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ahinkel

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  1. Two months booze-free for me. Funny thing is I went out with a bunch of guys last night on a bit of a pub crawl (me on the coca cola) and woke up with a headache hangover feeling. Must be my mind still relating the drinking environment with feeling ropey in the morning. :)

    I find that as often as not when I do that I end up drinking within a few days.

    SC

    I found once you understand the reasons why you drink and understand the behaviour patterns you don't have to 'white-knuckle it' and avoid drink and drinkers. The addictive process is still there, I just channel it into drinking about ten bottles of coke instead and working like crazy the next day...

    I understand why I drink;

    - I'm an alcoholic

    - I enjoy going to the pub

    - I enjoy going out with my friends

    - drinking coke after coke (or coffee after coffee) is foul.

    I'd do better remembering why I don't drink.

    But its fairly easy to avoid drinking if I stay out of the pub.

    I had dropped a friend off on the far side of the water, where I used to live, and as I was driving back I had a nostalgic feeling for all the pubs I used to go to; luckily, having the car, there was no temptation, but the feeling stayed with me till I got home; fortunately I was too tired to go out, and I had plenty of work to do if I wasn't...

    Ten glasses of coke will make you feel rough...if you can, try to mix it with something different. I have the occasional orange juice, though I think I have a very mild allergy to orange, or soda water.

    SC

    Well done Greek and Cowboy. I have had to stay clear of bars, and old friends unfortunately. Living a reclusive life may sound extreme , but i know what will happen if i let my guard down. Seven months sober now and never felt so fit and healthy in my whole life. Everything seems possible , when i used to think everything was a chore.

    All the best

    Ahinkel

  2. Is Mark Wolfe gonna be there.... Or remember the guy Arkmelfow who had to flee to KPG?

    Well aside from the obvious the party is a bit too far from the horn of lamai and no I don't remember the other guy. I thought people usually flee in the other direction?

    He was the one who had the dust up with the guys from fusion , according to him. Last seen in thong nai pan with his bg.. sorry cashier.

    Anyway, shant be over till later on in year, but hope yall have a good party :)

  3. A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. The robot serves him a pint, and then asks him: "What's your IQ"?

    The man replies "150 why?"

    The robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum physics, spirituality, biomimicry, environmental issues, nano-technology and theology. The customer is very impressed and thinks, "This is really cool".

    He decides to test the robot. He leaves the bar, turns, and comes back in for another pint.

    Again, the robot serves him the perfect pint and asks him again, "What's your IQ?"

    The man responds, "About 100".

    Immediately, the robot starts talking, about football, cricket, golf, supermodels, favourite fast foods, cars and womens' breasts.

    Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot one more test. He returns, the robot serves him and asks, "What's your IQ?"

    The man replies, "Er, 10, I think".

    And the robot says... real slowly......

    "So... ur... ye... gaun... tae... renew... yer... season ... ticket... fur... Parkheid... next... year?"

    Ah lost interest after the mention of womens breasts

  4. Shame to see all those empty seats at the ground.

    I wouldn't have missed that game for the world

    had I been in Glasgow. Shows you how fickle some

    fans can be, eh?

    (Good to see Samaras out of the equation).

    Thats the sign of the times CB. Having to ask a father to stump up 100 gbp for hotdogs drinks , travel, programmes and all the rest that comes with going to the match with his kids.

    Then comes the best bit........ Having to watch the <deleted> thats been served up on the pitch this season. Sorry mate , im surprised there wasnt less than 20,000 at that game.

    Ahinkel

  5. Neil Lennon/Willie McStay being touted on a temporary basis. :)

    To be honest Salters Celtic under Tony would not beat my Arklow Town.

    People moaned about Strach but he won 3 titles and got ye to the last 16 of the CL.

    its for the best.

    very true, strachan never made many pals at celtic, but brought success for a wee while. Tony should never been allowed the job in the first place. The boards fault intirely. A very expensive mistake indeed. Mowbray never took hibs past 8th place and never improved West Brom.

  6. But that's living a VERY frugal life, the very very cheapest internet line, 300 units of electricity (what's this? a few light bulbs, a fan, the PC and a small fridge).

    That's not like for like now is it? That didn't cost you 300 quid in the UK.

    The only item missing from my home in Thailand is a freezer, my fridge freezer is quite large.

    I use a fan rather than aircon as aircon gives me a very dry throat (and I quite like the heat, most of the time)

    Back in the UK almost all my electric was for heating, my Thai internet line is twice that of my UK internet line.

    I guess I am a little bit more environmentally friendly than most.

    I have noticed some of my neighbours sit in an air conditioned home 24/7 while their Thai wives sit outside .... I consider their behaviour abnormal.

    Its called " not getting under the little ladys feet" dude.

  7. Do or die for Mowbray this weekend.

    Spied this at the bottom of the Record's

    latest obituary on our 'manager':

    Hot off the press....

    If, and it is a big if, if we don't beat Kilmarnock then we have no option but to terminate TM's contract forthwith.

    Lets face it, it is just not working out is it? Come on Celtic fans lets get real, he has not inspired the team, he has broken up a perfectly good team, and left us with a mix of god knows what, we have no direction or determination and last weeks game was a debacle to say the least, if it wasn't for RK where would we be?

    So Desmond if we lose, please show him the door... soon

    Must say I do agree. English managers . . . tut, tut, tut.

