Booze is great, I think in the last 8 or 9 years I’ve probably had a booze drink pretty much every day. Sure there are days when I didn’t drink but there are more days when I did overbooze and dare I say binge.
Blurred and furry mornings woke me to see in thirsty day through drunken night and lost days turned into lost weekends as I enjoyed the booze and all that bathed in its boozy beauty.
I don’t think I’m an alcoholic, I don’t even think I have a serious drink problem, though as alcohol is a drug I guess anyone who drinks must have a ‘drink problem’ of sorts but I do wonder what it’s doing to my body, maybe my general mood, my weight and my sleep pattern.
So, starting on Feb 1st I am going ‘on the wagon’.
Not forever, just for the shortest month of the year - 28 days sans booze.
What can I expect ?
The first three days will probably be the worst. I can expect to feel anxious, irritable and restless and may have flu-like symptoms – So that’s something to look forward to !
Has anyone here ever packed up getting pissed ? The last time I did this was many years ago when I was fit and healthy and ‘thin’.. I’ve started getting chubbier since I was ill and wonder how much weight the beer is packing onto me; I guess I’ll find out.
Is it worse than stopping smoking ? Christ I’d hate that..
Still, it’s not Feb1 yet, I’m off for a Bloody Mary, may as well enjoy the last two days and nights..
Cheers !
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Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
good luck, darren.
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Posted by George the Robot (Member # 681) on :
After a particluarly heavy two weeks a couple of years ago, I started pissing blood, which was pretty scary. I assumed that my body was reacting to the ravages of alcohol, so I gave up drinking for two weeks which seemed to work. It turned out that in fact I was suffering from a bit of internal bleeding that I'd suffered from a collision at football, which seemed nothing at the time, so I didn't make the connection.
The giving up itself wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be - I suffered from 'The Fear' for a couple of days (sweating, psychological torment etc.), but after that it was plain sailing. Of course, once I found out that the bleeding was nothing to do with the alcohol, I celebrated with a bottle of wine.
Currently, I am only drinking at weekends just to prove to myself that I don't need a drink to relax after work. Again, it's not particularly hard, but it does require discipline, particuarly when I know that a glass of wine every day would do me virtually no harm, and may even have benefits for my health. It is nice to know, however, that I don't need the stuff.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
Somebody I know used to do this. He beat the irritable and restless symptoms by being irritable and restless all the fucking time. Last I heard his business had failed. I don't know if the two events are related.
But yeah, I can see the point in taking a breather for a while. I'd be interested to see how it goes. Good luck!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: What can I expect ?
Expect to want to have a drink. For the entire 28 days.
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Has anyone here ever packed up getting pissed ?
I have. I, like you, had a drink pretty much every day. When I say a drink, what I mean is at least four or five. On a slow night. I'm an alcoholic. It runs in my family on my dads side. I had my last drink on May 7, 1999. I'm coming up on seven years. I still want a drink.
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Is it worse than stopping smoking ? Christ I’d hate that..
No, it's not worse that stopping smoking. Nothing is. Not drink, not drugs, nothing. I still haven't been able to kick smoking.
Best of luck to you.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I gave up drinking for a month a few years back. It's not hard, except that everyone keeps on at you all the time to have a drink. I mean seriously - it was like a zero-support group from my peers as people tried over and over again to break my resolve. So despite the constant irritation of the repeated question "Why don't you just have one?", it was OK. I didn't really feel the benefits that everyone talks about though. Stuff was just sharper and more painful. I didn't even lose weight, or any of the supposed benefits (outright lies, it transpires) that accompany these faddish health-binges.
Given that this took place in the nadir of my drink all day every day liver-mashing lifestyle, I did think the effects would be more pronounced. I was especially looking forward to finding out about Mondays - usually a hellish, raw-eyed grind through a painful detoxification as the excesses of an entire weekend spent in the pub from 5.00 Friday to 10.30 Sunday are forced out through your skin. So I figured Mondays would actually be liveable, and even productive. Except, in reality you're just forced to live every tedious detail in pin-sharp sober-vision.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I have. I, like you, had a drink pretty much every day. When I say a drink, what I mean is at least four or five. On a slow night. I'm an alcoholic. It runs in my family on my dads side. I had my last drink on May 7, 1999. I'm coming up on seven years.
