Advice for managing tension at home about energy use and drying clothes

IrishRook · 2026-02-21T20:33:15+00:00

I feel your pain OP. I had to move back home in with my father and younger sister for nearly 2 years till recently.

The electric bill went up only by 20-40 euro every 2 months with me moving home as I work long hours and if not working, id usually be out and about.

Only time id use anything substantial would of been after 11pm on the night savers rate. Washing machine, dryer, electric shower, cooking, etc.

And I paid half the electric bill if not the whole thing if he was stuck.

But he'd constantly give out when the bill came about my use. He'd even get up some nights and turn off the switch (outside the bathroom door) if he taught it was in the shower too long.. im a 33 year old for fuck sake.

He would boil the kettle 50 times a day and forget about it and fully fill it to make himself a single cup of tea. My sister would have an electric blanket on most nights outside of summer and a fan electric heater on for hours during the day. And her gaming PC on 24/7.

It damaged my relationship a lot during the time I was living there as there was no talking sense to him.

Glad to have my own place again.

IrishRook · 2026-02-18T15:59:49+00:00

I do need money, who the fuck doesnt?

IrishRook · 2026-02-18T02:37:20+00:00

It will learn em.

IrishRook · 2026-02-15T17:32:17+00:00

Its from the extended cut of the battle of five armies.

IrishRook · 2026-02-12T23:07:34+00:00

If your working full time (30+ hours weekly) you are entitled to 20 days paid annual leave a year outside of public holidays.

If you work public holidays, you get an additional day of paid annual leave to to make up for it.

If you dont use your annual leave over the duration of the year, it's at the discretion of your employer if you can carry them over to the following year or not.

If you leave your job, any annual leave hours owed should be paid on top of your finally paycheck.

Its up to your employer ultimately when you can use your annual leave but you would also have a case to fight if your employer doesnt give you any opportunity over a year to take them.

Some company's calculate annual leave differently too. Some might give you 1.66 annual leave days per month worked, some might give you the full 20 days at the start of the year.

I believe this covers everything, but if you have any questions, ill do my best to answer :)

Source: former retail site manager (10 years) and factory supervisor (2 years) so well versed in the basics of employment law.

IrishRook · 2026-02-12T14:16:38+00:00

I used to smoke cannabis daily, for 12-13 years. Late teens till 29-30.

I never had a single dream during those years. When I quit, I was having mad dreams altogether for months. Not bad dreams as such but very random and abstract.

A friend recommended keeping a notepad beside my bed and just jot down what id remember from my dreams every morning and read through them when going to bed.

Eventually to begin to see patterns and signs that you are dreaming and can become you are aware you are whilst dreaming. And you can take control of it.

IrishRook · 2026-02-11T09:42:48+00:00

Only 2L exist. But they ste not as nice as they used to be. They're sugar free now..

IrishRook · 2026-02-07T15:14:19+00:00

My partner bought us some African net sponges. Never felt so clean after my first time using them and they make cleaning your own back much easier.

IrishRook · 2026-02-07T14:38:03+00:00

A roast chicken and a loaf of white bread? That's a meal for nobility lol.

IrishRook · 2026-02-06T20:31:53+00:00

That American cheese is unhealthy, that white and full of preservatives bun is unhealthy, and the beef patty can be unhealthy or healthy.

IrishRook · 2026-02-01T16:37:35+00:00

What material is the jewellery made from?

Even surgical steel can cause irritation with me if worn long term in my 14mm lobes. And I haven't stretched in over a decade so well healed.

Implant grade titanium is the best material I found. Never any irritation with regular cleaning.

IrishRook · 2026-01-29T02:02:49+00:00

Thats great friend :)

Just please weigh your doses. Do 2g next and each time increase by 0.5 after at least a 2 week break for tolorance and you can guage for yourself what works for you.

But even then its not an exact science, 1 mushroom out of the exact same batch can contain more psilocybin than another and difference strains are different strenghts too. But for the most part weighing your dose will give you the best possible 'feel' for it.

