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A £20,000 shed is all you need.

Of course it's all the cripples and drains on society that's getting it first. FFS.

I've stopped drinking, it's helped in that I don't get the feeling of acute anxiety I had the morning after, but nothing else. A planned drink I had last weekend confirmed I'm better off not drinking, but that alone isn't a solution. A pharmacological cure might help like KCG says. Always been reluctant to take that route though, I don't always practice what I preach. I can handle most things wrong in my life ar the moment, just about. I literally hate my boss and work, worried about my sister and parents, the kids suffering like most other kids are at the moment. But only with the support of my partner. When things go wrong there too what do you do? You're stuck physically and mentally in a bad place, which makes everything else worse. And you can't escape, ever, not even to have a pint with a mate. Can't even zoom really as there's no privacy. I just have to keep going I guess, hope things get better.

Tl;dr

You seem to be getting more mellow. Everything okay?

Well at least someone did.

Aye, it's shite. Getting out to run/walk is the nearest thing I've got to a workable reset button, but not having left the immediate neighbourhood since mid-October means I'm desperately short on variety. Feels like I know every bump in every pavement by now. Funnily enough, discovering the local cemeteries has been one bonus, even if they're not the most obvious place to hang out during a global pandemic. Channel that inner goth! It's worth saying that I've also had a few wobbles drink-wise during the various lockdowns, which those of you who know me can imagine I'm not thrilled about. While it's never gone any further than that and I don't feel at any real risk of reverting to old habits, I took the most recent occasion as a prompt to start dropping in on a weekly meeting with the same mutual aid group that worked really well for me when I first kicked the drink back in the day (not AA, I don't believe in powerlessness), and that's already helped a lot - which I think is a lesson for all of us at the minute to be honest. Like Bob Hoskins said, it's good to tawk, even if it's just to realise that tons of people are in the same boat and it's okay to be feeling shit about it all. Fortunately my job doesn't revolve around Zoom meetings, mind, or I'm not sure I could face another one outside of work hours.

Aye. I want the pub and I want my dad to see my son growing up. Preferably whilst I’m in the pub.

Rush LimbURGHHHH!, more like

Rents, not being a smart arse but man maybe have a spliff occasionally. It’s less damaging than the drink & might help with any pain your auto immune might give you. With everything going on in the world and all the extra with your personal life you need to not be as hard on yourself, easier said than done I know, but fuck, mate there is only so much we can control, we’re really all just along for the ride. Thing will improve, make sure you’re strong enough once we get out the other side.

W!

Cracking cuisine though.

Watching Fulham, and their desire to actually improve the club with a manager who tries to play positive football, it’s probably best for everyone that our husk of a sporting institution go down instead

At last, some good news.

Rush Limbaugh. Rest in hell.

You can’t send drugs in an email. DICKHEAD.

Cavapoo motherfucker. Macho macho dog.

Nailed on Gemmill is getting a Pug, btw- genetically fucked and barely able to breathe.

Absolutely mental the number of feebs on Toontastic. Anyone know if Newcastle-Online is still going, just as a contingency plan?

From the lad about to do a Cummings to pick up another furry shit-machine, requiring constant feeding and poop retrieval, in return for it parking it’s hoop on your face to wake you up.

It’s baffling that Ashley will spunk millions on a useless piece of shit like joelinton - a huge transfer fees and wages - and not a decent manager. The incremental cost in wages must be comparatively minor to signing a mediocre player but the return - even just guaranteeing PL status - would be tremendous. Just someone like Eddie Howe who seems competent and sober, unlike our present manager. Also the refusal to invest in the academy - the epitome of short sighted stupidity and a false economy when he’s owned the club for something like 15 years. tldr - our owner is a stupid fat wanker

I think, on the contrary, Ashley will micromanage everything. Every strategy (or non-strategy more like) at the club, whether it be outsourcing match day revenue streams or not spending a penny on the academy or spending a ludicrous amount of money on a shite player then loaning players when we’re in the shite has his grubby little hands all over it

I'm gonna look very rude if you weren't talking to me.

Gemmill's not had his yet.

They should let the vaccinated lads go to the pub. That’s what they should do.

They look like mummified anchovies.

First vaccine booked

But aye, as soon as we're allowed to travel for exercise again I'm straight off to the nearest hills or the coast, even if it has to be Southend or frigging Margate. Anything for a change of scene.

It’s a bleak as fuck like, shite not seeing your friends and if I see my family it’s more often than not from a distance or in the capacity of a carer. Im hoping for some lighter nights soon and as I’m missing the gym I think I’m actually going to try running again, which will be tragic for a while. At the moment I’m drinking too much as well, not strong stuff. (Guinness mainly) but nearly every night. Ive done a lot more cooking like and that helps but I’m pining for a drink in a pub or a trip to the lakes with a friend. (See below for awesome cheese & bacon wraps [VG]) 😎

We also have false number 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9s as well.

Is anyone else’s head just battered by the current situation? Feel knackered but then can’t sleep. Knocked the drink on the head since new year and that’s not helping. Life seems to revolve around my site visits where I get to leave the house, the rest of the time I’m sat in fucking pointless zoom meetings that could have been emails. Got about 8 weeks until the builders have finished and we have a working kitchen, which would be fine if it was want costing us every penny we had spare. I just want to go to the pub with my mates.

As if anyone in Wigan knows what fruit is.

That is indeed a Pie Barm.

I’ve never met anyone from Wigan that wasn’t unhinged.

Rest in Piss.

I am so glad that we have nothing to worry about...

You reckon? *In the office after we go down. Ashley-“ Right then Penfold, we need a bloke with plenty of experience in the Championship, not too pricey, happy to bend over when told to…” Penfold… ( seriously though, he’s precisely the kind of cunt Ashley would look for to get us back up).

Bill Werbenuik was a fucking beast From his wiki page; ”Some of Werbeniuk's most famous feats of drinking include: 76 cans of lager during a game with John Spencer in Australia in the 1970s;89 pints of lager in a snooker match/drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair in which, after Sinclair had passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say "I'm away to the bar now for a proper drink";28 pints of lager and 16 whiskies over the course of 11 frames during a match against Nigel Bond, in January 1990 – after which Werbeniuk then consumed an entire bottle of Scotch to "drown his sorrows" after losing the match.”

It’s honestly the most baffling thing about Ashley. We know he doesn’t give a fuck as long as the team manage to stay in the PL, but his constant desire to do it as cheaply as fucking possible to such an extreme that it becomes a gamble is just bizarre. I know Bruce comes cheap for a PL manager but surely the cost between him and a more competent manager, like Howe, would barely be noticeable on the books of a PL club and it would be far less of a gamble. How is the saving of what is likely around £1m or so a year worth this level of risk? Especially as like you point out this wouldn’t be the first relegation due to this cheapness.

Here’s one to wind EVERYONE up

Tickles me that a state that prides itself on rugged outdoorsy burly blokes isn't handling a black out. Aren't they all survivalists, hunters and cowboys?

I think he’ll sack him if we go down. But not before. Although possibly not even then. Second guessing the owner is a pointless task though. Virtually every decision he makes defies logic

I don’t think cost should be an issue

Funny how so few managers walk away when they realise the gig is up these days. The likes of Villas-Boas aside, anyway. Almost like this merry-go-round of “ex-pros” are just as big mercenaries as some players.