I saw the 'Spice Grils' live at 'Party In The Park' in Preston, before they became famous - around 1996? I say 'saw' and not 'went to see'. They mimed. The queues to the bogs was huge!
Hey just because she wouldn`t fancy me does not matter, 99% plus of the female population don`t fancy me either, but I think she still looks hot........
I think thats where you're going wrong. Going for the lesbians wont work ! Its like saying the ginger ones the fittest one out of Girls Aloud, come on men ! Thats ridiculous !
Would love it if it was number 1 ! Can just imagine all the smiley nice presenters on the Xmas TOTP saying Rage against the machine is this years Xmas number 1 ... (Then hearing my mum and dad moan about how bad the song is !)
Love this song, doubt this will happen but be great if it was number 1. Might pay for a download just to try and beat the X Factor juggernaut
Hey I don`t judge a woman on her persuasion, my best friend is a lesbian, she is a much truer friend than any of the others have proved over the years.
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
This last decade has been one of the strangest my gran and stepdad both died of cancer within 3 months of each other, and my ma had what can only be described as a breakdown, She's been on disability ever since.
I became aquainted with cocaine in 2002, and struggled with "not taking it anymore" in 2004/5 infact the temptation remains up to this point, if somebody put a line in front of me I don't know if I could say no? There was a a point in 04' where it began to change me and a few of my mates for the worst, and put a strain on our friendships.
2 of my friends died, both in their 20's, I had 2 life threatening illnesses 1 in 2001, 1 in 2003. In 2003 I also ripped my arm open, that wasn't much fun either.
I spent the first half of the decade struggling with unemployment, and not being able to keep what crappy jobs I managed to get my mits on, ergh! training courses, temping, I was in my 20's but I felt like I was a 16 or 17 year old scruff just starting out in the big wide world again.
....and several other drepressing things blah blah blah.
On the plus side I did enjoy playing games still and did that a lot.
In 02' I signed up to the yahoo JSW group after making my rather average first attempt at editing JSW, and never looked back. Got aquainted with a few people from here before I joined the forums in 06' after about 8 years of lurking in the background, and pillaging the archive :D
I think I originally finally signed up to flame somebody on here, and got sidetracked by several threads in the games forum, and ended up staying without actually doing said flamage :lol:
I met my wife.
I managed to get a stable job albeit a crap one in 04' but I was glad to have the money and work my way out of the mountains of debt living on the low had accumulated over the years. I pretty much became part of the real world.
Between 05' and now I've travelled more than I ever had in my life before then.
Basically in the last 5 years all the bad stuff has became a distant memory, almost like it never happened I know deep down it did and it sucked balls at the time, but now I just look at it as part of the journey through life. I also wonder if all the crap hadn't have happened if I'd have any of the good stuff I now have.
My biggest and strangest adventure this decade still has to be moving from England to the states. If you had've told me 10 years ago that I'd be married to an American girl I'd be living in the US, I'd like iced coffee, and I'd be working in one of the Tri-states largest grocery chains, I'd probably have told you to go and shove your head up your arse.
Funny how things turn out, and you know what? I don't think I'd change any of it, I did a lot of growing up this decade, infact this century come to think of it, and I'm actually glad it turned out this way :)
An emotional roller coaster of a decade for me, but here's hoping the next 10 years are equally as strange, I genuinely think I'm a better person for it all.
Gotta say it's been a good decade. Got married and had two daughters, got the job I've always wanted to do, so i can't imagine it's gonna get any better than this!!!! I'm fitter in my mid-30's than I've been since my early twenties.
Other personal matters have not been good though. I still have no contact with any member of my family other than my mother but have no desire to do so anyway. My grandad who I hadn't seen for twenty years died suddenly of cancer a couple of years ago, luckily I got to see him two weeks before the end. My stepdad got put inside for something he did not do and my kids were used by the scum to put him away - unforgivable - and if I ever suddenly stop posting here it's because I've met them and the inevitable has happened!!!
It been one hell of a decade to live in though - some truly monumental world events have occurred. 9/11, 7/7 bombings, the almost meltdown of the worlds economy, and something I thought I would never live to see, a black man becoming the most powerful man on earth (that being a good thing, not a negative!)
