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nomadologist
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Here goes nothing.
Gavin
booty bass intellectual
I'm not sure how I feel about this proliferation of confessional threads... although there's usually some good abstract stuff to be had on them (big up yrslf Dsnss).
I'll respond here:
I think ideally I like this too... but in practice, I am too poor to stick to top shelf (as are my friends), and drinking crap basically means you're wasting your time unless you get sufficiently drunk. It's weird, I used to think I had no tolerance, getting wasted in 6 drinks or less, but then I realized it's because I always smoked weed when I drank. I am usually pathetically aware of my wasted-ness -- I loathe hangovers -- and rarely REALLY let go... probably for the best, I've never passed out on trains or gotten thrown into jail, quite accomplished am I.
I would drink far less if not for its properties as social lubricant....
I'll respond here:
I think ideally I like this too... but in practice, I am too poor to stick to top shelf (as are my friends), and drinking crap basically means you're wasting your time unless you get sufficiently drunk. It's weird, I used to think I had no tolerance, getting wasted in 6 drinks or less, but then I realized it's because I always smoked weed when I drank. I am usually pathetically aware of my wasted-ness -- I loathe hangovers -- and rarely REALLY let go... probably for the best, I've never passed out on trains or gotten thrown into jail, quite accomplished am I.
I would drink far less if not for its properties as social lubricant....
N
nomadologist
Guest
As far as confessional threads go, I have no real stories about alcohol, since I never drink to get drunk. But I think the role of alcohol in our entire heirarchy of substances is interesting, especially since alcohol withdrawal is by far more lethal than any other type, causing massive seizures and neurological trauma.
noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
This is a confessional?
Shit, I thought it was a pub.
Shit, I thought it was a pub.
Gavin
booty bass intellectual
I knew a girl in grad school who was writing a PhD on Woody Allen and the act of confessing... I wanted to say "Fuck that old shit, try livejournals, messageboards, and bars," but you're supposed to be respectful among others' important life choices, right?
hundredmillionlifetimes
Banned
I've 20 years of stories about alcohol [mind you, I never drink to get drunk either, at least not since my 20s]. And I don't 'do' drugs, never. But I think I know why - I'm too fucking intense
Drives the commonsensical-normal insane ...noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
Not if you are a true friend.
Gavin
booty bass intellectual
No, I wasn't a true friend, I didn't know her very well and from what I heard she was very insecure about going for the PhD... I saved my most brutal commentary for my cohort and then only the masochist with mommy issues enjoyed it, driving me to this message board during long days in front of the computer writing my thesis. Now I'm playing the loquacious drunk...
N
nomadologist
Guest
I've 20 years of stories about alcohol [mind you, I never drink to get drunk either, at least not since my 20s]. And I don't 'do' drugs, never. But I think I know why - I'm too fucking intense
You know, the Lacanian I want to see said the only people she finds unrehabilitate-able are alcoholics? Teehee.
Being intense is like the cardinal sin nowadays, isn't it?
Especially here in the U.S., where it's all about smoking a blunt and saying "it's all good" about anything. Then robbing a liquor store and buying some Nikes.
N
nomadologist
Guest
She sounds like one of the Vassar girl characters from a Woody Allen flick.
He'd probably totally do her!there is plenty of non-top shelf alcohol that is tasty as hell... i say this while drinking a $1.50 22oz bottle of Yuengling lager ("america's oldest brewery")
for vodka especially, i find alot of the distinction between middle range and top shelf is strictly a marketing ploy (see: grey goose)...
i have about 10 million drinking stories, none of them particularly that interesting... i have a few stitches due to drunken misadventures and have lost a couple cell phones... i guess that is why i have not chimed in on any of the sex/drugs threads; the universality of the experience also makes it kinda boring (does anyone care that i like big tits and painkillers? doubtful...)
N
nomadologist
Guest
universality? huh interesting.
there is nothing biochemically more different than the way people react to drugs. (or, for that matter, sex!)
there is nothing biochemically more different than the way people react to drugs. (or, for that matter, sex!)
N
nomadologist
Guest
oh yeah, and i know plenty of guys (my boyfriend included) who hate big tits
right, and there are plenty who like "just a handful' and plenty who have no preference...
but, ultimately, none of those answers is particularly interesting...
it's like looking at pictures of someone else's baby, you know what i'm saying?
N
nomadologist
Guest
No.
If I like someone, and think they're cool, have known em for a while (like Swears) I'd fawn over a picture of their baby.
If I like someone, and think they're cool, have known em for a while (like Swears) I'd fawn over a picture of their baby.
N
nomadologist
Guest
It's more like: listening to someone else's music.
maybe it's a girl thing...
N
nomadologist
Guest
Or maybe I just find people and biochemistry interesting
N
nomadologist
Guest
Yeah, and the cyborg body, and Buddhism as a fetish object.