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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on February 19, 2012, 05:57:44 PM

Title: Today
Post by: Mince on February 19, 2012, 05:57:44 PM
Today I realised I am bored with everything.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 19, 2012, 06:17:16 PM
Don't talk to me about boredom. I was at the Dundee United v. St. Mirren game yesterday.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Malc on February 20, 2012, 02:36:27 PM
Yesterday, Love (Street) was such an easy game to play...
Title: Re: Today
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 20, 2012, 03:00:05 PM
Now I need Palace to win away
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Mince on February 27, 2012, 11:19:00 PM
I just gave up tuition.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 27, 2012, 11:35:48 PM
But... but how you gonna learn stuff now?
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 27, 2012, 11:38:29 PM
Oh, okay, this is serious. Why? What are you going to do now? Cartooning? (That last bit wasn't serious, but the rest was.)
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Mince on February 27, 2012, 11:47:06 PM
I think I need to have a long break and go a bit mad. I don't know. I wish I knew. Hopefully with as little amateur dramatics as necessary.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 28, 2012, 12:02:16 AM
I think I need to have a long break and go a bit mad. I don't know. I wish I knew. Hopefully with as little amateur dramatics as necessary.

"And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us." The Madman His Parables and Poems By Kahlil Gibran

I have been feeling overwhelmed myself lately...but carry on this is your breakdown thread not mine.

Title: Re: Today
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 28, 2012, 12:03:27 AM
I think I need to have a long break and go a bit mad. I don't know. I wish I knew. Hopefully with as little amateur dramatics as necessary.

Well, that rules out acting then.

Good luck - you're either very brave, incredibly stupid, or both. I speak as someone who has done nothing but draw silly pictures to earn money for almost 30 years now, and who is hopelessly unqualified to do anything else if that ever stopped. I hope you don't regret it. One of your students once told me you were quite good at the job.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Mince on February 28, 2012, 12:13:55 AM
I used to enjoy tutoring. I think my students used to enjoy it because I once did. Things change. I don't feel I can give them my best, or anything close to it.

I make very little in a place I no longer wish to be, and lose my evenings because of it.

Maybe I might do it again later. Some people have told me how they would love to be able to tutor as I do. But for now I think I need to get away to somewhere so awful that the rest of my life seems good by comparison.

I'm talking crap, I know, but when you have four days off, return to tuition, and hate it within two hours, you know you have to go.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Mince on February 28, 2012, 12:34:44 AM
I might half-heartedly write half of several rather crappy self-indulgent books. Maybe I could do a daily strip so everyone knows how I am getting on.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 28, 2012, 01:00:07 AM
Maybe I could do a daily strip so everyone knows how I am getting on.

There's no need to expose yourself to that degree.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 28, 2012, 01:11:47 AM
Yes, its much too chilly for a daily half strip.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Malc on February 28, 2012, 02:33:09 AM
It's a classic scenario. We all get to a point in our lives where we think "I need a change" and it doesn't matter if we're earning big money or earning bugger all, we need a different vista.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 28, 2012, 09:14:34 AM
A big decision, Mince, but it sounds like a good one. I hope you find something.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Rob Baker on February 28, 2012, 05:29:08 PM
Keep your pecker up Mincey.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Mince on February 28, 2012, 06:23:25 PM
Keep your pecker up Mincey.

I hope that is not some kind of advice to those on the board...
Title: Re: Today
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 29, 2012, 01:42:04 PM
Take the opportunity and do something different with your life. Just out of interest, how did Peter react to the news?
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Mince on February 29, 2012, 03:20:42 PM
I hope that is not some kind of advice to those on the board...

In case that came across wrong, I was referring to the missing comma before Mincey.

It reminded me of Inspector Grim: go to 1:53 in this clip.

Inspector Grim - Best Of Part3.mp4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFZkbDWvELo#)
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 29, 2012, 03:52:57 PM
I understood - but part of giving up being a tutor is also stopping picking on our grandma - I suddenly feel so free!
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 29, 2012, 06:32:13 PM
I hope that is not some kind of advice to those on the board...

In case that came across wrong, I was referring to the missing comma before Mincey.

It reminded me of Inspector Grim: go to 1:53 in this clip.

Inspector Grim - Best Of Part3.mp4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFZkbDWvELo#)

Ah, Inspector Grim - one of the great comedy characters of the 90's, in my view, beautifully portrayed by David Haig, who had the perfect face for the part. I always looked forward to his wisdom. I knew which line you were referring to even before I watched the video (and I watched it all) - it's one of the funniest moments I can recall from any sitcom, and positively dangerous when viewed with a mouthful of beverage. Bit of a shame it was recycled to lesser effect elsewhere in the series, but a marvellous moment, none the less.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 29, 2012, 08:15:50 PM
I always found it amusing that Ben Elton wrote this. The man who, at the beginning of his career, was openly contemptuous about the likes of Benny Hill and the "old brigade" of comedy. He then came up with this pile of juvenile double entendres, mouthed by the most cliched of characters in the most cliched of formats. Some of the stuff written for the gay policeman would have been dumped by the "Carry On" team. Perhaps it was all a clever pastiche that went over my head.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Roger Kettle on March 01, 2012, 08:59:57 AM
You can tell I was a fan.
Title: Re: Today
Post by: Mince on March 01, 2012, 09:59:53 AM
You can tell I was a fan.

How? Do you occasionally spin round and cool people down? Or is it something more subtle?