After twenty years of waiting I finally got to see my favourite book of all time being made into one of the greatest series of movies of all time - Lord of the Rings. The Star Wars saga was finally completed and what a bloody letdown that was.
Although British TV has sunk to an alltime low with endless (un)reality TV shows, crap celeb rubbish, stupid house makeover programs, and endless other shite, thank God the Americans finally figured out how to make TV as good as film - Lost, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire, Dexter, etc all utterly superb entertainment.
Let's just hope the tennies(?) can get off to a great start. England winning the World Cup would be perfect.
What would everyone's vote be for videogame of the decade? Really tough one I think as there's been some great stuff.
Notable mentions must go to Resi 4, Burnout Paradise, Dead Space, Mario Galaxy and Halo amongst many. Think my vote would have to go to Half Life 2. It didn't just raise the bar; it ripped up the goalposts and implanted them on the top of Everest.
Basically in the last 5 years all the bad stuff has became a distant memory, almost like it never happened I know deep down it did and it sucked balls at the time, but now I just look at it as part of the journey through life.
Totally agree, without sounding like an irish twat life is a rollercoaster, enjoy the up's but just know the down's wont last forever.
I was gutted the first time i was made redundant but on the other hand that forced me to move away (because of a new job) and i got together with my now-wife. If i hadnt been made redundant i would have still lived down south and not got together with her. If i hadnt moved up north i wouldnt have got my dog etc. Amazing how the 'chain' works.
Now i'm not some hippy but i realise when times are bad (money or work or something else) those stresses will be alright at some point in the future, granted maybe not tomorrow or next week, might be months but either way it 'will be alright'. I dont stress about any stuff like that now as i've had nightmare times at work (or with relationships) and its eventually turned out okay.
When my wife stresses about some presentation she does i try to convince her not to worry as in a few days after its done she'll realise it wasnt as bad as she thought. No point putting stress on the heart !
Thanks for sharing that, I must admit I have been more than a little irritated at some of the things you write, but hearing your story makes me feel bad for you and more understanding. The thing is they say what dosn`t kill you, makes you stronger, you are the living proof. Good on you man, take life by the throat and shake out every ounce out of it. Good luck for the future and try not to step backward, you have shown that you know what lies at the end of that road. Respect.........
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
this decade has been shit, started out great. went downhill.
used to go out all the time, meet girls, take drugs, have a right laugh. now im feking miserable, in a dead end job. (the same f'ing one for 10 year) hardly go out, hardly have any fun excpet playing on the xbox.
funnily enough it all started going wrong after i joined wos.
Link works fine for me. I could put it YouTube, but it ain't worth it - it's just a binman looking inside my bin. To be honest it wasn't that full, but it never is.
Typical contract bin lorry driver; stopped right in the middle of the road blocking off the whole street when there's plenty of room to pull a few yards forward and pull in.
this decade has been shit, started out great. went downhill.
Thats because you've got a steady girlfriend. Before that you were doing threesomes, you were getting drunk tons, getting off with loads of different girls and going out having a wild and crazy time and now youre asking about 'roast dinners'.
Wheres the 'rock n roll' Miles i used to know !!! Settle down and be boring when you're married, in the meantime go crazy son !!
Anyway make sure you're free in April for the next retro do son
I got drunk last night, first beers I'd had in about 2 weeks and I was bladdered off about 6 of them.
I can usually plough my way through much more than that :D
Thought I may have went rampaging through all the threads on here last night, but it appears I didn't thankfully, was expecting to have to make several apologies this morning :lol:
Thats because you've got a steady girlfriend. Before that you were doing threesomes, you were getting drunk tons, getting off with loads of different girls and going out having a wild and crazy time and now youre asking about 'roast dinners'.
Wheres the 'rock n roll' Miles i used to know !!! Settle down and be boring when you're married, in the meantime go crazy son !!
Anyway make sure you're free in April for the next retro do son
defo coming to that retro show, have put some methadrone aside for the occasion. i'll see if i can best my drinking recored too!!
Well the strangeness of this decade continues I'm off to Kentucky now so my wife can go and take her dads stitches out of his face. He's recovering quite well from the severe beating over the head with a metal bar.
So I'm gonna be in the car again for about 5 hours today, so I'm gonna take book 4 and 5 of the Speccy Bible with me to read on the journey, and hopefully Book 6 will be waiting for me when I get back?
