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I gave up drink for lent and now I am hanging for a drink

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    #32
    emeldc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭emeldc


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    People who drink are incredibly stupid and have no imaginations

    One would have to assume you're a complete pisshead so :confused:


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    #33
    Steve_Carella
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    It wasn't an inane statement, I stand by it because it's completely correct

    Prove it.


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    #34
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    Steve_Carella wrote: »
    Prove it.

    Better things to be doing friend. Living my life. You'll know that split second before death.


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    #35
    MonkeyTennis
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    I call twaddle


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    #36
    Steve_Carella
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Better things to be doing friend. Living my life. You'll know that split second before death.

    So in other words you made a ridiculous statement that shouldn't take more than five minutes to back up and now that you CAN'T back it up, you're using the old "oh I have a life, I'm not gonna spend it posting online" cop out.

    Good contribution.


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    #37
    [Deleted User]
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Better things to be doing friend. Living my life. You'll know that split second before death.

    Part of living your life is enjoying yourself and socialising and for me drinking is a vital part of that. The amount enjoyment I would have missed out on without drinking is frightening.


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    #38
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    Steve_Carella wrote: »
    So in other words you made a ridiculous statement that shouldn't take more than five minutes to back up and now that you CAN'T back it up, you're using the old "oh I have a life, I'm not gonna spend it posting online" cop out.

    Good contribution.

    Not can't, won't because you wouldn't be willing to listen.

    No point getting annoyed with me either, that certainly is less smart that the boozing


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    #39
    Steve_Carella
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Not can't, won't because you wouldn't be willing to listen.

    No point getting annoyed with me either, that certainly is less smart that the boozing

    Of course I'd be willing to listen. It's a discussion board, that's the whole point of it. I've challenged your statement, it's down to you to back it up, unless you're unable to, as seems to be the case.

    But the very fact that you've already (wrongly) concluded that I'm unreasonable ("wouldn't be willing to listen") and that I'm annoyed with you (which I'm not even slightly), not to mention the incredibly inappropriate "less smart than the boozing" comment - these things all seem to indicate that you're less interested in discussion than you are in throwing out unfounded statements and refusing to back them up when somebody calls you on them.


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    #40
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    Steve_Carella wrote: »
    Of course I'd be willing to listen. It's a discussion board, that's the whole point of it. I've challenged your statement, it's down to you to back it up, unless you're unable to, as seems to be the case.

    But the very fact that you've already (wrongly) concluded that I'm unreasonable ("wouldn't be willing to listen") and that I'm annoyed with you (which I'm not even slightly), not to mention the incredibly inappropriate "less smart than the boozing" comment - these things all seem to indicate that you're less interested in discussion than you are in throwing out unfounded statements and refusing to back them up when somebody calls you on them.

    You are correct in that I am unwilling to discuss, I'm merely passing some knowledge I have.

    I don't think you are unreasonable but you are unwilling to accept this knowledge yet, most people aren't, but you will some day that I can promise you.

    Anyone can have water brought to them but they must drink themselves.


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    #41
    Steve_Carella
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    You are correct in that I am unwilling to discuss

    Not really much point in being here then, is there?
    HamsterFace wrote: »

    I don't think you are unreasonable

    You thought I was less than an hour ago. Are you backing down from that assertion too?
    HamsterFace wrote: »
    I'm merely passing some knowledge I have.

    No. You're stating an opinion. Unless you can give a source for this knowledge? If you can't, it's not knowledge. It's an opinion.
    HamsterFace wrote: »
    ...you are unwilling to accept this knowledge yet, most people aren't...

    And yet, there seems to be an awful lot more people disagreeing with you on this thread than agreeing with you.


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    #42
    syklops
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    It wasn't an inane statement, I stand by it because it's completely correct

    then you yourself are inane.


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    #43
    fedor.2.
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    Randy Scary Shellfish wrote: »
    Part of living your life is enjoying yourself and socialising and for me drinking is a vital part of that. The amount enjoyment I would have missed out on without drinking is frightening.



    Man, that's pretty sad. I'd bring in prohibition, if I could, until a time when people could actually handle what they consume. It's pathetic, the states some people get in.


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    #44
    Genghiz Cohen
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    People who drink are incredibly stupid and have no imaginations

    I can't believe people reacted to this. It's the most poorly framed bait I've seen in some time.


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    #45
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I can thoroughly recommend a subscription to Modern Drunkard Magazine. It' bi-monthly periodical promoting the functional alcoholic's lifestyle.


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    #46
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    I can't believe people reacted to this. It's the most poorly framed bait I've seen in some time.

    Yeah I'm kinda surprised myself, just picked up a bottle of red cos it's Thursday.

