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ThomasPaine posted:I am not criticising, I am just admiring your self-discipline. Honestly, the boredom is crippling in a way I had never expected so me and my partner have been just sitting watching trash and getting blackout drunk a couple times a week. We used to do that occasionally but saved the really heavy drinking for when we went on nights out with friends. And this is an improvement. We had to consciously decide to cut back after the realisation that we'd mananged to get through 15 bottles between us in less than a week over christmas/new year. Lockdown has normalised some pretty unhealthy behaviours that I think will take some time to unlearn! Same. Well, not quite that much, but if I don't get pretty (not blackout, but really sloppy) drunk once a week I start to fray at the edges really, really badly Occasionally twice if I'm feeling particularly fed up and nihilistic, but luckily that's not too often I'm lucky that my partner is totally teetotal because if I had someone to actually drink with I'd be in a similar situation to you Pistol_Pete posted:Red wine gives me really filthy hangovers, so I usually avoid it. Also same. Man I love red wine so much, but I just can't do it anymore. It's like having a normal hangover but with actual all-over body pain, like my nerves go a bit nuts. Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Yeah, Christmas/NY was a car crash. Now that it's getting warmer and lighter again we're getting better at going for long walks and stuff instead of sitting about boozing every other day.
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ThomasPaine posted:Yeah, Christmas/NY was a car crash. Now that it's getting warmer and lighter again we're getting better at going for long walks and stuff instead of sitting about boozing every other day. I think that's true for a lot of people even in the non-plague times, though, y'know? It's a period where rules kinda go out the window for a bit. I wouldn't beat yourself up about it too much (beyond just being aware of it, which you are). I'm looking forward to the warmer weather but think I'll actually wind up drinking a bit more lol Last year I enjoyed many long days in a meadow nearby lying in the sun, sinking tinnies and listening to the radio
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Feb 23, 2021 16:13
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm still uncertain whether this is incompetence or if things are going exactly as intended Imo it's pretty clear the main goal of the kier project is to purge the left from Labour and protect the government to stabilise the neoliberal consensus during plague and brexit
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Feb 23, 2021 16:14
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It's much funnier if Kieth is trying to cargo cult blairism and honestly thought this would work, so that is what I choose to believe
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Feb 23, 2021 16:16
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Necrothatcher posted:same. Now if there was ever anything I wish the zoomers will kill permanently, it's nightclubs. Close 'em all down, don't let any reopen. The next pandemic is a once in a century event coming to us probably later this decade. Or before this one ends.
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I haven't been drunk in a year, but I now get really antsy if I try and sit through an evening without a couple of 330ml beers or G&Ts. Binge drinking has stopped completely but my overall intake and dependence is way up. Really need to wean myself off it a bit.
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feedmegin posted:It didn't HAVE to have water added, it wasn't some kind of ancient superwine or anything, but yeah the Greeks thought drinking it neat was uncouth and let's not even talk about that barbarian 'beer' nonsense... Barry Foster posted:Also same. Man I love red wine so much, but I just can't do it anymore. It's like having a normal hangover but with actual all-over body pain, like my nerves go a bit nuts.
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Can strongly recommend going for a 20k run, then drinking exactly one beer and feeling completely hosed within minutes. Haven't done it in a good while but it's powerful
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ThomasPaine posted:I am not criticising, I am just admiring your self-discipline. Honestly, the boredom is crippling in a way I had never expected so me and my partner have been just sitting watching trash and getting blackout drunk a couple times a week. We used to do that occasionally but saved the really heavy drinking for when we went on nights out with friends. And this is an improvement. We had to consciously decide to cut back after the realisation that we'd mananged to get through 15 bottles between us in less than a week over christmas/new year. Lockdown has normalised some pretty unhealthy behaviours that I think will take some time to unlearn! Now try ten years. Haven't had a drink since last February, either. Not because I made a choice to stop, but because 2020 was so much better than 2019, hah. Boredom? See username.
