tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88914319030118265772024-02-22T21:18:12.917+00:00bifkinpiebecause pie isn't just for your faceVic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-53207891158741178112015-01-28T16:18:00.001+00:002015-01-28T16:43:52.876+00:00Silence.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">First of all an apology. I don’t want you
to misconstrue something I said back in the best selling edition of bifkinpie
“<a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/i-met-woman-who-didnt-wear-shoes-weirdo.html">I met a woman who didn’t wear shoes</a>.” I wrote ‘dur’ to follow one of the
articulately chaotic points I made and it was aimed at myself but could have
been assumed to be at you, pointedly, dear mega fan. It wasn’t. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Communication is a bastard isn’t it?
Working within communications myself makes it glaringly obvious, particularly
when miscommunications appear in communications. Which is all the time, right
weevil face?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We’ve all had an ambiguous text and made
our own sense from its sprawl, but we took a wrong turn and in rendering the
sense conclude with something so skewed from the intended origin that some form
of balls up occurs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I want to talk about something, but I’m
scared to. I have been having clandestine discussions with friends and family
that frighten me. Please take my hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I know I’m not alone.</span><br />
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Some time around 17 something something
Australia was predominantly occupied by a huge influx of Northern European
scum, non-scum and loads of Chinese merchants.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The conquerors had their own ways of
living; They hung about a bit. Drinking, frolicking, building, doing great
stuff at the cost of doing shitty stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The earlier occupier looked on whilst
taking just enough. They roamed, lived by different myths and ritual. They were
pretty peaceful, generally. Or outnumbered. Without guns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“They’re bloody stupid”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Said all of them about each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately one side didn’t mind killing
people. En masse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sits uneasy with me that you know. Really
uneasy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Australia can’t tackle the powerlessness
experienced by the Aborigine community, with its masses of addiction issues,
freely obtained government money, and all the negatives of living a sedentary
life; the Aborigine way has had its essence completely annihilated by aliens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">May 26<sup>th</sup> is apology day where thousands
of new conquerors walk over the Harbour Bridge to say “Sorry”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bet that was a cracking aftershow
party…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s an absolute sham that no compromise
has been explored. But how do you blend two ways of life when belief systems
are so opposed in purpose, in manifestation, in everything that it is
incomprehensible to other facets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">How would the two ways of life come
together for compromise? Is compromise even possible? Is it too late?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Could we – when faced with an opposing
belief system – hold our hands out and say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Ok, we don’t get it, but we’ll just crack
on? Oh, and how are you today?”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oh if only it were that simple. If only we
were that simple. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For me, regression is a huge thing of
compromising my belief system. I thought we were moving forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We must move forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Said all of them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">WE MUST MOVE FORWARD!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT THIS?! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-40257491734255212962015-01-01T01:28:00.002+00:002015-01-01T13:46:16.666+00:00Fire in the Hole!<div class="MsoNormal">
(We're under lockdown.) </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A human of female persuasion has her sexual peak at 38. So they
say. We all know that, right? Tilting toward the pinnacle, I’d argue this is true. A burning aching truth. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Against the odds I opted to embrace
celibacy, instead of filth, for 2014. I think it was out of choice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh. It’s been hard. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Using rational approaches in 'romance' (instead of three pints of sunbeams) has been quite a trip. I don’t think I’ve
had an awful lot of sober sex, hence the parallel reason behind quitting the
drink for 2014. I want to have something with substance and longevity, not disposable. Yeah, I know...shucks...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I did manage a sober snog this year. It was
dreadful. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hitting the town with a few mates, everyone
was on good form. I was happy drinking my tea and playing pool whilst getting
down to a discotheque of Erasure and HI NRG. That night there was interest from
two blokes. One was cute and big. The other one looked at me a lot. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Opening gambit from the cute and big one
resulted in something offensive that made me shrivel with fear;
something along the lines of sucking cock (*Cough* Sorry?). Side-stepped immediately
with horror.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Plucky, Looking-At-Me-A-Lot came over. He
was funny, a bit silly, and potatoey. He bought me a tea and led me
into another room where we talked minimally about scooters and streamliners, then he snogged my face
off. And my ear. And my throat. He produced an incredible amount of spittle. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn’t object. Being licked all over -
sober -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a not an experience I'd ever done with strangers. Proper
gameshow fodder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was clearly wanting to get filthy. But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">something</i> didn’t feel right. He was from
out of town.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Married.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He denied it. Twice. Wanted to come back to mine.
I declined. He said he was over again next Thursday and that we should meet up.
I agreed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Number exchange. He attached himself for a short while.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hen I cabbed it home.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But something didn’t sit right, and I was
going to get to the bottom of this before letting him get to mine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yep, from what little tid bits he’d given
me I ‘researched’ him online. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I struck gold.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Turns out he’s a millionaire prestige car
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fuck.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh. Wow. This guy is MINTED. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Certainly not a deal breaker but a generous
boon that immediately made me dream of getting a Rolex I didn’t want
and loads of manicures that rendered my actual hands as defunct trowels. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-------------</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He’s still texting me. We’re meeting next
Thursday. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-------------<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s nearly Thursday. One more search. A
better search. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I got it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The wife. A glamourous, gorgeous
counterpart holding a child of around two, all stood beneath a
Grandfather clock. A perfect existence portrayed - crystal cut - through social
media. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I likely exclaimed ‘Shit house!’ and then
waited for a text.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-What time can we meet tomorrow? x<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-I don’t know. Ask your wife?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Ha ha. Not this again. I’ve told you I’m not
married x<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Why don’t you ask (wife’s name) what she
thinks about that?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">*Chun Li Spinning Bird Kick*</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(-Ha ha. Yes, well done. We had fun though? X)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(………………………)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t ever want a Rolex. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whether it’s right or wrong to search/stalk someone in this way…? I rationalise, by avoiding the arse-ache of having to deal with the blatherings of a liar by backing up your intuition, I saved myself a lot of time and karmic annihilation. And that’s all I’m going to say about that).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then the tide turned. I started drinking
again, and I didn’t get back on the wagon for the rest of the year. Obviously,
one night…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">drink became my device… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">…and my excuse <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...and I had sex.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The worst part - I don’t remember it. It’s
in the bank but built with myth. It was good, I think. The reconstruction is
certainly hyperhorny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That’s the thing, I’m banging the bloody
walls. I have to shout regularly into a pillow. I’m so frustrated I could destroy all the beer mats with a flame
thrower. MINE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m waking up confronted by the remnants of
failed porn site perusal and can’t right it until I’ve washed away my onanistic
coating with Dove Sensitive and an exfoliator sponge that smells of actual God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“My mind’s telling me no, but my body, my
body’s telling me ye-es-us”, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is usually my shower song of choice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m signing up for another year of
disciplinish because I need to channel this fire* and stop letting it whip my
arse. If all this energy could be expelled elsewhere, I'd be making a lot more headway in other areas. I'm just treading water; distracted by making the reality of love possible, but even that's misguided and skewed by lust and objectification. It's all wrong, and it's only going to get worse...whilst baby-making HQ has control. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I said disciplinish - the 'ish' can contain the random variables, none of which will be married shysters, nor intoxicated fumbles that I regrettably can't recall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lockdown. Again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">May this year bring with it Channels-Of-Fire-For-All without digestive complaints. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ONWARDS!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Beams from all who love a Bifkinpie. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kiss. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe a lick. </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*hello you.</span></span></div>
Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-22772463525311404612014-12-18T20:24:00.000+00:002014-12-18T20:31:20.363+00:00Fem.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A front room, everywhere. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m sick of em, sick of em. Going on about
it all the time, like. Acting like blokes. Looking like blokes. It’s boring.
