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[Richie irish]

Dream Catchers - Was in a house the other day & kept banging me head on these things hanging from the ceiling - they looked like wind chimes but without the chimes & inside. Now I'm 5 foot 8 standing up right (& believe me that dont happen too often these days), so fuck knows how somebody who dident stop growing when they were about 15 would have got on.
So after we came out I asked the wife "what in the name of Jesus were those things" & she replied "dream catchers" - "some new age shite from North America or Australia or somewhere" So I googled them & sure enough she was right, it seems its all about getting in touch with your inner native Americian.
Over the last few days I mentioned them to a couple of people & fuck me but everyone seemed to know all about them (including one guy who usually knows fuck all about everything), so I'm wondering why dident anyone tell me about them & how much other stuff is out there that I dont know about as well. Maybe this is how age creeps up on you & you gradually stop engaging with the world, it makes you think.
One final thought, the house we called at was on an estate that was so rough & wild when we were growing up that everyone called it the "Reservation" - suddenly it all makes sense.

[hazeyjane]

I've only ever seen dream catchers outdoors tied to the branches of trees. Knitted spiders web things with tin foil and stuff. Creeped me out a bit if I'm honest. Who collects the caught dreams and what if someone catches that dirty one about my old french teacher in the science lab.

Now for the best catcher...

[amancalledbuck]

Electric Storage Heaters.

We've got them in the new house. I had no fucking idea what they were. I've done some reading up on them and hopefully I can work the buggers out.

I better have, we've got two days of painting and decorating ahead of us.

[danny]

i had a bizarre dream this morning about tom Clarke from the enemy. He came into the pub to see me and he was really tall. He greeted me in a Scottish accent and i said how i could nt believe how he d grown and then he became a bit of a twat. I looked for him in the pub to give him some pills and could nt find him. Then the day after he was driving out all nice and sensible and apologised for not being able to get me on the guest list of any of the gigs. I have No clue at all why i dreamt that but know its was my last dream. Woke up felt tired and a bit strange all day.

[kev_mac]

danny, on 24 April 2012 - 01:11 AM, said:

i had a bizarre dream this morning about tom Clarke from the enemy. He came into the pub to see me and he was really tall. He greeted me in a Scottish accent and i said how i could nt believe how he d grown and then he became a bit of a twat. I looked for him in the pub to give him some pills and could nt find him. Then the day after he was driving out all nice and sensible and apologised for not being able to get me on the guest list of any of the gigs. I have No clue at all why i dreamt that but know its was my last dream. Woke up felt tired and a bit strange all day.

It means you're working too hard!

Take it easy: hope the pub's working out.

[Richie irish]

danny, on 24 April 2012 - 01:11 AM, said:

i had a bizarre dream this morning about tom Clarke from the enemy. He came into the pub to see me and he was really tall. He greeted me in a Scottish accent and i said how i could nt believe how he d grown and then he became a bit of a twat. I looked for him in the pub to give him some pills and could nt find him. Then the day after he was driving out all nice and sensible and apologised for not being able to get me on the guest list of any of the gigs. I have No clue at all why i dreamt that but know its was my last dream. Woke up felt tired and a bit strange all day.

Dont usually believe any of this stuff but I've been sleeping really badly these past couple of years but since last week & my experience at the house, i've been sleeping like a baby.

Going to get one for the bedroom, nah honest I mean it.

[danny]

i have bizarre dreams all the time and sleep really badly. Let me know how you get on bud

[Richie irish]

danny, on 24 April 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

i have bizarre dreams all the time and sleep really badly. Let me know how you get on bud

Will do mate, you never know

[LOVESHACK]

Smart phones, I - phone things. My phones went tits up Saturday. Just had a call from someone and the screen went mentalist. Took it to Carphoneshithouse with less than 9 months on 1 year (Sale of Goods Act) receipt. Bloke said screens are not covered. £70 to get screen replaced. Told him it only cost me £30. Fuck that. I told him I therefore wanted a substantial upgrade and he gleefully spent 20 minutes (Time is on my side - Rolling Stones) telling me about the virtues of and how cool I would be having a next generation smart phones. I nodded with appreciation then pointed to a £10 Samsung effort. He said desperately ' I thought you were after a substantial upgrade?'. Yes says I it is an upgrade from something that is totally fucked and you won't replace! I - phones cum mini PC's cum David Bailey camera cum God knows what, no thanks.

Mind you, the new effort is magic phoning folk but the thumbnail screen requires my eyeglasses to see texts. I am not fond of texts anyway.

I am going to start writing letters to friends and family. A dying art, however much appreciated by the recipients I would think.

Peace,Love and Rock'n'Roll.

BIG G

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[danny]

LOVESHACK, on 26 April 2012 - 07:40 PM, said:

Smart phones, I - phone things. My phones went tits up Saturday. Just had a call from someone and the screen went mentalist. Took it to Carphoneshithouse with less than 9 months on 1 year (Sale of Goods Act) receipt. Bloke said screens are not covered. £70 to get screen replaced. Told him it only cost me £30. Fuck that. I told him I therefore wanted a substantial upgrade and he gleefully spent 20 minutes (Time is on my side - Rolling Stones) telling me about the virtues of and how cool I would be having a next generation smart phones. I nodded with appreciation then pointed to a £10 Samsung effort. He said desperately ' I thought you were after a substantial upgrade?'. Yes says I it is an upgrade from something that is totally fucked and you won't replace! I - phones cum mini PC's cum David Bailey camera cum God knows what, no thanks.

