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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
Rock climbing.
Just the hookers.
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.
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 ****ed 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.
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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....
As per binners, I started karate 18 months ago as the boy wanted to try it and love it. Yesterday we were punching each other in the stomach. What fun!
(It's not fighting really though, its self defence, different to fighting)
Meet a new woman and ...erm... explore? That's what I did ...Good for fitness too (I appear to be unable to use my cheeky selection of emojis. Oh well)
I'm in a very similar situation to you OP. 7 months sober has really made me look at the way I spend my time, which I have a lot more of as I'm not in a haze or feeling rough from the night before. I ride my bike a lot more, I paddle board, swim, walk, read. I've cut right back on nights out as I realised I wasn't going for the event, I was going to get drunk and high. The new Mister P is a bit boring but I'm much happier with that. Good luck to you.
Meet a new woman
The current one has put up with me for 32 years, I'd better stick it out now
Cycling Canoeing (not kayak) grandchildren
In between stressful but shouldn't be work, my kids taxi and PA, and horrible gardening, I do all the maintenance on a bike fleet of road and mtb's, and have been bringing a old'ish VW t5.1 Caravelle up to a really good mechanical std.
Working on stuff is in my blood, I used to build RC stuff for a LHS back in the 80's as a kid, then motorbikes and cars, until 35 years ago when I discovered bikes, I just stopped. But now I am back working on cars on the drive and love it
I have a similar problem since going dry. I also find that i am awake 16-18 hours a day, every bloody day. It is relentless. You wake up in the morning without a hang over but you know that you won't get to feel any better for the rest of the day.
I bought a very nice car and fkd it up to modify it.
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You do get a lot of 'white powder' floating around when you are sanding it to shape though. The bike was clean and shiney when I put it away last weekend.
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May I recommend getting a dog ?
That'll keep you out of mischief (providing you get a proper dog - you know - one that goes 'woof' and not 'yap'. The sort that you'd not be embarrassed to take to the pub, if you'd only not stopped drinking).
Having a dog will also help you participate in the previously mentioned dog-biking, bike-dogging, and plain normal dog-dogging too.
The current one has put up with me for 32 years, I’d better stick it out now
Bigamy. Now that looks like an all consuming hobby. Might not keep you out of trouble but you wouldn't get bored too quickly.
Playing live music.
Nothing like the buzz of not messing up that tricky bit Infront of people. Even just at practice it's still a buzz.
Fencing
With swords, not fence posts. If you get it right you hit someone, get it wrong they hit you. Unlike most combat sports it doesn't really hurt that much. Not many broken bones in a fencing club and my coach still fences regular in his 70's. I wouldn't fancy boxing 20 something's when I was 20 and certainly not when I was 70.