Extreme Habits ?

[J4CKO]

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 ?

[J4CKO]

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"

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

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]

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.