Amanda

Thank you Typhoid Harry, you are of course right. And get over it I am trying! I couldn't give a toss about "s" or "z", I just feel crushed when people keep picking me up on my mistakes and feel the need to apologise beforehand!!! Infact: I am sorry in advance for any spelling and grammatical errors which may occur in my posts from herein. If there was a spell checking facility here then please be assured that I would use it. When I type here I'm either cold, tired or busy and so I'm not really too bothered about how sloppy my typing. Sadly, I don't have the time to check my spelling with a dictionary, and frankly, I couldn't be bothered anyway.

Well I'm quite annoyed with myself. Had you asked me 2 days ago how to spell the 'D' word we're all going on about, I would have probably bet my life on the fact that it was spelled DEFINATELY rather than DEFINITELY. Can't believe nobody's ever picked me up on this until now.

Wow, you've all been busy. I have to admit, I don't understand what Mr Josco said .... but I'm kind of thinking it's insulting to me. Really, I should get my dictionary out and check it out, but I can't be bothered. At 24 my vocab should be a little better shouldn't it?

He was an alcoholic before ... and also a smack addict. But I didn't know about the heroin until waaaaaay later in relationship.... ... and it sounds dim, but I kind of put his behaviour and absences down to his alcoholism and his job... ... and I've never known any heroin addicts, so it's hard to know what to look for... ... then I found out and wasted months trying to help him give up both or either or anything, and he just took my money, lied some more and buggered off and left me when my cash ran out. (gasps, sobs, fights for breath, sobs, sniffs, wipes snotty nose on back on hand, sobs, sniffs, sniffs, dog licks face out of sympathy, blindly fumbles for tissue or similar absorbent fabric, regains breath enough to continue typing) Nice! And 10 months later I'm not over it!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ But anyway, Satan's Piss?! Next time you're in Gloucestershire I'll whip you one up ...!

Sorry everyone, that was a massive waste of space ... I got a bit carried away trying to emphasise my point. (or emphasize?)

Oh yeah?! Says who?! My car is DEFINATELY a boy. I couldn't drive a female car and he needs to have a personna to motivate him to work, go up hills etc, so I can assure you therefore that he is 100% male, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Anyway, he's not machinery, he's .... ... and you'd never believe it ...... ....... but it's true .... ... he's God, in car form. So there!

So, Delirium Tremens - do these only happen to alcoholics, or can this happen as a one-off? e.g. if you've been out for a heavy session, but generally you don't drink, apart from for special occasions. Thank you. I watched an alcoholic ex-boyfriend attempt to abstain from the what I like to call Satan's P*ss once. Aside from the fact that he was obviously in some pain etc, it was bloody interesting. Sweat was just shooting out of him - not dripping, but kind of squirting out of his pores. It was fascinating. It was like somebody was holding a watering can over his head. And he vomitted like the Exorcist, had stomach cramps and palpitations, hallucinations... sadly, he only lasted 4 hours without a drink. Needless to say, we are no longer together, which is a shame, because he was a really nice man. Is it true that if you are a full-blown alcoholic, that should you stop just suddenly, it can kill you?

*gasps & hyperventilates* How can you say that???!!!! Corey (the Corrado - not very imaginative I know) is a collector's car - a rare breed!!! It would be criminal to take him any where near a scrap yard! He's a beautiful, sleek, joy to own (when he works) and it would be like taking a member of my family to be put down... NEVER! As it happens, I'm having him put in for a service on Friday and hopefully this will resolve all of his issues and have back to being a proper car again. Honestly, he's a beautiful dream machine and if you saw him and drove him, you'd know that he's a superior breed of car. I've been thinking about joining the VW Corrado Great Britain Club so that I have like-minded people to enthuse of my car with me, as my friends and family really just don't get it. I'll have my Corrado 'til the day I die! (Or probably will actually die in it, it's such a deathtrap!!!) *sigh*

People keep telling me that (by the way, what does the dt's stand for?) and when I look, I don't know if I actually CAN see it, or I just THINK I can see it because people tell me she does. Bloody like Judy though. I used to skive off school and lie on the sofa and pretend her and Richard were my parents... they were the days eh?! *sigh*

Bloody brilliant - thank you!! When I opened those pictures, I managed to laugh with a mouthful of hot chocolate and spray mouthful all over computer ....so now it's even less likely to work! Worth it though! Call me vile, but I would LOVE one of those as my avatar and I'm going to figure out how to do it later. Hey, did Judy Finnegan (from Richard and Judy fame) used to be an alcoholic? Is Judy Finnegan still an alcohlic? Thanks!!!!

