Morale = Low

[Gavin Scott]

I have been a Christopher Morris fan since long before The Day Today. I know it is funny, but as you had just posted the same link on TVF I assumed you were just in a mood to show off your captures. You might just have easily segued into ANY type of thread.

And anyway, if James is phoning anyone then its going to be me. After all, *I'm* the pretty one.

[Cheese Head]

It's probably been mentioned, but I'm lazy to read on from post 2 so:

Your becoming unsociable because of alcohol (by the sounds of it) and people geninuinly (however its spelt) don't want to be with somone that wants to drink for most of the time, although not saying that your an alcoholic, you drink "almost every night with friends that want to go out" and you need to take back some self reflection and see what your doing with yourself. You drink. You work. You drink. You work. Try and do something more interesting than throwing beer down your throat (never thought I'd say that) and, say do something like goto a restaurant with friends or use the age old "Heya. I'm so bored, are you up to anything? What do you wanna do tonight?" instead of "See you at the pub".

If you think that your doing anything wrong when your out with friends, the depressing thing is you probably are, as everybody does and even more depressing theres nothing you can do about it. Just don't make it worse by asking other people to find out for you, it doesn't go down well and you end up (I hope this is the write word: ) alienating yourself from your friends. Don't think about this in depth otherwise you just become depressed.

I've briefly read your recovering from a past relationship, and the key is don't turn to booze just get comfort from friends and just take time to greive and put her/him/it in the past, almost as a faded memory and get on. However hard this may be.

[Cheese Head]

I don't know you really that well either, but much like myself, you come acrross as a leader, not somone who looks for sympathy from people because you probably don't like the idea of looking up to somone, but whether or not you like sympathy just get it, because however patronising, cheesy or clichèd sympathy can be - it always makes you happy.

But to contradict myself, it might be a possibility that if you surround yourself with your friends and people it can have a bad effect, so consider some time for you, on your own just to sort it out as it where.

[andyrew]

oh just pull yourself together Ison, act your age, you might find it helps!

Is that harsh? He's a big boy now, i'll let him buy me a drink.

[Big Brother]

I think maybe you have had just a weee bit too much of the old alcohol and judging by the time I think I'm correct.

This is the alcohol talking, take note.... sleep it off before coming online because you can only make it worse on here.

[johnnyboy]

Alcohol begets a certain amount of honesty though, and although Ison may have exaggerated how he is feeling because of the drink (only James can say whether he did or not), these feelings he is having do exist in him.

Ison, you need an older mentor. I had the fortune of having plenty of them in my gap year between college and Uni - people with strong personalities who live on their own personal edge. What others can teach you is unbelievable - I got my mentors through working in a highly-pressurised sales environment.

You need external things to test and form your character - you have a lot of fun on the way, and it leaves little time for the big demon to appear - that demon being introspection.

Inject as much drama into your life as possible - sometimes it will make you deliriously happy, other times hopelessly sad. But it will expose you to such a wide range of emotions and experiences, you will never be the same again.

Trust me - this is coming from someone who was quite an underwhelming teenager whose "year out" showed him where he wanted to go in life, and what he would have to do in order to get.

[Snu]

How anyone can deny that character is found at the bottom of the pint glass, is beyond me. I am at my most interesting when pissed. Saying the wrong things, wrongly placed sense of confidence. Yep its all good and only so while your young.

Mind you the beer gut can be a little irritating. My little beer paunch, or otherwise known as my ‘investment’ is part of a line of cut backs involved in this years new years resolutions! Namely my thrice weekly visit to the local death trap…or Gym as it is otherwise known.

[DAS]

Have we seen Ison since last night's post? What if he's topped himself? What will we do then?

[cat]

After all, *I'm* the pretty one.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

[martindtanderson]

After all, *I'm* the pretty one.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Who am I to talk

[cat]

I don't know, but I will say, Martin, that I am using one your wallpapers on the TV Room as my desktop - slightly modified, I would note.

I am rather impressed by it.

Just thought I'd add that, there, for no obvious reason.