Subtle innuendos follow…

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

I literally have zero vices left. A year ago I was a fairly heavy smoking , borderline alcoholic with a penchant for a few lines of Charlie.

My last remaining vice – smoking, has now been knocked on the head with the recent health scare. To be honest, I’ve been keen to stop anyway as it plainly wasn’t doing me any good

Got to admit at times I’m a bit bored – things like gigs, are well, a tough gig. Yeah feeling healthy is great, not being hungover and doing stuff when you’d normally be feeling rough, brill. The good far outweighs the bag….

But what do you clean living folk do to live on the edge a little, or take the edge off so to speak?

Can’t involve THC in any form, because of workplace testing

Mountain Biking. Obvs.

Mountain Biking. Obvs.

I’m just about to hit 1000 (social i.e no commuting) miles this year. Mix of MTB and gravel

Rock climbing.

Just the hookers.

I troll people on cycle forums, and admire clever 1980s musical references ?

Crown green bowls.

Cross stitch …be careful though as it’s the gateway drug to tapestries

Retro gaming, Field archery and drawing/painting.

Embroidery, or if you’re outside, cross-stitch.

Cross stitch …be careful though as it’s the gateway drug to tapestries

My mate got addicted to tapestries. A year later – it was curtains for him.

What about shoplifting? Never tried it myself but heard it’s quite a thrill.

Running

Mountain biking, as mentioned above.

Take up an instrument and play it live; just remember that we don’t follow fashion, and you’ll be a superstar, again.

Can’t involve THC in any form, because of workplace testing

But they were fine with coke? :confused:

Doesn’t cocaine leave the body relatively quickly, compared to cannabis? I recall it having a much shorter half-life than other drugs, as in a couple of days at most, compared to up to 30 for dope.

But they were fine with coke? :confused:

Obviously not.

Not done any for a while >6months, testing has ramped up recently. Coke – 5 days in system, THC anything from 30-90 days, dependant on usage and how fatty ones liver may be

Crown green bowls.

That’s my new thing too! (Well, be doing it for a year now anyway).

Can’t say it’s life on the edge – but just relaxing and chatting away to the team for a few hours a week is good for mental health.

If OP wants an innuendo, I’ll give ’em one

But what do you clean living folk do to live on the edge a little, or take the edge off so to speak?

Counselling?

Running

That will go well with the shoplifting.

Get a motorbike, or go dogging, or do both together.

Dogbiking ?

Cycling (road, gravel, mtb) or windsurfing.

At gigs I find that having non alcoholic beer is good enough and the buzz I get from the gig isn’t coming from the beer

Dogbiking ?

Do you mean dogging?

Get a motorbike, or go dogging, or do both together.

How does that work for the Gullers? Asking for a friend.

You could combine that with living life on the edging.

Cycling,  gym, walking, camping, relaxation stuff, too much TV/YouTube.

I’m boring as **** don’t drink, never smoked, but despite, or because, of all the above my body is **** anyway.

Got to admit at times I’m a bit bored

It is OK to be bored occasionally. Not all of life needs to be filled with interesting or exciting times. But, for me MTB fulfils my need to see a horizon, cheap thrills, techno babble, and messing about  with tools, when I can’t/ don’t wanna do that, I do the scale modelling thing. It’s takes up time, it fills my craft needs, I’m not sitting on the sofa staring mindlessly at the telly, and it’s learning stuff all the time.

Learn a skill a day.

This chap’s channel is a nice source of ideas:

And there are plenty more.

https://www.youtube.com/@TommoCarroll/videos

But what do you clean living folk do to live on the edge a little, or take the edge off so to speak?

Drink beer during the warm months, whiskey during the cold, and earlier today I visited the Penderyn Distillery in Wales, where I got a head start on building up this year’s supply of spirits.

Did you read the OP countzero.

Like not even all of it… You can stop after the second word ?

I’m not meant to talk about it, but…

Get a pair of direct drive turntables and bring out the vinyl …nothing beats a bit of old skool mixing..and learn to play electric guitar

Anti social behaviour keeps me fairly busy now I rarely drink.
Gets you out and about meeting people too which is nice.

Open air swimming, riding your bike at odd hours of day and night, acrobatic intimate relations.

The trouble is, you’ve never learnt to entertain yourself without a bit of ‘support’.

Personally climbing,  and generally poking around outside.

Try ultra marathon running.  It’s a very popular form of self-harm and the sport is full of addictive personalities.

You could always have a stroke of an evening 😉

(Too soon?)

The good far outweighs the bag

Was that deliberate?

😀

You could always have a stroke 🙂

(Too soon?)

Haha – not at all 😉

Was that deliberate?

Genuine typo initially – but spotted it and thought it had to stay….