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I think alcohol was the biggest issue. The other things were almost incidental. The worst of it is seeing someone who you thought had the same relationship with these things as yourself - likes them, does them when it's fun, walks away when it isn't fun anymore or starts to cause problems beyond...

Boy and girl meet and launch themselves into a whirlwind relationship based on a shared lack of self-control as far as booze, substances, and staying up all night are concerned. She manages a bar where they can hang out until noon the next day! A friend just scored enough mushrooms to last the...

Ahhh! I was all fired up to go see Kevin Saunderson at Studio B, then discovered that he's playing tomorrow night. A night on which I committed to something else that I now can't get out. Had a shitty week and would love nothing more than to go and dance for a few hours to some Detroit sounds...

I've ridden fixies a few times due to having had courier friends enthuse about them so much. I get the whole 'economy of movement' thing (and low maintenance is good) but I'm kind of lazy though so prefer a street bike with a couple of gears for tackling the incline on the Manhattan bridge. No...

Was at a pub in Dublin a few weeks ago for a quick pint and one of my friends claimed that they had recently started selling jugs of Buckfast at the bar. 16 euros apparently gets you a bottle of Buckfast poured into a jug of ice. I didn't try ordering one due to some fairly unpleasant...

I don't have any recommendations in London as I don't know any tattoo artists there, but one general recommendation is that you don't look for cheap so much as you do for clean and reliable. Although three open circles is a pretty simple design on paper, tattooing circles and straight lines is...

Even though I was pretty badly behaved as a child (and even worse as a teenager), I managed to escape getting into too much trouble with my parents by almost never getting caught. I did get suspended from school for a couple of days when I was 14 after being caught smoking on the roof of one of...

Ah, OK. Bit of a usage difference from what I've heard before (stabbed or shot). If I'd known that you'd only lamped him I'd have been less concerned. Side note, there seem to be more ways of saying that you hit someone in the UK / Ireland than in the US...ever wonder if this is one of those...

Hold on...slotted as in stabbed? Two years after? Remind me not to get on your bad side. Ever.

Depends on what people are being asked to wear, but chances are yeah on the twat question. Especially if it's in the afternoon. Does the invite specify anything? That said, I once turned up at a wedding where the invite had instructed all comers to 'just wear t-shirts and shorts' (it was...

Somebody should really make and market kits containing all the elements required to put on a spontaneous icebreaking vampire puppet show. And a large bottle of rum. I've been to way too many terrible parties to single one out as being worse than any of the others. The boring ones fade out of...

Agreed 100% on the restaurant tipping. 'Punishing' poor service with a shitty tip is punishing everyone doing the shitwork at the back of the house. A fair number of my friends here have chefing and bartending gigs, so I'm pretty conscious of where the tips I leave go. Always tip in cash where...

Ah. Makes sense. Weird thing is I could've sworn I'd seen posts by Rainbro before on Dissensus.

Cool. I had no idea this was forthcoming. I'm not much of a gamer, but the one occasion where I've become so immersed in a video game that I played it almost to the exclusion of all else was GTA III. Granted, I had more fun stealing buses and crashing them into impossible jumps or using cheats...

Haven't seen this particular website before, but as I'm sure you know there is almost always a catch of some kind with this type of offer. Perhaps getting the 'free' PC involves signing up for some sort of service with recurring billing that has a minium sign-up period. Perhaps it only comes...

Pretty much any busy bar where there are people clamoring constantly for drinks from 10pm until 4am and only one or two bartenders working. It's not always the case, but think about how busy somewhere like Max Fish will be on a weekend night, then figure that roughly 80% of the people are...

It's still in place, but I haven't heard of anywhere getting fined or shut down (or people even being told to stop dancing, although that could just be 'cause most crowds don't dance too much here) since Plant bar back in 2003 or so. Most bars in Manhattan adhere to the smoking ban, but I've...

Once you get used to it, tipping in a bar starts to seem more normal than not tipping. Whenever I go back to Dublin, I get quizzical looks from barmen after leaving a few extra Euros out from the change from my round. It’s true that it complicates matters slightly, but the benefits can outweigh...

True for me too. I'd forgotten that the tube didn't run 24 hours. Can't bars/pubs stay open as late as they like with the new licensing laws though?

I've had a friend over visiting from London for the last week and he picked up the edition of NY Magazine with those articles on Tuesday. Been waving it in my face ever since :)