So, I Recently Discovered I'm Addicted To Ice

Make sure you're not anemic, Romeo. 

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 3

Make sure you're not anemic, Romeo. 

End of DrJBHL's quote

Absolutely!  Yeah, a nocturnal blood lust will keep me topped up there.....  it'll be right so long as there's plenty of ice in the vampirical blood sharing chalice.

  (\B):vulcan:(\B)

Thissa weird. 

Oh yeah, the bags of ice are 5kg each.  No wonder the bastards were so heavy coming home frome the store, held onto by the small piece of excess packaging at the top, and one in each hand.  I mean, it's not like a bloke 'd make it easier by tucking one under each arm and making a mad dash for it.... not over 3 kms at least.  Nah, I don't fancy the frost bite, or my underarm hairs snapping off cos they're so brittle from the cold.

The better thing to do would be to let my fingers do the walking and search the Yellow Pages for somebody local to deliver my daily fix. 

Now I imagine there's some out there who don't believe i have an ice addiction, and yes, I embellished the story some to make it more interesting reading, but I swear, I have consumed... er, demolished 5 x 5kg bags of ice over the last month.  Now if that's not an addiction, wot the fech is?

Anyhow, Things to do and ice to consume.....see ya.

Starkers bud you need to get yourself some good cloth bags, they're great.  I've hauled lots of stuff lots of places with those.

[Allow me to further enable you with your new-found "hobby"   ]

Just a word of caution about letting ones Limbic system override whatever cortex there might be...

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/water-intoxication

What Doc said.... and a reminder the ice you're into isn't necessarily always fit for consumption, certainly not en-masse...;)

Yeah, 5 bags of ice might seem like it converts to a lot of water, but over a month it's not really that much.. even with the accompanying liquid per glass.  Thing is, it's not about the quantity, but rather the need for something cold during the hotter months.... and I do suffer with the heat, so sucking on a few ice cubes to help keep cool seemed like a better idea than drinking copious amounts of beer and/or other sugary drinks, etc.  Besides, now the cooler weather has begun I'm not going through as much ice as when it was stinking hot and humid.  Sill, I do enjoy sucking on a few ice cubes now and then for some refreshment.

Quoting Jafo, reply 9

What Doc said.... and a reminder the ice you're into isn't necessarily always fit for consumption, certainly not en-masse...

End of Jafo's quote

The ice plant that supplies my local store isn't far from where I live, and while it uses ordinary tap water, that water is filtered several times to remove impurities and the various Water Board additives to produce as pure ice as is possible.  I know because somebody I know works there, and the firm is quite open and is happy to give members of the public a tour to show them the processes used to manufacture its ice.  That's pretty transparent, hey!  If anything, the plant's ice is likely purer than anything I could produce here at home from my own tap water, so I'm not worried about the quality or fitness to consume.

On a different note, the dreamy looking lass down at the store may not have 'come to bed with me' eyes after all.  Shaunna made the comment that the lass has likely seen me perving at her and probably thinks I'm just a dirty old man with high hopes that'll never be fulfilled.  Hmmm!!! 

Well that's shattered every hope and illusion I've ever had. Still, it won't deter me fron collecting my weekly fix from there and dreaming of romantic interludes with her on some tropical and secluded beach at sunset.

.......

Okay, so I did what any real an would do when lemon iced water got fechen boring.... I switched to beer.  Currently it's XXXX Bitter - a Queensland original now owned by the Kiwis - bastards, but it still tastes the same.

Next up, cos I polished off the 30 can pack of XXXX, bar 3, is a 24 pack of Tooheys Darling Pale ale... which I'm entirely entitled to drink cos I'm a darling and just in the mood for another beer or six or more.  So for those who were worried I may have succumb to water intoxication, never fear, I am over the ice addiction and never felt better.  Well I did, but that's another set of stories we won't go into here.

Anyway, the beer tastes a whole lot better than iced water, so I'm gonna try as many varieties as I can to determine which I like best.... and there are so many local and imported beers to choose from. I just hope [at 63] I have enough time left to sample them all.  Now I know some of you will say that I should have stuk with iced water, that it is far less expensive, but I now know why I quit the smokes and loose women. 

Precisely!  So I could afford to drink more beer. 

So...you decided to switch from ice to beer?

I'm guessing she turned you down. 

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 12

So...you decided to switch from ice to beer?

I'm guessing she turned you down. 

End of DrJBHL's quote

Nah, she sells me beer as well.... and still with those dreamy 'come to bed with me' eyes.

Orright, maybe that's not what they're sayin', but it don't hurt to fantasise a little, do it! 

It was called 4X because the banana benders couldn't spell 'beer' ....;p

Originally it was called XXX..... cos they couldn't spell ale.  Then some bright spark said that technically it was beer... hence the additional X.

I did a tour of the XXXX brewery with a mate a couple of months back.  Needless to say I tried a few free samples, but yeah, the tour was informative and interesting.  And there'd be a lot of Tooheys drinkers up here who don't know it's made at the XXXX brewery, along with several other brands.... James Squires being one of them.

