[Closed] How 'Rock and Roll' are you?

I'm having an early finish tomorrow as it’s bloody Friday and I can.

And also, I need to be washed and ready to go to the school Christmas fair. 😀

Oh and we won the pub quiz on Tuesday night.

Went to bed at 8.45 last night after a nice cup of tea.
Still catching up after Friday night's debauchery, takes a good few days now.

This weekend's job is cleaning the inside of all the windows in the house.

Psilocybe-fueled sex magick, mud-wrestling, [s]beer[/s]cider-pong and projectile vomit. But only on Sundays. Less of late. ie I indulged on malted milks last year.

This thread, BTW:

I'm so rock and roll I go all the way up to 11.

I just put full-fat milk in my mug of Rooibos.

Y'all just better step the **** back:

The weekend starts here.

I am like the Val Doonican of Rock!

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I was at a Deep Purple gig last night. Mind you I was one of the youngest there, and I'm early fifties!

I'm hoping for some nice warm merino socks for Christmas.

It's warmer of ever I decide to throw the TV out the window in a drug fueled weekend of debauchery.

I was actually out for some food and a few drinks last night and didn't get to bed until almost 11 o'clock, that's right 11 o'clock. Ker-aaaazee eh?

Today I just want to curl up and go to sleep.

Sort of inspired by the mid-life crisis thread, to what extent is your life a maelstrom of coke-fuelled, wild-eyed partying, and crash n burn hedonism?

been there, done that, Hard drug addiction, overdosed, died, brought back, had incident of waking up next to a good mate had died next to me and I was too out of it to notice, lived on the street for a bit, had to do very unsavory things to make money. managed to get clean and get my life back on track in my late teens. Very happy to have a "mid-life" dont need a crisis really happy to be mellow and watch the world go by

anyone that thinks they are "hedonistic" in their 40's and is still alive is just playing at it. Although I do see a few functioning alcoholics at singlespeedy events who are rapidly drinking their way to alcohol related cancer and type 2 diabetes, but each to their own n that 🙂

Boozy night out in London the other day.

Caught up on The Archers on the last train home.

I'm down with the kids 8)
Well, in a soon to be assistant cub leader way. Does that count?

No, i'm proper soft me. Any more than 2 pints and i'm already thinking about the possible hangover and thinking if it's worth it.

This guy shakes my hand and calls me "Big man" ( 8) ) after gigs.. so I'm rock n ****ing roll by association.
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I like to eat KFC on a fortnightly basis

anyone that thinks they are "hedonistic" in their 40's and is still alive is just playing at it

Indeed. The 'hedonists' I knew are either reformed or dead. Head-on-ists are the future!

It's all relative isn't it? One person's drink/drug/party-addiction is another's 'staying up until 12am with an extra cuppa'

'Eeee, yer not, are yer?
'I am. Watch me poot kettle on'
'Eeee ye'r daft, you. Nighty-night yer mad bugger'

On Saturday, I'm going to make some beer then clean out the garage.

My last drug* fuelled all nighter was on my bike. I am also wearing some lovely Dunlop carpet slippers.

*caffeine

I'm working from home today, and catching up with some "mandatory training"...Yey, go me...

I might put the heating on, it's a bit chilly.

I opted for an apple rather than bacon bap this morning.

Then i got to work and said flip it, and had both.

I have red KCNC components.

ON MY COMMUTING HYBRID!

Oh, and I had a pleasant morning cleaning and sorting my photography filters and tripods.

I listened to TMS on the wireless till 1 am last night

Does that count?

Hang on, let me put my mug of cocoa down and stop Gardener's World on the DVR ... 😳

Very Rock n' Roll last night, went to see Rick Wakeman (a true Rock n' Roll hedonist) perform a bit of a piano recital.

I really pushed the boat out with half a lemonade & lime.

Was home by 10:15.

now that's living the highlife for me.

I get paid to run* around with guns. 😀
*At my age, more of a limp..
Still listen to '80's Heavy Metal \ 😮 /

I'm as rock and roll AF, me, I sometimes even drink caffeinated tea after 2pm and I enjoy appalling music- 80s & 90s hair metal. OH despairs 😆

I bought a blackberry instead of Apple or Android. So, it's all about alternative lifestyle for me

just had some hummous on Ryvita to help soak up the ONE beer I had last night

although I have been listening to the new Professionals album today - really excellent btw

I watched an extra episode of American Horror Story last night when I really should have gone to bed! 😈

Regretted it this morning when my alarm went off though.

I've taken a road KOM on my MTB on slicks at 3am pissed and stoned. Does that count?