And it’s bollocks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leigh:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Men are supposed to look after their girls.
It isn’t pretty is it? Putting up shelves, drinking pints with your mates.
Makes you feel like a dick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">…Did you know Marie fixed her car? I mean
the size of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her</i>…?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You’ve got to have that difference haven’t
you? The yin, the yang, whichever is which. It’s a compliment, it isn’t the
same, it can’t be the same because it’s different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leigh:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah, that’s it. Different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Damn right! Gender, gender, gender. Women,
men…bloody trannies like your Andy! It shouldn’t matter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And why do they have to shout about it..? It’s
all, this is us, we are here! Away from you lot. Shouting about being called
love or getting their arses touched, and tits eyed up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I mean if you’ve got it, you should flaunt
it, right?! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leigh: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s boring. It’s fucking boring… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leigh: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">…yeah...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexus: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">…Basically, you cocks are cocks, and cocks
are cocks and need to be told that you are cocks…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leigh:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’d love it if I got my arse felt up by a
fitty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">…I mean what gives them the right to tell
me how I should treat people?! We’re not all the same. We’re all different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We’re not all cocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That dwarf bird, Angie, you see her on the
market. She’s got to be treated different. She can’t do stuff. You have to help
her. She’s fucked on them stairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And Danny spanner, I mean everyone knows
Danny. Everyone looks out for Danny. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We’re not all the same, and I’m not going
near them. They’re fuckin’ angry for no reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">---<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leigh:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wish Jordan would stop making me gag when
I’m giving him a blowie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Oh god, I hate it when they do that.</span></div>
Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-76604942192782078342014-12-17T07:51:00.001+00:002014-12-17T07:51:19.129+00:00Me and my monkey.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">We’re all 85.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Cosmetically we
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<span style="font-size: 17px;">........................................</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Now statistically,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">3 Parkinsons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">7 Miscellaneous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">and 1 Huntington’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">And the rest….well
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">But wait, I need
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Though we share mere minutes together a
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Waiting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Take me Lord, take
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Betty wants to go,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">(Pause)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt;">On Ivy’s dressing
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Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-42431301655448891472014-12-09T13:22:00.003+00:002014-12-09T13:22:45.934+00:00Love, Love.<br />
<br />
One day I'll be in love again.<br />
<br />
Like, stupid love.<br />
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The real deal as captured in D:Reams - UR the best thing...The kind of love that makes me want to post pictures - all the time - of us looking cute together; in hats, over cocktails, in front of hilarious signage as 'Twatt'.<br />
<br />
There'll be so many reciprocal thumbs and hugs and huns we'll end obesity through sheer nausea.<br />
<br />
But that day isn't here yet, so you'll have to crack on with your type 2s safe in the knowledge my beloved best friend is on his way.<br />
<br />
And he's ace. Thumbs.<br />
<br />
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<br />Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-66364790342569820322014-11-30T00:27:00.001+00:002015-08-31T13:35:07.558+01:00Absolute Balloons- There's a bear over there.<br />
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- Where?<br />
<br />
- There, over there! With dark brown hair; a dancing bear!<br />
<br />
- Where are you looking?!<br />
<br />
- THERE!<br />
<br />
- Where?<br />
<br />
- There! THERE! Oh my god, are you blind?<br />
<br />
- I can't see where you mean.<br />
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- Oh for fucks sake....<br />
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(Exit)<br />
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That poem, Ladies and Gentlemen, was titled 'The Bear, Who Wasn't There, With The Dark Brown Hair'.<br />
<br />
Well firstly, hello! How have you been?<br />
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I hope November was amazing. My November was absolute bricks; a mixture of everything. Seriously everything. Name it, it was in it.<br />
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- Had a car accident. <br />
<br />
- Managing to climb - with stealth - over a 6ft fence (risked ripped gibs and a broken leg).<br />
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- Got drilled by a hefty dose of rejection.<br />
<br />
- Did business I can't talk about. But it was a bit serious.<br />
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- Got hit 7 times.<br />
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This was most unsettling as I haven't been hit by anyone since I revolted against my mother at the age of 15. She was in a stage of slippering me. I was raised in the Victorian era.<br />
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In short, I could deffo have been a plain clothes detective who slippers criminals into submission.<br />
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And I've been questioning so much. It's been exhilarating and intense but also contained my shittest week of the year. I'm not being dramatic. It was. See prior.<br />
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Firstly, social networking. I've detached from it for the month of November. I called it #nosocialnetworknovember with the pluckiness of an ecstatic wasp. Needless to say it took off and became somewhat of a phenomena - and has raised 15 bazillion pounds for the charity 'Clogs for Cancer'.<br />
<br />
Let's first acknowledge that we connect with social networking in different way. I predominantly use Twitter for news, but sometimes as a toy.<br />
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Facebook is a more private affair. I don't have too many friends on there. I like it that way.<br />
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So the findings.<br />
<br />
It's strange. I genuinely had withdrawal from Twitter. I wasn't having the quivers or owt, just consciously thinking and searching for a Twitter vox; A balloon of thought which is pumped full of guff. It faded after 5 days. By then, I'd streamlined my flow, focused elsewhere and retrained my brain. Some people are better at focus than me. Certainly some people on Twitter seem to be stupidly high functioning...they tweet an awful lot - to the point of making me consider calling Social Services; Are they able to juggle kids, careers, all the while maintaining sanity...(?)<br />
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Facebook - not arsed. Good for close mates, but too hefty on the old 'your my favourite waste of time'. For me anyway. I also noticed an increase in phone calls received during the social opt out. I even got an actual posted letter. I'm playing hard to get and they bloody love it.<br />
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Talking of bollocks (we were) I've been having a play with divination this month. I can read Tarot Cards quite well now. I have had a look at runes, followed astrological transitions, AND been open to the guidance of a psychic...<br />
<br />
I can confirm after initial head-fuckery I'm beginning to understand it a bit, and must maintain the importance of *for entertainment purposes only* in approaching enchantments.<br />
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What I understand about divination is currently marked under 'X'. Oh and the understanding I alluded to actually doesn't exist.<br />
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<br />
To hark back to the now infamous 'The Bear, Who Wasn't There, With The Dark Brown Hair' poem, I met the bear. The psychic told me about the bear.<br />
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I met the bear. I liked the bear. I stroked the Bear.<br />
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It didn't quite work out how she had confidently said: "This (example of ultimate destiny) will happen...",<br />
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Psychic badness. Dangerous practice! Don't define life in absolutes, you wench. Don't plant seeds of finity.<br />
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But there were specifics in the Bears description that floored me and contributed to said head-fuckery when I appeared to meet him a week after the reading.<br />
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She was clearly a witch - I'm going to burn her for messing with my shit.<br />
