My Life.

[old.Kez]

Hi. I'm Ed Winchester!

 

[Damini]

Originally posted by mank!
I found your post highly entertaining Damini, not sure whether it was meant to be funny though

If you don't learn to laugh about these things you just becoming the kind of person who cries in toilets at parties. I've done my crying, I've done my depression, I've done my secret poetry writing on scraps of paper and listening to NIN on loop while plotting the downfall of mankind, and now I'm at the laughing at it all stage. Which is bloody handy really, because it all comes in useful in stand up

 

[Trem]

Mank/James - anti depressants work mate, they work because when you stop taking them you feel less depressed.

There will be something or someone that will instantly make you feel better, I am fucking sure they fill Prozac with water.

I almost, very nearly had to have electro shock therapy, I drank solid for a year instead.

Trust me, really trust me on this...........it will go one day.

 

[throdgrain]

Originally posted by old.D0LLySh33p
Ignores rant - wow, I think I've counted 3 posts that have been off topic.

/me claps hands.

My posts seem so small compared to the rest. Oh well.

I can be little like thoddy's.

*little*

Get it?

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Extra bit of D0LLy trivia... both of my knees are dodgy. Torn cruciate ligaments on both. One through rugby one through football.

Well you know how it is. I haven't lived for 20 - 25 years like most of you, ive lived for 38 years. I can barely remember my school days. I wasnt bullied. Sorry. I got 5 O levels. Remember them ? maybe not, well, they were quite important at the time. I left school at 16 , got a job as a buyer for a civil contractor. Did 3 years there. Split up with the girlfiend I'd had for a couple of years when i was 19. i guess that was the Key. I packed my job in because they wanted me to get my hair cut. No biker worth his salt would have short hair in 1983. Oh bikes, did I mention them ? My life in some ways. Anyway, left work, spent a couple of years fucking about with my mates in a bike club we used to have, quite wild I suppose by todays rather sanitised standards. Ended up at 21 (ish, cant really remember) with hepatitus from using dirty needles, nojob and no where to live. Police had busted my old house and I had been kicked out, i had no job,no money, was very ill. Went home to me mums, who kindly took me in, and I slept on the floor for a few months. Eventually I got a job packing boxes at a computer company. I couldnt understand why everyone ther ethought i was a hippy. This was at the time of the Young Ones, I was called Neil the hippy 20 times per day. I couldnt do anything about it either, as i was on bail at the time, and had got the job to stop me going inside.
the court case came and went, I got community service. then i could sort work out just no problem . I remember going into work and them all reading the papers (i was in), and no one fucked with me any more .
Met my wife shortly after, we moved intogether and afterwards had a baby. Time went by, and we got married, at the Crawley registary office . We went on motorbikes , and filled up the road with em.
Had another baby, moved into a council house in sunny Bewbush. One day I was made redundant, about 1990, and spent a year on the dole. Bad Times.
i eventually got a job working on bikes for a friend of a friend, for £15 a day. this grew and grew, and now 11 or 12 years later I run a business turning oever 2 million pounds a year. Who would have thought it ? I given up most things (except bikes ) as my kids have grown up, my eldest is now 14 going on 15, and my youngest 12 nearly 13. Am I happy ? Oh yes.


/pissed, forgive the sp's.

 

[stu]

Am I the only person who had a middle-class stable family, not bullied at school, decent results, went to university, graduated, got a job, etc type existance?

 

[GDW]

Jeezus its like a bleedin hearts club in here....a bunch of insecure bullied and depressed kids. Oh and a couple of old men

Like Yuck Im not one for posting about by life on the web, if id wanted to do that Id do a webby with pictures of kittens and dogs and stuff.

Good luck y'all

 

[bodhi]

Re: bodhi, your a cunt0r

Originally posted by brooky
eat my socks your imbred mother fucker.


quake2.uk needs you to be as ignorant as the rest of your retard freinds.

please stop being such a moron as to be able to understand other peoples hardships in life.


join your middle class firends in your mdma taking alcopop binge drinikng fuctard ways.

./rant over

brooky.

You must have gotten those insults off of a dead chinee.

 

[MYstIC G]

Hmm, a thread that seems to be a cross between alcoholics anonymous & psychiatrists chair….. no, not joining in on this one.

 

[Damini]

I'm not complaining. I quite enjoyed being bullied, if I wasn't bullied I'd have been either insignificant or the type of person the bullies like, and that would have been a travesty. And I've got a few stories under my belt, and some interesting experiences, and I don't think I'd swop a thing really.

Also missed out some bizarre trivia:

I was going to join the army at 16, and did survival training weekends with the SAS.

