What makes you 'sad'?

[Kate!]

I'm not talking emotionally sad. I mean 'sad' in a social sense, if you get me.

I'm currently watching an old episode of Some Mothers Do Have 'Em with Michael Crawford as Frank Spencer, and it's quite amusing. Now that's more than a little 'sad' but hey ho.

What makes you 'sad' or are you not at all?

[Swan]

I collect VHS tapes and do my best at weekends to relive those times going to the video shop, renting a film, and buying popcorn and sweets to munch on while watching. It's a huge comfort. It's sad, but i like it, so meh. Is what it is :laugh:

[Kate!]

I collect VHS tapes and do my best at weekends to relive those times going to the video shop, renting a film, and buying popcorn and sweets to munch on while watching. It's a huge comfort. It's sad, but i like it, so meh. Is what it is :laugh:

Aah, I think that's so lovely and nostalgic though. You indulge, it's one of life's little pleasures. :love:

[Swan]

Aah, I think that's so lovely and nostalgic though. You indulge, it's one of life's little pleasures. :love:

In a silly way, watching a VHS on an old CRT really does take you back to those (usually) unappreciated little moments. But i just love VHS, love collecting old tapes/artwork. There's a few of us out there, not many, but a few :laugh:

[Kate!]

In a silly way, watching a VHS on an old CRT really does take you back to those (usually) unappreciated little moments. But i just love VHS, love collecting old tapes/artwork. There's a few of us out there, not many, but a few :laugh:

What's your fave films you have on VHS? Or is it too hard to narrow down?

[Swan]

What's your fave films you have on VHS? Or is it too hard to narrow down?

Halloween, ANOES, Friday tbh

[The Slim Reaper]

bots calling me a terrorist

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[The Slim Reaper]

In a silly way, watching a VHS on an old CRT really does take you back to those (usually) unappreciated little moments. But i just love VHS, love collecting old tapes/artwork. There's a few of us out there, not many, but a few :laugh:

That's actually pretty cool.

[Dogeatdog]

It’s sound daft but I find it really difficult to throw teddys away. I look at them and just feel so guilty when I go to chuck them in the bin that I actually decide to give them to a charity instead because I feel like I’ve managed to give them a second chance :laugh:.

Earlier this morning my mum had this tiny little sausage dog ornament plant that she got from the pound shop but decided she no longer wanted it. She left it by the bin and I looked at it and it’s little smile that looked back at me made me feel so guilty that I decided to take it to work and leave it as a little ornament for the office.

Everyone in work has asked where the sausage dog has come from and I haven’t told them it was me that brought it in yet. I’m gonna keep the mystery going for a while :laugh:

[Dogeatdog]

I hope that’s the kind of sad you’re referring to cos otherwise I’ve made myself look a right tit lol.

[The Slim Reaper]

Anyone else think that Ded has made himself look like a right tit? :smug:

[Parmy]

Could be anything if im caught off guard.

[Jordan.]

It’s sound daft but I find it really difficult to throw teddys away. I look at them and just feel so guilty when I go to chuck them in the bin that I actually decide to give them to a charity instead because I feel like I’ve managed to give them a second chance :laugh:.

Earlier this morning my mum had this tiny little sausage dog ornament plant that she got from the pound shop but decided she no longer wanted it. She left it by the bin and I looked at it and it’s little smile that looked back at me made me feel so guilty that I decided to take it to work and leave it as a little ornament for the office.

Everyone in work has asked where the sausage dog has come from and I haven’t told them it was me that brought it in yet. I’m gonna keep the mystery going for a while :laugh:

I've also felt guilt at accidentally throwing a favourite childhood teddy away, like it was a sentient being that would be feeling betrayed :skull:

[GoldHeart]

I don't think it's sad keeping old teddy bears , it's your childhood and has memories surely? . If it gets to the point where your house & rooms are so full of cuddly toys,it resembles an amusement arcade or nursery....then maybe you might have to part with a few .

But that's more to do with if it becomes a inconvenience to keep them all ....ie taking up too much space or something, guess it depends on how much room you have :shrug: .

[Mystic Mock]

Where do I start?:joker:

- My love of Birmingham City Football Club

- My love of Crisps.

- My love of Pizza

- My recent love of Music

- My obsession with any competition based Reality TV Show

- My love of Video Games of the past

- My addiction to YouTube

That's about it, I am not the coolest person in the world.:joker:

[Kate!]

Where do I start?:joker:

- My love of Birmingham City Football Club

- My love of Crisps.

- My love of Pizza

- My recent love of Music

- My obsession with any competition based Reality TV Show

- My love of Video Games of the past

- My addiction to YouTube

That's about it, I am not the coolest person in the world.:joker:

We like you just the way you are.

