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@taniwharugby said in Happiness Scale:
@barbarian said in Happiness Scale:
Of course the key to this is to never ever sell it as a good time. It's fine. There might even be a few brief moments of enjoyment, but really I'd much prefer to be at home...
does she buy that?
Oh of course not. Hiding the hangover is also part of it. And the overall cost of the thing.
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
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@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
Do I win?
What do you reckon?
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
Do I win?
What do you reckon?
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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have the first club social event of the year and Mrs Womble is out of town
pub crawl where the players (in teams) have to track down the put where the coaches/managers are....looking forward to it
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@booboo Sounds like a great weekend with the highlight obviously being the match.
But, to go all a bit Grumpy Old Man thread, I hate Gold Class, absolute worst way to watch a movie, the first 30 odd minutes it's a restaurant with a big screen, food delivers walking all over the place, people complaining their order is wrong, annoys the fuck out of me. Plus, you could fund the Rebels with a single ticket.
To keep with the happiness theme, I'm going to it on Sunday in Vmax (the best way to watch), and completed my rewatch of part one last night.
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Mrs Womble and I probably only go 4-6 times a year to the cinema...and almost always gold class, Village normally have 30-50% off sales and we'll pick up a few tickets
love getting to sit there and have hot food brought out or an ice creme only come when im ready to eat it
to each their own
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
Plans for Saturday.
Leave here shite and briny in the a.m. Head towards the big smoke.
Leave Mrs Boo to guard the cats and sit the house.
Stop in Sunny Coast to collect female offspring.
Proceed to gold class cinema on North side of Brisbane for late morning screening of Dune 2.
Order lunch to have with movie while reclining.
Watch Dune 2 with female offspring, with whom I had watched first instalment (Mrs Boo not fussed).
Proceed to accommodation on South Bank of River mid afternoon.
Have quiet or two with offspring.
Proceed by foot to Suncorp, approx 15mins, late afternoon, early evening for very civilised 6:30 kick off (thanks to Queensland's refusal to join the civilised world in enjoying daylight "savings" (as Qlders know it)).
Watch Chiefs play as well as they did last week (work with me here jinx gods), with likely uninterested offspring who only came because I am old and I'm going to die soon and she should spend more time with me (actual phrasing). Seats somewhere between 10m and 22, broadcasting side of the field*.
Breakfast Sunday somewhere on South Bank.
Return home, dropping offspring on way.
Added bonus of not watching Blackcaps v Aus.
What are you poor people doing?
- bonus points if anyone is old enough to recall who used to use that phrase in commentary ...
Off to Invercargill on Friday night. So that's my weekend ruined.
Not really. Off to the races on Saturday for a great day out at very affordable prices.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Happiness Scale:
Mrs Womble and I probably only go 4-6 times a year to the cinema...and almost always gold class, Village normally have 30-50% off sales and we'll pick up a few tickets
love getting to sit there and have hot food brought out or an ice creme only come when im ready to eat it
to each their own
I basically go weekly, Mad Men style, so I'd burn through cash if I went to Gold Class every week (assuming I liked it).
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
You poor bastard.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
You poor bastard.
Pretty sure that'd be a fair excuse to auto-pass a breathalyzer.
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Just started reading this thread. Thank you. Appreciate it. I must be more thankful for the good in my life. Best wishes to everyone.
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This is quite an odd topic for me as I came from very humble beginnings and at a very ealry age (early 40's) I'd realsied that id achieved or over achieved everything in life I'd ever wanted to get.
So one would think hapines off the scale, sit with your feet back and clap yourself on the back for a job well done and it's all happy days from here on in.
Unfortunately this wasn't my reality, there was a line that hautned me "you will sit their in your comfort and your lesuire and it will drag you down into your grave and kill you". It sounds severe and odd but I understood exactly what it meant.
I'd become demotivated, bored, real lazy, overwieght and barely doing anything at all outside of my own enjoyment. If you looked at my behaviour youd say I was depressed, I mean I didn't feel depressed as I was happy and content but in reality I probably was.
Also though this time I underwnet two courses of conselling, 1 to help me overcome my childhood trauma (an odd way to bond with your sister when you share your experiences, both come to the exact same conlusions and then reach out for help). The second was to help me get through all the poor coping mechanism's I'd developed to deal with that trauma.
It's been a hard road realizing you've been hurt, then realizing that some of your responses to that hurt has been to hurt others, then going back into your past and apologising to try and make things right. Especially hard when you relaise that the poeple you've hurt the most have generraly been the ones that have tried to love and care for you.
Anyway this year I've been making my peace, joined the gym, got a fitness program and started as head coach of my old rugby team.
It's odd because doing all of that takes a lot of energy, but it fills me with so much more enrgy and motivation than sitting at home and taking it easy ever did. I'm helping out a heap more around the house and with the kids as I'm getting enjoyment from setting simpel goals, completing simple tasks and just being active.
I guess there's that odd line about happiness is that it doesn't come to you if you just search for happiness, you find it in people that fill their lives with purpose. Happiness then comes as a by product.
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@BerniesCorner said in Happiness Scale:
Just started reading this thread. Thank you. Appreciate it. I must be more thankful for the good in my life. Best wishes to everyone.
It is important, but not always easy, to find joy and satisfaction in the little things
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@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
@BerniesCorner said in Happiness Scale:
Just started reading this thread. Thank you. Appreciate it. I must be more thankful for the good in my life. Best wishes to everyone.
It is important, but not always easy, to find joy and satisfaction in the little things
i say that to my wife all the time
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