I used to play Basketball for SE England. But not for very long.

My first car was a mini.

I once got arrested *inside* a police station.

 

[throdgrain]

I understand your sentiments, Im pissed atm , I may even delete that post tomorrow, see how I feel.

 

[Ono]

Not going into details here cos you people scare me still.


Good upbringing. Hong Kong Chinese but brought up in rural town in Worcestershire. Now living somewhere in Greater London.

9 O-levels (that should date me ), 3 A-Levels. Never bullied at school. Was in school football, tennis rugby teams. County level tennis player - although not now. . Best badminton player in my Uni.

Degree in Chemical & Systems Engineering.

Qualified Accountant - passed all my accounting exams about 6 year's ago.

Worked 10 years as auditor. Now work with dysfunction in some god forsaken shithole of a company in the City. Started off as a good place to work but I have been reshuffled 3 times in 2 years FFS!

Married, 2 kids (one boy - 4yrs, one girl - 1yrs).

Devout Christian - but that doesn't mean I can't say "Fuck".

God bless you all.

 

[Shocko]

Why, Throddy? All your brief life story does, is show that living a "normal" life isn't the only way to end up successful...

Clearly, the majority of people who've posted their live-storys haven't lead wholey "normal" lives... Either online gaming and internet forums attract semi-outcasts from society, or people who have had a "normal" life aren't so normal after all...

I won't post my lifestory, because there's things from ~18months ago that i'm not quite ready to open up to the general [Barrysworld] population, just yet... However, i think i fit into the "semi-outcast" category in ways similar to those who've have posted their lives here allready... My mother died when i was 12/13, however i'm not totally sure whether that had much of an influence on some of the things that followed, or whether it was inevitable :/ I don't think i really regret much, that's happened, because i'm fairly happy now, today, and my position for the future isn't really any worse than it would have been...

 

[bodhi]

You make it sound like revenge of the geeks or something.



Anyway I don't think an online forums represents a good cross-section of the population tbh.

 

[Sar]

True, because you get mouthy fuckers on forums who wouldn't say boo to a goose IRL.

 

[old.Kez]

Its certain that this forum doesn't, anyway.

 

[bodhi]

You do yes. But then I'd probably call you a cunt to your face aswell, so guess I'm not one of them.

 

[Sar]

Yes Duncan.

 

[PR.]

Hmm, well...

I was born 18th November 1981, to my parents Charlotte & Cyril they decided my name should be Jonathan, not Jon, John, Joe or anything else just Jonathan

I am a single child and as far as I can tell had a very sheltered life til I went to Nursery, made a single friend there who followed me into lower school, got bullied there. Mum fell ill and went to hospital and dad sent me off to live with my Grandparents for a while went to some small lower school were I was the one who could crush everyone else

Middle school I started my first year at one school were I had no friends and got bullied as all the bullies had followed me. Then we moved house to the other side of town, this probably changed my life the most. Went to a new middle school were no one knew me and I could start a fresh made several proper friends and discovered probably the only thing I am good at... Computers... which helped me improve my work by about 800%

Upper school wasn't to bad, the school was big enough that you could stay away from most of the bullies, Made more friends. Passed my GCSE to a satifactory level (I'd never revised) and moved on to College. I was never a hard worker just someone who sat daydreaming and stuff.

College was ok, never learnt shit, but it prepared me for work.

Most of my friends have gone to distant Uni's or done strange things with their lives like get married at 19

I've never done the 'teen thing' off drinking, drugging, partying or going out at all. In fact I hate going out of any kind it makes me nervous now to the point that I have my hair cut at home people blame it on laziness but I dunno

I got a job at a small company in the town as an IT Technician they have been pleased with my knowledge being more than they anticipated so they haven't had to train me, and I have got to try my hand at everything, seems they maybe closing down in the future tho :/

Thats me at 21...

 

[Summo]

I was born William H. Bonney in New York City, 23 November 1859, my parents being Catherine and William McCarty-Bonney. I moved west with mother, brother (Joseph) and William Antrim, settling in Wichita, Kansas in 1870. There my mother ran a laundry business and invested in real estate. After Wichita, we moved to Coffeyville, Kansas for a short while, which is where I got into trouble with the law for the first time, arrested for stealing items from a local store...

At least I wish it was...

The truth is I was born in Hackney, east London on 26 February 1977 when my parents saw fit to call me Robin. Moved to Walthamstow, Essex two years later and a brother arrived when I was seven. We've got on famously ever since. I remember looking after him and his baby friends as a child...

At junior school I was the 'class clown' and nicknamed Roger the Dodger after my ability to blag my way into and out of trouble. Great days...

