[Closed] Today's been a shitty day

Try lady day and John Coltrane by Gill Scott Heron.Might even get you dancing!

The clip on the gif thread of turkeys laughing at a news reporter is still making me chuckle.

For some reason it's this one:

Edit. Failing massively to link to the funny turkey clip.

Shout by Tears for fears.They were into a bit of primal scream therapy!

How about doing a good turn for someone who needs it?

I know how your feeling Bruce but alcohol isn't the answer . You'll only get more depressed/angry.Still I suppose temporary relief is sometimes required.

How about doing a good turn for someone who needs it?

Doing good turns for others who need it (and even those who don't) is what life is all about.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always keep the demons (and the pricks) at bay.

I know how your feeling Bruce but alcohol isn’t the answer .

I've been at this for long enough to know that sometimes the answer is yes, it absolutely is.

This week has been pretty crap, Tuesday was the day, seven months ago, that my girlfriend was rushed to hospital, and today, the 21, was the day they turned her life support machine off. My birthday which is on the 21, will now always be an unhappy day.

This week has been pretty crap, Tuesday was the day, seven months ago, that my girlfriend was rushed to hospital, and today, the 21, was the day they turned her life support machine off. My birthday which is on the 21, will now always be an unhappy day.

So is there a youtube video you use to cheer yourself up or...

Sorry.

Anyway, this feels appropriate even if there is literally nothing that can make your situation any easier:

If you've been like this for a long time and used alcohol to drown your sorrows then alcohol can't be the solution.

Sent you a DM Bruce.

If you’ve been like this for a long time and used alcohol to drown your sorrows then alcohol can’t be the solution.

Unless you want a 16 page debate about how it doesn't really matter what we do because ultimately the Sun* is going to expand and all the engineering, art, philosophy, thoughts, and literally any trace we were even here will be erased as if we never even existed, can you not just post a youtube video and leave a grown man to his coping mechanisms?

*As in the star, the Sun, not the newspaper. Although the paper will probably achieve the same effect before the star does.

This works for me.

Sent you a DM Bruce.

I was going to say don't bother but then I read it and it was great. Thanks for that 🙂

Edit: Also, awesome video as well.

This guy gets it!

Just the truth mate. No answer required.

The video to this makes me smile 😃

Hope you feel better soon!

The video to this makes me smile 😃

Me too 🙂

Hope you feel better soon!

I won't but thanks anyway!

Chin up fella! I know that’s easy to say

I’ve had a bloody awful week. Sat here gone midnight with a glass of red in front of me. People in hospital I really rather weren’t in hospital. Hey ho.

My default perk myself up tune. You can’t not love this. It’s a little piece of wonderfulness…

Chin up fella!

I always lead with my chin. Out of beer so I'm off to bed:

what is your go to music video, song, youtube clip

Bat for lashes - Laura.

Today will be a better day 🙂

So sad to hear things are not good for you at the moment. I thought yesterday you had a brilliant day - your defence of me on "that" thread was amazing. You got it perfectly and continued to get it despite the idiots.

We need more people like you. Thank you. If I can help at all just shout.

I read "that" thread last night - beyond any point (or possibility) in adding to it

Agree with boriselbrus: you did just fine in the face of some "remarkable" comments

Ah yes, Tues even was my beer and music videos evening.  Doesn't fix anything but a good place to be for a while and convinces you are there are some great things around.  This one always makes me smile a lot

Hang on for the chorus.

Beer, podcasts (not really bothered what, just voices - I ain't even listening) and chopping up bad guys in Ghost Of Tsushima.

Yesterday was my birthday, and it wasn't a particularly shitty day. But when I do have a shitty day these are great:

My go-to happy tune... look after yourselves people

this is my mental health cure-all. Turn it up and swim around in it.

It doesn't really cure everything, but i do always feel slightly better at the end x

A-ha, it's my 'that' thread buddy. I thought you were great.

in answer to your question:

You need some John Prine in your life, listen to Bill, he knows.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDpZCZPMRJ8

Yesterday was 2 years to the day of my wife's funeral, you gave me great support leading up to it.

https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/im-in-need-of-some-support-from-you-lot-sad-content-im-afraid/

Here's 2 that get me up and moving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIuwp5PWlk8&list=RDEIuwp5PWlk8&start_radio=1

Sorry to hear you're feeling a bit shit, I resort to 90s video games and a bit of Beasties-

While alcohol is nice in moderation I err towards my OH's herbal biscuits now 😎

I'm struggling today. Can get myself to do anything, anxiety ( which is not usually a thing for me) is sitting there just waiting to attack. I can feel it behind me

I'll make a counseling apt next week

Nowt as bad as many but its really got to me today.

Onward forward don't step backward step outta babylon

tjagain

I’m struggling today. Can get myself to do anything, anxiety ( which is not usually a thing for me) is sitting there just waiting to attack. I can feel it behind me

I’ll make a counselling apt next week

Nowt as bad as many but its really got to me today.

