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Title: I'm Drunk
Post by: RCMerchant on September 12, 2009, 12:28:28 AM
If Yer drunk post here.
I drink. A lot Too much. This is a drunk thread. If yer drunk.....you can post here and I wont judge. I sttarted drinking when I started working doing farm work for old Pollacks and Russians in the early 70's.I shoveveled ear corn and drove tractors for farmers-my pay was goat cheese,home made kielbasa,and (from Nickolia) Kessler Whiskey.As You may have noticed-This thread is strted by me-drunk. BUT-I met a nice  girl who likes me in spite of my alchoholism......I'm blesssed. Just like you guys ike me. OK. OK....this is the "Post if yer drunk thread". If you don't wanna.....I understand......I just aint the shy type.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: RCMerchant on September 12, 2009, 03:17:06 AM
I don't wanna be buried in a pet sematary. I dont wanna live my life again.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on September 12, 2009, 07:10:40 AM
If Yer drunk post here.
I drink. A lot Too much. This is a drunk thread. If yer drunk.....you can post here and I wont judge. I sttarted drinking when I started working doing farm work for old Pollacks and Russians in the early 70's.I shoveveled ear corn and drove tractors for farmers-my pay was goat cheese,home made kielbasa,and (from Nickolia) Kessler Whiskey.As You may have noticed-This thread is strted by me-drunk. BUT-I met a nice  girl who likes me in spite of my alchoholism......I'm blesssed. Just like you guys ike me. OK. OK....this is the "Post if yer drunk thread". If you don't wanna.....I understand......I just aint the shy type.

 :bouncegiggle: "ear corn" ??  :question:

I actually said I was going to quit drinking for good, but to hell with that. Give me another 5 hours sir and I shall be back on this thread drunk as a skunk in a trunk.  :drink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on September 12, 2009, 07:37:18 AM
I wish I would have noticed this thread last night  :teddyr:  Oh, I see you didn't post it until two hours after I went to bed.  No matter, I'll make a special effort to get good an buzzed and be back tonight.

We can talk about important stuff and make brilliant observations  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: lester1/2jr on September 12, 2009, 09:02:40 AM
I often rank my meals or drinks on a 1 to 10 basis.  the can of steel reserve 211 I had on an empty stomach last night was a 10 and so was the coachman style spaghetti I had afterwords.  and the nap at 8 at night I had after that


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on September 12, 2009, 04:00:09 PM
Well, I'm back. So far I've sank 4 bottles of Spitfire ale, 2 bottles of Carlsberg Export and I'm now onto my second Jim Beam & Coke.

I just found out my grandfather has died of cardiac failure. He had a fall about two weeks ago, but was totally fine. My dad told me he passed away peacefully. Tonight I am drinking to him (pretty mch drowning my sorrows), I want to dedicate this song to him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_YzwL9-c_w

R.I.P Eric


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: indianasmith on September 12, 2009, 06:04:46 PM
My condolences on your loss, Circus.  Even if, as a non-drinker, I should probably not be posting in this thread.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 12, 2009, 07:23:34 PM
I haven't been drunk in over a year (New Years Eve, 2008).

Last night a drank a six-pack (of light beer), but spread it over about 6 hours while playing poker.

I usually don't post when I drink.  I watch movies instead.  :cheers:

I drink more than the average person, but I've learned to drink to the point where I get pleasantly buzzed, then go to bed.  Since my late 20s I've had no more hangovers, vomiting, blackouts, doing stupid stuff I regret in the morning.  I'm fortunate; some of my drinking buddies from that period went on to become full-fledged alcoholics.

Functioning alcoholics can be fine people and lead fulfilling lives.  Many others will become horrible people when they drink and ruin their own lives, and the lives of those around them.  I think RC's one of the former types.  I don't judge you, but I do wish you the best, and hope the beast won't get the better of you. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on September 12, 2009, 07:25:45 PM
I think I'm starting to become the type that ruins my own and others lives...


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on September 12, 2009, 08:40:12 PM
I'm mildly, pleasantly inebriated right now.  

I make the same mistake every time...always seeking a Dulcinea in a world of Aldonzas...but is it a mistake if my pain leaves the world a better place?


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: indianasmith on September 12, 2009, 09:08:39 PM
"And the world will be better for this -
that one man, scorned and covered with scars;
Still strives, with that last ounce of courage,
to reeeeeeach the unreachable star!"  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on September 12, 2009, 09:26:38 PM
"And the world will be better for this -
that one man, scorned and covered with scars;
Still strives, with that last ounce of courage,
to reeeeeeach the unreachable star!"  :teddyr:

Aye.  I have always been as Don Quixote de la Mancha, a shining knight displaced, ready to take the sorrows of the world onto my own shoulders to alleviate the sufferings of others.  At times it's the greatest feeling in the world; at others, it's like dying again and again.  I've talked to therapists about it.  But I'll not change.  I'll happily die a hundred times like this if it means leaving one person's life better than I found it.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Doc Daneeka on September 12, 2009, 09:33:22 PM
Maybe I don't understand, but I hope things look up, RC, Circus, and anybody else out there feeling low.....


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 12, 2009, 09:34:03 PM
I think I'm starting to become the type that ruins my own and others lives...

Circus, my condolences on your grandfather.  

I suspect you've got a long way to go before you start ruining lives... you're young and you're pushing the limits.  People tend to pull back as they get older.  For better and for worse.  We can tell you're basically a good guy... except when you put on the Catholic schoolgirl's uniform and start eating moss, that's just creepy...  :smile:    


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on September 12, 2009, 10:35:26 PM
Quite pleasantly buzzed right now, but I'm out of beer  :bluesad:  Time to brush my teeth and go to bed.

This seems so darned philosophical to me at the moment:

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ah well, nighty night.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: RCMerchant on September 13, 2009, 04:51:09 AM
Well,I'm sober now,but still pleasently dazed from the after shock. Ah.
I don't get hangovers anymore. Do you?
This is the perfect time for coffee and a really goofy BAD movie.Mebbe the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: RCMerchant on September 13, 2009, 04:55:59 AM
I just peeked into my son Eddie's room. He's sleeping-the movie AIRPLANE is playing on his vhs player. I'm so proud.  :smile:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on September 13, 2009, 12:26:09 PM
Well, I've had a weep and I've had alot of beer. Still got a whole case left and some Smokey & The Bandit seems appealing right now.  :drink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on September 18, 2009, 12:27:47 AM
I'm listening to some old Capitol Blues and Novelty records purportedly among the "Roots of Rock 'n' Roll" but whatever it is, it's pretty damned straight great and I like it.   :smile:  :thumbup:  Oh, I must be ever so slightly hammered. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on September 19, 2009, 11:16:19 PM
I'm just inebriated enough to be aware of my face.  Normally, I pay it no mind, but once a little alcohol is in me I become cognizant of my face.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Zapranoth on September 21, 2009, 03:04:47 PM
I'm sober... have never been drunk, actually... and I think I've gotta watch Kung Fu Hustle again.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on September 21, 2009, 09:43:58 PM
I'm sober... have never been drunk, actually... and I think I've gotta watch Kung Fu Hustle again.
Your wish is my command.   :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm-ZQvQTzUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3g5Yy-lVM&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om4b5aG5lBM&feature=related
All the next 7 parts are on youtube, here's part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcuO-s147v4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcuO-s147v4&feature=related)  :drink:



Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on September 26, 2009, 10:59:37 AM
I forgot about this thread, otherwise, I would have posted last night.  Some Seagrams and Mountain Dew and I was Mr. Tipsy.  I'm thankful I was smart enough to stop as I was just at that edge of becoming drunk enough to be miserable.