Hopefully I won't be back too late as I work tonight and I want to get a few beers down me before I go to bed :lol:
If you could draw a graph from 2000 to 2008 then I'd say mine has been a steep upwards voyage of discovery, fulfilment and happiness... but you know when a heron dives into the water to get a fish but instead of water it headbutts concrete? that has been my 2009 and quite possibly 2010 as well, but hey, ups and downs eh?
And as far as Cowell and his take-over of pop music, well he can have it, popular music has been dead for many years, all shows like X factor are doing is dancing on its grave and wringing profit from corpses. Just look around you and see how many tribute acts and other grave robbers are peddling their trade in pubs and clubs. Music is dead (Morrissey said so in the 90's:) )
Did you not meet her before she was your wife? :lol: ...sorry chap...:oops:
Well after starting the decade in OK shape, I started to drift a bit...moved through quite a few jobs - which probably explains why I work for the shithouse that I currently do.
It's been pretty plop for me TBH, but things are getting better. I'm thankful that I'm still young enough to get over things (not 34 until next March).
Finally got married last year, so I suppose the next decade will probably mean having children (*BIG GULP*).
And hopefully fulfilling a bit of an ambition by living abroad, at least for a few years...
At the start of the decade I was super fit, really stupidly fit, I'm rather out of shape now, but not too bad. However, I'm a lot happier and more at home with myself these days. :)
Well its coming up to the end of the decade, did everyone have a good one ? Mine wasnt the best but had its highlights
80's i loved (wasnt keen on school though), 90's was the best, great music, my first job, drinking lots and having fun !
Very similar for me, loved the 90s and being in my 20s. I was quite a fanny magnet back then :) Completely carefree.
Mixed bag with the noughties, also been made redundant a few times. My self confidence has took a huge dive. But I got married and have a beautiful daughter, she's my raison d'?tre. Looking forward to the next decade, things can only get better </D:Rream>
Damn........I had a big rant of a reply to this and my laptop battery goes and dies........never mind!
Basically - I looked back over the 90's - great decade for me - faaaaaaar toooooo much weed - to the point I killed my "bright spark". To this day, If my head can avoid thinking - it does......
The naughtees - meh......not bad. I've finally grown up. I listen more than I talk. I have a beautiful little girl :) I have a house and a proper job. I(we) ALSO HAVE ANOTHER BABY ON THE WAY :):):)
We are in economic dispare here in Ireland(Girlfriend lost ANOTHER 4K from her wages thanks to the stuuuuupid primary school-teacher based Government...........bunch of absolute morons.........moronic beyond belief.....big summer holidays = politician in Ireland.....)
Computer games have become a history thing for me - you can shove your PS3's and XBOX360's right up yourself - same old same old - just without any charm whatsoever now...
Overall - I'm a happy camper :) Things have gone from amazing - to not so bad - to OK - to shite - to ok again - surely "not so bad" is coming next followed by amazing??? Come on the tenees :)
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She had a sprog. Doesn't prove anything though.
You mean I have a love child ? Whooo.............
'GRIL' POWER!
I saw the 'Spice Grils' live at 'Party In The Park' in Preston, before they became famous - around 1996? I say 'saw' and not 'went to see'. They mimed. The queues to the bogs was huge!
I think thats where you're going wrong. Going for the lesbians wont work ! Its like saying the ginger ones the fittest one out of Girls Aloud, come on men ! Thats ridiculous !
http://www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48816
Would love it if it was number 1 ! Can just imagine all the smiley nice presenters on the Xmas TOTP saying Rage against the machine is this years Xmas number 1 ... (Then hearing my mum and dad moan about how bad the song is !)
Love this song, doubt this will happen but be great if it was number 1. Might pay for a download just to try and beat the X Factor juggernaut
I became aquainted with cocaine in 2002, and struggled with "not taking it anymore" in 2004/5 infact the temptation remains up to this point, if somebody put a line in front of me I don't know if I could say no? There was a a point in 04' where it began to change me and a few of my mates for the worst, and put a strain on our friendships.
2 of my friends died, both in their 20's, I had 2 life threatening illnesses 1 in 2001, 1 in 2003. In 2003 I also ripped my arm open, that wasn't much fun either.
