Addicted to politics/p.ie/news. How do you kick the habit?

[Congalltee]

I couldn't think of a more appropriate forum.

There are many posters who spend all day online, getting involved in sometimes bitter exchange of posts. There are people who start the day with Morning Ireland, read the Irish Times at 11s while listening to Pat Kenny, watch the news at lunchtime and tea.

Occasionaly, people post in the view it will be read by someone with influence, or somehow change the country.

How can people get over these delusions and lose the addiction?

[Twin Towers]

I think you can get patches.

[long-gone-kiwi]

I couldn't think of a more appropriate forum.

There are many posters who spend all day online, getting involved in sometimes bitter exchange of posts. There are people who start the day with Morning Ireland, read the Irish Times at 11s while listening to Pat Kenny, watch the news at lunchtime and tea.

Occasionaly, people post in the view it will be read by someone with influence, or somehow change the country.

How can people get over these delusions and lose the addiction?

Watching porn works for me

[eyeswideopen]

I couldn't think of a more appropriate forum.

There are many posters who spend all day online, getting involved in sometimes bitter exchange of posts. There are people who start the day with Morning Ireland, read the Irish Times at 11s while listening to Pat Kenny, watch the news at lunchtime and tea.

Occasionaly, people post in the view it will be read by someone with influence, or somehow change the country.

How can people get over these delusions and lose the addiction?

I'm glad to see that you've recognised your problem at the early stages. Cold turkey is the only known cure. For that to start, you need to address David Cochrane on thread as a spotty degenerate trollmeister. That should see a quick end to your troubles.

For some of us, its too late.

[ManOfReason]

Dating a 'Fitness Single' might help.

[Congalltee]

Watching porn works for me

I'll try pressing my LOGout button.

[advertismo II]

Yep; though for me it's more of a pressure-release valve or punching bag.
I have no wish to influence the self-orbiting 'movers & shakers' of the country, and if I did it would not be through gentle persuasion.

[long-gone-kiwi]

I'll try pressing my LOGout button.

Put your web cam on when you do it..and I will watch

[controller]

Have a different opinion to some of the "SELF STYLED" Leaders & Gods of this site......and wait for the abuse...... especially if you dare go "off-topic". That should cure you

[Lazarus]

I'm sitting here smoking, wearing nicotine patches. I cut the plug off the telly the other day, then raced out to the corner shop because Dr, Who was coming on and I love love love Dr. Who. I got a ladder and climbed up so I could put my laptop on the top of my wardrobe, out of temptations way, and ten minutes later it was down again because my sister had sent me an email from Egypt and phoned me to ask if I had got it??? Apropos nothing, how in the name of all thats holy can you go to Egypt and NOT go to see the pyramids?

I threw my mobile phone into a skip in town. Went off with a light heart, delighted with my brave stance, and reached home to find my daughter sitting outside in her car, furious with me because I had promised to baby-sit for her, totally forgot, (it was on my calender thing on the phone, promised her I would never let her down again, and she bought me a new phone because she felt guilty for shouting at me so now I cannot throw it away.

If Kit-Kats were alcohlic I would be lying in a gutter somewhere, plotting how to get my next fix. As it is the man in the sweet shop thinks I fancy him now because I am always in there. Wouldn't mind so much but he weighs at least 40 stones and only has one tooth. Doesn't say a lot for me, does it?