Well done Gnome............ How true is that? There are a few of those getting around and I like them. They are a good reminder for us. Be thankful !! I cried because I had no shoes, Then I met a man who had no feet. Personally I like no.21 I'm just going through my wardrobe now looking for my lingerie............. :) With my luck the bloody candles will burn the house down...........oh well...........back to the wardrobe!

Only if you are open minded and cynical enough to recognise it for the scmaltz that it is.

I read this "offering" a few years ago and put in the same category as Readers' Digest tripe and American evangelical clap-trap.

Observing what actually happens to so many people in real life, as opposed to the lives of the well-to-do working and middle classes of countries such as ours, it comes across as first class pseudo christian hypocrisy.

No guilt trip, but have a look at what the Salvation Army, the Police and the Emergency Services, amongst others, deal with every day.

No, it is not a good life for a greater part of the population around the world, many of whom have no possibility for escape from their difficult existences.

Consider yourselves extremely lucky that the Global Economic Downturn did little more than cause you to defer spending on non-essentials for a year or two.




-- Edited by Rolly on Thursday 12th of November 2009 11:14:37 AM

And the Rolly's reply can be read on the Telepathy site LOL LOL



Damn...........now I have to edit mine too................LOL

-- Edited by Disco Duck on Thursday 12th of November 2009 11:20:13 AM

DD, you caught me in the middle of a fumble-fingered attempt at editing out the real angst and ire that I feel when I read this kind of rubbish.

Mustn't upset people, you know.

LOL     Yeah...............I knew what you were doing and I had to type really quick to try and beat but I missed it by THAT much    :)  :)

cynical pair of twerps, I like reading this "dribble" it gives me a small "lift" I remember little bits of it and they often come out at the strangest of places at later times I also like 21 only because when we were first married and earning a good income with long term "prospects" I cleared up my mothers debt at the local four square store, it was only $150 or so, not a lot but the store credit is a trap, once you "book up" then when next fortnight comes along you must pay last fortnights account thus leaving no money for this fortnight, we've all been there I also left a big brown plastic Teddy bear on the fridge, I would put all my pay in there bar what we needed for our travels, I told mum to use what she wanted to get what she wanted, first time I ever seen mum in a new dress, dad worked on the council as a grader operator and money was tight, I was a heavy plant operator in the mines earning 5 times what they were anyway at the same time we bought mum a huge set of various glass things in a big box, simply because mum was old school, nothing went to waste and we used Vegemite jars as glasses as well as mismatched bowls for desert and none matched, all the other glasses were higgledy piggledy so we bought this huge set and gave it to her, when mum died, some 20 years later we found this bloody set, still in its original blue box under the bed untouched, she hadn't used it, still kept all the old non matching glasses, she told the sisters it was "too good to use" I agree with don't keep anything for best, use it now because you never know!

It is because we do live in a lucky part of the world and we have good lives that we are able to read posts like the Gnomes. So I think we should be thankful and every now and again be reminded ...............wether it is by looking around or reading a post.............of just how lucky we are!!

Dave dont knock the vegimite jars ive still got several & still use them I recon they are still dam good glases. Cheers

Disco Duck wrote:

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Well done Gnome............

How true is that? There are a few of those getting around and I like them. They are a good reminder for us. Be thankful !!

I cried because I had no shoes,
Then I met a man who had no feet.


Personally I like no.21 I'm just going through my wardrobe now looking for my lingerie............. :) With my luck the bloody candles will burn the house down...........oh well...........back to the wardrobe!

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Funny that you mentioned that you wear lingerie, Dave06 has always said how sexy you looked in that little Pink lace TEDDY with the frills. Was his favorite. Please post photo on this site, as we only have his word for that...........  you sexy devil.

 

-- Edited by biggles on Thursday 12th of November 2009 01:09:32 PM

oh please dont mention ducky in that Teddy, I have to have the steering wheel in close to my stomach just to keep ahead of the game, the mere mention of that thing makes it very awkward to steer, oh Damn, too late, it's like running a stick into a wagon wheel! Ducky in a Teddy, sounds like a creepy game that an old pervert would play with some kids toys!

I take those lists as a reminder of how lucky I am. Some days I feel quite grey, but then I see someone much worse off than I, and when my guilt subsides for feeling down, my gratitude returns. I have no right to feel "grey". This is my favourite line our of all those lines - "Don't compare your life to others.You have no idea what their journey is all about."

No.24 is hubris!!!

I agree Basil to achieve orgasm with that device would be very difficult indeed, not to mention a bit yucky! debe youre right we also have a few kfc glasses that dont match but I prefer to use the good ones if we have them, it's just that set stuck in my mind stuck under the bed for so long and using ratty ones instead

I think No. 24 is all in the mind. A bit like oral sex - "Just talking about it".

LOL Biggles.................. I'll post the photos when Basil posts the pics of him doing star jumps in lycra wearing one of his incontinence pads Mind you DaveO IS right........................I do look sexy in that little number.

My old man told me his favorite saying when I was a little kid, have never forgotten it.. "the wishbone will never replace the backbone"

Hi Disco will a Borat Mankini do? Ive got one its great at partys, Local copper told me not to wear it at the beach or he would arest me for insufficient suport!!!!

Yeah DeBe..................hehehehe with my build it would be perfect. LOL Lack of support?? I would get done for overloading ................in all the wrong places. Is you local copper still Stu Paxton??

I agree that it is a bit "schmaltzy" (we can thank the Yiddish language for that word), given that she is in fact 53 years old, not 90!

Heres a cut and paste from her column....

Regina Brett's 45 life lessons and 5 to grow on

By Regina Brett

May 28, 2006, 10:13AM

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.

It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolls over to 50 this week, so here's an update:

etc, etc.....

 

go to http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2006/05/regina_bretts_45_life_lessons.html

Good morning Disco, Stu Paxton went to Liegh Creek quite sometime ago & has shifted again posibly Roxby, he seems to like it up north. He still comes back ocasionaly got a house at Stansbury.

Okay.......thanks DeBe. I'll look around when I'm next up that way. That won't be till next year. Have a good one!! Cheers DD