"Onward forward don’t step backward" is a good mantra,

There are a few of us on here that have lost partners and shit life is hard afterwards, but I think our partners wouldn't want us to just stop. I can only speak for myself but Carolyn always saw the positive in life no matter what a crap hand she had been dealt, so yes I have days when I just cry like a baby at the slightest thing but I always pick myself up and be thankful for the small things.

"Onward forward don't step backward step outta Babylon" is part of the second chorus the first being "one step forward two steps backwards down ina babylon"

Ta for the thoughts

My manta is generally
"one day at a time, one step at a time, one foot in front of the other and I will get somewhere"

But that song helps.

Unless you want a 16 page debate about how it doesn’t really matter what we do because ultimately the Sun* is going to expand and all the engineering, art, philosophy, thoughts, and literally any trace we were even here will be erased as if we never even existed

Not in my lifetime it won't 😀

Joking aside.  This on repeat...

Short but sweet.

I still think this might be the best thing I've ever seen on the internet...

https://images.app.goo.gl/uFYjb7fTvsGy7B7y6

Or perhaps, the best house track of the 90's?

Have a haircut and all your woes will be gone.

https://twitter.com/BadMedicalTakes/status/1452325766201446401

Reduced my drinking massively since I started this thread (it's not a good thing or a bad thing, just the way it is) but tonight I'm the best part of the way through a bottle of wine and thoroughly enjoying my favourite Ukrainian with the best damned multinational gypsy punk band ever:

Does anyone have any Turkeys laughing at reporters?

I feel this may be a good replacement for dancing Zebras.

Great band
Bad day.
But I've had worse.

@BruceWee mate, you're alright.

@molgrips you're not so bad yourself.

With you BruceWee. I had such a shitty time earlier I punched myself in the head. And it still ****ing hurts.
Few glasses of wine have done the trick. It's a shame cos after I saw Fly Anakin the other day, I felt so damn good.
Anyway, shut up. From the album Dear God I Hate Myself. Get to know the words to this and sing it loud 😀

Yesterday was an absolutely fantastic bloody day!

Mrs S got confirmation that the chemo and surgery has been successful and she no longer has cancer. With all the shit going on, that is a major lift.

Jeez, she is even fating rainbows now

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Mrs S got confirmation that the chemo and surgery has been successful and she no longer has cancer.

congratulations - that’s good news at any time!

I've been in a shitty place too.  However, for a couple of hours today, I put my phone down and took my neglected motorbike for a ride. The sun shone, I went for a coffee, people smiled and chatted.  Daft little things, but it's given me a lift. I am now imbibing a few cans of Vocation. Have a good weekend BruceWee and all STWers.

Good news @scotroutes.

Really glad to hear that @scotroutes. Have some Hardstyle remixed 90s dance music to celebrate 🙂

Wow @scotroutes that is awesome!

So is there a youtube video you use to cheer yourself up or…

No.

I’d actually forgotten this thread, so it deserves a response. I don’t watch YouTube videos very often, I’ve got 40,000-odd music tracks on my phone, I prefer to put earphones in and lie in the dark, or low light, and just listen, but even that only helps a bit. What has helped is time - just learning to cope with the lost of my sweet and lovely partner, who really suffered from depression herself, and used alcohol to try to deal with it.
Unsuccessfully; it just made her even more depressed, and deeply unhappy, which in turn did the same to me, her mum, and her two daughters.
Her most often used phrase, when really down, was “I just don’t want to be any more”. Now, she is no longer suffering, but I’m suffering from the loss of someone who suddenly came back into my life after twenty years, and made an enormous difference to my life, and is no longer here.

I’ve managed to write this without dissolving into a sobbing mess, so time has made a difference, I couldn’t have done that four months ago.

And I don’t need alcohol to help, either.

My bikes having been in storage since May and having finally moved in December I'm now getting back into that vibe of happy exhaustion and humorous aching from a ride. Beer, loud music and everything else is good but nothing can deliver like a blast on the bike. Always force yourself to do it, whatever the weather, the ultimate psychotherapy.

@molgrips you’re not so bad yourself.

Yay!

I have no music vids for you though. Currently listening to hypnotic and melodic playlist of electronic stuff on Amazon Music. I've never listened to anything electronic by choice before.

Yesterday was an absolutely fantastic bloody day!

Mrs S got confirmation that the chemo and surgery has been successful and she no longer has cancer. With all the shit going on, that is a major lift.

Jeez, she is even fating rainbows now

Omg that's amazing! Thanks for posting some good news, that really cheered me up 👍

scotroutes - that's really great news!
All the best to both of you but mainly to Mrs routes.

Count zero.  What can i say - this too will pass or so they tell me!

Yesterday I planted two fruit trees with some of Julies ashes as a bit of fertiliser!  Carbon cycle and all that.  Beware poisoned apples

I think that counts as a good day