And I'm probably gonna do it again tonight, just because I can.  I'll hopefully remember to post some words of utter nonsense, if I do.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on September 26, 2009, 12:08:10 PM
And I'm probably gonna do it again tonight, just because I can. 

It's fun being a grownup, isn't it?  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on September 26, 2009, 12:23:37 PM
I've run out of booze!  :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on September 26, 2009, 03:26:45 PM
And I'm probably gonna do it again tonight, just because I can. 

It's fun being a grownup, isn't it?  :teddyr:

Well, actually, it has more to do with a lack of a social life, but I'll go with the grown up thing.   :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on September 26, 2009, 11:56:27 PM
...it has more to do with a lack of a social life, but I'll go with the grown up thing.   :cheers:
Well I have too much of a "social life" for me (with the likes of which I don' wanna see too often... or not at all.)  :lookingup:  :drink: 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on October 31, 2009, 02:27:40 PM
I am whakked out on 7 bottles of Miller, stumbling arounf playing air guitar to White Lion sonmgs.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 31, 2009, 10:31:34 PM
Had a good time last night, 4 ladies, count 'em 4 ladies only one of which was older, all shapely, one real sweet blonde, two toney brunettes, I'm putting devil horns behind their heads while taking pix, the waiter aided me...  :bouncegiggle:  Was gonna buy them all drinks, but fortunately they got bored and flew away... huh...?  :bluesad: :bouncegiggle: Apparently, we were the envy of the restaurant, next to the LOUD table... that's it, 'cause I was pie-eyed and didn't know it. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiNMz_745vQ   


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on November 05, 2009, 09:26:26 PM
I'm not drunk yet, but about 2 beers into my six pack.  Sad.  Only got 4 left.

Ah well.  I shall finish. :teddyr:

Sadly, I've been on a downward spiral lately.  I try to make things better, things happen, and it's back to square one.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 05, 2009, 09:47:09 PM
I'm not drunk yet, but about 2 beers into my six pack.  Sad.  Only got 4 left.

Ah well.  I shall finish. :teddyr:

Sadly, I've been on a downward spiral lately.  I try to make things better, things happen, and it's back to square one.

I'm truly sorry to hear that.  :bluesad:  I always think one should drink for jolliness, not from sorrow.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on November 05, 2009, 09:52:11 PM
I'm not drunk yet, but about 2 beers into my six pack.  Sad.  Only got 4 left.

Ah well.  I shall finish. :teddyr:

Sadly, I've been on a downward spiral lately.  I try to make things better, things happen, and it's back to square one.

I'm truly sorry to hear that.  :bluesad:  I always think one should drink for jolliness, not from sorrow.
I do it for both.  I've been trying to avoid it if at all possible though.  Seen how bad people can get to wanna end up like them.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 06, 2009, 01:20:46 PM
I'm not drunk yet, but about 2 beers into my six pack.  Sad.  Only got 4 left.

Ah well.  I shall finish. :teddyr:

Sadly, I've been on a downward spiral lately.  I try to make things better, things happen, and it's back to square one.

I'm truly sorry to hear that.  :bluesad:  I always think one should drink for jolliness, not from sorrow.
I do it for both.  I've been trying to avoid it if at all possible though.  Seen how bad people can get to wanna end up like them.

I used to drink out of anger, that's the worst of all.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on November 06, 2009, 11:10:20 PM
I'm drinking because I can.  Not drunk as much as happily buzzed, damn my resistance to alcohol once I start serious drinking.

I'm hungry; who's fixing nachos?


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on November 06, 2009, 11:18:05 PM
I'm drinking because I can.  Not drunk as much as happily buzzed, damn my resistance to alcohol once I start serious drinking.

I'm hungry; who's fixing nachos?
No nachos.  But Pico De Gallo is good when your drunk.  Or hoagies at 3AM.  At least, they work for me.

I'm not drunk yet, but about 2 beers into my six pack.  Sad.  Only got 4 left.

Ah well.  I shall finish. :teddyr:

Sadly, I've been on a downward spiral lately.  I try to make things better, things happen, and it's back to square one.

I'm truly sorry to hear that.  :bluesad:  I always think one should drink for jolliness, not from sorrow.
I do it for both.  I've been trying to avoid it if at all possible though.  Seen how bad people can get to wanna end up like them.

I used to drink out of anger, that's the worst of all.  :bluesad:
I've never been drunk and angry.  When I get drunk I get really happy and talkative, actually.  But when I get angry, I get really really angry.  But when I'm drunk and angry, I seem to just not care about whatever it was that made me angry.  Just like, "Oh, that? Eh, I'll just have another one."  And I just stay in my little hole.  Kinda like drugs. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on November 07, 2009, 06:57:46 AM
I'm a happy drunk, but if I mix my drinks I become a raving psychopath hell bent on destroying myself and everyone around me.

Ah, good times.... :drink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on November 07, 2009, 11:55:59 AM
I'm a happy drunk, but if I mix my drinks I become a raving psychopath hell bent on destroying myself and everyone around me.

Ah, good times.... :drink:

I want to party with you, dude. I just want to make sure I have a good place to hide when the s**t hits the fan.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on November 07, 2009, 12:14:23 PM
I'm a happy drunk, but if I mix my drinks I become a raving psychopath hell bent on destroying myself and everyone around me.

Ah, good times.... :drink:

I want to party with you, dude. I just want to make sure I have a good place to hide when the s**t hits the fan.

 :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on November 14, 2009, 01:02:38 AM
Had my first drink of the night before I left work.  Had it in the back of a van with three fine Puerto Rican ladies, two of whom I'd spent the preceding half-hour singing the greatest hits of 80s Hair Metal with, in order to make the last half-hour of work go faster.

I'm now wrapping up beer two, and rocking out to Pat Benatar.  Beer three coming.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on November 15, 2009, 11:52:21 PM
Went to a friend's birthday last night.  Got especially loopy, ended up in a car with 4 babes after we got kicked out.  Good night.

Till I woke up this morning feeling not so nice and wondering how I got home.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on December 04, 2009, 02:25:36 PM
I'm drunk. 3 big bottles of Cobra. Yep  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on December 04, 2009, 10:13:27 PM
I'm rather pleasantly buzzed.  I just watched an episode of Stargate Universe and thought it wasn't too bad.  I must be on the verge of feeling no pain  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on December 05, 2009, 07:54:16 AM
Still slightly drunk....


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: voltron on December 05, 2009, 06:52:20 PM
Do I get bonus points because I'm drunk and stoned? Today is my brither's birthday( RIP little bro), and I'm having a few in his honour.  :bluesad:  :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on December 05, 2009, 10:31:59 PM
Do I get bonus points because I'm drunk and stoned? Today is my brither's birthday( RIP little bro), and I'm having a few in his honour.  :bluesad:  :cheers:

Sorry to hear about your little bother.

if we get double points for being stoned, then i should win a prize!!! It's saturday night again lonely and by myself. well, i have my morphine and wine to keep me company. oh, and the dog but he's not saying much...mostly he just stares.

damn, i got to get out more...


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Raffine on December 06, 2009, 02:07:09 AM
My grandfather always said there was three kinds of liquor:
The fightin' kind
The singin' kind
The lovin' kind



Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on December 06, 2009, 06:21:14 AM
My grandfather always said there was three kinds of liquor:
The fightin' kind
The singin' kind
The lovin' kind

So true...  :drink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 06, 2009, 08:40:15 PM
My grandfather always said there was three kinds of liquor:
The fightin' kind
The singin' kind
The lovin' kind



Oh, there's more than that.  Ever tried the exposin' yerself to strangers kind?  (They sell this in New Orleans during Mardi Gras).


