afternoon"?

and never confuse bravery with being a dick!!!

please don't mistake my "confidence" for arrogance or any suchlike x
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:09, Reply)

@Stig
I'm no lady ; )
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:12, Reply)

@ Blouse
Awww, you are a lady!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:15, Reply)

@BGB
Now now! I was just asking.
(The Stig, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:15, Reply)

@B69
Hemmingway is the perfect exponent of my argument, because he'd not have been graced with his antagonistic stance had he not been ratarsed whilst he wrote most of his stuff.

He'd have been a slippery one down Lowther Street on a Saturday night!

(Guessing you're Carlisle.)
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:26, Reply)

Right!
Now I've demeaned myself for another night on the world wide web, I'm off to bed to read a good book.


Ta-ra!
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:28, Reply)

and so...
we come together!

IMHO hemmingway wrote some wonderful stuff, and birthed a few fantastic cocktails BUT wouldn't have employed him as foreign secretary or anything. aye?

and yes, Caer-Luell is bang on teh money, well done. have a star x




edit: hemmingway and oliver reed...same person?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:31, Reply)

Had on
Death in't Afternoon? Wasn't that Gore Vidal?

Hemmingway certainly wrote To t'Sea (in t' charabang).

Edit - no you're quite right. And I wasn't thinking of Gore Vidal either.

I was thinking of that book of a random killing on the praries but i'm a tad befuddled by cheap Sainsbury's wine.

I've never experienced Carlisle sober which is a rather harsh indictment.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:36, Reply)

haway gadgee!
death in t'afternoon? was it eckers like that ponce vidal, like, eh. ahll nack 'im if he shows his scrawny chufter face round herelike, eh!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:41, Reply)

Ah did
A reet quick ninja edit on tha' post, like, but norra quick as thee, marrer.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:44, Reply)

A reet quick ninja edit on tha' post, like, but norra quick as thee, marrer.
fucking good job i'm sitting down!

LOL

x
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:50, Reply)

this is just like /talk but...
with fewer arseholes! or so i have been told...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:53, Reply)

It's
A Cumbrian dialect /talk.

There could be a market...let me call my solicitor...

Just been out for a tab and a cogitate on the best novel to translate into Cumbrian.

My nomination - Under The Volcano.

"Eeh fuck luv a'hm ratted"

"Yer've bin tuppin' our kid"

"Fuck it - ah'm dooin' a few moore doon at fair."

"A'hm scrappin' wi' some polis. Ah fuck ah'm deed."
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:00, Reply)

if you ever get up this way...
fancy a pint? howard?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:03, Reply)

Much less arseholes
Mr Bin is just finishing his Little Big Planet homage to the Spectrum and then we are going to watch 'The Girl who Leapt Through Time'.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:04, Reply)

Very rarely
Used to chase trains up and drink in The Caledonian until I could'nt see straight.

But if there's anything worth doing over the S&C this year I'll bear you in mind, chief.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:07, Reply)

Pimping of post
www.b3ta.com/questions/hypocrisy/post372096
(The Stig, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:09, Reply)

was assistant manager of the cally for about a year!
mid 90's dark days indeed!!

S&C ?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:10, Reply)

You should know!
Settle and Carlisle.

I used to be a big train chasing buffoon but now I've got a life.

Sometimes, however, an atavistic gene kicks in. I was up there last year and the Cally seems to have had it's guts ripped out.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:16, Reply)

The sun also rises by Hemmingway..
..is f-ing genius, and only a little racist..

I'm accomplishing my first evening without booze for quite some time and feel manic. At the end of the first three days without weed too, for the first time in about a year. I don't anticipate sleeping well. Might go for a midnight run in the rain and try and knacker myself to sleep.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:16, Reply)

S&C
So effing obvious, soz like, eh.

missus dragging me to bed so off now, like, eh.

elvis, good luck wid da lack of weed and ting, aye!

nights all x

TD gonna gaz ya ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:20, Reply)

@EP
Yes it is and it's downstairs on my creaking shelves waiting to be re-read.

Hemmingway, Orwell, Pynchon and Sinclair Lewis are the authors that I can re-read forever and not get bored of.

Robert Stone also, but only Dogs of War and Hall of Mirrors.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:23, Reply)

Must have read it 20 times..
..highly recommend giving it a reread. When Hemmingway's on form like with that one and the short stories, he's untouchable. Not so sure about the longer, later stuff like "Farewell to arms" etc. A bit too cringingly macho without the irony of the shorter stuff. For me anyway.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:54, Reply)

Pynchon is the author of Gravity's Rainbow right?
Never got my hands on it but it gets referenced in a lot of places these days. Supposed to be inpenetrably confusing but still readable? I'm curious.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:56, Reply)

best video ever
we interrupt this literary bollocks to bring you this.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 23:05, Reply)

well crikey
it seems I'm a thread killer.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 23:50, Reply)