Leisurely Scribbles (Part 2)

[Jem]

I had a right whopper of a hangover this morning, drank some Greek stuff that didn’t mix well inside me with the Guinness, I remember dancing with some oul one from Trinidad, boy could she move for her age, she had me knackered after five minutes, but all in all a great night.

We don’t do much cricket over here Gummy, a few doctors and lawyers occasionally mess about with bats and balls on their days off, otherwise cricket would be completely unknown to us Irish, horses are our big thing, we’re good at breeding great racehorses and the jockeys to ride them.

I know absolutely nothing about cricket, and I only know one cricket joke which I shall now inflict on your good selves.

A team of archaeologists were excavating on an ancient site in Yorkshire when one of them came across a cricket ball, he was very excited as he showed it to the team leader who thought it very peculiar, so he told him to move on a few yards more to see what else he could find.
Half and hour later he discovered another cricket ball and brought it to his boss who said it was most unusual and told him to try going another few yards.
About an hour later all was revealed when yerman shifted a clump of grass and picked up a castrated cricket.

Put that on yer bat and whack it!. I know how passionate some folks can get about sports so I’m completely neutral, may the best team win is all I can say.

Here’s Jiminy Crickets reaction after he heard the joke.

[gumbud]

groan!! groan ; groan ;groan ; grasp - oh dear that one hurt and me eyes are still watering so that’s what guiness and greek stuff does to you is it ? - stir clear of that Jem it’s crampin ya style! - reminds me of neutering male camels heh - that can make ya eyes water too!!

ps: how do I remove these ads poppin down in front of me eyes??

[spitfire]

Why you worrin about ads Gummy, are u easily tempted?

[gumbud]

no but I do get irritated sometimes - anyway anyone for tennis atm - we do have a top notch international that will give you a run for ya money, who’s stayin in the country a tad longer - and then we have crickety boo coming up again - if ya all feel like a good trouncing?

[gumbud]

on a more serious note it was sad to here about Sinead O’Connors sons death - a family with some tragedy. having a look at google could find plenty on Sinead and some on her father but hardly anything on her mother - can you help at all Jem ; I think the women’s side get left out so often. .I understand Sinead wrote a book or two about her mother eventually?

[gumbud]

Gawd he’s gone a left the backyard unattended again - must be in the shed having a quick noggin and a fag??

[Jem]

@gumbud

on a more serious note it was sad to here about Sinead O’Connors sons death - a family with some tragedy. having a look at google could find plenty on Sinead and some on her father but hardly anything on her mother - can you help at all Jem ; I think the women’s side get left out so often. .I understand Sinead wrote a book or two about her mother eventually?

I don’t really know anything about Sinaid O’Connor Gummy, my son and daughter were good fans of hers but she was way after my time.
Very sad about her son taking his own life at 17, so young it must be a terrible burden for her to bear.

It seems the boy left hospital when he was supposed to be on “Suicide Watch”, very strange, I suppose there will be all sorts of enquiries and buck passing now over that.

God help her, I believe she had mental problems herself and came from a disrupted family in Glenageary, a wealthy part of county Dublin, God give her strength.

“The 17-year-old tragically took his own life last weekend and will be laid to rest following a ceremony at the Newlands Cross crematorium on Thursday.
In a message posted on her Twitter account this evening, Ms O’Connor said her son, who was a Hindu, wanted just his parents to attend his funeral – a wish he tragically expressed in notes before he went missing from hospital last Thursday.
“Shane was Hindu. So the funeral will be just his mother and father,” she said.
She asked that if people are going to send anything to the mortuary at Loughlinstown Hospital or Newlands Cross crematorium, to “please send flowers or Hindu objects”. Irish Independent

[gumbud]

thanks for that little tribute Jem she has a beautiful voice which I’ve always enjoyed listening too but her own life through the decades has been tragic for sure @Jem

[Jem]

And now for something completely different.

Abstract art and abstract verse have much in common.

The way I see it is most abstract artists don’t know how to paint and abstract poets don’t know how to poe, so they take the easy way out and slab-a-dash pigments onto a canvas and let you do the hard work of figuring out what it is., a lazy lot in my humble opinion.
Abstract poets do it with jumbled up words.

Their dedicated patrons and followers are the same as Trump followers, a bit wooly headed, their idol can do no wrong, so they all see something in the ‘work’, and anyone who cannot see what they see is an ignorant idiot, the fairytale about the emperor’s new clothes is the classic example of this.

Whatever it is with the human race they have always fallen for tricks like this, and in my opinion nothing has ever changed nor ever will, we are stuck with all sorts of abstract crap forever.

Picasso was a very clever man and an excellent conventional painter, but he copped on to this fact very quickly and cashed in big time, as one art critic said:
”Picasso is so famous now that he just signs his name on a canvas and lets his dogs do the paintings”
Good for you Pablo, you didn’t have to fool all of the people all of the time, just the folks with all of the money.

You would never guess these two paintings below were created by the same person would you?

What do you see in this abstract “poem” of mine, I’m going through my green period at the moment so it’s about the environment, figure it out for yourself, I’m too lazy to explain it.

You can chase a chicken at a quarter to three
Pour one raison into a seed
Smoke a gallon of bricks on the river Dee
Whatever is greater your need.

Now if my name was Andy Warhol, the biggest chancer of the last century, instead of Jimmy Bloggs, that would become a masterpiece, good enough to hang on a museum wall beside a Campbell’s soup label.

Both Picasso, but I’m sure Fido is responsible for the bottom one.