Mind you, the new effort is magic phoning folk but the thumbnail screen requires my eyeglasses to see texts. I am not fond of texts anyway.

I am going to start writing letters to friends and family. A dying art, however much appreciated by the recipients I would think.

Peace,Love and Rock'n'Roll.

BIG G

શાંતિ

as ive been on a contract for years ive always looked forward to my upgrade. ive always only had nokias and the camera has always been a big thing for me cos im always advertising cars. it used to be a 12 month contract then 18 months and now this one im a year in to a 2 year cointract. its still a nokia but its a touch screen with a 12 megapixel camera and all sorts of shit. it does everything i need and other than phoning people i watch plenty of porn, cut people off or silence em constantly with my ear plus activate stuuf, delete stuff and generally come off the phone having to check whats happened to my settings. plus my monthly bill is fuckin ridiculously up and down. when im up for a change in a year im gonna fuck off the contract and just have an old fashioned phone.

and your absolutely right on the letter front gordon, its lovely to get a letter, a handwritten letter through the post is fantastic. ive been corresponding with my aunt in her eighties and its great.

its the future!

[wingedeelfingerling]

Richie irish, on 25 April 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

danny, on 24 April 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

i have bizarre dreams all the time and sleep really badly. Let me know how you get on bud

Will do mate, you never know

Totally with you on phone Gordon... great for making calls and the odd text but don't see the point of all the other 'functions'...as for the porn Danny I cannae get off on a 2 inch screen lol.. Letters love them but they are a dying art maybe we should convert SHACKNET into a letter writing club and go off grid?
Oh and here's what passed me by, at 55 years old I discovered that there was only one spelling for 'present' i thought the one where gave someone something was spelt 'presant'... and look i'm a man who has a degree and reads three books a week. So if we do write letters watch out for my spelling.

[robbie]

Sex!

[Richie irish]

robbie, on 27 April 2012 - 10:45 AM, said:

Sex!

ha ha Robbie, I'm feeling your pain, probably worth a forum all to itself

[Richie irish]

wingedeelfingerling, on 27 April 2012 - 07:21 AM, said:

Richie irish, on 25 April 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

danny, on 24 April 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

i have bizarre dreams all the time and sleep really badly. Let me know how you get on bud

Will do mate, you never know

Totally with you on phone Gordon... great for making calls and the odd text but don't see the point of all the other 'functions'...as for the porn Danny I cannae get off on a 2 inch screen lol.. Letters love them but they are a dying art maybe we should convert SHACKNET into a letter writing club and go off grid?
Oh and here's what passed me by, at 55 years old I discovered that there was only one spelling for 'present' i thought the one where gave someone something was spelt 'presant'... and look i'm a man who has a degree and reads three books a week. So if we do write letters watch out for my spelling.

dont get me started about phones, I have a daughter with no fewer than 5 mobiles of various kinds including i phones & blackberrys & she never has credit in any of them. Typical young ones today, all fur coat & no knickers.

[Richie irish]

Electronic books, Kindles & the like.I know I'm probably like the fella trying to plug the holes in the dyke ( ) with this one but I refuse to believe, no matter how addicted we are to vicariously living our lives through a computer screen, that carrying one of these things around is handier than sticking a paperback in your bag, or coat pocket.
I know the argument is that once bought its only a pound or two to get more books, but you can do the same in a decent second hand book shop. My theory is that Electronics book will ultimately do for reading what the multiplex cinemas did for watching films, namely choice, options & variety will be greatly reduced rather than the opposite happening.

[Jeff]

I got a signed copy of the Tim Burgess book yesterday... Can't get that on a kindle.

[hazeyjane]

Ahh the kindle. It embarrasses the hell out of me to be seen reading one in public, but it has revolutionised reading for me.

[danny]

kindle = evil

[hazeyjane]

danny, on 28 April 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

kindle = evil

Yep, a twat gadget of epic proportions.

I haven't read so much since I bought one about 12 months ago. I used to read a book cover to cover before starting the next, I now have at least 4 on rotation. Buying books is easy, click the button on amazon and it'll be on your kindle when you next start it up. Free samples, read the first 50 pages or so before buying. I dont really give a shit about the concept or aesthetics of owning books and have no loyalty to the paper making industry or chain bookshops. I rarely read books twice. The kindle is convenient and is all about the written word and it works just fine for me.

[Richie irish]

hazeyjane, on 28 April 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

danny, on 28 April 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

kindle = evil

Yep, a twat gadget of epic proportions.

I haven't read so much since I bought one about 12 months ago. I used to read a book cover to cover before starting the next, I now have at least 4 on rotation. Buying books is easy, click the button on amazon and it'll be on your kindle when you next start it up. Free samples, read the first 50 pages or so before buying. I dont really give a shit about the concept or aesthetics of owning books and have no loyalty to the paper making industry or chain bookshops. I rarely read books twice. The kindle is convenient and is all about the written word and it works just fine for me.

I'm not being a luddite just for the sake of it but I always reread the books I love & the ones I dont I recycle. Saw something in one of the papers last Sunday where some posh writer (cant remember his name) had a kindle but a lot of the obscure stuff he wanted to down load wasent there. So I could see the situation where the companies who operate these electronic books start to dictate what we read.
I never read more than one book at a time ( but I know lots of people who do), its hard enough remembering whats going on in one story without complicating matters.