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14-10-2013 10:14AM

jamesjoyce1710 wrote: »

jesus, that has to be one of the sadest existance ever, poor chap, hope you grow some sense soon!

Why would it be a sad existence?

The ideal weekend which happens fairly regularly would be. Either out with the work crowd straight after work on thursday or else a few quite ones with the gf. Head out straight from work on a friday until closing. Up around 12 or 1 on saturday and have brekkie with the gf, place a few bets and then settle in for the afternoons sport (even better if its being watched in the pub). Head out again saturday night and sleep in sunday before settling in to some more sport for the afternoon. Sounds great to me. The biggest problem is I cant do it all the time. I'd happily do the the majority of weekends except the ones I head home.

Sure if I leave out the going out parts the days don't change a whole lot, weekends and sport go hand in hand. I'd head home every few weekends and be doing a bit of work on the farm etc for a bit of a change but would still be ducking in and out keeping an eye on the sport or going to local matches.

bnt · 14-10-2013 10:23AM

Those tales only tell half the story: they don't tell of the mess those twats left behind for others to clean up. Read some of those stories about Keith Moon, for example: even in the Wikipedia summary, they're horrendous. On one world tour he basically had to pay out all his earnings in damages, leaving him with with a paycheck of £47. :mad:

sbsquarepants · 14-10-2013 10:27AM

Probably the best hell raising story I've heard was about Lee Marvin, old school Oliver Reed style hellraiser actor, for those who don't know.

After a particularly heavy bender, our hero couldn't remember where he lived, so he hit on a brainwave, he bought a map of the stars homes in Hollywood and followed it to his own house. Couldn't get the key to work so he starts banging on the door and roaring and screaming for someone to let him in when some bloke sticks his head out the window, Lee cops him -
"Who the fúck are you, what are doing in my house?"
"This isn't your house Mr. Marvin, you sold it to me a few months back"
"Oh, well where the fúck do I live then?":D:D

Gerry91 · 14-10-2013 10:59AM

jamesjoyce1710 wrote: »

jesus, that has to be one of the sadest existance ever, poor chap, hope you grow some sense soon!

Haha whattt? Going out enjoying himself at the weekend is a sad existance?

When I was in college, a good lot of people when in 1st/2nd year would go out mon, wed and thurs without fail, end up too hungover to go to college, and get way worse grades than they ought to throughout the year

This poster goes out at the weekend, would spend saturday and sunday relaxing anyway so going out is not holding him back from anything. As for going out thurs, I know a shedload of people who get slaughtered on a thurs and sometimes even have to miss work on the friday. Nothing wrong with it as long as you're not missing work or being held back from progressing in your job as a result

Sauve · 14-10-2013 11:08AM

Gerry91 wrote: »

Haha whattt? Going out enjoying himself at the weekend is a sad existance?

Doing nothing but drinking and/or watching tv all weekend would drive a lot of people cracked.
Where's the exercise/hobbies/visiting friends/ general 'doing stuff' ?

Gerry91 · 14-10-2013 11:24AM

Sauve wrote: »

Doing nothing but drinking and/or watching tv all weekend would drive a lot of people cracked.
Where's the exercise/hobbies/visiting friends/ general 'doing stuff' ?

Well I'd be similar to Nox in that most of my weekends at the moment would just be relaxing more than anything watching premiership/rugby/GAA although I do play a match most weekends on a saturday afternoon.

Would hit the gym on a saturday or sunday (or both) so exercise wouldn't be an issue, as well as the match of course. And yes I often do it "hungover".

During the summer I'd often hit town on friday, go gyming on a sat, might play a bit of golf with mates, go at it Saturday night, invite a few lads over watch the GAA on a sunday with a few cans or head pub for it or whatever. So I'd generally get a lot of the above in anyway

. This wasn't every weekend of course, I'd head away on others or just do saturday on some. I'd go to a lot of GAA matches over summer too

Nowadays with working all week, I'd be wrecked enough by weekend so it'd be more relaxing time and I wouldn't go out as much right now for reasons mentioned in an earlier post

It's each to their own though of course. That poster having a swipe about "sad existance" and stuff needs to come off it, Nox is far from the only one believe you me and there is way worse out there

14-10-2013 12:10PM

Sauve wrote: »

Doing nothing but drinking and/or watching tv all weekend would drive a lot of people cracked.
Where's the exercise/hobbies/visiting friends/ general 'doing stuff' ?

Well its not doing nothing but drinking or watching tv to be honest, there are plenty of hours here and there for getting other stuff done and quite weekends too, when there isn't much in the line of sport etc. From 6 o'clock onwards in the evening you wouldn't be doing much anyway if you weren't in the pub.

I also described a fairly "heavy" weekend, mostly it would be one proper night out (and a few pints here and there other evenings), often two but all three would be maybe once a month-ish on average (could be a few in a row of all three then no three nighter for a while so I say average).

As for exercise, I would do something two or three evenings a week I like to leave weekends free from it. Hobbies, well following numerous sports is probably my main hobby. Visiting friends, well generally most of my meeting of friends is either done in the pub ar calling around with cans to play darts, xbox, watch a match etc so I would see less of them a weekend where there was no going out.

General doing stuff, I suppose can mean anything so not sure how to address that one. probably one out of every three weekends I head home so would do a lot of stuff like bits of shopping, hair cuts, washing the car or other random things that come to mind on these weekends as on other weekends free hours from sport is usually spent with my gf. I do a lot of things during the week too that need doing like food shopping, getting things done in town and all that sort of stuff.

chopper6 · 14-10-2013 12:13PM

Slash out of Guns N Roses was a bit of a supper in his day...he would drink up to six bottles of vodka,a few jack n cokes,a couple of beers,some cocaine,a touch of heroin and whatever else he could trolly before he's collapse either onstage or elsewhere.

