They were so cold and yet so beautiful as they danced beneath that hovering Moon-disco ball. (705 hits)
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Submitted by Tokerson (View user info) at 2009-08-03 23:05:19 EDT
I had a dream a few nights ago that I was walking through a forest in the winter at night and came upon a friend of mine ball room dancing on a frozen lake with a grizzly bear in a tutu. I knew the bear was really enjoying the dance. He was probably triple my friend's weight but was just leaning into him so much, holding cheek against cheek, that you could really tell the bear loved him. My friend didn't really love the bear, or at least for him, the dance wasn't about love, it was about the perfect fluidity of his dancing. He moved so gracefully and was leading so aptly with this giant bear it struck me just how much he must love the dance itself and not the bear. I felt kind of sorry for the bear, because he probably didn't know he was just my friend's person to use in order to ball room dance and thought his weirdly affectionate love was being reciprocated. A full moon acted as both a spotlight and disco ball overhead. It shone down on them in this pillar of warm yellow light among the cold, glittering white of the snow and ice. There was a piano off to the side with no one playing it while saxaphones played jazzy tunes to their formal waltz from both everywhere and nowhere.
The scene had this weird element of tragedy and life's cruelty to it. The bear was so sad, my friend was so cold, neither can be happy because they need the other yet can't get what they needed from each other. It ended as I realized there was a sorrowful beauty to life's cruelty and the scene that really touched my heart. I shed a tear, which froze on my cheek, thus depriving me of my ability to mourn their poetic dance drama. I was the cold landscape, I couldn't feel for them. There was pain from the tear freezing and made me realize my tragedy was my fate to be only their unempathetic observer. I could only absorb the scene, not infringe upon it's delicate fragility. The pain was sharp and sudden and made me wake up. It was all so cold, so sterile and lonely how they danced isolated in a forest in the dead of night, yet each's passion made the dance just such emotional beauty in this pitiless realm.
It was probably the most emotional or beautiful scene I've come across in dreams. I've seen much that's just as detailed and unique, but only this was my only poetic poetic, emotional and tragically beautiful dream I've had.
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Submitted by sexualchocolate1984 (user info) at 2009-08-06 07:40:58 EDT (#)
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I had a dream the other night in which I drunk drove my mates van, ran over a killed a little girl and ran from the police.
When i woke up i had to check that I wasn't still on the run, and more importanatly that I hadn't bought my mates shitty van!
Submitted by Tokerson (user info) at 2009-08-05 11:34:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Cakes (user info) at 2009-08-04 21:21:54 EDT (#)
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Beautiful.
Where did you get the pic? I'm printing it--I'm not some "looking for a reward in the afterlife" do-gooder--I'm a fairly save my ass first person, but lately I do give out 10 per cent of my earnings--NON religiously--not to feel good about myself, but for knowing others feel that love and pass it on.
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Don't remember, but here's the original:
http://i27.tinypic.com/25ph5s7.jpg
Submitted by Cakes (user info) at 2009-08-04 21:21:54 EDT (#)
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Beautiful.
Where did you get the pic? I'm printing it--I'm not some "looking for a reward in the afterlife" do-gooder--I'm a fairly save my ass first person, but lately I do give out 10 per cent of my earnings--NON religiously--not to feel good about myself, but for knowing others feel that love and pass it on.
I used to do stuff like that as a teen-- Dunkin' Donuts for homeless -- I thought I knew what compassion really was, but I didn't, I was kinda only making myself feel better about my own fucked up life. But real compassion--which is the highest form of love-- it doesn't have anything to do with oneself, that's the point. I'm still learning that, hopefully I will finally.
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2009-08-04 20:57:47 EDT (#)
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reminds me of this awesome song/video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G41kIGujJw
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2009-08-04 20:28:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2009-08-04 15:20:35 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-08-04 14:49:42 EDT (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:40:46 EDT (#)
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and then he fucked the bear.
the end.
that guy is too young to be panhandling, unless he's a crazy. his pooch loves him though.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:53:45 EDT (#)
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wendy and lucy.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:25:04 EDT (#)
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I'd give the dog some change and some treats.
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:09:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by cheerios (user info) at 2009-08-04 09:38:35 EDT (#)
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Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-08-04 07:44:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2009-08-04 07:36:21 EDT (#)
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I would give him some change too...
Sam Eagle is a fantastic name...
Submitted by AyeCarumba (user info) at 2009-08-04 05:45:52 EDT (#)
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That is even better.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 05:20:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by AyeCarumba (user info) at 2009-08-04 05:12:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:48:15 EDT (#)
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Although it is almost, almost, an anogram for smeagle.
Only if you spell smeagol incorrectly :P
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No shit?
EI, you'll need to change your name to Sam Ogle instead.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 05:18:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 10:11:06 BST (#)
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I can't work in the public sector, EI. I have ideas. Ideas that need to be listened to.
Also I live in Birmingham.
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Enjoy getting laid off, not getting another job and living off a pathetic pension, LOSER.
also the private sector frown upon ideas involing jelly, monkeys and baby sharks
Submitted by AyeCarumba (user info) at 2009-08-04 05:12:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:48:15 EDT (#)
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Although it is almost, almost, an anogram for smeagle.
Only if you spell smeagol incorrectly :P
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 05:11:06 EDT (#)
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I can't work in the public sector, EI. I have ideas. Ideas that need to be listened to.
Also I live in Birmingham.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:57:28 EDT (#)
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I can get you a job here berty, if you dont mind working with 40 year old men who still live with mummy.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:50:50 EDT (#)
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I didn't think work happened in the public sector. I thought that was the point.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:49:32 EDT (#)
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when shall we do some work today?
