What are you addicted to?

Bambi985

Prompted by the other thread about drug-taking, I thought it'd be curious to see what sort of secret (or not so secret) addictions the general population is harbouring. What can't you keep away from or get enough of?

I'll boringly kick things off with a run-of-the-mill chocolate addiction, I genuinely can't go more than a day or two without the stuff and will get antsy, cranky and get mad cravings if I'm in a sugar-free zone for too long generally. I can't venture into a supermarket, corner shop or coffee shop without picking up something sugary and any attempts to eradicate the stuff entirely from my diet have been met with complete failure a few hours in. I love sweets I do.

What are you addicted to?

fizzypish

Chess at the moment although I'm not sure addiction is the correct term. I still suck though.....

Kimbot

Apart from smoking I have a serious addiction to Pringles :P

punisher5112

Pretty ladies.....

fizzypish

punisher5112 wrote: »

Pretty ladies.....

Might make you their affliction....

Hande hoche!

Diet soft drinks.

Hector Savage

fizzypish wrote: »

Chess at the moment although I'm not sure addiction is the correct term. I still suck though.....

I love it too, just started getting really into it too , the book Chess for Dummies is awesome, some great tricks and tips in there ..

GBX

Chocolate

Winterlong

It changes. I am always hooked on something - reckon I have an addictive personality.
Thankfully not drink or drugs or smoking.

Currently it is eclair sweets. I cant get enough of their toffee covering and then the chocolate inside....mmmm...

boomtown84

My poxy phone

Chiorino

Cadburys Creme Eggs. I've made myself a promise that at some stage I'm going to sit down and see how many I can stuff into myself before getting sick.

alberto67

Boards at the moment. Used to be addicted to tomatoes, that was weird... gone now.

Bambi985

boomtown84 wrote: »

My poxy phone

I'd say most of us are, we just won't admit it. Social media too.

Lorelli!

Might as well face it, I'm addicted to love...

Coffee.

RobertKK

Internet
My phone
Foreign travel when I get the chance.
Staying up too late.
Procrastination.
Sport
Certain TV programs.
Tea.

boomtown84

Bambi985 wrote: »

I'd say most of us are, we just won't admit it. Social media too.

I deleted all my social media apart from Tinder and Whatsapp. Now I just spend more time on them!:o

maudgonner

Television. (Via laptop mostly these days.)

The lure of 'just one more episode' is tough to resist

endacl

Nothing, really.

byte

Chaos

DavyD_83

Antihistamines;
I take them daily because I definitely have allergies and used to suffer from constant runny noses, sneezes etc. Since taking them this has eased up loads, but now if I go more than about 40hrs without taking I get an itch that starts on patches of my body and then builds in strength and to all over. I should really speak to a doctor about it actually.

Coffee & Boards.ie

Bambi985

I'll add - internet, boards.ie, my phone, coffee. Boards.ie aside, I don't think I've gone more than a few hours away from any of those in the last few weeks.

If I'm abroad or really really busy I'll not even think of logging into boards, but will always find myself at some stage on a tube or in bed reading an AH thread about sexy paedophile toys thinking "why am I here"

Animals. If I'm not bringing more home, I'm donating money to various animal rescues (money I can't really afford to be donating, that has to be proof of addiction?)

Or I'm reading about animals or I'm at agility class or I'm watching training videos or I'm reading the animals and pets forum or I'm trying to think of new exciting places to walk my dogs or I'm daydreaming about a career with animals or I'm making plans for setting up the rescue that I know I'll never be able to afford to set up or I'm just snuggling my own animals with a smirk on my face thinking how lucky I am!

ohnonotgmail

A nice cup of tea. I'd be (more) miserable without it.

Bambi985

Bambi985 wrote: »

I love sweets I do.

What are you addicted to?

I love sweets. All the sweets, all the time. It's a struggle.