To be fair I've pretty much kept on with the drink and drugs from my youth.... am 44 now with wife and 2 kids. Actually both me and the wife are still drinkers and weed smokers. I manage to function ok tbh and hold down an electrical design job so have no plans to stop any time soon. We go to local gigs most weeks or months (usually leading to a lock in after hours, week nights and all) and pretty much burn the candle at both ends. It's actually a lot easier now as I'm on good money and can afford to party where as we had to go without alsorts to have a good time years ago. Working from home has helped as I don't need to get up early or drive. Not saying I'm in the rock star league of things but I do ok.

I need to get the balance right, went to see Queens of the Stone Age at Wembley and ended up crawling out of Fabric at 6am, but then had to go to Ikea with wife's shopping list on way home!

Then saw Stone Roses at Wembley and had to see Sing with my daughter at the cinema the next morning..

Still listen to '80's Heavy Metal \ /

You seen that Magnum are supporting Saxon in a one off gig in Hull, Feb 25th next year?

We're away skiing unfortunately...

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to what extent is your life a maelstrom of coke-fuelled, wild-eyed partying, and crash n burn hedonism

Pretty much all of it, take tomorrow for example, finishing work at 4pm and off to the caravan for the weekend. I don't even need to take slippers as I have a pair there.

Next weekend DRIVING TO LONDON to drop px car off before it's mot expires and picking up new FORD FOCUS ESTATE in January. It has LED's in the footwells.

For those about to rock....

My wife was out last night so I....

Spent the evening batch cooking.

Last year I went to my University reunion and whilst out clubbing in Cardiff (Fuel) as part of it someone commented on the fact I looked tired. I told them that was because I was out clubbing in Madrid till 4AM that morning watching a band called Los Illumindaos in the Costello Club - which was true. What I didn't tell them was that I was only in Madrid for an IT conference.....

Just had a call from a mate, we're going to play in the park this afternoon, battery powered amps and all. I noticed someone started a thread complaining about people like us in parks so we must be really rock and roll man.

Stayed on the Rodeo Bull for 42secs down in Montechoro Albufeira last friday around 2:00am

Not bad for a fifty year old ?

( lost loads of skin on my hand thou )

I filled the kettle past the "max" line the other day. Just because I could.

I went away with work this week, to a hotel in the Swedish mountains, for a conference. Free bar and food, Swedish women, sauna etc

all I was looking forward to was a night in a hotel without the children waking me up.

I had a swim after my presentation, had one small glass of red with dinner and went to bed at 9pm, looking at pictures of the children on my phone as I missed them. I got up at 6 AM for an XC ski, had fruit for breakfast (no bacon, pastries etc) not hungover. I diligently attended the other workshops, seeing the value in them and actually enjoying talking about project management, then went home and watched cricket until 4am.

times have changed. nice though 😆

I like to have time to prepare for my next rock n roll bender....

I've got tickets for the Britrock must be destroyed! tour featuring The Wildhearts, Terrorvision & Reef, but it's not until next May! You can't rush these things....

Last night I put the light out without finishing the Metro Crossword - I soo don't give a **** anymore!

I've got tickets for the Britrock must be destroyed! tour featuring The Wildhearts, Terrorvision & Reef,

As have I. \m/

Im currently high on stimulants having a coffee at the fake xmas market at munich airport.

I just had a baked potato too, and get this, I went off menu with the toppings, because I didnt want to smell all garlicky, so wanted garlic cream swapped for straight sour cream. The germans didnt know how to react but they could sense I was living on the edge and thankfully gave in before I kicked off properly.

And then I only ate half the skin. Cos I just dgaf.

So far today I'm 100% more sausage roll than I am rock n roll. I do however have the opportunity to spoil that by attending a concert tonight.

I drive a VW Passat Estate. 😥

Well...

I hardly drink, I’m pished after 3 pints and after 4 I need to be put to bed.

I don’t smoke.

I rarely stay up past 10:30pm

I sometimes sit on the sofa with a blanket over my legs.

In the last few months I’ve made an effort to cut down on my caffeine intake.

However, in the past...

I’ve been on 3-4 day benders, booze, pills and coke more than a few times.

I’ve run from the law a couple of times, once in a car because I was driving like a Div, once out of the country because I was very slightly involved with a bunch of arseholes/idiots that got themselves arrested with big bags of pills and didn’t fancy having to explain myself / once from a foriegn city because I was again acting the Div and local police ‘wanted a word’. I’ve been arrested twice, but thankfully never charged.

I’ve got more than a few scars, too many injuries that will stay with me forever and more than one screw loose.

On balance sensible living is more fun, everyone needs to go a bit mad now and again, but I was a dickhead in my 20s.

How Rock n Roll .? On a scale of 1-10 where 1 = not at all.... 10 = lemmy....

