#1) Coffee, about 4 20oz cups of La Colombe a day #2) Smokes, too fookin many around 30 a day #3) VW's, now have 2 Mk1 GTi's and a 2012 Jetta is in the works #4) Bicycles, up to 5 right now (mountain, road, track, 1964 cruiser and BMX) with a cyclocross on it's way from Italy
Another one for Coffee here, look forward to it every morning when i wake up.. sometimes i even start looking forward to it the night before.
Mikil Pane & Ed Sheeran - Little Lady.. i've had this song on for the last 3 days on repeat and not listened to anything else. I have a real addictive personality when it comes to music.
The internet, between this, facebook, twitter and hypebeat i'm never off the thing.. to the point that my reliance on it annoys me.
Smoking - I've cut down to ten a day now, but near on impossible to quit. Drinking - Have one and I'll be soon enough on me tenth. Coffee - drink far too much, coffee and fag to start the day, can't live without it. Clothes - Make one purchase and it'll turn into three. Betting - Big win will be lost soon enough on new bets, mugs game. Football - Go home and away, city/country. At the Wales game weds, thought to myself ''why do i fucking bother'', but if people like me didn't support Wales, then, no-one would.
If I get a new tattoo it starts me off wanted lots more, thankfully, all the above makes that non-affordable. Glad I'm not into hard drugs!!
Coffee seems to be a popular choice and I'm the same although I dont drink half as much when I'm home as when I'm at work I used to think internet addiction was impossible, but glad to see there are plenty of others on here who constantly click the refresh button too. Thing is, I end up reading the same thread twenty times just because there's a new post on it. Doesn't make much sense. Alcohol as ever, must admit this comes in different forms. Staying off it for days then really enjoying it again. Getting frustrated and humpy when it takes too long to get served. VAT's as soon as you get in. Wine with every meal etc etc Gambling - betfair, in running etc thank god I've managed to break this one but still have a look most days. Much better at going 'nah, leave it alone' though Newspapers used to be a nightmare, couldnt walk past one without reading it. I generally can't stand tabloids but I'd still zip through them. Bit like it with the television news. Clothes take a similar form line to alcohol to a certain extent- feast or famine
Gambling for me too... Can't go a weekend without putting something on. That said I think I could stop if I really wanted to. Up untill mid-June I was somking atleast 20 a day, just decided one day to get fit and completely stopped. Went from 20 a day to nothing the next day and feel much better for it. I did have some cravings, but managed to fuck it off.
Smoking is probably the one I should be most concerned about. Still do about 20 a day, however I've knocked the cigs on the head and got onto rolling my own. Couldn't bare spending nigh on 7 quid a day. Now I buy a big lot of backie from the tobacconist (supporting local business), and smoke that. Spend about a tenner a week.
Gambling was an absolutely massive one. Last year I was in a real mess, throwing money I didn't have into online bookies. Didn't help that the lad I was living with was the same. We used to do this thing; "The Wonga Challenge". Borrow a couple of hundred quid off Wonga which they put in your account within 15 minutes, and tell them you'll pay them back 2 days after you've had it. Stick it all in Paddy Power and off you go. It's win, or face the 2500% APR.
Won loads in the past to be fair, and I reckon I left slightly up after maybe 3 years of having an account. Yes the highs are good, 300, 400, maybe sometimes 1000 quid you didn't expect to have, but the lows hit much harder. When you see that over 3 years thousands upon thousands of pounds have gone in, all that stress, and you only come out of it having won or lost a couple of hundred quid, you realise it ain't worth it. Had all my accounts closed. Still nip in the bookies mind, for the football and the horses, but that was never my problem.
Quote by kuriousoranj We used to do this thing; "The Wonga Challenge". Borrow a couple of hundred quid off Wonga which they put in your account within 15 minutes, and tell them you'll pay them back 2 days after you've had it. Stick it all in Paddy Power and off you go. It's win, or face the 2500% APR.
Funny to see lots of lads saying gambling... I was in exactly the same boat last year, was losing silly money. My wake up call came when I was just about talked out of sticking a grand on Arsenal to beat West Brom at the Emirates...
Sadly my vice at the moment is modern warfare 2 on the xbox,on it nearly every day and i'm still shit Don't drink as much as i used to due to shift work and never gambled .Used to be going to the football every week but thats in the past now.
Currently trawling through the internet and having a weird mind blank thing where I go back to a forum and refresh every two minutes without even glancing at the page like a madman, probably due to boredom and spending too much time on the laptop. I'm also into drinking too much water at the moment, too much water isn't good for you apparently.
A mate of mine had a real problem with online gambling. He just turned 18 and was on Ladbrokes, Hills, Betfair and Bet 365. He would text me regularly saying he just won £201 on some obscure lords of the rings game or a weird slots game. He got properly addicted, lost his job and lost in the region of £600, which may not seem a lot to some, but its still £600 gone from an 18 yr olds life. In the end he closed all his online accounts. I myself only bet on the football and don't touch online betting. I keep tabs on what I'm winning and I'm actually break even.
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Don't drink as much as i used to due to shift work and never gambled .Used to be going to the football every week but thats in the past now.
