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Well, random thread for you folks. Personal challenges.
What's the longest you've gone without something, and what was it? Just looking at things that are difficult to get by without, not things that are considered easy!
Yes, I know where this thread has the potential to go, but I assure you, I can beat you all on that count :) :D So let's not bother eh? :p
Answers please folks...
Luckypants
22-03-07, 04:22 PM
Didn't have a telly for 5 years. Probably could give it up without any pain, so that don't count?
PsychoCannon
22-03-07, 04:23 PM
Air - 3 Minutes
Filipe M.
22-03-07, 04:23 PM
I think I once managed to go without chocolate for half a year... :-k
alcohol.... about 2 years
wouldnt bother me if I didnt drink again
Biltong - Went without for two years then went and found some...just couldn't hack it without my fix;)
Dowe Egberts Cafe Latte - if I'm conscious and there are no other distractions - about 90 mins.
I can manage for longer if I'm sleeping. ;)
Sleeping - 3 days and 2 nights. Woke up on Friday morning and went to sleep Sunday night.
kwak zzr
22-03-07, 04:41 PM
i avoid eating fatty foods now, done it for about 3 months and feel 100% better than i did:)
gave up coffee may last year. not missed it at all
since january i've had 3 packets of crisps and 2 chocoolate bars whereas before i used to have one of each a day. i got some bad headaches after cutting out the crap to start with but they didnt last long. not missing chocolate, but crisps are a struggle.....
kwak zzr
22-03-07, 04:51 PM
been without my pc for a day while it was being fixed, that was the hardest.
been without my pc for a day while it was being fixed, that was the hardest.
I expected your answer to be "Autosol" or something similar :lol:
Alcohol.......................ever since I was pregnant with my first son. Went totally off the stuff, couldn't even stand the smell of it. That was 26 years ago.
S*x...........................13 years, after my ex and I split up and before I met Pete.
Well, you DID ask:D
Listening to the Indigo girls....9 yrs,
The wifes just pulled the CD out and put it on!:eek:
S*x...........................13 years, after my ex and I split up and before I met Pete.
Well, you DID ask:D
I also said I can beat anything you guys come up with for that abstinence :)
gettin2dizzy
22-03-07, 05:26 PM
I also said I can beat anything you guys come up with for that abstinence :)
in what sense?
checking this forum - about 2 hours
meat & dairy (vegan ex girlfriend) - 6 months - still drink soy milk:confused:
I also said I can beat anything you guys come up with for that abstinence :)
Hmmm................it only counts though if no top shelf magazines were involved in any way, shape or form;)
I also said I can beat anything you guys come up with for that abstinence :)
baph, you only 20 odd, are you a vir***? aaaaaw bless :smt056 :D
baph, you only 20 odd, are you a vir***? aaaaaw bless :smt056 :D
More likely he's married. :rolleyes: :p
Filipe M.
22-03-07, 06:45 PM
More likely he's married. :rolleyes: :p
:winner: :lol:
baph, you only 20 odd, are you a vir***? aaaaaw bless :smt056 :D
:lol: I have a 2 year old son, but hell, if it earns me brownie points, yes, yes I am a v*****. :D
I'm just popping down the local Maplin, I'll post back with a link to what I was talking about ;) (mind it's strictly NSFW & probably in violation of the U-rating, so I might have to explain instead of post a direct link).
EDIT: Or Filipe can post it, since he's around, he knows what I'm talking about :)
Dave The Rave
22-03-07, 06:57 PM
26 years without eaten curry. ...
30 years without riding a bike
30 years without having diabetes
1 year without a drop of alcohol
24 hrs without water, food, sleep and any rest .. just running and walking (quite proud of that actually)
Filipe M.
22-03-07, 06:59 PM
EDIT: Or Filipe can post it, since he's around, he knows what I'm talking about :)
Nah, I'll let you do the honours :lol:
Biltong - Went without for two years then went and found some...just couldn't hack it without my fix;)
I know what you mean about he B word......Just mentioning it got me craving now!!!!
Me, a ciggy....Haven't had one for about 45 minutes:smt033 (amazing how time flies when I'm reading this forum.)