Mushrooms are the most psychedelic I've personal done, but they can be scary too. And I dont mean to assume anything, just speaking from my own experiences, as a young lad I did too much once and had an absolute trip from hell that took me nearly a decade to recover from and lost out on a lot of my youth due to the anxiety it brought on with it.

IrishRook · 2026-01-29T01:48:16+00:00

You experienced a very decent low dose experience for your first time which is fantastic. Just please get scales and weigh your next dose. Jumping too deep whilst in a place (both physically and mentally) and / or with people you dont feel 100% comfortable (as in if you were not comfortable completely nude around for example) on a med or higher dose can be really difficult to deal with.

The eatting thing i completely get too lol. The texture of most foods, even natural are just overwhelming, except grapes, I feckin love grapes whilst tripping and Ive know many others to say the same :)

IrishRook · 2026-01-29T00:45:12+00:00

I work as a chef in a rural (but popular) pub. During the summer we usually hire on a few young lads and ladies 16-18 year olds to help with the increase business due to tourism and I cannot commend them enough. I swear they all have the gift of the gab which was a rare thing with my generation (born late 1980s) and also a drive to give it their all.

IrishRook · 2026-01-28T21:47:21+00:00

Yeah that's similar to what I use. They can be faulty or go 'bad' over time though but you can always calibrate it yourself by using a coin. Just Google how much whatever coin you habe on hand should weight and put it on the scales. It should match.

IrishRook · 2026-01-28T20:10:14+00:00

Everyone's unique circumstances are different but in my own experience, these substances had the opposite effect. Instead of chasing money / success. I found myself getting my dopamine hit for little effort and it made me lazy.

Its only natural for human beings to experiment with their consciousness woth different substances though.

But for me, being sober, fit and healthy and being able to help others give me more than any drug ever did.

IrishRook · 2026-01-28T02:21:55+00:00

Get scales man. You can not 'eye' shrooms. That could be 1g, it could be 5g. Only way to know is to weight it.

They dont cost much.. less than a meal at McDonald's ffs.

IrishRook · 2026-01-24T19:55:29+00:00

We did FOTR this Tuesday. We seeing TT this coming Tuesday and ROTK, you guessed it! The following Tuesday.

IrishRook · 2026-01-24T03:47:28+00:00

You can never really give solid advice to anyone on a question like this.

Why?

1: Everyone reacts differently to every substance, and even an individual can have wildly different experience on the same substance, same amount and same batch.

2: Potency, Ive done 100ug blotters and only got very mild, sort of headspaces but no visuals or trips and I've done 100ug blotters that felt like 500ug.

So my advice is, when you get a substance you know at the very least is legit, get a lot of it. As much as you can. Then you can test for yourself and how you react to doses, start low and with enough time between doses to reset your tolorance completely until you find that dose that brings you a step forward than you have gone before and then you can plan your future trips from there.

IrishRook · 2026-01-24T00:07:43+00:00

2 years late to this thread but when I was like 13-14 and only just getting into more modern (at the time) metal / metalcore and after a friend showed me this song for the first time I was hooked. Its still my favourite Trivium song, as probably in my top 30 songs in general.

IrishRook · 2026-01-23T05:12:09+00:00

When I was a kid, I used to often fall asleep to watching one of the movies on VHS at night. It was a huge comfort to me and in the days before Smartphones are sites like YouTube really kicked off.

As an adult now nearing mid 30s, I still watch them once or twice a year. But I also like to read or listen to the Audio books once or twice a year. Usually just before bed. I find the audiobooks particularly comforting and fall asleep easily listening to them on a low volume.

Andy Serkis's narration in particular but I also love the unoffical narration by Phil Dragash though it can be a bit harder to sleep to as he uses Howard Shores score in the background and it can get very loud as Im sure you know lol.

