Comments on: Four Facts About Paul Gascoigne’s Drinking

By: magnetite

magnetite — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:06:04 +0000

Nice one diary. I’d sketch a bow in your direction, but I’m a bit unsteady on the old feet for some reason.

By: dairy

dairy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:02:04 +0000

…not after 6 pints without slurring….

By: magnetite

magnetite — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:48:45 +0000

You’d be surprised at how many people you actually do know (at work, at play, locally) who are alcoholics anyway. Can you say high-functioning, yet secretive?

By: magnetite

magnetite — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:35:46 +0000

Was that with his cornflakes, or in his cornflakes Grande Finale? Enquiring minds want to know.

Typically the Department of Health hasn’t done it’s research properly. Either there are more than nine types, or we do not fit cleanly into these categories. Rather, even the gentle, sociable drinkers may step outside their comforatble pigeonhole from time to time.

Being the contrary f**k that I am, I am the type who is drinking himself into a coward’s grave because…

it’s so bloody hard to get good drugs these days
my wrists are too beautiful to mar with scars
all the bridges near me are so low as to be unsuitable for a terminal plunge
I think I’ve developed a preternatural tolerance to paracetamol
I’m terribly, terribly lazy

[Add that to the list DOH]

By: Grande Finale

Grande Finale — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:20:13 +0000

I knew an “alchie” guy once, he had to have a couple of shorts in the lounge at early doors before he had the courage to go through and join his friends in the bar !
While his whole life and livelyhood was crashing around him.

Another used to drink lager with his cornflakes !

Must be a terrible position to be in, because most of the rest of us drinking socialy just think it’s a laugh but they, unable to help themselves, are laughing all the way to devastation.

By: magnetite

magnetite — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:48 +0000

Where’s Jimmy Five Bellies when you need him? Still, at least he hasn’t started one of those home brew kits that’s just a sack with a tap that you hang on a door - then impatiently drink it after a mere nine days while it’s still greenish in colour. Now who’d be daft enough to do a thing like that? hic!

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:18:31 +0000

bit of an amateur, all round, though I agree he’s showing promise…

By: Lone Pigeon

Lone Pigeon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:57:26 +0000

dedicated enough to go straight to the off license after not getting into the pub

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:54:41 +0000

Obviously not dedicated enough to the craft; what sort of self respecting alkie forgets what time the pubs open?

By: Lone Pigeon

Lone Pigeon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:51:01 +0000

he did - when he couldn’t get into the pub

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:48:28 +0000

Whe doesn’t he just go to the off-license like the rest of us alkies?