There's one beer I won't drink, though.... Fosters.  I won't put that muck in my mouth.  Not that I've tasted cats piss, but it'd have to be better than that Fosters bilge water.  Other than that I'll try any beer twice.... just in case I didn't like it the first time.

Well it's still 43c outside at 8.00pm and not looking like it'll cool down any time soon... was 46c at 1.00pm, so again the ice is aplenty time and lots of cold drinks. 

Shoot, even tho fish f**k in it, I even drank water today.  Imagine that! 

It had to be icy cold, though, and with a drop of lemon juice for taste.

Tonight, however, I am going to indulge with a six pack of Kilkenny Irish Ale... starting now.

Hmmmmm, that is a lovely drop... INDEEDY!!!

Apparently, we are in for a few more days of this sweltering heat, with local temps around Ipswich Qld remaining in the high 30's to low 40's.  That's a lot more than I feel comfortable with!!  Even the air-con is struggling to cool this area effectively.  We're told the recommended setting is 24c, but today I turned mine down to 22c to help counteract the oppressive heat.  It didn't help that Steve had the oven on earlier to cook dinner  Things are improving now, though, but without the air-con I reckon it would have topped 50c at this end of the house.

Ooooooh yeah!  That 2nd Kilkenny is going down a treat... all icy cold that it is.... and delicious.

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BURP!!!

I don't reckon you're consuming that amount of ice.... it's just that most of it is melting on the way home from the store in all that heat...  

Actually, they are 5kg bags, and no, they're not melting on the way home.  I have one of those thermal lined cooler bags that fits a bag of ice snugly inside, so all is good by the time I get it home and put it in the freezer.

Thank goodness it's cooler today.  After the last 2 - 3 days of + 40c heat, 35c feels like a cool summer breeze in comparison.  I'd still like it cooler, though... ideally around 20 to 25c.  Better still, 12 - 20c!  I don't like this kind of summer heat at all, and neither do the dogs.  During the cooler months they like to stay outside and play after being let out to do their toileting, but not so in this weather.  No, they're at the back door letting us know they want back in.

Speaking of dogs, I read yesterday that somebody left their dog chained up with no shade or water in 40+ heat.  The RSPCA was called by a concerned person, but sadly, it was too late and the dog died.  I certainly hope that the owner is charged with animal cruelty and given a severe penalty for his/her neglect.

Even if our dogs have to be outside for any period of time, we ensure they have plenty of water and that they can access the shade under the house.  Besides, I don't like to tie dogs up anyway.

Sadly they don't get anywhere near tough enough penalties.... laws are made by cupcakes and they totally ignore what the community cry out for...way tougher penalties...

A sad reality......that life could mean so little.

Yup, the so-called law makers have no spines and are as cowardly as they come... all too often they're too fechen scared of offending some minority group and/or do-gooders.

Thing is, if and when somebody is prosecuted for animal cruelty, the sentence can sometimes outweigh a sentence for a diabolical act to a woman or child.  Not long ago I read in our local free paper about a man who got 5 years after he chained his dog up and belted into it... and over the page, how a child rapist [child was only 10] only got 11 months but was set free for time already served.

Where's the [excuse my Fr**ch] fucking justice?

Back in the day, when I was still living in New York, the daily news printed two reports. A bank robber caught after the fact was sentenced to life in prison. Second report concerned the rape and murder of a child. That one got only six years. So where is the priority? Money is more important than life. SICK!

That's exactly my point, human life seems to have little to no value when it comes to various legal juridictions, even animals have a higher priority at times, and not just domesticated ones, either.  A bloke I had the misfortune to work with years ago, a lowly piece of scum with no morals or scruples, was sentenced to 12 years, six months for his part in mutilating a kangaroo....he and his ratbag mate skinned it alive.

Fair enough, you might say, but a few days later [yet another] child rapist reoffended the very day he was released after serving just 10 months, getting out early for so-called good behaviour.  The child was a two year old girl, and when he was done he suffocated her and threw her body onto the roof of a park toilet block. 

He got 9 years for that one, being that he was supposedly criminally insane at the time and not wholly responsible for his actions.  Hello!!!!  He was only released that day, why didn't somebody see the danger.  Why the fuck was he even released?

The bloke who mutilated the kangaroo got paroled after 11 years.  Frankly, there is NO justice, just a bunch of gutless politicians passing very dubious and very watery laws; and judges, well they rarely administer those moral, ethical laws that still have teeth.  I know of another bloke who got 16 years for stealing about $6000 from the bank he worked at, and he pretty much served the term, too.  His cousin, on the other hand, sold dirty drugs to two high school students who died... we has sentenced to 15 years, was out in 8.

Fuck!!!! This is so depressing when it reminds me of an injustice to my family, when the woman my brother was with pretty much handed him a death sentence through her self-centred and spiteful actions.  He may have took his own life, but that bitch pushed him and actually encouraged him verbally to do it.  For mine, that's murder, to incite a wrongful death in such a way.

Anyhow, 'tis well past my bed time.....

Don't put the ice packs in there with you. You might get all shriveled up and stuff.