To think that the dull get too many advantages..

[scaryclown]

Just that really, I just feel that sometimes everything feels like it set up to help the dull.. Hang around for ages and you get promoted, don't have any interests or a social life, get a great credit rating, stay in one house for years and all the banks trust you, don't ever stick out, don't ever get hassled etc etc etc. .

I would have thought Kylie was probably a bit dull. She seems to be a fairly hard working sort who hasn't ever rocked the boat. Records tunes to dance to, does tours, doesn't cancel appearances due to drug habits and probably does lots of dull things like going to the gym and eating sensibly. I don't read the right sort of papers to tell if she's regularly photographed falling over drunk but it seems unlikely.

So your imaginative and non-dull kylie-partying ways have so far got you to food banks and frugalising.., but your dullard acquaintances are loaded. Hmm yes- those losers!

Also some of the homeless people round here seem more human ambitious and imaginative than some people I know with a house, car and slate in their garden, which seems topsy-turvy in term is human evolution... Maybe it not, maybe dull is the next thing, homo tedius?

Truly unfettered imaginative people can find joy and excitement for free. You seem to think imagination and creativity can only be fulfilled if you have money - that's a very dull, unimaginative outlook on life.

Interesting point...

I'm amused that an example of dullness is not using one's income to go to the theatre or ballet - both of which I find utterly tedious and dull. In fact the only thing more dull than the theatre and ballet is being lectured by people about how shocking it is that you don't go to the theatre or ballet. I take my dull self off to the dull dog rescue and do lots of dull voluntary work walking dogs and cleaning kennels. Dogs like their routine and obviously it's work that very much lends itself to the dull.

I know a couple of middle aged Aussie celebs in my dull life.

You know what they have underneath the noise? The happy ones have a couple of kids, and a house in the (admittedly very nice but dull) suburbs.

I have beer tastes on a champagne budget. While it is in my control my kids will always have enough to eat, they will always have shoes that fit and a safe home to come back to.

That's all I need. If the price of that is grafting and being a bit boring then the price is happily paid.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to make it through the day, Scaryclown...

So what is the status of your app?

It's an interesting idea too that non dull people require constant external stimuli of theatre, ballet, exciting cities to be validated.

What is "human ambitious"? Are you drunk?

How old are you?

Have you been helping at food banks or using them?

You need to show stability and persistence to get promoted usually. What pisses me off is that even if someone is shit at their job, in the NHS they still got promotion after a long time working there. There were no appraisals and consequences for poor patient care or bullying younger staff.

I'm sure it isn't just hospital depts that are like that.

But it isn't being dull to stay in a job or one house. Maybe you are flighty and flakey?

With all due respect, you posted this at 850 on a Saturday night. Hardly the unrestrained, wild and exciting life you think you are being deprived off.

steff
Don't know if she was also in Dr Who, was an actress in an Australian day time show, and then a singer.

It's easy to talk big when you have nothing to lose and no skin in the game.

When you have people who rely on you then you have to make a decision as to whether you're going to indulge yourself and cater solely to your own whims, or whether you're going to consider the needs of others. I don't give a shit if someone thinks I'm dull. I grew up with fuck-all - poverty might sound bloody romantic but it's shit. It's fucking terrible being hungry, not being able to afford new shoes when yours have holes in and the pissing rain has pulped the newspaper you stuffed in the soles. I go to work, I do my job, I come home. It pays my bills, puts food on the table and helps to support some relatives who are not so well off and who need additional care that the state won't provide. If being dull means that I can pay for additional incontinence pads so that someone doesn't have to sit in their own waste for a day, then that's what I am.

I think there has to be some sort of irony that this is the thread that gets all the responses.

A- dull is subjective
B - if you had the talents, imagination and drive to do all those fabulous things or even one of them then you would be.

She was. I think it was a Christmas special. She's tiny!

People who aren't familiar with Kylie
You must recognise this one?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPwtJ89jes4

You learn something new everyday!

This thread has reminded me of all those cocky lads in their 20's who say "I'm here for a good time not for a long time" and you see them in their 40's and they're still trying to convince themselves they're the party while they're on their third job this year planning a season in Ibiza "running their mate's club" and all their mates who have grown up and married and had children and lovely homes are the losers

Consider this, scaryclown 'The doctor will see you now. Oh sorry she won't because she wanted to do something different today'.

That already is my doctor.. At least the 'pills for anything' one