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When I was a kid, on the very few occasions I had trouble getting to sleep I used to imagine I was on a spaceship all on my own travelling through the deep, darkness of space. I would then think what would happen if nothing existed. Would I be aware of it, if not what is my consciousness, is it my mind or my soul? Do they exist really? So if they don’t then neither does anything.
Then my 5 year old brain would conk out instantly. Overload. Still works today.
What is being alive about? Does my soul exist or is it just some electricity weaving around my brain box?
God only knows.
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Things that blow your mind on 19:42 - Feb 6 with 1847 views
A landing party from a Dutch ship was prevented from landing on an island off Patagonia by locals hurling penguins off the cliffs to sink their boats. I either saw that on Reddit or dreamt it.
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Things that blow your mind on 22:46 - Feb 6 with 1622 views
Things that blow your mind on 22:43 - Feb 6 by MrSheen
A landing party from a Dutch ship was prevented from landing on an island off Patagonia by locals hurling penguins off the cliffs to sink their boats. I either saw that on Reddit or dreamt it.
Moresnet was a micro state of 3,000 people between modern Belgium and Germany between 1816 and 1920. It was the site of Europe’s biggest zinc mine and no-one could decide who it should belong to after the defeat of Napoleon, so it was decided to share it between Prussia, the United Netherlands and Belgium (after 1830). The mine ran out in 1885, so they tried to make a living out of hosting draft dodgers, gin distilling and casinos (all shut down by the neighbours) until they tried to become the centre of the world Esperanto movement. The Germans seized it in 1914, it was given to Belgium in 1920, taken back by the Germans in 1940 and became Belgian for keeps in 1944.
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Things that blow your mind on 23:30 - Feb 6 with 1560 views
Lysergic acid diethylamide used to blow my mind. Preferably taken at gigs. Pink Floyd at Docklands Arena 88 was 'cosmic maaaan' , same with Jean Michel Jarre in Docklands in the pissing rain same year , Stone Roses Ally Pally 89 was mental,Deee-Lite all nighter at Brixton in 90 (even Bootsie Collins on bass looked .spaced out') Mondays at Wembley Arena 90, Glasto 90 as well with the air ambulance landing by the pyramid stage while the Cure were on ( I thought I was in Vietnam ??!!)......it seemed a good idea at the time.
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Things that blow your mind on 07:07 - Feb 7 with 1413 views
Things that blow your mind on 01:40 - Feb 7 by Boston
Pork Pies...it’s like eating hockey pucks.
The pork pies we had as part of our picnics when I was a kid were absolutely poking - 60% 'meat', 30% minging jelly and 10% greasy pastry. However, my mate brought a pork pie into work from some posh butchers in East Dulwich and it completely changed my view of them. If you spend a bit of money, a pork pie with a dab of mustard is a thing of great beauty (although I still get shot of most of the jelly).
I have rarely been as content with life as I was one midweek afternoon, sat in the Southampton Arms, NW5; Neil Young on the record player, a pint of something lovely, the sun pouring in, crossword, and a gorgeous pork pie on the go with a dollop of Colmans on the side...bliss. One of the few things that I miss since I stopped eating meat, as our local butcher does great pork pies and I walk past them four times a day.
Fulham FC: It's the taking part that counts
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Things that blow your mind on 08:02 - Feb 7 with 1369 views
Things that blow your mind on 08:02 - Feb 7 by BrianMcCarthy
Used to drink there after work, Konk. I see it's spruced up since then. Looks good now.
Nowadays, it's one of my favourite pubs in London. Great beers, usually music that's right up my street, feels like a proper old pub and sells quality pies, Scotch eggs and sausage rolls. Haven't been for ages - might have to pop in when I'm next home.
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Fulham FC: It's the taking part that counts
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Things that blow your mind on 09:15 - Feb 7 with 1260 views
Hawkwind gig at Reading top rank Nineteen something, the band walked on stage and handed out handfuls of spliffs to the audience and then blew the place away including me and the missus, we all traveled through space that night.
Cheech And Chong "Basketball Jones"
The journey home from Old Trafford on one of Mel's coaches,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Cold turkey.
Just say no
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Things that blow your mind on 09:33 - Feb 7 with 1214 views
Things that blow your mind on 09:06 - Feb 7 by Konk
Nowadays, it's one of my favourite pubs in London. Great beers, usually music that's right up my street, feels like a proper old pub and sells quality pies, Scotch eggs and sausage rolls. Haven't been for ages - might have to pop in when I'm next home.
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I actually think we've chatted about this before, Konk. Stirs a memory.
I often met and chatted to Sinéad O'Connor on that road. Really lovely person and amazingly attractive.
Also got a bit of a beating by a gang of locals on that road. Not so lovely people and not at all attractive.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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