Schwiiing · 14-10-2013 12:25PM

chopper6 wrote: »

Slash out of Guns N Roses was a bit of a supper in his day...he would drink up to six bottles of vodka.

Usually to try and wean himself off heroin.

chopper6 · 14-10-2013 12:41PM

Schwiiing wrote: »

Usually to try and wean himself off heroin.

His most famous attempt to dry out resulted in him taking a week's worth of heroin and cocaine on the first day and running amok naked through a golf resort after he thought he was being persued by little grey men.

FTA69 · 14-10-2013 12:41PM

I was boxing for yonks and that demands a pretty high standard of training and diet. I was fastidious about both and then once every couple of weeks I'd go out and get utterly sh*tfaced. I'd land in the pub for 7pm and sometimes stay there until 4am. I'd easily drink around 14 pints in a good session, usually with loads of whiskey and shots thrown in. I'd then want to kill myself all weekend, only recovering after training on a Monday where I'd usually get hockeyed around the ring with sweat heaving out of me.

The price of it is obscene as well. There seems to me to be a total distortion when it comes to allocating money toward it like. People seem to have no bother waxing 80 quid in the pub on booze but would balk about spending that money on something of actual substance.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-10-2013 01:09PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boeX9KtSvUA

he raised the bar for all of us

14-10-2013 01:11PM

FTA69 wrote: »

The price of it is obscene as well. There seems to me to be a total distortion when it comes to allocating money toward it like. People seem to have no bother waxing 80 quid in the pub on booze but would balk about spending that money on something of actual substance.

I'm like this and I cannot understand it myself. I wouldn't think twice of spending 80 to 100 euro on a night out (or even more sometimes if its an all day session). Or go up and spend 20+ euro on a double vodka and a shot or something but I would spend ages trying to decide if I should or should not buy something that might cost a 10er or of spending the 100 euro on something I need.

LOTD · 14-10-2013 01:29PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I wish bands today would drink heavily and get into serious substance abuse then we might have some music we can actually listen to again

The notion serious substance abuse and good music go hand in hand is so stupid, it's actually really hard to record while off your head, some bands pull it of most don't. The media hyped a lot of bands image in the 70's and 80's. Plus there is a lot of good bands out today, regardless of substance abuse.

kupus · 14-10-2013 02:16PM

minidazzler wrote: »

Anyone that came after Moon was a poseur cnut. Motley Crue chief among them, doing sh1t to just get attention. Moon was genuinely just fcuked at least.

The Phrase live fast die young epitomises him..... but screw that, I wanna live fast, die old. No point in wasting time in the ground

I guess youve never heard of hank williams

in fact many of the first country stars were worst than the rockers who came a long time after. Look up george jones as well.

April O Neill · 14-10-2013 06:56PM

My liver hurts reading this thread.

BlurstMonkey · 14-10-2013 10:50PM

LOTD wrote: »

The notion serious substance abuse and good music go hand in hand is so stupid, it's actually really hard to record while off your head, some bands pull it of most don't. The media hyped a lot of bands image in the 70's and 80's. Plus there is a lot of good bands out today, regardless of substance abuse.

Pink Floyd weren't on anything when they recorded. Not that they never took drugs, but it wasn't a part of their actual process. A lot of people imagine them and other bands of that period being really messy but the truth is they put in a lot of hard work.
But, lots of them drank, took drugs and raised hell too, especially on tour. It's safe to say most experienced different drugs and that that definitely had an impact on their music. The Beatles are a decent and high profile example of that. So there's plenty of nuance if you want to get into it. Writing off the idea of mind altering substances having an influence on creative processes is plain silly.

LOTD · 14-10-2013 11:14PM

BlurstMonkey wrote: »

Pink Floyd weren't on anything when they recorded. Not that they never took drugs, but it wasn't a part of their actual process. A lot of people imagine them and other bands of that period being really messy but the truth is they put in a lot of hard work.
But, lots of them drank, took drugs and raised hell too, especially on tour. It's safe to say most experienced different drugs and that that definitely had an impact on their music. The Beatles are a decent and high profile example of that. So there's plenty of nuance if you want to get into it. Writing off the idea of mind altering substances having an influence on creative processes is plain silly.

Never said drugs don't have an effect on a bands writing process. I'm saying this as someone who has recorded stuff, it's really hard to record while intoxicated. Hell I know Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones were crazed party animals, but they put time, effort and work into creating their great music. My point is substance abuse/addiction isn't a prerequisite for being a great artist, that's plain silly.

BlurstMonkey · 14-10-2013 11:17PM

LOTD wrote: »

Never said drugs don't have an effect on a bands writing process. I'm saying this as someone who has recorded stuff, it's really hard to record while intoxicated. Hell I know Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones were crazed party animals, but they put time, effort and work into creating their great music. My point is substance abuse/addiction isn't a prerequisite for being a great artist, that's plain silly.

Agreed.

tdv123 · 15-10-2013 03:40AM

It's a well known fact that Eamon De Valera was a raging alcoholic who also invented ecstasy tablets.

tdv123 · 15-10-2013 03:43AM

And sorry to see you live in Wales @Kupus. That must be rough.

kupus · 15-10-2013 09:29AM

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