DIY fashion can be pretty sharp, but since I'm talking to the anti-fashionistas I guess I'm not changing anyone's mind.
DIY fashion can be pretty sharp, but since I'm talking to the anti-fashionistas I guess I'm not changing anyone's mind.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
Tip 82: never take a seemingly good samaritan for a friend until they've proven that they really are, and even then, watch out for those with an easiness to switch sides. In other words, distrust your own shadow and always be prepared to engage in combat
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Tip 83: Every once in a while, take your laptop or computer monitor and turn it so the screen faces away from you, and all you see are the connecting wires and blinking lights. Then go about your business.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
Tip 84 Never buy DIY tools for someone as a gift
I have enough and only out of necessity. Buy me a Vacheron Constantin watch or maybe a Breguet or even a Patek Philippe. And throw in box of Monte Cristo cigars. Also....hold on..thinking...
Well in my defence it wasn't just any old cookbook, it was River Cottage Everyday by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall! Great book.Originally Posted by Paulclem
You bought him a cookbook?
Now I understand that we men don't get what we really want for Christmas from those who are not in the know - games consoles - games - masses of books - DVD Boxsets of things like band of brothers - family games that include electric shocks for the losers - shorts - tracksuits - bikes - etc etc
but you - a fellow man get him a cookbook????!!!
- I jest of course...
True. I just didn't want to appear too lazy; I don't want to give off the wrong impression of myself!
This one may make sense only to the english here but
Tip 85: Don't watch Peep Show before a night out...
You will spend the entire time awkwardly talking in your head like Mark
Tip 86; Always remember Alexander 111's dictum re LitNet:
And so do not think of this as a dark oak room full of super serious men in top hats and tail coats. Rather think of this forum as a nice golden farm, full of hillbillies playing songs and discussing Noam Chomsky
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Tip 87: tuck tail.
Tip 88: Watch an episode of Northern Exposure every now and then. It'll re-charge your spiritual batteries.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
I love that show!
Tip 89-Spring clean your house once a year. It's a pain in the b***, but well worth it. Your house will feel all shiny and new again.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
I've just done mine at the request of my landlord - but I couldn't spring clean him away (or even shiny and new) - so I'm stuck with the same old-...
90 - Invest in a smart phone that you can play games on - it may only be asteroids, and only a game, but there's a distinct feeling of accomplishment when you reach THE HIGHEST SCORE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!
Tip 91: know and accept that the only people to be kept in your life are the people that keep you in theirs.
I think this needs a slight adjustment before it's sufficiently honed to make it into the soon-to-be compiled LitNet Guide to Life. I've had a bit of a shot at editing it...
Tip 89-Spring clean your house once a year. It's a pain in the b***, but well worth it. Your house will feel all shiny and new again. Unless of course you invested a huge amount of time and money finding and buying a house that was neither shiny nor new, because shiny, new houses tend to be characterless and, more to the point, badly-designed, and anyway, although you don't mind a certain amount of non-obsessive cleanliness which is not at all the same thing as shininess and newness, you have a thing for Edwardian and Victorian domestic architecture, which, obviously, is anything but new and if it's shiny that'll only be because you've over-polished the original brass door-handles which somehow, thank God, survived the Sixties' and Seventies' fashion for wholesale desecration of turn-of-the-century houses, which was an attempt, broadly-speaking, to make them feel all shiny and new again.
It might need a light-touch line-edit, just to really sharpen up the pithiness, but I think my almost imperceptible modification adds something...
Last edited by MarkBastable; 09-13-2011 at 02:51 AM.
So if both parties were to take that advice, which party should start the keeping first?
"What's going on? You're not keeping me in your life!"
"Well, you're not keeping me in your life. I only keep in my life the people that keep me in theirs."
"Well, excuse me - but I only keep in my life the people who keep me in theirs."
"I think you'll find that I was only keeping in my life the people who keep me in theirs way before you were. So you have to keep me in your life before I'll even consider keeping you in mine."
"So - you saying you won't keep me in your life unless I keep you in my life first? I don't think so! You just better start keeping me in your life right now!"
..and so on.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 09-13-2011 at 03:05 AM.
You're on form tonight Mark. You'll have to moderate those performance enhancing drugs...
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