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As I wasn't able to vomit into Twitter at irregular intervals, I made notes about this month. I'm going to attempt to fill you in what was achieved whilst not being so fixated on the ether:<br />
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- Discoveries. I'm looking into applying for a pyrotechnics license. As in setting stuff on fire in staged areas. I'd like to reenact a the burning of a witch.<br />
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- I've been thinking about death - in a good way................................<br />
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- A dog stared at me for half an hour. From a window. With a knife. Just eyes on me for half an hour whilst I waited for a bus that never came. It would have been creepy but for his ridiculous jaw jut.<br />
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- My favourite moment of the month goes to a small child of indeterminate gender...well done small child.<br />
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This kid buzzed.<br />
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Myself and my friend '<a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/swerveball-with-mr-shitcad.html">Mr Stevie Shitcad</a>', had opted to go yomping in Crystal Palace. He likes the dinosaurs.<br />
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Whilst eyeing up the factoids, a child of around six starts reeling off the most amazing dinosaur knowledge I've ever witnessed. Admittedly I don't hang around with Dinosaur fans over the age of 6, but I was amazed. I thought I'd seen Jesus.<br />
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Then we went to see the ducks.<br />
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The small child of indeterminate gender approached me and asked if I'd like a piece of bread. No prompt, just bosh. In.<br />
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This was Jesus!<br />
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I took the piece of bread, and cried at such a heart-warming moment. Possibly also crying for my unserviced womb in a heady mix of duality.<br />
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Finally this month has made me realise I don't dream very often at all. That's a bit rubbish.<br />
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But I had one dream this month. A crying dream. Wizard!<br />
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My ex husband. We had decided to re-marry and on our second wedding day morning I caught him in bed with another woman! I went to slap him and missed. I was annoyed I missed. You'd think in your dreams you'd manage it? This missed-slap annoyed me more than the act of finding my beloved rutting some bronzed blonde student who was dead fit. I woke up annoyed. Nice one.<br />
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I've got the subtext of the dream. S'cool.<br />
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What have I learnt this month? For one, my ego is still alive.<br />
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But the good stuff, empowering stuff. Not the stuff that a bad divinator can plant and dazzle you with. Real stuff. The stuff I don't have to mark under 'X'. The small child. The aliveness I felt when having to scale the fence. Dogs with jaw jut. And thinking about bigger stuff than just balloons.<br />
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My social networking world being on pause has been a good cleanse, the amount of other stuff I've learnt, and the engagement in real life I've experienced has felt really involved, grounded and present. I've practised patience, spent time with my bloody good pals. And I've got a new qualification - BSc (Hons) Shitstorm with Possibilities.<br />
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Some people think and think and think and think and think and think and think and think and try and decipher and make sense of such things as love, life, religion, and why the way people are and what they do and what can we learn. And why am I away with the fairies, looking at the sky, living in a bubble, not being here, but up there?<br />
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Perhaps we shouldn't think so much about thinking too much...think about that one! Try not to rationalise everything, allow the irrational to just exist. Mark it under 'X' and crack on with being here, now, not there.<br />
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Because though balloons are good value, in many contexts, they've got nothing to say.<br />
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Follow me on Twitter for further proof.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">I know I'm a bit nuts. I
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conform; that I *think* I see things differently. That's the thing about maturity - you give less of a toss about what people think of you. Now, I will not allow myself
to be oppressed by normalcy. I will not be swayed by popular opinion. Just
because what I believe is right doesn't mean it is right. I'll just do my own
thing, thanks. If you don't like me, don't worry, I don't subscribe to
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Let's call her The
Firecracker, and you can make your own image. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">I felt an instant
connection to her, in fact she bowled me over with her intensity when we first
met, but I could sense an innate goodness about her that didn't make me file
her in the 'Whoa There!' cabinet. Fortunately I've been proved right; she's a
solid good egg. She's ace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Slightly younger than
me, and newly single, The 'Cracker is naturally addressing and dissecting the
'what-went-wrongs' of her past relationship in order to conclude the lesson.
BUT one striking comment she made, that got a rise out of me, was that she felt
her poor record in love was her personality/attitude. I up-ended the
table there and then (in my mind). Again, she's ace.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The thing is, I'd had
this very conversation with myself but 2 months ago. I'm sure many of us - as
singletons - have looked in the mirror and thought "What is WRONG with
me?". "Why aren't people tripping over themselves to bag a piece of
this tasty carcass?", and on special occasions, "I'm so fucking
lonely!!!".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">And what does your
average independent, assertive 36 year old do in the circumstances? They email
their Mam of course:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Helloooo Mummington <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Got a bit of
time off this week, looking forward to sorting out a few things in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the move.
But I’m feeling a bit down that there’s something wrong with me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">that I can’t
attract a man. I don’t think my new BBC Sheffield picture has </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">helped me feel
good – it’s horrible. But I just don’t know what it is about me..?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, time
to put a smile on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let me know
what you’ve been up to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">X<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">avril*******@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I knew you
were down, after all the excitement and effort of moving etc it's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> only to be
expected. You are looking through critical eyes at present. You </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">are very
attractive, and your eyes are beautiful. I think the man who will be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> attracted to you will be looking for someone very different. In the same way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> as you won't want a boring bloke. You are quite a challenge, most blokes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">want
someone they can feel just a bit more superior to, no chance of that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">with
you. You want someone who is an equal to you, so that you can bounce </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">off each
other, have intellectual chats and a laugh. You know all this but if he</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> has to be special to be right he's worth waiting for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As you say
slap on a smile and keep going. Love you so much and want you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to find someone
special, just like you. Take care of yourself, Mum XXXXX<br />
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Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love you
Mum x<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Shortly thereafter I met
someone under rather unorthodox circumstances, and to be fair to that
person/victim, I'm going to keep it as vague as possible. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Though a brief meeting,
there was something to this chap I liked. Perhaps I felt a connection? A
mirroring? I did find him attractive; there was an internal,
I-think-you-might-be-ace resonance that I *felt* exceeded the connection I
apply to friendly acquaintances; you know, the stuff surpassing a light
friendship that triggers YES I could possibly be thinking about being willing to perhaps handle your fluids. But
more importantly I was very aware of my attitude at the time, and that I felt I
could be myself. As crazy, as loud, as opinionated as that *can* be, young
Firecracker. And this fella </span>didn't seem perturbed.............</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">I'm about to talk about
pedestrian feminism - Brace! Brace!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm gifted with some
amazing best friends. One is Nick, who is not only funny, but also incredibly
insightful and wise. Thankfully he offers up a token male perspective with
regards to the said dilemma I had. I offered that wimmin are still expected to
be passive, or a lesser intellectual companion to aid their male counterpart in
not only archetypal paternal dominance, but also to aid their need to be 'protectors'.
