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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: TG on December 31, 2009, 05:42:44 PM
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Good feckin' riddance in many ways.
I started the year unemployed but with money in the bank. By June the money had gone and we entered a time of difficulty as Mrs TG had to pay the rent with minimal assistance from the state.
In September I started work as a temp for a couple of weeks and am still there after 3 months and will prolly be there for at least another month.
Last week we noticed that the hot water was not getting.. well... hot. Turns out the gas central heating is on its arse.
Last night I went for ice from the fridge freezer and found that the ice was in fact that well known substance : Water.
Contents of fridge freezer thrown out. Said fridge freezer dead on its arse.
On the other hand..................
I have a job, albeit an uncertain one. Xmas was good, pressies were given and received.
The landlord rose to the occasion after 3 years of nowt from us but rent. Heating engineer has been on site since the day after reported to the landlord.
On the freezer front, we had a chest freezer of our own which contained the meat etc. The fridge freezer was just veggies, bread &c and was the property of the landlord. I phoned them and told them that it was dead at about 9pm this morning and at about 4 pm a brand new very high quality fridge freezer was delivered!
The landlord operates a very good chinese take away over the road and I understand our New Years eve take away will be free, also, they have a present for us. eeek:
So all in all a bad year that ended reasonably well.
I will hope at least for nothing worse than this next year.
Have a great evening people and feel the lurve radiating out to all from Leicester. cloud9:
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All's well that ends well TG and your end looks good from here ~ if I may say so ;)
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Happy New Year all...
Best of luck to you for next year TG.
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Peaks and troughs as ever....
Lets hope next year has higher peaks and shallower troughs whistle:
But whatever happens I know we have each other ( I have been on the collapso already lol: )
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All's well that ends well TG and your end looks good from here ~ if I may say so ;)
Thank you darling. lol:
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All's well that ends well TG and your end looks good from here ~ if I may say so ;)
Thank you darling. lol:
Has someone filled Snoopy's ashtray with BM's hair tonic again? lol:
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Well done TG. You inspire us all. My 2009? Troughs, depression, attempted suicide, exile and soon divorce. Ho hum
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Well done TG. You inspire us all. My 2009? Troughs, depression, attempted suicide, exile and soon divorce. Ho hum
Well it can't get any worse .................... unless rubschin:
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Well done TG. You inspire us all. My 2009? Troughs, depression, attempted suicide, exile and soon divorce. Ho hum
Well it can't get any worse .................... unless rubschin:
Unless the microwave blows up. Oh redface:
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Well done TG. You inspire us all. My 2009? Troughs, depression, attempted suicide, exile and soon divorce. Ho hum
Well it can't get any worse .................... unless rubschin:
unless Bertie snuffs it
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eeek: eeek:
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In addition, I got a CD of Enya's Greatest Hits for Xmas.
The real shocker is that I asked for it. eeek:
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Look we all know that Nick is the kind of person that if chaos and catastrophe were lightning, would be stood on top of a hill in a thunderstorm wearing a tinfoil raincoat and yelling all gods are bastards so there is no reason to scare him with possible calamities involving microwaves or Bertie.
Microwaves AND Bertie however...... scared2:
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In addition, I got a CD of Enya's Greatest Hits for Xmas.
The real shocker is that I asked for it. eeek:
and you got yr lovely wife....and a nice evening ahead of food an beer and my company... eyes:.
Happy New yr to us all, and my 2010 be a happy and healthy one for us all
and you will know that my darling daughter gets married four months tmw..and i will be posting
all my trial and tales of wedding countdown....also the mother of bride outfit i am yet to purchase, and any tips on where to get Tgs suit?
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I started my new role 01.01.2009 so the year got off to a fantastic start. Enjoyed the first eight months of it, but due to reorganisation, find I'm no longer doing a job I love, but one that i don't enjoy at the moment. However, seeing others on here that don't have a job reminds me of how fortunate I am to have a job at all. Personal wise, a bit like others on here, ups and downs, but looking forward to 2010. Thanks for the smiles, the chance to unwind with you chaps/chapesses, some days it was really needed. The very best of luck to all for 2010 bond:
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Happy New Year to you all.
Every year has its low points but the memory of them soon fades leaving just the good parts to savour.
I am enjoying some Scottish wine now. ;)
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Happy New Year All
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I have just spent the night in my local with MrsTMRBB, most of my friends and four young lads back from Afghanistan for two weeks. What lovely lads. They kept calling me "sir". I kept saying it should be the other way round. I may not have a job, but I realise how lucky I am.
Good luck, health and prosperity to you all.
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I'm all fillin' up readin' some of these posts, I really am, honestly. cry:
Best wishes to you all, and sorry for being such a snappy ranting get sometimes.
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sometimes? eeek:
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Happy New Year all!
Let's hope for a good one.
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What can possibly go wrong? diepig:
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What can possibly go wrong? diepig:
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Crap year, still no work.
Thought I was going to have a year with no funerals (would have a the first for nearly 40 years), but that didn't happen.
Still, always grateful for support from friends and family, and also those on here.
I could have done without the "text" message from O2 at 02:00 this morning. It came through on the landline and scared the life out of me. No idea who it was from.
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We always have great hopes for the new year... at best they are the same as the one before and at worst even shiterer... noooo:
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This one is going downhill already noooo:
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This one is going downhill already noooo:
We can only hope that it won't be a long, steep hill.... happy100
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Well, mine has been a pretty damn depressing year.
