Extreme Habits ?

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J4CKO

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41,287 posts

199 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Was talking to a bloke in the pub, was in the smoking hut as a mate of mine has recently returned to smoking to go with his 6 to 10 pint a day habit.

Chap said he smokes sixty a day and his wife 40, £1500 a month spent on fags ! thought that kind of smoking was from times gone by and nobody really smoked that much these days, I had an uncle that did and had a lung removed and carried on smoking, as you can imagine, he is no longer with us.

I worked with a guy who would drink ten cans of diet pop a day.

At the Police of all places, a developer who had four pints at lunchtime, then four more on the way to the tram, got home and went out for a few more.

Worked with a bloke who would have two pieces of confectionery with every brew, say a Twirl and a small pack of biscuits or two Double Deckers, wasnt fat either.

Your nominations ?


Henners

12,230 posts

193 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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The smoking and the booze just sound like varying degrees of addiction tbh.

The chocolate, nom nom nom lick

j4ckos mate

3,009 posts

169 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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im staggered hes still around extremely selfish thing to do that.


£1500 a month is another wage coming in the house,
imagine banging that away every month,
the mancave equipment you could have


BigMon

4,155 posts

128 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Seem to remember reading somewhere that Peter Cook used to light a new cigarette from the tip of the last one.

Now that's hardcore!

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Funny this - my dad is a Scot (or "scotch" as I like to say, he likes that) and unfeasibly dour, he takes no pleasure in anything at all so it would appear, he doesn't approve of alcohol or "rich food". Loves to go on how he should have sent me to Sunday school and what a great thing National Service was (but he never did it as he was at university when it was abolished).

He is positively hopping around around with glee telling me how I will die in agony with liver failure and oooooh "aren't you getting fat" (no, I'm not).

A recent conversation went along the lines of....

Dad "You're just like your great grandfather, he was a womaniser and an alcoholic too, just like you. The drink killed him, did in agony as his liver gave out"
Me "How old was he when the alcohol and womanising killed him?"
Dad "Eighty-seven"

rofl

captain_cynic

11,876 posts

94 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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When I first read the thread title I was expecting to read about scaling remote Scottish mountains to clip ones nails.

J4CKO said:
Was talking to a bloke in the pub, was in the smoking hut as a mate of mine has recently returned to smoking to go with his 6 to 10 pint a day habit.
OK, Whilst I only drink on weekends, 10 pints is not a difficult feat. In a place where a beer is £1-2, I can easily rack up £40-50 bar bills (to be fair, a few of those aren't for me and typically they're using the wrong (American) pint size of 425ml).

When I have to get up the next morning, I just don't drink at all.

Haven't smoked in 17 years, John Howard (Australian PM at the time) put the tax up so I stopped.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Dog Star said:
Funny this - my dad ... takes no pleasure in anything at all so it would appear

Loves to go on how...
He is positively hopping around around with glee telling me...
I think we've found where he gets his pleasure.

J4CKO

Original Poster:

41,287 posts

199 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Dog Star said:
Funny this - my dad is a Scot (or "scotch" as I like to say, he likes that) and unfeasibly dour, he takes no pleasure in anything at all so it would appear, he doesn't approve of alcohol or "rich food". Loves to go on how he should have sent me to Sunday school and what a great thing National Service was (but he never did it as he was at university when it was abolished).

He is positively hopping around around with glee telling me how I will die in agony with liver failure and oooooh "aren't you getting fat" (no, I'm not).

A recent conversation went along the lines of....

Dad "You're just like your great grandfather, he was a womaniser and an alcoholic too, just like you. The drink killed him, did in agony as his liver gave out"
Me "How old was he when the alcohol and womanising killed him?"
Dad "Eighty-seven"

rofl
Bizarre conversation with my dad in about 89, came home and he was polishing his new Golf GTI, with a beige cloth, which I recognized as Y fronts, guessing he hadn't gone commando to polish his car and remembering that the garage was full of bags of my recently departed grandads clothes I put two and two together and asked if he was using his fathers undies to clean the car and just said "it is what he would have wanted" with a grin biggrin

We then talked about his death from a heart attack, we discussed cancer and he said "You dont need to worry about cancer, no cancer in this family that I know about" which I took as reassuring if not actually medically sound, but he followed it up with "Its not cancer you need to worry about, its a heart attack that will get you, like your grandad" !


J4CKO

Original Poster:

41,287 posts

199 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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captain_cynic said:
When I first read the thread title I was expecting to read about scaling remote Scottish mountains to clip ones nails.

J4CKO said:
Was talking to a bloke in the pub, was in the smoking hut as a mate of mine has recently returned to smoking to go with his 6 to 10 pint a day habit.
OK, Whilst I only drink on weekends, 10 pints is not a difficult feat. In a place where a beer is £1-2, I can easily rack up £40-50 bar bills (to be fair, a few of those aren't for me and typically they're using the wrong (American) pint size of 425ml).

When I have to get up the next morning, I just don't drink at all.