Welllllllll, he called me out straight away, yelling about 'female castrates' and
how he preferred his relations with the laydees to be cerebrally challenging
and rife with assertion. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ok, ok I get it, you
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are all ace. Even the
shits. Because someone, somewhere will think so. Keep the faith. Be open to the
fact that you are great - for all your freakish foibles - and when you see a
special greatness in someone else reflecting right back at you, that's when the
magic might happen... </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Excuse me, I need to dial-a-cliché...)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>Jon Brion - Here We Go</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">You've gotta hope that there's someone for you</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">As strange as you are</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Who can cope with the things that you do</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Without trying too hard</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Because you can bend the truth</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Until it's soothing you</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: purple;">These things that you're wrapping all around you</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">You never know what they will amount to</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">And your life is just going on without you </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">It's the end of the things you know </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Here we go</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">You've gotta know that there's more to this world</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Than what you have seen</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Because we all have a limited view of what we can be</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: purple;">As we move along</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">With our blinders on</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Each one of us feels a little stranded</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">And you can't explain or understand it</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8891431903011826577"></a>Each one of us on a different planet </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">And admist all the to and fro</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Someone can say "Hello,</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Here we go"</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The feeling that someone really gets you</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">It's something that no one should object to</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">It could happen today so I suggest you</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Skip your habit of laying low</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">It's the end of the things you know </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Here we go </span></div>
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(There is further academic reading you may wish to view below).<br />
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Hullo.<br />
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Please note that the theories I present are birthed from evidence-in-practice, chatting to infinitely clever trousered types - with letters - than myself, work-in-progress observations and common - fucking - sense. I am not a scientist but I am equipped with logic, curiosity and - perhaps paradoxically - a wonderment and appreciation of the esoteric.<br />
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Let us begin...<br />
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Dementia and Alzheimer's, they say, is on the increase. It is. Statistics for how many of us will be effected by 2050 are terrifying. On the plus side, the Daily Mail have their top story sorted for the next 36 years. What a relief.<br />
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Dementia - well, it's just the aging process isn't it? Let's just draw a line under that and let people's loved ones dissolve into the 'living death' in front of their eyes; robbing them and loved ones of their memories, their purpose, their 'being'.<br />
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Well no actually, I'm not really down with that retired defeat especially when I (and you) can see obvious opportunities to reverse signs of dementia that we can apply to our lives NOW.<br />
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I don't know how you feel about pharmaceutical companies, but for the most part I find them to be opportunistic vultures keen on sedating a problem (plugging a dam with a finger) rather than allowing practical therapies to reign; particularly within mental health - because they're all about the dollar dollar bill ya'll. Helping people?! Pffffffft. Let's not be naive.<br />
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But guess what Glaxo-bastards? We already have the power to heal ourselves through common sense and a pinch of the primitive. And you can't own it, you leeches. Ha. In your (tested-on-animals) faces!<br />
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Work is hard isn't it? Dependent on role, naturally, but for the purpose of this argument, let's look at a sedentary role, or a habitual action...doing the same task(s) over and over again. Initially this might have been a challenge with frontal lobe growth inevitable whilst learning the new, but now learnt, and autonomous; where's the challenge in that?!<br />
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Let's now include prolonged mental stress, perhaps in an occupational sense (overworked/underpaid normality) or lengthy emotional strain - could this contribute to a metaphorical RSI of the brain? Well yes, it does. Them lot have proved it.<br />
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A habitually functioning brain is likely to be strong in parts, overused in areas, weak and neglected in others. Ah well, nevermind, retirement isn't long off, and then I can do nothing............<br />
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We all know brain training is proven to be beneficial not only to the young but also the Countdown brigade, in fact scrap that, it's fundamentally beneficial to all isn't it? Because learning is fun isn't it? Challenging our - constantly evolving - perceptions aids us in developing broadminded and newly informed approaches and responses. We should do that, that sounds bloody marvellous.<br />
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Listening to music is fantastic isn't it? All of it. Challenging, soothing, mood altering - and not only is it the most responsive and favoured form of therapy, it's proven to exercise ALL the brain. We've all seen the clips of the old fella with Dementia listening to his old time favourites? For a period his clarity is restored; his thoughts and language coherent. Yep, that, that's how powerful that stuff is! We should listen to that loads!<br />
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Exercise is good isn't it? Not only does it keep us fit but also reduces anxiety and allows us to organise our thoughts. We should mix it up as well, so we're exercising different parts of our body and brain. We should definitely do that a lot. And dancing! It's amazing isn't it? It enables us to live in the moment; carefree, experiencing lightness and spontaneity. Dancing - we should never stop doing that, and even if we don't think we can dance, we should definitely do it on the sly. Yes, that's a triffic idea.<br />
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Eating right is good isn't it? All those nutrients. Yum. Processed foods are well shady aren't they? I mean, just what the bejesus is in some of those synthetic sugary treats that in no way are contributing to obesity and cancer and chronic sads........we should definitely eat as close to nature intended as possible. Yes, that's a great idea.<br />
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Nature is wonderful isn't it? Being in it, meditating within it, enjoying the tranquility, exploration and the inspiration of worldly delights that are bigger than ourselves; a roofless space of infinite growth we take for granted. Yes, let's do that. And it's e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e.<br />
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...But let's go one step further, let's do it barefoot!<br />
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See here for information on the importance of <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/08/02/grounding-earthing.aspx">'grounding'</a>.<br />
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Further reading:<br />
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<a href="http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2014/09/25/barbara-arrowsmith-young-every-kid-should-practice-stress-reduction-and-targeted-cognitive-exercises-at-school/">The inspirational Barbara Arrowsmith Young</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140930143446.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmind_brain%2Fdementia+%28Dementia+News+--+ScienceDaily%29">Alzheimer's reversal success</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/282798.php?tw">You are what you eat</a><br />
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Thank you to <a href="http://www.chalfontdesign.com/">Dr. Garuth Chalfont</a><br />
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I made Lancaster my home for the best part of the last 3 years, and to offer some light to this outpouring of frustration about to unfold, it served me well for a time; approximately 18 months. Then came the turning point when I realised I wasn't just bored, I was numb.<br />
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For those unfamiliar with the red rose capital, it's an affluent market city of sorts - perched perfectly between the kitsch coast of it's rough arse cousin 'Morecambe' and it's spectacular views out across the bay (well, you don't look at the mantle-piece whilst you're poking the fire), and acts as a 'Gateway to the Lakes', which though sounds desirable could also be interpreted as 'Doormat to Infinitely Better Stuff '.<br />
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I sense the legendary traffic flow of this City-Village lends itself to an Island mentality within it's folk; the City Centre being circled by a one-way system that comes to a standstill if someone drops a crisp packet in the road. You are guaranteed to be caught up in such gridlocked frustrations on numerous occasions. On an annual basis you will piss yourself in your vehicle, thrice. If you'd like to read just how bad the traffic is for this City of 137,385 people, then in a recent poll Lancaster came 2nd only to Westminster (!!!) as a 'nightmare' rush-hour hell-hole. And I didn't even make that up.<br />
