Gibberings CL: Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety

[Albion]

The C can be whatever you want it to be, man.

And I like my meth on the Catholic side anyway. Force of habit.

 

[knock]

Swampy or Sam please explain why androids dream of electric sheep and don't just count them like "normal" people.

 

[ColtDan]

Catholic meth is amazing

 

[ColtDan]

 

[Sammy G]

Swampy or Sam please explain why androids dream of electric sheep and don't just count them like "normal" people.

Read the fucking book! You'll like it. I guarantee.

You can have my copy if necessary!

 

[knock]

so it's not just philip being a dick and fucking up his references?

OK I'll read it! Have you read "The Penultimate Truth"? I liked that. I liked the cover anyway. Not sure I've read it

 

[swampdragon]

OK I'll read it! Have you read "The Penultimate Truth"? I liked that. I liked the cover anyway. Not sure I've read it

Brilliant book review.

Not read that one, actually. *adds to list*

 

[knock]

"Always judge a book by it's cover". That's what they say.

 

[Albion]

Catholic meth is amazing

 

[Shambles]

Pretty sure, Shambles, that setting fire to your kitchen is just your way of maintaining expected eccentricity? Hoping so anyway! You should leave it a bit longer after announcing your strategies :D

Ha! Giving away trade secrets to all and sundry here ><

Aye, you probably had a quiet day up until that point anyway.

:D

This diphenidine shit is a creeper

Oh yeah. Was gonna mention that it seemed to jump several notches a couple hours or so in. However, that was also around the time I took the 6-APDB and a lil diphenidine top-up so wasn't 100% on wot woz doing wot at that stage

Will remedy the Cronenberg thingy as long as you cease the pyrotechnics at chez Sham

\o/

Promise not to burn it

(and kewl - thanks )

In Philip K Dick news, watched a few documentaries on him recently. Top chap so he is. And the fact that the term "Phil Dickian" is now apparently considered fair game :D

 

[knock]

Brilliant book review.

Not read that one, actually. *adds to list*

This is the cover of my copy. (I just realised it has been released with about 10 different covers! So make sure you get the right one!)

 

[Raasyvibe]

Sorry to dig back several pages here, but there's so much utter shite posted within 2 hours that's gone over my head.

Dan. Weekend drugs arrived today. Sooooooooooo tempted. But really shouldn't cos I've got a meeting with key worker at 9am and need to pass a drugtest to boot. Arsery. Ah well. Need to be working on willpower anyway. Will be impressed if I last all the way to the weekend though. It's only just halfway

I don't know if it's just me, but I cannot keep drugs. H is the worst. I could never save it "for the weekend", if it's in the house I'd have to smoke it. Wouldn't be able to sleep knowing it's there. Alcohol I'm bad with too: can't understand people who can store wine in a cabinet and leave it. Weed on the other hand can stay untouched for months, im not a keen stoner.

Got huge respect for those people, there is no way you could pay me to do that job due to the danger factor, long hours, hard work, weather etc.
Free Cod aint that bad though.

Aye, 19 hr days in a force 7 gale, and then coming home with no fish to sell, and all the ships expenses to pay regardless can sometimes be a bit of a pisser. 14 days grueling work and you owe £3k lol (But it's good when it's good and my dad was very successful) ....

He was a twat as a dad tho and was mainly on the piss for the weeks they were in shore.

Living on the south Coast I know a lot of Fisherman personally. They do pretty well for money, a fisherman was telling me last week that the price of fish has recently gone up and they're all on really good money. £30k-40k a year for the crew, and boat owners are loaded. Earn far more than your lawyers, doctors and teachers.

Considering most of them are thugs who failed their GCSE's it's quite shocking. They do drink and drug hard when they come home from sea. It's a work hard and play hard ethic for all the fisherman I've met.

They're generally a wayward lot: Some of them thugs, a lot of them foreigners looking for work, however some of them are pretty hilarious, legendary characters.

Not too keen on industrial fishing myself though. But these guys are fucking loaded because too few people question where their birdseye fish fingers come from or what's happening to the environment. Even MailMonkey agrees with me on this.

 

[Bare_head]

Ket always leaves me not feeling tired :-( i winder if i cud slip this 2mg of melatonin under my tounge and it might help me switch off a bit? Cnt sleep fr shitttt, needs to wake up in time to make an etizolam ordrer :-(

 

[Dr_Robotnik]

Well I'm onto a winner got 5hrs solid sleep last night somehow up by 7am showered 2 eggs and a cup of tea with 100mg speed in it. A Perfect way to start your day

 

[Marmalade]

Living on the south Coast I know a lot of Fisherman personally. They do pretty well for money, a fisherman was telling me last week that the price of fish has recently gone up and they're all on really good money. £30k-40k a year for the crew, and boat owners are loaded. Earn far more than your lawyers, doctors and teachers.

