Probably the best recent thing
is an old university mate inviting me down to stay with him and his fiancee in Berkshire. I am bringing him some weed and we plan to cruise around the countryside talking bollocks and laughing a lot, like we used to do. Haven't seen him in over 3 years, but always counted him as one of my greatest friends. Stood by me when I went scarily mental at uni. It's good to maintain friendships like that but I hope he's not just inviting me 'cos he feels sorry for me - it's all been done through facebook and it's blatantly obvious I have no life here.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:16, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I'm planning a similar thing for a school mate of mine.
He stuck by me when everyone else hated me, and I owe him a tremendous amount. I'm going to try to book him and his Mrs a weekend break for New Year and buy him several drinks if he should pass this way, which I hope he will.

Hang on to this one, he's worth his weight in gold :)
( Maladicta, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:19, Reply)

He is
The man's a fucking genius. He presented a radio show in his first year of uni that was listened to by an average of 5 students, but it cracked me up like nothing but Chris Morris could at the time. Lifelong communist who greets strangers with "hello doctor", "boom cheeseman", "hi slough" and infinitely more. All-round fucking cool guy who should really have got much further than teaching physics at a secondary school. Got himself a hot fiancee though.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:38, Reply)

I think it's a job requirement for physics teachers to be legends of this magnitude.
He sounds an absolute dude! I greet my colleagues with "a hoy hoy" and "pip-pip" and say "much obliged" instead of "thanks", but he's taken it to a whole new level :) I am impressed.
( Maladicta, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:41, Reply)

You'd think that...
There was a girl who was nice to me in school and quite protective, then she sided withy my ex over something and decided I was at fault. Years later when none of it mattered we bumped into each other and she said sorry and she knew I was alright after all.
SHe was keen to be all BFF but I felt we'd changed (she took drugs, I didn't, she was paranoid about everythihg, I'm not) and maybe it was nice just to catch up occasionally.
Then she tried to snog me, despite having a husband and child. I told her to get her head together.
Then she totally flipped, sent me a text saying I was a hound and that I'd ruined her family and that she was going to kill me.
I was naturally scared but her brother came round to apologise and said she had been sectioned.
I got another text saying "I got sectioned but I'm ok now my little one. It's always the little innocents who are doubted. Would you like to go on a little holiday with me?"

I declined.

Her best friend was subjected to an impromptu baptism using a washbasin the following week.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:41, Reply)

Jesus, and I thought my contemporaries were insane.
That's genuinely scary... makes Stalker Girl look almost fluffeh.
( Maladicta, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:46, Reply)

Haha Mal I've edited too!
She phoned me going "OH WE WILL MEET, YOU DEVIL!" and text "Enjoy your knightmares". I was tempted to say "The 1980s adventure programme?" but I didn't. God help her like. Too many drugs and mental illness don't mix well.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:48, Reply)

OK... she actually terrifies me.
To just be able to flip like that, it's really unsettling when you see it happen but this is on a much larger scale than I've ever experienced myself.
( Maladicta, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:53, Reply)

There was a rumour she'd flipped once at school
Her aunty had to rescue her from a mad religious place.
Her family are very religious. I think it all mixed together and sent her bonkers.
She was dead hard, which was one of the reasons I was grateful for her protection at school, ha.
Next time, take your beating and go it alone, it will bite you on your arse years later!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:55, Reply)

And people wonder why I don't believe in organised religion.
I seriously think it's responsible for fucking more people up than drugs and 4chan combined.
( Maladicta, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 20:58, Reply)

I dunno
My nana's catholic but she doesn't take every word seriously and she can laugh at the campness. I was allowed to go off my own way, but respected my older family members' belief in funny statues. In fact it's documented on here that I'm not religious but that St Jude is my homeboy.
Christenings and weddings are family gatherings I enjoy, while not fully participating.
It's when people put it before logic and kindness and health that it gets scary.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 21:02, Reply)

My mother was raised Catholic
and as a result has a pathological dislike/fear of nuns (she nearly shat it when she came to see me in Italy as there's a huge convent in Siena) so she raised me with no real religious leanings to speak of. I've seen the whole gamut of religious reactions, from diehard Scientologists to my nan, who is staunch Irish Catholic and am glad I'm not in any of it.
( Maladicta, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 21:06, Reply)

yeah, it's the diehard and the staunch you've got to watch
They're mean to kids.
People who just get on with it can do what they like.
I salute and whistle when I see a lone magpie...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 21:08, Reply)

As long as they don't insist I think the same way
people can do what they wish as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. I hate having people's opinions forced on me in any context but especially religious!
( Maladicta, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 21:25, Reply)