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Off Topic Anyone else still sober for 2018?

Discussion in 'Newcastle United' started by Darth Tash, Mar 16, 2018.

  1. Darth Tash

    Darth Tash Well-Known Member

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    Haven't had a drink since christmas.

    Have gone 4 and 7 months before without drinking, thinking I might challenge myself to go until next christmas.

    I really don't miss the hangovers and I feel great.

    Anyone else?
     
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  2. Albert's Chip Shop

    Albert's Chip Shop Top Grafter
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    I’m sober so far today.
    It’s quite tough really.
     
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  3. Darth Tash

    Darth Tash Well-Known Member

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    I know your pain. When I first started to give up booze I felt like life was meaningless.
     
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  4. Wisey's Hair

    Wisey's Hair Well-Known Member

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    Managed all of January and it was great. Then Feb happened...
     
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  5. daztoc

    daztoc Well-Known Member

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    3 years and 9 months and counting.................. haven't touched a drop since my little lad was born.

    Don't miss it one little bit either!!
     
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  6. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    Go get smashed you boring ****.

    Then get some beak and some hoes.
     
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  7. Albert's Chip Shop

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    If you insist. :)
     
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  8. General Lee Speaking

    General Lee Speaking Well-Known Member

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    Fack off!
     
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  9. haslam

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    I never really drink to be honest. In the past decade we're talking maybe 20/30 days I've had a drink and only once or twice I've had enough to be drunk.

    Did it plenty in my teens and early 20's and I don't miss it. When I hear the amount my mates spend on alcohol a month it blows my mind, the ones who smoke as well spend more in total than I pay on my mortgage! I'll take boring Tel thanks.
     
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  10. JakartaToon

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    Hardly ever drink when I am out here. Not had any alcohol since the flight from Manchester (one glass of red wine purely to ward off DVT). In early Jan.
    Like it when I drink it - don’t miss it when I don’t.
     
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  11. daztoc

    daztoc Well-Known Member

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    Been there............ done that............ moved on.

    Thanks for the advice though <cheers>
     
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  12. Ben 10

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    I've cut down from 3 nights a week to 2, sticking to this for 2 weeks then dropping down to 1. Gone from eating ****e 7 days a week to 2 (hence the 2 days drinking, 2 "cheat days" as they call it). Swim twice a week, gym once
     
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  13. Darth Tash

    Darth Tash Well-Known Member

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    Not bad.

    I've managed to get myself down to 1 cheat day, but treat myself to a diet coke during the week sometimes... FML
     
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  14. Joelinton's Right Foot

    Joelinton's Right Foot Worth Every Penny
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    I've not had a drink in 2018 yet. I'm not on any special mission though. i just hardly ever drink.
     
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  15. Delusional Full Stop

    Delusional Full Stop Here to serve all your counselling needs.
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    Was at a local Chinese Restaurant the other week which has a competition whereby you get your meal half price if you can eat all of the, i think, 20 courses they serve on their “special”. The courses aren’t their usual size portions but smaller but still a heck of a lot to eat.

    My good lady and myself declined the challenge but shortly after we arrived a young couple of what I would describe as “porker” size proportions came in and did take up the challenge. Nothing wrong with that you would say and I would agree save that the lady in question ordered a pint of Diet Coke to go with her meal as she was trying to lose some weight.

    <doh>

    As an aside they both had their “smart” phones (if ever there was a misnomer) religiously on and looking at them throughout their meal and generally didn’t talk to each other except to tell the other one about something on their phone. The human race will die out not because of a meteorite hitting planet Earth but because kids today are too busy looking at their phones.
     
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  16. JakartaToon

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    He says while busy posting from his smart phone.
     
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  17. Albert's Chip Shop

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    Trev wasn’t sat next to a couple... it was a mirror....
     
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  18. Joelinton's Right Foot

    Joelinton's Right Foot Worth Every Penny
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    This. This. And ****ing This!!!!!

    It is my pet hate and really brings out my inner Victor Meldrew. I loathe it.

    I am told it is the way the world is now and that I have to adapt. I don't want to ****ing adapt. People spend their lives looking at phones and posting on social media. You can see in so many posts that people are crying out to be noticed. There is a reason for that. Nobody ever notices them cos they never look at anyone. The world is becoming a lonelier place. We have a need to be sociable and people will never find the social interaction they need on a screen. A genuine smile is worth more than a thousand likes, and a genuine 'how are you?' and reassuring touch is worth more than a thousand follows. I think people are scared to interact now because they have got used to hiding behind a screen. You can let the world see the view of you that you choose when all you do is post. The problem with that is that it is our vulnerable sides that connect deepest with those around us.

    Rant over.
     
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  19. Hugh Briss

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    I've not had an alcoholic drink since the last one <ale><double><bubbly>:emoticon-0175-drunk
     
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  20. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    'I feel sorry for people who don't drink, knowing that when you wake up in the morning that's the best you are going to feel all day' - Dean Martin, legendary crooner and drinker.
     
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