Wow! Thank you both of you!! I LOVE all that stuff as above!!! It really does work!! My self-opinion is slowly improving... just had too many knockbacks lately - work, money, car, men, but life's too short to obsess over these things. What to say about my car? My car eats oil (a litre a week) My car overheats My car makes grinding noises if people sit in the back My car keeps getting flat tyres My car looks bloody cool though!!! Still haven't done anything about my avatar, but I really will next week.

Thank you Mr J! If I still had a horse I would definately be out hunting.

I'm afraid that I have to agree with you there ... it's bloody sad. Repeat after me: Amanda is a loser Amanda is a loser Amanda is a loser I clearly have too much time on my hands and not enough to fill my mind!

Sorry, just wanted to bump myself up on the Today's Top 10 Posters, so that I actually appear on it.

Thank you Rotten Ali! I did try and do something with the stuff that you gave me, e.g. download it and open it (coz that's what Hotmail told me do) and when I tried, Hotmail kept booting me out and asking for my password over and over and over .... and in the end I gave up. Bloody Hotmail. Bloody computers. Bloody car. Bloody rubbish snow.

Well thank you everyone, I will attempt to give it a go at the weekend. Problem is that my computer is the slowest most rubbish piece of trash ever and I get so so bored waiting for it to do stuff and so opt for an easy life. I will definately make the effort though. Re: The Pope, I can't help but think that his life just goes on and on and on. I don't really follow what's happening with him, but he's clearly a very ill bunny. I can't help but think that he's just prolonging his life and that if this is the case, doesn't it kind of mean that he's afraid of dying? Practise what he preaches and all that? I know it's mean, I just can't help thinking that he struggles on .... and blah blah blah. I know what I mean anyway. But anyway, will crack on with avatar tomorrow, or maybe Sunday. Can't do it now because I've just painted my nails and it's hard enough to type. Toodle pip xxx P.s. I think this hunting ban is a great big pile of steaming elephant excrement. I'm sorry, but I'm all for hunting. So there.

I don't know!!!!!!! I don't know what to use, I don't know where to get it from, I don't just know how to make my computer do it!!! I just don't know! Check out I LOVE Mr Josco's Little Man, coz I mentioned it in there a while ago!

He's with Rough Trade records - you could try via there. Did you see him on that Orange Playlist last week anybody? He looks a damn sight better since then... it was heartbreaking to watch. His email was peterlibertine@hotmail.com, but for obvious reasons, I don't know whether he checks it any more. Good luck!!

Hello Newbie!

Wow! I haven't looked here for days!!! LOVE the Corrado! Though mine is kind of dark blue and looks better than that one. Actually, while we're on the subject of my car, it's having an overheating problem lately, despite the minus temperatures. Very annoying. I'd look like a bit of a tosser with a picture of my car as avatar though would I not? I have a pic of it on my mobile phone - would it be possible to get that onto a computer and then loaded as my avatar? Thanks!

Anyone ever seen that film where these nutter parents armed with chainsaws etc, keep a pile of people under the stairs and rip out their tongues ... and there's a little chap who tunnels around the building and helps the daughter out... and at the end there's a big explosion and shed loads of cash flys into the air and all the hostages run out into daylight and the local people grab all the cash.....? Well I'd like a nice picture of the Dad from that who wears some all-in-one leather outfit and carries a chainsaw! Don't know what the film was called and I watched it in my teens, but that image of chainsaw guy says with me.

What about my avatar??? Everyone stopped using that thread. I don't even know where to get one from as my computer doesn't have all these new fangled gadgets to do good stuff. I'm damn lucky if it starts most days. Kind of like my car really. Headache gone though. Does anyone reckon that Condaleeza Rice (or whatever her name is) looks like a Barbie/Sindy doll? I think she does. Bye

I'm here! I've been busy feeling sorry for myself and trying to figure out what to do next and I still haven't quite come up with the answer. Have kind of lost motivation to type, though I have been keeping up to date with everybody's posts. Heard the latest on Peter D? I can't even be arsed to type it. Hope everyone's good. I've got a headache. Ta ta xXxXx

...and you know this how? I admit it was a rubbish idea moving to Wales, though Bridgend's not too out in the sticks. I don't know where this idea of sheep shagging comes from. I now live nearer to the Forest of Dean and there's some vile stories of what locals get up to & I've even seen a grown man in his PJ's chasing a sheep down the street when I stayed over one night (though to be fair, the sheep had just eaten it's way through his prize winning garden). I think sheep shagging, and any type of animal shagging is horrible horrible horrible. Why not find yourself a person of the opposite sex? What kind of pleasure can people get from it? Vile horrible nasty.

I'm glad my thread is helpful and an escape. I'm mightily p@ssed off today everybody. I'm 24 and unemployed!! No Peter D in the papers today to cheer me up either. Though Leslie Ash piccies did amuse me somewhat. She's wheelchair bound and yet still having collagen pumped into her lips! I would've thought she'd be put off medical procedures for life!!