POLL: cheery room or gloomy room? | GaGaJoyJoy

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Imagine this.
You are locked in a room for a week with a group of people. Say a dozen people.
> One room has cheery people. They smile all the time, the tell jokes non-stop, they jolly you along when you are wilting, they insist that everything is fine and life is one long journey of happiness. They are determined that you will share their joy.
> The other room is the gloomy room. The people in here do not smile, they look serious, often stern, they moan and are pessimistic. They take life seriously, and dislike frivolity. Here one can complain and whinge in all seriousness because everyone else will be doing the same. They analyse things.

Cheery room will include those people who insist you wear a paper hat at Christmas and "cheer up and sing along" even though you wish to cry about sad memories in your life. Also those people who say "cheer up; it may never happen." Those people who claim to be "always up for a laugh", and those people who constantly ask you "what's wrong." You won't be allowed to listen to nostaligic or sentimental music - they will insist on "Knees Up Mother Brown."
Gloomy room will be unsmiling. It will include the dog-training woman with the harsh voice who barks words of command. It may even include Gillian McKeith. There will be people who say sternly "why are you looking so pleased with yourself?" People will moan. You want to listen to dance music, but they will make you listen to the "Moonlight Sonata."

So do you spend your week in the Cheery Room or the Gloomy Room?

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Blizz'ardMember 10 years

A week in the Cheery Room, please.

Then, I shall moan about it, for a few days.

RexiMember 10 years

Cheery Room ... I'm likley to be the person who insists that you wear the Christmas cracker hat

MargueritaMember

No thank you to the miserable room I also think the cheery room would drive me mad, can you not take half of the cheery room and put them in the miserable room vice versa if not ..I am not playing

Ensign MufMember

I think either room would do my head-in

brisketMember Memoriam

My major problem is that I actually need those moments of reflection and introspection.
I also resist and resent thos people who insist that I should pretend to be happy, even though I feel sad inside.
I don't find this an easy choice.

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

Any room full of people... whoever they are would do my head in.

I'm sociable like that

~ Babette ~Member

I'll play

But only if I can customise the rules a bit.

How abowwwwt.....a very large, sunlit room (preferably overlooking Hyde Park), with a small, select group of intelligent, articulate and effortlessly witty people - some of whom like to be cheery and some of whom are inclined to moan. A nearby bottle bank would be ideal too.

Good game?

stonksMember

Cheery room for me, if I need nostalgia I can go to my head for that, they can't take my thoughts away but the misery room full of mood hoovers would depress me and take me to a dark place and I might just start killing them all....

Karma_Member

Oh Christ the cheery room would most certainly end with me getting a criminal record.

Karma_Member

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How abowwwwt.....a very large, sunlit room (preferably overlooking Hyde Park), with a small, select group of intelligent, articulate and effortlessly witty people - some of whom like to be cheery and some of whom are inclined to moan. A nearby bottle bank would be ideal too. Good game?

I'm there

(You had me at Hyde Park)

pirate1111Member

im wearing an xmas party hat right now
for no reason at all

pirate1111Member

but seriously..
cheery room sounds good for a bit..then you realise everyone is a potential timmy mallet, so not that room
the miserable arse room..good for a rant..then everyone would bring you down..so not that one either

if you could tell me which room has the stella..i'll sit in there

pirate1111Member

if there was a cherry room..that'd be good..

Yogi19Member 10 years

Reference: Marguerita

No thank you to the miserable room I also think the cheery room would drive me mad, can you not take half of the cheery room and put them in the miserable room vice versa if not ..I am not playing

I'm with Marguerita on this one ^^^^^^.

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

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everyone is a potential timmy mallet

that confirms it... would be the gloomy room for me! At least I could amuse myself by being facetious/sarcastic/taking the pish out of the moaners!

Karma_Member

Timmy Mallett

stonksMember

I lubs the Mallet....

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

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I lubs the Mallet...

you're a sick puppy Stonks!

stonksMember

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you're a sick puppy Stonks!

I knowwwwwww....

CroctacusMember

Either would drive me up the wall,....but to amuse myself it would be more fun being cheery in a room full of miserable people than miserable in a room fiull of cheeries...so if anything I'd do that.

Karma_Member

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I lubs the Mallet....

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1/22/1110:03 AM

KaffsMember 10 years

See..... I was doing ok with the gloomy room until you mentioned McKeith!

I'd not want to play.. but I had to, I'd go with the gloomy room... they'd leave me alone and I can think happy thoughts and fool them all...

1/22/1110:47 AM

PeterCatMember

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You had me at Hyde Park

TMI!

1/22/1111:39 AM

Former Member

I.m with Marg

1/22/1112:21 PM

Former Member

Does the cheery room need a manager

Id be perfect

now get your hat on

1/22/1112:22 PM

CagneyMember

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They smile all the time, the tell jokes non-stop, they jolly you along when you are wilting, they insist that everything is fine and life is one long journey of happiness. They are determined that you will share their joy.

That's me

1/22/1112:24 PM

Karma_Member

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TMI!

Expensive bit of grass, that! I can think of worse places to be had

1/22/1112:33 PM

Suzi-QMember

The cheery room every time, thank you! I've been in the gloomy room, of sorts, when I had to be in quarantine in hospital because the chemo I had killed off all my white blood cells and I had no immunity. It was torture and I'm sure a violation of the Geneva Convention!

1/22/1112:40 PM

Former Member

Cheery room for Suzi then

1/22/1112:42 PM

Suzi-QMember

Thanks, Skylark! I would much rather surround myself with people who are upbeat and happy!

1/22/1112:48 PM

Former Member

Of course Suzi and who could blame you

1/22/1112:49 PM

Former Member

Gloomy room for me ,the cheery room would have me going mad.
I refuse to wear a bliddy paper hat at Christmas ....refuse.
The ones who do look like,clowns, eejits.

Former Member

Yes, gloomy room for me - I can't bear enforced enjoyment.

Starfleet Admiral hoochieMember 10 years

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See..... I was doing ok with the gloomy room until you mentioned McKeith!

I was the same Kaffy - I suppose I'll be stuck on the porch now .....with my carry oot

Former Member

Joins Hoochie,cheers peeps.

Former Member

Gloomy room if I can take up smoking again.

You can't fake gloom.

AimeeMember

Joins Hoochie and Erin (budge up you two)

AimeeMember

*passes Velvet a cig*

Former Member

Cheers Aimee

I think we'll get on in Ward 4

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