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 07, 2009, 10:13:27 PM
Do I get bonus points because I'm drunk and stoned? Today is my brither's birthday( RIP little bro), and I'm having a few in his honour.  :bluesad:  :cheers:
Sorry bout your bro...guess you get points for being drunk and stoned...I've been there.  Although I had a rough night one time and mixed the wrong things...never again.

My grandfather always said there was three kinds of liquor:
The fightin' kind
The singin' kind
The lovin' kind


Which is why I've never drank liquor much.  Once in a while, I'll treat myself to vodka, but mostly I stick to beer.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on December 07, 2009, 11:32:45 PM
 :drink: 
I'm really a bit sad; Christmas always makes me sad.  But I'm glad too.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on December 08, 2009, 11:37:52 AM
This coming weekend I am driving up to my alma mater, reconnecting with a lovely young lady I worked with at the dining halls there, and proceeding to get hammered with her.  I just bought a 1.75L bottle of Svedka to bring up.  When I picked it up at the liquor store, I had a FORBIDDEN PLANET flashback: "Will sixty gallons be sufficient?"

So I'm posting this in advance, as I probably won't have my laptop with me when I go up and get drunk for the first time in months. 

Come to think of it...last time I drank as much as I intend to drink Saturday...I ended up in a relationship. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Trevor on December 09, 2009, 05:50:32 AM
I just bought a 1.75L bottle of Svedka to bring up.  When I picked it up at the liquor store, I had a FORBIDDEN PLANET flashback: "Will sixty gallons be sufficient?"

 :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 09, 2009, 09:40:48 PM
:drink: 
I'm really a bit sad; Christmas always makes me sad.  But I'm glad too.
Why so sad, if I may ask?


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on December 09, 2009, 11:14:27 PM
:drink: 
I'm really a bit sad; Christmas always makes me sad.  But I'm glad too.
Why so sad, if I may ask?
Not "so sad," "a bit sad".  Life does that to you so you take a drink and before you know it, you're in the 21st century and posting your thoughts where the world can see them.  :smile:  Besides, I'd offered a plausible explanation: "Christmas always makes me sad."  Now, you, Happy, my friend, have many reasons to be glad.   :thumbup:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: voltron on December 09, 2009, 11:47:23 PM
 :drink: :drink:
I do NOT like Christmas anymore. Oh yeah, in the words of Sword: "Goddamn I'm stoned again/ There's someone else in me/ Losing all control again/ Now I'm beggin' on my knees..."  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: voltron on December 09, 2009, 11:54:57 PM
btw, i've been listening to this song nonstop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGtrNZwqpCY

 :cheers: again.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on December 10, 2009, 12:46:01 PM
:drink: :drink:
I do NOT like Christmas anymore. Oh yeah, in the words of Sword: "Goddamn I'm stoned again/ There's someone else in me/ Losing all control again/ Now I'm beggin' on my knees..."  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

SWOOOORRD!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on December 12, 2009, 07:13:11 PM
I think I qualify for this thread tonight.  I'm not prone to feeling bad for myself and I'm not feeling that way tonight. I'm a chatty happy drunk but I would so terribly love to have someone fun to hangout with. i did a drunk call to a woman I know through SCA. Not a booty call. I just know she has a keen sense of the weird and would not be judgmental about watching something like "Girls Nite Out" which is what I'm watching and having a good time with, but it would be sooo cool to have someone here to riff off of this film with. I love my friends, but they seem to think if the budget is less that 200 million, it deserves to be ignored. I want someone who can watch anything from this crap to Bollywood trash and have fun with it.

Sorry, just feeling weird.
 
And drunk.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 12, 2009, 09:55:17 PM
Not drunk yet...but I'm about 2 beers into a ten pack.  Generally, I drink out of happiness, when I'm with friends.  But tonight...well, I'm killing loneliness.  No babe by my side, as I've now realized I'm two months away from 26 without so much as a date.  Sorry I'm not 6' tall and a model...but there is this one girl, but I dunno where we stand.  We're in this weird awkward stage.  Don't wanna really bring up how we feel cause we're friends, and don't wanna kill a good friendship.  But we're both single, both have had long nights of making out, but yet,  :question:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: paula on December 13, 2009, 06:20:38 AM
Not drunk yet...but I'm about 2 beers into a ten pack.  Generally, I drink out of happiness, when I'm with friends.  But tonight...well, I'm killing loneliness.  No babe by my side, as I've now realized I'm two months away from 26 without so much as a date.  Sorry I'm not 6' tall and a model...but there is this one girl, but I dunno where we stand.  We're in this weird awkward stage.  Don't wanna really bring up how we feel cause we're friends, and don't wanna kill a good friendship.  But we're both single, both have had long nights of making out, but yet,  :question:

you said you wouldn't tell!!   :wink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on December 13, 2009, 04:56:43 PM
So, to recap Saturday night/this morning (I woke up still drunk):

5:30 pm, started in on the drinking.  4 shots of gin (or so, I was drinking it out of a turkey baster -- long story), six vodka and cranberries, and a pot brownie.  This was the pregame event. 

Since the girls I was staying with are part of the Women's Rugby team at my alma mater, and the Men's Rugby team was having an event, they felt obligated to go and I went along.  Here I had four glasses of heavy-vodka punch, then was handed a can of Keystone Light.  For those unfamiliar with this product, Keystone Light is to beer what the gutters of New Orleans the day after Mardi Gras are to the Mona Lisa.  This stuff is foul, but the beer of choice of college students because $10 gets you a thirty-rack. 

I would normally avoid Keystone Light like the plague it is, but I figured I was drunk enough to down it.  I was wrong.  I drank about half the can, passed it off, casually walked out to the Men's Rugby House porch, and chundered mightily over the rail, keeping both myself and the porch clean of vomit.  After which I went back in the house and had another couple cups of punch to wash my mouth out. 

After this, we went to the In-Between, one of the bars in Geneseo, and the only one which under-21s can get into (though they can't get alcohol), and danced, particularly me and Becky, the friend who'd invited me up.  Now, Becky is 6'0" tall, plays rugby, and has boobs the size of my head.  We danced until the IB closed for the night at around 2.

At this point, we go back to the Women's Rugby House, crack open a couple bottles of Red Cat wine, smoke some pot, and watch "Pinky and the Brain" until we'd all either passed out or wandered off to have rampant lesbian sex (there are quite a few lesbians on the Women's Rugby team, it turns out).

I stopped drinking and fell asleep about 4 am.  10.5 hours of drinking and partying. 

For those of you familiar with George MacDonald Frasier's "Flashman" novels: I was beastly drunk, at Rugby, surrounded by beautiful women.  Didn't get past first base, but there's always next time. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 13, 2009, 07:53:25 PM


Since the girls I was staying with are part of the Women's Rugby team at my alma mater, and the Men's Rugby team was having an event, they felt obligated to go and I went along.  Here I had four glasses of heavy-vodka punch, then was handed a can of Keystone Light.  For those unfamiliar with this product, Keystone Light is to beer what the gutters of New Orleans the day after Mardi Gras are to the Mona Lisa.  This stuff is foul, but the beer of choice of college students because $10 gets you a thirty-rack. 