[Benjamin]

I run forum games. Well I used to. But I’d spends hours making each task, video etc for them :laugh:

[Mystic Mock]

We like you just the way you are.

Thanks Kate.:)

I think that having hobbies and interests are a good thing in general, but I probably should calm down on one or two of them.:joker:

[Ammi]

I collect VHS tapes and do my best at weekends to relive those times going to the video shop, renting a film, and buying popcorn and sweets to munch on while watching. It's a huge comfort. It's sad, but i like it, so meh. Is what it is :laugh:

….:love:…I don’t think that’s a ‘sad’ thing to do at all…your week days are obviously filled with the here and now of working and earning and far removed from ‘nostalgia’….so to contrast that a bit, your collection draws you toward that time and those feelings of no responsibility and just complete chilling in a way that we don’t do so much as adults…?…childhood and adulthood are like two complete separate times in our lives, aren’t they…and you’re combining and uniting them both for a feel good and that makes complete sense…happy VHS watching…:love:…

[Ammi]

It’s sound daft but I find it really difficult to throw teddys away. I look at them and just feel so guilty when I go to chuck them in the bin that I actually decide to give them to a charity instead because I feel like I’ve managed to give them a second chance :laugh:.

Earlier this morning my mum had this tiny little sausage dog ornament plant that she got from the pound shop but decided she no longer wanted it. She left it by the bin and I looked at it and it’s little smile that looked back at me made me feel so guilty that I decided to take it to work and leave it as a little ornament for the office.

Everyone in work has asked where the sausage dog has come from and I haven’t told them it was me that brought it in yet. I’m gonna keep the mystery going for a while :laugh:

I've also felt guilt at accidentally throwing a favourite childhood teddy away, like it was a sentient being that would be feeling betrayed :skull:

…teddys and ‘security blanket’ toys are like an attachment to a parent or loved one like a family pet…so it feels a bit like a rejection to throw away something so loved and so meaningful…recycling to charity and then hopefully that teddy will find its way to a new owner who it can continue its journey of comfort with is a great way…it’s like a cuddle rehoming centre…:love:…

[Zizu]

Learning that there are apparently currently just 500 ice cream vans registered in England when ten years ago there were 15,000

[Parmy]

Seeing dead baby animals.

[Benjamin]

Seeing dead baby animals.

And those adverts about animal cruelty.

[Niamh.]

I don't think that's the kind of sad Kate means btw

[Benjamin]

I don't think that's the kind of sad Kate means btw

Being corrected by a Grandma makes me sad.

[GoldHeart]

And those adverts about animal cruelty.

Awful hearing that baby bear crying ,as it's taken away from it's mother .

[Niamh.]

Being corrected by a Grandma makes me sad.You didnt need my help to make you sad :hehe:

[Zizu]

And those adverts about animal cruelty.


Pressuring us to make a monthly donation or a simple contribution !!


One of the current ones is asking for £39. !!


WTF

[thesheriff443]

Learning that there are apparently currently just 500 ice cream vans registered in England when ten years ago there were 15,000

Not surprised, absolute rip off for powdered milk

[Zizu]

Not surprised, absolute rip off for powdered milk


Gotta love Mr Whippy ice cream

[Alf]

Seeing my beautiful homeland turn into a third World sh!thole.

[thesheriff443]

Seeing my beautiful homeland turn into a third World sh!thole.

What have you actually added to it

[Alf]

What have you actually added to itWhat is it you're looking for me to add to it? What's the bar you've set? What is it you want me to have done?

Let us know, and I'll tell you if I've done it.

[Redway]

Seeing my beautiful homeland turn into a third World sh!thole.

And this is why I have you on ignore. I know we all come from different worlds (some totally alien to the likes of Zizu) and have vastly differing experiences but this is pure xenophobia and you know it. And I’m not the sort of person who has anything to possibly gain from pulling the xenophobia-card. None of the surrounding politics affect me directly. But what have you done for this nation that’s so great that it gives you the right to look down on less economically developed nations with such disdain when your forefathers refused to leave these other countries alone, in the name of slavery and colonialism? What gives you the existential high-ground over Indians?

[Mystic Mock]

I would like to see the TV scene be dominated by Cable and Network TV again.

Rewatching Falling Skies has really reminded me how much better that type of TV was in general.

[Mystic Mock]

Seeing my beautiful homeland turn into a third World sh!thole.

On the immigrant front I'm praying for more Korean and Japanese women to come over.:fc:

Tbh, Asian women full stop.:joker:

[Zizu]

On the immigrant front I'm praying for more Korean and Japanese women to come over.:fc:

Tbh, Asian women full stop.:joker:


Good luck with that [emoji3]

We just seem to get hundred of young men of fighting age dropping on our shores each day

[Mystic Mock]

Good luck with that [emoji3]

We just seem to get hundred of young men of fighting age dropping on our shores each day

We might need them if a Falling Skies style Alien Apocalypse were to happen.:laugh:

[Zizu]

Now I hate politics snd politicians so I don’t watch political shows .


