Ol' Man Mose

G'day to all!

I'm a sort of misanthropic, unregenerate version of Ebenezer Scrooge, living in the hills above Melbourne, Australia with my two demanding German shepherd masters, Sam and Lochie.

My formal education ended, thank Christ, 42 years ago in 7th grade at a Christian Brother's concentration camp for boys when I finally got the guts to retaliate, punched the Head Brother on the nose, and got expelled.

From thereon I did just about anything you care to name to survive, legal or otherwise.

After much self-inflicted alcoholic melancholy for my first forty four years, sheer necessity finally forced me into sobering up and becoming what I had long loathed, and still do; a smarmy "successful business man" and “a pillar of society.”

Still, in spite of my conditional acceptance (...if they knew my true history they wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire!) by artificially “decent” society, I'm proud to say that in my 65th year that I am still the sarcastic, slum-bred, anti-authoritarian guttersnipe who justifiably sat Brother Beadon on his fat paedophilic freckle.

People agreeing with causes me to go into a state of panic-stricken self-reflection.

ubertuber

Welcome Ol' Man. You sound like an interesting fellow.

Please don't punch me.

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Cogito ergo spud -- I think, therefore I yam

Ol' Man Mose

I'm considered a geriatric delinquent now, Superior Prattie!

I couldn't punch a tram ticket these days....

healer

Interesting fellow from Australia...a rare combination.

Welcome to the board. Now bend over and get Tilted.

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mixedmedia

Well, Ol' Man, you can let it all hang out here.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Sultana

Interesting introduction.

To help make you feel comfortable, I shall of course disagree with you Right Now. It's the least I can do....

Nice to make your acquaintance. It will be nice to show the young unregenerates what a mature specimen is capable of.

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come." -

Matt Groening

My goal? To fulfill my potential.

pig

Yep, I think we've found someone who just might work out on these boards. Degenerates welcome.

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You don't love me, you just love my piggy style

The_Jazz

I think I'm just going to make it a point to stay off your lawn...

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

37OHSSV

Wow. A kindred spirit. Long story, but my high school exit was expedited by punching the principal out cold. Missouri is "different."

I later got a college degree, though.

Willravel

You're pretty funny. Welcome.