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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
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Jul 21, 2014 02:18AM
And being sociable, even if it's not your natural tendency, eats into your souls far less than loneliness.
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Whilst some people enjoy being solitary, people forget that being solitary isn't the same as being lonely. Loneliness can rot you from the inside
Oh, I can enjoy being solitary. I am at the moment. But I don't feel lonely. That's a destructive state.
Yes, I tend to walk by myself. There was an article in the paper a week or so back about people who had to sit quietly without their phones or anything for fifteen minutes.It was a bare room with nothing to do but think. I'd have thought that was almost a luxury, but some people were giving themselves electric shocks out of boredom!
I'm commonly alone for hours, sometimes days.And terribly grateful for it. Isn't it sad that some people are unable to live inside their own heads?
I like my own company :)
I enjoy my own company, which is good because I am having a lot of it at the moment. But it would be a lot harder if I didn't have loads of friends I can chat to on the internet.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "I enjoy my own company, which is good because I am having a lot of it at the moment. But it would be a lot harder if I didn't have loads of friends I can chat to on the internet."This can make a difference, but only if there are 'real' friends as opposed to 'virtual' friends out there
I have real friends, virtual friends who have become real friends, and virtual friends who remain virtual.The trick is to remember who is who...
Oh I know what you mean, and some of the virtual friends who become real friends stay 'real' even when you don't see them for years
You mean other people are actually real?
No Tim, and the last meat-up was a group hallucination...
Thats why you didn't make it Will!
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "No Tim, and the last meat-up was a group hallucination..."I'm vegetarian, hence couldn't make it
If ever there was a virtual place, Biggleswade must be it. Not on my Tube map ergo it doesn't exist
Marc wrote: "If ever there was a virtual place, Biggleswade must be it. Not on my Tube map ergo it doesn't exist"You get there from King's Cross. Platform 10 and 4/5ths
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Marc wrote: "If ever there was a virtual place, Biggleswade must be it. Not on my Tube map ergo it doesn't exist"You get there from King's Cross. Platform 10 and 4/5ths"
That's probably a literary reference isn't it?
Next time it's gonna be a bacon-up.There will be cheese for the wimps.
The vegans can go pull grass from the common.
I'm not really a vegetarian, though I cook veggie
I shall bring a special sauce for the baconators, and you'll all regret it later
Are you going to ask Jim for some of those lichens?
Jim, don't let Will near the cesspit, please.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Marc wrote: "If ever there was a virtual place, Biggleswade must be it. Not on my Tube map ergo it doesn't exist"You get there from King's Cross. Platform 10 and 4/5ths"
It was called platform 9 and a half in our house long before JKR.
M.T. wrote: "Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Marc wrote: "If ever there was a virtual place, Biggleswade must be it. Not on my Tube map ergo it doesn't exist"You get there from King's Cross. Platfor..."
I guessed right then...
Ah, I see you've all dropped in on my thread for some solitary time, a little bit of peace in this spiritual Oasis.Perhaps it is time to pass among you with a collecting plate and a professional strangler.
Jim wrote: "Ah, I see you've all dropped in on my thread for some solitary time, a little bit of peace in this spiritual Oasis.Perhaps it is time to pass among you with a collecting plate and a professional s..."
here's three kopecks
I have a zloty, 350 yen and a couple of pesetas...
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "I have a zloty, 350 yen and a couple of pesetas..."I think you've had it with the pesetas
I have a thruppenny bit I found down the side of the sofa too.
Seems like it'll be a nightmare to calculate the tax due on that lot!
Will can do it for you.
Just wondering whether I might not be better of just weighing it all in for scrap?
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Will can do it for you."I'm just calculating my fee in zloty s
I've got some Icelandic Krona somewhere
Jim wrote: "I've got some Icelandic Krona somewhere"uh-oh, prepare for another banking crisis then...
I've got a couple of wooden nickels.Truth.
Mine are the pre-revaluation aluminum ones, they float on water :-)
I was going to tell you how much the fee was in Zlotys, but the zero key on the computer self destructed.
Will wrote: "I was going to tell you how much the fee was in Zlotys, but the zero key on the computer self destructed."You should a put another coin in the zlot!
I only have K'Barthan zloty but I have quite a lot of them. :-)Cheers
MTM
Or should that be, I have quite a Zlot of them.
No, it really shouldn't!
At least you don't have a lot of Zlits.
I've actually sold 11 books since Amazon reduced the prices.Interestingly from what I can make out, there was no effect whatsoever when I announced it on the Amazon 'MOA' forums
I made some sales when I announced it on here (but I suspect you all know about them anyway)
Most sales seem to have come from facebook
I need to reblog your blog post on Gumbees and if Will's around and has done a post about the Showing, I'll see if I can do that as well. Cheers
MTM
I think the MOA is moribund now.No one is directed there from Amazon: I think they have abandoned the experiment of the customer forum entirely
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