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Nah, I've been self-employed and driven most of my adult life so I've done alright career-wise (though I'd likely have done better sober). I have always been a functional alcoholic, rarely drinking before evening. My sparkling personality has cost me a few relationships but not the drink. That is related though - I was self-medicating Bipolar for a long time and once I got properly sorted there I eventually figured out I didn't need it any more. As to how bad it was - I'd have a bottle of whiskey most nights for the last few years. Before that, it was two/three bottles of wine a night (wine cheaper than diesel when I was in France!). That all culminated with me ending up in a coma for a couple weeks in 2015 and left me with (miraculously only) an insulin resistance that makes me functionally a diet-controlled diabetic. I should by all rights be dead, should be on permanent dialysis, should be brain damaged (shut up ) but am somehow the fittest I've ever been. I'm reticent to give advice because I'll obviously end up projecting my experience on to you to some extent but personally, I can't have just one/three/five and leave it so it's all or nothing for me. Few will have the problem to the extent that I ended up with but if you're blacking out a couple nights a week then I think you're right to ask questions. That (and a couple other similar comments) did set off a few alarm bells when I read it fwiw. It does suck to have to quit completely but I reached a point where I decided I'd rather never set foot in a pub again than continue this nonsense. And no, I gave up for a couple years in my mid-twenties, so not my longest period dry. From that, I can tell you that spending time in pubs sober is fucking awful (for me at least). I've also had a few weeks here and there where I've not touched a drop, so being able to say that isn't necessarily your get-out-of-jail-free card because as you have probably worked out by now, I had a bit of a problem. Hopefully, that can all serve as a warning to others and I've been pretty lucky. Feel free to PM me about any of it. Good luck with it, you giant fanny.

Makes Father Stone look like the life and soul of the party.

We've just about managed all these years without it tbf. This var from all I've seen of it so far is definitely taking something away from the game, a goal goes in and you half feel people looking around to see whether there's going to be a look at it and refs walking around looking at a screen while everyone waits around. It's fucking bollocks, man. The goal line technology seems to work fine and is instant so that's great but I just think this is spoiling the whole event of a goal being scored.

On the subject of keepers, I've never seen this save from Willie McFaul before. The Fairs Cup Final 2nd leg. @3.40

Have you considered that you might be Teen Wolf?

Yeah, we also managed in the 19th century with workhouses and smallpox but things move on.

Extraordinary punting performance here last night: Backed Ronaldo top goalscorer pre tournament at 14/1 in a deal that gets you £5 every time your pick scores. Backed Ronaldo and Costa both to score at 7/1 Backed Costa Anytime Goalscorer at 6/4. I mean if anyone wants any tips for today's games, I think you know where to come. And I didn't cash any of the fuckers out for £1 either.

I’ll tell you what like, they pick some odd things to be principled about.

Someone obviously forgot to tell Jedinak he's moved clubs.

Shiny?

Start quoting Garfield on Mondays as a form of protest mate

Sometimes. It's a fine line between keeping your staff happy by being flexible and not letting them take the piss though I do wonder whether wyki's boss would have been more accommodating if he didn't kick off at work every fortnight

His patter stinks like

Bet he's a hoot on the after dinner circuit

https://twitter.com/StewartTweets?s=09 Comedy gold

worst comparison ever award goes to....^

Still looks fine to me, like.

England getting twatted off Iceland doesn't look so bad now, sort of.

Var is shite, correct decisions or not.

Phil Neville is hemorrhoids if they took on human form.

Why not try taking a punt on getting some mates?

Can get your big shop and a pasty from their centre halves

He looks like he just got off shift with the Policia

not all day.

you're on the internet, surely there must be a way of looking it up.

On an unrelated note, the missus asked her cousin who was finishing a minor fix the other day about a job you'd probably get a roofer for despite me telling her it wasn't a sparkey's job the week before. Wife: (explains job). Wife's sparkey cousin: "To be honest you'd probably want a roofer for that." Me:

ARE YOU WATCHING THE WORLD CUP, RAFA!!!!!?????!!!!!!!