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| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 06:41:34
Darwin commented a couple of weeks ago about my poor luck and I'm not sure many people realise how bad it really is but I think I have to be a contender for the unluckiest person alive. No? Seriously, I should start writing all this stuff down.
The comment was due to a neighbour burning down our back fence just after we'd cleared the garden, she managed to melt the compost bin which was just starting to compost, and all but kill the tomato, bay, corn and spring onions.
My living situation is a good one too, I moved to London in October, had an illegal eviction a week before christmas causing the loss of 70% of my belongings, moved back to London in february was resident for one month before the new agents told us we had to move out because of terrible damp, found out they were lying and had to move anyway. Jobs, I apply for hundreds, I get nothing. I've been waiting to hear about a housing claim for five months now (the average time it takes to settle is four weeks..)
Yesterday I went to look for a store that sells filled pasta for less than most supermarkets. I copied the map from the internet and set off. the map was pretty misleading so I ended up walking two miles in the wrong direction in the middle of a thunderstorm before finding out the store was in the opposite direction than that stated on the map. Seriously.
and today? TODAY? I went to the bathroom and as I locked the door the entire locking mechanism fell out onto the other side locking me in. I had no smokes, no book, no phone, nothing. The only window is so small I can't even get my head out of it. I tried to fashion some sort of screwdriver out of razors but the last screw wouldn't budge and my make shift tool fell apart. With one housemate on holiday and with the other one not keeping anything like regular hours I could have been locked in there overnight. At minumum it would have been the next four hours.
I kicked the door in.
*sniff*
So where do you stand on luck? Do you have bad luck? good luck? does it come in cycles? is it a load of nonsense?
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 12:48:12
Bad luck?
Being told by my driving instructor before my test that the tester i got "has a history of not passing young male drivers", simply because they're young, and male.
FUCKER!
I'd also like to thank all the boy racers in the country for adding to the headache.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 10:33:38
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
quote:
Originally posted by darwin
Forum lesson: quit locking the door to the bathroom
Kind of academic at the moment. Eh Tre? Eh?
I don't mind it so much. The space where the lock used to be provides a handy spy hole.
Perv. You'll get more bad luck for that.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 03:06:29
That was your fault, rather than your bad luck, surely?
Wow, I'll pay for that...
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 03:00:28
Washing machine just flooded the kitchen. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 01:51:38
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
quote:
Originally posted by darwin
Forum lesson: quit locking the door to the bathroom
Kind of academic at the moment. Eh Tre? Eh?
I don't mind it so much. The space where the lock used to be provides a handy spy hole.
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 01:26:48
quote:
Originally posted by darwin
Forum lesson: quit locking the door to the bathroom
Kind of academic at the moment. Eh Tre? Eh?
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| darwin |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 00:32:34
Forum lesson: quit locking the door to the bathroom |
| tobafett |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 00:08:12
sucks about the housing allowance...
look at it this way, tre...maybe you're using up years and years of bad luck and life'll be fabulous til you're 82. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 16:21:11
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
They *have* to be on backwards.
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lol you're right. that just looks super uncomfortable. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 03:12:04
They *have* to be on backwards.
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| Llamadance |
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 02:39:00
you neeeeed, lucky pants.....
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 01:58:10
I've just been fucked over for my housing claim. I'm so fucked off. It's not like I want to be unemployed. I've always fucking worked, paid my taxes and now I need a little help what do they do? fuck me over that's what. Tell me I can have full rent while I live here then reduce it to a third with no real explanation. Grr Grr Sob.
[EDIT] There is no reason they think it's a mistake but I still have to appeal the decision which may take up to two more weeks for them to rectify. My fucking LUCK!
[EDIT 2] reduced it to a third sorry, not by a third.
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| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 18:10:37
I got locked outside of the house one time.
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 17:21:03
It won't be so cool when you get locked in your bathroom. And it will happen to you.Mark my words.
Doesn't matter if you go in to do a number one or two, maybe a three (a four if your into that kind of thing)
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| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 17:08:14
quote:
Originally posted by s_wrenn
Less than an hour ago, upon leaving the bathroom, i turned the key to unlock the door. I heard a snap, then pulled the key out to find that the teeth had broken clean off. I was now locked in my bathroom. Is this turning out to be a forum curse?