    Not one for not giving a manager enough time, but he has got that (rabbit caught in the headlights) look about him . He should have known what the job was all about before taking it. He used to play here , a defender <deleted>. Anyway Hail Hail.

  8. You´r right there ahinkel,the bar scene I manage to stay away from , When I visited thiland before my wife, I just loved the these bars! still I have an urge ,a longing for the bar scene! but a short reflextion , were that would get me! if I started hanging there again,,,alone without famely , shivering and agony from the hangovers that come after my weekly rallyes, No,, no more! I want to live and be able to look my daughter in her eye´s without shame when she´s grown up!

    I notise that we seem to have been in the same situation during the same time in thailand,,!

    SC Hi! thank you! I´ll keep that in mind! I had an idea of atending the mid day meeting in sukhumvit,, I hope to be able next tripp though?

    It sure wasnt easy , i arrived at 10pm christmas eve , and outside my apartment was full of people pissed up and girls everywhere as you can imagine. I retired to sleep early ,but was so tempted to go out and sample " that first drink". I told myself the carnage that lay ahead if i took it. My months vacation would be armageddon instead of paradise, i can assure you of that. Drinking for me is not an option anymore.

    I got up early, about 6am headed to the beach , got my gym subscription for a few weeks . Got my provisions in and planned my manoevures away from the hotspots. I drank sodas in one or two bars that were low key , just to meet girls. But didnt stay long enough, just in case the old me thought ... maybe only one.

    Excersise, rent a motorbike to get away to ease the mundane mind and if your lucky , good people from the meeting to hook up with and chill out. Certainly beats lying with the shakes , trembling impending doom, knowing the only thing that makes it better is a large jack D followed another 6 before 1pm. Thats the alternative.

    hinkel

  9. Ok ! Well I have been to thailand and come home from thailand ,, and manage to stay sober during the 2 month I was there!

    but there were some close calls, I do not think I would have"made" it ,, if not atending htese meetings in khon kaen. i meet nice people and got new friends!

    I had an idea that it would be a challange to stay away from my old "waterholes" but what took me by suprice were howe the wast amount of people drinking around me would effect me,, I thought before that they can do as they please ,, and I keep to mine! I found it harder and harder to keep away from alcohol,, But I did and are now back home and feeling great!

    I am greatful and alive!

    Thats great news, well done for staying strong. The bar scene in Thailand is especially tempting but you have to find different things to do and meet different people to keep your mind off the sauce. The meetings in thailand are exceptional and brilliant people to help you along the way. All the best to you.

  10. I for one am pretty confident that none or very close to it actually gets to the Haitians.

    Money is money, and be it two baht or two thousand, please give it back to me as it is MY change, thank you.

    good luck u would have to go to haiti to get that back.

    better off at big c. u get more for your money. thats come from big c

    another technque. is that u could just stand there and laugh. i don't meen a short laugh i mean a loooooooooong laugh. i mean laugh for 4 hours. tell them that u will stop when u get your money back. laugh al the customers out the shop. if they ask why u r laughing tell them that u r laughingat the funny situation.its so funny that u just want to stay and laugh. ha hah ha hah ah ah ahahahahah.

    Errrrrr okay then. I will try that .... em.... <deleted>

  11. I for one am pretty confident that none or very close to it actually gets to the Haitians.

    Money is money, and be it two baht or two thousand, please give it back to me as it is MY change, thank you.

    good luck u would have to go to haiti to get that back.

    better off at big c. u get more for your money. thats come from big c

    another technque. is that u could just stand there and laugh. i don't meen a short laugh i mean a loooooooooong laugh. i mean laugh for 4 hours. tell them that u will stop when u get your money back. laugh al the customers out the shop. if they ask why u r laughing tell them that u r laughingat the funny situation.its so funny that u just want to stay and laugh. ha hah ha hah ah ah ahahahahah.

  12. I actually got undercharged 80 thb around six weeks ago at my one and only 711 (that's why there's so many ones in the name and the seven for good luck), but I didn't realise until I'd gotten back to the hotel and drunk three or four canoes and checked the receipt for the balance of what I'd purchased.

    Well, as expected from an honest bloke like me, I drank another half-doxen canodles that night and hurried back as fast as I could the next morning at the crack of noon to find the shop assistant who had accidently let me off with that 80 baht, and I don't know why, but she wasn't there that day, and I still haven't seen her after all this time. I guess she must have found a job in something more lucrative in the way of customer relations, when I think of such generosity across the counter of a 711 store...

    :)

    She was most likely sacked Sean because her till was out, shes probably cowering under a sheet of iron somewhere, cold, hungry, all because you accepted the wrong change.

    Top of the class, mate. I just hope that I didn't accidentally contrive the mechanism that might have led her up to Pattaya to become a 'dancer'. No kidding, I honestly never noticed the shortfall out of a 700 baht purchase until I got home and went over the receipt, and then remembered what I'd actually lugged home that day.

    I wish I could have been there on the spot to fix it up there and then, but maybe they should give the new staff a week to get used to the till, so that I could have come back the next day and helped her out. Then again, she basically stuffed up the till, and most people would just walk away with the 80 baht savings, so what do they say in Thailand? I am not sure but is it "Som nam nah"?

    ---o0o---

    Oh how I lament the misfortunes of all the young ladies through lack of concentration on their appointed duties because I'm so bloddy good-looking. Women here tell me all the time how handsome I am, and I can't help but accept my tragic fate, as well as theirs. Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble....

    Youre getting better looking everyday Sean. Bet you cant wait till tomorrow, sessy man.

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