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This Island mentality is evident in the tittle-tattle of the locals. In a very short space of time, it was apparent that though I might be an ardent London hater, sometimes the sense of anonymity in its stinky, disinterested ginnel's proves advantageous when you just wanted to be left the fuck alone. In Lancaster, I would not be surprised if in the homogeneous boozers of yore, fishwives of all genders are discussing your Experian Credit Report. Everyone knows your business; it's so claustrophobic and intrusive on this Island of Vanilla.<br />
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But surely there's entertainment? A chance to mingle with new faces, and expand horizons? If you're looking for something to do of an evening, and childless, why not consider alcoholism? Because there's nothing happening except endless folk music piping from pubs where you'll see the same faces, but on rotation, accompanied by a different flavour of Seabrook crisps.<br />
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In a bid to add a bit of texture to this apathetically Liberal area, I aired my frustrations at there being no viable place to go and dance for those that don't want to get their junk out for a free shot as David Guetta's formulaic climaxes scream at a palpitating BPM, so I donned my action trousers, and set about trying to establish a night at a venue.<br />
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After casing several joints, it turns out the best options were owned by the same person who revelled in stocking over-priced wank beers infused with caribou glands, and liquors exported from exotic locales as Chernobyl and the Moon. Though he showed repeated interest to establish a 'meet', communicating with this narrow-sighted-status-hungry-pretentious-lizard was painful. There's only so many times you can promise to meet with someone to discuss their ideas before realising you're being brushed off as they're completely full of shit and have no interest in making something special that would benefit THEIR market. I can only assume his lack of integrity is necessary to encourage his inevitable business failings.<br />
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Enjoying such cities as Liverpool, Glasgow, and Sheffield - with their secure pride and regular roster of binding spectacles that attract many outsiders - just leaves Lancaster eyeing up which shade of magnolia it should get to keep itself looking pretty. Its Governors should be embarrassed at not even trying to create a sense of identity that encourages ambition, growth, and - ultimately - financial gains through providing something different to the onlookers to attract them and their pretty purses.<br />
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Lancaster doesn't just need an aesthetic revolution, its kinsmen need a mindset shift that involves progress; acknowledging the present and the future instead of treading water. But its council are simply not interested in creating an innovative series of happenings to aid its 'safe' status as a tax cow. 'Suits' inevitably make creative decisions based on the most basic of plebeian requirements that were seen as spectacles in the 1950's. I imagine there isn't a single creative working at the Town Hall, and if there were, they, their blue hair and elaborate wooden jewellery would be frogmarched to the nearest ducking stool, as is the true Lancaster tradition.<br />
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Let's add some token balance because Lancaster does have a few high points: Williamson Park is a glorious ramble, pinnacled by the Ashton Memorial which is one of my favourite buildings in the country; there's a Top Ten University that provides a healthy influx of maverick haircuts and awkward intelligence founded on no-street-skills-whatsoever; and a River called 'The Lune' - that's quite funny, I 'spose.<br />
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Any enthusiasm I had for contributing to a 'scene' - attempting to offer a slither of diversity - amongst this sea of biege, has been punched out of me as I continue to observe the lacklustre choices and the narrow mindedness displayed by most of its inhabitants who appear to lack the foresight necessary for sociological and cultural advancement. An ineffectual council set the bar for an unambitious people. The suits should get off their calculators and start contributing in more ways than balancing books and keeping things steady - add to the pot, instead of just giving it a stir, you shits!<br />
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My enthusiasm for Lancaster and its huge potential has simply gone with the wind. As I move to Sheffield with its pride, its happenings and its involved community, frankly my Lancaster, I don't give a shit. And likely it is this very sentiment of established apathy that means Lancaster will always just be a boring City with huge potential that nobody will mine because they simply can't be arsed.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Apologies to my Lancaster based friends. This post says nothing about how bloody great you all are, and I look forward to popping over to say 'how are we?'. Dead arms are permitted should I get a case of the negs whilst visiting. </span></div>
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<br />Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-36713024016097462932014-02-05T05:39:00.000+00:002014-02-08T11:10:45.216+00:00Whips and Chains - The End.<div>
I would like to dedicate this post to my friend, Discordian High Priest <a href="http://margerrisons.blogspot.co.uk/">Nick Margerrison</a>: "The critique says more about the critic than the criticised", and to you for tolerating such indulgence.</div>
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Like all good intentions my goal to be more<a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/lively-up-yourself.html"> attentive with this blog</a> fell to shit midway through last year, when I was side-tracked by a relationship. <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/dear-deidre-my-arms-are-too-long.html">As I swore off relationships</a>, I unintentionally ended up in one. An actual relationship. An almost-in-love-but-not-quite relationship. My first in five years.<br />
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My career means an awful lot to me; I love my work and entertaining people, and his lack of understanding about how as a 'radio personality' and performer my ego or 'extended character' is integral to how I earn a living caused a big rift. He accused me of being self-centred, selfish, egotistical, ungrateful - accusations I don't deny. I AM self-centred. At this stage in my life I have no responsibilities. I only have to look after myself; I am and have always been self-employed, and the ungratefulness I can only attribute to his insistence in doing an awful lot for me, and when I rejected him - as you might expect - you will be called ungrateful for not reciprocating such attentions. For all my 'faults' I am fully aware of my self-contained attitude, and this may cause friction when attempting to include someone in your life who doesn't really get '<a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/judging-pulizter-shit-sir.html">it</a>'. Finally, when I felt my independence was being infringed, and that couple-morphing was occurring - he pushed, I pulled - I couldn't do it anymore; it was making me ill. I had to 'call time'. </div>
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I haven't really discussed my addictive/obsessive personality in the past. It exists within the family. <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/dead-dad-club.html">My dead dad</a> had a plethora of excesses. My brother is a sugar fiend; my sister a bread junkie, and me, well add the two and multiply by everything else. My self-control is pitiful. Fortunately I have been able to exercise innate sensibility with regards to avoiding wholly destructive temptations where others have failed, and sadly lost. </div>
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I may have alluded to a particular 'acceptable' addiction through the stream of naive poetry that was pouring out of me during <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/legal-high.html">December 2011</a>, but I've never been direct about it. Stigma's linger and damage reputations and credibility; they hurt.<a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/silk.html"> First hand</a>, I know this is fact.</div>
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I was very ill over two years ago, when depression visited me for a lengthier period than I was able to recognise, and it finally culminated in a mighty crash. I'd encountered the black dog on two other occasions, but never with the severity of the bleakness leading up to the events of 2011 that I believe had been building for around 3 years. Awful. This hadn't been aided by my GP at the time, (and yes, this did actually happen) telling me to "pull yourself together". I attempted to, but in flailing for clarity I opted to ignore myself through self-medication. In addition, I hadn't helped matters by enduring (and not seeking help) and suppressing, via illicit means, <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/update-banoffee-cream-pie.html">a physiological illness</a> due to my absolute necessity to continue funding myself (via my self-employed means) to remain in education. Taking time out was an inconceivable idea. Additionally my family weren't close by to realise how thin and crazy I was getting. And I was clearly sedated 'elsewhere' not to give a flying shit.</div>
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To two years later and following a continuance of prior habits - to a lesser degree - it finally took this relationship to realise it was only me who could rebuild myself. And for that insight I have to say this is the best relationship I have ever had. </div>
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Observing my former mate, I saw myself in him; mirrored in his behaviour. His actions and the excess he embraced left me in disbelief. It became evident that his indulgence was not only disrupting his life, but also holding him back and making him ill. Of course, at first I chose to ignore it, and believe his tales of shaking hands were due to medication, but it was staring me in the face, and blinkers on, I chose not to question. This guy had a problem. Subtly, in companionship I began to drink a little more than I was used to, disguised as the quaffing of quality wines; smoking more fags to accompany the drinking, and dabbling in recreations of the past when stress reared its fearful head. This was becoming unhealthy. I'd been here before. But the turning point wasn't too far off...</div>
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When I returned from a very intense day in rehearsal, I dropped by his house as I hadn't heard from him regarding prior arrangements. What I found was arresting. When he failed to answer the door, I shouted through the letter box. It was then I heard the sound of rain coming from inside the house. I tried the front door, it was open. Diving in, I shouted his name. He, thankfully, responded. As I discovered, four hours prior he'd returned from a bender to take a bath, but instead, having ran the bath, got into bed for several hours of slumber. The house was shitting water. </div>
