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hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

you are in a real bad mood, and the less contact you have with others is the best option?

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    😂😂😂 Yes

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    😂😂😂 Yes

    I bet there are more than a few inmates that wished they hadn't made contact with you on those days. :)

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hammer1 said:
    you are in a real bad mood, and the less contact you have with others is the best option?

    Ok, let's have it, what's got you in a bad mood?

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 19, 2021 1:50PM

    @doubledragon said:

    @hammer1 said:
    you are in a real bad mood, and the less contact you have with others is the best option?

    Ok, let's have it, what's got you in a bad mood?

    Today, everything.

    Started with ...NM we would go past dinner time.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hammer1 said:

    @perkdog said:
    😂😂😂 Yes

    I bet there are more than a few inmates that wished they hadn't made contact with you on those days. :)

    Hahahaha yes that would be true however the funny thing is that my coworkers and the administration pissed me off just about as much if not more.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hammer1 said:

    @doubledragon said:

    @hammer1 said:
    you are in a real bad mood, and the less contact you have with others is the best option?

    Ok, let's have it, what's got you in a bad mood?

    Today, everything.

    Started with ...NM we would go past dinner time.

    We all have our days. Now there, there.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hammer1 said:

    @doubledragon said:

    @hammer1 said:
    you are in a real bad mood, and the less contact you have with others is the best option?

    Ok, let's have it, what's got you in a bad mood?

    Today, everything.

    Started with ...NM we would go past dinner time.

    Honestly there are a couple things I can recommend to get you in a better mood, check out Double D’s gifs and memes, that should make you laugh! If that don’t do it then get on a YouTube and disappear down some rabbit holes while sipping on a glass of scotch?

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 19, 2021 2:01PM

    Double D is the Jerry Seinfeld of CU.

    For the older members he's Groucho Marx.

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 19, 2021 2:19PM

    This could take my mind off of it. (credit to LarkinCollector.)

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    im pretty sure Limp Bizkit once wrote a song about one of those days

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,449 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Every day! That’s why mans best friend is a dog. The more I know about people the less I want to know.

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • clarke442clarke442 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:
    im pretty sure Limp Bizkit once wrote a song about one of those days

    Having a Bad Day
    by Blue Flannel

    I hate drunk people and
    I hate sober people and
    I hate all people today

    I hate short people and
    I hate tall people and
    I hate all people today

    'Cause I'm havin a bad day
    Havin a bad day
    Get out of my way
    'cause I'm havin a bad day

    Havin a bad day
    Havin a bad day
    Get out of my way
    'Cause I'm havin a bad day

    I hate horny people and
    I hate corny people and
    I hate all people today

    I hate my boss and bbq sauce
    I'll just toss em all away

    'Cause I'm havin a bad day
    Havin a bad day
    Get out of my way
    'Cause I'm havin a bad day

    Havin a bad day
    Havin a bad day
    Get out of my way
    'Cause I'm havin a bad day

    Like a child being chased by a monster
    That will never go away
    I close my eyes and hope for a bright tomorrow
    I want to be alone
    I want to be alone

    'Cause I'm havin' a bad day
    Havin' a bad day
    Get out of my way
    'cause I'm havin' a bad day

    Havin' a bad day
    Havin' a bad day
    Get out of my way
    'Cause I'm havin a bad day

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This poem, by Charles Bukowski, though not exactly on the topic of a bad day, for some reason came to mind for me when I read through this thread. I hope at least one of you will enjoy it, and perhaps one of you who has never read Bukowski will have discovered him through this ......

    Either peace or happiness,
    let it enfold you

    when I was a young man
    I felt these things were
    dumb, unsophisticated.
    I had bad blood, a twisted
    mind, a precarious
    upbringing.

    I was hard as granite, I
    leered at the
    sun.
    I trusted no man and
    especially no
    woman.

    I was living a hell in
    small rooms, I broke
    things, smashed things,
    walked through glass,
    cursed.
    I challenged everything,
    was continually being
    evicted, jailed, in and
    out of fights, in and out
    of my mind.
    women were something
    to screw and rail
    at, I had no male
    friends,

    I changed jobs and
    cities, I hated holidays,
    babies, history,
    newspapers, museums,
    grandmothers,
    marriage, movies,
    spiders, garbagemen,
    english accents,spain,
    france,italy,walnuts and
    the color
    orange.
    algebra angred me,
    opera sickened me,
    charlie chaplin was a
    fake
    and flowers were for
    pansies.

    peace and happiness to me
    were signs of
    inferiority,
    tenants of the weak
    and
    addled
    mind.

    but as I went on with
    my alley fights,
    my suicidal years,
    my passage through
    any number of
    women-it gradually
    began to occur to
    me
    that I wasn't different

    from the
    others, I was the same,

    they were all fulsome
    with hatred,
    glossed over with petty
    grievances,
    the men I fought in
    alleys had hearts of stone.
    everybody was nudging,
    inching, cheating for
    some insignificant
    advantage,
    the lie was the
    weapon and the
    plot was
    empty,
    darkness was the
    dictator.

    cautiously, I allowed
    myself to feel good
    at times.
    I found moments of
    peace in cheap
    rooms
    just staring at the
    knobs of some
    dresser
    or listening to the
    rain in the
    dark.
    the less I needed
    the better I
    felt.

    maybe the other life had worn me
    down.
    I no longer found
    glamour
    in topping somebody
    in conversation.
    or in mounting the
    body of some poor
    drunken female
    whose life had
    slipped away into
    sorrow.

