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[BoroRedKen]

Bloody hell its grim!

Nobody is talking just shouting.

Riots, threats, viscious retorts etc etc.

Im going to try 7 days totally blanked from SM as an "experiment".
Im going to try to physically talk to other humans rather than writing words.

I sit in that hospital day after day. I see everybody wandering around on phones. I see people sat together eating some food and they are all on the phones!
But nobody smiling or just chatting shit.

People say im crazy cos i sit in the church lately a lot. But its the quiet. Its the peace. Its the time to just sit and think about other things that i have no one else to talk/think with about.

I eat my food and i try to think about the food. I refuse now to have my phone or tv on whilst i eat. I want to savour and think about the food.

Yes its all woo woo to lots of you i get that chaps. I expect to be ridiculed. I even look forward to reading Crocky telling people "thats it! Kenny has finally lost the plot!!" 🤣.

Truth? I think Kenny has discovered Mindfullness. And i feel a "shift" inside me already. Im sick of hate and anger. It only hurts me not the people i used to feel anger and hate for.

I dont think my hate and contempt will ever cease for a few people. Yes its that Carmen thread. I can never forgive nor forget what was written.

But i can deal with my thoughts and opinions "differently" i suppose.

Kenny.
Ward 1.
Roseberry Unit.
JCUH......
🤣👍

[newyddion]

[tonyangelino]

[BoroRedKen]

I walk 2 mins from my house and i have views like this that i personally take for granted.

How mad is it that i walk past this stuff everyday and i dont even thank my lucky stars that its not all highrise and concrete everywhere?

Social Media has made focus on me and made me selfish. I go all crybaby cos im a convicted criminal. Im still walking, talking and breathing.

I can go where i want. Do almost anything i want to do. Yet i lock myself away and fester with hate and anger.
I should appreciate what i have. Not what i want.

[Hound]

Not far from a "Turkish" barber too, 😁
I know a couple of old boys who live in this area,
Definitely some nice views up there 👍🏻

[BoroRedKen]

Not far from a "Turkish" barber too, 😁
I know a couple of old boys who live in this area,
Definitely some nice views up there 👍🏻

You are right mate. Where the street photo was taken there is a TB on that very row! I love seeing the BMW's and Audis and Mercs parked a few streets away from the shop.

The lad that was the barber in the street packed up months ago because he just cant compete anymore.

We have a Co-Op with licensing. We have RR that is a bar. We have the all new sparkly Skippers pub. And this morning i see a licensing application on the sunbed shop door saying application for "off sales of alcohol between 7 am and 11pm. So an off licence.

It is literally 20 meters from the Co-Op that has full off sales licensing. 4 bars and pubs have shut in this village in the last 18 months.
Maybe that is why i was a failed businessman! 

[BoroRedKen]

Being nearly teetotal is drinking at home the new big thing? Is it a cost vs the pub thing?

If i have a beer with Lids i get a coke him a pint the barmaid say x amount of pounds and i pay it no mind.

Is alcohol that "pricey" in boozers that having a pint at home is just cheaper and better now?

[newyddion]

Being nearly teetotal is drinking at home the new big thing? Is it a cost vs the pub thing?

If i have a beer with Lids i get a coke him a pint the barmaid say x amount of pounds and i pay it no mind.

Is alcohol that "pricey" in boozers that having a pint at home is just cheaper and better now?

Lockdown will have played a big part in the home drinking boom.. plenty off things to keep folks occupied at home I guess.. going out in town drinking soon gets expensive and maybe folks just can't be doing with the chew.

Meeting people on 'social media' watching movies on netflix, sky sports, computer games and all that..

Socialising has just dropped off a cliff!

[tunstall]

Plus when you drink at home you can do it in the billy bollocks

[Hound]

Being nearly teetotal is drinking at home the new big thing? Is it a cost vs the pub thing?

If i have a beer with Lids i get a coke him a pint the barmaid say x amount of pounds and i pay it no mind.

Is alcohol that "pricey" in boozers that having a pint at home is just cheaper and better now?

Lockdown will have played a big part in the home drinking boom.. plenty off things to keep folks occupied at home I guess.. going out in town drinking soon gets expensive and maybe folks just can't be doing with the chew.

Meeting people on 'social media' watching movies on netflix, sky sports, computer games and all that..

Socialising has just dropped off a cliff!

Fuckin grim that, but correct,
Fuck it im going to go out for a walk with the dog.

[BoroRedKen]

Yes i think thats a good point Newy.

Socialising with others in the flesh is very underrated lately. We all, i suppose, "stick to our own".

All this is because my brain hurts. My heart hurts. I cant cope with "hate" anymore. I want to smile and laugh again.

Tim being really ill has awakened something inside of me. A man who does nothing but help and listen to people regardless of politics or race. Regardless how crazy they may sound. And yet life is kicking him in the bollocks everyday.