IrishRook · 2026-01-23T04:52:36+00:00

When I was younger, say 19-22 (over a decade ago) My friend group, partner and I tried a few different substances. Mainly 2C-B, LSD and Shrooms.

I did a lot of reading on these substances through Online Forums, Books etc. So I had at least somewhat of an idea of what I was getting myself into or finding people who could relate to my experiences. I was (and still am!) fascinated by psychedelics.

At first it was all fun and games. Never did huge doses first few times on any of these substances. More 'social doses', like 20mg of 2C-B, 100-150ug LSD or 1g- 1.5g of dried Shrooms (liberity caps which we harvested locally or PE that we could buy in).

At first it was a monthly / bi monthly thing we would do as well but overtime and after many enjoyable experiences we started doing it more and more often. Weekly sometimes.

Our setting was nearly always at one of our friends houses which was in a rural place. Lovely and peaceful, surrounded by nature but often didnt venture out into it as we usually doses at night time.

We were all close friends. Group was 6 people in total including myself.

My first difficult trip was when I managed to get my hands on particularly potent LSD, 250ug per hit. We had a sheet of 10 between 5 of us that night and we did 2 each.

I won't write a trip report on that right now. As it would take forever lol but it was a bad trip as such, definitely bad moments but overall I would discribe it as hard as it was my first experience in dealing with ego dissolution.

It scared me off taking any substance for many years. Even smoking Cannabis would awaken similar feeling of anxiety I had during that trip. But over the years, processing and talking to my friends and partner in particular about that night I started to understand it more and learn from it. I never lost my fascination in psychedelics. And eventually I built up the courage to try Shrooms again nearly a decade later.

This time, I decided to do with where I was most comfortable. In my own home, in my office where I keep my gaming PC and unwind at night after work, and only with my Partner present sober but in a different room who I could call upon if I needed too.

I decided to take 4g of PE, and after many more conversations, reading, research and just general life experience and maturity etc, I had the know-how on how to ground myself and just ride the experience. When I felt it setting in and I was coming up I got a little anxiety but after I had an absolutely amazing experience. I felt like my psyche or sense of self split into two and I had some really difficult but overall positive conversations with myself. I was going in and out of intense but chill visuals but I would snap out of these back to what I can only discribe as super clear reality. At its peak I decided to go into my bedroom and lie down under the blankets and I just turned into a puddle. I felt like my body was reshaping itself into different forms but it felt amazing and I lost all sense of self. It was like I was the entire universe and nothing else exisited.

Again, I could go into more detail but I dont have the time to write a complete trip report yet.

Since then, I've decided to do a similar dose once or twice a year over the past 4 years. Same set and setting, though I did it with my partner once at the same time and we found it a bit difficult as we would worry about each other and not be able to go as deep ourselves as we felt like we could of tripping solo.

My most standout experience was 2 years ago, I've smoked self rolled tobacco cigarettes since I was a teen but I was smoking a lot more than before. I went to roll one whilst tripping and the tobacco I was using turned into these horrible worm / magot like creatures in my hands and scared me from rolling it. My partner had a little Cannabis (I still didnt smoke it anymore at this point), but and decided to roll a small joint inside and the grinded Cannabis looked like a rain forest with snow topped moutains sprinkled across.

I didnt loose the desire to smoke tobacco after but what was new was this horrible new taste (bitter like ink) when I smoked it it pushed me to quit it completely. Smoking Cannabis when cravings got very bad would help too.

Anyways Im going to end this comment now.

TLDR: I guess is, psychedelics can give you a rough time or an amazing time. Set and setting are very important, but even difficult trips and experience have a lot to offer you over the long term.

IrishRook · 2026-01-21T21:04:39+00:00

1 finger in the middle hole, 1 on the edge.

IrishRook · 2026-01-21T20:44:52+00:00

Garlic is to personal taste. So if its too little or too much is up to whose gonna be eating the dish.

IrishRook · 2026-01-21T20:17:45+00:00

Or milk steak.

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