I still want a drink.
Well done ! I can't imagine doing it for any longer than a month though, stopping altogether is far too daunting for me to even think about.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Erm.
1) I don't (very very rarely) drink at home - I don't know why, it just doesn't occur to me as something to do. If I do have a drink, it's a conscious effort. 2) I often don't drink when I'm out for an evening, due to being disorganised re taxis hence often driving.
so, sorry, not best placed to offer support and advice. If it's any help, I don't miss drinking but then I suppose it's never been part of my routine in the same way as you describle.
Best of luck anyway.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Also, when I stopped smoking (6 years ago), I just did it on the spur of the moment, and didn't really have any major problems keeping off the weed thereafter.
Perhaps I'm just uncommitted when it comes to the hard-livin'.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Erm.
1) I don't (very very rarely) drink at home - I don't know why, it just doesn't occur to me as something to do. If I do have a drink, it's a conscious effort. 2) I often don't drink when I'm out for an evening, due to being disorganised re taxis hence often driving.
Heh. I remember when Chocolate buns put a more aggressive spin on this. Here. Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Man, she went totally tonto, didn't she. I'd forgotten about that.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
So unlike her really. Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Well done ! I can't imagine doing it for any longer than a month though, stopping altogether is far too daunting for me to even think about.
Thanks. I know you're not trying to stop forever, but if you do, you can't think in terms of forever. What works for me is thinking in terms of a day. This morning while driving to work I decided that I wouldn't have a drink today. Perhaps I will tomorrow, but not today. I just make the same promise to myself every morning. It helps to have a good reason to stay sober. I do it for my family, which come next month, will be one member larger. Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
For a bit of moral support, I am as well giving up the booze, and the fags 12 O'Clock tomorrow night. And I might throw in red meat and caffeine for good measure - I'm armed with my Alan Carr book which I am hastily reading before tomorrow nights fond farewell (this still on Dazzler?), and I am going to aim to start riding the bike. I am trying to lose some weight, get back some self esteem and just become interested in doing things again.
I need to - I have become so lethargic of late that it is not even funny - Sunday I moved off the couch probably 4 times in 20 hours, whilst I know I had stuff to do. After a night with a few sherberts, getting up for work is becoming impossible, and just the overall feeling of constantly being tired is beyond funny.
Last time I gave up booze for any amount of time I got quite depressed I recall, but I am not letting this put me off - I am hoping after 28 days the payoff will be worth it.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Congrats Ralph..
Wayne, I'm hoping to be on for a farewell drink, but I'll let you know for sure in the morning..
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
I used to drink everyday - generally half a bott of whiskey and a few cans if I was in the house, 5 or 6 pints and a chaser if I was in the pub. Despite this I never thought I had a problem. I thought I was a grumpy, negative fucker by dint of personality, it didn't occur to me that I was constantly in a state of hungover. Thing is though, my job is quite technical and a few years ago I just realised that I couldn't work with a hangover. I used these guys,, initially just to monitor my drinking. After 6 weeks it was clear with the evidence in front of me, that I did have a problem.
I probably still have a problem but its been a few years since I had a drink on a school night. Fridays and Saturdays are still piss-up days. I'm constantly keeping an eye on booze-creep and I know its something I will have to do for the rest of my life.
Good luck.
Kudos to ralphy fach.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Amy: And people wonder why so many regulars disappear.
Posted by Skalski (Member # 852) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Has anyone here ever packed up getting pissed?
I was seeing a muslim girl once, and as a token of how I felt about her, I said that I'd give up in January. What I meant was that I'd give up for the month of January, but she understood it as giving up for good. I ended up not drinking for several months, but didn't find it too difficult. Most awkward moments involved going to the pub with folks that were on a heavy drinking session - one friend kept telling me that my non-drinking made him uncomfortable as he didn't want to do anything foolish that I'd not appreciate in my sobriety. It can put a strain on some friendships.
