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post #201 of 224
7/10/08 at 6:59am
lololololol
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post #202 of 224
7/10/08 at 7:15am
Cuchulain...wins?
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post #203 of 224
7/10/08 at 11:26am
Cuchulain wins.
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post #204 of 224
7/10/08 at 12:04pm
LIGHTNING ROUND!

23. Are you or have you ever been on a dialysis machine?

24. Are you currently on a wait list for an organ transplant due to alcoholism?
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post #205 of 224
7/10/08 at 12:35pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Out of curiosity, what's everyone's closing time? It sickens me to think that bars close at 2:00 some places.
2 AM here. Ya know this being America and all. You'd think we'd be open longer like other countries. But no. Man we're so ass-backwards here.
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post #206 of 224
7/10/08 at 12:51pm
We finally have our own rummy! DANCE CHUCHULANE DANCE, PEW! PEW!
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post #207 of 224
7/10/08 at 1:00pm
Quick, everyone throw nickles at him. Dance Rummy Dance! HA HA HA!
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post #208 of 224
11/3/08 at 2:21pm
Thread Starter 
One of my good friends has worked at a bar in my neighborhood for the last couple years, which is great as it means I can get sloshed within walking distance from my place 5 nights a week. Myself and about 3 of my other friends know everyone who works there, enough that last call is actually about 3rd to last most nights and my tab is rarely anything but a work of pure fiction.

Lately I've been living a largely cashless existence so I've been in more than usual. On Friday I'm in doing a little pregaming, and as myself, my friend and one of his co-workers are lining up some Jameson shots, as is our wont, the manager comes over and makes it known that for months, when doing inventory, they've been coming up with rather massive shortfalls of the Big J, and that we "should probably learn to shoot something else".

So I'm thinking that when a barman requests you become a more well-rounded drunk in order to better service your addiction, it might be time to pull back a bit. It's that or learn to like tequila.
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post #209 of 224
11/3/08 at 4:16pm
Having a friend with the ability to provide free booze is an awesome power that should never be abused. Remember what uncle Ben taught us.
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post #210 of 224
11/3/08 at 4:27pm
My former roommate and long time friend was a bartender for a long time at the same bar I used to work at, so I rarely officially paid for more than one beer, even if I drank 20. The trick was to always get draft, as it's less trackable. Also, being a bartender in our area was great, because all of us booze-slingers were also booze-recievers, and we all hooked each other up. Immensely. I miss drinking.
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post #211 of 224
11/3/08 at 4:37pm
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Having a friend with the ability to provide free booze is an awesome power that should never be abused. Remember what uncle Ben taught us.
Yeah, because if there's anything that comes naturally to an alcoholic, it's self control and long-term planning.
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post #212 of 224
6/20/09 at 2:29am
The Dead-On-Arrival Teetotaler thread yielded one interesting result - lots people who abstain from alcohol do so due to "control" issues.

I was sincere in my curiosity and wasn't looking to challenge their beliefs or convictions, but here in the drunk thread, I gotta say - control's a main reason to drink. Calms the nerves, puts anxiety out of your head for a while, lets you decide how much or how little you want to deal with, etc. Bukowski: "When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat."
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post #213 of 224
6/20/09 at 2:42am
I apologize for being a thread derailer in there Phil, but when I saw that thread, I felt like a master chef looking at starving people. I just wanted to feed them.

I understand non-drinkers. But I think they have trouble controlling their own fears. I can have an absolute binge drinking fest, and then not have a drop for months. I drink in certain situations, and only when I feel like it in those situations, and I've always been comfortable with that. I used to think drinking alone was sad, and then I tried it a few years ago, and it was kind of nice getting a mellow buzz and relaxing. I haven't done that for a couple of years, but I liked it.

I've slowed down how often I drink more than a beer or two from a couple times a month to maybe once every month or two. I don't generally get shitfaced unless I'm at a bachelor party or something similar. Main reason I slowed down is (like a lot of people in the other thread) diabetes, but I still enjoy a beer or two every now and then.
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post #214 of 224
6/20/09 at 2:49am
The Zen Of Drinking Alone:

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Drinking alone, on the other hand, is a much more pure and forthright form of imbibing, and I say that because it focuses entirely on the simple act of putting alcohol into your bloodstream. It tosses aside all the half-hearted pretensions about merely using alcohol as a social tool. It gets down to what drinking is all about: getting loaded, and by doing that, getting down to the inner you. The inner joy, the inner madness, the subconscious you, the real you.