So I was so disappointed for see these two on my tv screen after seeing them so often ( doing nothing) during the covid years

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[Redway]

The fact that people use the de-valuing, de-humanising, turn-a-blind-eye-to-rape-and-pillaging-and-enslaving-and-colonialism concept of Anglo-Saxon white supremacy to refer to other parts of the world that white people certainly don’t have monopoly over (Europeans grew out of Africans, not the other way around) as third-world, and the fact that the moderators do nothing but inevitably delete and sweep under the carpet anything that questions or challenges anything (even coded racism/xenephobia) in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable rather than confronting the bias and the actual elephant in the room. And we wonder why so many people have packed this place in for Discord. I don’t blame them. Individual Discord-groups can get cliquey and equally toxic, sure, but that can happen anywhere. People aren’t wrong to kick the towel in and get fed up of this site, a site where discrimination goes unchecked every day. A forum where this comment is more likely (and almost inevitable to be) to be deleted than the actual offending post(s). Do better.

You don’t need to travel to Lagos for detty December, learn to fry plantain (and distinguish between it and banana in the first place)/speak Gullah or even be non-white (or at-least Mediterranean) to call out blatant racism and demand for better. How many times have various people pointed this out over the years and why are we still tolerating the indefensible? It wouldn’t be acceptable to explicitly and unmistakably refer to women, Jews or LGBT-spectrum people as third-class citizens, so why is the nationalistic equivalent allowed and allowed to roam unchecked? But still, why be fair when you can just endlessly delete and draw a line under posts?

Anyway, that’s my own. That’s my own contribution towards what saddens me. I’ll not say more at this moment. But Alf? Ah, may the Lord have mercy on you.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Drug abuse :sad:

[Redway]

Drug abuse :sad:

I agree. Watching people drink themselves silly every weekend is very sad to watch. And don’t say alcohol isn’t a drug, because in some departments it’s second only to heroin in terms of worldwide destructiveness. It just happens to be culturally embedded and socially sanctioned. It’s a widespread poison that society just happened to agree on as the default vice of choice. Ingrained cultural hypocrisy doesn’t stop delirium tremens, liver-disease, car-accidents, alcoholic psychosis, violence/domestic abuse, brain-damage, gutter-lowering addiction, rape and blurred lines in consent and the fact that it’s a group-one carcinogen that has more potential health-and-criminal complications than most drugs put together. It just-so happens that the subtlety does not exist in the UK. Hypocritical, overly-alcohol-forward culture is so in-your-face.

Either way, I’ve never been what you’re alluding to, at any point. That notion is exaggerated in your mind, and in the mind of anyone-else who thinks that. I know it’s been a running gag that’s supposed to have been funny in some hushed but antagonistic corners but it’s getting old, and it’s never reflected my reality. It’s a misprojection that just happens to be what some people want to believe is true. But the flash-alert is that it’s really not. It never was, no matter how many times you make it a running gag whenever I touch a nerve that wasn’t even intended to be touched (at-least not just you). You weren’t being singled out when I made that initial post about the implicit racism in how some people use the unfortunate term “third-world”. But you recognised yourself in it and took umbrage. That’s not my problem. I have no control over that. Just don’t go making me out as some chronic stoner or out-and-out junkie just because I’ve talked about weed and medicinal whatever a few times and happen to be anti-over-glamorisation-of-alcohol (your favourite voice, however you choose to spell it) culture. You’d be shocked at how I actually live my life. I’m saying that explicitly once-and-for-all instead of letting unspoken allusions and mis-projections of whatever false (or at the least grotesquely exaggerated) side-narrative has built up around me over the past couple of years that some people seem to want to believe and point out just for the sake of it.

Deflection based on out-of-context stereotypes from individual comments made years ago that have selectively stuck whenever someone triggers another by pointing out bias that they’d rather not confront and wasn’t even written with them at the forefront of their minds is pretty sad, too. It’s easy to just infer that someone’s a junkie based on nothing tangible or real in the past as well as present than confront your own bias.
But yeah. Alcohol just makes people talk a lot, right?

[Maru]

I collect VHS tapes and do my best at weekends to relive those times going to the video shop, renting a film, and buying popcorn and sweets to munch on while watching. It's a huge comfort. It's sad, but i like it, so meh. Is what it is :laugh:

I am in a CRT group just so I can watch people try to prepare/maintain them. I don't have the space but regret leaving behind my Toshiba in Maryland. It was a very nice set and didn't take up much space for simple things like watching older shows or old games.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Agreed it makes people insufferably verbose 🙁