Simple Pleasures

[mickO)))]

Gigs for one would just not be the same without drinking. When I drink I usually go all out but I wouldn't be drinking everyday. I haven't been to a gig since the end of April and I only drank 3 times since then which was just pints in the local. I was never one for sitting at home on my own drinking when I didn't have plans later in the day because I usually get fed up of that after 2 cans.

I never bothered my hole doing any of that dry January shite or going off the beer for a month or whatever but I am also lucky that I don't suffer with bad with hangovers.

I end up losing most Sundays anyway because if I am not out somewhere I will stay up to watch the UFC which can go on until 6am.

The only time I get proper hangovers is when I drink wine which is grand because I don't like wine and the last few times I did drink it I ended up in trouble so I haven't touched it in over a decade with the exception of buckfast. On top of that Guinness is the only beer / stout in Ireland that I actually like the taste of. I use to love Coors, Canadian and Heineken when I lived in Canada but those all taste like piss in Ireland.

For anyone actually struggling to get off the beer weed is a great substitute and a lot less harmful for you in every aspect.

[The Heretic]

I can only be arsed having a drink when I actually feel like it, and usually with food, be it just a bag of crisps even. The thought of going to a pub nowadays just to drink doesn't appeal to me at all.

[Bürggermeister]

I'm currently trying to fix up an old Nad tape deck which hadn't seen daylight in a couple of decades. I love stripping down stuff like this, fettling, cleaning and reassembling. It's deeply satisfying. Just waiting on a new drive belt to arrive to see if it was all a big fucking waste of time, though 

[ochoill]

I'm currently trying to fix up an old Nad tape deck which hadn't seen daylight in a couple of decades. I love stripping down stuff like this, fettling, cleaning and reassembling. It's deeply satisfying. Just waiting on a new drive belt to arrive to see if it was all a big fucking waste of time, though 

Meself and Astfgyl went halves years ago on a Tascam 4 track tape recorder and it is still mostly functional, just needs a big strip down and clean like this too.  I am mad to do it.  Must get it off him and do the same.  It had a nice and unusual compression on it and was fairly clean when it was in working order, I am curious about what various instruments sound like on it now that I have a clue what I am doing

[leatherface]

Also disinterested nowadays in over boozing . You can say it's age but it's also just boring to feel like shite for no particular reason. Been there , bought the t shirt etc.  Chalk it down to maturity and being better,  end of.

[Thorn]

I'm sinking my fourth and last can here then off to bed.....changed times. But feeling half decent in the morning is the payback.

[astfgyl]

I got poisoned and slept rough on Friday night. Mate was back from Oz (the prison TV show one) and offered me the couch in his bird's mother's gaff but I've never met her and I knew I'd be dying after the sheer level of pints so I opted to go out alone and kip in his car which was parked outside.

Might have gotten away with it a decade ago, but not now.....

I miss the old days