    I could never accept
    life as it was,
    i could never gobble
    down all its
    poisons
    but there were parts,
    tenuous magic parts
    open for the
    asking.

    I re formulated
    I don't know when,
    date, time, all
    that
    but the change
    occurred.
    something in me
    relaxed, smoothed
    out.
    i no longer had to
    prove that I was a
    man,

    I didn't have to prove
    anything.

    I began to see things:
    coffee cups lined up
    behind a counter in a
    cafe.
    or a dog walking along
    a sidewalk.
    or the way the mouse
    on my dresser top
    stopped there
    with its body,
    its ears,
    its nose,
    it was fixed,
    a bit of life
    caught within itself
    and its eyes looked
    at me
    and they were
    beautiful.
    then- it was
    gone.

    I began to feel good,
    I began to feel good
    in the worst situations
    and there were plenty
    of those.
    like say, the boss
    behind his desk,
    he is going to have
    to fire me.

    I've missed too many
    days.
    he is dressed in a
    suit, necktie, glasses,
    he says, 'I am going
    to have to let you go'

    'it's all right' I tell
    him.

    He must do what he
    must do, he has a
    wife, a house, children,
    expenses, most probably
    a girlfriend.

    I am sorry for him
    he is caught.

    I walk onto the blazing
    sunshine.
    the whole day is
    mine
    temporarily,
    anyhow.

    (the whole world is at the
    throat of the world,
    everybody feels angry,
    short-changed, cheated,
    everybody is despondent,
    disillusioned)

    I welcomed shots of
    peace, tattered shards of
    happiness.

    I embraced that stuff
    like the hottest number,
    like high heels, breasts,
    singing,the
    works.

    (don't get me wrong,
    there is such a thing as cockeyed optimism
    that overlooks all
    basic problems just for
    the sake of
    itself-
    this is a shield and a
    sickness.)

    The knife got near my
    throat again,
    I almost turned on the
    gas
    again
    but when the good
    moments arrived
    again
    I didn't fight them off
    like an alley
    adversary.
    I let them take me,
    I luxuriated in them,
    I made them welcome
    home.
    I even looked into
    the mirror
    once having thought
    myself to be
    ugly,
    I now liked what
    I saw, almost
    handsome, yes,
    a bit ripped and
    ragged,
    scares, lumps,
    odd turns,
    but all in all,
    not too bad,
    almost handsome,
    better at least than
    some of those movie
    star faces
    like the cheeks of
    a baby's
    butt.

    and finally I discovered
    real feelings of
    others,
    unheralded,
    like lately,
    like this morning,
    as I was leaving,
    for the track,
    i saw my wife in bed,
    just the
    shape of
    her head there
    (not forgetting
    centuries of the living
    and the dead and
    the dying,
    the pyramids,
    Mozart dead
    but his music still
    there in the
    room, weeds growing,
    the earth turning,
    the tote board waiting for
    me)
    I saw the shape of my
    wife's head,
    she so still,
    I ached for her life,
    just being there
    under the
    covers.

    I kissed her in the
    forehead,
    got down the stairway,
    got outside,
    got into my marvelous
    car,
    fixed the seatbelt,
    backed out the
    drive.
    feeling warm to
    the fingertips,
    down to my
    foot on the gas
    pedal,
    I entered the world
    once
    more,
    drove down the
    hill
    past the houses
    full and empty
    of
    people,
    I saw the mailman,
    honked,
    he waved
    back
    at me.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just realized that this poem might be missing a part, unsure as I copy/pasted it from onlne and no longer have a hard copy of an original version, but you get the idea.....

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What book is that from? I have a good chunk of his work in my library, could check if I have it.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DrBuster said:
    What book is that from? I have a good chunk of his work in my library, could check if I have it.

    I honestly don't remember. I discovered Bukowski in 1998. I don't have any actual books of his poems, or just his books, etc. I had a friend who had some of his stuff. I borrowed that. I used to read in bookstores. Now online.....

  • paulb71paulb71 Posts: 319 ✭✭✭✭

    When I am having a bad day nothing gets me going more then Zeppelin and going to the gym lol

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @paulb71 said:
    When I am having a bad day nothing gets me going more then Zeppelin and going to the gym lol

    💪🤟

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @paulb71 said:
    When I am having a bad day nothing gets me going more then Zeppelin and going to the gym lol

    Page and Bonham - two right up there with the greatest of all time. Very rare to get two GOAT contenders in one band.

    And Plant and Jones weren't bad either. :)

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