Things that annoy you ?

[The Nal]

Realising at 9.40pm that the Public Image Ltd gig I had tickets for is tonight!

Idiot.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Realising at 9.40pm that the Public Image Ltd gig I had tickets for is tonight!

Idiot.

[Purple Monkey]

Fortunately a festival is the longest stint I do nowadays on the drink. I couldn't do a 2 weeks on the sauce holiday with mates.

Wow, you broke your hand on NYE and didn't properly notice until the 3rd. That's going some. I have yet to break anything but have got into a few situations I shouldn't have. What I am about to say is depraved and will only be understood by those who have experienced alcoholic black outs. I once 'came around' from an alcoholic blackout to discover I was shagging a girl from behind on a patio. I looked to my side and there was sausages and burgers on a BBQ nearly burnt. I thought to myself where on earth am I. Then I remembered I was at a friends house for a BBQ on a bank holiday Sunday. I looked to my other side to see a foot just depart through the patio doors in an inward trajectory ie that was the last foot of all the people who had been in the garden and had legged it inside the house on seeing our performance. Basically I had started fornicating with this woman in the middle of the patio in the middle of the afternoon at a friends BBQ with everybody initially watching. To this day my friends have been as good as gold and not said anything about it.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

i had a blackout at an AC/DC gig and came round in mid struggle with a guy holding me back from storming the stage.

It was the same gig that I keep bragging about. But earlier in the night. I was so drunk I didn't take in the fact that Bon gave me a copy of his whole UK tour itinerary. Which hotel he was in, including that night. (Only because my friend and I were nagging him to give us a souvenir).

It could have been the start of a whole new career choice.

Luckily, I've never got that drunk again, and never got in a very compromising position with anyone.

I would say nothing that I couldn't do in public, but in light of the above post....

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

You sir, have just won the Internet.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I enjoy life without alcohol as the focus, it really is far less stressful

[feral chile]

I've had loads of blackouts in the past and they can be dangerous. I went to AA a few years ago and learnt there that there's people in prison serving life for murder that they have no recollection of because they were in a black out.

I hadn't read about this famed AC/DC concert. Wild child!

I went out with someone who had a reasonable amount of pop/chart success. Talk about self absorbed! She ran off with someone else in the end for which I thank all the deities almost on a daily basis.

[feral chile]

I have mentioned plenty of times that I was diagnosed with Alcohol Dependance, which does annoy me as it stays with you for the rest of your, irrespective of if you do not meet any of the diagnosing criteria.

However one of the things that keeps me grounded with alcohol is the fear of putting myself in a compromising situation ever again. I honestly dread to think what I have done on some of my blackouts. To be frank I have never asked, it is hard to apologise for something that you don't remember, and if it was something I said well probably I would say it when I was sober.

I enjoy life without alcohol as the focus, it really is far less stressful

Edited July 29, 2012 by feral chile

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I won't bore everyone (yet again) with my bragging, it's a bit tame as I was only 16 at the time. But it was Bon Scott, man!

[feral chile]

Apologies. I'm a little lacking when it comes to bands and most musical artists etc. I've just looked up Bon Scott and all I can say is he would appear to have a lunchbox and a half! Still none the wiser on his musical merits though - will look them up on Youtube.

Edited July 29, 2012 by feral chile

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Just read about him. A rock and roll death but a tragic one. My mates brother died the same way several decades ago. When the police found him they discreetly removed a largish slab of dope that was next to him so that his mother wouldn't know that he was involved in drugs. That's what they told my mate anyway. Could be that they just wanted to smoke it.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I hate labels. I only used to drink to give me confidence. And I drink pints, so it's probably harder to build up a dependence. Fairly recently, though, I was friendly with quite a heavy drinker, who got me into vodka. Over several weeks the mixers grew shorter and the vodkas grew longer. And one day I found myself looking forward to having a vodka, and not caring much about anything else I was doing out.

I've always managed to avoid addiction, because I watch out for it - I get obsessed very easily with things, I'm a prime candidate. So I hardly ever drink now, and never vodka.

