United Kingdom chat thread V4: lamb rogan josh, £3 meal deals, and brexit - General

Weather's fine tbh, it was too fucking hot this summer.

[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52815391]you can get your state-sanctioned one Freddo bar a month if you attend weekly Freddo centre meetings bringing 2 forms of ID, your NIN, passport, a signature from someone in a position of trustworthiness that you've known for a minimum of 2 years, a blood and hair sample, the bed sheets you first jizzed in, and a Biblical tome procured from the Holy land that proves you are who you say you are.[/QUOTE] Fuckin easy I keep it all in my pocket just incase i need to get it out quickly.

[QUOTE=zeromancer;52816420]Fuckin easy I keep it all in my pocket just incase i need to get it out quickly.[/QUOTE] that's an interesting skill

[QUOTE=Clive;52815578]Excuse me, they were/are amazing.[/QUOTE] They led to bizare thoughts about how Governments should serve their people, obviously something bad is in them chemically.

All bad things taste nice though :(

[QUOTE=Clive;52817486]All bad things taste nice though :([/QUOTE] hitler's monoball jism must be the sweetest thing in the world then

Only in its current state.

[QUOTE=Clive;52817486]All bad things taste nice though :([/QUOTE] Tell me about it, I ate an entire packet of black pudding because otherwise it need throwing away. I'll probably have colon cancer by morning

Jesus, that can't end well for anyone. Your poor toilet.

Made myself a pumpkin pail full of sweets for halloweeny. Make sure that when you make your Annual Spooky Eve pail you only use those shitty chalky swizzels that everybody pretends to hate but really loves.

[QUOTE=Instant Mix;52812287]what do people do to try and earn money on the side of their main job? Did some calculations and if I continue working all hours, w/ my ass off, i'm only getting about £100 out of my overdraft each month, meaning it's going to take me like 6 months to get to owing the bank nothing, rather than actually having money. My current job is OK, but would ideally like to be earning a bit more each month. Tempted by things like Fiverr[/QUOTE] Where the hell do you live and work? I went from 1600 in the red to being in the black in 5 months back when I first got a job while in overpriced student housing.

[QUOTE=UzumakaiPatch;52820811]Where the hell do you live and work? I went from 1600 in the red to being in the black in 5 months back when I first got a job while in overpriced student housing.[/QUOTE] we both live and work in the same place and in all honestly it doesn't surprise me.

Anyone doing anything this Halloween weekend? I'm off to the London gin club tomorrow to get absolutely wasted on an 8 gin taster session and then eat copious amounts of ramen at Tonkotsu.

[QUOTE=dead60;52827632]Anyone doing anything this Halloween weekend? I'm off to the London gin club tomorrow to get absolutely wasted on an 8 gin taster session and then eat copious amounts of ramen at Tonkotsu.[/QUOTE] I'll be watching the Strictly Come Dancing Halloween Special. Usually I make a crazy costume for a party but I don't have friends this year. :frown:

i'm going to tesco to get some stuff to make sandwiches, that's my halloween plan. i've been invited to a house party but i cba, i don't like drinking these days and it'd suck being the only sober one there

[QUOTE=loopoo;52829546]i'm going to tesco to get some stuff to make sandwiches, that's my halloween plan. i've been invited to a house party but i cba, i don't like drinking these days and it'd suck being the only sober one there[/QUOTE] I don't enjoy parties that focus on drinking very much either. I prefer a few close friends and fun stuff like vidya or movies.

don't get me wrong, I love parties, but I fuckin hate hangovers. and when I start drinking, I lose all self control and will end up getting way too smashed. it's annoying for my friends cause they gotta try and prevent me getting messy drunk, but I'll be sneaking drinks behind their back. I always have great nights, but the following day ain't worth it. I'll get home, and spend that entire night unable to sleep cause the room is spinning, or I'll be puking my guts out. I'm really unlucky with my hangovers, they're real severe and I get pretty bad anxiety from it for some reason. fuck having a really good friday night at the expense of an entire saturday. i feel rough all of sat and like super down on sunday and then monday uni starts back up and i feel so unrested.

I don't really enjoy feeling drunk after too much alcohol I just feel really slow and it's trash

I was in Edinburgh at an engagement party and got absolutely rat arsed, it was great. Feeling it a little but its not too bad, just waiting on the happy couple waking to make me and the lads a big ol' fry up.