The lowlights are many, both physical and emotional.
The things that are a given is that general life is still depressing, still working for a faceless corporation preying on the needy. Still managed by a psycopathic, hypocritical thick as fuck bitch. Home life is severe with the wee ones being 3, 4 and 7. Is it possible to ever satisfy the desire to be a good parent?
The year took a turn for the worse on travelling South for a 10 year graduation reunion. The whole thing was pretty damn depressing a mixture of sad bastards trying to prove their worth and smug bastards well trying to buy their former friends attention.
I was at Uni in Bedford but the trains were much cheaper to Northampton, unfortunately it'd mean a bus at about 11 the following day for a 3pm train, the following day being fathers day. Well during the evening I lost touch with the person i was meant to be staying with and other offers weren't too appealing, I knew there was a trin back at about 10am from Northampton so why not walk from Bedford to Northampton?
I remember thinking "what's the worst that can happen" as you usually do before making a stupid decision. Well, lying at the side of the road with four black men kicking me in the head in order to steal a ?50 mobile phone, ?20 cash, train tickets, a pair of pumps, deoderant and my medication confirmed it. Lying in a ditch trying to remember peoples dates of birth so as not to fall unconcious wasn't great, neither was staggering 4 miles to raise the alarm because no cars would stop to help somebody whose head was bleeding profusly.
The hospital treatment wasn't great, neither were the second hand clothes i was given, nor the police trying to get me to have ?150 transferred to get a new ticket home rather than them have to write out a travel docket.
Well, anxiety attacks, trouble sleeping and magic pills later I still hate people.
The emotional came a bit later in the year on finding out my wife and I were having immense relationship problems. Well to be more specific, she was. The 'trial seperation' was joyous as has been all the time since. The thoughts of being a part time dad aint much fun. Working bloody hard on it but some shit has been flung about the place and it's hard to get rid of some of the smells...
The good news is 2010 has to be better!
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Bloody hell eeek:
What a complete nightmare - there are a few here that will identify with the relationship problems though. As for the mugging - I hope they found the bastards but reality would tend to put a lid on those hopes.
Well we're glad to see you back
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Bollox 'Appy. eeek:
And some of us thought we'd had it bad in '09. noooo:
As you say matey, things can only go one way now, and that's better.
Great to read your usual rantings again anyway you miserable sod. Keep it up again. happy088
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What an awful picture of our world today Mr H.
I am so sorry to hear of your woeful year and it puts our trivial problems in perspective.
It would be hard to imagine 2010 being worse than your 2009, so it must get better.
Keep your spirits up and be assured that those in here do truly sympathise.
DS
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Others have said it already Mr H. Put's other so called problems well and truly into perspective. Here's hoping to a better 2010 happy088
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Where to start? noooo:
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At least you are here to tell the tale. I used to live and work in that area ..... wasn't nice then and sounds that it has not improved.
BUT it is an ill wind and all that .... we have your company again ;D
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Thanks for the kind words, strange but I describe the experience more as weird than anything.
The fact that I'd had a good few sherrys before hand is perhaps one reason I'm about to tell the tale, the amount of times they attempted to kick me in the head far surpassed the 5 or so that made contact. Also, even in the bleak moments the rebellion still kicks in, as they announced themselves "we are the clapham massive innit" I was tempted to offer my hand and ask if we could meet up later for tea and cake.
The problem with your modern day criminal is though their blatant disregard for life, I was hardly going to fight for the pitiful posessions upon my person but they seemed intent on violence. I'm also sure there was a time whereby you could have offered them the valuables and requested the medication and train tickets, I was unlikely to open my gob for fear of getting a foot in it.
A couple of weeks later, I thought all was fine. It was the oncoming of nightmares, not liking the dark and shitting myself when someone was in my 'personal space' that suggested this wasn't the case. I nearly launched an old dear in tescos for tapping me on the shoulder to request an item from the top shelf.
All told though, still here whether it be god's will or pure fluke and determined not to let some retarded fuckwits have too great an effect on my life. Whether this in part has caused some of the other issues I am not too sure (maybe looking for an easy answer) but I have been an absolute fucker to be around. I can though only choose my own path to tread and I'm determined that it'll be a far cheerier one this year!
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Shit! eeek:
Welcome back Mr. H - have a drink on the house....
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Drinks on the house everyone, quick cloud9:
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Beaut, i'll have a pint!
Of Vodka...
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Beaut, i'll have a pint!
Of Vodka...
I got a litre of really good stuff from the supermarket the other day for ?5... cloud9:
Help yourself like... ;D
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Wasn't that a present for Miss D? eeek:
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Wasn't that a present for Miss D? eeek:
No, I got really, really good stuff when she came over... cloud9:
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A whole 6 euros? point:
Where is that cheapskate emoticon when you need it?
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Wasn't that a present for Miss D? eeek:
No, I got really, really good stuff when she came over... cloud9:
They call it water in the UK noooo: noooo: noooo:
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A whole 6 euros? point:
Where is that cheapskate emoticon when you need it?
Nine... redface:
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Wasn't that a present for Miss D? eeek:
No, I got really, really good stuff when she came over... cloud9:
They call it water in the UK noooo: noooo: noooo:
You certainly drank it like water! point:
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Oh his head surrender:
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