Keystone Light is God-Awful.  I used to party with these guys and girls I worked with.  Some of them have since gotten fired, but they live around the corner from me.  They would buy Keystone, especially after they lost their jobs.  I downed one and wished I hadn't.  I've since learned that if I go over, I take my own alcohol. 

But then again, I like Budweiser and everyone says THAT"S terrible.  I highly disagree.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on December 13, 2009, 08:02:39 PM
Keystone Light is God-Awful.  I used to party with these guys and girls I worked with.  Some of them have since gotten fired, but they live around the corner from me.  They would buy Keystone, especially after they lost their jobs.  I downed one and wished I hadn't.  I've since learned that if I go over, I take my own alcohol. 

But then again, I like Budweiser and everyone says THAT"S terrible.  I highly disagree.

It doesn't help me that I've developed a taste for imported beer (even though it costs more) and can barely stomach anything "less" than Sam Adams in terms of American beers. 

I think maybe I should just stick to liquor.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 13, 2009, 09:48:36 PM
Keystone Light is God-Awful.  I used to party with these guys and girls I worked with.  Some of them have since gotten fired, but they live around the corner from me.  They would buy Keystone, especially after they lost their jobs.  I downed one and wished I hadn't.  I've since learned that if I go over, I take my own alcohol. 

But then again, I like Budweiser and everyone says THAT"S terrible.  I highly disagree.

It doesn't help me that I've developed a taste for imported beer (even though it costs more) and can barely stomach anything "less" than Sam Adams in terms of American beers. 

I think maybe I should just stick to liquor.
I can't drink liquor, really.  I'm a beer man.  Not even a beer man.  Me: Budweiser.  That's the only one I can stomach.  Michelob too.

Coors or Coors Light: If I have no other options.
Miller or Miller Light: Shoot, I'd rather have water or soda.  Last time I drank this, I threw up.
Heineken- tasted okay, just reminded me of sour water.
Rolling Rock: PALE F'n ALE.  Tasted horrendous, but it was cheap. 

If I drink anything harder, I can drink Vodka here and there.  But it depends on the brand and/or flavor.  I liked Smirnoff Orange Flavored and Vanilla Flavored.

Fortunately, I don't become an 'angry drunk' or anything.  In fact, the opposite.  Normally, I'm very bitter and angry at the world.  But in my drunken stupors, I become kinda happy and start getting chatty and making jokes.  I dunno.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 13, 2009, 09:50:59 PM
Not drunk yet...but I'm about 2 beers into a ten pack.  Generally, I drink out of happiness, when I'm with friends.  But tonight...well, I'm killing loneliness.  No babe by my side, as I've now realized I'm two months away from 26 without so much as a date.  Sorry I'm not 6' tall and a model...but there is this one girl, but I dunno where we stand.  We're in this weird awkward stage.  Don't wanna really bring up how we feel cause we're friends, and don't wanna kill a good friendship.  But we're both single, both have had long nights of making out, but yet,  :question:

you said you wouldn't tell!!   :wink:
Ha.  That cheered me up this morning when I read that. 

Was talking to that girl last night...I dunno.  Keeps asking me to hang out/go out.  But then seems to pull away.  First time I met her we were all over each other.  I'm assuming that's a good sign...but I dunno.  Again, I was a bit drunk last night too.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 14, 2009, 11:55:37 AM
So, to recap Saturday night/this morning (I woke up still drunk):

5:30 pm, started in on the drinking.  4 shots of gin (or so, I was drinking it out of a turkey baster -- long story), six vodka and cranberries, and a pot brownie.  This was the pregame event. 

Since the girls I was staying with are part of the Women's Rugby team at my alma mater, and the Men's Rugby team was having an event, they felt obligated to go and I went along.  Here I had four glasses of heavy-vodka punch, then was handed a can of Keystone Light.  For those unfamiliar with this product, Keystone Light is to beer what the gutters of New Orleans the day after Mardi Gras are to the Mona Lisa.  This stuff is foul, but the beer of choice of college students because $10 gets you a thirty-rack. 

I would normally avoid Keystone Light like the plague it is, but I figured I was drunk enough to down it.  I was wrong.  I drank about half the can, passed it off, casually walked out to the Men's Rugby House porch, and chundered mightily over the rail, keeping both myself and the porch clean of vomit.  After which I went back in the house and had another couple cups of punch to wash my mouth out. 

After this, we went to the In-Between, one of the bars in Geneseo, and the only one which under-21s can get into (though they can't get alcohol), and danced, particularly me and Becky, the friend who'd invited me up.  Now, Becky is 6'0" tall, plays rugby, and has boobs the size of my head.  We danced until the IB closed for the night at around 2.

At this point, we go back to the Women's Rugby House, crack open a couple bottles of Red Cat wine, smoke some pot, and watch "Pinky and the Brain" until we'd all either passed out or wandered off to have rampant lesbian sex (there are quite a few lesbians on the Women's Rugby team, it turns out).

I stopped drinking and fell asleep about 4 am.  10.5 hours of drinking and partying. 

For those of you familiar with George MacDonald Frasier's "Flashman" novels: I was beastly drunk, at Rugby, surrounded by beautiful women.  Didn't get past first base, but there's always next time. 

Oh, to be young again.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on December 14, 2009, 12:56:36 PM
Now, Becky is 6'0" tall, plays rugby, and has boobs the size of my head. 

Yeah, thanks for the pictures buddy  :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Saucerman on December 14, 2009, 01:41:39 PM
Now, Becky is 6'0" tall, plays rugby, and has boobs the size of my head. 

Yeah, thanks for the pictures buddy  :bluesad:

They're with the pictures of Circus Circus' nurses from a couple months back. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on December 17, 2009, 10:44:03 PM
Well, as I am fond of saying, I am well into my cups. Not beastly drunk like Flashman in Tom Brown's School Days, but rough enough that I have conflicting emotions about many things. I think I shall pour another and finish compiling info on "Posed For Murder" for the review I have started. But I'm gonna find some images on the internet first so I don't have to run the disc through my computer.  God, when I get my new computer, it will do all of this nightmare with little effort. Just gotta get the credit card paid down first and let the after-Christmas ruckus find the leveling ground. Of course, all the cool new systems come out two months after the Christmas markdowns of the previous, slower models....

God love Canadian Mist as it is my new friend.  Inexpensive, tasty and potent...at least until my Irish genes find it lacking, then it is on to Jim Beam Black Label.....


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 23, 2009, 11:41:45 PM
Drinking here tonight, with a new game for the Wii: New Super Mario Bros. Wii.  If you have the Wii, check it out.  Nobody's around, as they got work tomorrow, and I'm off Tomorrow and Christmas.  Sad.  But we all got plans to meet up in the next few days and on New Year's.


God love Canadian Mist as it is my new friend.  Inexpensive, tasty and potent...at least until my Irish genes find it lacking, then it is on to Jim Beam Black Label.....
Good God, Canadian Mist.  Haven't heard anyone mention that since High School (which is about 7 years ago for me.)  The same person also drank Piel's, actually.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: SkullBat308 on December 30, 2009, 12:07:01 AM
Drinking one of my stocking stuffers!!!!! Tequila. :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on December 30, 2009, 09:33:37 PM
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.  A bit... you believe me don't you?   :smile:  :drink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on December 31, 2009, 01:39:28 PM
This is the last night I will ever drink alcohol. I'm on the 'ol advocaat.

Why, you ask? Because over the xmas period I drank myself sober. I had 1 bottle of Bailey's liqueur to myself, 1 bottle of Tia Maria liqueur to myself, 8 bottles of Carlsberg Export and 6 cans of Stella Artois. I did not even get tipsy.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on December 31, 2009, 11:44:53 PM
This is the last night I will ever drink alcohol. I'm on the 'ol advocaat.