Miss Alpinestarhero
22-03-07, 07:39 PM
Air - 3 Minutes
lol :smt082 :smt082
PsychoCannon
22-03-07, 07:48 PM
I also said I can beat anything you guys come up with for that abstinence :)
Does the 19 years between birth and first encounters count as abstinance :)
PsychoCannon
22-03-07, 07:50 PM
Sleeping - 3 days and 2 nights. Woke up on Friday morning and went to sleep Sunday night.
Blimey 2 nights without sleep and I was halucinating!
Pulling double shifts at work and partying in my free time, on my last night on shift I had a thrilling half hour discussion with the coat rack thinking it was my manager...
Biker Biggles
22-03-07, 08:13 PM
:( :( :( WhereI work you would get more sense out of the coat rack than any manager.
As for the abstinence thing----well there's fags.
Bit of a slip up on that front though.
Steelman
22-03-07, 08:17 PM
26 years without eaten curry. ...
30 years without riding a bike
30 years without having diabetes
1 year without a drop of alcohol
24 hrs without water, food, sleep and any rest .. just running and walking (quite proud of that actually)
Thought that I was going to have the longest break from riding a bike at 14 years, but Dave, you certainly beat me there :eek:
I didn't know that there's high odds ratio (probability) between not riding a bike and not having diabetes :rolleyes: Sorry, had to get that one in - I'm a Biomedical Scientist after all :smt082
Glad to hear that you're no longer dependent on the insulin tho' :D
andyaikido
22-03-07, 09:13 PM
S*x...........................13 years, after my ex and I split up and before I met Pete.
Well, you DID ask:D
:shock: !!! You beat me by 12 years. I don't feel so bad now.
Going 6 weeks without riding a bike was worse.
Baph! wot you talkin' about?
thedonal
22-03-07, 09:47 PM
Well- getting to 3.5 years without a sh@g. Barely miss it now I've got Yuvutu!!! lol! And life is so much simpler!!!
Now about 5 months of not being in a band (after about 8 years in)
I once did 8.5 months without booze- can just manage 4 days now (Monday-Friday).
I've given up the ghost for far longer than all of that!!!
I've also been without a keyboard (musical) for 5 months- the first time I was without some kind of keyboard since I was 11 (my first was a Casio keyboard with the perennial bossa-nova!!)
kcowgergmm
22-03-07, 10:18 PM
i gave up riding for one day when my friend was killed on his bike i did it out of respect. It was a hard day not riding my bike
OK OK, the whole reason for starting this thread was, as some folks have guessed, intimate pleasures. Let me explain...
Whilst killing time in the office (let's not start swearing with the W word please!), I stumbled across something that at first glance, made me giggle. On a closer look, it was pretty boring, but still.
OK, well, since I deem it NSFW, imagine the situation, and entire species of females that have not had that pleasure for 100million years. This is hosted on The Register, and if you want to find it, you can do so pretty easily. The headline is the main part that I consider NSFW (and doesn't really fit with the U-Rating here either). Something about not doing something in that amount of time. The subheading on the article is "No, not Anne Widecombe!" THAT'S what had me spitting my coffee out in the office.
After reading the article (like I said, it's pretty boring), I was itching to post something on here about it, but I figured that I would censor myself, so I thought I'd ask about general abstainence instead :)
All clear as mud now? :confused:
Balky001
23-03-07, 01:39 AM
I gave up smoking when I passed my bike test to pay for an new SV! That's almost 4 years ago. Healthier but so much fatter :-(
Tiger 55
23-03-07, 08:02 AM
Food - 48 hours with nothing but water. You know in Tom & Jerry when Tom looks at Jerry and he turns into a ham? That was me...
Intimate pleasures? 5 years and 10 months. After I was used and abused one night I thought I would save it for somebody I cared about who cared about me. Little did I know...
Chcolate for a year
McDonalds/Fast food for 18 mths
Alchohol - 35 years 263 days
Ciggarettes - 35 years 263 days
:)
Flamin_Squirrel
23-03-07, 09:00 AM
Chcolate for a year
McDonalds/Fast food for 18 mths
Alchohol - 35 years 263 days
Ciggarettes - 35 years 263 days
:)
You've never had a beer, ever?!
... NSFW...
All clear as mud now? :confused:
Yup - wtf is NSFW?
Yup - wtf is NSFW?
Not Safe For Work.
