you know what soaks up vomit really well? a bukowski book. keep it in your shirt pocket just in case.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
so, the romanticizing/fetishizing is a "might be" bad effect.
acktually doing that crap when other people are more dependent on you (professionally, your family) is a "probably will be" bad effect
not that i want to get all moralistic about drugs and sex tho. do your thing i guess.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
which one, drugs or sex
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
gbx whatever "your thing" is i'm ok w/ it
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
i read that awl thing and i think dude do you have ANY idea how much people used to drink and drug in the good old days? parents. older parents. 40th birthday party at a karaoke bar woohoo you go girl! it used to be socially acceptable to be a complete drunk. everyone was drunk! all the time!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
sounds so tiring
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
they had karaoke bars in the good old days?
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
this still holds in some segments of society ime
like I rode the train out west and the drunkest ppl in the area was a group of five 50yos getting lit. up. on whatever terrible booze they sold in the caf
ty goole
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
if she said all her galpals did meth and had pitbull fights in the basements of their co-ops i would raise an eyebrow.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
plus people did serious drugs in the 50's and 60's. real deal speed and downers handed out like candy by doctors. housewives were flying. and drunk. and they all had ten kids.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
I can't make an accurate comparison, but here's some pulled-out-of-my-ass messageboard theory: society during the 50s may not have been as complex as today (milestones neatly marked off, society tightly stratified, roles clearly defined) that even if you had parents fucked out of their minds 24/7, that you could probably just fall neatly into society even if you weren't all that OK inside.
Whereas these days things are so complex and shakey (US has highest rate of anxiety in the civilized world, according to my vague memory of half-reading an article) that the stakes are higher today for good parenting than yesterday.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
scott OTM about intake tho
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
you could buy meth - PURE METH - at a fucking drugstore!
discreet meth
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
time was, you could kick a ball of pure meth down the street
i wondered if ilx had read that article, now i guess i know...
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
We read kind of slow.
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
too busy drunkenly hitting on 38-yo married Sluts
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
i would totally do cocaine if someone i knew offered me some. nobody ever offers me any! i need to start hanging out with different moms. i haven't done any since the 90's when my stripper girlfriend brought some home (she got some as a tip at work). i stayed up all night watching t.v. i was wild.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
i'm pretty sure 75% of the parents i know smoke pot. sometimes i think just about everybody smokes pot. but that might be a regional thing.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
okay maybe not 75%. i don't really know. western mass pretty big on pot though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, I met a dude at a friend's party who was talking about bartending at a "social club" style thing in the middle of nowhere in the midwest. Like a dinner place or whatever. Little old ladies would come in to have dinner or just cocktails with their friends and it'd be the stiffest no-vermouth or just-a-splash martinis, vodka and ice, all kinds of hard drinking. I feel like the generation between, which my parents probably fall in, had leaned toward beer drinking and the newer cocktail renaissance is kind of a tip back the other way.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
mancini's imo
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
tougher to get drunk on the new cocktail renaissance since the urban mixologist charges 12 bucks a pop
― dmr, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
I guess that's where all the house parties come in
― dmr, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
skot <3
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
My mom always talks about how all the housewives in her neighborhood when she grew up were drinking and/or popping pills, and her parents smoked pot, and some of the parents in the neighborhood even wife-swapped.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:13 AM (1 hour ago)
pedantic point, but meth is not the same as amphetamine
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
pedant alert:
in 1943, Abbott Laboratories requested FDA approval of methamphetamine for treatment of narcolepsy, mild depression, postencephalitic parkinsonism, chronic alcoholism, cerebral arteriosclerosis, and hay fever, which was granted in December 1944.
Sale of the massive postwar surplus of methamphetamine in Europe, North America, and Japan stimulated civilian demand.
In the 1950s, there was a rise in the legal prescription of methamphetamine to the American public. In the 1954 edition of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, indications for methamphetamine included "narcolepsy, postencephalitic parkinsonism, alcoholism, certain depressive states, and in the treatment of obesity." Methamphetamine constituted half of the amphetamine salts for the original formulation for the diet drug Obetrol which later became Adderall. Methamphetamine was also marketed for sinus inflammation or for non-medicinal purposes as "pep pills" or "bennies".
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
I like cats
― dayo, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
Otm
― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Bold opinion.
i would totally do cocaine if someone i knew offered me some. nobody ever offers me any!
i know!
i love how in casablanca, which is admittedly largely set in a bar, ppl just order drinks and then go to a different table and order more and more, etc. before saying racist things about the piano player. but everybody's having such a good time!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
<I>they had karaoke bars in the good old days?
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:54 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</I>
It's 2012, I think 1986 officially counts as "the good old days."
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
i was just talking about something she said in the awl thing anyway. that they go to 40th birthday parties at karaoke places and get drunk and this is supposed to be an example of regressive mom behaviour or something? didn't say they did this in the old days.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-cotter/struggling-yet-not-struggling_b_1661698.html
not nyt but surprised it hasn't been posted here yet
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
I just posted it in the gen limbo thread
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
cuz she ain't no ruling class
i guess i don't really get the regression part anyway cuz most of the 30-something and 40-something parents i know who go to bars or drink or party or whatever never really stopped drinking or going to bars/parties. maybe when they had infants they did. those little bastards can slow you down.
x-post
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
she's more ruling class than lena dunham, who now has to be mentioned in every single article by a female new yorker ever
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
"Now, two months after graduation, I seem to be one of just a handful of people that's been able to get themselves on their feet, pay their own bills and actually put together some semblance of an adult life with minimal parental assistance."
okay wait....
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
i should have bolded the "two months" part.
no she is a copy editor at studentadvisor.com, that site is prob not the next facebook
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
wait why is carrie bradshaw always referred to as carrie bradshaw but lena dunham is just lena dunham? doesn't she play a character with a different name? do people not understand that girls is not a docu
xp
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
and she lives in boston
there are some rich people in boston, but nobody who rules anyone
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
hannah something idr
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
wait is she complaining about having a good job and money? i'm so confused.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
montana iirc xp
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
she's not even doing the normal complaint about good job + money aka bourgeois disenchantment
she's complaining that she hasn't suffered enough
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link