[spitfire]

I think Picasso got a bit pissed off at some point.

[spitfire]

Artists need a pissed off stage, apparently, brings the bucks in.

[gumbud]

I’ve been reading up on the chaos theory lately and Jem yes I would say your musings and poem fit the bill - chaos theory - says in simple terms that everything in this world is chaotic - follow their own patterns that seem to make no sense but still produce some results and grow and get there if you see my point. It also suggests that human behavior and existence is also chaotic - looks purposeful at times and seems to be going in a ‘good’ direction [the the wall street predictions ] but then goes off at a tangent and collapses as we have noticed - chaotic see - so where am I going with this one who knows ; who cares - so tell me do you think the world is progressing higher and higher ; better and better ; more healthier in all ; more prosperous by enlarge ; more caring ; more longevity ?? - no ?? then it’s flippin chaos ain’t it just? and just to demonstrate that it is not just Mr Jem who can write chaos poetry:

I woke up to a chaotic like morning
I could tell cos my garden had gone
it was there last night when I peed
on the fresh laid down seed
but today it has gone gone gone gone

the missus says don’t worried Mr Gumbud
I require some respect despite the day
but I want my lawn back I can’t cope with the lack
of some green late at night for me pee

now you may think that I’m being chaotic
but you ain’t much better yourself
I know a fella my age who rides a bike in a rage
and he buys them from nippons who sell

this could go one and go on but it seems to be getting a bit chaotic and I don’t wanna upset the Irish too much - this is an Irish forum isn’t it??

[Fruitcake]

Good morning all and one.

I’ve heard of cubism, and expressionist and several other things, but I know what I like. I like a painting where you can tell what it is just by looking at it, not where some pseud has to tell you what they think the painter thought it was supposed to represent.

There was a TV programme shown when I wore a much younger man’s clothes with an interviewer walking along a beach with Picasso. The painter picked up a piece of driftwood and ask the interviewer how much he would pay for it. “Nothing,” came the answer, “it’s worthless”
Mr Picasso then signed the piece of driftwood and asked the same question again. The interviewer didn’t have an answer. It was still a worthless piece of driftwood, but somebody might have been stupid enough to have paid money for it.

I remember seeing a cartoon drawing of two cubes. The legend underneath it said,
“Balls to Picasso.”

I think that sums it up completely.

[gumbud]

@Fruitcake I thought you said they were two cubes oh I get it two round cubes yea!! wasn’t that when cubism came in or did they come from Cuba and is that why all cuban cigars are round when others make cube ones??

[spitfire]

Gumb, don’t be concerned about this stuff Sugar Lump ( ), leave it to the Luvvies.

[gumbud]

ah mr spotie talks in riddles - or jackhammer Joe as we used to call him - never had a stutter before his jackhammer days - now can’t get a word out without repeats? - he has has has a luvely motor motor motor bike!

[Jem]

Yes indeed, the world is badly in need of fixing, maybe we need a second coming or at least someone already here who’s clever enough to put us on the right track, if not I’m afraid the powerful one will scrap the whole project and send us all back to square one, we’ve had enough warnings already.

You ask me is the world getting better and progressing Gummy?, not a bit of it, people now are far more greedier and self centred than they ever were, everything is money and me me me now.

Just as an example I was looking up on a celebrities date of birth and the second question on the list was “How old is John Voight and WHAT’S HIS NET WORTH”, the question is always asked every time I want to look up someone’s life, how sad is that? What is their worth, seems that’s very important in life today, whereas it used to be the person who was important and not his/her financial worth.
Personally I’m not interested in how much lolly the man has, his acting has always given me great pleasure over the years, particularly in “The Odessa File”, and whatever wealth he has accumulated from his work he’s earned it, I wish him long life to enjoy it.
Whatever happened to contentment?

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Did you ever have to eat one of those horrible chickens advertised in the butcher shops in the 50’s as “Boiling fowl”, jaysus they tasted like damp sawdust, they must have been on their last legs, probably saved the farmer the job of wringing their necks, kamikaze chickens, sacrificed themselves for the pot. The poor mother would have one boiling in the kitchen for hours when we were kids, trying to make it as soft as possible. Is it any wonder I don’t eat chicken.

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I always meant to ask you Gummy. what do those wild turkeys taste like?

I just thought I’d make ya a bit home sick for devilment, here’s the Dubliners singing about yer hometown, give it a lash Lukie boy!

Luke Kelly Wish I Were Back In Liverpool

[gumbud]

@Jem Ah ya a cruel mon if ever there woz Jemmie l ya sure know how to bring a man weeping to his knees! - God the memories come flooding back and there’s me Ma and Pa again as fresh as daisy in Edge Hill Park or was it Wavertree Park - yes I could wander for miles and miles as a kid safe as houses - get back in ya shed now Jem ya don’t wanna see a grown man cryin do ya - with tears that’ll fill up the Liffey [nice band ya be havin there it is!]

[gumbud]

there has been some significant research coming out for a while that is suggesting that being vaccinated against covid may not provide the protection we thought and that unvaccinated people who develop their own immunity are better protected? - now I have always been a scientifically oriented fellow from my early days working in a pot bank and assisting with the making of liquid clay that was used to produce all our sanitary wares - so science has been one of my pinions in life. If you don’t think this needs discussing here then just ignore it nod nod wink wink and we’ll get on with other things!

[spitfire]

The trouble with working with liquid clay is, everyday you get to feel life “Slipping” away.