If the company chairman had of walked in & seen words that are in that article on my screen, I'd of been packing the contents of my desk into a box 5mins later. Therefore, NSFW (even though it's only words, no pictures).
The Forum, 7 months (when I started my new job)
Tiger 55
23-03-07, 10:07 AM
Well, if it breaks the U Rating then the Mods will delete it - linky (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/22/bdelloid_rotifers/) ;)
But we are talking about rotifers at the end of the day...
That's actually a very interesting article. :lol:
Edit: Lissa... 13 YEARS???? I thought I was pushing the bounds with my just over 1 year... :lol: I have a feeling I'd just go out and 'get me sum' before 13 years... YEARS!!
timwilky
23-03-07, 10:39 AM
I was going to say 12 years for the cigs. But I then realised I am subjected to them everytime I go to the pub, or hospital.
<victor>
Why if these people are well enough to walk from their beds to the door to smoke the stuff in the freezing cold in their PJs are they too ill to be sent home to indulge their habits?
</victor>
never smoked so cant really say i've refrained for 38 years...
had me no luck wiv da laydees for about 18 months when i was about 22, but to be honest i was playing football twice a week, getting wnakered with my mates 3 or 4 times a week so didnt really bother (ha ha that sounds soooo pants)....
but 13 years of abstainence...i think a phone call to ross mcwhirter is in order.
what? he's dead? IRA? blimey.
roy castle then. hmm? him too? where are all my boyhood heroes going.
right get on the phone to norris mcwhirter then. 13 years has to be a recor...? he's dead as well? so how bout kris akabusi? still alive? where's the justice.....
OK OK, the whole reason for starting this thread was, as some folks have guessed, intimate pleasures. Let me explain...
Whilst killing time in the office (let's not start swearing with the W word please!), I stumbled across something that at first glance, made me giggle. On a closer look, it was pretty boring, but still.
OK, well, since I deem it NSFW, imagine the situation, and entire species of females that have not had that pleasure for 100million years. This is hosted on The Register, and if you want to find it, you can do so pretty easily. The headline is the main part that I consider NSFW (and doesn't really fit with the U-Rating here either). Something about not doing something in that amount of time. The subheading on the article is "No, not Anne Widecombe!" THAT'S what had me spitting my coffee out in the office.
After reading the article (like I said, it's pretty boring), I was itching to post something on here about it, but I figured that I would censor myself, so I thought I'd ask about general abstainence instead :)
All clear as mud now? :confused:
Whoa! 100 million years??
Oh yeah, no comment, Baph, mind your own business. :p
a poo = 5 days !
sorry I will get my coat
a poo = 5 days !
sorry I will get my coat
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f340/batman2k04/babyorlyla5.gif
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f340/batman2k04/babyorlyla5.gif
Yup! my breath stank!
:smt101
...... :lol:
That must've been bloody uncomfortable. :smt119
Filipe M.
23-03-07, 04:04 PM
...... :lol:
That must've been bloody uncomfortable. :smt119
Yup, but think about the feeling on the sixth day! :lol:
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/macfilipe/fart.gif
Oops, sorry.
Yup, but think about the feeling on the sixth day! :lol:
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/macfilipe/fart.gif
Oops, sorry.
twas a squealer !
anyway, swifty moving on .........
Lissa... 13 YEARS???? I thought I was pushing the bounds with my just over 1 year... :lol: I have a feeling I'd just go out and 'get me sum' before 13 years... YEARS!!
The first 12 years were the hardest:D
a poo = 5 days !
12 Days for me. Primarily due to having to endure a ****tail of drugs and hospital food. The worst thing was the hospital would not let me leave until I had been to prove my bowels worked properly. This was due to having had small intestine damage when I broke my pelvis.
They give you laxative in liquid format that breaks down your waste. Trouble with that is that it works from the top so the old stuff was totally solid and not breaking down.
I basically had to try and Sh*t a brick. Once that was passed then the rest came out at a rather rapid pace. As if I wasn't in enough pain already with a broken pelvis, many broken ribs and internally damaged organs, I also left the hospital with my back side in tatters as well. :smt101 :(
I know I shouldn't but....:smt046
Sprouts.....48 years. had some (one) when i was one and decided then and there to give them up. I have managed without ever since :D :D
chris
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