To ask how you delude yourself?

[Merryoldgoat]

Sooooo. This is a lighthearted thread obviously.

I’m singing along to ‘Made you Look’ complete with vocal ornaments and pretending I’ve got a mic and head set.

I am a TRULY dreadful singer. It’s shocking. My family joke how I’m good to have to disprove the stereotype that black women are amazing singers.

However in my head someone is going to hear this fucking cacophony one day and be, like, ‘MERRY! What an amazing as yet unrecognised talent’ and I’ll be propelled to super stardom.

Surely I’m not alone in this bollocks?

YABU - I am an adult and do not have time for this shit

YANBU - I get it and I’ll see you at The Grammys/Oscars/Tonys

@bornintheuk2 putting in DOB on some websites is terrible nowadays if you can't type it in. Don't understand why they do this???

It makes you feel like metaphorically throwing a pot plant through the window as you're sitting there in grim faced determination tapping away. It's like: no, not 1990. Back back back.

HAHAHA! This is me!!

I have a fancy notepad and pen and highlighter and write my to do list out - I even include stuff I’ve already done so I get the satisfaction of ticking it off my list.

Then very little else gets done hehe.

A friend of mine speaking admiringly the other day about a middle aged woman in the public eye: “you know how rare it is for someone to be more beautiful in their 40s than in their 20s?”

”Is it?” I said, surprised. “I’m better looking now than I used to be”

The silence that followed this remark was not flattering.

I think the menopause has given me the average man’s self confidence along with the average man’s beard. 😳

I'm convinced I'm going to win the lottery. And use the money to do "good works". I spend ages thinking about all the great things I could do. Most of the time I don't even have a ticket.

Anyone remember the thread where somebody bought a red jumpsuit? In her mind’s eye she had the body of a 20 year old Suzi Quattro… she tried it on and saw Suzi Quattro’s fat Nan looking back from the mirror.

Great thread, Merry!

We went to a football match in December and my friend's husband decided to film the crowd before kick off.
I don't appear on the video but you can hear me singing,I sound like I'm being strangled with barbed wire.

Oh, my special gift is the ability of the most exquisite sewing you could imagine. Patrick and Esme from the Sewing Bee are both proud to wear my creations.

Patrick often looks over my shoulder while I’m sat at the sewing machine picking up tips and techniques. I sometimes point out the masterful handling of some particularly difficult bias binding attachment and he almost swoons.

I delude myself that I can sing Wasted Years by Iron Mauden way better than Bruce Dickinson. Metal fans would prefer my version I'm certain!!
( Truth is,no one on earth would want to hear a note from me!!)

I do adult karate classes, I'm 56, I'm shit, no coordination, still at very basic start even after a year but in my head I'm Cobra Kai and can compete with Johnny Lawrence would wrestle him to the ground any day 😂

In my head and car I can key change better than Celine Dion.
Utterly deluded.

I have got ALL the moves. Especially after a few Proseccos 😎

Unfortunately I decided I could still rock the Cool Artist look from my 20s and ordered a big, loose dress. Somehow the 2 stone I’ve put on in the intervening 30 years means I just look fat so back it goes

Unfortunately for my colleagues I performed the ‘backing tracks’ to a variety of divas today when I thought I was alone and I really let rip with the trills whilst making coffee.

I also think I’ll win the lottery. I haven’t bought a ticket in 20 years.

When I listen and belt out the music from 2005-2009 I am still young, independent and free. That 20 mins in the car (when I can get it) absolutely keeps me going.

@Merryoldgoat today I reached a new low in my delusions and thought of you.

For context, I'm almost 40, single mum to two kids and live in Hertfordshire.

I, for at least 30 mins danced on my patio with Alexa playing a medley of Eminem, and at one point I truly believed I was in 8 mile.

@cleanbreak2022

That has made me properly laugh out loud 🤣🤣

My 10yo came home asking to watch Fresh Prince and I broke into the rap.

I’m deciding that he was impressed rather than horrified and embarrassed.

@Merryoldgoat I'm going to make my kids call me Rabbit.
My 2 yr old told me to 'stop talking' no hun i' rapping!

I was in the zone, I nearly donned a cap and told my neighbour to suck my balls whilst she clutched her pearls

@cleanbreak2022

I had breakfast with a my oldest friend today. I invited her in to look at my newly pressure washed patio and new Peony and then we discussed whether glucosamine is helpful for joint pain, our peri-menopause and compared our crochet projects.

If you could have told those girls lost on night buses eating kebabs this was our future…

It’s quite the leveller 🤣

That I am slim, youthful and elegant, in fact I am like an apple on two sticks, creaky with arthritis, and as elegant as a duck

apple on two sticks

🤣🤣🤣

I’m a melon on two tree trunks 🤣

i cant sing but it doesnt stop me trying 😂😂 Love watching old top of the pops on bbc4 and singing along. My teenage sons cant believe some of the music ......or the bands