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Calmly, during the clean up of Operation 'My-House-is-Fucked', he remarked it wasn't the first time this had happened. Nor the second.</div>
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How can you live like this and think it normal, or acceptable? And why - after the first time - would a massive alarm not go off, "Oh I dropped a bollock there, mustn't let that happen again."</div>
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Since January 1st 2014 I have been sober and I haven't touched a cigarette or any other 'herbal' relief. And I hope I remain strong enough for it to stay that way. I now run to relieve the stress, and I'm losing weight and feeling reborn almost.</div>
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My new life begins this year. I can only hope that my rediscovered clarity, focus, fitness and happiness continues. I have never felt stronger in recognising my faults and taking responsibility for them and in doing so, looking after myself and being a 'good' selfish. </div>
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Changes will be made. I can't drink, because I will smoke, I will become <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/vessel.html">sluttish</a> - and that's not me. I have to socialise in other ways and I have to develop relationships that don't involve talking shite down the pub; friendships with real depth. </div>
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I'm becoming someone else without a glazed outlook blurring those sharp edges of experience. I don't know quite - fully - what she's about yet, but I'm willing to have a craic. And it feels fucking fantastic. I'm finally free! This car crash of a woman was not a write off, and I hope that others who too fight their own demons through excess can see that truth isn't that scary. But it is down to yourself. Be selfish; be self-centred, be interested in you.</div>
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This will likely be my last blog post. Thank you to all for the attention, <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/rough-wood.html">particularly</a> <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/my-friend-steven.html">my plethora</a> of <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/simon-lion.html">amazing</a> <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/spaniel.html">friends</a> - I love you all so much, without you I am nothing.<br />
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Got to go, this big <a href="http://bifkinpie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/bird-of-rosacea.html">(baby) bird</a> has got to fly...<br />
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It's folds they unfurl in a jaded golden mile</div>
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As real as a whore with a welcoming smile</div>
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For it'll take your wallet and then open wide</div>
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Come to Blackpool - try and find the pride!</div>
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They shit and they piss without a second thought</div>
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The council make decisions that must have been bought</div>
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For the triffids you see erect in the square</div>
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Are brutal and dominant, designed for a dare?</div>
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This Victorian seaside town that once was the place</div>
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Rattles and creaks; crime stats disgrace</div>
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So how do you scrub up these decades of faeces?</div>
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When they're all boarded up, advertising leases</div>
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The glass on the beach, the pregnant fights</div>
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They burnt the fun house - the corrupt at the pleasure </div>
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Bullying their all, no longer selling heather</div>
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And to polish this turd, you'd need a buffer made of mallows</div>
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No vision, no future, it's detritus in the shallows</div>
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What the landlady needs is someone with vision</div>
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To prevent the corrosion and decorate the fission</div>
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Someone! Rescue the Golden Smile with class</div>
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Bring the creatives to attract those with brass</div>
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Change the game, invent a hatch</div>
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Or just burn the fucker and start from scratch</div>
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<br />Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-87278933386270722332013-06-09T13:02:00.001+01:002013-06-24T09:09:53.398+01:00Dear Deidre, my arms are too long.<br />
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I've been a sporadic user of dating websites over the past 5 years. I take my time, drop by, see if there's anything a little bit different out there, maybe drop someone a line. But I largely lurk like a Victorian prostitute in Whitechapel.<br />
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I've physcially met around 8 people via websites. 3 of them I'm still in contact with. 1 of them is one of my best friends.<br />
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Two people I've REALLY liked who I met to the extent of being obsessively lustful and envisaging all manner of possibilities but then it becomes weird. Ah lust - and it's mechanics of chemical business, blood flow, touching, giggling and voodoo.<br />
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I like touching things. Not to the extent where I develop callouses from the endless friction, but, certainly erring on the 'she-touches-too-much-stuff' side. Damn me and my stupid hands, because they get me into head trouble when that happens within intimacy and I shift into a dribbling spaniel with the infinitely wagging tail.<br />
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Uncool dribbling spaniel.<br />
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And I can't play games, because I'm rubbish at them. If I wanted to play psychological manipulation, I'd have to go out with someone who I didn't like that much, and keep their interest by simply not being that interested. True love.<br />
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As a romantic, I'm destined to die broken-hearted. The melancholy that plagues the romantic is the downside of the cosy ideal. I feel sad and heavy hearted that I'm single, as it'd be nice to have fun with someone who was quite cool a bit more often, but here's the problem - the cool never have time for the uncool. Phil Cool is the exception. Tragically, Phil, 56, has no friends because he has a tendency to 'anaconda' them whilst doing an impression of a swamp creature in social settings.<br />
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Uncool anaconda-juice corroded dribbling spaniel. Wow, metaphoric.<br />
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It's time to be as honest as - someone who works in bullshit - can be. I'm going to drop the 'spin' on my dating profile. I'm going to lose the bullshit. And I'm going to be as unromantic as possible.<br />
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No of course, that'd be stupid. I'll die from choking on a hair ball having never loved again.<br />
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This is clearly another work-in-progress, but for now I need to sit on my hands and work out this Mr Tickle-sized-knot.Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-56199173034732889102013-06-07T00:26:00.000+01:002013-06-07T00:41:48.471+01:00Fact you (1/30)The first challenge is to give you, dear penis-cream-robot, more insight into who I am by bringing you 20 facts about me.<br />
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I have only been in love once.<br />
I didn't vote in the last election, and likely won't in 2015.<br />
I have licked Billy Corgan.<br />
I have been caught up in an armed siege.<br />
I've performed the Heimlich on a stranger.<br />
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I have a recurring dream about flying in a yellow Volvo.<br />
I'm not a real ginger.<br />
I have had a relationship with a feeder.<br />
I am an uncontrollable blusher.<br />
I have a baffling crush on the bald bloke from 'Aqua'.<br />
When I was 8, I really, really wanted to be a pathologist.<br />
I am the youngest of three.<br />
I had a fling with someone who dumped me a month before winning the Perrier in Edinburgh. <br />
I was a qualified cycling proficiency teacher.<br />
My favourite colour is orange, but sometimes turquoise.<br />
Though 'Northern' I was born in the South.<br />
In Primary school, I once pooed my pants 7 times in one day.<br />
I'm a thumbsucker.<br />
I have lived in 4 different countries.<br />
I tell people I've punched a horse. I haven't.<br />
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<br />Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-41052163573879769452013-06-06T23:30:00.002+01:002013-06-07T00:40:58.042+01:00Lively up yourself CHALLENGEOh go on then...<br />
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The 30 day challenge is largely put in place to aid writers block, offering outlets of cerebral guff to aid some form of cohesive creativity. I'm up for that, as I've started to notice I'm dumbing myself down by becoming solely interested in how critical my residential bin stink is getting, and to be honest, I'm sick of writing bloody lovelorn poetry. Tragic. </div>
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So firstly, a proviso, I won't be doing it everyday (as I have an erratic work/social life that lacks routine and often doesn't permit downtime), but I will attempt to complete 30 posts no matter how mundane, self-indulgent or taxing. And with those three adjectives, I know you're sold, right?</div>