Considering most of them are thugs who failed their GCSE's it's quite shocking. They do drink and drug hard when they come home from sea. It's a work hard and play hard ethic for all the fisherman I've met.

They're generally a wayward lot: Some of them thugs, a lot of them foreigners looking for work, however some of them are pretty hilarious, legendary characters.

Not too keen on industrial fishing myself though. But these guys are fucking loaded because too few people question where their birdseye fish fingers come from or what's happening to the environment. Even MailMonkey agrees with me on this.

HRMN

the price of fish, to my knowledge has gone down over the last few years, at least for fish being caught by the select Danes my dad still knows landing here and the few boats still sailing out of port here. The ones you're talking about that do land here (which I highly doubt are Seiners) I'd hazard get a better price here, because their own country has managed their fishing stocks and quota systems well (our govt hasn't), so the prices there are kept stable and fairly low over there. The boats/people you may be refering to sound like large industrial boats coming in from foreign waters, landing foreign fish here.

Re the MM comment. (and from a UK based perspective) I'd look up the difference between a Trawler and a Seiner in terms of commercial/industrial fishing. MY dad and all my family worked on Seiners, and from the late 80's onwards had strict quota's, before their boats began getting paid to be decommisioned, after the govt realised they'd fucked up and not protected our waters from foreign boats, unlike, say, Iceland has. They also used very specific net sizes, so young fish weren't caught accidently. My dad did anyhow.

Being a vegetarian for 20+ years, I'm not a fan of commercial fishing either really. I certainly don't agree with trawler fishing. It totally ruins the seabed and destroys everything in it's path.

As for the thugary, that's not my experience at all. Maybe that's them dirty 'foreigners' or summat. And believe me, I know and am very familiar with the 'scuzzy' end of town, which is the first strip of shops (and mainly Pubs) that lead from the docks which was the 1st home of the crews (and my dad). Thugary wasn't really a part of their lifestyle, ever, that I can remember, and I know a lot of the crews there. (you come in and pick up 1k after working your arse off for 14 days straight, you want to drink and have fun, not fight and be an asshole .. erm, nor be a dad or pander to a nagging wife or deal with home issues, but I digress).

As I say, it's a dead industry here now (I think here was literally one of the biggest ports in the world at one time), we're talking dead for 10 years at least, poss 15, poss longer. I always feel comfortable with the guys who used to fish, still do, and feel comfortable walking around that area on my own, always have. It was actually pretty community spirited. It's a Hi-rises and towerblock area too.

My bro had no GCSEs/Olevels, but he managed to pass his nautical exams cos they were practicals. Most of the crews were uneducated but certainly not thugs. Not the ones I knew anyway. They were all pretty shitty at being parents and husbands tho, I'll give yer that. They had to go on courses for safety and all sorts tho, so not completely uneducated.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

I know fishermen with little boats are corruptable.

 

[Shambles]

Mornin, all

Bah. Early start at Chez Sham. Keyworker meeting and drugtest. My favourite way to start any day

In fishyboaty news, I know nowt of such things. But Mz Marmz' post up there put me in mind of this which me granny used to sing to me when I was teenytiny. Once side of me family is from the north-east (Sunderland, I do believe) so I suppose it's not that odd to sing 'bout waiting for fisherfamily returning despite me living about as far as it is possible to get from the coast in the UK around that time.

And no, I don't have a north-east accent. But the fishydishy song always did make me

Righty. Off and out. Catch y'all later.

 

[Mendo_K]

Do you watch much of "trawlermen" then the tv series, shocking how they have to throw back all that dead fish because they have accidently caught too much,, complete waste? Find it pretty interesting.

Just re adjusting my body clock back into a routine, my body knows im cheating with diaz, keep waking up every hour. Was sick of getting up past 4pm though and bed at 7-9am. I got a GP appointment, Spinal specialist appointment then physio later, will work out today if my treatment will work or of I am going to be an empty man feeling sorry for myself for the rest of my life.

 

[Shambles]

^ Good luck with your appointment, Mendo

Am back. Briefly. No drugtest for me yet it seems. Told him I can't piss on cue so he'd need to bring saliva tests too. Gotta sit and drink fluids and go back in an hour. Dunno how folk do pisstests. Never could see how anyone could perform on demand like that.

 

[Sammy G]

Can't imagine pissing to order. Well, not for the NHS anyhow. Unless they were to provide a few beers beforehand.

Reminds me, I have to book an appointment to review my last blood test. Then book the next blood test. Fun, fun, fun.