Services Drinking...........
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This is the time I fear most - Friday night; I hate it. Most of the time I can cope but not Friday's - not Happy Hour. In the old days I would have been down with the lads in the Mess dining room, gathered round the Cona coffee machine, getting as much Costa Rica brew down our necks as possible before Happy Hour ended - 2 for the price of one it was, stacked up on the dining room table with custard creams on the side - and telling endless war stories, the same endless war stories as last week. But who cared? We were on a roll and the buzz felt good, until ............. well, you know the rest. My Friday evenings are different now; I sit by the TV, watching Emmerdale, followed by Corrie Street, then Eastenders, clutching my Britvic 55, dreading the inevitable Kenco ads at half-time. My wife's watching me; she says she isn't but I know she is. And the kids, even the dog! They're waiting to see if I nip out to the kitchen, switch on the kettle and crack open the Nescafe jar for a quick sniff. But I won't do it, I won't give in - my life and my family are far too important. Once I didn't care about them enough, but now I do, so I hope I have the strength to hold on. I have come back from the brink once, but I don't know if I could do it a second time. It's tough, so very tough.
Avoid imitations
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Zoom,
Well done, stick with it.
There is treatment programme you can get, you know. I think it's called Life Altering Grain Evolved Rescue. It involves drinking a substitute.
They are planning an addict centre in my town. It's primarily for heroin users, who will get free methadone, but I might go along if they provide Carlsberg on the NHS
Well done, stick with it.
There is treatment programme you can get, you know. I think it's called Life Altering Grain Evolved Rescue. It involves drinking a substitute.
They are planning an addict centre in my town. It's primarily for heroin users, who will get free methadone, but I might go along if they provide Carlsberg on the NHS
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
I have always wanted to tell the policeman:
"Yes I have been drinking."
On the Shack we usually got through 10 gallons in 9 hours. One wonderful hop, 12 hours in a Galaxy, we drank them dry. You should have seen the slop in the toilet.
"Yes I have been drinking."
On the Shack we usually got through 10 gallons in 9 hours. One wonderful hop, 12 hours in a Galaxy, we drank them dry. You should have seen the slop in the toilet.
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Drinking in Moderation
Oi
My local was the Moderation in Reading. Can't get near the bar now and the prices have gone through the roof. Wall upon wall of people, in blue uniforms that look like they haven't been out of a cupboard in years. Virtually nobody in a nice round-neck jumper. Just as you strike up a conversation they rush off to salute at a flag, or do a key check.
Be careful with these posts in jest, you're ruining lives you know.
P.S. Had only popped in for a diet coke and packet of spicey nik naks.
My local was the Moderation in Reading. Can't get near the bar now and the prices have gone through the roof. Wall upon wall of people, in blue uniforms that look like they haven't been out of a cupboard in years. Virtually nobody in a nice round-neck jumper. Just as you strike up a conversation they rush off to salute at a flag, or do a key check.
Be careful with these posts in jest, you're ruining lives you know.
P.S. Had only popped in for a diet coke and packet of spicey nik naks.
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Please make sure you read this carefully. It may change the way you think about your life and career:
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, it is the weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole herd is maintained or even improved by the regular culling of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can operate only as fast as the slowest brain cells through which the electrical signals pass. Recent epidemiological studies have shown that while excessive intake of alcohol does indeed kill off brain cells, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. Thus, regular consumption of beer helps eliminate the weaker cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. The result of this in-depth study verifies and validates the casual link between all student drinking and job related performance. It also explains why, after a few short years of leaving the student life, most professionals cannot keep up with the performance of the newest graduate employees. Only those few that stick to the strict regimen of voracious alcoholic consumption can maintain the interlectual levels that they achieved during their years of training.
So, this is a call to arms. As our country is losing its technological edge; we must not shudder in our homes. Get back to the bars. Quaff that pint. Your Service and country need you to be at your peak, and you shouldn't deny yourself the career that you could have. Take life by the bottle and be all that you can be. Tell your friends, acquaintances and co-workers that may be in danger of losing their edge.
What more can we do?
SEE YOU ALL IN THE BAR !!!!!!
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, it is the weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole herd is maintained or even improved by the regular culling of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can operate only as fast as the slowest brain cells through which the electrical signals pass. Recent epidemiological studies have shown that while excessive intake of alcohol does indeed kill off brain cells, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. Thus, regular consumption of beer helps eliminate the weaker cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. The result of this in-depth study verifies and validates the casual link between all student drinking and job related performance. It also explains why, after a few short years of leaving the student life, most professionals cannot keep up with the performance of the newest graduate employees. Only those few that stick to the strict regimen of voracious alcoholic consumption can maintain the interlectual levels that they achieved during their years of training.
So, this is a call to arms. As our country is losing its technological edge; we must not shudder in our homes. Get back to the bars. Quaff that pint. Your Service and country need you to be at your peak, and you shouldn't deny yourself the career that you could have. Take life by the bottle and be all that you can be. Tell your friends, acquaintances and co-workers that may be in danger of losing their edge.
What more can we do?
SEE YOU ALL IN THE BAR !!!!!!
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What vitamins and minerals the body can't obtain from a few pints of Guinness just aren't important.......
One of the 2 things my dear old father passed to me on his death bed. The second was when showering, always wash your face before your arse.
One of the 2 things my dear old father passed to me on his death bed. The second was when showering, always wash your face before your arse.
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I'm still looking for that godamned gorilla that appears on most detachments - you know the one, who empties your wallet and trashes your room as you sleep. And as for the taste he leaves in your mouth... well, you know the rest! Mind you, if I ever DO catch the bast*rd, I'm not sure I will know what to do next...
Actually, an exceptionally good SMO once told me that, on detachments, pillows are the cause of most hangovers. His theory [and he submitted it to the british Medical Journal] was that you went to bed feeling no pain, but when you woke up in the morning - blazing pain in the brain. He is quite adamant - since the pillow is all that made contact with your head overnight, it must have caused it.
Actually, an exceptionally good SMO once told me that, on detachments, pillows are the cause of most hangovers. His theory [and he submitted it to the british Medical Journal] was that you went to bed feeling no pain, but when you woke up in the morning - blazing pain in the brain. He is quite adamant - since the pillow is all that made contact with your head overnight, it must have caused it.
Well, as an SMO he obviously knows his stuff and his opinion should be respected!
But bedside lights are perhaps the cause of the control-column-fully-back-and-full-rudder effect one gets after turning out the bedside light when going to bed after a half pint of shandy or so? Which is perhaps why one unbelievably pathetic 'Health and Safety' edict had the bedside lights removed from a certain Officers' Mess of my acquaintance?
But bedside lights are perhaps the cause of the control-column-fully-back-and-full-rudder effect one gets after turning out the bedside light when going to bed after a half pint of shandy or so? Which is perhaps why one unbelievably pathetic 'Health and Safety' edict had the bedside lights removed from a certain Officers' Mess of my acquaintance?