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I can't promise a read of any interest at all, in fact I suspect the only readers of this blog are robots trawling for gaps to spam innocents with the hottest new penis cream, but well, this is my place in the ether space, so I'm parking my bullshit here (and there and there and there). I welcome suggestions about any topics/questions you'd like to challenge me to waft about. In fact I'd appreciate the mind chowder. You can contact me on vixmcglynn@gmail.com - and that's not just you, Mam.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can't handle the touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've lost myself, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is too much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Swaddle me, and tighten,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Speak to me and know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pull back, and nourish,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rip out my eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't come one step closer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have to control mine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rip out my eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pull out my tongue,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stop me from feeling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pull out my tongue,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stop me from feeling,</span></div>
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Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-54207213076409211462013-06-03T12:57:00.000+01:002014-02-05T16:53:56.306+00:00Swerveball with Mr ShitcadMr Stevie Shitcad examined himself in the mirror, his testes felt normal, and popping his collective shaved gonad into his snug pouch, he yelped "...better get to it!" before turning off Bette Midler's greatest hits, spinning on his heel, and heading for an important date with a workman.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMmSnlMAzTuMg-6Xc1T99KEt8X_zDgN7rsOFgy9XhQ1D1dwcR-o5nBOQHTlfYoG0F4IqHvx3Q-Uu5T-tvRr9PDVtxvsxRMU3ey-2mrzKOgn43AEvYH0n7JZInLs0epNJE2DwsAtyHCBCF-/s1600/imgres-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMmSnlMAzTuMg-6Xc1T99KEt8X_zDgN7rsOFgy9XhQ1D1dwcR-o5nBOQHTlfYoG0F4IqHvx3Q-Uu5T-tvRr9PDVtxvsxRMU3ey-2mrzKOgn43AEvYH0n7JZInLs0epNJE2DwsAtyHCBCF-/s400/imgres-2.jpeg" height="250" width="400" /></a>No not really, Stevie was 117% hetrosexual, even though you'd imagine he worked in a theatrical costume department, plus his name WAS Steve. The gay name.<br />
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Stevie had a problem aside from his non-homosexual-homosexuality. He was on the waiting list for a delicate operation and was meeting with his consultant Doctor Apathetic - who was hoping, but wasn't massively bothered, to cure him of his unfortunate affliction.
It was a terrible story.<br />
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Stevie, as a baby and just taking on solids, began to convulse and produce his first digested matter via his mouth. His insides were all wrong. He shat from his mouth. Everytime he opened his mouth, a smooth jersey-potato-sized turd would pop out! But he didn't let his unexpected face shitting get to him; over the years he found that some women, when faced with such vulnerability, gave him more of their time. Yes, it was the sympathy vote Stevie got, a cheap trick but one that had led to the contraction of over 15 sexually transmitted diseases. He wore his weather beaten cock with non-gay pride; his confidence betraying it's stump like-length but extreme girth, that gave his member the appearance of an undercooked american pancake.
When he confessed his unique genital foible, usually in tears, sometimes in the bookies, women sensed a vulnerability so powerful they started lactating full fat cream. When paired with the disclosure of his aural digestive foible, women had been known to start contracting and produce a Kinder Surprise containing the rare crocodile-on-a-skateboard figurine. SURPRISE!
That's right, Stevie Shitcad was a serious - yet really obviously bad - player.
"You can't have your cake, and eat it!" was an all too familiar phrase to Stevie, who wished people would stop buying him cake and not letting him eat it.<br />
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Stevie died a fortnight later in the gruesome manner you'd expect, he had become too full of shit.<br />
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And the moral of the story? See Doctor Immediately. He's more prompt with medical action.Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-37302445206628329772013-03-08T01:00:00.002+00:002013-06-03T13:15:38.426+01:00BraisedYou touch her hair, I wish it was me.
No chance, at best, I imagine a three.
Then who gets the meat? And who gets the veg?
I can feel the heartburn, as I starve on the dregs.
She's too good for you; my blinkers they fell, give it ten more days, the ego will quell.
But now I hang, as spikey gooseberry, perplexed why onearth he'd choose to lose me.
She's a good 'un; ample; a clever charm,
Picture painted green-eyed-storm turns sudden calm.
And I shouldn't feel discontent at this new affair,
I just wish, once more, he might touch my hair.Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-70943372951520105332013-03-05T21:31:00.000+00:002013-06-03T13:16:41.002+01:00ElamentShine for me lightbulb boy<br />
Shine so bright<br />
To see those eyes ablaze, as if I were<br />
The only one to turn you on.Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-7491691606915774282012-11-09T17:06:00.000+00:002012-11-09T17:17:04.846+00:00Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate commemorate, I've written this verse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the past year, at best, has extended its terse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the black that enveloped and smothered my all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Has thankfully receded; an ascent from the fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the ebony cloak that shrouded my joy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Came for the hat trick, and rendered me coy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But this one was different, a duo in force;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Numb, and deflated, strangled remorse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The trudge, and the dredge and the suffocated ego,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Called into question 'where the fuck did she go?'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reflects and processes; concludes pragmatic,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The hyper obsolete, remainder empathetic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Breaking the cycle of crushed resignation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly strength surfaced, without hesitation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I clung to it tight, climbed, came awake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those wings that were lame, at once, reinstate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't lessen the spirit, tenacious thee,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Explore all the corners, resolve comes from me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now I assess the errors I made...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The friends I have lost, loved ones that stayed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the lessons I've learnt in the year that passed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imprint their experience; oaken aura cast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So to my true loves, my safety net crew,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My all is ever grateful for the existence of you.</span></div>
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<br />Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-81027293521460879022012-06-07T22:36:00.001+01:002012-06-08T12:20:27.837+01:00Agapoo<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Black
Lace, Black Lace, You’re a fucking disgrace,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">You
take to the stage with amateur haste.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Agadoo
you do, in presenting your case,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But
look at your flip flops, they’re so out of place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Where
are the sequins, where is the cheese?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I
came to watch you, but who the fuck are these?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">They’re
not the real ones ‘SUPERMAN, please?!’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Flabbies soaked in bin juice; inflated fees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So
whatever happened, whatever went wrong,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Just
turn on the backing tape, crack on with the song.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And
I’m guessing the set won’t last too long...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Finish
on a megamix, pad it out with a cong...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A,
call it a pony for a turn and a spout,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t
worry about showbiz, it clearly means nowt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Where’s
the sounds that once had the clout?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Aired as flash-in-the-pan novelty no doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So
bucks fizz your ideas, and give it a try,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This
lacklustre performance is making me cry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Just
a push-pineapple-Hawaiian-shirt-less lie...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">...What
happened to Black Lace, did one of them die? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">...Yes...</span></span></div>Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-21181203243512179442012-05-24T23:31:00.001+01:002012-05-24T23:54:56.369+01:00Cactus Flower<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I miss you already,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Tissues scattered as snow’,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I never gave it time,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You, I don’t know.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But cohesion had glued,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For me, a sense of sync,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now I’m licking my wounds,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Drowning in drink.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The bubble was kiltered</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And I had to brake hard,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This had to be halted;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Forecast a red card.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Call it intuition, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And it’s doomed to be,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But I felt it was different,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And now the fool is me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For I sever its bloom,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And it never makes scent,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">How I can destroy,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A caution, intent.