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https://twitter.com/BBCBweaking/status/1364232536159887360 Get ready!
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Bobby Deluxe posted:My 40 year old constitution is so terrible 
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In Kieth's bunker, they're reading a history of the Blair years and they've just got to the bit where Blair rigs the London Mayoral candidate election to exclude Ken Livingstone. "Right, so we get rid of the lefty, that's how we impose our stamp on the party and win the hearts and minds of the people". They're not going to be happy when they eventually turn the page to find out how that worked out.
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm still uncertain whether this is incompetence or if things are going exactly as intended The Labour Right are masters of picking unnecessary and counter-productive fights with the left, so I can believe that it's both going as they intended and won't ultimately help them in the slightest.
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Guavanaut posted:Look forward to Liverpool Mayor Boris Johnson in 2030. I just realised the candidate they rigged it for, who limped in third behind Ken and Shagger, only just beating the Lib Dem, was Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn and St. Pancras. Is that seat haunted or something? I know there's plague pits around Kings Cross, I wonder if they somehow disturbed some ancient centrist curse.
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Like the ghost of some ancient constitutional monarchist or something? Struggling to think what medieval people would even be centrist about.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I just realised the candidate they rigged it for, who limped in third behind Ken and Shagger, only just beating the Lib Dem, was Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn and St. Pancras. Is that seat haunted or something? I know there's plague pits around Kings Cross, I wonder if they somehow disturbed some ancient centrist curse. St Giles used to be a gallows site...... Also, there's all those disturbed mummies in the British Museum    (playing with smilies as I'm supposed to be working).
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Communist Thoughts posted:Imo it's pretty clear the main goal of the kier project is to purge the left from Labour and protect the government to stabilise the neoliberal consensus during plague and brexit https://twitter.com/Alec_Eiffel85/status/1364241828183232512?s=09
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Josef bugman posted:It's just so stupid. What powers does a loving mayor have in this country? And yet the people in charge have to stamp down on leftie dissent so hard it causes them to keep slipping on dog turds. Well sometimes Andy Burnham doesn't 100% lick Kieth boot, so any candidate with the backing of Corbyn and the unions must be stopped. Any other candidates are just chaff that gets in the way.
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Sweet, got my appointment on Monday to get vacc'd. Turns out I got moved up the list cuz I'm my mother's carer.
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OwlFancier posted:Like the ghost of some ancient constitutional monarchist or something? Struggling to think what medieval people would even be centrist about. Cromwell was also a centrist, because he only wanted to execute the king and not all of his heirs. Centrists, all of them. e: The CofE is also the most centrist thing imaginable. Split from the Catholic church for reasons claiming to be Reformation but also keep doing everything the same with the hats and corruption and biscuits and stuff.
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crazyvanman posted:Actually God abhors alcohol. How do I know this? Because a Christian kid at school told me. How did he respond to my 'what about water into wine'? That is actually a misnomer, apparently, because Jesus actually turned the water into 'fermented grape juice'. How did he respond to my 'that is wine'? Well, you see, his church explained that Jesus actually turned the water into a special non-alcoholic fermented grape juice that was popular at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjKRaeIzoCs&t=31s
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Sweet, got my appointment on Monday to get vacc'd. Turns out I got moved up the list cuz I'm my mother's carer. congratulations!
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Junior G-man posted:Well sometimes Andy Burnham doesn't 100% lick Kieth boot, so any candidate with the backing of Corbyn and the unions must be stopped. Any other candidates are just chaff that gets in the way. I can't see how the current candidates are going to like that. It's just so drat foolish. If they'd tried to make inroads into even some area of the soft left they might have done better, but instead it's just "we need to be Blair!" and nothing else. Just rank foolishness driven by a fear of newspapers and the over 60's. Gyro Zeppeli posted:Sweet, got my appointment on Monday to get vacc'd. Turns out I got moved up the list cuz I'm my mother's carer. Congratulations!
