Re: A message of support
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:50 am
Many might see it as a recovery of sorts
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Many might see it as a recovery of sorts
CycleCoach wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 10:50 amMany might see it as a recovery of sorts
Fretless wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 11:56 am
It has been revealed, in Top Secret leaked documents from the CIA, that the COVID-19 virus has been created in a clandestine laboratory in China - not by the government but by a conglomerate of audio manufacturers.
This virus reprograms the brain's auditory sensory input and causes the sufferer to discard all of the expensive apparatus he has recently bought and to then purchase new equipment to replace the units he disposed of several decades previously. From Chinese-based factories, of course.
Currently in development is the COVID-20 virus which will reverse this effect and generate a new wave of replacement purchasing - and then of CD players and Betamax video recorders.
Thanks for your comprehensive advice Paul, it's very helpful. Your back story gives a lot of weight to your advice.slinger wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:37 pm Stu, never say never, mate. The problem is not drinking, it's using booze as a crutch. Trust me, I've been there. Going "cold turkey" because you made a bit of a twat of yourself will just put a different type of pressure on you.
You're changing your drinking habits for your kids, your wife, your extended family, and maybe your friends too, and your health, obviously, which impacts on all the other reasons because you'll probably end up dying before your time and depriving your kids of their dad, etc. You've got to want to do it, for everyone else first, not just you.
The amount I used to drink would probably scare the shit out of even you. How about drinking all through a three-hour lunchtime (Guinness, and brandies) then going straight out after work and ending up drinking "Limp Dicks" which was a cocktail I invented consisting of a large brandy mixed with a large scotch. Many many times I failed to work out how I got home from London.
Or how about not being able to go out after work because I had to get home in time to either work in or actually run my local pub for the night, followed by a lock-in until about three a.m? Sometimes I even only just got home in time to get ready for work, go to work still pissed, get a hangover around lunchtime, and hit the pub again to drink it away. These weren't isolated incidents, it was a lifestyle. It was made worse, probably, because I was a "sprits" man. Three pints and I was done and on the shorts for the rest of the session.
Marriage probably, eventually - she put up with me for much longer than I deserved - saved my life. I missed quite a bit of the first ten years of my marriage because I was too pissed to appreciate it, or remember it, and there's no getting that back.
As I think I've said before, when she passed away I promised myself I wouldn't go back to it and try to lose my pain in a bottle, which would have been far too easy, but would have felt like a betrayal. I don't even fancy a drink these days, and she'll have been gone 4 years in September. Mind you, a lot of that is self-preservation. The few times I've had a drink I woke up feeling like death the morning after.
Right, I think that's quite enough self-flagellation and "confessions of a drunk," for now