Am also severely addicted to tea. Tea, tea, tea, all the live-long day, it as long as it's black, not green or fruity or decaffeinated or otherwise adulterated. That's for sissies.

jay768

Nicotine haha and coding

boardsuser1

Boards.ie

YouTube

Cars,bikes,trucks,buses.

peckerhead

Nicotine, and I haven't put any into my system since midnight Sunday. Fcking horrible it is.

peckerhead

peckerhead wrote: »

Nicotine, and I haven't put any into my system since midnight Sunday. Fcking horrible it is.

Well done! Hang in there.

OldNotWIse

Wine and cleaning.

I could literally spend all weekend drinking wine and washing everything that stands still.

LadyMacBeth_

I tend to get addicted to anything I like - boards, my phone, food, sex, sometimes people, tv shows, games, books, soft drinks. Anything that distracts me or that I can get lost in.

MMayweather

Being self critical but then choosing not to improve any of my flaws deficicenys despite pointing then out constsntly

_Godot_

Currently addicted to Picross DS (already played through My Nintendo Picross - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Picross e5, e6 and e7 this year too!)

Steve F

Crisps
Even tho the Dr says they are bad for me
So many different flavors and makes available now too
Years ago there was half a dozen flavors and that was it
You can now be a Connoisseur of crisps...they will ultimately kill me
Death by crisps...what a way to go

Steve F

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I tend to get addicted to anything I like - boards, my phone, food, sex, sometimes people, tv shows, games, books, soft drinks. Anything that distracts me or that I can get lost in.

You Lady have addictive personality :eek:

Bambi985

Anyone got any healthy addictions? Addicted to running marathons for example? Or addicted to doing charity work? Kale smoothies perhaps?

SeaFields

Take aways. In particular the artery clogging kebab.

Steve F

Steve F wrote: »

Crisps
Even tho the Dr says they are bad for me
So many different flavors and makes available now too
Years ago there was half a dozen flavors and that was it
You can now be a Connoisseur of crisps...they will ultimately kill me
Death by crisps...what a way to go

Oh I forgot..Pizza too
I'm a dead man walkin'

Cortina_MK_IV

L'or coffee XL for a bigger caffeine hit.

Sin City

Murdering people..... I must be stopped before some one else dies



also making stuff up

LadyMacBeth_

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Wine and cleaning.

I could literally spend all weekend drinking wine and washing everything that stands still.

You can come over to my place at the weekend and clean, I can ply you with wine (and sexual favours) in return

Hector Bellend

Breasts
Food
****
Sleeping

mzungu

Coffee, if I don't have a cup in the morning I get an awful headache.

js35

Coca Cola

TPD

I've some bad habits but none I'd call an addiction. I think the drink would be toughest to go cold turkey on, just because of the social aspect - but my friends would probably love having a driver sober on nights out!

Hector Savage

Future Primitive. wrote: »

The X-Files.

What a show.

Jesus! :eek:

What till you see Breaking Bad ... and lots of other shows...

Bitches Be Trypsin

All chocolate really, I want to lose 2 dress sizes by Christmas but it's unlikely

r93kaey5p2izun

Diet Coke..

Powerfairy

Bitches Be Trypsin wrote: »

All chocolate really, I want to lose 2 dress sizes by Christmas but it's unlikely

I hear ya!

I am Addicted to every type of chocolate there is. Dark / Milk / White, I really should be obese by this stage but luckily it hasn't affected me yet. I can't go a day without chocolate in some form. I thought when I would hit my 30's i might magically turn into a savoury person, eh no such luck. Currently eating a milky bar with a cup of tea. My bliss :pac::pac::pac::pac:

Gunslinger92

My phone / the Internet
My boyfriend cringe, I know, but true for the moment anyways

Harambe

The internet / my phone is by far my biggest one and its one I've never even thought of cutting down on.

I've given up or cut back on all the usual stuff like chocolate/crisps, drink etc. but I've never thought about the internet/phone thing.

I should probably try because it's quite common the missus gives out to me for it.