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What Are You Drinking? v. The Milk Of Human Kindness

wibble said:
Doesn't stop binge drinking regularly being really bad for you.

I suppose it depends on your motivations for getting getting drunk too. I remember my mum telling me I needed to watch my drinking at a time when I was going out and getting completely shitfaced regularly. I was slightly incensed at the time, but I wasn't actually drinking for fun I was drinking to escape so she had a point really.
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Feel the same myself, always thought people worrying about my drinking were just getting at me for the sake of it but holy shit I wish I'd listened. Completely got it under control now, have a couple beers or gins after work once a week or so and haven't been drunk (bar a weird episode on four beers the other night) for nearly two months. Took a fucking long time though, even from me realising it really needed to stop at the age of about 24 or so. Slowwwwwly getting back to being in good shape but I was a mess for years and it's amazing my liver is fine. That was the point I decided to quit binge drinking fucking constantly tbh, as I'd stopped drinking nearly every day but was still overdoing it up til about March, when I had tests for diabetes and stuff and the doctor told me my liver and kidneys were fine, I had hella low cholesterol etc. Thought 'well fuck me I've done all that to myself and I'm ok, been lucky, slow down now'.

Ordered shit loads of bubble tea stuff, legit excited so I bet it doesn't arrive for weeks now.
 
£20 could do you a half decent night (8 pints of Stella) what's the average price for a pint now £4-5??....I've even seen cans of special brew for £2.70!! (Always look at the booze prices its the alky in me)
 
koneko said:
Wow x that reminds of Casablanca down at the sea in the evening when the women weren't allowed out...but still. I did it.

Grapefruit squash.
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I never got to Casablanca but I did get to enjoy exploring outside of Tangier to the east and the south a bit, also before it became what I'm led to believe is a bit of a tourist trap / royal holiday paradise these days. I visited the place where william burroughs wrote bits of naked lunch aswell. Getting lost in the medina was great fun. I will have to go back some time!

Moar mint tea!
 
Tea.

I got lost in the medina in Marrakesh and followed the sun to retrace my steps. I thought that was extremely clever at the time (a 'guide' had dumped me and my gf because we hadn't spent enough to earn him commission).

Oh and they thought I was mental for drinking mint tea without sugar. Had to fight them off putting sugar in it. "You smoke hash, you must have sugar!"
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Tea.

I got lost in the medina in Marrakesh and followed the sun to retrace my steps. I thought that was extremely clever at the time (a 'guide' had dumped me and my gf because we hadn't spent enough to earn him commission).

Oh and they thought I was mental for drinking mint tea without sugar. Had to fight them off putting sugar in it. "You smoke hash, you must have sugar!"
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Must have been worried about you throwing a whitey SHM.
 
hah I remember the guides being a bit much in terms of pestering, and in the end getting 'lost' and wandering about all afternoon down strange alleyways with random beautifully painted walls turns out to be the best way to see the place.

I do like the sugar in the tea though.

The way I make it is 1 green tea bag, fistful of bruised fresh mint, and a couple of cloves in the teapot....and a couple of teaspoons of unrefined sugar per cup just for the extra zing.
 
warriorOnTheEdge said:
Must have been worried about you throwing a whitey SHM.
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I could tell you an incredibly long story about smoking hash in Marrakesh but it'd be tl;dr on this website. Long story short let's just say that was one of the most paranoid moments of my life. Set and bloody setting for real.

Ceres said:
hah I remember the guides being a bit much in terms of pestering, and in the end getting 'lost' and wandering about all afternoon down strange alleyways with random beautifully painted walls turns out to be the best way to see the place.
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Emboldened for truth. Too right Ceres. The guides just invite hassle.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
I could tell you an incredibly long story about smoking hash in Marrakesh but it'd be tl;dr on this website. Long story short let's just say that was one of the most paranoid moments of my life. Set and bloody setting for real.



Emboldened for truth. Too right Ceres. The guides just invite hassle.
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I went alone with long curly blonde hair, I was not short of attention shall we say=D

Tempted for a short break in Chefchaouen, see if the old contacts are still kicking about.
 
