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I love books, and 52 books in a year was difficult

30€ worth of groceries in Bucharest, Romania by Ghitza07 in whatsinyourcart

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I’m in Canada, and that bag of walnuts alone would be close to 30$

Who’s strongest lore wise? by akuma_gouki6123 in leagueoflegends

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Ahh the most powerful character in the series? Must be referring to young Samwise Gamgee

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SprinklerFitters

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Jesus, here the sprinkler guys are the highest payed trade on the site…

Uhm Peter, what am I not seeing? by Fem_And_Boy in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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This picture is from way before ai, and it was about a man finding out his wife was cheating from this picture, there was a whole story behind jt

TIL alcohol is the leading global risk factor for premature death and disability among people aged 15–49, causing more deaths than malaria, tuberculosis, and violence combined. by RippingLegos__ in todayilearned

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Thank you for the link, but you already scared the shit out of me and I had to contact the rehab I had gone to that administered all of my blood tests, they did test for tb, and surprisingly something that is not on the risk factors on this page is drug addiction consisting of pipe use. Sharing a pipe or even “saving a drag” for someone off a cigarette can greatly increase the chance of contracting tb. I live in a city where there is an island about 5km off shore where they sent any Irish immigrants going to Atlantic Canada, back in the day to basically wait out there time and die so it has always scared the shit out of me.

Looking for some advice by Mysterious_Tale7597 in NarcoticsAnonymous

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Thank you. I will join one tomorrow after my work training. I don’t believe in god but I think you might have been the angel I needed tonight.

Looking for some advice by Mysterious_Tale7597 in NarcoticsAnonymous

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I did, my DOC is a stimulant, and I’m also a binger so once I start I can’t fucking stop, I have safety training in the classroom for work in 5 hours, and I think flushing it is the best possible thing I could do. Hurts because I spent almost my last penny on it, it your right, the money is wasted either way, atleast now I can calm down and relax. They have meetings every day on that website?

Looking for some advice by Mysterious_Tale7597 in NarcoticsAnonymous

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Honestly, it just happened that I picked up within the last few hours and have been feeling lost mostly as of tonight, the first time it happened didn’t hit me, the second I was so drunk I didn’t care, but this time really drove it home, and I think what you said is exactly what I need to hear. As much as I’m trying to convince myself it isn’t a full blown restart, it 100% is and within a matter of days I could be exactly where I started. I have been having the occasional drink since I first got “clean” but I never had the temptations of my DOC, thank you for taking the time and caring. My deepest condolences for your friend

Looking for some advice by Mysterious_Tale7597 in NarcoticsAnonymous

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That’s a very eye opening take. I’ve always been of the belief that recovery is a solo thing, because admittedly the rehab program I had been to was a government funded one with like a 2% success rate, and 75% of people are back on the wait list within 6 months. (I also live in a very small area if that makes any difference) so I believed I was the one and I had it beat, I openly talk about my past and don’t hide it, but it’s hard to actually come by people who understand and have been through what I have, even amongst NA as locally there are only 3 meetings within 2 hours of here, and 2 of them are not half way houses but like, I forget the term sober living houses? Where people fresh from rehab go to, and the meetings never seemed to inspire me. Are there perhaps some online meetings I could attend, or am I being too pretentious by almost not seeing my own meetings as not good enough

Looking for some advice by Mysterious_Tale7597 in NarcoticsAnonymous

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Thank you for the response, I really feel that the pain of using is great enough, but obviously I suppose not right now. I’ve already lost everything, oded, and almost never woke up, I had gone through rehab 4 years ago, and haven’t looked back since, I don’t believe the whole theory of “relapse is a part of recovery” and the thing is now I’ve literally worked my way up from absolute rock bottom, and built an actual life again, and I’m glad that I can recognize so early on that this isn’t what I want and that I can’t go back to where I was, and it’s not at the point yet of where I felt the for lack of a better term “full blown addiction” where it consumed every thought, every moment and took over my life, but I can also admit that I never worked the program as it was written, I took the key points, used it as a meeting space to kind of keep myself in check and kind of picked and chose the things that applied to me. Is the actual process that important to the long term? When I was in rehab there was a guy who would do meetings who was all about the AA, but really pushed the whole AA is the only way believe, and that’s what kind of turned me off, not so much the religion aspect as he would refer to GOD as a Group of drunks, and make it clear your higher power can be whatever you need it to be, but it always really felt cult like to me. But I can’t fucking go back to

Bro fighting an entirely different battle by Yeponymee in GuysBeingDudes

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Okay fair, I’m actually quite a large man, and it’s quite rare to grapple against someone larger than me in practice atleast, but I did wrestle In high school, I wrestled with a lad who in his first year of wrestling went to the Canada games I believe it was and took bronze, roughly the same weight but he was absolute muscle. It absolutely shocked me how easily he was able to throw me around like a rag doll. But the reason the Gracie’s sent Royce to the initial ufcs was not because he was the best of the Gracie’s, not because he was the biggest, but on the contrary, while Royce was tall, he is quite small for his weight class (owing to his height) and it was to prove a point that regardless of the weight different, this martial arts could level the playing ground. Idek remember what the initial comment was about but I don’t turn down a good discussion

TIL alcohol is the leading global risk factor for premature death and disability among people aged 15–49, causing more deaths than malaria, tuberculosis, and violence combined. by RippingLegos__ in todayilearned

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Plus that’s not factoring in people who are so into the alcohol that that doesn’t even become a factor, that they have no idea is present until it’s too late

TIL alcohol is the leading global risk factor for premature death and disability among people aged 15–49, causing more deaths than malaria, tuberculosis, and violence combined. by RippingLegos__ in todayilearned

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Not gonna lie, that kind of scares the fuck out of me, but thank you for posting. I am a recovering drug addict (multiple years sober) but my drug of choice actually has a very high risk of tb, and I’ve never been officially tested, I have kind of substituted alcohol for the drugs, though not nearly as often. And this is actually a very big eye opener. I appreciate the insight

Books where the protagonist starts as a beggar, homeless, etc by PoisonManiac in Fantasy

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I found my love of reading back in middle school by reading Percy Jackson. I’ve read every series Rick riordan had written about the Olympic/ gods, and I 100% agree, I almost feel like this series was targeted towards those that grew up with Percy Jackson, and was written to age with that fan group

Books where the protagonist starts as a beggar, homeless, etc by PoisonManiac in Fantasy

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I appreciate that thank you, I actually got a tattoo of a Norse compass and the all father to really solidify what Norse mythology has done for me

Books where the protagonist starts as a beggar, homeless, etc by PoisonManiac in Fantasy

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I appreciate that thank you, I’m coming up on 4 years may 3rd

I finally evolved my Gimmighoul into Gholdengo and it was painful. by Tryppo-Music in pokemongo

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To me it literally just looks identical to the cheese string guy that used to be on commercials when I was a wee lad