Moved to Chelmsford, Essex just in time for the Great Storm of '87 and had a great time at secondary school where I spent seven years arsing about with my mates. Teachers seemed to like us as we were bright and mischeivous, rather than outright troublemakers. An older kid wanted 'to get me' which put a dampener on the second to third year, but nothing ever came of it. The closest I got to a proper fight (ie. a kicking) I feined a heart problem and my would-be kicker-inners helped me home. I'm not sure who the winner was there. :/

A few of my school friends had joined a local venture group by the time I was 15 and so I tagged along so as not to miss out. Best thing I've ever done so far. With those closest friends (sometimes in a group of up to 30 people) we stayed all over the UK and abroad. Thanks to that group I've visited Switzerland, Germany, France, Portugal, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium, Greek Islands and Spain. I see these friends much less than I'd like to these days, but its good to know they're there. We have vague plans to go to Madrid for the new year, but I suspect we've left it a bit late. My friends have always been the most important thing to me, and its probably seeing them less in recent times that has made me spend far too much time on this forum. You are friends of convenience for me to dip in and out of as I please. I hope you don't mind.

Breezed GCSEs, didn't work at A levels and was a nat's wing from studying creative writing at Liverpool before I backed out to save my parents the money. I felt guilty as I was only going to go for the social life. Spent two years as a Pensions Administrator *shudder* which allowed me to blag a job in PC desktop support, then server admin, and now network-type person. I've been extremely lucky and I find I have a thriving career which I enjoy without ever actually trying for one.

Six years ago I joined a local theatre group and have performed in (on average) three or four productions a year. I've shared houses with (in total) eight members of this group. At the moment four of us a writing/improvising a play with a twist, which is unlike anything I've ever seen or heard about before. It's very exciting and is the main thing on my mind at the moment. More info to follow...

I fell utterly in love in January 2000 with a girl my housemate had been seeing for a year. She finished with him because he was an arse and asked me out 'as a friend'. After driving the housemate to the brink of suicide, I moved out. Two years later the girl and agreed to split up simply because she'd lived very little of her life on her own. We're now best friends and suffer some gut-wrenching times. By coincidence, we both started shagging other people at about the same time, three weeks ago. Soul destroying, but it gets easier with time. Particularly as we've now both stopped seeing our respective 'partners'. We suspect that one day we'll get married which makes it very hard to let her go, but if I don't do it now, then it'll come back to haunt us years from now. Maybe we'll never get back together. I just wish I knew one way or the other.

My parents are moving to south-east Spain early next year which is a bit weird. We've never really stayed in touch with the rest of the family, so my brother and I will be alone in the country. On the flip side I have free accomodation and I'm already planning a top-down drive through France.

 

[bodhi]

Originally posted by Sar
Yes Duncan.

I guess I'm supposed to know who Duncan is. Is this one of those net geek things you aren't cool with the net homies if you don't get?

 

[Sar]

You'll get arrested for breaking indecency laws Summo

























PS: I'm sure Wazz enjoys the dipping

 

[old.Kez]

Where in Hackney, you big girl?

 

[Summo]

Whipps Cross Hospital, my lover. Can't remember where I actually lived, though. :/

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

Originally posted by throdgrain
I given up most things (except bikes ) as my kids have grown up, my eldest is now 14 going on 15, and my youngest 12 nearly 13.

That's not grown up surely!?

thoddy old m8, smother them!!!

(on a side note - £2million a year? /me wonders how many naked mars bars and twister I could get from that much money).

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New bit of D0LLy trivia - I dated one of my teachers when I was sixth form.

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by bodhi


I guess I'm supposed to know who Duncan is. Is this one of those net geek things you aren't cool with the net homies if you don't get?

Like I said, Duncan, with a Julian Clary bent.

 

[bodhi]

I have no idea who the guy on the left is.


I see absolutely no resemblance either tbh.




Bit of a pratt aren't you really?

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Needs better composition...

7/10

 

[Sar]

PS Bods: You wouldn't though, would ya?

 

[wolfeeh]

weird thing is...

... like damini, i'm not sure if i would ever change the way i've lived my life up until now if i could...

i mean yeh it's damn shit most of the time, but it has its moments, i can't really say i've ever done something someone elses way rather than my own, i've always followed my own path everyone else be damned... not everyone can say the same

 

[mank!]

In my own defence, I'm not posting my life story because I want pity or anything. I know everything that's fucked up in my lfie is my own fault, so I can't really complain about that. I was just interested in finding out more about you all, so I thought I'd post my life as well.

[edit: I stand by the fact that I reckon bodhi looks like Carter out of ER (Noah Wyle) too ]