BS: The Miseries...

Subject: BS: The Miseries...
From: Moonunit
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 05:45 PM

I have just read Raptor's thread on being sick, so I thought the excellent types here at The Mudcat would have some helpful advice/abuse/amusement on feeling dispirited...

Not that I'm in a black funk you understand - just a rather embarrassed sort of mid-beige.

I'd be interested to hear your MudWisdoms as I am sure everyone has had first hand experience of said glumpiness (a state somewhere between glum and grumpy).

Ho hum, at least there is Bedworth Folk Festival come Friday - hurrah!

Yours
M-unit x

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: dianavan
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 06:21 PM

Moonunit - Do something for someone less fortunate. That usually puts it all in perspective.

d

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Bert
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 06:22 PM

SING!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 06:30 PM

Throw a music party.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 06:33 PM

Dance round your living room butt naked, whilst listening to 'Mrs Robinson' at full blast.....oh dear, is that just me? Me and my big mouth...damn...Hope you feel better soon :0)

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 07:00 PM

Now there's a cheerful thought to ponder.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 07:19 PM

I'll go with the singing - always makes me feel better, probably at the expense of those listening sometimes!

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Peace
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 07:29 PM

OK, I am lost as of post #1. What the heck is beige?

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Amos
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 07:33 PM

Beige is a light brown color, Bruce!! If one is not in a black funk, but mildly sobered by life, the writer is saying, you could call it a beige color.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Peace
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 07:36 PM

Oh, yeah: See how many olives you can get the cat to eat, but suck those little red things out first or the creature will burp for days and crap on your rug, not necessarily in that order.

Do you want to feel more glumpiness or less? That makes a difference, because after the seventh double everything seems funny to me and I don't want to make you beiger than you are unless that's what you want.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: MBSLynne
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:31 AM

Misery loves company Jude.....I'm feeling like that too. I'll buy you a drink at the weekend if you'll buy me one.......

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:47 AM

You do know that scientists finally discovered the real colour of the Universe, don't you?

It's BEIGE.

Don't know if this knowledge helps you any, but it certainly gave me more respect for the colour.

;-D

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:50 AM

Glumpiness is my new favourite word:0)

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:10 AM

for those going through Hard Times

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Davetnova
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:50 AM

Tempus Fuckit

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 07:09 AM

Listen to a Billy Connolly tape, particularly the one where he goes on about 'wee beige jobbies', that'll do it.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 07:50 AM

I have a friend who rolls up for a laugh every saturday morning.. where?

at the local park in newtown

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Splott Man
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:47 AM

I hope you're feeling better by Bedworth.
I'm looking forward to catching your band for the first time, and I expect lustre not to be lacking.
Should I wear beige to the concert?
Perhaps we all should - it could be the new black.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Once Famous
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:53 AM

There are always so many miserable people here.

why?

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:22 AM

If "there are always so many miserable people here" Martin, have you ever considered moving house or asking your neighbours if it is you or them.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Once Famous
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:27 AM

It's not me.

I know this for a fact.

It's them.

what's sad about it all, is people have to resort to a 2-dimensional world for their solice.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:32 AM

Are they anything like sea-lice?
Giok ;~)

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:37 AM

Solace, Martin. You still don't get it. For many of us this place is 3-D. Break free and meet a few of us if you dare.

Meantime, taupe goes with everything. At least that's what the three year old grandson of an unnamed Mudcatter declared to his homophobe father after spending the afternoon with auntie trying on shoes. And it is so much more elegant than beige.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: GUEST,Charmion at work
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:43 AM

When I'm feeling beige, I tidy the house and cook something nice. The net result is a feeling of virtuous achievement supported by the delicious smell of whatever's cooking plus (of course) the comforting tidiness of the house. If that doesn't do the trick, I do a load of laundry and some ironing; then dress up and go to the movies.

Do not, under any circumstances, plop down in front of the telly or retreat to bed with a book and a box of sweeties. Keep that for when you're sick with a physical disease (i.e., like Raptor).

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Once Famous
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:58 AM

sinsull, thanks for the spelling correction.

But the 3-D thing here is not for me.

Eye to eye contact and a warm handshake are more my style, in good times or rough ones.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:12 PM

Oxygen helps. While you're singing, breathe deeply. Charmion is right about what NOT to do. Billy Connolly could certainly help. BTW -- according to NPR and the list in my morning paper, today is Billy's birthday!!!!! Hooray!!! God bless him, and many happy returns.    Tw

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Chris Green
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:31 PM

Martin - you seem to resort quite regularly to this two-dimensional world to counteract your obvious social inadequacies. But of course it's not sad when you do it, is it? It's big and clever. I await the customary invective and expletive-ridden response which will prove my point.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Chris Green
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:33 PM

BTW moonunit, hang in there! Bedworth awaits, with its atmosphere of songs and generally niceness! And after that there'll be other festivals and gigs with nice people!

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Morticia
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:30 PM

Come and claim a hug at Bedworth.......hugs help the beiges, it's a well known fact!

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:44 PM

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the beige
Watchin' the tide roll away

You're still here and Otis aint, enjoy.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:02 PM

Sit in the chat room with Oaklet and Skipjack - works wonders!

Go for a long walk, on your own (unless the company is a lunatic dog, preferably called scrappy).

Read through your collection of Giles, Alex or Celeb cartoons. If you haven't got one, you can always come and borrow mine!