I spent the first half of the decade struggling with unemployment, and not being able to keep what crappy jobs I managed to get my mits on, ergh! training courses, temping, I was in my 20's but I felt like I was a 16 or 17 year old scruff just starting out in the big wide world again.
....and several other drepressing things blah blah blah.
On the plus side I did enjoy playing games still and did that a lot.
In 02' I signed up to the yahoo JSW group after making my rather average first attempt at editing JSW, and never looked back. Got aquainted with a few people from here before I joined the forums in 06' after about 8 years of lurking in the background, and pillaging the archive :D
I think I originally finally signed up to flame somebody on here, and got sidetracked by several threads in the games forum, and ended up staying without actually doing said flamage :lol:
I met my wife.
I managed to get a stable job albeit a crap one in 04' but I was glad to have the money and work my way out of the mountains of debt living on the low had accumulated over the years. I pretty much became part of the real world.
Between 05' and now I've travelled more than I ever had in my life before then.
Basically in the last 5 years all the bad stuff has became a distant memory, almost like it never happened I know deep down it did and it sucked balls at the time, but now I just look at it as part of the journey through life. I also wonder if all the crap hadn't have happened if I'd have any of the good stuff I now have.
My biggest and strangest adventure this decade still has to be moving from England to the states. If you had've told me 10 years ago that I'd be married to an American girl I'd be living in the US, I'd like iced coffee, and I'd be working in one of the Tri-states largest grocery chains, I'd probably have told you to go and shove your head up your arse.
Funny how things turn out, and you know what? I don't think I'd change any of it, I did a lot of growing up this decade, infact this century come to think of it, and I'm actually glad it turned out this way :)
An emotional roller coaster of a decade for me, but here's hoping the next 10 years are equally as strange, I genuinely think I'm a better person for it all.
Other personal matters have not been good though. I still have no contact with any member of my family other than my mother but have no desire to do so anyway. My grandad who I hadn't seen for twenty years died suddenly of cancer a couple of years ago, luckily I got to see him two weeks before the end. My stepdad got put inside for something he did not do and my kids were used by the scum to put him away - unforgivable - and if I ever suddenly stop posting here it's because I've met them and the inevitable has happened!!!
It been one hell of a decade to live in though - some truly monumental world events have occurred. 9/11, 7/7 bombings, the almost meltdown of the worlds economy, and something I thought I would never live to see, a black man becoming the most powerful man on earth (that being a good thing, not a negative!)
After twenty years of waiting I finally got to see my favourite book of all time being made into one of the greatest series of movies of all time - Lord of the Rings. The Star Wars saga was finally completed and what a bloody letdown that was.
Although British TV has sunk to an alltime low with endless (un)reality TV shows, crap celeb rubbish, stupid house makeover programs, and endless other shite, thank God the Americans finally figured out how to make TV as good as film - Lost, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire, Dexter, etc all utterly superb entertainment.
Let's just hope the tennies(?) can get off to a great start. England winning the World Cup would be perfect.
What would everyone's vote be for videogame of the decade? Really tough one I think as there's been some great stuff.
Notable mentions must go to Resi 4, Burnout Paradise, Dead Space, Mario Galaxy and Halo amongst many. Think my vote would have to go to Half Life 2. It didn't just raise the bar; it ripped up the goalposts and implanted them on the top of Everest.
Totally agree, without sounding like an irish twat life is a rollercoaster, enjoy the up's but just know the down's wont last forever.
I was gutted the first time i was made redundant but on the other hand that forced me to move away (because of a new job) and i got together with my now-wife. If i hadnt been made redundant i would have still lived down south and not got together with her. If i hadnt moved up north i wouldnt have got my dog etc. Amazing how the 'chain' works.
Now i'm not some hippy but i realise when times are bad (money or work or something else) those stresses will be alright at some point in the future, granted maybe not tomorrow or next week, might be months but either way it 'will be alright'. I dont stress about any stuff like that now as i've had nightmare times at work (or with relationships) and its eventually turned out okay.
When my wife stresses about some presentation she does i try to convince her not to worry as in a few days after its done she'll realise it wasnt as bad as she thought. No point putting stress on the heart !