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I do it for my family
Whilst this is good (congrats, btw), wouldn't it be better to do it for yourself? That way, there's no-one else responsible for your actions and there's no room for the demon of resentment.
Love yourself, ralph.
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Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by Skalski: Love yourself, ralph.
He's only got eyes for Roy.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
quote: Heh. I remember when Chocolate buns put a more aggressive spin on this. Here.
Ha. That was a good ruck. Thorn managed to repeat a dodgy paedophilia joke, a shit newbie got shat on, everyone complained that they got picked on AND NOBODY CARED ABOUT THEM, a girl cried and Black Mask is still an alcoholic.
When can we have another?
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Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: When can we have another?
Ruck or bevvy?
I don't generally drink much at home during the week, maybe a glass of wine or a bottle of beer a night, nor do I tend to go out to things involving drink Sun-Thursday. I do get proper drunken with my mates on Fri and Saturday though.
I'm going to have to be cutting down on my binge drinking ways for a bit after some less than fabulous blood serum (that's cholesterol to you) results, although I kind of liked the fact that they had Abnormal written all over them. I'm not looking forward to it at all, I really like drinking. And getting drunk.
That said I did a month or so entirely off the booze at the start of 2000 without going completely mental.
Are you fit to gym or excercise Daz? Could you replace booze relaxants with endorphins?
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Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Running, plus I have the running machine set up in the office with the rest of the 'seldom used' weights and the sit up thing Femke bought.
I'm hoping that no booze plus excercise and all bran should help me shift an inch or two..
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
Boozelessness helped really quickly with me losing weight back in 2000.
I'd advise against the All Bran though, unless you're impacted that stuff will do more harm than good.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I took a month off the tipple from late December 2000. I remember it as one of the emptiest and bluest months of my adult life. It included perhaps the most dismal New Year's Eve of my adult life, when I consumed two bottles of Amé "herbal cordial" and a Chinese takeaway. At midnight I was stone sober listening to the U2 song inspired by Salman Rushdie.
To compound the masochism I gave up caffeine in that month, too. Coffee without the kick was just... pointless stuff, like wanking with no cum. Like Kalibur.
Instead, I drank some more herbal beverage, this type hot and labelled "tea".
A photograph from the period shows me with the complexion of a milk bottle.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I went a week towards the end of my first year at university, and felt so bad that I've never attempted it since. Two or three days is all I can go before I start fantasising about ice cold glasses of lager.
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Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Well, it all starts in the morning, today is the last day of beerage, but I've woken up like a bear with a sore head, I'm fed up and fucked off and feeling down as down can be, so here's hoping.
I figure that feeling this shitty will make it a real test of willpower, if I can get through this I'll be able to get through anything.
Bloody recruitment people, they talk you through half an hours worth of questions then tell you the salary which turns out to be lower than you can seriously afford to work for.
What's the point in bothering.
And I'm NOT GOING to drink the annoyance away, well not tomorrow, maybe today.
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Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Partly inspired by this thread, and partly because I've been telling myself for months that I should stop drinking as much during the week, I didn't have anything to drink last night. That's hardly anything to boast about, I mean, it's not as though I'm celebrating my first month off the brown or anything, but it actually feels like something of an achievement. I've given up smoking – it's a good few months since I had a cigarette - but this feels like even more of a breakthrough. I've got a couple of mates coming round for dinner on Thursday, and I'll certainly have a few glasses of wine then, but I'm aiming to make those the first drinks I'll have this week. It's the initial step towards stopping casually drinking at home.
Anyway, I was surprised how much not drinking for a night affected me. I didn't sleep properly, waking at least half a dozen times throughout the night and experiencing far more vivid dreams than in recent weeks. I've never really thought of alcohol as having the power to cause such feelings of withdrawal. I wonder if this thread has more to do with that than any physical reaction, though.
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Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I didn't drink alcohol for two days and I lost weight! Mainly because I was pissing yellow-bile from my bumhole for the last 48 hours. Food-poisoning rocks!