I waited 30 minutes for a spare key to be found and the door was unlocked from the outside.
If i was the only person at home at the time i would have had only one option, which would have been to break the window to get out. The door opens in, so kicking it would have been a waste of time.
Seán Says: Leave public urination to the professionals.
Cool!
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| s_wrenn |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 16:55:29
Less than an hour ago, upon leaving the bathroom, i turned the key to unlock the door. I heard a snap, then pulled the key out to find that the teeth had broken clean off. I was now locked in my bathroom. Is this turning out to be a forum curse?
I waited 30 minutes for a spare key to be found and the door was unlocked from the outside.
If i was the only person at home at the time i would have had only one option, which would have been to break the window to get out. The door opens in, so kicking it would have been a waste of time.
Seán Says: Leave public urination to the professionals.
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 12:40:18
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
Anyway, a lot of people here really like you
Speak for yourself.
I mean...
I'd like to here more of this bad luck of this housemate of yours. If it was psycho colleagues, then good luck has rolled around again.
well if you'd like to hear about it cheeseman then there was the thing with the psycho colleagues, also the strange child was just as affected by the burning down fence and the loss of his compost bin. Also there's the issue where the bathroom door won't lock now because of the big split down the middle and I seem to remember no fewer than five mice running around in his food drawer.
I predict more bad luck will soon befall this fool in the shape of a slap for being so bloody cheeky all the time.
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Point of note: said housemate of tre's has been unneccessarily mean towards her since returning from his holiday, and puts it down to the fact that it's not really done to insult one's own family in the same manner as he insults his housemates. Pent-up abuse etc. His apologies proliferate.
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 09:56:14
I'm on a roll,
I'm on a roll this time
I feel my luck could change.
Kill me Sarah,
kill me again with love,
it's gonna be a glorious day.
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
'cause i'm your superhero,
we are standing on the edge.
The head of state has called for me by name
but I don't have time for him.
It's gonna be a glorious day!
I feel my luck could change.
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
'cause i'm your superhero,
we are standing on the edge.
We are standing on the edge.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 08:20:36
No I don't believe in luck
No I don't believe in circumstance no more
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
So I won't believe in luck
I saw you walking in the dark
So I slipped behind your footsteps for a while
Caught you turning round the block
Fancy meeting in a smaller world, after all
Accidents never happen, could have planned it all
Precognition in my ears
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
Complications disappear
Now you love me
I, yeah, I can tell
I never lied, I never cried
And you, you knew so well
Like the Magi on the hill
I can divinate your presence from afar
And I'll follow you until
I can bring you to a perfect world
Accidents never happen, could have planned it all
Precognition in my ears
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
Complications disappear
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
Accidents never happen
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
Accidents never happen
“Accidents Never Happen” - Blondie
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| Newo |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 06:13:30
I don´t believe in luck of any sort, I feel the humour I choose for present creates what I´m going to experience the following week.
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 02:16:08
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
Anyway, a lot of people here really like you
Speak for yourself.
I mean...
I'd like to here more of this bad luck of this housemate of yours. If it was psycho colleagues, then good luck has rolled around again.
well if you'd like to hear about it cheeseman then there was the thing with the psycho colleagues, also the strange child was just as affected by the burning down fence and the loss of his compost bin. Also there's the issue where the bathroom door won't lock now because of the big split down the middle and I seem to remember no fewer than five mice running around in his food drawer.
I predict more bad luck will soon befall this fool in the shape of a slap for being so bloody cheeky all the time.
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| kathryn |
Posted - 07/08/2006 : 21:03:46
She's so much better when she's all happy and in love and not her usual bitter dry angry self, that Polly Jean.
I’m the only one who can say that this light is mine
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| tobafett |
Posted - 07/08/2006 : 20:41:26
great song, k. awesome album. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 07/08/2006 : 20:02:23
Does this thread remind anybody else of PJ Harvey's most excellent song "Good Fortune," which is the best song in the whole wide world?
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/08/2006 : 19:32:02
Is It Luck?
My socks and shoes always match
Is it Luck?
There's a foot at the end of each of my legs
Is it Luck?
I can play my bass for you
Is it Luck?
Some gals like to kiss my face
Is it Luck? Is it Luck?
There was food inside your mouth today
Is it Luck?