Why, you ask? Because over the xmas period I drank myself sober. I had 1 bottle of Bailey's liqueur to myself, 1 bottle of Tia Maria liqueur to myself, 8 bottles of Carlsberg Export and 6 cans of Stella Artois. I did not even get tipsy.  :bluesad:

Who could get drunk of Stella anyhow?  It's fancy water.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 01, 2010, 03:45:37 PM
So happy I get to chime in while utterly bombed out of my gourd.  I'm watching the original "Inglorious Bastards" which will be censored.

I love this movie.   It reminds me of the Clint Eastwood film "Firefox" where little people are willing to give their lives to make sure the greater evil does not become a reality.

I'm sure Quentin doesn't even come close to that.  But that is up next, when I'm ready to deal with a 2 and a half hour nightmare of his own butt-sniffing.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 01, 2010, 04:41:26 PM
I hate that point of being being so drunk that you know that if you have so much as one more drink, you WILL vomit, so you are waiting for that moment to pass.

Blah, blah, blah.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Joe the Destroyer on January 01, 2010, 04:42:54 PM
I hate that point of being being so drunk that you know that if you have so much as one more drink, you WILL vomit, so you are waiting for that moment to pass.

Blah, blah, blah.

Same here.  I revisited that feeling last night.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 01, 2010, 11:02:24 PM
I did good last night.  Only had 5 or 6 beers and called it a night.  Was tipsy, but not staggeringly drunk.  Which is good for me, cause I used to just go and go, not just doing alcohol, but mixing alcohol and drugs. 

Not anymore.  I very rarely drink anymore.  I've been trying not to.  Just doesn't appeal to me anymore.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 05, 2010, 03:54:58 PM
I've been sober now for 12 days. Wow, must be some kind of record...  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on January 06, 2010, 03:45:16 PM
Honestly- i'm not so much drunk as just plain fu%^ed up. Lately, my parents have been forcing me to go to therapy (long story i'd rather not share) and i've noticed that the suit behind the desk p**ses me off then i and get thrashed. I don't need some pencil pusher to tell me things I already know. He actually called me a predator  today and a sociopath for not feeling guilty. I do feel guilty sometimes, but not actually for the things i do but rather for my absence of remorse. In short, i feel guilty for not feeling guilty. I hate this guy. I think he's repressed.

 Anyways, its like a pattern- therapy then little grey pills on the way home. I like the lush fall of morphine. It's like a boyfriend you don't have to love. That statement my shock some; but its true.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 06, 2010, 08:51:28 PM
Okay, time for me to chime in again.  I'm drinking, in a casual fashion, so I can get through the next film I intend to review. So into my drinking that I called a casual friend to ask about a possible scar from small pox because I see the actor in the film has that distinctive scar on his arm.  I don't notice women sporting that scar much, but I must boost my awareness of this.

Sister Grace, I'm not shocked by your comments.  I find I'm just THIS side of that line. There are times that I sense it would take so little for me to cease to acknowledge the lack of remorse for my thoughts and/or actions. That is the thin thread I hold onto. I pity those who know me if I should let go of that. Many happy thoughts in your direction, for whatever help they may provide.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: voltron on January 07, 2010, 11:37:35 AM
I'm having a few at 12 o'clock noon. It's just realy hard dealing with the loss of my brother, so this  is how i deal with it. Yesterday I smoke 2 grams of weed in a short period of time. Drinking and smoking doesn't sole any problems, but it does make te time go by faster.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 07, 2010, 11:46:38 AM
Wow, Grace, heavy stuff there.

Honestly- i'm not so much drunk as just plain fu%^ed up. Lately, my parents have been forcing me to go to therapy (long story i'd rather not share) and i've noticed that the suit behind the desk p**ses me off then i and get thrashed. I don't need some pencil pusher to tell me things I already know. He actually called me a predator  today and a sociopath for not feeling guilty. I do feel guilty sometimes, but not actually for the things i do but rather for my absence of remorse. In short, i feel guilty for not feeling guilty. I hate this guy. I think he's repressed.

Maybe you should try a different therapist.  If you're constantly mad at the guy he may not be able to help you.  It's possible, of course, that he's deliberately making you angry.  Telling you things you "already know" but dislike about yourself could be a way to force you to face them when the natural human tendency is to avoid them.  He may be hoping to make you mad at yourself in order to inspire you to change.  Just a possibility; another one is that he's a bad therapist, or just doesn't click with you for whatever reason.  I'm pretty skeptical about the idea of therapy anyway.  It helps some people, doesn't have any effect on others.

Hey, maybe you even do have sociopathic tendencies.  So what?  It's a diagnosis, not a death sentence.  It's a problem if it gets in the way of your happiness, but I suspect that there are ways you can consciously adjust your behavior to compensate for it.  We ALL, without exception, have problems and personality flaws.  I have a powerful tendency towards paralyzing anxiety and depression.  Over the years I've discovered ways and tricks to cope with it.    

I like the lush fall of morphine. It's like a boyfriend you don't have to love.  

Those are almost certainly the most frighteningly poetic two sentences anyone's ever written on these boards.  


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 07, 2010, 01:43:31 PM
Therapists are evil and self obsessed. They don't want you to get better, because they can get more money the longer you feel screwed up. I've seen tons over the years, and I eventually walked out on every one of them. I find it's best to look inside yourself and work things out on your own. Just make sure you have someone nearby who's a damn good listener!  :smile:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Mr. DS on January 07, 2010, 05:51:53 PM
Went out after work with a few people.  I had a few beers.  I feel pretty good but I'm not officially drunk.  I think I need to drink more.  It makes me happy.  However, if someone says the wrong thing it awakes the sleeping demon in me and I unleash upon them.  So perhaps I should just drink alone.  Btw, those wings weren't that good.  Spicy yes, texture wise just ok.  Not worth the ten bucks. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 07, 2010, 10:28:25 PM
I'm becoming a too frequent visitor to this board.  I tend to drink for the fun of it.  When I start feeling angry, I know I'm tapping into areas that I shouldn't.  Oddly enough, when I drink, I tend to laugh at things a lot. Ignorance is bliss.  When I am cold sober, the anger takes hold, when I dwell there.  But my poor old body can't take being drunk all the time.  It starts killing me after more than a week; I can't feel my body eating itself.

Oooh, morbid mood there, eh?

Time for bed.  Work and then I'm fixing a big stew-like mess to eat and I can drink until I go to sleep.  Sadly, I have to buy more whiskey on the way home, walking, in minus 5 degree temps. Yet, I somehow manage to sweat through my shirts.  So, ladies, need a full-body bed-warmer? I swear I won't sweat on you, unless I have good reason. And we'll end this post before I say anything stupider than that.

Sleep well all.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 09, 2010, 08:24:26 PM
Holy crap.  Am I the only poster here, now?

Just watched an awful 70's frat film, and, well, the booze is not hitting hard enough. I'm buzzed

Off to annoy folks on PS Home, their PS3 social network. Then some Sacred 2, and another movie. The snow is so thick around here, I can't ride my bike to see my girlfriend at her Sunday-only job at McDonalds. It saddens me not only because I don't get to see her lovely face and talk to her, but they put the breakfast burritos on the Dollar Menu recently and that is what I buy.  I could load up.