Now, there are those who abhor the very idea of spending a moment with themselves. Put them in a quiet room for five minutes and they’re picking up the phone or turning on the TV. “Deep down in his private heart, no man respects himself much,” Mark Twain was fond of saying, and he was dead right. Why should those people want to hang with their inner selves? That entity is, for all intents and purposes, a stranger, and worse, a stranger who knows all their deepest, darkest, most terrible secrets.

Which, ironically enough, is exactly why you have to hang with him, because sooner or later that bastard will turn on you. The longer you keep him locked up by himself, the weirder he’s going to get, and he will eventually manifest himself as a nervous breakdown or very self-destructive behavior.

That’s where your old pal booze comes into play. You already knew the sauce is the supreme moderator, a perfectly charming go-between when dealing with friends and strangers, but did you also know it is as equally adept at opening up internal lines of communication? Whiskey is the key that sets the monkey free, goes the old saw, and that monkey is your Id, your subconscious mind, the inner you. Instead of letting that monkey out in public, where he tends to go berserk (or so they tell you the next morning), set him loose in a calm room. A quiet place bare of predators and prey. Get to know him. You might be surprised. You might even start liking the little bastard.
More here.
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post #215 of 224
6/20/09 at 2:51am
I'm the same way, I can binge drink to my hearts content and then go a long time without touching alcohol but the streak usually ends when I get a bottle if homemade Šljivovica and the cylce begins anew.

As for more recent bits of alcoholism, I was drinking the worst margaritas ever and by the end of the night me and my friend lost the use of a mixer a so we just made them on the rocks so fucking horrible.
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post #216 of 224
6/20/09 at 2:53am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Out of curiosity, what's everyone's closing time? It sickens me to think that bars close at 2:00 some places.
7-8 am.
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post #217 of 224
6/20/09 at 3:00am
Frozen margaritas are for people who would rather drink a slushee than booze. In all seriousness, you're mixing alcohol with crushed ice, since the booze accelerates things melting, within minutes you'll have a watered down tequila slurpee, which is gross. Rocks is the way to go, and here's my mack-daddy recipe:

2 ounces Top shelf tequila (you can get the cheap shit, but the headache is all yours)
1/2 ounce Cointreau
2 ounces orange juice
1 ounce lime juice

Combine all of that in a tumbler, then pour into a tall rocks glass rimmed with Kosher salt. Float grand marnier across the top.

*note, while breaking the fruit juice rule of drinks allowed by men to drink in public, the margarita is acceptable in some public settings, mainly because it has fucking tequila in it.*
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post #218 of 224
6/20/09 at 3:14am
I wanted to get Wild Turkey, for some reason I was talked into margaritas that was the first time I ever had one. It was the cheap shit too, tequila and mix cost about $20 and I didn't get a headache or anything, I actually never do.
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post #219 of 224
6/20/09 at 5:01am
I can't believe that there are still 30-somethings that fall for the Long Island Ice Tea trick. I had everyone yesterday wasted in no time. I felt like some sort of evil genius as I was drinking my straight vodka. I'm so fucking immature.
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post #220 of 224
6/20/09 at 10:27am
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
The Zen Of Drinking Alone:



More here.
I love this. I don't compulsively drink alone or anything, but when I'm just home on Friday after a long week, I feel no shame in enjoying a Glenkinchie. Pussy "Don't ever drink alone or you'll die immediately" whiners be damned, I say.
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post #221 of 224
6/20/09 at 10:34am
I've never understood why drinking alone has such a stigma attached to it. I enjoy drinking. Why wouldn't I do it at home by myself?
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post #222 of 224
6/20/09 at 12:14pm
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
I can't believe that there are still 30-somethings that fall for the Long Island Ice Tea trick. I had everyone yesterday wasted in no time. I felt like some sort of evil genius as I was drinking my straight vodka. I'm so fucking immature.
See, whenever I drank them I was well aware of the circumstances, I could get 5 times the alcohol for the same price.
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post #223 of 224
6/22/09 at 4:23am
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
I've never understood why drinking alone has such a stigma attached to it. I enjoy drinking. Why wouldn't I do it at home by myself?
Me neither. Yesterday I stayed home alone. Cooked myself some nice food, ate it along with some tasty, tasty German weissbier and watched some Arrested Development while knocking back a couple of screwdrivers. I can't see why this is in any way weird while doing practically the same thing last Sunday except for having a couple of friends over and watching Spaced instead was fine.
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post #224 of 224
6/22/09 at 7:40pm
George Thorogood does it, so way the fuck not.
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