Things that make you happy.

[Mentalist]

I'll start.

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Cesc (Jesus) Fabregas scoring a wonder goal against Tottenham in a solo effort cast in to reality from the heavens ELEVEN SECONDS after Tottenham kicked off from going behind 1-0 from a V. Persie Goal.

Makes me warm inside


Starts at the 2:03 minute mark. *bows at the altar of Cesc*

Basically whenever Arsenal do well I'm happy.

I've been kind of down latley....

 

[Mentalist]

NATALIENATALIENTLAIENTLIEANATALIE always makes me happy. Because it's Natalie. And Natalie is awesome.

 

[Mentalist]

Doing yet another read through of LotR makes me happy as well. Things are always better when I'm reading this masterpiece yet again. Though reading it through in Gloustershire in the middle of the English countryside with Seph (we were on different books) smoking lame-ass weed was still the best read through. Props.

 

[Mentalist]

• 12.5ml White rum
• 12.5ml Gin
• 12.5ml Tequila
• 12.5ml Vodka
• 25ml fresh lime juice
• 12.5ml sugar syrup
• Coca cola
• 12.5ml triple sec

Shake the first six ingredients with ice, then strain into a sling or hiball glass filled with ice and top up with coca cola.
Slowly pour the triple sec over the top.
Garnish with a slice of lemon and lime.

Long Island Ice Tea Cocktails make me happy. It's my favourite drink in the world and I'm usually much happier once I've just finished one (as long as another is quickly on it's way to me)

 

[Mentalist]

Despite being a massive productivity killer The Mine Field makes me happy. HOLLA.

 

[Gagh]

My own company

Part of the reason for my various failed relationships, is the fucked up dichotomy of my mind that wants to socialize, but spurns it, wants to be by myself, but can't stand being alone. I guess equal things in equal measure would be nice, but at the end of it all, I kinda like the time I spend by myself, surrounded by all the stuff I own and love. Any woman wanting that needs the patience of a fucking saint!

 

[Gagh]

Private Eye

The best satirical and investigative news organ bar none. It's brilliant journalism and not closely matched by anything else in the UK. I do a lot of investigative work, and this has often given me breadcrumbs to start me on various trails.

 

[Gagh]

Hampshire Cricket Club

As much as I love and understand all the nuances of football, I am 100 times more a cricket fan than I am a football fan. My passion for the sport sometimes borders on obsessional, and my many pilgramages to The Rose Bowl enrich my soul to no end. Say what you will about the sport, I will forever love it, and my club.

 

[curiousa2z]

my garden....

 

[Mentalist]

I adore my girlfriend (probably should of added her sooner!) but one of the major causes of friction in our relationship is the unreasonable amount of time I need to spend on my own. I enjoy social occasions when they're on my terms and I love spending time with my girl, sleeping with her, watching movies, going to dinner and basically all the good relationship stuff you can have if you find someone awesome like my girlfriend but I am and always have been someone who requires a LOT of time on their own just to get on with their own things and enjoy my own company. I get really moody and tense if I am around people for too long with no way of getting some time along to collect my thoughts and just relax.

It's very hard to tactfully convey that to friends and family. I had trouble growing up around a lot of my close friends who couldn't function for more than five minutes unless they were with other people, hanging out, ect and always got pissy with me if I didn't want to spend all my waking hours hanging out with them.

 

[curiousa2z]

a good-looking man, wine and the outdoors...

 

[Gagh]

My iPod Classic.

To paraphrase Scotty, No bloody Nano, Shuffle or Touch. The housebrick. The original. I am a storage whore. I want everything I own on my iPod, because I have no defined taste. I sometimes go from Blues, to Classic, to Heavy Metal, to Stadium Rock. I listen to what I like, and I want all that with me, because I have no idea what my mood will be at any one time. My various iPods have been glued to my side since I first got one in 2006. I now don't know how I got by without one.

Having said that, they had better fucking hurry up and make a 160GB+ Touch, because there's nothing I like more than having all my music and touching shit like an obsessed child.

