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Dry January

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  • #122
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,906 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Reboot the system.

    Ok. I don't really know what that means.

    Any good online sources you could recommend?


  • #123
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    All these posters saying they are "feeling better".

    That's good and all but is a sign of a serious difficulty with alcohol in my opinion.

    If it's the case you are "feeling better" then maybe some reflection on lifestyle choice and how to deal with alcohol long term is needed.

    Still it's good and healthy to give it up for a while.

    Feeling better after the excess of Christmas. Most people overindulge at Christmas and are off work and meeting family and old friends so their routine goes out the window. It's a busy time with dinner and drinks invites and people tend to feel exhausted from it all. I have a friend who doesn't drink and she had a coldsore by the end of it from the stress/excess food and mince pies etc.
    If people feel a bit stodgy and out of whack by the end of December then naturally once they get back into the swing of things in January and back into a routine they are going to 'feel better'. It doesn't necessarily indicate a problem!!


  • #124
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,420 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Ok. I don't really know what that means.

    Any good online sources you could recommend?

    You'd really need to go to a doctor before considering high-intensity fasting. If you have a kidney or liver issue you don't know about it could cause issues. I certainly wouldn't be asking for advice on a forum.

    There is no evidence it will help with detox. Your body does that itself unless you're a Mickey Ds junkie. Or a real junkie.

    If you want to feel better, eat some healthy food for a few days, do a bit of exercise and enjoy a drink at the weekend. The extreme stuff doesn't work.


  • #125
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    KathleenGrant wrote: »
    :D all excuses I know. How about the time I decided to go on a diet but my weighing scales was broken so I wouldn't diet till I bought a new one.......6 weeks later.

    Brilliant!! :pac:


  • #126
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    simongurnick wrote: »
    Getting sick of all these dry january, sober october etc etc
    If people didnt overdo it in the first place you could enjoy a few brews anytime. Also it must piss off genuine alcoholics with legit challenges to give up booze to have a bunch of **** swanning around feeling great about themselves for not touching a drop for 30 days.

    A lot of these fad folks would have failed on the first day, so only 29 :P


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  • #127
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,906 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    The Nal wrote: »
    You'd really need to go to a doctor before considering high-intensity fasting. If you have a kidney or liver issue you don't know about it could cause issues. I certainly wouldn't be asking for advice on a forum.

    There is no evidence it will help with detox. Your body does that itself unless you're a Mickey Ds junkie. Or a real junkie.

    If you want to feel better, eat some healthy food for a few days, do a bit of exercise and enjoy a drink at the weekend. The extreme stuff doesn't work.

    Oh god I'd never look for actual medical advice on a forum. That's why I asked for a source.

    And the bit at the end is exactly what I'm doing - minus the drink at the weekend for January obvs.


  • #128
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Lot of hate for abstainers.
    Lot of hate for non-abstainers.
    January really is a month for grumpiness.


  • #129
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,906 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    KathleenGrant wrote: »
    Lot of hate for abstainers.
    Lot of hate for non-abstainers.
    January really is a month for grumpiness.

    Being honest, I really don't think anyone has insulted non abstainers.


  • #130
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Being honest, I really don't think anyone has insulted non abstainers.

    Maybe not. I might have picked it up wrong. In a kinda grumpy mood myself today.


  • #131
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Fasting (a nice word for starving) is another bizarre thing. Just eat when hungry only, and cut out/limit junk.


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  • #132
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Fasting (a nice word for starving) is another bizarre thing. Just eat when hungry only, and cut out/limit junk.

    No it isn't! There are many proven health benefits for short term fasting and obviously alot of religious reasons why people chose to fast. I don't think it's about losing weight for most people.


  • #133
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I'm abstaining, it isn't some sort of self flagellation, just a bit of a chill out after the Xmas.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #134
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    wetoutside19 wrote: »
    You again:rolleyes:

    The above post feels like a Forster gimp scene where I’m reading the same insecure posts so I searched your post history. Scarlet for you.

    You are popping up everywhere over the last few days with the same spiel about how great you are and how great your expensive holiday is, not to mention your fantastic merc and all your wealth. I can’t understand why you need to continuously tell a bunch of internet strangers the same story, reeks of insecurity / materialistic / lack of real life friends.

    Dude if you are really on holidays get off boards and enjoy yourself. You are embarrassing at this stage

    I'm guessing the holiday thing never happened


  • #135
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Dry January is for wets.

    There is nothing worse than people who can't drink properly. They faff around the issue so much. They are always " giving it a miss for a while".

    Please phuck off already. When I go to the pub I want to have a drink and socialise. If I want to go jogging in the park I will also.

    It is the dry brigade who phucked everything up in the first place. Sitting there wrecking heads. Zero crack out of them, they don't want to be there in the first place. They need to shít or get off the pot, buzz killers the lot of them.

