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i'd rather have tonic

Replace gin with cognac and I agree.

I don't understand the appeal of alcohol, especially among people who make their living with their brains. I can't write drunk (or high), and I always want/need to be able to write.

weirdly i think that's otm too, but i trained myself out of drinking and writing bc i always wrote garbage when drunk

writing stoned, however, if you can manage it (it took me ten years to finally not feel 100 percent stupid while high), is great

It's not so much not being able to think/write when high as not being able to think/write when hungover, anxious and tired - something that used to last a matter of hours, but can now last anything up to a week, depending on the booze intake.

oh yeah also hangovers completely destroy my ability to do anything cognitive for at least 24 hours which is why i've mostly given up drinking

still gin is good imo

I've made myself sound like a pisshead when my job doesn't remotely allow me to drink during the week (and adequately function). Booze is still debilitating at the weekends, though. Mmm, sweet booze.

alcohol sucks, the worst drug

coke just barely beats it imo

and I always want/need to be able to write

I often yearn to escape from it and language. From control in general.

Maybe some of you are drinking too much? I drink regularly, but literally never to the point of incapacitation or debilitation (the latter of which I didn't know was an actual word until spellcheck didn't correct it).

So my controversial opinion is that alcohol is kind of nice, in spite of everything.

xp

sometimes it's about personal chemistry, for instance at this point if i have more than two beers i'm gonna be hungover xp

I write best when drunk

By write I mean shitpost obv

otm

Coke has to be the least bang for buck going

two best bonds are from russia with love and on her majesty's secret service

these are the only two good Bonds (but I love Live And Let Die and enjoy all the Broccoli Connerys)

The Living Daylights adaptation is alright, but the film then carries on for more than two hours afterwards

coke just barely beats it imo

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:40 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh shit yeah otm

Uh, unperson, I don't write drunk. Never have. Cocktails are a reward for productivity. I couldn't write as much as I do high or drunk. I also teach, so there's that.

Real writers write when inebriated though

Real writers write when inebriated though

All my Bukowski books are in a box in my basement. I see yours are still piled beside your bed.

william faulkner could write pretty well

In college I revised short stories high on occasion because the monomaniacal attention to minutiae characteristic with being stoned worked then. I couldn't possibly now.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was boring af last time i saw it

it took me ten years to finally not feel 100 percent stupid while high

i'm sensing a connection to your 5-star rating of Halloween II

i'd need lots of gin to get through Mrs. Dalloway

I mean there are still writers who write poorly when drunk, but that is not because of the alcohol

My comment was more or less tongue in cheek though

everyone's chemistry is different

It'll be intersting to see someday if my posts are any less amazing when I'm sober.

Not today, though (dook dook dook).

People who spend more than $200 on a cellphone are insane.

People who deprive the numerous Bond threads of good content by instead derailing the controversial opinions thread are monsters.

xpost I spent >$200 on my phone but I'm still using the same one like eight years later even though it is a certifiable POS at this point so I feel like I've justified the extravagance.

I guess none of the above exactly refutes your assertion, though.

used for 8 years would take it out of the category of purchases I am targeting. Yikes, I think the longest I ever had one cell phone was 4 years.

People who deprive the numerous Bond threads of good content by instead derailing the controversial opinions thread are monsters.

i think this might be part of a new rationalizing of ILX, in the same way that the Controversial Music Opinions thread is doing the work of most of ILM quite comfortably

xp. I'm just surprised a phone works after 8 years.

Yeah, I probably spend more time cursing at it than I do actually using it.

I still have a second generation ipod that works with the little rotary wheel thing.

^ ha ha

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was boring af last time i saw it

last time I saw it was on a cinema triple-bill with Goldfinger & The Spy Who Loved Me and it fucking rips

People who spend more than $200 on a cellphone are insane.

― Yerac, Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:38 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, you could even drop that to $100ish

going from Goldfinger's climactic "Bond rapes a lesbian straight and she turns her crime army to help him" to a film full of women's agency being respected and elevated was p sweet too

i have a 14 month old huawei that cost me $117 canadian (cheapest smartphone i could fine) and it hardly works now

I thought every cellphone was designed to self destruct at 14 months. Apple is running such a scam.

I have to go into a meditative state with my friends who leave their new iphones in cabs or crack the screens all the time.

there are no good James Bond movies, they are all one long continuous stream of racist chauvinist imperialist garbage

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was boring af last time i saw it

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:47 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you think alien is boring

i'm sensing a connection to your 5-star rating of Halloween II

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:49 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you seen this movie? oh? you would never bother? ok then... shut up?