What do you like to do when you're feeling a bit down?

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It's raining / Someone you like doesn't like you / You had an argument with someone / You've run out of money / All your friends are away / etc.

What cheers you up? What makes you forget things for a little while?

I'll get the obvious out the way:

1. Masturbate
2. Watch the Simpsons
3. Eat chocolate

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 28 March 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I also forgot:

4. ILX

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 28 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I think certain elements of this forum would chase me out if I answered this accurately, so let me be vague and say:

5. Put on my favorite videos. (People who know me can attest to this, BTW -- it's become almost legendary, this form of self-therapy.)
6. Listen to my favorite music. (Obvious.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 28 March 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think you would be chased out, why do you?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

7. masturbate to an episode of the simpsons while eating chocolate

― alan banana (alan_banana), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

8) make a compilation or DJ mix

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

9) immerse myself in nostalgia of varying forms

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i see nostalgia as kind of a wallowing way to be down. it never really cheers me up.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

tends to work for me - reverting to simple childhood pleasures to an extent

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think you would be chased out, why do you?

You know, you're probably right -- I just don't want to push anything. Besides, I like how the answer came out. Yeah. Byoo-tee-ful.

Anyway, another one for this thread:

10. Bake some cookies and scarf some down almost as soon as they come out of the oven.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

11) watch wildlife documentaries. preferably with meerkats.
12) read p g wodehouse

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

13) Listen to relaxation tape
14) Yoga

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

15. Go for a run

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

16) Watch Return of the Jedi

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

honestly?

17) get drunk/high

18) go out and see how capeable i am of picking up strangers (self-esteem boost. yay)

― mouse, Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

1) Read Patrick O'Brian (only good if I'm at home, otherwise no time)
2) Eat. Whatever. Not a healthy habit, I know.
3) Listen to music
4) Find somebody who'll listen to me bitch, or write about it on livejournal. Yes, I am One Of Those People.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

19) I went to the shops for a magazine and a pack of gum, and came home with a mint green Jazzmaster!

20) Oh yeah, and get in silly arguments about bubblegum pop on ILM. It is impossible to be down when yer listening to bubblegum!

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

box. play the drums. lift weights. garden. bake. pet cats. sing along to records. have dance party with roomates in room. get drunk. read magazine that requires the firing of few synapses. decoupage. listen to neu 2. make tea and do crossword. listen to npr. take a walk. go to sleep.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and write smut. Mmm, smut.

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

21. go 10-pin bowling

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

do you publish said smut?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Old Peanuts and Mutts strips

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Poledance. Just for myself.

― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, Roxy, I used to publish it on the web, but stopped bothering. My mates keeps trying to get me to submit it to a "womens erotica" publisher, but it's too much like fanfict and not enough like erotica to ever be published. Sigh.

22) Hobnobs and warm milk. Works every time.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

23) Sleep.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

A carbohydrate fest usually does it for me. Go for the comfort food factor, works everytime!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

1. get drunk
2. paint
3. go into chatrooms and take the piss out of guys who want to cyber

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Though it depends on the weather - if the weather is good, I slap 25 Bubblegum Classics on the headphones and go for a brisk walk. It gets the serotonin flowing, and doesn't settle on my thighs like carbohydrates do!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah but carbs tastse sooooo good!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

But my ass is so biiiiiggggg!!!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course, the number one method is to DEVELOP A NEW OBSESSION AND OBSESS ABOUT IT. CONSTANTLY. The oxytocin rush your brain will experience will counteract any depressive badness. More bubblegum, please...

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Internet stunt-writing.

2. Clean apartment and auto.

3. Intensive grooming (nails, pubes, brows).

4. Dinner with friend/booty call (these are risky because if neither are available I feel even more paranoid and alone and manic and I'll just end up doing something panicky and desperate like hitting up the fuckin yam yam on a weeknight (which leads to massive weekending guilt trip/upending of vital weekly pleasure-delay sync (which leads to calling Mom))).

5. Call Mom.

― LC, Monday, 29 March 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

24. Watch John Hughes films
25. Drink tea and do crosswords
26. Make a compilation tape
27. Eat crisps (I'm with Pink on this one!)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

28. Take the walk down the hill from my flat to the river, through Greenwich Park. Then have a pint by the river, preferably with someone I like.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

29. Strip off and dance to Pete Heller's 'Big Love' and other camphaus classics in the privacy of your own bedroom whilst retaining some modicum of heterosexuality if still possible

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

30. Switch on the link to the webcam hidden in Stevem's room.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

if my boy is about & I'm feeling depressed, I like to curl up on the sofa with him, but if he's not, I do like to do some cooking/the housework listening to Neil Diamond!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

30. Go round Stevem's and look in the window. ;-)

31. Scour the net for fan fiction and wonder why it's all so boring and sanitised and ... TAME now. Back in my day, it was a write-off if there wasn't sex within 3 pages!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post, d'oh!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

IF I can motivate myself enough to do housework and/or workwork, then that. Otherwise, curling up with a book or asking my best mate if he wants to play violent video games.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleep in the afternoon, if possible.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Meeting my best mate for a chat & a glass of wine always works wonders. Failing that we chat on the phone with a glass of wine.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

32. put pete heller's "big love" on the stereo and get stevem to come round

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

33. put pete heller's "big love (dronez mix)" on and feed chocolate to Homer Simpson while he masturbates

