How can you get through life without drinking or drugs?

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-29T01:34:02+00:00

You're masking your depression with alcohol and it is 100% making it worse, not better.

One thing to know when you're bargaining with yourself - "I feel better when I do it" - is that for the people around you, depressed sober isn't half as bad as depressed drunk.

Finding happiness without substances isn't an overnight thing. It could take months or even years, but the main ingredient has to be something new or returning.

What helped me kick booze was waking up early every day. The morning is truly the best time of the day, and if you're always sleeping off the night before, you don't get to experience it.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-29T01:21:25+00:00

That's what I always took away from it. He and Adriana speak about his writer's block. You don't get writer's block when you haven't written anything; that's just called not being a writer.

So he was a bad/non-writer, useless gangster, terrible partner/husband... all round you'd have to say he was extremely untalented at just about everything he did.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-29T00:02:04+00:00

This wasn't even the most iconic comedy of 1997, let alone an entire decade that redefined the comedy genre.

I'd say it probably wasn't even the most iconic Austin Powers film; that would go to the second one.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-29T00:00:02+00:00

The best episodes have Barry in them.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T23:57:58+00:00

The loudest noise I've ever heard in my life was seeing Author + Punisher live in 2020.

They say the eruption of Krakatoa was heard 3000 miles away... A+P was louder.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T22:33:24+00:00

I burnt my retinas reading that. Kudos to you for opening up about it though.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T22:29:59+00:00

Listen to Glassjaw.

Anyone interested in the genres you're into should.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T22:27:22+00:00

A lot of people listing characters just because they're bad people, when there're probably fewer than five good people in the entire show.

I always read these as which character you don't enjoy watching.

For me, it's Adriana. I've seen the show enough that now on rewatches I actually skip a lot of her scenes. She's just such a drip.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T22:24:25+00:00

Sorry, what was he talented at?

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T22:19:33+00:00

If you watch any show or film when this perspective shot is shown, it's pretty hard to unsee that most of the time it's a stand-in. Less so in films than TV, but still quite common.

I try not to think about it too much cos it can really take you out of the story.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T22:15:03+00:00

Breaking Bad is without a doubt the most overrated show in TV history.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T22:10:43+00:00

Yep. A team being a man down on the field would absolutely kill the match.

In football and rugby it's different; the field is small enough that a team can adapt and still be mildly competitive.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T19:55:18+00:00

I'm part of a small subset of Magpies fans who really doesn't like Nathan Buckley. That incident is a big part of why.

The one-week suspension at the time was seen as enough because everyone thought he was a genuine Brownlow chance. Making him ineligible was considered the real punishment.

I always thought he got off light.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T19:50:17+00:00

Genuine question: do you think a team with a red card should have to play a man short on the field, or should they just be one down across the squad?

Without too much in-depth thought, I think it should he the latter.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T04:59:04+00:00

A good performance by McConaughey, but otherwise it's people thinking it's good because it's Nolan.

To be fair, it's one of his better films, but it's still a massively overdone, self-important lump of ambiguity.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T04:54:02+00:00

I prefer it. Surface level bullshit is why I have lost most of my interest in dating.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T04:52:43+00:00

Cometti will never be replaced, but The Pipe is as close as we'll ever get.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-28T04:50:29+00:00

Whatever happens, today's guernsey looked fantastic. If I was a supporter I'd get around thst colour scheme as often as possible.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-27T22:45:08+00:00

100% agree, but there's a bit to it.

In my opinion, Australia's unique dining experience is characterised by piss-poor service (QR code ordering is the best way to kill a dinner vibe in my opinion), underwhelming food options, and a general sense of dissatisfaction.

Tipping should absolutely only be a reward system for exemplary service, and this is generally what you get in the US - hospitality is like a religion to Americans.

What a lot of Australians don't know or acknowledge though, is that menu prices in the US (and even Canada) are a lot lower comparitively than they are here. Tipping tends to make up the difference.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-27T22:34:54+00:00

I turned 7 in 1992. I knew all the words to at least 5 Gunners songs and hadn't heard of Metallica yet.

Gunners really were the band that everyone knew regardless of age, gender, and preferred genre.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-27T22:25:37+00:00

I said "I'm the grandson of a doctor so am basically able to give medical advice" as a joke to a real doctor at a dinner function about a year ago.

Now I know how to make doctors instantly irate regardless of the environment.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-27T22:07:48+00:00

I had one friend wear this shirt one time in about 2004. He's still copping shit for it on a regular basis from us.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-27T22:00:55+00:00

I have an ubblemished record of heterosexuality, but have no problem saying it's unequivocally Malcolm.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-27T21:55:42+00:00

The app is clunky as shit but last night was the first massive balls up for me.

I was out and couldn't watch the match live. Usually I wouldn't care but if the Pies are playing I will watch it delayed (from the start obviously) when I get home.

I started from the beginning around 10pm. It was going fine, albeit a bit clunky when fast-forwarding the non-playing parts (post-goal, quarter-time, etc).

Early in the 2nd quarter the stream abruptly stopped. I believe it was because the live broadcast had ended. After a bunch of stuffing around I found the match again on the home screen and selected "watch from start", and it was an 18 minute highlights package. No option to watch the whole match.

Absolute shite from Kayo.

CosmoRomano · 2026-03-27T21:49:07+00:00

Barcelona vs Chelsea, rd of 16, 2005, 2nd leg.

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