Miniminch's Christmas message 2005

[StarSparkle 10]

Yet again I salute you, Mini - with sadness in my heart on this occasion.

 

You are bang on the money.

 

The Spirit of Christmas appears to be dead. Long live capitalism and sheer greed :gag:

 

It wasn't like this when I was a child, was it? I really don't think so. What has happened to the world?

 

All these sad, grim, unhappy looking faces everywhere - people pushing and shoving each other - grabbing things. Mammon gone wild. Where is the goodwill to all men? Where is the joy?

 

It's so sad I used to love Christmas.

 

StarSparkle

[saxon51 10]

:cry:

Thanks for ruining my Christmas mini!

[retep 68]

My advice to mini Gerra life, or see your doctor about coming off the anti depressants.

[TeaFan 10]

If everyone were given a heroic dose of acid at xmas, they would see it all for the sham that it is.

[HappyHoosier 10]

Where's the punch line, dammit?

 

 

Oh, this was serious? Sorry. I agree with your spot-on observations and insightful musings. Indeed, Henry David Thoreau, an early 19th Century Transcendentalist who left society to find himself in the wilds of Walden Pond, said,

 

Men have become the tools of their tools.

 

Still, in many instances, we don't have to indulge in commercialism, technology or conspicuous consumerism -- we can be civilly disobedient, as Thoreau prescribed. Embrace simplicity! Forsake technology whenever possible! Walk instead of drive! Seek solace in nature!

 

And, one more fitting quote from Thoreau:

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

 

 

Are you sure there's not a punch line?

[Little_Alex 10]

Bad trip man. Have you tried Prozac ? I hear it works

[Preacher Man 10]

how about a forum camping weekend? we could escape into the peaks and take acid..

[Duffer 10]

No thanks, id rather finish my easy day at work where ive had a laugh with my mates and just chatted and then go to the pub where ill meet up with some friends and get drunk because its what i enjoy doing.. maybe eat a kebab and then go to sleep in my comfy double bed and sleep it off. For xmas ill be with my family and although theyre not perfect theyre ok and i certainly wont be wishing i was sat in a forest waiting for someone to invent fire so i can stop freezing my ba**s off!!

 

I think its whether your in a positive frame of mind or not but today i am and life is pretty good mate

[miniminch 10]

Originally posted by Duffer

No thanks, id rather finish my easy day at work where ive had a laugh with my mates and just chatted and then go to the pub where ill meet up with some friends and get drunk because its what i enjoy doing.. maybe eat a kebab and then go to sleep in my comfy double bed and sleep it off. For xmas ill be with my family and although theyre not perfect theyre ok and i certainly wont be wishing i was sat in a forest waiting for someone to invent fire so i can stop freezing my ba**s off!!

 

I think its whether your in a positive frame of mind or not but today i am and life is pretty good mate

My God, Hell is another man's heaven:(

[miniminch 10]

What was I thinking? You are so right. I do not know why I bother looking for other worlds and experiences other than the one we are forced to endure. I will stop moaning because you have made me realized that life is not about the pursuit of collective betterment. It’s actually about working in your spiritless, meaningless job for little pay. Watching the clock every minute dripping your soul out and your self esteem; so you have to play practical jokes on your illiterate friends because it’s either that or discuss Plato except that’s not an option because they all think Plato is a Disney character. Then go and anesthetize yourself on ethanol because everything you have ever done in your whole meaningless existence has been with the sound turned down. Drugged up on booze. That is why these clubs have to have the sound turned up so loud! However, it’s not even good loud.

 

Then go and get some rotting flesh that is spinning in the window of some meat brothel for a kebab that looks like the entrance of a dying Hippos vagina. It is so rancid that it is dripping with Winner sauce because you have offended the guy in the shop by your backward racist sense of humor.

 

Then go home before getting in between the pastel sheets of your flee ridden Argos bed. With your matching Argos curtains and your pathetic Ikea wardrobe made from cardboard.

 

You do not notice how bad it is because you are always too hammered on Stella to care. THIS IS MY LIFE you scream, but no one hears you! This Is My life.

You spend Christmas with the family; Mum and her 57 other offspring; 16 worn piano key teeth between them! Luckily there are enough crisps to go round for your little Mongoloid reunion. You all sit round the telly farting and watching Hollyoaks wishing someone was there to explain it to you. Nothing ever changes. The clock ticks. Nothing and life is pretty good mate

[retep 68]

Ahh!! theres nothing like christmas to bring out the best in ones life. really cheered me up mini.

[intooblivion 10]

Drink some sherry...quickly!