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

34. Watch Pretty Woman
35. Stuff face

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Complain angrily to the cosmos that it's not fair. And then, er, answer. I'm not mad, you know. Hehe.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Madchen is so otm with regards to 'Pretty Woman'!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Bang something out loudly on that thurr piano. Take a drive in the country listening to Sigur Ros. Drink until either everything's funny or I pass out. Laundry or yardwork. Fashion crude paraphernalia out of vegetables for the smoking of the cheeba. Play drums until my arms are sore. Put the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet out of business. Nap.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

read comic books in bed.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Drive out in the country
Go grocery shopping
Binge eat

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

mope

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck up shit.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember why I have such an extensive Tom Waits collection.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer to 'fuck shit up' instead.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I just picked up my first Tom Waits album in 10 years after once having an extensive TW collection and giving it all to my brother. I got Frank's Wild Years and am very happy to have it again.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Order pizza. Play video games, read comic books, spend money on books, comic books, and dvds. Sometimes playing drums can be great, but sometimes I don't want to think about my daily insecurities as a musician when I'm feeling down.

(x-post, listen to Tom Waits also, and metal)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 March 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Smoke a cigarette to make myself feel even worse.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

a) sleep
b) get several 40s and listen to loud angry music while playing computer games and writing/posting things I'll soon regret

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Have sex with a prostitute.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Rob Bolton is finally showing his true colours. I'm a bit nervous, truth be told (as should he be if he ever decides to get another job or internet-savvy girlfriend).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Put on Black Flag's Damaged, then mosh in my room by myself until everything is broken or I pass out. Hyper-ventilation is a bitch.

― Goo Goo G'Joob, Monday, 29 March 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

rob can go out with belle du jour

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't be nervous Mark. I'm really a sweet boy.

My colours are always true. Just ask Ice T. Or Cyndi Lauper.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"internet savvy". haha. googling my name turns up a family christian pop band, a gay escort service, and TONS of other stuff, but nothing much to do with me (so far).

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Finally I can get a date with Jars of Clay!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, not quite the bravado of Jars of Clay, but I think my Christian-pop namesakes take the cake with this album cover alone:

http://www2.rpa.net/~theboltons/biggoodbyecd.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Aren't you just dying to know what those "ten more" are?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

where's mama bolton?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, the whole damn site is enough to lift you up if you're feeling down. Includes 5 easy steps to get into heaven!

Their band's info page is the best. "Logistical Benefits", WTF?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

N.: your answer is quite sad. : (

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope "Ten More" is a song, because that would make them pretty sneaky Christians.

(Isn't the guy on the right Arye Gross from Hexed and Ellen?)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

KIM - Kim Bolton, born 1980, saved 1987. Sang with her mom and dad on some of the 80s songs (2 childhood hits included "Risin' Up Again" and "Show Me Thy Ways"). Beautiful and animated lead singer is the focal point of the live shows. Brought lots of fans to the band with her renditions of "Honesty", "TechnoCasualty" and "Driveway Romance".

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, thank goodness she was "saved" from that life of sin and depradation when she was 7. God knows what might've happened when she was 11, she might've started talking to the black kids or something.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Deny Yourself" sounds like hot makeout music.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I think "R.U. Ready" was written for them by Prince.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

um, "TechnoCasualty" ??

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Turn up music extremely loud and try and think of fun times I danced to it.

2. eat junk food.

3. smoke (not anymore sadly, could do with one right now!)

4. drink (but there's not always fellow drinkers around, i need an alcoholic friend)

5. cook something.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 29 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

So far I have:
Listened to Tom Waits (And Slim Whitman, Nick Cave, The Beach Boys, Pavement, Elvis, and Neil Young),

Smoked

Gotten drunkish,

Stayed up too late,

Watched Family Guy,

Watched the Simpsons,

Ate a steak,

And chips,

Chatted to mates,

Had weird converstions about dreams and remote viewing etc,

smoked,

been a bit grumpy,

watched jesus being torn to shreds for two hours,

smoked

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Cozen. He is sensitive.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

have you ever seen him smoke?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"cozen is ribbed for your pleasure"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

have you?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I ..can't remember.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder if he's smoking, right now...

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

bonghits, loud crankly music, good food.. i think yr on track so far, mate.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I could start a cigarette, if you'd like.

N. you bummed me a cigarette once.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I do have a vague recollection. I'm thinking Belmondo.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the belmondo look's out. I'm going for... um, who wears ill-fitting tweed jackets?

I sound so unattractive.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm thinking geography teacher.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

actually there was a night last week when I had the raincoat and a hat (trilby) on. I looked like emily perkins.

x-post. yeah? : /

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

An anglophile, French geography teacher. It's hot, believe me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

you turn so quickly, dastoor.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I am internally consistent.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

We don't want to know about bowel habits, thank you.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

really offputting initial post : /

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

It's the combination of the three things, like I picture the dude not even getting up/cleaning up after masturbating, watching an episode of the Simpsons, and then opening a box of Godiva with jizzy hands.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

take it out on quitney, acrobat, michael philip annoyman and all those other clowns.

― blueski, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

OK that's the last straw. Guys, I have to leave ILX.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

or yanking it with cocoa-fingers

― Will M., Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Or varying the tempo depending which characters are onscreen

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

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