Personal Addictions

[3 Colours Red]

Crinkle cut, I trust?

Nah, that was the kind of frivolity I could only pine for.

[NickSTFU]

The internet and masturbation.

Not at the same time I hasten to add.

[Moonlight Shadow]

Cheese, nicotine (in liquid form), endorphines, hiking footwear

[Satchmo Distel]

Swearing and trying to make people laugh.

Diet Coke and crisps in combination. Can't have one with the other.

For a long time, as a student, I was addicted to extra strong mints. Took a long time to wean off.

[San Bernardhinault]

I think I may actually be addicted to pizza. This is not a "I really like it" kind of thing, although obviously that's true. It's that if someone is discussing food and pizza comes up, or if we're choosing what to eat and someone suggests pizza and then we go for Thai food, I get kind of upset and antsy. The word pizza is basically a trigger for me that only gets untriggered when I eat pizza.

[hobbes]

The internet and masturbation.

Not at the same time I hasten to add.

But they were made for each other!

[WOM]

Yeah, that was sort of an odd thing to 'hasten to add'.

[Satchmo Distel]

It would seem odder to NOT combine those addictions. "I've been Googling for four hours but now need a wank, so I'll log off and go to the next room" - why?

[Belhaven]

Music.

[Logan Mountstuart]

Nicotine, in chewing gum form. Cheese.

And audible books, strong beer and walking. I frequently combine all 3, returning happy, tired, absorbed, but often pissed out my skull.

[Sits]

When walking with strong beer for three hours, do you take water too? I would have a killer dehydration headache if I tried that.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I read that as "walking to the pub" but I could, of course be wrong. There's a first time for everything, after all.

[Hot Pepsi]

Carbs, sleeping late, clothes that aren't expensive but that I don't really need - usually t-shirts, sweatshirts, and what not. I always feel like the ones I have aren't quite right. It's a legit disease or related to my generalized depression and anxiety.

[Logan Mountstuart]

When walking with strong beer for three hours, do you take water too? I would have a killer dehydration headache if I tried that.

Of course not. I'm English. I deliberately go out when the sun is at it's zenith.

[Jah Womble]

It would seem odder to NOT combine those addictions. "I've been Googling for four hours but now need a wank, so I'll log off and go to the next room" - why?

Oh I don't know, a friend of mine - no, really - 'prints out' and goes to another room. I imagine either his bedroom or bathroom.

Whichever, I kind of wish he'd not told us that.

[hobbes]

Does he also laminate the page first?

[Jah Womble]

I'd not be surprised.

Rather that than 'after', anyway...

[Benjm]

Does pornography have its own version of vinyl (record) enthusiasts, who reckon that the rustle of paper adds warmth and authenticity to their self abuse?

[Jah Womble]

Possibly. Though in my friend's case, he did so because he was terrified of his other half finding out.

I believe that this turned to blind panic when somebody pointed out that there was such a thing as a 'search history'.

[Stumpy Pepys]

I believe that this turned to blind panic when somebody pointed out that there was such a thing as a 'search history'.

There are also such things as user accounts and private browsing.

[treibeis]

Does pornography have its own version of vinyl (record) enthusiasts, who reckon that the rustle of paper adds warmth and authenticity to their self abuse?

I was talking to a couple of regulars a while back about nudey books. They were convinced that they no longer exist in any great numbers, whereas I wasn't so sure.

Because customer service is writ large at the hut, I ended up visiting a few of the "supermarkets" on the Reeperbahn. And, lo and behold, they're still there - maybe not in their thousands, but still in their hundreds.

I was tempted, fleetingly, to buy a copy of "Manchmal muss es Kotze sein" for the reading table at the hut, but decided against it. Far too expensive, and it would only have got nicked anyway.

[ursus arctos]

There are still grot shoppes on the edges of Times Square, too.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Here too. I think their clientele must be attracted to the ambience rather than the content.

[WOM]

Technophobes, ironic hipsters and the urban Amish.

[Jah Womble]

There are also such things as user accounts and private browsing.

I know this and you know this...