Peace and happy faces to everyone.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 09, 2010, 08:48:21 PM
I'm a little buzzed, which is rare.  Not that I don't drink, I'm just usually not at the computer when I do.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Paquita on January 09, 2010, 09:32:50 PM
I just sipped a strawberry wine cooler!! IM OUT OF CONTROLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!

they put the breakfast burritos on the Dollar Menu

HELL YEAH!!!  I love the breakfast burritos! but i pick all the sausages and peppers out.. which is probably gross to you.  Ask your lady-love when they're going to start serving breakfast all day.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on January 09, 2010, 11:14:45 PM
HELL YEAH!!!  I love the breakfast burritos! but i pick all the sausages and peppers out..

You take the sausage and peppers out?  OH...that is just SOOOOOO wrong!   :teddyr:  The only modification that should be made to the breakfast burrito is to add a packet of hot sauce. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 09, 2010, 11:34:54 PM
HELL YEAH!!!  I love the breakfast burritos! but i pick all the sausages and peppers out..

You take the sausage and peppers out?  OH...that is just SOOOOOO wrong!   :teddyr:  The only modification that should be made to the breakfast burrito is to add a packet of hot sauce. 

You have to ask for that.

Paquita, dear, don't do that to the burritos.  It annoys them.  They will come back and haunt you. You don't want that.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 10, 2010, 06:09:17 AM
18 days sober...


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Paquita on January 10, 2010, 10:33:31 AM
HELL YEAH!!!  I love the breakfast burritos! but i pick all the sausages and peppers out..

You take the sausage and peppers out?  OH...that is just SOOOOOO wrong!   :teddyr:  The only modification that should be made to the breakfast burrito is to add a packet of hot sauce. 

You have to ask for that.

Paquita, dear, don't do that to the burritos.  It annoys them.  They will come back and haunt you. You don't want that.

I'm sorry, really.  I love sausage!  I just have a thing against foods that look like little turds.. and the peppers are weird and crunchy.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 10, 2010, 12:49:03 PM
18 days sober...

Congratulations!  :cheers:

Oops, wrong emoticon....


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 10, 2010, 12:50:55 PM
I just have a thing against foods that look like little turds..  

Then you don't eat Milk Duds, Tootsie Rolls, Hershey Kisses, chocolate-covered raisins/peanuts/etc. and black/brown M&Ms? Just to name a few things....   :buggedout:  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 10, 2010, 12:52:05 PM
18 days sober...

Excellent, sir.  :thumbup:

Now, if we can break your addiction to clowns.....


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Newt on January 10, 2010, 08:46:17 PM
18 days sober...
Well done!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Paquita on January 10, 2010, 10:44:33 PM
I just have a thing against foods that look like little turds.. 

Then you don't eat Milk Duds, Tootsie Rolls, Hershey Kisses, chocolate-covered raisins/peanuts/etc. and black/brown M&Ms? Just to name a few things....   :buggedout:  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

Exactly!  I don't eat free-rolling grapes either.

18 days sober...

Great!!



Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Trevor on January 11, 2010, 01:44:20 AM
I just have a thing against foods that look like little turds..  

Then you don't eat Milk Duds, Tootsie Rolls, Hershey Kisses, chocolate-covered raisins/peanuts/etc. and black/brown M&Ms? Just to name a few things....   :buggedout:  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

A store at the Cape Town Victoria and Albert Waterfront sells what they call "dassie droppings" ~ they're actually crunchy peanuts rolled in chocolate and are nice, if you remind yourself not to look at the grinning dassie on the pack.

He's grinning as if to say: look at what has been officially passed by me for you.  :buggedout: :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 11, 2010, 11:10:41 PM
18 days sober...
Good job, sir.

Better than I can say for myself.  A little relapse over the weekend.  Someone mentions free alcohol and, well, I showed up. :hatred:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 13, 2010, 02:06:26 AM
My brother died tonight, 5:05pm January 12.  Though he was once a tall strong handsome man, at about 45 he became afflicted with a dreadful disorder that crippled his spine, and caused him to distort into a hunchback.  He'd already drunk 3/4s of his lifetime of beer that would eventually exacerbate his degeneration, and booze and beer seemed his only solace in the last 12 years of his life...  Think before you drink?  I don't know what to write.  I wanted to let my friends here know.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Newt on January 13, 2010, 02:33:14 AM
Words fail utterly, Allhallowsday. I am so very sorry for your loss.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Trevor on January 13, 2010, 02:40:37 AM
My brother died tonight, 5:05pm January 12.  Though he was once a tall strong handsome man, at about 45 he became afflicted with a dreadful disorder that crippled his spine, and caused him to distort into a hunchback.  He'd already drunk 3/4s of his lifetime of beer that would eventually exacerbate his degeneration, and booze and beer seemed his only solace in the last 12 years of his life...  Think before you drink?  I don't know what to write.  I wanted to let my friends here know.

My sincere condolences, allhallows. Peace to you and yours and thanks for making me smile the other day (the portrait of the artist) in the midst of your pain.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: trekgeezer on January 13, 2010, 08:56:12 AM
Allhallowsday , I'm not good at knowing what to say a times like this, so I will just let you know that you and yours are on my mind and in my heart.   


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 13, 2010, 12:28:19 PM
My brother died tonight, 5:05pm January 12.  Though he was once a tall strong handsome man, at about 45 he became afflicted with a dreadful disorder that crippled his spine, and caused him to distort into a hunchback.  He'd already drunk 3/4s of his lifetime of beer that would eventually exacerbate his degeneration, and booze and beer seemed his only solace in the last 12 years of his life...  Think before you drink?  I don't know what to write.  I wanted to let my friends here know.

Condolences, my friend.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 13, 2010, 01:15:04 PM
My condolences Allhallows, very sad to hear, but stay strong.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: JJ80 on January 13, 2010, 02:37:17 PM
My brother died tonight, 5:05pm January 12.  Though he was once a tall strong handsome man, at about 45 he became afflicted with a dreadful disorder that crippled his spine, and caused him to distort into a hunchback.  He'd already drunk 3/4s of his lifetime of beer that would eventually exacerbate his degeneration, and booze and beer seemed his only solace in the last 12 years of his life...  Think before you drink?  I don't know what to write.  I wanted to let my friends here know.

I'd just like to say that I'm sorry to hear about that.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on January 13, 2010, 05:28:27 PM
My brother died tonight, 5:05pm January 12.  Though he was once a tall strong handsome man, at about 45 he became afflicted with a dreadful disorder that crippled his spine, and caused him to distort into a hunchback.  He'd already drunk 3/4s of his lifetime of beer that would eventually exacerbate his degeneration, and booze and beer seemed his only solace in the last 12 years of his life...  Think before you drink?  I don't know what to write.  I wanted to let my friends here know.
I'm sorry to hear that; i hope things get better and you find some solace.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 14, 2010, 12:18:00 PM
Thank you to everyone for your kind words. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 15, 2010, 08:31:13 PM
Being drunk due to family sorrows is never a good thing. Warm wishes to you, kind sir.

Me, however, I just like throwing a drunk for entertainment's sake. Like tonight. I start a very restrictive diet that I hope I can stick to for the next three weeks come Tuesday (I have a day-long date with the woman I will die loving and don't care what we do or eat), so drinking will go to the wayside for a while.  Blah.

But this weekend, it is booze, pizza and movies (along with more cleaning of the apartment than I would enjoy normally)!!