Carmen was straight as an arrow. She either liked you or she did not. But ultimately she never let it affect her what others thought. She could be your greatest friend or your worst enemy if you crossed her.

I care too much. Its seen as my weakness i know. But no amount of crap flung at me will ever stop me loving and caring for people that have, and i make no bones about this statement, saved my life.

I want and need to pay the help forward. Im ok. I have everything i need and want.
I just did not realise that until recently.

I have no intentions to meet anyone else. I dont need a partner in my life. I want to breathe fresh air. I want to try and make people feel just 1% happier than they are. I want people to talk to me. I want to people to feel that even though i might not agree with them i will always listen and talk.

I do lie. Im selfish in the thought that i do want something. But no amount of money, technology or all the will in the world can ever give me that.

So its time to move my life on. 

[BoroRedKen]

Everyday and night i visit Tim.

And he shakes my hand and says "thank you" everytime. What does the bloke who has stuck by me have to thank me for?

I want to spend time with him. I respect and love the old get so much!

The 1 thing everything lately has taught me is live for today lads. I will never forget Big Kev, Minge, Ebby and Carmen.

The best thing i think i can do is make sure these people are never forgot by us.

Lets make RR a tribute to all our loved 1s we have lost. Lets move this place forward and make them that are not with us anymore the driving force behind this place exploding!

Fight and argue lads. Just dont hate please. Its stifling us all.

 

[Redsteel (Moderator)]

I enjoy my Saturday afternoon sessions in the pub, especially when the football season is on. I have good craic with the lads, and our phones are more or less redundant the entire time we are there. I very rarely do fbook or twitter and feel better for it. My next step, is to limit my time on the news, because I find it now too consuming, with right/left politics. There is very little middle ground with it now, it's pick a side, which is the cause of such division, we find ourselves in today. Half hour on the morning, half hour at night, and that's it for me from now on.

[Ural Quntz]

I enjoy my Saturday afternoon sessions in the pub, especially when the football season is on. I have good craic with the lads, and our phones are more or less redundant the entire time we are there. I very rarely do fbook or twitter and feel better for it. My next step, is to limit my time on the news, because I find it now too consuming, with right/left politics. There is very little middle ground with it now, it's pick a side, which is the cause of such division, we find ourselves in today. Half hour on the morning, half hour at night, and that's it for me from now on.

I stopped watching the BBC several years ago

I get all my news from Crocky

[TommyDickfingers]

I've just been to Preston Park with the bride and young in.

People of all backgrounds just relaxing and as Teesside folk are renowned for, just striking up conversations with strangers and putting the world to rights.

Life affirming as social media and the internet have made the world a hateful place and basically a cesspit as far as I'm concerned.

[tunstall]

I've been on twitter all morning calling people I don't know cunts

[Ural Quntz]

I've been on twitter all morning calling people I don't know cunts

Sound!

 

[Clem Fandango]

I've been on twitter all morning calling people I don't know cunts

[newyddion]

I've been on twitter all morning calling people I don't know cunts

You can't fall off

[Johnny Thunder]

I've said before Ken, get yourself out into the countryside around you.

I fuckin love it.

Some of my friends and family think I'm fuckin mental but it is an amazing feeling putting the tent in the backpack and hiking two hundred miles. The beer/red at the end of each day and the end of the hike tastes so sweet.

 

[BoroRedKen]

Walking around this morning early just breathing in and looking at things that i stopped noticing ages ago was so cathartic (think thats the right word!) to me.

I still cant handle bugs and flying critters yet so im not yet ready for camping but i think i understand and get the merits you mention Johnny.

 

[Ayton Mews]

I've said before Ken, get yourself out into the countryside around you.

I fuckin love it.

Some of my friends and family think I'm fuckin mental but it is an amazing feeling putting the tent in the backpack and hiking two hundred miles. The beer/red at the end of each day and the end of the hike tastes so sweet.

 

Sounds gay

[BoroRedKen]

I've said before Ken, get yourself out into the countryside around you.

I fuckin love it.

Some of my friends and family think I'm fuckin mental but it is an amazing feeling putting the tent in the backpack and hiking two hundred miles. The beer/red at the end of each day and the end of the hike tastes so sweet.

 

Sounds gay

Dem sheeps cant worry themselves matey!....

 

[Ayton Mews]

 

[Clem Fandango]

I've said before Ken, get yourself out into the countryside around you.

I fuckin love it.

Some of my friends and family think I'm fuckin mental but it is an amazing feeling putting the tent in the backpack and hiking two hundred miles. The beer/red at the end of each day and the end of the hike tastes so sweet.

 

Basically.. this means he sometimes likes wanking in a tent vs his Mam's spare bedroom.

Just for a change.