As a high functioning alcoholic, I never get hangovers. I was out on Wednesday night, drank 10 pints of beer and was up the next day at 7am for a day's work of physical labour. Sounds great right? But alcohol is fucking insidious. I really worry sometimes about my future. It's alright for me now, but if I continue the same patterns over the next decade, I can really see it being a problem for my long term health. It's just so hard, when I suffer from so little of the 'consequences'. I feel great when I drink it. I don't suffer from anxiety etc. So it's hard to try and cut back on something that I don't feel affects me negatively. Ask my liver though, I don't know. But hey. 1 step at a time. I quit smoking cigarettes. Any my weed consumption is down to social occasions. I've proven to myself that I can conquer those vices. So I have hope for my future responsible self. [editline]28th October 2017[/editline] Plus... These things are fucking expensive. I'd hate to think what I've spent over the years unnecessarily.

yeah it's a gift and a curse I guess. I always have a really good time when drunk, but hangovers stop me from doing it regularly. plus my older brother is legitimately an alcoholic and has had it fuck his life up for 10+ years. so it's a good thing I can't follow in his footsteps. people always say you build up a tolerance to alcohol, but I dunno. I feel like some people are genetically insensitive to hangover shit. I start feeling a hangover coming after 4 pints, I get the worst headache ever and it just pounds.

I'm also a high-functioning alcoholic. I rarely get hungover -- the only time I got a huuuge hangover was when I had about 70cl in the space of about 3 hours, which was the stupidest shit I've ever done and made me kill the booze for a while.

so for you high functioning alcoholics, do you remember a time when you were younger and alcohol would fuck you up big time in terms of hangovers? or did you always have mild hangovers to begin with? trying to figure out if correlation = causation, ie you drink a lot because you don't get negative effects, as opposed to you had lots of negative effects, but built up a tolerance to the point where you no longer get effects.

I never had heavy hangovers. I've been pounding liquor nightly ever since I was about sixteen, although my overall intake varies on how I feel. If I'm moody I just have a couple glasses or a couple shots because I know that I'll spiral into destructive behavior if I get drunk in that state. I've definitely built up a tolerance though. Like last night I was having fun with Wolfenstein so I kept pouring tequila shots and didn't feel drunk for the whole night until I had a pint of strong ale with my dinner, whereas back in the day two shots would've gotten me buzzed and four would've gotten me smashed. I had about six in the space of two hours last night and didn't even feel slowed.

Yeah I need to tone down on the alcohol myself. I don't drink every night but it'll be around every couple of days if I've got the evening off work. I usually try to limit myself but once I've had a few I just usually carry on and wake up thinking 'whoops'.

I guess I can pretend I've got more control than most alcoholics: I don't drink before work, avoid getting too heavily smashed the night before work, and I don't drink if I know I'm in a bad place, mentally. Even if I feel alright but I know my backburner is dark, so to speak, I try and avoid entering a mentally altered state. I never wilfully abstain for long periods though, usually a day or two at most because otherwise I feel too 'edged'. I don't drive and I work afternoons to evenings so having a modest amount of leftover liquor in my system hasn't been a problem. It hasn't affected my mental acuity yet, but my memory issues have gotten worse since my alcoholism has become more concrete. It's like there's two 'timelines' of memory for me now, - when I'm sober and when I'm liquored up. When I'm sober I can barely remember stuff I did liquored up, and when I'm liquored up I can barely remember stuff I did when I was sober, even if it was only thirty minutes ago. I know it's standard to forget blackout nights, but we're talking just a couple of pours and I start to forget what Sober Morris was doing. Coupled with the repetitive nature of my work I've had to start keeping notes on what I was doing. A lot of my childhood memories are already fading because of unrelated head injuries, so it's concerning. [editline]28th October 2017[/editline] When I go sober it's usually because I ended up going to The Dark Place because I made the mistake of getting drunk at a bad time, and I usually do it for like a week at a time. Sober people ask me all the time why I do it to myself if there's a chance of going to The Dark Place but these same people smoke weed and then get anxiety-highs and I have the same question to ask, and the answer from both of us is the same: It's not always like that.

I just burnt my sausages. Sat down and watched youtube vids cause I cba standing around whilst they cook. I didn't think the heat was that high, but they burnt and tasted pretty bad. I still ate them but it was a horrible start to the day.

I had some friends and my girlfriend over last night, we played Cards Against Humanity and watched Raptor Ranch. I wanted to watch Scream or It Follows but was outvoted, alas.

Gonna watch that new thor movie tonight at the odeon. Fuckin 13 quid for tickets though what the fuck.

fuck odeon