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Amazingly good here thanks, and with you?

Can't complain.

Hi, everyone. How are things?

Welcome to the board, cactus. But remember we've all been on this board for a long time and round here we like things just... the way... they are.

(Perhaps I should consider that Welcoming Skills course that I saw advertised. How about 'Well, hello-o-o-o, sailor'?)

Suppose that's one way of getting a hole in one...

And an infinitely more enoyable way. I used to go with my mates to the golf course with a video camera and some weed, amusing myself by ripping the piss out of them and filming it. (i'm too old for weed now, of course, but i'd do it again with a 2-litre of cider if I got the chance)

AAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70IAwHTzrHI&feature=related

i'm nearly 34, me, and i read a lot - i try to read a lot of 'proper' classical literature, at the risk of sounding like Chris Finch from The Office. But sometimes you don't really feel like the heavy stuff so 2000ad is the perfect way to fill the gaps between other books (and a lot of comics could be considered groundbreaking works of literature in their own right).  That said, I do realise that the general public tends to think that comics are for kids, so i don't really go round shouting about my comic-reading habit. I know it doesn't matter what other people may think of me, but most people really aren't interested anyway.

a bit like the misguided reader who wrote in to Tharg to point out that the Americans nuked Japan rather than Germany as shown in the new strip 'Zenith'.

Wasn´t me. But i did think for an embarrassingly long time that Berlin had been a-bombed.

Haven´t read it yet but Christ, it looks shit. Are you retarded? I´m the goddamn Batman, indeed.  What happened to Frank Miller?

as much use as Anne Franks' drum-kit"

I was at the Anne Frank house in November and round the corner - round the fuckin' corner, not 1 minute's walk away - there's a shop that sells nothing but drum-kits. Oh how I laughed.
I haven't bothered my hole to read the rest of this thread. Is it any good?

Old Tankie is right - I remember working in a crappy sandwich shop one miserable summer. All i did was travel to the South of Germany to work in an Audi factory, but my god how the quality of my life improved. A great summer all round - sun and parties were the sweet sauce of the boring work.
Batson, have you ever read any of Eckhart Tolle's stuff? Most problems are constructed within your own head. Life seems a lot easier after reading his stuff. Finally, you COULD speak to a gp about depression; they're not just there for sprained ankles and chest infections.  By the way, I'm single too, but I'm fine.  for the first time since my teens and early 20's I see a lot of romantic opportunities again. This comes from confidence alone, which in turn comes from positivity - something I lacked for a long time.

Over the years, I've done courses, read books about positivity, and generally made a big effort to change my life. All in all, to quote King Lear, nothing will come of nothing. Life doesn't automatically improve, you have to do something.

I spent most of my 20s in a similar state. Now I'm nearly 34 and a happy man

Hmmmm, all in all not the most successful thread I've ever seen, I have to say

Yeah, the lawyer thing was the first time in years i'd laughed out loud reading 2000ad. before that was a few of the one-liners in Bix Barton, though i know it wasn't popular

I'm a jock man meself. Ron Smith was good too, when he got used to drawing the buildings Mega-City style. Henry does a great MC1 but i think his Dredd is a bit too cartoony for serious stories

There are millions of mine, but the last big one was a Dublin high-court judge in the 80's. Incidentally i found a Joe Dredd on the Internet recently; some middle-aged married man in America