Tag: Drinking

Random #195

“There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.”

– Guildenstern

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Random #193

“You’d be surprised what lengths people will go to not to face what’s real and painful inside them.”

– Kester Gill

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Draining The Glass

Yet the fantasy

That promises so much

Rarely delivers

In the end

IPA

Beer

Bridging the great divide
between dreams and reality

Since 1993

(Originally Posted 26.04.2019)

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Random #191

“The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.”

– Johnny Marr

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My Saviour

Thank God you came over

She said

I was starting to get bored

Now the real fun begins

He said

Of that you can rest assured

With A Twist

Is
it
too
early
to start
drinking

She
asked

As
this
is
too
much
to bear

That’s
exactly
what
I was
thinking

He
said

As
he
pulled
up a
chair

(Originally Posted 17.04.2020)

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Random #190

‘You know I’m born to lose
And gambling’s for fools
But that’s the way I like it baby
I don’t wanna live for ever!’

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Random #189

“Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life’s easy when you’re a robot.”

– Alasdair Gray

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Random #184

‘You are the bane of my existence. And the object of all my desires’

– Viscount Anthony Bridgerton

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Random #183

‘Sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
So when negativity surrounds
I know some day it’ll all turn around…’

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Random #182

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.”

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Random #181

‘Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come
From out of this world
Leave the real one far behind’

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Random #180

“You know, being approachable isn’t that important, anyway. The Queen hasn’t smiled since the ’70s, and her birthdays are still very well attended.”

– David Rose

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Fridays

Still,

It’s fun at the time

Two Day Hangovers

You can take a tablet

To halt a head ache

You can eat a sandwich

To settle a queasy stomach

You can sleep a while

To revive your weary bones

But the self loathing?

That shit lingers inside your head for days

And there’s nothing you can do to help that

God, hangovers are awful

(Originally Posted 18.03.2019)

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Random #178

‘When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep as the North Sea. But I have lived. And now I do not sleep.’

– John Gardner

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Random #164

‘His loneness is his shell and shield

And neither he, nor we, will yield’

– Julie Holder

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Random #161

‘And if you’re in love
Then you are the lucky one
‘Cause most of us are bitter
Over someone
Setting fire to our insides for fun
To distract our hearts
From ever missing them
But I’m forever missing him

And you caused it…’

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Random #158

‘Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.’

– Mineko Iwasaki

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Random #155

‘We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
Sin’ auld lang syne.’

– Robert Burns

4

Resolute

“New year, new me”

Is that what you want me to say?

Well, I’m not pretending

I’ll get a happy ending

Just like any other Friday

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Random #150

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

– Carl Jung

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Random #148

“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”

– Bruce Lee

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El Paradiso

You find me here alone
Broken and desolate

With nothing to call my own
Except for beer and regret

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Random #146

‘I’ve fallen down another rung of the ladder, and I know I’ve got a fight on my hands‘

– Sean Hughes

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Random #141

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are dry;
Oh! if you felt the pain I feel!
But oh, who ever felt as I!

– Sappho (7th Century BC)
Translated by Walter Savage Landor

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Random #140

‘Chimes sing Sunday morn
Today’s the day she’s sworn
To steal what she never could own
And race from this hole she calls home‘

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Random #138

‘Where are the roses
And whispered sighs
Where are the compliments
And dreaming eyes
It doesn’t matter you see
I know you love me
And real basic love never dies’

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Random #137

“It’s such a lie that you should do what’s in your heart. If we all did what was in our hearts, the world would grind to a halt.”

– Angela Chase

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Nothing In Return

Why don’t you just come over

He said

Sit with us and have some fun

I’d rather drink alone

She said

When all is said and done

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Random #133

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

– Hunter S. Thompson

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