Dystopian blues anyone?

[1FinickyOne]

With the virus, the new deadlier strain, more things closed, travel restrictions... etc

 

Add to that the state of the world and upheavals going on... 

 

What do you find yourself looking forward to... ??

[BritManToo]

14 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

What do you find yourself looking forward to... ??

At 65 all I have in my future is death.

Not sure I'm looking forward to it.

 

But in the shorter term (next 5 minutes), I'm looking forward to a Full Moon dark wine cooler. 

Edited July 2, 2021 by BritManToo

[Kwasaki]

45 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

At 65 all I have in my future is death.

Not sure I'm looking forward to it.

 

But in the shorter term (next 5 minutes), I'm looking forward to a Full Moon dark wine cooler. 

I'm 74 no worries buddy wash hands with alcohol stuff, put alcohol into bodies blood stream covid solved. 555????????????????????????????????????

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Dystopian

Did you swallow a dictionary or what. ????

[Denim]

58 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'm looking forward to a Full Moon dark wine cooler. 

 

Certainly makes death seem like a good deal .

[faraday]

More beer.

 

*Beer emoji*????

Edited July 2, 2021 by faraday

[1FinickyOne]

35 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Did you swallow a dictionary or what. ????

1 : an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized , fearful lives 

 

It comes after brakes and before lug nuts... 

[Thujone]

Not much to look forward to at the moment, outside of being happy with Mme Thujone.

But close to ecstatic that I was young years ago.

[tonray]

2 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

What do you find yourself looking forward to... ??

I got a new fly swatter to nail the little bastards when I sit out in the garden in the afternoon.....killed 6 of the rascals today....saw something slinky and black scurry under a bush....too dark for a gecko...I'm hoping it wasn't a scorpion.

[Card]

Leaving the country - esp backpacking in Myanmar or Munich - both would be good.

[TheFishman1]

I’m looking for more BJ and a lot more boom boom TIT

[nobodysfriend]

If the future looks dystopian , and it certainly does , it is well deserved .

Human nature cannot change , it seems . It is still the same old and primitive instincts that dominate ( nearly ) everyone's thinking . That is what brought all the trouble the world is in now .

It is time to take an evolutionary step foreward for our species , but that won't happen , as mankind cannot overcome their mental limitations . So , Dystopia knocking on the door , and no way to go back ...

At 65 , I found a place where i like to live , even if it changes to become more bad every year . I keep people as far away as possible , I am happy with my only true friends ( my dogs ) , and my wife .

I never wanted kids , and I was right about this .

I try to eat good food only , ( don't like meat anymore ) , have a few good drinks and my healthy Ganja tea ( nearly ) every evening ...

I watch in TV news what is going on elsewhere in the world , and I am happy that I am so old already ... would like to die of an heart attack one day , that would mean that I would not have to witness my own degradation . I witness the degradation of the once beautiful world ( Just think how nature was beautiful just 150 yrs ago ) ,

All I can think about this is how impossible it is for mankind to solve the problems they created themselves .

Not bound for further evolution , but for extinction it seems ...

Proof of the ultimate stupidity and the impossibility to work all together to reach one solution in an emergency situation .

Anyway , I am the fool on the hill that sees the world going down ...

 

 

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by nobodysfriend

[Sparktrader]

I thought it was a new type of blues music

 

My life is boring

 

 

[tonray]

52 minutes ago, Card said:

Leaving the country - esp backpacking in Myanmar or Munich - both would be good.

Bombs or Beer ?

[toofarnorth]

I got them dystopian blues so I'm gonna go and shoot my ol' lady cos she's bin a messin' round with another man..

Joe,

[nobodysfriend]

3 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

I got them dystopian blues so I'm gonna go and shoot my ol' lady cos she's bin a messin' round with another man..

Joe,

Hey Joe .

Edited July 4, 2021 by nobodysfriend

[DaLa]

19 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

I thought it was a new type of blues music

 

My life is boring

 

 

I quite often mix it in with the  minor pentatonic to mimic the genre  in between Lil Wayne and Justin Bieber.

[toofarnorth]

1 minute ago, nobodysfriend said:

Joe or Jimi ?

Well Jimi sang it and Joe went and done the deed.

[1FinickyOne]

54 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

I got them dystopian blues so I'm gonna go and shoot my ol' lady cos she's bin a messin' round with another man..

