to what extent does your life revolve around alcohol?

The beer is absolutely fine. And the pleasure you get when actual change is handed back to you when you buy a round easily makes up for the mediocre quality of the product.

Have you tried the Sam Smiths beer-in-a-bottle? Is it much better than the draft?

if you want to step away from beer then it's gotta be a bloody Mary, it's a meal in a glass.

Such a ILNaNoWriMo site would be fine & dandy - someone get to work on this. My hubris demands that I share my ratty prose with the world.

One time we got drunk on our lunch break. Three people fell asleep at their desks (ONE FELL ON THE FLOOR!), everyone else was very loud. At the restaurant one of the guys broke a glass and we all ran out. The next day we had an emergency staff meeting.

Now that I live in a better bar town,.. well, yeah, alcohol is found at many a cornerstone in my life these days.. heh heh... ugh.

Didn't drink much, if at all, from 14-19. Resumed at a party in 1995 or so, and drank now and again from then until May 1998 at age 21, at my college's outdoor music festival a couple weeks before I graduated, when I got absolutely plastered, far beyond anything I'd ever done before, and spent five hours alternately vomiting and unconscious in a women's public toilet (no one knew where I was, so no one came to help me) until I staggered back to my dorm room at five or six in the morning.

(About five hours later, my father almost died in a fall. Not a good day.)

Since then, I've had but little to drink -- getting that ill took away most of the fun. I don't like the way alcohol makes me feel anymore, either -- it used to have a euphoriac effect on me, but now it just makes me feel queasy, jumpy and vaguely lightheaded. So I have a glass of wine or Chartreuse or a beer every few months or so, and that's basically it. I suppose I miss the glow -- it was especially nice to have 2-3 glasses of wine at a good concert -- but really, once you're legal, it's not that much fun anymore.

That ususally doesn't happen though, and I am the person to see if you want to find out what exactly happened on our evening out...

I'm Irish. I might as well accept that I am a good ol' fashioned habitual drinker.

360 degrees

Times have changed. I was encouraged to drink stout. Something about B vitamins. Nourishing and relaxing for nurser and nursee. Too bad this is no longer true.

These days even habitual coming home and watching Simpsons/Neighbours often involves the cracking open of the cask o'goon. I'm trying to cut back though...

Wait no, thats for another thread.

i missed the second last episode where they got out (they got out). also harold strangled paul. there was no alcohol revolving at the time

This may be largely true for my life as well but I can't work up any concern about it -- it doesn't feel to me like teh booze is being used in any consistent way to conceal or abet or bypass anyone's issues that can't be otherwise resolved -- so I don't mind it either for my sake or my friends'. Is the mere fact of frequent social drinking a worry? I mean, if you think it is, then obv it is for you, but I'm asking: are you concerned by the frequency alone, or do you, like Trayce, know what function it's performing and is it the MECHANICS of the sitch that bother you?

Yeah, clearly not.
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idk, if anything day drinking leads to passing out by 5pm.

why do you drive a car in the city

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)

you know, i bite my tongue not to say this every single time someone complains about driving in the city, or just mentions driving in the city in whatever context. i gotta learn to be more confrontational.

Xpost It fucks my entire day plus the evening is my reward for being productive during the day

I'd love not to drive in the city, believe me, if my city's idea of public transportation wasn't an awful bus system that often shows up to stops hours late, drives by them outright or doesn't show up at all, or are full with no room to board when they show up...

Or a rail system which doesn't run on weekends and has only a small number of boarding stations

Or take Ubers and Lyfts, which is just outsourcing driving in the city.

While an occasional drive in a quiet road can be nice, can't tell you how many times I went out for a drive to clear my head and what happened in the drive resulted in me getting stressed out more.

Excited about the expansion to Bright line long distance rail, but I would dream about selling my car (which I own) if I could do it. I like jamming tunes but drivers here are sociopaths.

The thing that always makes me happy about my visits to NYC are just walking and subwaying everywhere.

Heh, well, it's easy for me to say cause I don't know how to drive. I walked everywhere even when I lived in the burbs.

There's nothing like carrying 40lbs of groceries 3 miles back to your house on a sweltering day in August.

I get the transit fatigue, believe me. Trying to get home in the middle of the night on the barely functioning subway system, I mean, I was through with going out before I even turned 21.

I tried our local bus once out of necessity when my car was towed, how bad could it be, $2 all u can ride. It took me two hours to arrive at the tow place, which was five miles away, due to a) the inane routes leading to 70 transfers and b) one of the buses blew the stop and I had to wait for the next.

Wound up having to lead a conference call on the bus that day cos I got back so late. My project manager asked me where the Hell I was due to the noise lol

lol that sounds like I drive drunk or something, I just meant people on non-motorized vehicles doing dumb shit in cities

― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, February 10, 2023 2:31 PM (nine minutes ago)

why do you drive a car in the city

people tend to do things like drive cars and drink alcohol because it’s makes them feel comfortable but I don’t know, we can’t be having that

Man I hate my life. Lol.

I have a buddy who's a notoriously prolific drunk driver (and got caught once).. but he recently started dating a woman who has zero tolerance for it, and lo & behold - now he's walking everywhere (which is mostly what I do)

Pretty sure I'm going to die at the hands of a motorist while walking down the side of a road that's unsuitable for pedestrians, I do that shit all the time and no matter how cautious I am, it's dicey.

lol at the conference call on a bus.

I have always felt that if I get hit by a car and survive I get a big payday and if I get hit by a car and die then I won’t be around to care meanwhile the driver will have to live with themself so I really come off better

very fatalistic lol

you could also get hit by an uninsured hit & run driver and get nothing but lifelong paralysis

I'm honestly counting on early death by vehicular manslaughter, I have no idea how I'm going to provide for myself in my old age otherwise.

Neando I think you should do all your conference calls from increasingly outlandish locations going forward just to mess with the project manager.

'Are you at.. are you at a bullfight??'

I was walking back to my car once after seeing Slayer at the Jaguars stadium and I was kinda in the road cos there was no actual sidewalk and one of the cops yelled at me "are u nuts being in the street, just about everyone driving is drunker than hell" and I yelled back "then I'm no safer on the sidewalk either" and kept going

Died and hour later, RIP me

angel of death!

ME (getting ready for dinner out this weekend with friends): "I'm going to try not to drink a cocktail before dinner."
WIFE (laughing): "I'm going to try TO drink a cocktail before dinner."