    These wets are the same people who support the smoking ban, yes them, the ones that only darken the pub door 4 times a year and on birthdays.


  • #136
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,906 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Dry January is for wets.

    There is nothing worse than people who can't drink properly. They faff around the issue so much. They are always " giving it a miss for a while".

    Please phuck off already.

    Blimey. Seems people who choose to not think in January have a lot to answer for including "phucking everything up in the first place" and the smoking ban. Lol.


  • #137
    bob mcbob
    Registered Users Posts: 971 ✭✭✭bob mcbob


    It looks like some beer companies are recognising the whole Dry January thing.

    https://www.brewdog.com/blog/we-are-opening-the-worlds-first-alcohol-free-beer-bar

    I have been doing it for 10 years now.


  • #138
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Blimey. Seems people who choose to not think in January have a lot to answer for including "phucking everything up in the first place" and the smoking ban. Lol.

    We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

    I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.


  • #139
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

    I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

    IAMAMORON down the pub:

    Delivers his opening line at 0.27...

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #140
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,741 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

    I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

    Whatever about having smoking pubs, I would stop going to the pub if smoking was allowed in all pubs. I say this as a person who smokes and goes to the pub most days.

    The smoking ban was the best thing to happen to the Irish pub.

    I could possibly hack smoking in the pub if everyone smoked rollies - I can't abide the smell of regular, filter cigarettes.


  • #141
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Feisar wrote: »
    IAMAMORON down the pub:

    Delivers his opening line at 0.27...


    See how tranquil that pub is.... smoking away , enjoy their drink, enjoying themselves. That is what a pub should be like.

    Not stuffed to the brim with braindead millenials for 2 hours a week on a Saturday night, demanding everyone becomes vegan, metro sexual pay gap abolition , animal rights , climate slut time wasters, drinking out of straws for fear of gathering herpes, health fanatic wasters, destroying the " atmosphere ".

    They need to find their own pub.


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  • #142
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,906 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

    I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

    OK. That's not high on my list of priorities so you'll have to campaign for that without me unfortunately.

    I'll just pootle along with dry January


  • #143
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,906 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    See how tranquil that pub is.... smoking away , enjoy their drink, enjoying themselves. That is what a pub should be like.

    Not stuffed to the brim with braindead millenials for 2 hours a week on a Saturday night, demanding everyone becomes vegan, metro sexual pay gap abolition , animal rights , climate slut time wasters, drinking out of straws for fear of gathering herpes, health fanatic wasters, destroying the " atmosphere ".

    They need to find their own pub.

    Sounds like they have found their own pub.


  • #144
    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    See how tranquil that pub is.... smoking away , enjoy their drink, enjoying themselves. That is what a pub should be like.

    Not stuffed to the brim with braindead millenials for 2 hours a week on a Saturday night, demanding everyone becomes vegan, metro sexual pay gap abolition , animal rights , climate slut time wasters, drinking out of straws for fear of gathering herpes, health fanatic wasters, destroying the " atmosphere ".

    They need to find their own pub.

    Mind if I steal "climate slut time wasters" for a band name?


  • #145
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Mind if I steal "climate slut time wasters" for a band name?

    Only if I am on the guestlist.... but be my guest please.

    And don't forget to sign all the petitions. There are on the way , they are coming around the mountain , wearing grannies bloomers... when they come.


  • #146
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    The ones that only darken the pub door 4 times a year and on birthdays.

    They've disappeared thankfully, normal service resumed at my local. No vapid loudmouths who would buckle after four pints. Yessir, all is right with the world once more. Supping on a porter and friendly banter of a regular evening. And fair play to those who dry out for a few weeks, they are perfectly entitled to give the pub a wide berth. Everyone wins.


  • #147
    bob mcbob
    Registered Users Posts: 971 ✭✭✭bob mcbob


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

    I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

    In case anyone was unaware, here is the list of civilised countries in the world

    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/29/new-york-beijing-where-world-smoke-bar-smoking-ban


  • #148
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    bob mcbob wrote: »
    In case anyone was unaware, here is the list of civilised countries in the world

    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/29/new-york-beijing-where-world-smoke-bar-smoking-ban

    Countries where a proper democracy exists. Germany should be on that list also, and Russia.

    We live in a nanny state, the smoking ban was enforced, it was never " introduced".


  • #149
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    KathleenGrant wrote: »
    Lot of hate for abstainers.
    Lot of hate for non-abstainers.
    January really is a month for grumpiness.

    I hate you for being reasonable.

    There, we have the full set.


  • #150
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,893 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    I hate you for being reasonable.

    There, we have the full set.

    Full set? You have now with the completeness you OCD boll*x?


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  • #151
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    I hate you for being reasonable.

    There, we have the full set.

    I am going to print that and frame it. Can't remember the last time I was called reasonable.


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