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
Tis mon birthday today, it's also a school night. I won't be drinking as I have work in the morning. How disciplined am I? Fuckin Sergeant Major disciplined thats wot. Last got hammered on Saturday, bit of a sesh and then back to a mate's house to watch 'Married With Children' and my tummy muscles are still hurting from the LaffOutLoudies that were forced out of me. Watched an episode sober last night. It were shite.
You know you're sober when even misogyny isn't funny anymore.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Greetings fellow Aquarian. We rock, don't we?
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
Aquarian's have always been the coolest sign.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
avenging angel... Ha!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Aquarians.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I've been rolling my drinking +2 dice for week now, and am starting to feel the ill effects. It'll be fine most of the time but every now and again, the world and everybody in it transform from rosy exciting and fun to dead, drawn and tense. Colour drains, speech stutters, and the mind curls up in a corner. Also, my ego seems to be out of control... flicking between massively over inflated and utterly shrivelled, it's a rollercoast ride of boasts and beration. Still, when it's up, the ideas are flowing better than ever. I had this idea for a play based around a Q&A at a screening, complete with microphones, audience questions, and occasionally stopping to watch the film. It'll be about the clash of egos between star, director, and critic, and will be an exciting and involving examination of the duality of our relationship twixt art and artist.
*slumps*
Fuck it. It's shit, and it'll never happen.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Are you a manic Benway ? Sounds like it sometimes, I'm a manic too, only it's been a long time since I felt the happy side of manic
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I don't know! Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I had this idea for a play based around a Q&A at a screening, complete with microphones, audience questions, and occasionally stopping to watch the film. It'll be about the clash of egos between star, director, and critic, and will be an exciting and involving examination of the duality of our relationship twixt art and artist.
That's a truly brilliant idea. I'm not so sure about all that duality stuff, but the main idea... definitely a goer. That might even tempt me back into a theatre.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I'm going to have to read up, but in ten, maybe twenty years time, who knows! If I don't do it, then I want to go to a screening and just stand up at the beginning and start talking, holding a microphone (hello? is this on? No? I'm just going to have to shout then!) and make up a load of shit about the film in question. Like "Welcome to the NFT screening of blah blah blah", and hopefully get off a few lies before being removed.
I'm not drinking today I think. I've got TWO count em TWO bottles of champagne in the fridge though. It's tempting. Although on a belly full of toast and milk, I'd probably be telephoning the porcelain shoe or whatever the phrase is.
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Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I really liked the time-travelling pub idea, as well. I'm disappointed that's never been on the telly. If you could get Tom Baker on board and pitched that to the BBC you'd be laughing.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Fucking hell, that's one from the archives.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
That's the closest I've ever come to plagiarism. That was a stonker.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Why doesn't everyone who posts on TMO give up booze for February?
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
After all, I appear to just have given up grammar. It was simple.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hahahah!!
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
It would be amazing. And we'll give all the money we save to Darryn, to pay his hosting fees.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
I want to give up drink, but playing the fool is expected of me and you can't just disappoint the mob.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by London: Why doesn't everyone who posts on TMO give up booze for February?
Get to fuck! What on earth would that achieve? This reminds me of chick-dazzle magazine editors who would suggest that all their staff chucked their boyfriends in the same month so they could write about it for the magazine.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
I think it would be fun to watch everyone suffer.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Oh because, of course that never normally happens on TMO. If only we could somehow turn the forum in more of a window into the suffering of others.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
I'd like to watch you suffer, Thorn. I miss those days. You're so fucking happy all the time.
Posted by Good Fairy (Member # 479) on :
quote: Origionally posted by Foggy: So, starting on Feb 1st I am going ‘on the wagon’.
Not forever, just for the shortest month of the year - 28 days sans booze.
quote:Originally posted by London: Why doesn't everyone who posts on TMO give up booze for February?