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I have a classics itch at the back of my mind telling me that greek wine, especially the wine mentioned in the Odyssey, was extremely thick and potent in the skins and would have had to have been watered down to be palatable. IIRC they make a big deal of the cyclops drinking it from the skins unwatered and their reaction is less "ugh, how uncouth" and more "sweet merciful crom this guy is hardcore." Having done home brewing myself - you can only get so far, even with specially cultured yeast, without inventing distilling. Yeast just can't live above a certain ABV. You're not going to get above about what the strongest red wine is today (14% maybe?) because biology and given that they did not in fact have the specially cultured yeast you're probably not even going to get that far. They might have thought it super strong, but turns out the ancients were lightweights  Edit: that said I think 5% was lowballing it. They were smart enough to know about different strains of yeast and to have some idea of 'this one makes better wine than the other one', same as with sourdough starters, so I can absolutely see them getting up to like the 10% range at least rather than just letting fruit get mouldy in the sun and see what happens. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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I don't think it's just fear I think that is just absolutely what they want, to create an environment in the most immediate term that is favorable to them, and if they lose and destroy the party, who cares? It is only a grift, only a stepping stone on path to validating their own eternal rightness.
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I have to take my daughter to a hospital appointment at Evelina in London tomorrow, so for the first time in my life I'm driving into central London. I thought that, with a toddler and a global pandemic, maybe that would be preferable to going in on public transport, but now I feel like I might be being stupid. The parking costs £20, the congestion charge is £15, and according to Google it's gonna take me like over 2 hours to get there. I could have got the train for £12 return, and it would have only taken ~ 1 hour. Thread, am I a twat? (for the purposes of this post and this post only!!!!)
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The Perfect Element posted:I have to take my daughter to a hospital appointment at Evelina in London tomorrow, so for the first time in my life I'm driving into central London. I thought that, with a toddler and a global pandemic, maybe that would be preferable to going in on public transport, but now I feel like I might be being stupid. The parking costs £20, the congestion charge is £15, and according to Google it's gonna take me like over 2 hours to get there. I could have got the train for £12 return, and it would have only taken ~ 1 hour. Nah that seems extremely reasonable in the circumstances.
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The Perfect Element posted:I have to take my daughter to a hospital appointment at Evelina in London tomorrow, so for the first time in my life I'm driving into central London. I thought that, with a toddler and a global pandemic, maybe that would be preferable to going in on public transport, but now I feel like I might be being stupid. The parking costs £20, the congestion charge is £15, and according to Google it's gonna take me like over 2 hours to get there. I could have got the train for £12 return, and it would have only taken ~ 1 hour. Hey you're not paying the ULEZ charge so that's cheap. If it helps, if you're not travelling at peak rush hour then trains into London are absolutely deserted. It's easier to social distance on the train than off it. I think I was literally the only passenger on a 12 coach Thameslink last Saturday.
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The Perfect Element posted:I have to take my daughter to a hospital appointment at Evelina in London tomorrow, so for the first time in my life I'm driving into central London. I thought that, with a toddler and a global pandemic, maybe that would be preferable to going in on public transport, but now I feel like I might be being stupid. The parking costs £20, the congestion charge is £15, and according to Google it's gonna take me like over 2 hours to get there. I could have got the train for £12 return, and it would have only taken ~ 1 hour. I mean, you definitely took the expensive option, but probably also the less COVID-y option?
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feedmegin posted:They might have thought it super strong, but turns out the ancients were lightweights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSCppeFzX4
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The Perfect Element posted:I have to take my daughter to a hospital appointment at Evelina in London tomorrow, so for the first time in my life I'm driving into central London. I thought that, with a toddler and a global pandemic, maybe that would be preferable to going in on public transport, but now I feel like I might be being stupid. The parking costs £20, the congestion charge is £15, and according to Google it's gonna take me like over 2 hours to get there. I could have got the train for £12 return, and it would have only taken ~ 1 hour. Normally I’d say anyone willingly driving into central London is insane but given the circumstances we are in it’s rather sensible.
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