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 15, 2010, 08:32:42 PM
I'm tipsy.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: RCMerchant on January 15, 2010, 08:37:39 PM
My brother died tonight, 5:05pm January 12.  Though he was once a tall strong handsome man, at about 45 he became afflicted with a dreadful disorder that crippled his spine, and caused him to distort into a hunchback.  He'd already drunk 3/4s of his lifetime of beer that would eventually exacerbate his degeneration, and booze and beer seemed his only solace in the last 12 years of his life...  Think before you drink?  I don't know what to write.  I wanted to let my friends here know.

Oh God...I'm so sorry....I knew not. Tara Sue died from hepatitis and cancer...all from drugs and alchohol. If you need to talk-call me ,man.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 15, 2010, 09:25:44 PM
Being drunk due to family sorrows is never a good thing. Warm wishes to you, kind sir.
Actually, I wasn't drunk, but had not the nerve to start a thread about my sorrow, was poking around unable to sleep and picked the old standby "I'm Drunk" thread, which seemed appropriate for my poor, sad, abused, accursed, alcoholic brother. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: RCMerchant on January 15, 2010, 09:34:37 PM
Gee Hallows-PLEASE call me!


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 15, 2010, 09:48:17 PM
Gee Hallows-PLEASE call me!
Don't mind me, I know what it is, and tonight, I am drinking.   :drink:  :wink:  My brother was a drunk and it killed him.  That's what I wanted to relate to everyone, so all could make informed decisions. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 15, 2010, 10:18:11 PM
Gee Hallows-PLEASE call me!
Don't mind me, I know what it is, and tonight, I am drinking.   :drink:  :wink:  My brother was a drunk and it killed him.  That's what I wanted to relate to everyone, so all could make informed decisions. 

I rarely ever do anything without informing myself beforehand. Okay, well, there was that night with a squirrel, a goat and two Gothic Lolitas, but I had no idea that synthetic lace could cause THAT kind of rash. And did you know that both squirrels and goats can bite REALLY hard?!?

I haven't lost a family member in the way you did, Allhallows, but I've lost my parents to things that could have been and should have been avoided. It is a hurt that only time and reflection will soften.  Drink wisely.

And don't watch any Al Adamson films, for the love of God!


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 15, 2010, 10:39:14 PM
My brother died tonight, 5:05pm January 12.  Though he was once a tall strong handsome man, at about 45 he became afflicted with a dreadful disorder that crippled his spine, and caused him to distort into a hunchback.  He'd already drunk 3/4s of his lifetime of beer that would eventually exacerbate his degeneration, and booze and beer seemed his only solace in the last 12 years of his life...  Think before you drink?  I don't know what to write.  I wanted to let my friends here know.
I can't part anything to really make you feel better, but I'm sorry to hear that good sir.  Just now reading this. 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 15, 2010, 10:41:57 PM
I'm somewhat kinda tipsy at the moment.  Been thinking about some things and they've got me feeling a bit down, and drinking kinda helps soothe me over, sadly.  They say drinking brings out the truth in people, that how they act when drunk is how they really are.

I dunno.  Sober I'm kind of a mean spirited jerk.  Drunk I'm vastly happy, dancing around and talking to everybody regardless of if I know them or not.  I dunno why I can't be like that when sober. :question:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: retrorussell on January 17, 2010, 04:45:04 PM
Sorry to hear, AHD.  I'm quite lucky that I very seldom drink.  It just doesn't do much for me.  My condolences to you in these tough times.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 20, 2010, 11:58:28 PM
Back on line with the thread, I am here again.  Not so much drunk as very, very buzzed. I have learned a lot about drinking over the last three or four months that I never understood before. Like when to stop before you redecorate your bathroom with Early American Stomach Contents. There is a life lesson. I still get zipped too fast, but I now know to stop.

Does anyone here find they do something better while drunk than they do while sober  or stoned?  I can write prose better while drunk, but not so well when stoned. But I can write great poetry while stoned, but can't even start while drunk. I also can't read very well while drunk, but I love to read while stoned.

Being stoned is a thing of the past, but I do miss it.

But that is another thread, right?  Oh well.

I find I drink to entertain myself. I'm bored more often than not. Not because there is nothing to do, but because nothing directs my focus. If I'm focused on something, I find drink is a distraction.

Whoops. I'm up late.  Time for bed. Sorry.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: indianasmith on January 21, 2010, 12:23:34 AM
Gee Hallows-PLEASE call me!
Don't mind me, I know what it is, and tonight, I am drinking.   :drink:  :wink:  My brother was a drunk and it killed him.  That's what I wanted to relate to everyone, so all could make informed decisions. 

My deepest condolences, friend.  May he rest in peace.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on January 21, 2010, 07:44:56 AM
Does anyone here find they do something better while drunk than they do while sober  or stoned?  I can write prose better while drunk, but not so well when stoned. But I can write great poetry while stoned, but can't even start while drunk. I also can't read very well while drunk, but I love to read while stoned.

I used to build models of spaceships - Star Trek stuff, or anything sci-fi.  While they wouldn't have won any contests, I wouldn't have been embarrassed to enter them.  Anyhow, I'd sometimes work on them while fairly tipsy (about as close to drunk as I ever get).  The next morning I'd wake up and think "Oh god, I probably screwed that up terribly!"  But then I'd look at it and no - it was some of my finest work ever  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 21, 2010, 11:46:55 AM


Does anyone here find they do something better while drunk than they do while sober  or stoned? 

I seem to play pool better when I'm drunk, but maybe it's just that my pool playing powers are less affected by alcohol than the other drunks I play against.

I could never write while stoned, but I would get a ton of great ideas (along with some abysmal ones) that I would jot down in a notebook.  When I got sober I could develop those nuggets into decent prose pieces.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 21, 2010, 10:40:44 PM


Does anyone here find they do something better while drunk than they do while sober  or stoned?  I can write prose better while drunk, but not so well when stoned. But I can write great poetry while stoned, but can't even start while drunk. I also can't read very well while drunk, but I love to read while stoned.




Whoops. I'm up late.  Time for bed. Sorry.
I can bowl quite well when drunk.  Sober, I only get gutter balls when I'm at the lane.  Dance well too, but I think that's just a matter of I'm shy when sober so don't cut loose, but drunk I don't care. :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: retrorussell on January 23, 2010, 12:29:47 AM
I hardly talk to people unless I know them really well.  When the alcohol starts flowing, however, that's a different story.

Also, I tend to puke a lot easier when I'm drunk.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 23, 2010, 10:11:44 PM
Buzzed.  Haven't been truly drunk in over 1 yr. now.  It's great to know when to stop!   :drink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 24, 2010, 09:56:50 PM
Buzzed.  Haven't been truly drunk in over 1 yr. now.  It's great to know when to stop!   :drink:
Wish I had that ability sir.  I've been very bad over the past few days...completely given up on sobriety of any kind...


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 24, 2010, 11:17:45 PM
Buzzed.  Haven't been truly drunk in over 1 yr. now.  It's great to know when to stop!   :drink:
Wish I had that ability sir.  I've been very bad over the past few days...completely given up on sobriety of any kind...

Good luck.  I almost lost it when I was younger, but particularly vicious hangover cured me of overdrinking.  The negatives started to outweigh the positives.  I realized I had the ability to drink until I was happy/comfortable, but not until I yakked.  Now I can do it right.  You're still young, you can probably improve your drinking habits.  Or maybe you just need to clean up for good.  Once more, good luck.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Trevor on January 25, 2010, 03:00:41 AM
Buzzed.  Haven't been truly drunk in over 1 yr. now.  It's great to know when to stop!   :drink:
Wish I had that ability sir.  I've been very bad over the past few days...completely given up on sobriety of any kind...