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:48:15 EDT (#)
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Although it is almost, almost, an anogram for smeagle.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:47:42 EDT (#)
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Sam Eagle.
Now there's a guy I can see piloting the Milennium Falcoln into the 2nd Death Star.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:45:13 EDT (#)
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im changing my name to
Sam Eagle
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:40:56 EDT (#)
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Feh! We won't be able to retire. We will keep working till we are 80. Theey will use our brains for sub-processing data networks and debugging programmes. We will rent our minds.
I mean, it won't be hard or nothing. Just lie on a sofa and space out for a bizzle. THen you get paid.
Thank you EI, I'm actually feeling quite uplifted. As if I have somehow leeched the light from your day.
OMG I JUST RREALISeD HOW MY DIEScROTION OF OLD AGE IS BASICALLY WHOREDOM.
I bagsy the OAP name "Duke Whoredom".
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:25:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 09:15:04 BST (#)
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Oh God EI, it's all so awful.
Tell me, is it any better in the public sector? I mean, the whole place must smell like a school but do you have a sofa that you're allowed to sit on?
This office needs more women. Not the kind you interact with though, that'd be too much. They'd screech and stuff about Emmerdale. No, we need women in a tank. Like fish.
Perhaps I should get a job as a security gaurd in a shopping precinct? Oh God, I'm contemplating a life of oddness. MDMA should be legal and mandatory on Tuesdays. Then we could spend Wednesday in bed.
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There are two sofas on each floor, actually on my floor there are 6. What really bothers me is when people take lunch, don't leave the building and just sit on the sofas reading a book. The reading the book bit is ok....i guess but go outside people, yes its a bit miserable and damp but its better than being surrounded by the numbskulls that tend to infest the public sector *raises hand and waves*
Im too old to do anything worthwhile with my life, yes im studying and yes I have aspirations but we all know it will lead to a life of mediocrity and disappointment, so figs to that. You heard it hear first, my career aim is a pension. I cant wait to be old, old people have it so easy, yes you hear them moaning, but that's the attraction, I cant wait to moan legally, get up at 5am and make a slice of toast before queuing outside the post office before its even opened, wasting a morning of my life, I'll tell you this berty, id rather waste my life queuing outside a post office at 6am than having my nose rubbed into the ground by the government.
Im feeling a little queasy now
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:15:54 EDT (#)
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By "We" I mean the nation. I don't want to get your hopes up.
Or anything else for that matter.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:15:04 EDT (#)
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Oh God EI, it's all so awful.
Tell me, is it any better in the public sector? I mean, the whole place must smell like a school but do you have a sofa that you're allowed to sit on?
This office needs more women. Not the kind you interact with though, that'd be too much. They'd screech and stuff about Emmerdale. No, we need women in a tank. Like fish.
Perhaps I should get a job as a security gaurd in a shopping precinct? Oh God, I'm contemplating a life of oddness. MDMA should be legal and mandatory on Tuesdays. Then we could spend Wednesday in bed.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:14:24 EDT (#)
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you may notice that they dog is sitting on hurtys lap. hurty is well known for leaving his flies open and well.....i think i'll leave it there
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:09:36 EDT (#)
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He is probably exploiting that animal to further his own grubby ambitions.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:08:44 EDT (#)
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My God, it is as well. How did I not see it till now?
It is uncanny.
I didn't know Hurty had a dog. I honestly didn't think him capable of displaying such warmth to another living creature.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:04:05 EDT (#)
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its a hurty
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 04:03:21 EDT (#)
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Also that is a hobo. A Newcastle hobo if my recollection is correct.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 03:59:34 EDT (#)
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Are my eyes playing tricks on me?
The dude is dancing with the bear! He wants to dance! His categorical imperative is to dance.
And he is fucking dancing!
Am I misreading this? Is there a sentance I missed where the narrator talks to the friend and who says "yeah, the dancing is pretty coo but grizzlys can't foxtrot."
Is there a subtle vein of racism or specism? Like, if we all owned puppies and had full penetrative sex with them; all our problems would be over? It is too early for me to conceptualise this. Little help?
I am failing hard today. I should have stayed in bed.
Submitted by MIll8178 (user info) at 2009-08-04 03:51:49 EDT (#)
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neither can be happy because they need the other yet can't get what they needed from each other.
I really liked that line, especially when coupled with the photo at the bottom of modern day Jesus holding his puppy, but I'm not a big fan of the whole dancing with a bear thing.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 03:33:02 EDT (#)
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Gaaaayy
ALSO
Surely if your friend loved the dance and was dancing, WITH A FUCKING GRIZZLY BEAR NO LESS, then he has achieved his "love of teh dance".
The bear can be all "hugz plz or no moar dancy time" so whilst it isn't the most sincere relationship in the world, it is better than nothing.
OR IS IT?
Mebbee you're right and it's better to not even have a sniff of something than to have an approximation of a ting.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-08-04 01:58:23 EDT (#)
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I went ahead and read this... and I am not entirely unhappy I did.
For a brief second I thought 'poetic poetic' was, like, totally deep n' stuff... but then I realized it was just bad editing.
Could have used a much better picture.
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2009-08-04 01:23:05 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sandmantate (user info) at 2009-08-03 23:33:49 EDT (#)
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That is a well loved dog. I didn't read this post.
Submitted by HonkeyKong (user info) at 2009-08-04 01:15:30 EDT (#)
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"neither can be happy because they need the other yet can't get what they needed from each other"
Struck a chord with me...
Submitted by sandmantate (user info) at 2009-08-03 23:33:49 EDT (#)
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That is a well loved dog. I didn't read this post.