Are you back in the UK yet? I don't know what circles you're moving in, but it sounds like you need to get out of them and into rehab / support groups. I'm not being a prick here, I've just noticed a few comments where you've said you need to stop, but clearly you haven't.
If you need the help, get the help. There will never be an easier time to stop than today and you know this time next month will be that much harder.
I appreciate being serious is off-brand for both me and TTH, but seriously, get the help, make the change. Do it now. Not tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, or the next day. My dad was always going to stop drinking "tomorrow" and he did eventually, at the bottom of his stairs, covered in vomit, dead.
Yeah grow up Joe you private school melt.
I'd echo what Spikey said. No idea what help is available, but get it and good luck.
No idea what help is available. None at all. Not me. No idea. Never needed it, see. But if I did...
I've got a bad knee. Not going back to the quacks now. I'll stick with my spirit crystals and leeches thank you very much.
I’ve spoke to someone close to me who’s the only one who’s cared about me this whole time and she gave me some narcotics anonymous lines to call. I’m going to call them tomorrow. I never did it before because I just don’t want to sit in a room with a bunch of no hope junkies and have to pretend my privileged experience is anything like there’s. I’m just a well off kid with access to drugs.
This coke. I don’t have the balls to flush it. Is giving it to one of the coke heads downstairs a good or a bad thing.
When you say 'balls to flush it', how do you mean/why not?
Because within 5 seconds of it not being there I will be wanting it and calling someone for more. If I leave it there I have the option not to take it.
Won't that be the same outcome as if you give it to downstairs though?
They’re very scary people downstairs and I’m not alpha enough to ask for it back.
But you can still call for some more. Flush it and be done with it.
It's got to start somewhere.
Very sad about Michael K Williams. Omar is obviously iconic but was always great in anything I saw him in no matter how minor the role, incredible presence.
He was great in Boardwalk Empire.
I caught him in a twenty second appearance in CSI SVU last week.
Aye, he'd been battling cancer for a decade.
Sir Clive Sinclair. Inventor of the ZX Spectrum, that electric trike nobody in the 80's wanted and pocket calculators. And an accomplished gambler.
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I genuinely thought he'd died a good 10 or 15 years ago.
He only started living ten or fifteen years ago.
Man, that article definitely laid it out. He had a type and that type was incredibly young.
Making up for doing all of his ageing in the first half of his life.
Jimmy Greaves.
Shit, that one's got me a bit.
*Checks on David Jason*
Jason and Attenborough are going to be tough to take when they go.
And there goes Boycie.
I can't help but think that's Yevs fault.
Was about to come in and express the very same sentiment.
Damn. :sad:
Perfect.
A truly great character.
At least on my twitter, Boycie has stolen Greavesie's thunder a bit, which as someone slightly too young makes me realise how MASSIVE Only Fools must have been.
It was absolutely huge. Essentially everyone in the country liked it. If we'd done a TTH top X TV shows back then it would have not only beaten Partridge, but won by a fair margin.
I must be too young to remember that.
On the subject of Jimmy Greaves, not being of that era either I find it hard to imagine him in any other way than his jovial Saint & Greavsie mode and naturally assumed that's what he looked like as a professional footballer as well. They can keep the stony faced middle distance stare shots of his youth.
I'm the other way with Greaves, too young to remember him on TV but old enough for my dad to bore on about what a player he was.
Only Fools and Horses is ace. And would've have achieved the rare goal of being on for ages and good until the end if they hadn't shat out that last trio of episodes.
It always amazes me how well it's aged. Especially compared to the likes Harry Enfield and Little Britain which are absolute horseshit when watching now.
Little Britain.
Don't underestimate how big it was at the time. You couldn't leave the house without hearing "I'm a Lady", "I don't like it" or "computer says no" for about 5 years. "Computer says no" is still occasionally used now.
It is terrible though. It must be the quickest anything has ever aged. I've had bread that's stayed fresh longer.
It's remarkable how ancient it seemed within a few years, despite it being huge for a period.
It's really interesting being an "outside" to the UK when these sorts of things come up. I can honestly say I've never seen an episode, nor even seen it advertised.
They probably only like the racist bits like Disco.