Ah, I'll give it a go. Why not? it's the smallest month. Also no parties planned, but March is an Alcoholocaust.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I was vaguely toying with the idea of posting a fiction-excerpt into Ben's thread. That way people would be able not only to watch me suffer, but actually make it happen. Then I noticed that Barbelith had a whole forum dedicated to the practice and the self-aggrandising nature of the exercise started to depress me. Not that I'm anti self-aggrandisingmentnessation, but I'm trying to keep it to a minimum. On the whole though, I did find the general tone of low quality genuinely inspiring.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I will be having nothing to do with any 'stopping drinking' nonsense. Just be greatful my internet was broken when I got home on Saturday night!
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Something about Barbelith having a fiction comparison area doesn't sit well with me. I've always thought of fiction as a kind of intense and noble art, that works best when it turns the writer inside out, cuts into their most vulnerable areas, and exists outside of the writer. I think that's why I like the Auster books so much.. His writers are always quite lost and distant, and the books often write themselves during black outs or long sessions of isolation.
You could take the odd page or so from most books as an example of 'good writing', but sustainable atmospheres and rounded sympathetic characters are built up over time. Flowery prose, smart dialogue, tight metaphors etc are all good.. they crop up on TMO a lot (I'm astonished at how good vikram is at conjuring evil), but aren't as relevant to novels as people seem to think. It's a mistake to believe that being able to write great bits of text is similar to being able to write a great novel. I must admit that I didn't read the thing that ben posted up. If he ever finished the book, then I would gladly read it, but it's the same as somebody painting half a picture and going 'is it ok'? Or indeed, somebody just demonstrating brush strokes and asking you to either compliment them on their technical painting ability, or imagine what the painting will be like.
I also don't think that it's a good sign if Barbelith people feel a need to reassure each other all the time. Again, it's obviously my romantic idea of writing a book, but I would hate to think that I'd give a fuck what these people who are virtually in competition with me have to say about my writing style. If you read enough, and you write in your spare time, then surely you have the ability to critique your own writing. If not, doesn't that suggest that you've got no chance of writing something decent? Barbelith showing off their snippets seems like the literary of standing next to your motor and posing for pictures before a race. Crowd pleasing, but not relevant.
Also, I wouldn't want to read a book if I thought the author in some way really cared what I personally felt about it. When I read, I interact with the text rather than the author. The concepts rather than the conceiver. Of course, it's hard not to see reflection of the author in the work, but an author could not (for instance) just sit down and reel off the whole book from imagination, which tells me that while the text has been conceived at every stage by the author, the whole thing as a piece of art is kind of seperated from them. If writing is a catharsis, then surely whatever is in the book is something that the author has worked out, got over, and moved on, so a distance is created. But again, this is just what I like to believe.
I don't know. I'd love to read your book, thorn, but I wouldn't like to read a little vignette. Essentially, I don't want to judge your book by its cover.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
today I was supposed to find a job and then write for the magazine. Instead I've just looked at porn and committed the internet equivalent of graffiti on a toilet wall. I am the suck.
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Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
It's only ten to three, you drunken idiot.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Yeah. Hey - thanks to Roy recently helping me out with AM 180 by grandaddy, I've been checking out quite a few old songs from yesteryear. Today: Suds and Soda by dEUS. I can assure anybody who has been alive within the last twenty years that they would know and like this tune.
If you don't remember it - this is what it looks like
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: committed the internet equivalent of graffiti on a toilet wall. I am the suck.
But you see I actually agree with what you writ there, so you know. It's like one of those bits of graffiti where you're having a crap and it catches your eye and it says "Michelle is a dirty slut", and you think "Actually - you know what. She is."
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Do girl's toilet's have graffiti?
And the equivalent of a glory hole?
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
michelle is quite a slutty name, so I'd err on the side of it being true even if I didn't know her.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
You know, that's true, Michelle is a slutty name.
What are other slutty names?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Trampo
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Slagwina
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Cunterella
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: What are other slutty names?
• Rebecca (especially Becs) • Louise • Danielle • Hamish
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Hamish is a virgin's name, actually.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Bev. Hayley. Mandy. Jakki.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Kelly Jenny Sam
?