    Am a big fan of the wolfblass range though should probably cut out midweek sauce.

    Sorry Steve carrell but you were getting a bit annoyed at least


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    #47
    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,243 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    I'm still off it since new years.

    *Smug face*


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    #48
    Steve_Carella
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Sorry Steve carrell but you were getting a bit annoyed at least

    Not even slightly. I come onto websites like this to discuss. And I take people at face value (unless it's really obviously a wind up), which I will continue to do. There's no shortage of people who WOULD agree with your original post as you phrased it.

    And I'm not still not convinced you didn't mean it. It seems far more likely that you meant it and you're just backing down.


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    #49
    emeldc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭emeldc


    Steve_Carella wrote: »
    Not even slightly. I come onto websites like this to discuss. And I take people at face value (unless it's really obviously a wind up), which I will continue to do. There's no shortage of people who WOULD agree with your original post as you phrased it.

    And I'm not still not convinced you didn't mean it. It seems far more likely that you meant it and you're just backing down.

    I'm with you there, I think "Ghengiz Cohen" did him a favour with a convenient get out clause.

    Anywho, I relax two or three evenings a week in my local and consume eight or ten pints in total for the week. Having said that I'm also off it for lent and TBH I'm enjoying the break! It becomes a bit habitual. I'm thinking I may stay off it a bit longer, maybe until my holidays in June.


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    #50
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    OK, guess I can't save face so


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    #51
    conorh91
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    I'm about to open a nice Rioja here OP.

    Taste the supple vanillas, the complex strawberry, the fleeting memories of a warm July in Pamplona ... not bad for eight quid.


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    #52
    _Kaiser_
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    Lent eh? Do people still bother with that, or does it fall under "pick n mix" Catholicism like only going to Mass on Xmas Eve?

    Giving up something is all well and good but if you're not doing it for yourself then it's pointless.


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    #53
    ChunkyLover54
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    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Lent eh? Do people still bother with that, or does it fall under "pick n mix" Catholicism like only going to Mass on Xmas Eve?

    Giving up something is all well and good but if you're not doing it for yourself then it's pointless.

    Lent has pre-christian origins. I'm off booze - not for myself but for the sake of my kidneys and my waistline.


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    #54
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I've never felt the need to give up alcohol, but then my relationship with it doesn't involve necking back 20 pints of a weekend, feeling depressed until Thursday, then to start planning the next round. I can enjoy a glass of Reisling or a good Northern Italian red without feeling guilty about it.


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    #55
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I've never felt the need to give up alcohol, but then my relationship with it doesn't involve necking back 20 pints of a weekend, feeling depressed until Thursday, then to start planning the next round. I can enjoy a glass of Reisling or a good Northern Italian red without feeling guilty about it.

    You sound drunk enough on your own snootiness :p


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    #56
    kidneyfan
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    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Lent eh? Do people still bother with that, or does it fall under "pick n mix" Catholicism like only going to Mass on Xmas Eve?

    Giving up something is all well and good but if you're not doing it for yourself then it's pointless.
    I'm doing it for everyone.

    In the bible god says that he won't ever destroy mankind with a flood but he says nothing about mice with tanks or flamethrower squirrels.

    My lenten penance is a small price to pay to prevent the rodent apocalypse.


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    #57
    ColeTrain
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    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I've never felt the need to give up alcohol, but then my relationship with it doesn't involve necking back 20 pints of a weekend, feeling depressed until Thursday, then to start planning the next round. I can enjoy a glass of Reisling or a good Northern Italian red without feeling guilty about it.

    You had to put that in didn't do? No beer for you, that's for the common man ;)


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    #58
    SPM1959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    I'm nearly off it a month now. Generally fine and certainly don't miss the hangovers but drinking water on nights out is a bit boring.


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    #59
    Aongus Von Bismarck
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    You had to put that in didn't do? No beer for you, that's for the common man ;)

    Lots of men drink wine. I will take a beer occasionally, especially with more rustic German dishes. I've even wrote about how much I enjoyed sampling some Irish craft beers when home for Christmas. I just prefer wine. I especially like a glass of good Riesling.


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    #60
    Gongoozler
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    You had to put that in didn't do? No beer for you, that's for the common man ;)

    :confused: what's wrong with someone drinking wine? It's hardly for the upper classes exclusively


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    #61
    Testament1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Testament1


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    :confused: what's wrong with someone drinking wine? It's hardly for the upper classes exclusively

    I believe it was a dig at AvBs penchant for highlighting how much more sophisticated he is than the savages he left behind in Ireland.

    Stick around for highlights including generous remuneration, owning a new 5 series BMW, mindfulness and of course all washed down with a glass of Riesling!


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