When success feels bad.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. However, there are times when you win but what you've really done is lost. Winning isn't everything but it is far more preferable to the alternative.

The alternative, in this case, is not losing but desolation. As if desolation isn't bad enough how can there be utter desolation? Desolation can't really be total, there must be some hope as utter desolation can only be worse.

Risk - the game of life.

It's fun to play dress ups and play risk. I've got the rules...and the map...where are the dice? Hang on where are the pieces? How can we play without any pieces?

And why do you have a bigger pencil than me? How did this turn out so badly so quickly?

Oh well I suppose we need to find a pub...

The wrong or right choice.

He has this wrong hasn't he? Shouldn't it be, "you wanted a fight..you've picked the wrong bloke!"?

So what else are we saying, that as time travellers, would catch ourselves out in only 50 years or so? A mere slip of a turn of phrase and you could find yourself in a whole world of bother. With so much that can go wrong why tempt the fates?

Fat

When the fat man finds you abhorrent you know that either you or he is in the wrong. The chances that it is your are near enough to remote they are laughable. But no one is laughing, not even the fat man. So where does that leave everybody?