Your barber cuts your hair just so
Is it Luck?
When the taste of sex is on your lips
Is it Luck ? Is it Luck ?
Cyanide works oh so fast
Is it Luck?
Polyester makes you sweat
Is it Luck?
If a graham cracker gets you off
Is it Luck
Love. Love ?
Is it Luck ? Is it Luck ?
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 07/08/2006 : 17:00:07
quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
Anyway, a lot of people here really like you
Speak for yourself.
I mean...
I'd like to here more of this bad luck of this housemate of yours. If it was psycho colleagues, then good luck has rolled around again.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/07/2006 : 05:55:16
quote:
Originally posted by floop
You must be my Lucky Star
'Cause you shine on me wherever you are
I just think of you and I start to glow
And I need your light
And baby you know
Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight
Starlight, [starbright] make everything all right
Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight
Starlight, [starbright] yeah
You must be my Lucky Star
'Cause you make the darkness seem so far
And when I'm lost you'll be my guide
I just turn around and you're by my side
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight
'Cause I know you're gonna make everything all right
You may be my lucky star
But I'm the luckiest by far
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight
'Cause u know your gonna make everything all right
Your may be my lucky star
But im the luckiest by far
Starlight starbright
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur
Keep it real homes!
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 15:22:57
Tre, I am so sorry to hear that someone so sweet and smart and witty is having such bad luck. You totally don't deserve any bad things and it does seem like you're having bad luck.
For some reason, I just think that some people are unlucky and some people are really lucky. Some people have to scrap around for everything and other people it's just easy no matter what.
I think luck is part karma and part just the lessons you wanted to live in this life. Sometimes I think people before entering in this life choose to have a hard go of it because that path was chosen to build character and what not. I know it's kinda hokey but I do think it's true.
Anyway, a lot of people here really like you and hopefully some of our positive thoughts can help even a little in getting your luck to change, because I know you deserve it. |
| Carl |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 14:26:26
Hi Surfer!! :)
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| a guy in a rover |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 14:20:25
I cant decide whether I have really bad luck or if Im just really shit at most things so I end up fucking them up.
Kiss my ring...I am the greatest
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| floop |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 13:49:40
You must be my Lucky Star
'Cause you shine on me wherever you are
I just think of you and I start to glow
And I need your light
And baby you know
Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight
Starlight, [starbright] make everything all right
Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight
Starlight, [starbright] yeah
You must be my Lucky Star
'Cause you make the darkness seem so far
And when I'm lost you'll be my guide
I just turn around and you're by my side
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight
'Cause I know you're gonna make everything all right
You may be my lucky star
But I'm the luckiest by far
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight
'Cause u know your gonna make everything all right
Your may be my lucky star
But im the luckiest by far
Starlight starbright
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| Newo |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 13:01:35
My socks and shoes always match
Is it luck?
There's a foot at the end of each of my legs
Is it luck?
I can play my bass for you
Is it luck?
Some girls like to kiss my face
Is it luck? Is it luck?
There's food inside your mouth today
Is it luck?
The barber cuts your hair just sooooooo
Is it luck?
When the taste of sex is on your lips
Is it luck? Is it luck? well Ler
These songs always sound so fast
Is it luck?
Polyester makes you sweat
Is it luck?
If a graham cracker gets you off
Is it luck?
Love, love,
Is it luck? well Herb
She said she wanted my body and not my mind so I showed her my dictionary to show the words that I know and from not what I examined I can be how loquacious when I set my mind down to it and she wasn't impressed, no doh doh da dody dody dody doh doh doh da dody dody dody dody dody doh doh doh she wasn't impressed at all.
She whispered in my ear!
She said, You wanna get lucky little boy?
Oh I smiled
I smiled and I said, Is it luck?
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| Suicide_Samurai |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 12:49:27
Not if it's the good kind of cancer. |
| floop |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 12:25:16
i think it's kind of relative too. it sucks not to get a job you want, but it's better than getting diagnosed with cancer
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| Erebus |
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 12:07:54
"Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey
There is true bad luck. People do sometimes get hit by meteors, but when your car breaks down, more often than not it's a function of inadequate maintenance. It may be luck to run into that special person, but it isn't luck to have lived so as to be able to recognize the special. Luck is in how the cards are dealt, not how they're played.
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