Ceres said:
I never got to Casablanca but I did get to enjoy exploring outside of Tangier to the east and the south a bit, also before it became what I'm led to believe is a bit of a tourist trap / royal holiday paradise these days. I visited the place where william burroughs wrote bits of naked lunch aswell. Getting lost in the medina was great fun. I will have to go back some time!

Moar mint tea!
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Naked Lunch, a love of the Clash never mind hash inspired me to drag my arse out there parts %)

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I had really nice mint tea and pancakes in Mouley Idris.

I liked Fez and Meknes better than Marrakesh which is a tourist shit hole.
 
koneko said:
a love of the Clash
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Ooh, you may like my next travelpod then.

I liked Fez and Meknes better than Marrakesh which is a tourist shit hole.
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Don't doubt it now the guardianistas have got their claws into it but in 1989 Jemaa el Fna was still a relatively cool place to be. Atlas mountain villages were miles preferable mind.
 
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And before anyone else gets paranoid about posts today, that's a genuine attack on the Guardian, nobody else. Well, maybe them and cheap airlines. Morocco became a 'shopping destination' for weekend travellers about 15 years ago and prices went through the roof in Morocco. Inflation soared and a few benefited whereas most didn't.

I'm not that bothered in a way, was never my favourite country (I find you either love it or hate it, I hate it apart from the mountains) but it certainly swung from independent hippy traveler to Guardian weekend shopping tourist very quickly. I looked up a hotel I stayed in recently. Now, I know about inflation but...what cost me £13 a night then is now £400 a night. That's what I'm talking about.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Ooh, you may like my next travelpod then.

Don't doubt it now the guardianistas have got their claws into it but in 1989 Jemaa el Fna was still a relatively cool place to be. Atlas mountain villages were miles preferable mind.
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I'm 100% sure I will <3 it !

It's still a cool place to be as long as you can get out of the tourist trap bits. I never brought enough water on outings into the hills, practically killed me some of em :| :D

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Edit: agree with your post above shm, but tourism is good for the local economy if it's developed sensitively... another discussion for the campfire one day xxx
 
koneko said:
I'm 100% sure I will <3 it !

It's still a cool place to be as long as you can get out of the tourist trap bits. I never brought enough water on outings into the hills, practically killed me some of em :| :D

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Fantastic. I'll never forget traveling on buses through the mountains (goats and sheep on the roof) and then you'd drop someone off in a place like that, nothing as far as the eye could see, and they'd just walk off into the distance...god knows where.
 
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That is not a "nice" place Evey.

That lady in the pic actually lives there and made her living out of selling stupid folk like me can's of Lemon Fanta if I remember...to stop us getting dehydrated and faint lol as we got off the bus to wander in the hills because we never brought enough supplies - you (me) just couldn't carry it. 8)

Goats n chickens on public transport, oh yeh %)
 
i was lucky enough to be there in the early 90's so it was still pretty unspoilt. There is a wonderful little town called Asilah down the coast from Tangier, short train or cab trip (gotta love those maniac mercedes driving taxi drivers) - when I was there it was so tranquil and now I hear it is a total tourist trap, and that whole stretch of beach going north has been exploited by the royals.

In Tangier we were down at the beach and there was these guys fishing, going out on a boat with a net that someone onthe beach held onto one end, we helped them haul the net back and it was so exciting to see all these random fish.

I do remember the various fizzy drinks purveyors, I believe the brand was 'cigone' or stork, basically 7up, was ubiquitious - but yeah the mint tea was genuinely refreshing.

One year we were there, it happened to be ramadan (i think) and on the bus from the airport to the hotel, we were driving past people roasting sheeps heads on spikes over oildrum fires, there was blood running down the gutters everywhere and the look of total horror on the faces of some of the 'tourists' was priceless, like 'oh my god what is this hell hole'.

I was too young to indulge in the hash and actually someone on the plane sat next to us was a woman flying over to bring a food parcel to her husband who had been imprisoned in morocco for trying to smuggle some hash out.

I loved it coz the place and often the people was completely bonkers at times, but also stunningly beautiful and simple pleasures like drinking freshly pressed orange juice in tiny little patisseries in alleyways are the kind of thing that I will always remember.

Getting itchy feet now reminiscing about all this!
 
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