I tend to do the same for everything, because I can feel the need for it developing.

I've tended to avoid any drugs known to be addictive for the same reason - I know I'd succomb easily.

Something's gonna catch me out one of these days though

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

It is far easier to avoid a situation were you could get drugs than it is booze.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

24 hour availability would have made no difference in how I drank. What was more worrying was the number of shops and pubs willing to let me hiat credit. Just before I stopped I was going into one after work (and after the pub) and getting 8 or 12 cans of San Miguel each night. One night I only picked up 4 and the owner asked if I was skint. He gave me a 50quid line of credit there and then. A few of the other shops have let off with bottles of wine and the like which is quite concerning really.

[Purple Monkey]

Weekends are simply not long enough and the rest of the week is too long.

We should have 4 day weeks, tops. This five-day slog per week bullshit is just demotivating and depressing.

Stuck in neutral most Mondays until around mid-afternoon, while Friday afternoons are a total write off.

What's even more frustrating is more and more employers consider giving up the best hours of five days a week to be the bare fucking minimum.

It's time like this I wish there was a supervillain like Dr. Doom who just wanted to destroy the world. I get it now.

Edited July 30, 2012 by Purple Monkey

[MrZigster]

"To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems" - Homer J. Simpson.

I've been at it again lately. Wine in particular. Those big 3l boxes. So easy to drink 'till unconciousness, then finish the half full mug that awaits you when you awake in the morning. It was only an appointment this morning that stopped me buying a couple of bottles on the way home from last nights jollies (which I had to leave early, which as I type they have just cancelled, the bastards). Missed a shift at work last week. Never really got that messy before. Attended a stag do last week and had a classic blackout, which I have since pieced together from various sources. Never really got that messy before. Feel like a drink now, but have a shift later. Ooops.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

"To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems" - Homer J. Simpson.

I've been at it again lately. Wine in particular. Those big 3l boxes. So easy to drink 'till unconciousness, then finish the half full mug that awaits you when you awake in the morning. It was only an appointment this morning that stopped me buying a couple of bottles on the way home from last nights jollies (which I had to leave early, which as I type they have just cancelled, the bastards). Missed a shift at work last week. Never really got that messy before. Attended a stag do last week and had a classic blackout, which I have since pieced together from various sources. Never really got that messy before. Feel like a drink now, but have a shift later. Ooops.

[The Nal]

I'm a firm believer in the hair of the dog

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Never ever done it. Couldn't think of anything worse.

Chili is the best hangover cure by a mile. Poached eggs too.

[kaosmark2]

Never ever done it. Couldn't think of anything worse.

Chili is the best hangover cure by a mile. Poached eggs too.

[feral chile]

I have heard the term "addictive personality" passed around a lot. However it as rarely used by professionals but by the addicts themselves. A few years back, while sober, I decided to give drugs a go. Essentially over 2 years I tried what I could. Certain drugs are really moreish and I can really understand people getting addicted. But for me the drinking culture and the drugs side are very different. It is far easier to avoid a situation were you could get drugs than it is booze.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I've refused medication in the past, because it was addictive. I don't know how I've escaped this long, because I'm a bit obsessive over stuff. I can never just buy one thing, I have to buy several with slight variations. So I avoid things like tattoos and piercings, because I know I'd get extreme.

The drugs/booze thing, I'm not sure about. Wouldn't it depend on who you socialise with? I can avoid alcohol a lot easier with some friends than others. I can get my arm twisted fairly easily lol

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Tonight I'm a little down in the dumps and that has annoyed me as I really don't want to be there. I'm fed up of wallowing in that general area. I desperately need to find some alternative things to do than to stay in front of this computer screen all evening every evening.

[feral chile]

Tonight I'm a little down in the dumps and that has annoyed me as I really don't want to be there. I'm fed up of wallowing in that general area. I desperately need to find some alternative things to do than to stay in front of this computer screen all evening every evening.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

You'll find something. You just have to keep looking.