Haven't smoked in 17 years, John Howard (Australian PM at the time) put the tax up so I stopped.
Weekends is the key word, I can put it away, but say at Christmas I tend to go a bit mad and end up sick of it, these guys tend to do this every single day and will raise their game for special occasions, he did let slip he goes home and has wine with his meal and a Whisky or two later on, its easily done over and evening like that but I couldn't do it every day, week in week out.


sgtBerbatov

2,597 posts

80 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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I used to regularly drink 2 litres of Coke a day. When they reduced the size of the 2ltr bottles to 1.75ltr I would buy two supplemental 500ml of coke. Would only ever drink it while at work though, when I got home I would really drink anything.

All changed now though, I don't drink it at all. I do get really bad cravings for it sometimes but I just push through it.

DRFC1879

3,437 posts

156 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Dog Star said:
Dad "You're just like your great grandfather, he was a womaniser and an alcoholic too, just like you. The drink killed him, did in agony as his liver gave out"
That reminds me of something from 2004. I was at a conference where all the various divisions of a larger conglomerate were attending so in our presentation there was a slide each that our MD had put together to introduce each delegate to the wider team. A photo with a few bullets; nothing fancy. They went along the lines of:

Matthew form Northampton: likes model trains, hiking and cheeseburgers,
Joanne from Runcorn: likes chick flicks, chocolate and tennis

Then mine popped up. DRFC1879: Likes booze, fast cars and womanising.

I'd never been so proud in my life.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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BigMon said:
Seem to remember reading somewhere that Peter Cook used to light a new cigarette from the tip of the last one.

Now that's hardcore!
Think of the money saved on matches / lighter fuel.

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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sgtBerbatov said:
I used to regularly drink 2 litres of Coke a day. When they reduced the size of the 2ltr bottles to 1.75ltr I would buy two supplemental 500ml of coke. Would only ever drink it while at work though, when I got home I would really drink anything.

All changed now though, I don't drink it at all. I do get really bad cravings for it sometimes but I just push through it.
There are loads of these trendy manbun and scooter (has in those sort that you push along, like a four year old would have) types that I have to work with.
They have to have Linux and a Mac - it's like a badge that identifies them (I continue to use a Windows laptop that runs all the same software that they do, I'm perfectly fine with using Linux (I used to be a sysadmin) by the way, but seriously - why bother?)

One of their "hey look at me, I'm a leet haxor" traits is that they need to have a stack of diet coke on their desks. What a bunch of tools.



surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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My grandfather was a GP. In his earlier life he was a medical missionary in Nigeria, and was the son of a Methodist minister.

Very clean living, very rarely drank alcohol, did not smoke, kept fit etc...

He died at the age of 99 and outlived both my Gran and a 2nd wife.

The last few years his body had let him down, he had falls, was in constant pain from his back... He freely admitted he was waiting to die, and had signed a DNR.

I loved my Grandfather, but he would have arguably had more fun, and less pain with some more bad habits...

227bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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j4ckos mate said:
im staggered hes still around extremely selfish thing to do that.


£1500 a month is another wage coming in the house,
imagine banging that away every month,
the mancave equipment you could have
Why is it selfish?

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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surveyor said:
My grandfather was a GP. In his earlier life he was a medical missionary in Nigeria, and was the son of a Methodist minister.

Very clean living, very rarely drank alcohol, did not smoke, kept fit etc...

He died at the age of 99 and outlived both my Gran and a 2nd wife.

The last few years his body had let him down, he had falls, was in constant pain from his back... He freely admitted he was waiting to die, and had signed a DNR.

I loved my Grandfather, but he would have arguably had more fun, and less pain with some more bad habits...
I think it was Clement Freud who said "if you don't drink, smoke, eat rich food or chase women, you may live longer. And even if you don't, it'll definitely feel longer!"

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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227bhp said:
j4ckos mate said:
im staggered hes still around extremely selfish thing to do that.


£1500 a month is another wage coming in the house,
imagine banging that away every month,
the mancave equipment you could have
Why is it selfish?
It's actually completely unselfish. Donating all that money to the exchequer.

Prinny

1,669 posts

98 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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I don’t drink anymore, and I gave up smoking too. Please leave me my diet cola vice!

3l and upward a day is average. Every so often I’ll drink a 4-pinter of skim or semi-skim milk for variety. Don’t do tea or coffee at all. Ginger ale when I’m flying. Occasional Robinsons Barley water at home.

Last year in Germany, 1.5l Pepsi was €.75 typically, including the statigeld (€.25 recycling tax). Most weeks I’d get into the office Monday & at lunch drop off the previous weeks collection in the Reve down the road. Getting €6 back wasn’t un-common. This year in NL, not everywhere takes the bottles back, so I let it build up. Got nearly €80 back over 4 days, but walking to the supermarket with bags (and bags) of empty, non-crushed bottles was a PITA. Have to say too, it’s an expensive habit in NL, could get a pack of fags for less than my two bottles of cola!

It’s just a good job I’m not permanently in the US. Mountain Dew Code Red... cloud9 Nectar of the gods!

PositronicRay

26,959 posts

182 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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My wife likes crossword puzzles, she can put in a solid 8hrs with hardly any effort whatsoever.

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
I think it was Clement Freud who said "if you don't drink, smoke, eat rich food or chase women, you may live longer. And even if you don't, it'll definitely feel longer!"
That said, he also had some very funny habits....and I'm not talking about Just a Minute