Tcm

[petem]

We've heard about Matt's fantastic lifestyle: own business, private jets, Ferraris, Mercedes sports cars, house in the country, fully plasma'd flat in Covent Garden, Carribean and ski holidays. Then of course there's the boat. 23m of the finest Italian craftsmanship. Five tellies and cutlery more valuable than my car.

But, the big question, is he happy?

 

[tripleace]

No................ but what a way to be depressed!................

 

[BarryD]

See forum capers shots on Boatones website, the dancing and armchair olympics.. . if he's depressed then I'm a virgin. Somehow I feel that will rebound on me but you've got to go with your gut!

Havoc, fire, confusion, and mis-trust, yes my work here is done...

Barry D

 

[piratequeen]

It can't be good for his soul, I would recommend he gets down to the real nitty-gritty and comes to help us knee deep in mud trying to paint the top-sides and do the varnish before the tide comes back in, or maybe it would make him less depressed if he offered us all a free holiday on the leopard? I volunteer to help Pauline do the sun-bathing bit on the bow.
ps You know when you see all those photos of flash penile-extension type boats with the obligatory bikini-birds on the sun-bathing platform, well don't they get goose-pimples with all that draught?

 

[jfm]

Give the guy a break. There's almost a recession out there and so the world needs all the tcm's it can get right now ;-)

 

[petem]

Not being critical, but seriously, is there a point where so many pocessions become a liability? When I was younger I dreamt of owning about 10 houses scattered around the world and as many cars and boats. But you could spend your whole life looking after them.

Basically, does less become more?

 

[ari]

Ah, but if less is more, imagine how much more more is!!

;-)

Ari

 

[longjohnsilver]

Gut!

And boy what a gut!! <BG> If ever you get a gut feeling, could spell danger for us all.

Back to tcm, seems pretty happy to me.

 

[hlb]

Dont to much like threads getting personal. We all get on the best we can. Some do better than others. Matt I'm sure is as happy as the rest of us. Maybe more, maybe less. But nothing to do with money. Bit like film censors talking about sex and violence. What the hell has sex got to do with violence!!!

Haydn

 

[ToMo]

Re: Sex & Violence

Aw come on Haydn it's ok, everyone knows that you like Tutts to beat you around the nether regions with a red mullet before you go to sleep!.....It's what you do when you wake up we all worry about! <G>
TôMö

 

[hlb]

Re: Sex & Violence

I'll let you know what mine andTutt's opinion is to that comment, when she wakes up.

Haydn

 

[claymore]

Well he managed to get out of Bratfud so there's a good reason for him to be happy.
Then there's his wife....oh dear, I'm going to have to go now....
so small, so beautifully marked, so.......

 

[markc]

As you seem to like being personal, can you tell us if your wife is happy with your perfomance in bed? Perhaps we'll have a discussion on here? Or maybe you have piles that hurt? Shall we talk about them?

 

[KevB]

None of our business

Not that it's any of our business but why not ask him???


I understand this may be a rhetorical question but..... Matts are you happy?

 

[tcm]

Re: How to be happy

erm yeah. I don't believe that you/me/anyone wd be 2x happier with 2xvolume of boat. Praps petem believes otherwise? Or perhaps he hopes otherwise?

To increase one's happiness quotient I strongly recommend leaving £20 notes in your jacket pockets for aha! discovering several months later. But not too many, I suppose, otherwise you'd eventuallly be not so happy um because of not finding a £20 note every time...

this is a bit of a strange thread, petem? I mean, how wd it develop? Me saying ooh, no gasp, actually you're dead right petem, I am miserable and miss the joy of a game of Poohsticks (Poohsticks possible strategy hint: get a stick which is significantly heavier one end that t'other to minimise broaching?).

Or shd we have a discussion of exactly how to measure happiness, the cliche being that of course people who work in the fields in the 17century or were confined to steerage class in the Titanic were actually very happy and jolly all the time?

I think petem should buy a boat. Possible freudian projection going on as he is trying to persuade himself that buying a boat (esp a big boat) wd not actually make him very happy. He's wrong, and should buy a boat, or fix up a boat, or slightly mend a bit of a boat, or saw up some wood to make a nice shelf for a boat, or buy a new thing for a boat, especially something that has to be nailed on but isn't too difficult to set up. All of these things will make him happy, at least for a while, as anyone on the bb knows.

 

[claymore]

Re: How to be happy

Well thats about the unhappiest response I've ever seen you make. Was the whole thing a bit personal and are you feeling victimised or have you been on the medication again which might explain your subdued state.
The one thing I did pick up from your post was your line on the £20 notes (I worked out the poohsticks one years ago when the offspring was having aparticularly successful run - You must be wealthy, I shove my change in my top pocket but unfortunately have never moved up from the brown 10 bob variety. My biggest haul was £3:10/-.

 

[BarryD]

Pete - how come a rich computer contractor had to sell his boat when the governemnt decided to tax all his income instead of only the bit he declared? Loads of boats out there - get one, get two in case you break one.

Havoc, fire, confusion, and mis-trust, yes my work here is done...

Barry D

 

[tcm]

Re: How to be happy

£3 is a bit pathetic.

For starters, get rid of any wallet thing. Just put money in pockets. Then whilst driving all the change will clinker about, and pay for the man to hoover it now and again.

Secondly, sell something for cash. This means that you might have several hundred quid or even a grand. Very carefully, put it somewhere safe. then realise tha any burglar will look there, so put it somewhere else. Then change your mind again, and split it into two or more amounts, perhaps putting them at the back of wardrobes or in cooking utensils that never get used. Keep 200 quid to use for now, giving you plenty of time to keep spending " that money" and also plenty of time to forget where all the stashes were. Upon discovery, expect untold joy. Also, if you ever get burgled, you won't know if anything valuable has been taken, therby minimising unhappiness too.

Thirdly, if you have kids, open all their mail. Very often there's a tenner in it! Hurrah. Keep this, and on no account explain post office accounts or such. And it's their birthday so they're getting a trip to macdonalds, which will cost loads. Anyway, they'll get it all back in time. And, you can then look forward to their birthdays (for the tenners) instead of your own birthday, when you don't. Nice side effect is that the kids don't graspingly mention the money to the granparents or relative who sent it, therby appearing all very well brought up and not materialistic, whereas in fact they never got the money in the first place. This only works up until the kids are about 8, when you get rumbled.


Being in the cybers analysts chair, i didn't think it was appropriate to be too happy. I mean, nobody who goes to a pschc(sp)iatrists would ever be jolly jolly and tell jokes , would they? They'd get locked up! So they have to sit down quietly and say hum yes, I may have a nice wife, and nice kids and boat and job where I can goof around on the internet, but I never stopped to think if I am happy or not. Whereas really, they shd tell the psychiatrsit to shut up and not take much notice of Petem who has sold his boat and bought a house miles from anywhere and mebbe rented it out therby making money in one of the most boring possible ways imaginable. And Petem shd be here, not me!

Come on petem, asking if people are happy perhaps means you aren't eh? Pete? Oh bugger, he's gone and topped himself...

 

[david_e]

No such thing as happiness, it's just a psychological condition women dream about) (sorry P).

Tcm seems a happy chappy in his postings but I would imagine he will be a bit happier when the Leopard arrives nice and safely in Antibes?

 

[tcm]

It *is* nice and safe, in the port next door, increasing happiness. The berth in antibes is being rented out, whilst it's free where it is, increasing happiness even more. But I am here answering nitpot questions from petem who thinks that perhaps I may NOT be happy at all. Aren't brits weird?