O G*d, that reminds me. I was a little bit turned on reading a BBC report about most popular girl names. Yes, really. What made it worse was these were names of babies
quote:1 Jessica 2 Emily 3 Sophie 4 Olivia 5 Chloe 6 Ellie 7 Grace 8 Lucy 9 Charlotte 10 Katie
In the next installment of My Two Dads: Nicole confides all to Vikram but is surprised by his reaction. And Benway is relieved when Judge Wilbur finally grants custody of new foster child Rebecca.
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Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Bev really is. I mean, Bev will do anything. Hands up who wants a go on Bev.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Here are the very first two pictures of 'Bev' thrown up by google image search.
Now tell me Bev isn't a unisex name for sluts.
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Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Bev. Hayley. Mandy. Jakki.
I went out with a girl with called Jakki and she was a right slut.
With everyone else.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Oh, Roy Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Trampo gets this:
I guess she wins.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
For about three months after we split up, I kept finding out about more and more people that she slutted with. It was like "Could you sign for this please, mate. Oh, didn't you go out with that Jakki? Right slut she was."
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Charlotte not only sounds like harlot but it is also the name of a lot of sluts. I think it wins.
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Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Bev really is. I mean, Bev will do anything. Hands up who wants a go on Bev.
Its funny you posted that because I was about to do the same (stupid boss making me work ). Never met a Bev that wasn't a slapper.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Charlotte sounds slutty/nice.
"Take it, Charlotte, take it all, you bitch."
Then she would go downstairs and bake you a cake. Or something.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
lol, it's true.
But where do these come from?
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: Charlotte sounds slutty/nice.
"Take it, Charlotte, take it all, you bitch."
Then she would go downstairs and bake you a cake. Or something.
Close. Actually, Charlotte would go 'downstairs' and come up covered in muck you didn't even know was left in your pipe.
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Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Is a posh voice more slutty than a 'common' voice?
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I think Slutology needs its own the thread.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Gurgling's best. And screaming. Oh, and muffled cries, you know, through a gag.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Ever since reading Bonjour Tristesse, the name Cécile...
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
What are the anti-slut names? The frigid ones that would never ever put out?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Ruth
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Amelia, Natasha. Anything ending in an 'a' I reckon.
And Beryl.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I dunno - that Mutya looks like a right slapper
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: Ruth
What! This is way off the mark! It's no accident that Ruth sounds like 'Filth'. Ruth is a slut. I mean, man, she really is.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Geraldine.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Amelia
fnhghh
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Consumpta
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I hate this name association crap. It always contradicts my own experience, and also, whenever it comes up on handbag, people always end up slagging opff the name Ian. Like, "Ian can never be sexy" "Lol, it's so true!" when the truth is that if I went to town on them, like really laid down the pipe full strength, then it would completely destroy them, physically and emotionally.
eta: That's not a boast - that's a biological fact.
[ 31.01.2006, 11:07: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: What! This is way off the mark! It's no accident that Ruth sounds like 'Filth'. Ruth is a slut. I mean, man, she really is.
Ni way dude. The girl I've had a crush on for liek six years (she's perfecr. smart, sweet, pretty like a twelve year old boy, plays violin), her name's Ruth and she's not a slut at all! She poos only diamond and smells of butterscotch. i luv her.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Oi, I made you your very own SlagThread! Look at you, whoring your crusty bits all over Darryn's plea for help. You make me sick.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: The girl I've had a crush on for liek six years (she's perfecr... pretty like a twelve year old boy,
lol(Wonderland Gift Vouchers)
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That makes a lot of sense, I guess. vikram's repeatedly projected his yearnings onto others (kovacs), dug up that kiddie super model website and always goes on about 'falling in love' with girls, but it never really comes to anything because deep down inside they're not what he craves. You don't need a diagram to work it out.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
It'd be funny of you made a diagram.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Actually, I really fancy going to the pub tonight. Is anyone up for it?
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I'm going to a FREE screening at the Tate Modern tonight. Also film fans - Howl's Moving Castle at the Prince Charles on Friday for £1!
Posted by Bandy (Member # 12) on :
I'm going to watch a shy scandinavian with a funny hispanic name play the guitar.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
is that...Jose Gonzales?