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I can’t play the games,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That they seem to master,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I let it flow natural,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now, alone, I neck castor.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And petals they scatter,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Detached from their centre,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I pick up my heart;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As Charcoal as Pinter,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And repeat to fade, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This romantic ideal,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My bluffers stance folds.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To the wind, you deal!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And I miss you already. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But I never give it chance,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I unravel the blue prints.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And don't start the dance.</span></div>Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-52316899272921088062012-05-18T00:37:00.000+01:002012-05-18T00:37:50.087+01:00Air<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US">At least there’s some silence</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Trapped in this cell of sound</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My loudness excited</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Outside it’s more ground</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When placed to the mic</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And high on caffeine</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I remove myself from her</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Trying not to be mean</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For the boom and the bigness</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Is just for the show</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But looking at her now</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Overbearing must go</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This sense of approval</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Is evident to all</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Proving so much</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After gargantuan fall</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One day I shall mellow</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With the birds and I’ll say</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not everyone can like you</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It doesn’t work that way</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But first I must start </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To find out where I am</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To demonstrate some grace</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">More natural, the plan</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So take her off air</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And give us the space</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I like the quiet sometimes</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Get me out of this place</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jeremy Kyle</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Syrupy Lyle</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Resolute dial</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jeremy Heil</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Premium smile</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Judging with bile</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Trusted and wile</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Totally vile</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jeremy Kyle</span></div>Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-52981435934012027432012-05-12T21:02:00.001+01:002012-05-12T21:38:13.639+01:00Poor little fat girlA while back I began communicating with a manboy; this was prior to my departure into the 'depression-within-a-depression' in the ultimate depressive destination of Estonia. Having put on a bit of weight whilst there, I informed him - via phone - of my additional stack that was returning with me, to which he responded "I don't normally date fatties, but you're funny so I'll make allowances".<br />
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Being mostly human, I have emotions. One of those is anger. You may be familiar with anger. I rarely get angry, but when I do, you'll know. You'll know, and you'll cry.<br />
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This week I've been annoyed with a shop window in my current neighborhood. The shop window in question is that of slutty emporium 'Anne Summers'. Whether it be nipple clamps or a packet of penis pasta - they've got it all, the dirty bastards. Before you start thinking I'm some sort of prude, I'm not, I'm as liberal as Paddy Ashdown, with his pants down, going down town. I'm well dirty, me.<br />
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So, returning to the offending item in the shop window...on Day 1 whilst idly passing I became aware of a mannequin. Come Day 2 I actually stopped and mouthed disapprovingly 'fuck off' in disbelief at what I was witnessing. In reality I said it quite loudly, so others could be party to my horror at the site before me (but I was likely perceived to be a mad woman shouting 'fuck off' at a pair of knickers in a window). Come Day 3, I thought I would make my complaint heard to the workers in the shop.<br />
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Following a power lunch of roll mop herrings, I decided to march towards the shop knowing full well my breath was going to be as offensive as their window display. They were going to take the stench of my metaphorical and literal bile.<br />
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Talking to the assistant, whilst the manager eyed my rattled assertion with suspicion, I demanded she take the tape measure from around her neck and come with me to the window where I then instructed her to measure the waist of the curvaceous mannequin on display. I was angry, she obeyed.<br />
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20 inches.<br />
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To put this in perspective, I am currently a size 14, within a healthy range for my BMI and my THIGH measures 25".<br />
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To put this further into perspective, here is a model who recently came under scrutiny for her 20" waist, and her (here we go again...) insistence that she eats junk food three times-a-day and scoffs herself senseless with chocolate. She just has that kind of metabolism. You know, that infamous vapourising metabolism.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">She likely has a chronic case of worms, undetected except for her incessant bottom scratching. </span></div>
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So back to my one woman protest. Having informed the shop assistant I would be speaking to their customer services department about this unrealistic window freak, she attempted to placate me with her reassurance that all the other models in the shop were of average size. Having eyes, I was aware of this, but what she chose to disregard is the developing sexuality of the already insecure young girls who pass by the window, and who - perhaps - fantastise about realising their dreamy fornications via a pair of satin turquoise panties atop a waist of miniscule proportions. She could be that girl, in those knickers, being desired because of that 'ultimate' feminine shape. If only she stopped eating, or made herself sick...<br />
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Eating disorders are responsible for more loss of life than any other psychological illness. The increase of these deaths certainly correlates with the increasing celebration of perfection of the rich and famous as we are continuously and increasingly distracted from what is really important. <br />
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So, stop it, Summers! Stop being aesthetically deceptive to shift your filthy slag pants, you immoral bunch of whores. I don't subscribe to the magazines that make me feel shit, so I certainly don't want this load of falsified literal arse forced in my face.<br />
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If I don't get that mannequin removed by the end of the month, I'm going to eat more cake than is recommended to sedate the pain of feeling aesthetically worthless.<br />
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It's a Catch 22.Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891431903011826577.post-86111301764216803372012-05-11T12:38:00.001+01:002012-05-11T12:39:51.877+01:00Red YellowWet sang naive Yellow,<br />
But when it comes to you,<br />
I think of skin, sallow,<br />
And the damage you do.<br />
The Race has begun,<br />
Now, where is the nurse?<br />
At night he hydrates,<br />
The rouge taking purse.<br />
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Your life is a mess,<br />
But you have an idea.<br />
I can't see this car crash;<br />
And the premature pyre.<br />
You say things are good;<br />
Midnight guffaws,<br />
But she doesn't care either,<br />
Her judgement is poor.<br />
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Awash with faux glee,<br />
As you egg lover on,<br />
Cue denial-in-duality,<br />
A duo lost; gone.<br />
For one who loves you,<br />
In her own special way,<br />
You grab on tight, too,<br />
It's acceptable this fray?<br />
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When those ravaged bags,<br />
Betray the gifted scriber,<br />
A liver transplant,<br />
Best have a buyer.<br />
For when I see this,<br />
I shake my head in pity,<br />
For one with your skills,<br />
And nothing in kitty.<br />
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You steal and you lie,<br />
All be it in good rib,<br />
But I'm tired my friend,<br />
Of this permanent glib.<br />
What are you to do?<br />
The future pretends,<br />
It looks toxic for you.<br />
We know how this ends.<br />
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If I had the strength,<br />
To fight for your corner,<br />
I'd drag it forcehenth,<br />
Frogmarch the former.<br />
So wake up young Bear,<br />
What are you to do?<br />
When tox is blackened,<br />
Repairable too?<br />
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You're lazy and lost,<br />
But aware of the pain,<br />
My eyes they are bleeding,<br />
Emotion no-feign.<br />
So look in the mirror:<br />
The eyes have no killer,<br />
You're forgetting the future,<br />
Now magenta's the filler.Vic (toria) Claire McGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06216657930511889371noreply@blogger.com0