See you over the w/end - which brings another thought that should bring a smile to your face - the concept of me playing traditional tunes on the plumbing! That has to be good for a laugh!

epn

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: jimmyt
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:54 PM

ALl things considered, and I know some people will argue about this, but any given morning you get up and you have much to be happy about and probably much to be sad about. You have to decide how you will let these outside influences affect you. You can be happy or you can be sad.

I have some patients that are constantly gloom and doom, and everything seems to bear down on them and keep them from ever being happy. Conversely, I have a lady with late stages of Scleraderma that is now on oxygen full time and manages to ask me what I have been reading, tell me a joke, or otherwise put a positive spin on the everyday dealings of life. She has chosen to be happy. She will soon die. By rights, she was supposed to be dead almost ten years ago, but for whatever reason, she is still alive and kicking. I can't help but think a lot of the reason is her mental outlook.

Having said this, clinical depression is another matter and I am not saying some people shouldn't seek professional advice.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: MBSLynne
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:07 PM

A warm handshake Martin!!!! You are the one who's missing out here. Big warm hugs are far preferable and certainly help the beiges. In fact...that's my prescription for the beiges...a big warm hug...or preferably lots. We'll all give you one at the weekend Moonunit!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Moonunit
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:22 PM

Cheers peeps...

Ho hum, silly me. Dare I say it, but even MG made quite a good point (thanks all for leaping to my defence anyhow)!

Strange as it may sound, I found admitting to my camel-hued oddities here on the Cat (despite the relative anonymity) an utterly awkward thing to do (nothing to do with anyone on this thread – just my own insignificant awkwardness). Just posting my thoughts up here has shamed me out of my duvet-sulk and back into the real world.

Thanks for all your beige-isms! What an utterly splendid bunch of types you are. I look forward to a huge hug-fest of a weekend. E-hugs for anyone not at Bedworth (so that'll be just about most of the universe then).

I feel a heliotrope moment coming on...

Thanks all.
M x

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 07:14 PM

For some, life is eternally beige... some are born beige, some have beigeness thrust upon them....

I prefer yellow.

A good cure for the beiges is to get some colours out and do something with them.. whether it's paint, fabric, paper, crayons or whatever... in fact, sometimes, stealing some of Limpit's colours and a page in her colouring books works wonders. It's useless, it's time consuming, it's pathetic and pointless, but hey, it keeps your brain and your hands occupied for a while, and quite often, you'll find yourself a bit happier after you've done it.

Creating something is a good way of diverting the brain, and keeping the beigeyness away.... which explains why I presently have nearly 100 Christmas cards on my dining room table to sell next week.... I've been making them all year - it has not been a particularly good one health-wise - and got myself off the anti-depressants at the same time.

Good luck with it... it will pass, even though it may not feel as if it will.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: MBSLynne
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 02:54 AM

Rainbows!!!!

I had a wierd dream a year or so ago...one of those ones that are very clear and you wake up remembering and it stays with you all day. In this dream I was shown a vision (all very religious and spiritual!) and told that rainbows were the answer and would, in the end, save the world....That was all there was to it! I've been trying to fill the house with rainbows ever since!

Love LYnne

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 03:58 AM

Turning the shower on and shining the bedside lamp through it is NOT a good way Lynne..... although it does create some interesting light effects......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: MBSLynne
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 07:38 AM

Well it's a start Liz! Every rainbow is a good one. Mind you, really to enjoy a rainbow shower like that you need to have been indulging in nefarious substances first! And have company!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 04:27 PM

Hey - that's why the lights keep blowing...

Then, of course, there's retail therapy... My (replacement) new toy arrived today... and I haven't played with the last toy I bought yet!

epn

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 04:32 PM

I'm halfway through a litre of ice cream. i'm sure i'll feel much better when i reach the bottom. :0)

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 04:37 PM

And not just any old ice cream, oh no...it's Scottish ice cream. Which means it's satisfyingly calorific. And it's got honey in it, so it tastes bumble bee-ish:0)

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Once Famous
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 10:42 PM

duelingbazookas or whatever kind of contaption you call yourself:

You take yourself and this place too seriously.

You obviously are inadequate in the real world.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Ron Davies
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 11:24 PM

So, Martin, if you don't take it seriously, why did you bother to answer?

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 02:32 PM

Freda, if you're out there, I want to hear more about this Laughing for No Reason Society! Have you been, yourself? Is it done in public, with stangers looking on? Fascinating...

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Once Famous
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 02:51 PM

Ron Davies, what the FUCK are you talking about?

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 03:16 PM

There's a society? I thought i was alone...

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Polly Squeezebox
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 04:01 PM

Hope the beigies are cured by the weekend Moonunit - but if not it could have something to do with the lack of daylight at this time of year. SAD? Seasonal Affective Disorder - try a daylight simulation lightbulb and St. John's Wort, and remember it's only four weeks until the sun starts to climb north again.

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 04:39 PM

Lynne - 42 is the answer. Happy day after Thanksgiving, all. Leftovers, yeah!

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 05:09 PM

If you REALLY weren't familiar with the word "beige", you may not know from the above that it's pronounced "BAYZH". Always happy to help.


Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: Ron Davies
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 09:41 PM

Martin--

See your own posting of 25 Nov 10:42 PM re: taking yourself way too seriously

Subject: RE: BS: The Miseries...
From: MBSLynne
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 03:57 AM

Depends on the question Sins...