Thanks for sharing that, I must admit I have been more than a little irritated at some of the things you write, but hearing your story makes me feel bad for you and more understanding. The thing is they say what dosn`t kill you, makes you stronger, you are the living proof. Good on you man, take life by the throat and shake out every ounce out of it. Good luck for the future and try not to step backward, you have shown that you know what lies at the end of that road. Respect.........
used to go out all the time, meet girls, take drugs, have a right laugh. now im feking miserable, in a dead end job. (the same f'ing one for 10 year) hardly go out, hardly have any fun excpet playing on the xbox.
funnily enough it all started going wrong after i joined wos.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Thats because you've got a steady girlfriend. Before that you were doing threesomes, you were getting drunk tons, getting off with loads of different girls and going out having a wild and crazy time and now youre asking about 'roast dinners'.
Wheres the 'rock n roll' Miles i used to know !!! Settle down and be boring when you're married, in the meantime go crazy son !!
Anyway make sure you're free in April for the next retro do son
I can usually plough my way through much more than that :D
Thought I may have went rampaging through all the threads on here last night, but it appears I didn't thankfully, was expecting to have to make several apologies this morning :lol:
That's weird! It all started going downhill for me after you joined WoS too!
defo coming to that retro show, have put some methadrone aside for the occasion. i'll see if i can best my drinking recored too!!
So I'm gonna be in the car again for about 5 hours today, so I'm gonna take book 4 and 5 of the Speccy Bible with me to read on the journey, and hopefully Book 6 will be waiting for me when I get back?
Hopefully I won't be back too late as I work tonight and I want to get a few beers down me before I go to bed :lol:
Yep, sounds like the decade I've had...
:D
yeah defo, im 31 next year, proper old grandad. i can't believe it, it will be mid life crisis territory.
I'll be 33 next year. But that's only 21 in hex :)
its only five in dog years.
Miles, you old git !
And as far as Cowell and his take-over of pop music, well he can have it, popular music has been dead for many years, all shows like X factor are doing is dancing on its grave and wringing profit from corpses. Just look around you and see how many tribute acts and other grave robbers are peddling their trade in pubs and clubs. Music is dead (Morrissey said so in the 90's:) )
Physically, I'm managing to "hide the decline". In fact, I haven't been in better shape since I was 21.
We should expect to witness a lot of change in the next decade, which should be very interesting, if nothing else.
Did you not meet her before she was your wife? :lol: ...sorry chap...:oops:
Well after starting the decade in OK shape, I started to drift a bit...moved through quite a few jobs - which probably explains why I work for the shithouse that I currently do.
It's been pretty plop for me TBH, but things are getting better. I'm thankful that I'm still young enough to get over things (not 34 until next March).
Finally got married last year, so I suppose the next decade will probably mean having children (*BIG GULP*).
And hopefully fulfilling a bit of an ambition by living abroad, at least for a few years...
And Cornflakes! Cornflakes! I eat them for breakfast mate. Just you remember that! That's how HARD I am!
Very similar for me, loved the 90s and being in my 20s. I was quite a fanny magnet back then :) Completely carefree.
Mixed bag with the noughties, also been made redundant a few times. My self confidence has took a huge dive. But I got married and have a beautiful daughter, she's my raison d'?tre. Looking forward to the next decade, things can only get better </D:Rream>
Basically - I looked back over the 90's - great decade for me - faaaaaaar toooooo much weed - to the point I killed my "bright spark". To this day, If my head can avoid thinking - it does......
The naughtees - meh......not bad. I've finally grown up. I listen more than I talk. I have a beautiful little girl :) I have a house and a proper job. I(we) ALSO HAVE ANOTHER BABY ON THE WAY :) :) :)
We are in economic dispare here in Ireland(Girlfriend lost ANOTHER 4K from her wages thanks to the stuuuuupid primary school-teacher based Government...........bunch of absolute morons.........moronic beyond belief.....big summer holidays = politician in Ireland.....)
Computer games have become a history thing for me - you can shove your PS3's and XBOX360's right up yourself - same old same old - just without any charm whatsoever now...
Overall - I'm a happy camper :) Things have gone from amazing - to not so bad - to OK - to shite - to ok again - surely "not so bad" is coming next followed by amazing??? Come on the tenees :)