I once worked with a guy who was a chronic alcoholic, so bad that he could 'see' electricity running through cables. (alcoholic psychoses I'd imagine) pleased to say I met him many years later and he'd turned his life around and was a councilor for alcoholism.
+rabw07 He left Glasgow when he was 12 and spent the rest of his life here in Montreal before going to Glasgow University. I know someone who went to school with him here in Montreal.
I had an alki University lecturer, he was great to be around and apart from sleeping in his car and coming in unshaven and messy dressed he seemed in control of his addiction and didn't let it affect his work, he did a year or two later clean up his act and he was still a nice guy just not quite as good in his work, a rare occasion when drink seemed to do good for him (though not his health)
@@neildoherty1501 What a daft statement. If someone is a daily drinker, yet able to competently navigate their job, or marriage, etc... that's literally what the expression "functioning alcoholic" means. There - are - many - such - people. Millions of people in human history have embodied the definition. The state can exist without you having to laud it. Most great art was produced by functioning alcoholics. Churchill was functioning alcoholic. Charles Kennedy was when he gave his speech on the Iraq War. By the end of his life: he was a dysfunctional alcoholic. Obviously - although you wouldn't have the baws to say it - you mean that all alcoholics aren't functioning people. You're implying alcoholism negates humanity. It doesn't. Get tae f__k with that creepy, sobriety cult patter. Find something else to boost your self-esteem. We do get it, though: drink is bad. Round of applause, buddy. Drink is bad and you'll outlive us all.
@BlahDblah I've worked with people and known people personally who have been dealing with alcoholism, it's clearly really difficult. Congratulations on 10 years + sober, keep well 👍
Aye, im still an all day drinker but want to make a change soon. Its just too much damn fun man, and all you ex-whatevers do is talk about how you DONT drink all day. Fuck man its hard to want to come to that side, health benefits be damned.
I knew a guy like this once at a place I worked. Came round my house one day. I don't drink myself, but am always getting bottles of drinks from friends and relatives for birthdays etc, so I have quite the selection of expensive bottles in gift packaging on a cupboard. I left him alone for maybe one minute at one point when I had to go pee. He managed to get a bottle of whiskey down, out of the packaging, drank literally half the bottle, put it back on the shelf in its packaging before I was back. Didn't notice it at first, because I didn't expect he would do something like that. Not sure if he's still alive, since I moved to another town shortly after for a better job, but I have my doubts. I wasn't even really mad. Just sad that somebody could get that bad. Felt really sorry for him.
Brilliant stuff fae the boys still game gets all the plaudits and rightly so,chewin the fat was so funny aswell ford n greg are really talented guys top notch comedy
I used to LAUGH at stuff like chuwinfat comedy (DRUNKS).. not realising I'm an ALCOHOLIC . and can see the humour in what PEOPLE see funny ..but. not funny for me. I've been SOBER 9yrs and thank HP and many others like me.. God bless
😂❤🎉😅 That's my dad with the vodka and oranges 🍊 🤣 🤪 but his name's keith, not Ken. Can work all the hour's on and on, even when we were abroad in the 90s, 2000s, he'd still do his joinery homeroom jobs. But the alcohol is taking its toll 😢
I work with a guy that drinks 4 pints every lunchtime Monday to Friday, goes home every evening and has bottle of wine, and drinks heavily every wknd, he says he hasn’t got a problem, what do u think?
Funny Skit...Loving goodness...between mates...good people...worse sins than alcohol...like being a turncoat, disloyal...none of that here...drinking finds its level...genetics are strong... John Scott
I used to find this funny when I had no problems etc. But now not do much it brings o it the emotions in me. Although I'm not an alcoholic have developed a dependancy on perscription drugs and can not get off them. The worst but about it is it wasn't self inflicted just following doctors orders and now can't get off them and it's affecting my life. Alcoholics don't go out there to be alcoholics usually stress and pressure does it to them and it's not because they want to drink none stop to them it's like medication it numbs the pain of a bad past or stress and really it shouldnt be laughed at. Many good people I know have had problems con it off medication and also alchol. For me now I find this so hard to laugh at as prescription drugs have destroyed a year and a half o my life and are still destroying it for maybe a year or so more through no fault of my own. I don't want sympathy just and people to realise sometimes stuff like this can cause pain for some people who have these problems
.it's more than do with the fact he thinks he's hiding it but everyone knows,that's what's funny about it. I think most people have known someone like Ken Or they've been like him!
My life's a joke right now been drinking for 3 weeks straight to get over how bad it is, I can confirm it's stress and money worries. I don't even want to be with my partner anymore because of how embarrassing my behaviour has been which makes me drink more. I always used booze as a coping mechanism but it was never this bad and I can't see a way out for me now. Just thought I'd say because seems like we are all going through some really rotten shit.
I don’t Find this Funny…Because I worked with a Guy, an Engineer who Had This Problem Almost lost a hand 🤚 one day… However I like Other Sketch…. 👍🏴😎
You need to get over yourself. Literally any aspect of humour could be in "bad taste" and compared to a real life death example. If you didn't like it, you could have scrolled on.
@@judet5426 Thanks It was my big brother he died last July. When we went back to watch our favourite football team the other week he wasn't there sitting next to me tried everything stop bursting into tears
