alwayscrashing

So this is too much?

You'd think twice about using the soap after going to the toilet....

Regina Spektor

You both share good taste in hats it seems.....

Idiots, when online use a lot of exclamation marks. Bigger idiots take their finger off the shift key before the 1 key.

hence..

pwned!!!!!!!!111111

and with added comedy....

pwned!!!!!!!!11111One

I just sigh, turn it off and then sulk.

Well, what an interesting week it's been - it started off badly, and I really did have HUGE cravings for the red stuff. Gradually though the cravings wore off and I am in the position today where I dont actually feel the same way about alcohol....

 

I think I have unconsciously used alcohol as a prop during the last few months when Mum was ill and after she died. As a result I have unwittingly drunk gradually more and more......I am not saying I am a rolling binge-drinking lush, but I've realised how easy it's been to slip into a regular drinking habit and not even think about it.

 

I dont intend to give up drinking but this week has had a rather 'sobering' effect on me, and I will be respecting my liver a darn sight more than before. I recommend doing a week like this every now and again, just to ensure you really are aware how much you drink/smoke/whatever.

 

I really didnt think I would be able to rise to Red's challenge at the start of the week, but I'm glad he threw down the gauntlet and I feel better for it.

 

Now, where's me prize?? 

 

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Oh, and Lou, how did you get on, mate?

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Whoo! Well done. :)

And you are right, a bit of detox every now and again is always good.

p.s. Tomorrow I will have gone two weeks.... Something that never would have happened a few years ago.

Preacher is not in the DCU. It is creator owned and totally separate from any other title.

He was originally a character from Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, who then got his own title and made appearances here and there. Swamp Thing adds even more to the confusing melting pot of religion and mythology.

It's very common in comics for many titles to be set in the same 'universe'. It used to be the case that all DC comics were connected like that. Swamp Thing has met Batman and Constantine, so it follows that in the same world Constantine is wandering around in exists Batman, Superman, Morpheus, Lucifer etc etc.

This is something that does not really get mentioned much anymore though.

When it is good it is great, but when it isn't it is really bad.

I went to Nottingham to pick up this month's comics and it came to just over £20 (about $36 according to yahoo finance). It IS the equivalent of about $4 a comic here though.

That excluses any trades I pick up or old things on ebay though.

The BBC and the government do not even have a good relationship. The thing the government dreads more than anything is interviews by BBC journalists like Jeremy Paxman, or the guy from Today on Radio 4 whose name I forget.

The BBC tears strips off the government when it is warranted and does not give them an easy ride at all. There have been several high profile cases of government politicians complaining about how they get treated by people like Paxman. BBC comedy shows lampoon politicians of all sides.

The reason we hold the BBC in such high esteem is because it is not another pawn in the empire of some shit like Rupert Murdoch. It is free from having a political line dictated to it.

The BBC is not 'government owned' even, it is nationally owned. A concept I don't think the USA really gets because it is a socialist idea about public ownership.

The BBC also put out the highest quality programming you can get on TV. They get the best people working for them too, almost everyone in television in the UK aspires to work for the BBC, and it shows.

If it gets sold off to the highest bidder (probably Murdoch) then it would be the biggest loss the UK has ever had.

So you don't approach a woman in a bar and say 'hey, pull my finger' then?

I voted for Johnny Depp.... It was a tough one between him and Mr Rhys-Meyers.

...and I would like to thank my evil bitch ex for finally giving up her campaign to destroy my life so I can actually join a message board without a risk of being tracked down, lied about, and driven away when people believe what she says.

Freedom from persecution is a very nice thing.

p.s. I like it here. Here rocks. So do all of you. This is one of the few forums which is pleasant to be a part of I have ever found.

Ellis Vs. Whedon

This was a great read to start my day with. :lol:

My worst feature is being gullible and forgiving people when they obviously don't deserve it.

Alright.... this is your 14,523rd chance. This time it is the last. I mean it!

My ability to alarm people with how bitter, cynical and sarcastic I can be.

I'm not much better. 5ft3 and a bit.

This page should tell you all you need to knoe. Be prepared for huge holes in what is available in trades....

Wikpedia | Hellblazer

I watched most of The Brits.....

Is it just me or does anyone else think 'Tony Blair' when they see James Blunt speaking?

Perfect Blue

Blood: The Last Vampire

On the subject of odd cover versions - Laibach's version of "Comfortably Numb" is a thing of astonishing weirdness :)

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Their Sympathy For The Devils is too, and also rather fantastic.

People who are alchoholics drink alone therefore people who drink alone become alchoholics?

That sort of thinking is oversimplified and annoyingly prevelant today. It is the same as the 'everyone on heroin started on weed therefore weed leads to heroin use' argument. It is just fatally flawed logic.

Drinking alone may be something people who later become alchoholics do but I very seriously doubt that means people who drink alone are at RISK of becoming alcoholics.

Is drinking alone a pointer towards problem drinking? Ooh 'eck.

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If it happens regularly then it is, kindof, isnt it? And if you're really having so much trouble keeping from drinking for just a few days an having such serious cravings, I'd do something about that if I were you. Of course, im no expert - its just my five cents.

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It's more in the same way that people crave chocolate or cheesecake when it is just wanting ONE glass of wine, even two.

There is a big distinction between a craving and not being able to get by without something.