The Night Thread Mk. IX

I accidentally put the oven on cook rather than grill when doing my bacon. Worst day ever.

So Hitler didn't serve in the first World War?

He wanted revenge for that.
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You must be really fun at parties.

Torri is back. I know you did not miss me.

Where have you been?

I just wasn't coming to Susie. That's it.

Boring. you could of made something interesting up!

I actually wanted to.

Did it on purpose. Thanks for coming.

One of the biggest one day races today in Italy and they've had to stop it before one of the climbs because of the snow, all the riders have to get on the team busses now go to the other side of the climb and restart the race. Taylor Phinney just posted this picture when he got to the team bus:



Fuck

Jesus Is that the Milano-something race?

Milan - San Remo, yep. The weather in the north of Italy is horrible the now, Samp v Inter in Genoa has been called off due to the risk of flash floods and our game with Torino in Turin this evening was in doubt due to the amount of snow forecast.

Yeah some of the photos posted on twitter are epic

Nice to see a footballer genuinely giving two shits about a supporter.

Trying to cram 1/3rd of my maths course in one night \o/

Need to get through another 3rd before next Monday as well. Not going to have very much in the way of fun this week. Going to buy myself something very nice if I manage to make it through this.

Really can't be arsed with work today, but I have yet another new manager to meet and greet, our forth in the space of a year.

Why so many manager changes??

Does Roman Abramovich own your shop??

I've got 2 invites to a private torrenting community if anyone wants an invite. You have to seed as much as you download and maintain a 1:1 ratio etc.

Torrent Day

Just need to let me know your email address I think.

Can I take one please? I can PM my e-mail.

Done - you will get an email from Torrent Day, might go to your junk though, mine did when I got it.

You just need to read the rules before you start downloading.

We've gone through so many managers and area managers it's crazy.

Cheers

The first on basicly ran himself into the ground, lost about £20k somehow which I don't understand as it is a profitable shop on a busy high street with a post office built in so there are always customers in spending money. The second one got the boot for diddling his stock figures and writing off his own personal losses against his pre-predecessors. The most recent was offered a different store closer to her home so she left. Now we have another woman who I can't look in the face because her lazy eye makes me crack up.

Rick, you are a horrible human being. haha.

Apparently this is a brilliant strategy. Didn't have any trouble at all with the test today. \o/

People who say 'money doesn't buy you happiness' don't understand the meaning of the word happiness. Being happy is something reserved for the blissfully ignorant. Money gives you things you think you want, but the satisfaction only lasts as long as you are stupid. One man's candlelight vigil is another man's line of cocaine. Happiness is not real. Joy is, ecstasy is, elation is. But happiness? That's something that you convince yourself is real. Nothing will ever make me happy, but knowing that makes life worth living. It allows me to not concern myself with trying to align my emotions on a perceived positive plane. It allows me to not care about the subjective consequences of my actions. It allows me to be truly free. Freedom. Freedom to live your life as you want, not weighed down by the burden of social expectation. Years of environmental learning, the belief that there are certain things we must do; get a job, earn money, get a house, get married, have children. Society teaches us to settle, to be complacent, I view happiness as complacency. It's being comfortable with what you have. It's why billionaires still work, still strive, still innovate: they refuse to be complacent, they still have an itch that tells them -- deep down -- despite all they have, they aren't happy. They have to keep working, keep trying to scratch that itch.

The next time you're in McDonalds and you see a deeply unattractive woman with four children juggling ordering food and tending to her personal zoo, remember that this person, more often than not, has convinced herself that she is happy. I'm being reductive, but it's only to emphasise the point: never settle. Never do something because that's just how things are done.Never try to modify who you are and how you feel. Your raw emotions drive you. But above all, don't hold yourself to the false bar of happiness. No one is happy, they're just exceptional liars.

When are we going to see photos of your snatch?

I agree. Happiness something you make up yourself. It's something you only ever think of if you ask yourself the question "are you happy?" and if you ask yourself that question then you're not happy. As such, I can't ever remember a time when I've thought "hey, I'm so happy right now". I can obviously remember times when I felt strong positive emotions, but those are like an adrenaline rush. I can remember the best day of my life at the end of it, I didn't think "I'm so happy and my life is so good". I thought "fuck me that was a really awesome day that just happened and I want to do it again". I feel something positive and then I chase it. I need it in my life again.

The question then becomes what do you want from life? The answer being I don't really know. It doesn't really matter. What does matter is that there's always an exit strategy. If I run out of things I want to achieve here, I can always just go somewhere else, whether that's physically like moving abroad or mentally like focusing my efforts into something else. You should never feel trapped.

Life is like a big long string of experiences. Money lets you buy more of them, for sure, but a lack of money doesn't mean you're doomed. It depends on what you value most out of life and I'm convinced that everyone can do two things. One, look back at their life and pick out a moment and say "yes, I want that moment again" and two, use their imagination and say "yes, I want to have that".

I don't know. I've had a lot on my mind recently. I love my friends but they do make my mind work. If they didn't, I wouldn't love them anymore.

Can i have one? In return i can invite you to Torrentleech.

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