It's PanDENmonium! [Off Topic Chat]

Ahhhh lads go vodka or go home! I dont even like cider; unless its koppaberg strawberry..that shít tastes like ribena

Vodka for everything cause can have as much and mixed. Plus made of potatoes #keepingirishalive . Orchard thieves won my heart as a better cider. Although the lough bar in Limerick do a lovely craft cider.

I miss Bulmers.

deise_girl wrote: »

Lol one you vodka and cranberry is there any going back?
Or tbh Id even drink vodka straight if I needed...
Orchard Thieves is unreallllll for a casual drink or a kopperberg/Alska(The Aldi things?)
I always find drinks taste a bit better with a cheeky smoke tho oops..

Everything is better with a cheeky smoke tbh.


Until the next morning when you wake up and feel like your mouth has been rubbed down with sandpaper that is.

deise_girl wrote: »

Also on the note of a cheeky smoke I know like everyone just knows smoking is bad and that you shouldn't but is it really really a dodgy habit? If only ever when I'm drinking but omg the first night I drank this summer it was more looking forward to that I was than alcohol it was fab but I'm scared it will kill me if I continue

TBH I think one or two every now and then is grand. Yeah, they're not good for you, but neither is the belly full of liquor or the dirty kebab you'll have that night. S'all part of living like.

Obviously if you feel like you need a smoke then you've got a problem, but honestly I don't see the distinction between cigarettes and alcohol, and those who try to pain cigarettes as some all encompassing evil while still enjoying alcohol are just deluded and hypocritical.

I could link the obligatory Bill Hicks thing, but I can't be arsed right now. :P

Jhcx wrote: »

Seems to have become stupid this whole i only smoke when i drink ****e. please you dont need a smoke when you drink. i watch my addicted ex smoke a couple everytime we meet and dont see them drinking. but ive met several friends who started this whole only for social. if you can go weeks on end without one why start on your night out

But, why not have one or two on a night out? Like, I don't need a smoke when I'm drinking, but if the opportunity comes up to have one, I'll go for it because it feels fecking great.

Jhcx wrote: »

cause why have one in the first place. thats like the whole argument of smoking weed. dont need to do it. but its offered and there why not? i suppose i have a different view as a non smoker. but its like everyone one of you can go for ages without it but suddenly fall to the knees when opportunity presents itself. because its "cool" or a stress reliever. fck it i thought going for a few shots was a stress reliever.

But it's not about "falling to the knees" for them. For me, it's purely a "Y'know, a smoke would be lovely right about now. Why the hell not?", same as "D'you know, I'd murder a pizza right now..."

Like, why did we all have our first pint? Like, what's the point of alcohol?

There's no point other than it makes us feel good.


I honestly don't understand why it's perfectly fine to have a few drinks every now and then, and everyone will say "Ah yeah, he only has a few social drinks every now and then.", but if someone smokes a few cigarettes they're "addicted and going to die with cancer and are deluding themselves into thinking they're not!"

I don't really see the problem with having a cigarette solely in a social setting. As a regular habit they're gonna wreck you. I've been a smoker for five years and already I can feel what they're doing to me.
Having a few in the smoking area of the icon at the weekend isn't going to suddenly give you emphysema at 30 though; The student diet is probably doing way more damage to the bodies of early twenties people than five cigarettes on a Saturday.
On the other hand, social smokers puzzle me.
I spend most of my time out in the smoking area when out. If I didn't smoke though I'd still be out there. That's where the conversation is. I don't see what's social about a ciggarette ;bar the fact that people tend to socialise in the smoking area. People talk there because it's too loud to talk inside. Not because cigarettes are some kind of social lubricant. That's what alcohol is for.
I'm chugging down fags out there because I have to. Because I need to. Because I'll be in a bad mood if I don't. Fags for me are for stress release at work. Getting out for ten minutes while the shift is collapsing around you in the middle of a Dinner rush. I love them for that. I look forward to those cigarettes.
Every other time ,however, it's simply out of habit or boredom or simply just rolling out of reflex. There's no pleasure in it. That's when I hate them.
A few social cigarettes aren't going to kill you but it's very easy to go from a few social ones to getting hooked. I started out as a social smoker; then having a few at work as well before finally just making it the thing I did to keep my hands busy. They make theyre presence known fairly quick when your smoking 20 a day though. Beer will give you a hangover but they at least make you a bit looser among friends. Fags give you this horrible crap in your throat you cough up in the morning. Forget cancer( that's already destiny because of family history) that morning gunk is what makes me want to quit.

Jhcx wrote: »

In a matter of less than 6years you can rack up a nice sum of 23k spent on then.

That's if you smoke 20 a day. ((23,000 / 6) / 52) = 73 = roughly a tenner a day.

It's a bit of a bullsh*t statistic tbh. You could just as easy say that people will spend 46k over six years if they smoke 40 a day. It's meaningless.

A more realistic scenario (for this discussion) would be someone who smokes 4 cigarettes on a night out once a week. Which is a box every 5 weeks, which is roughly €100 a year, which is €600 over six years. Pretty insignificant considering someone having 3-4 pints on a night out once a week (let's set the price of a pint at €4) would be spending €16 a week, which is €832 a year which is the bones of five grand over the course of 6 years.

So from a purely economical standpoint, people who drink pints are actually wasting a lot more money than people who have a few smokes.



#statisticsproveeverythingandanything

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Well I was a bit drunk on Sunday,

and apparently [...] I kept shouting "Avada Kedavra" at them

J'accuse! :pac:

Sitting outside a cafe on lunchbreak in dublin. Up comes a panhandler begging for money. Normally I'll give change but there's just so many in this city compared to limericks. I've started refusing. Didn't need to this time though. His girlfriend saw my stern face, navy workpants and black shoes and assumed I was a guard rather than a cook.
"He's a copper,come on"
I'll just need to learn the lingo and rough up a few water protesters and I'll have my disguise down. Will never be bothered for change again.

Well, lahds, who owns the vhe-hicle now?

Lads just bit curious do we ever do any movie nights?

Na here with boardsies.

An File wrote: »

How would that work? Everybody meeting up, or watching the same film at the same time and posting about it?

Would have to try meet up somewhere. Bit it's hard cause most of us are in all the cities

I was being overzealous super mod. I am officially a gobdaw.

One the lads has that done to okay plantation and movies. Quality of projector isint great but then again it's near 10years old. New projector should do for better.

I'm jealous. Very very jealous.

I don't even have a tv, and the lack of great british bake off hurts my heart.

Had a bit of an existential crisis last night in a bar in Dublin. After yet another week on the road for work.
One week here has me reevaluating what I want out of my life and my twenties.
I think me and Limerick have about run our course. I need out.