The Thrill Has Gone
Posted by David Wright on 29 February 2008 - 9:01am.
Not sure if this has been covered before, but what things in life are now mundane reality, when they used too seem so exciting?
A few to start off things:
1) A new Oasis album
2) Another Space Shuttle launch
3) Watching speeded up clips using the fast forward-rewind button on your DVD or Video Player.
4) Connecting successfully onto the internet.
5) Another charity gig and all star line up at Wembley Stadium.
Happy Friday to one and all.
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Time shifting
* You would set the timer on your basic VCR to record a programme and would come home to find it had actually worked.
* I can remember my first fumbling attempts at emails, which were directed at the handful of people I knew who could receive them and came out buried in code. I can't even remember how I did it.
to go boldly
I understand your point, but this set of pics does put the wonder back into Shuttle flights
http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm
Wha' happened?
Giddy images indeed, but I can't help feeling that the whole endeavour (or Endeavour) would be rather more epic if NASA didn't insist on ramming the thing up into the sky mounted on what looks for all the world like a 300-foot-long rusty dildo. The marital aid in question started out as white as a freshly Dazzed shirt, like everything else, didn't it?
Space,
by it's very nature, was always a bit mundane wasn't it? I think they could have made it a bit more interesting for the rest of us if they'd insisted that each shuttle should also carry a live alligator in a space suit. Or a leopard perhaps.
Deep Purple announce a comeback tour
* Thirty-seven celebs join Macca on stage to sing "Hey Jude".
* Thirty-seven rockular footnotes join the Clapster on stage to sing "Layla".
* Thirty-seven nobodies join the Knopfler on stage to sing "Money for Nothing".
* Thirty-seven yards of gaudy chiffon containing Aretha Franklin join this week's queen of R&B (sic) on stage to sing a duet of "Do Right Woman".
* Keith mocks Mick witheringly.
* Madonna reinvents herself.
* Ricky Gervais is a guest on a chat show.
I think Oasis/Coldplay/Queen are crap/marvellous/who?
Delete as applicable
Retro
you curmudgeon! :-)
A new Oasis album...
...ho ho ho
How about FA Cup Finals, Mojo, Glastonbury (sadly)
Two more
The Christmas Number one - everyone pretty much concedes that it will be the winner of this year's X Factor. They've probably chosen the song already. For all we know, they may well have chosen the winner already as well.
Elton John very publicly duets with whoever has been controversially in the news recently (surely Amy Winehouse must be soon ?)
How about Christmas and Sunday's
Only for my kids I'd just give it up. It starts in on the 26th of December and goes on for the year. The "Spirit" of Christmas has long since departed, its replaced by greed, ignorance, selfishness and all the rest.
When you start seeing the decorations going up in October you know its time to clear off.
I remember when the first week in December was pushing it.
And who can remember boring Sundays. I want them back !
Opening bookshops on Sundays
That was uncalled for. Can't we have our day of rest back?
I Second that Emotion
Hear Hear.
In a recent WORD podcast
...someone mentioned Compuserve. When I first went online in 1995, CompuServe were my ISP. They operated a suite of chat rooms and it was in this small, sparsely populated pond that I did most of my surfing.
Outside of the Compuserve gated community the virtual geography of the internet was still crystallizing. Search engines were a relatively new form of life. On the occasions when I ventured into this hostile environment, I would blunder around for a couple of minutes, not really knowing where I was going or what I was doing. Then the browser would encounter something that it didn't like and would crash spectacularly.
Saying that I am bored with the reliability of modern internet browsers is tempting fate and guaranteed to end badly for me. However, I do take it for granted that things like this will work.
Bond films
It's obvious to me that Casino Royale was the best Bond film in years. Problem is, I don't care. It's still the adventures of a man running around a lot, avoiding and causing explosions. Sorry, it's just boring now. Am I alone?
NME awards
Once were interesting. Now? sponsored by hair products and attended by the usual z list nobodies who are famous for having a mother who is a y list nobody!!
Youtube
Had its day already, no?