Reply to: Addictions

[Old Greg]

That's what it was made for. You don't believe all that tulipe about 'sharing scientific documents' do you? Unless of course those 'scientific documents' were pictures of the female anatomy.

I feel you are being unnecessarily harsh on suity here.

He just wants to know what's wrong with him.

[Uncle Albert]

Chilli peppers. I very rarely go a day without eating a few.

[doodab]

Ah yes coffee. I like to drink it till I'm shaking then have another cup to be sure.

[stek]

My only real vice is a liking for proper beer, wouldn't call it an addiction, I enjoy it though!

Additionally, when I've had a few I talk more sense, am more sexually alluring to women, better at sex, and can drive loads better.

Hic

Thought I was addicted to coffee once, heard the withdrawal horror stories, gave up, no side effects, went back on it, back off it now for about six weeks. Drink two litres of diet coke a day now though!

[bobspud]

Gambling at the posh bookies that are the financial markets.
Day trading futures options and fx and a bit of spread betting.
I have had days when i have made and lost £50K day trading,
and weeks where £100K+ have been won and lost.
Few things beat the rush you get from day trading with real money.

I once new a guy that used to spread bet on FX and Equities. The one afternoon he was talking me through his latest escapade. He was chuffed that he ended £570 up on a short position. I said thats not bad for a giggle, it was then that he explained that at one point in the week the position was the wrong side of 300k Thats clinically insane!

[oracleslave]

Gambling at the posh bookies that are the financial markets.
Day trading futures options and fx and a bit of spread betting.
I have had days when i have made and lost £50K day trading,
and weeks where £100K+ have been won and lost.
Few things beat the rush you get from day trading with real money.

Crikey. In the distant and never again past (fortunately I never suffered any significant losses), I played poker with the minimum bet around my day rate but this is something else. Do you still do this?

[Mich the Tester]

At least we are all mercifully untroubled by the compulsion to post tulip on the Internet.

That's what it was made for. You don't believe all that tulipe about 'sharing scientific documents' do you? Unless of course those 'scientific documents' were pictures of the female anatomy.

[Old Greg]

At least we are all mercifully untroubled by the compulsion to post tulip on the Internet.

[Iron Condor]

Gambling at the posh bookies that are the financial markets.
Day trading futures options and fx and a bit of spread betting.
I have had days when i have made and lost £50K day trading,
and weeks where £100K+ have been won and lost.
Few things beat the rush you get from day trading with real money.

[Ketchup]

Why do you ask?

As some of you know, my eldest son is a drug addict (mostly heroin, but he's not particularly choosy)

The old joke about the light at the end of the tunnel being the train coming is definitely true when you live with an addict.

Really? One of my closest friends from my childhood is going through a similar ordeal. He has always liked a drink and to smoke a bit of weed, then he was pulled over on a program called "frontline cops" and they found some heroin on him. It really is a shame, he was always a really smart guy and there is nothing any of us can do, heroin is a selfish drug, he has stolen from his family, lied to everyone, lost his house, his car, his girlfriend and won't be long until his job. The sad thing is, there is nothing anyone can do, we have tried to get him help, sent him away, got him to see drug councillors, seen a doctor, but he keeps going back.

[doodab]

Why do you ask?

As some of you know, my eldest son is a drug addict (mostly heroin, but he's not particularly choosy)

The old joke about the light at the end of the tunnel being the train coming is definitely true when you live with an addict.

Just curious. That odd post in the other thread got me thinking.

I seem to have been lucky enough that where I have dabbled with such things I've got to the point where I've thought "I need to stop doing this" and stopped without any issues, but I have been drinking a lot recently, no where near as much as I used to before I had kids, and probably not as much as half the people on here, but probably more than I should and I am starting to think that I might be a bit of a lush.

[SimonMac]

I was once addicted to snorting coke, the ice cubes kept going up my nose

[mudskipper]

I went cold turkey on Bejeweled Blitz at New Year. Nearly had a relapse last week, but had a quick fix of scrabble instead.

[doodab]

No, just fit women who pass the window sometimes. Irresistable urge to get up and take a good look at their bums.

If I had a village
I would call it shapely bottom
And the only ladies living there
Would be the ones who've got em.

[Mich the Tester]

Strippers?

No, just fit women who pass the window sometimes. Irresistable urge to get up and take a good look at their bums.