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This topic has 57 replies, 35 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by Tom_W1987.

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18 years without drink or drugs….
tang
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…which in the main has been fine. However, today I could do with getting thoroughly shit faced.

Posted 9 years ago

dirtyrider
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missing “top gear”?

Posted 9 years ago

CaptainFlashheart
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Let Jesus in to your life

(This is what I’m drinking right now. No, that is not my wallpaper. I sincerely hope that whatever has driven you to ponder a beer isn’t something awful.)

Posted 9 years ago

singlespeedstu
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Go for it.
Get propper smashed on the drug of your choice.

Then have a good old rant on here.
You’ll feel much better for it.

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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Nothing serious. Just fancy a good old bender now and again.

Posted 9 years ago

qwerty
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Maybe you need to make a resolution:

Posted 9 years ago

slowoldman
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Nothing serious. Just fancy a good old bender now and again.

Every 18 years or so?

Posted 9 years ago

ton
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beer is good
the inner person is bad

Posted 9 years ago

Jamie
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Nothing serious. Just fancy a good old bender now and again.

*insert poor taste Grindr joke here*

Anyway, if it was me and I was on a 18 year streak, it would do my head in to break it now.

…or at least want to round up to 20 years.

Posted 9 years ago

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR
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If the last time you had drugs was 18 years ago, be prepared to be disappointed…. 😐

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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I really very rarely feel like it. My will is pretty strong; I lost a couple of months to a Calcutta opium den once, but knocked it on the head when I felt the grip. Just fancy getting leathered now and again.

Posted 9 years ago

wysiwyg
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Opium den. As you do

Posted 9 years ago

bearnecessities
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Cryptic clue; it’s the OP’s 18th birthday?!

Posted 9 years ago

Jamie
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Just fancy getting leathered now and again.

In that case, shit or get off the pot.

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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I think the ship has sailed Jamie!

Posted 9 years ago

Jamie
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Ah! So that means you are/are not* succumbing.

*Delete as applicable.

Posted 9 years ago

crankboy
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If it is your 18th birthday go for it if you are 36 or over don’t be a tit stick to your life.

Posted 9 years ago

godzilla
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I get the vibe your a person that struggled with moderation OP?

Posted 9 years ago

wysiwyg
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Cougar will help. He moderates bloody everything. 😉

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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Ambitious perhaps. But yes, there was always a chance ambition could turn to greed then need!

Posted 9 years ago

Jamie
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You were an ambitious drinker?

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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Was never much of a drinker. Ambitious in seeking various highs. Anyway drug abuse history aside, I just fancy letting my hair down now and again.

Posted 9 years ago

user-removed
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As a similar struggler (drug free for a few decades now), I’d highly recommend ignoring anything you read on this post. Even this.

Well, maybe buy a packet of Hamlets and a bottle of whisky.

Posted 9 years ago

chip
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12 years drug free me, proper drugs that is as currently supping a wee Glennfiddich.
Had a friend who decided it was time to knock the crack pipe on the head after mistakenly smoking a Rice Krispy that he found on the floor under the settee while looking on the off chance he dropped a bit.

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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I shan’t fold. I can’t handle coffee even these days. A few years back I got stuck in a shepherds hut in the Himalayas for 2 weeks after winter came early. He showed me his other seasonal work; an entire cellar filled with sacks of fresh charas. Then a special sack of ‘creme’ the finest smoke you just can’t buy. He said help your self. I didn’t crack!

Posted 9 years ago

Tom_W1987
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shan’t fold. I can’t handle coffee even these days. A few years back I got stuck in a shepherds hut in the Himalayas for 2 weeks after winter came early. He showed me his other seasonal work; an entire cellar filled with sacks of fresh charas. Then a special sack of ‘creme’ the finest smoke you just can’t buy. He said help your self. I didn’t crack!

Calcutta? Stuck in the Himalayas? You my good sir, intrigue me. Tell us more of these wonderful adventures.

I hope you have a beard like this god among men.

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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So many stories young Tom. At 21 after giving up my substance abuse, I lived in India(I’m half indian ) as a servant to an old Sadhu(Holy man) and we travelled all over India for 3 years. Many strange and wonderful times.

Posted 9 years ago

kudos100
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I shan’t fold. I can’t handle coffee even these days. A few years back I got stuck in a shepherds hut in the Himalayas for 2 weeks after winter came early. He showed me his other seasonal work; an entire cellar filled with sacks of fresh charas. Then a special sack of ‘creme’ the finest smoke you just can’t buy. He said help your self. I didn’t crack!

I haven’t smoked pot for a long time (too much skunk as a yoof made me ultra paranoid) but if I got offered some of the finest charas creme, I would find it very hard to resist.

I remember reading Mr Nice and dreaming of the goatskin hashish…….

Impressed at your willpower.

Posted 9 years ago

corroded
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A few years back I got stuck in a shepherds hut in the Himalayas for 2 weeks after winter came early. He showed me his other seasonal work; an entire cellar filled with sacks of fresh charas. Then a special sack of ‘creme’ the finest smoke you just can’t buy. He said help your self. I didn’t crack!

And I thought I was strong-willed… I’ve resisted various temptations for years but I’m pretty sure that with what one supposes to be a panoramic view of the Himalayas outside, a starry eternity above, and two weeks to kill, I would have said ‘don’t mind if I do!’. My only vice these days is expensive Rioja.

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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Not only that but a natural hot spring in the snow outside surrounded by peaks, close to 5000mtrs! Upper Parvatti valley if you ever get the chance. I was visiting a friend who lived up there and got stuck walking back to the nearest road(2 day trek). For a while it looked like I could have been stranded for longer.

Posted 9 years ago

taxi25
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Sounds like you’ve lived an interesting life so far OP. But now your reduced to telling strangers on STW how you’ve denied yourself for 18yrs. WTF man live your life as you see fit, there’s no definitive answers on here.

Posted 9 years ago

racefaceec90
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you have led a very interesting life indeed tang,by the sound of it.sounds flipping amazing tbh 🙂

just don’t go buying any chinese puzzle boxes from any strange bearded old man 😉

😯

Posted 9 years ago

Pembo
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Ever thought about writing a book detailing your adventures tang? I would buy it.

Posted 9 years ago

Onzadog
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There is another option. Perhaps the op is only 23. In which case, might I suggest writing a book about your childhood.

Posted 9 years ago

hitman
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Is that Raymond Tang?

Posted 9 years ago

futonrivercrossing
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14 years myself – don’t miss booze or drugs.

Posted 9 years ago

carbonfiend
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16 years clean & serene.

Posted 9 years ago

hatter
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14 years here as well, was a nightmare with the sauce when I was a teenager, decided to knock it on the head after a particularly high consequence weekend. Still a fallen man as regards food but so far so good.

My only weak point so far was riding past a thatched country pub in the chilterns last summer when a little voice in the back of my head started whispering things about scrumpy but that’s been largely it.

Posted 9 years ago

tang
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A good nights sleep and a crisp cx ride in the early morning sun has purged things. I will have to have a look at where last nights pang came from, I so rarely get them its prob a sign that I need to reset the balance somewhere. Could be a reaction to the fact I have to buy a new vacuum today.

Posted 9 years ago

wrightyson
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I think the book thing was a good shout.

Posted 9 years ago