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
I was supposed to be having a, er, practice for thing where you all sing and stuff, but my NEW TOILET exploded, and now nobody wants to come to my new house for the practice. Bastards.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
of SONY TELEVISION fame?
Posted by Bandy (Member # 12) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: is that...Jose Gonzales?
No you bufoon. Its Ponch el Moncho.
What on earth is funny about 'Jose Gonzales'?
Nothing, that's what. Unless you're a racist.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
those Sony Bravia are pretty good though. Such clarity. So many colours. Is it art...or a television set? DESIRE. LOVE. LIFE.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
I'd love to come to the pub London, but I'm seriously cutting back on the booze fun so I don't die too soon from an exploding heart. This is depressing, as is all the fucking oily fish I'm having to eat, I used to like oily fish.
Also if you want to witness someone suffering London try being told that (on top of having hereditarily high cholesterol and that unless you want a heart bomb, the party's over pal) you need to wear a small reverse hoover attached to your nose for the rest of your (un)waking life, or until they come up with a better idea.
Damn it's sexy.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Mostly today I have a headace.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
this not drinking thing is so homosexual.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
BR - you got sleep Apnea - they reckon I have that as well (I snore like a banshee wails apparently)
Though its probably not as interesting, I've been blogging my sobriety as well.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
i might quit drinking for february. then i will go mad and write questionable stories about benway and girls what are pretty like twelve yuear old boys. it will be teh funny.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: this not drinking thing is so homosexual.
That's not the half of it, I now eat museli for breakfast instead of proper heteroman lard.
And I'm going to have to subsitute red wine for beer, you might as well call me Mary.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I don't reccomend red wine. It was lunchtime today when I realised I had my jumper on inside out. That is what you get from red wine!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: this not drinking thing is so homosexual.
In what way? I've been alcohol-free for nearly seven years and do not find men attractive in the least*.
*excluding Roy of course
Posted by Skalski (Member # 852) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I've been alcohol-free for nearly seven years
Oh no you haven't. The body has it's own endogenous supply, particularly after eating fruit.
[ 01.02.2006, 09:38: Message edited by: Skalski ]
Posted by not... (Member # 25) on :
way to break ralph
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
right now, he's probably running around the woods without his trousers on, guzzling meths and trying to mate with bears.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
seriously
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: right now, he's probably running around the woods without his trousers on, guzzling meths and trying to mate with bears.
If I was to do that, and I happened upon another tonwsperson in the woods, the response I would receive would more than likely be Hey ralph...cold enuf for ya?
[ 01.02.2006, 10:12: Message edited by: ralph ]
Posted by Skalski (Member # 852) on :
More likely than Hey ralph... put that bottle down man, are you crazy? And where are your trousers, you'll catch your death...? Don't these people care?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Skalski: More likely than Hey ralph... put that bottle down man, are you crazy? And where are your trousers, you'll catch your death...? Don't these people care?
They care. They're also not easily rattled by the sight of a semi-nude man taking a winters' romp through the woods. The things I've seen since moving here.....
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
If its any consolation, the gentleman to the left of all my posts has just announced he is also on a booze free diet for february, so we have some famous company.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
Scuze my ignorance (I'm sure you're all used to it by now) but who the fuck is that anyway?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Des Lynam - the over 50's gusset-whumper
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
He certainly gives me a funny feeling in my special place.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: BR - you got sleep Apnea - they reckon I have that as well (I snore like a banshee wails apparently)
I've got Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
According to the lads at the Sleep Unit my apnoea is mild, but I was having an apnoea "incident" about every three minutes, which meant that my body was waking up my brain every three minutes and I was never getting a proper night's sleep. Ever. For fucking years. Which goes some way to explaining why I've been low-level knackered for about five years.
The reverse hoover/nose snorkel device is a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) Machine what I have to wear at night in order to keep my airway open and stop the apnoeas. Obviously it's not deeply alluring (unless I find a lady with a snorkel fetish, and I assume neither was my snoring/apnoeas) and is taking some getting used to, but if it works, it works.
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