Let's talk about life

in reality, all of this has been a total load of old bollocks
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby soundchaser » 01 Oct 2020, 19:19

Life’s been good to me, so far (give or take a couple of weeks here and there).
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Flower » 08 Oct 2020, 13:45




:D :D
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Re: Let's talk about life

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Postby trans-chigley express » 09 Oct 2020, 05:14

soundchaser wrote:Life’s been good to me, so far (give or take a couple of weeks here and there).


yeah, but I bet you have a mansion but forget the price and your Maseratti does one-eighty-five :roll:
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Positive Passion » 09 Oct 2020, 06:54

Life isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything.
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby soundchaser » 09 Oct 2020, 11:15

trans-chigley express wrote:
soundchaser wrote:Life’s been good to me, so far (give or take a couple of weeks here and there).


yeah, but I bet you have a mansion but forget the price and your Maseratti does one-eighty-five :roll:


Well, I didn’t like to brag :D.
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Minnie the Minx » 09 Oct 2020, 13:44

Positive Passion wrote:Life isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything.


I love that song, but that lyric has always irked. Because life blatantly is everything.
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.

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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Sam Stone » 09 Oct 2020, 13:48

soundchaser wrote:
trans-chigley express wrote:
soundchaser wrote:Life’s been good to me, so far (give or take a couple of weeks here and there).


yeah, but I bet you have a mansion but forget the price and your Maseratti does one-eighty-five :roll:


Well, I didn’t like to brag :D.


Why should you when you patently obviously have accountants pay for it all?
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Minnie the Minx » 09 Oct 2020, 14:00

Sam Stone wrote:patently obviously


:cry:
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Positive Passion » 09 Oct 2020, 20:09

Minnie the Minx wrote:
Positive Passion wrote:Life isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything.


I love that song, but that lyric has always irked. Because life blatantly is everything.


Yes there is definitely something odd about it and it doesn't quite work. On the other hand it is clearly memorable.
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Postby Minnie the Minx » 09 Oct 2020, 20:20

Yeah!
I just can’t help imagining Elton standing, hands on hips, over the wrecked body of young Guy, his bike wheels still whirring, saying ‘well, life isn’t everything’ and I get so MAD!!
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.

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Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?


Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby kath » 09 Oct 2020, 20:27

Minnie the Minx wrote:Yeah!
I just can’t help imagining Elton standing, hands on hips, over the wrecked body of young Guy, his bike wheels still whirring, saying ‘well, life isn’t everything’ and I get so MAD!!


okay. maybe i'm crazy. but i always thought the overdone repetition of those lyrics meant... well... the opposite.

kinda like i'm not in love i'm not in love i'm not in love i'm not in love.

that being said, i fully accept the possibility that i am, in fact, crazy.
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Postby Mike Boom » 09 Oct 2020, 20:49

Huh, Ive spent the last 40 odd years thinking that he was singing "life is a temporary thing". :?
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Postby Minnie the Minx » 09 Oct 2020, 20:52

Mike Boom wrote:Huh, Ive spent the last 40 odd years thinking that he was singing "life is a temporary thing". :?


:lol:

Not as good as thinking ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ actually says ‘Alex the Seal’ but not far off
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby kath » 09 Oct 2020, 22:44

Minnie the Minx wrote:
Mike Boom wrote:Huh, Ive spent the last 40 odd years thinking that he was singing "life is a temporary thing". :?


:lol:

Not as good as thinking ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ actually says ‘Alex the Seal’ but not far off


i would just like to add that, from this point forward, i will only ever hear "alex the seal" when i listen to this song.
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Snarfyguy » 10 Oct 2020, 03:07

GoogaMooga wrote: The further away from home you go, the greater the risk of getting stuck there.
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby GoogaMooga » 10 Oct 2020, 05:37

Minnie the Minx wrote:
Positive Passion wrote:Life isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything.


I love that song, but that lyric has always irked. Because life blatantly is everything.


I have to agree with that. What a dumb line. Just shows it's not always good to pay too close attention to the lyrics.
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby Positive Passion » 10 Oct 2020, 08:06

To be fair I think the idea is that in the grief of the death of a friend or loved, you take can a modicum of comfort from their continued impact on you, or others - their legacy lives on, even though their life is over.
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Re: Let's talk about life

Postby GoogaMooga » 10 Oct 2020, 14:06

Positive Passion wrote:To be fair I think the idea is that in the grief of the death of a friend or loved, you take can a modicum of comfort from their continued impact on you, or others - their legacy lives on, even though their life is over.


Put in that context it makes more sense.
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