2, I’ve overstepped the mark this week due to Monday night cocktails in Plateau with some soon to be ex-colleagues .. redeemed myself by reading Dan Browns Origin over the last couple of nights.. oh, and Detectorists was fabulous last night too.

What a bunch of middle aged saddo's.....just like me! 🙂

Considering a second latte.

On a scale of 1-10 I'm -1.

Rock n roll? It was Doves and Techno in my day.

I'm not very either of those any more. Last night I pushed the boat out with a can of Carlsberg and [i]started [/i]watching Detectorists at 10-30, bed at 11, fast times.

+ what P Jay said.

So far this week I’ve watched [u][b]TWO[/u][/b] episodes of Grantchester.

Going out on the lash in Notts on Saturday, and then to the Royal Blood gig. Can't bloody wait 🙂 Max RnR

Considering a second latte.

On a scale of 1-10 I'm -1.

I read that as 'considering a second lathe'

I was going to give it 10-10

50th birthday bash Sat,late night out (12.30) 🙂

I've swapped microwave egg poaching tips with strangers on the internet.

Livin' the dream.

Cougar - Moderator

As have I.

Like.

I’ve just got home, I’m lying in bed with the cat next to me, a brew and a packet of choccie bourbons. I intend to stay here for the rest of the day/night

I watched newsight on iplayer last night whoop

I've been discussing plans for my kitchen extension with an architect and will be compiling a party wall agreement with the neighbours this weekend.

Dear god... What have I become!!!

Must focus on the gigs I have coming up... Idles, Kontrust and Foo Fighters...

Been toying with the "Britrock must be destroyed" gig, but I'd rather slather my genitals with chilli-sauce than listen to Reef... Which leads me on nicely to my next bit of "being rock and roll" - if I went to the gig I was actually hoping they might headline, so I could get away early...

Last night I stayed up to 11pm playing my new(-ish) guitar.

Mind you I didn't plug it in (bit late for firing up the amp!).

I then went to bed and put on some Estonian choral music to help me get to sleep (alarm set for 5 am, R4 but world service at that time...) 😳

I used to be hardcore, the last man standing .
Tonight I'll be in bed by nine and might have a chamomile tea before.
Don't have time to sort my sock drawer though.

I have a big bore exhaust on my low slung sports coupe, which i struggle to get in and out of. 8)

I didn't get the job I applied for in the company I work for......

I'm eating a chippy to cheer myself up. Settle down ladies

My life is like Pjays, only without the wild past to look back on fondly 🙄

Comparing phones in the pub ......two single friends have a number of “adult” clips and pictures on their phones. I have Topsy and Tim, Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig.

I'll let you know after 'enders has finished.

I’ve just finished washing and sterilising baby bottles. Now I’m in bed with my three year old as he has tonsillitis. Livin life on the edge here in the Funk house.

I have a big bore exhaust on my low slung sports coupe, which i struggle to get in and out of.

Why are you trying to get into an exhaust?

I rock, but only in primary colours...

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I went and drank A LOT of tea after this gig.

Cougar - Moderator
Why are you trying to get into an exhaust?

Dunno.
I'm baffled too.

ygm, btw.
🙂

Bit of a mixed bag I'm afraid. I've celebrated finding a cap to match my tweed shooting waistcoat, but I am struggling to find breeks. However, I've plagued my carpal tunnels by learning to play Pretty Vacant, Another Girl Another Planet, A Forest and a version of When You Don't See Me.

Woo.

I'm baffled too.

Very good. (-:

ygm, btw.

I know, sorry, I'm being crap. I sat down to reply this afternoon right when the forum went pop.

Well, I saw Opeth, supported by Enslaved at the O2 Academy on Tuesday night, there was a mosh pit going and everything!
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Oh, and there was Wolf Parade on Saturday night as well.
Go me!

Mrs Pondo was away last weekend so my Saturday night was learning piano and boiling a ham. Pwned you all, whatever that means. 🙂

ajantom - Member
I rock, but only in primary colours...

Was that the Exeter respect festival?

I'm 42. I've never drunk, smoked or taken drugs. I still play tabletop RPGs and occasionally build model kits. If I don't get at least 8 hours of sleep a night my head is mush and I'll basically be non-functional by Friday. I own a Skoda and I'm a software engineer.

Even if you factor in that I do go to see live music fairly frequently I am basically your calibration point for the "not rock 'n' roll whatsoever" end of the spectrum.

Was that the Exeter respect festival?

Yeah, couple of years ago now.
Band is on a hiatus due to a lot of us having young kids. Pity as we used to play at loads of festivals, and I'll have to pay to get in now 🙁