Joe,

+2 pts for creativity.. mixing Blues w/Country a bit - - 

[ChrisKC]

On 7/2/2021 at 6:44 PM, Kwasaki said:

Did you swallow a dictionary or what. ????

"Dystopian" is quite a commonly used word to describe a situation (usually misery) that is exactly the opposite of "Utopian"

 

Dystopia and Utopia (paradise) are not real places but only in one's thinking. You are only one thought away from either!

[Kwasaki]

32 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

"Dystopian" is quite a commonly used word to describe a situation (usually misery) that is exactly the opposite of "Utopian"

 

Dystopia and Utopia (paradise) are not real places but only in one's thinking. You are only one thought away from either!

I'm the only one. ????????????

Gorblimey we have the dictionary police on TVF as well. 

[ChrisKC]

1 minute ago, Kwasaki said:

I'm the only one. ????????????

Gorblimey we have the dictionary police on TVF as well. 

I am not part of the "dictionary police". You appeared not to know the meaning, though you knew, if you consulted - not swallowed a dictionary, you would have. But to save you the seemingly onerous task of looking it up yourself, I thought, without cynicism, to describe it briefly in an attempt to help!

[Tropposurfer]

On 7/2/2021 at 10:45 PM, tonray said:

I got a new fly swatter to nail the little bastards when I sit out in the garden in the afternoon.....killed 6 of the rascals today....saw something slinky and black scurry under a bush....too dark for a gecko...I'm hoping it wasn't a scorpion.

Ah the joys of a more sedentary life lol ???? My dad had a hatred of flies. Nothing more did he love than fly-swatter in hand and driving their butts through the back of their heads lol ????

[poskat]

its all about your perspective. what you focus on becomes your reality.

 

people have been crying "the end is near" for millennia.

[flexomike]

2 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

Hey Joe .

where did you get that gun in your hand - 555

[nobodysfriend]

14 minutes ago, poskat said:

its all about your perspective. what you focus on becomes your reality.

Well said ... does it mean that everybody lives in his own reality that is subjective only ...? And what is really ' real ' then ? Or is an objective ' reality ' , that is shared by most , only existant , because it is believed to be like this by most people ?

Well , reality might be more than we can know now  ...

 

oh , I need to go and take my pills ... 55

Edited July 4, 2021 by nobodysfriend

[Tropposurfer]

Ah Dystopian thinking. We used dream bout Dystopian thinking when I were lad (said in a thick northern English accent) lol???? Eeeyyy, those were the days by guum !!! (Monty Python styled caricature).

I admit to having a personality that has a leaning towards the darker shadow side! Not just a product of my psychotherapy training and work for 3 decades. I have to make a decision daily (sometimes often) to not open my mouth and do this, or to think to myself in darker hues.

I got quite absorbed during the total lockdown in Phuket back last year watching far too much of what sadly seems to be the norm of American political and social madness on Facebook. This was not good for me. 

I don't think you're not misreading the Dystopian elements at large in our world today my friend. They seem quite real and influential amongst us. I profess no 'cure-all' or miraculous notion on how to manage such things. I try not to project; into my past or the future (<deleted> all over today when I straddle life in this way), or onto others, try to laugh and be a tad silly as much as is possible, do things that I enjoy and smile at others as much as possible, do small things for others and have no one know about it, don't procrastinate and do the next thing that's needed. If these seem to fall short or fail then open a nice bottle of wine and share it with someone I like, love, or lust after.

 

  

[ChrisKC]

23 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

I'm the only one. ????????????

Gorblimey we have the dictionary police on TVF as well. 

 

24 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

I'm the only one. ????????????

Gorblimey we have the dictionary police on TVF as well. 

"You are only one thought away from either!", not, "You are the only one". Please use the whole of my quote to determine correct meaning!

 

In the meantime, may your "utopianistic" thoughts follow you wherever you go! No need to look it up - it is a kind thought from my heart!

[1FinickyOne]

13 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

does it mean that everybody lives in his own reality

Those of us who are responsible to pay the electric bill surely share certain aspects of reality... 

[nobodysfriend]

9 minutes ago, Tropposurfer said:

I got quite absorbed during the total lockdown in Phuket back last year watching far too much of what sadly seems to be the norm of American political and social madness on Facebook. This was not good for me. 

 I know what you mean .