 

[curiousa2z]

hiking around

 

[curiousa2z]

watching a fabulous football game
singing with my musician pals
eating great food
reading a riveting mystery
painting/drawing and having it work out
listening to Mozart or Vivaldi always makes me happy
posting/spamming with the usual suspects....

 

[Mentalist]

My Girlfriend and my best friend.

The two people I spend the most time with. I loves my girlfriend she is incredible and she looks after me even though I'm one of the most difficult people to be with ever. Nuff said. She's three lessons away from graduating Medical School and I'm super proud of her as well for actually achieving something amazing unlike me.


And my best friend Renos because he's a legend and we go on missions together and get in trouble and have loads of similar interests and he actually has the brains to have decent conversations with beyond booze, women and TV. (Although we talk about those things a lot as well.)

 

[whisky]

I wont do pics of some of these, as people only end up using them to troll me but..

My wife, if people think I am a hate filled troll with mischief never far from my mind, you should have seen me 7 years ago, I was a miserable bastard with nothing to live for, but too much of a coward to take my own life, she walked into my life and not only gave me a reason to live, but a reason to enjoy life. To go to bed knowing someone loves you, and to wake up knowing that person is next to you is something special, and although I still sometimes feel down, I never reach the pits of dispear I used to, because I am not alone.

My son, sure he drives me nuts a lot of the time, but he also provides me with more love per square inch than anything I have encountered before.
He hugs me from the moment he wakes up, and his smile can take the edge off any foul mood I might be in, and a "thank you daddy" from him is all the reward you need for spending an hour fixing one of his toys, and even though he is five it still sometimes comes as a shock to me, fuck!! I'm a daddy!. How can I have a kid when I still am one?

Lego.

I got rid of all but a handful of technical lego when I was 12, along with all my other toys, sold to the kids at school so I could buy my first computer. I treat myself to a star destroyer and blockade runner with my redundancy from the council, and that might have been that, but when I knew we were having a boy, that was all the excuse I needed to hit every car boot and ebay action going to make sure my kid would have more lego than I ever did, sure I went a bit too far, and my attic groans with what is possibly a ton of lego, and Jenny nags me to sell it, but I wont, its mind and his, and they make star wars lego, something I could only dream of as a kid.

More to follow

 

[Seph]

CARP FISHING WITH MA PALS.

 

[whisky]

Booze.

I came to booze late in life, I was 30 before I started drinking, and even older before I started drinking beer.
I can take booze or leave it, but I love to take it.
JD, absynthe, rum, vodka, whisky, even baileys, its all good, although it palys havok with the spelling.

Films/TV/DVDs
I love escapism, sure I dont mind gritty realism now and again, but give me a spaceship, or some lone hard man fighting off a legion of bad guys, and I am in heaven, and if the legion of bad guys are mexican extras with limited acting ability, who can take 50 rounds from an M60 and still scream when they fall off a roof, so much the better.

The internet
Where would I be without it?
Alone or dead probably, I've met a lot of freinds though it, met my wife through it, seen a lot of porn on it, saved me a fortune and a lot of embarasment buying mayfair, cause I always had to buy a computer mag at the same time so you wouldnt see the cover through the ultra thin bags they always give you.

Star trek, for as long as I can remember I have been a fan, and its BBS while derided, is what brought me to all the spin offs, lonaf, tk, efcl and refcl, and some of you have been constants on that journey, and its been a hell of a ride

There was going to be something else here but I forgot what it was.

I guess thats it for now

 

[Mentalist]

u are a man who need ur own hours i will give u that one buddy.

One of the MANY reasons we were such close friends (inseparable for years lets face it) is because you were one of the few people who I didn't get stressed out with if I spent too much time with them. 36 hour Star Trek and weed marathons come to mind.. yes.

Dan and Lee could, at times, become the "WHERE'S JEFFREY!" klingons. (inside joke only Seph will get)

 

[Seph]

Like menty said my missus also, things are fucking hard and shit at times but i love her a lot so fuck it, i wud rather regret fucking up something than not tried and always thought bout it, i follow thru till TEH ENDZ....

but i love her u can probably tell by my face