Good luck.  I almost lost it when I was younger, but particularly vicious hangover cured me of overdrinking.  The negatives started to outweigh the positives.  I realized I had the ability to drink until I was happy/comfortable, but not until I yakked.  Now I can do it right.  You're still young, you can probably improve your drinking habits.  Or maybe you just need to clean up for good.  Once more, good luck.

My dad had an alcohol problem which was made worse by his illnesses and I always stay away from hard liquor because of that: a beer now and then, yes, but nothing harder than that.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on January 25, 2010, 03:42:37 AM
One month of being sober! Did not think I was going to manage it at all.  :smile:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on January 25, 2010, 05:49:18 PM
Congrats, Circus. 

I was thinking about your sobriety as I bought some whiskey today.  I figured I'd get tipsy and ask how it was going. Now I'll just get tipsy.  WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 25, 2010, 09:39:22 PM
Buzzed.  Haven't been truly drunk in over 1 yr. now.  It's great to know when to stop!   :drink:
Wish I had that ability sir.  I've been very bad over the past few days...completely given up on sobriety of any kind...

Good luck.  I almost lost it when I was younger, but particularly vicious hangover cured me of overdrinking.  The negatives started to outweigh the positives.  I realized I had the ability to drink until I was happy/comfortable, but not until I yakked.  Now I can do it right.  You're still young, you can probably improve your drinking habits.  Or maybe you just need to clean up for good.  Once more, good luck.
I used to never touch alcohol or drugs, due to my father and my wanting to be the complete opposite.  Demons have reared their heads, and unfortunately, both are very, very easily accessible to me.  Combined with some personal issues going on, I try to fight the good fight but seemingly am coming up short. 

I find myself abstaining for short bursts followed by days of binges which is the completely bad way to go about it. :bluesad:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on February 04, 2010, 10:40:58 PM
Whoops, been in the Jager again. As far as do i do things better while drunk, does being predatory count? Got really sauced last night and i never want McDonalds until I have been drinking (that should tell me there that my judgement is impaired) and wound up there last night. Never get drunk and find yourself in a McDonalds when church is letting out...


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Trevor on February 05, 2010, 09:05:29 AM
Never get drunk and find yourself in a McDonalds when church is letting out...

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

Hi, SisterGrace! Come to Pretoria where the McDonalds are all a wayyy away from churches.  :wink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on February 05, 2010, 06:28:32 PM
5 weeks sober down the drain. All hail the night of being tipsy!  :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on February 05, 2010, 08:37:00 PM
Snowstorm in Philly equals a night in with Beer and wrestling...which means I'm pretty sure I'll be drunk at some point tonight...


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: spongekryst on February 06, 2010, 05:32:53 AM
Me smiles when me drinks. Natural ICe and pizza  :cheers:  :drink:  :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on February 06, 2010, 07:30:51 PM
Weird note here:

I like my drinking. I've been drinking a lot these last 3 months or so.  While doing it, I feel more like myself. I noticed that even while sober at work, I wasn't having the anxiety attacks and the like. I went off liquor this last week after having a rather disturbing emotional event while drunk (I've had these previously while sober, so it isn't the alcohol's fault).  I had the single worst anxiety attack I've ever had during this week of sobriety.

So, I'm drinking again for the weekend, but next week, I'm contacting a clinic to figure out what the hell is my problem. As I've said, the problems I'm having again stopped when I was drinking. I'm really bewildered by all of this.  Anyone have similar issues?

Having said that, I'm feeling warm and friendly and just baked my first batch of cookies, ever.  Blueberry chocolate chip cookies.  Pretty darned good.  I'm taking them to a Super Bowl party tomorrow night where I will be, yes indeed, drinking again, but very very little.

By the way, pizza is on the way.  Everyone is invited.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on February 09, 2010, 05:25:56 PM

Yes, I went back to my shrink and now i find myself in a glass with the company of opiates. I don't know what is more expensive; therapy or the entertainment i seek in others.

my mind tends to wander to places that it really shouldn't when i'm sober. However, this increases when i find myself in an artificial paradise. Elevated emotions and the warmth that spreads throughout  gives me the courage to push other people to thier limits without fear or regret.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: El Misfit on February 09, 2010, 09:36:25 PM
Drank a Red Raspberry Ale that tasted like steak sauce (no joke), 3 full glasses of Champagne when the Saints won the Superbowl, and yes, i'm young, but that didn't stop me, partly i was alone  :teddyr: :tongueout: 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: RCMerchant on February 13, 2010, 08:25:18 AM



I talked to my brother tonite,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KynpC1e9I9E


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on April 16, 2010, 10:49:59 PM
Time to bring this thread back, I think.

I just played a drinking game with people on the PS3 while playing Modern Warfare 2. You get killed, it's one drink. You get knifed, it's two drinks. You get a headshot, it is 3 drinks. I'm good but not that good, so I am drunk, even with the insulation of the Adderall. I'm going to bed. Merry Saturday to you all!  I am soooooooooo drunk.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 16, 2010, 11:22:44 PM
I only have one brother now.  I talked to my brother on Easter...  :drink: 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: akiratubo on April 17, 2010, 12:47:06 AM
My Dad had a 2nd heart attack today.  I had to drive his van from where he left it in town back home.  It's the same van we use to tow my Bug when we take it racing.  While I was driving, I imagined him not being there and driving to the race track by myself.  I cried.

He's okay.  He spent 4 or 5 hours at the hospital and they let him go.  Still, I was very upset.  I know I shouldn't drink to deal with things but ...

 :drink:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Javakoala on April 17, 2010, 06:19:48 AM
My Dad had a 2nd heart attack today.  I had to drive his van from where he left it in town back home.  It's the same van we use to tow my Bug when we take it racing.  While I was driving, I imagined him not being there and driving to the race track by myself.  I cried.

He's okay.  He spent 4 or 5 hours at the hospital and they let him go.  Still, I was very upset.  I know I shouldn't drink to deal with things but ...

 :drink:

I'm glad to hear he is doing well.  Keep at him to keep himself healthy. And as far as drinking to deal with things...eh, I think you are just doing it to give yourself time to gather the tools to deal with the situation. If you are still drinking a week from now over the same thing, then we'll come have an intervention at your place.

Cheers!   :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on April 17, 2010, 09:00:07 AM
Got mildly drunk last night.  Went out with some girls I know.  Good thing to mention though, I suppose: I stopped any and every drug I've been doing the past year (exception of booze, though i work on that next.)  Led to some interesting stories.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Psycho Circus on April 17, 2010, 10:07:22 AM
I'm getting very drunk today. I've got nothing else to do. Damn neighbours are making a racket and I'm trying to be quiet to make them look bad (eventually giving me an excuse to be loud myself). My football team lost to our "local" rivals, my neck hurts and I'm also broke until pay day, which is two weeks away...


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Vik on April 17, 2010, 07:26:13 PM
I'm really drunk right now, got ack from a party. It was boring as sh!t... Trying to get sober


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Jack on April 17, 2010, 08:57:38 PM
I'm quite pleasantly buzzed right now.  Almost a tad tipsy  :teddyr:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Vik on April 17, 2010, 09:17:35 PM
Drank a coke and 0.5 liter of water, soberish now :cheers:


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on May 05, 2010, 05:05:30 PM
I really need to slow down. it's hard when you basically live for instant gratification in all areas of your life. Aldous Huxley said "artificial paradises are fleeting." he was so right.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Flick James on May 05, 2010, 05:07:17 PM
I guess he must have discovered that with all his drug experimentation.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on May 05, 2010, 05:11:01 PM
I guess he must have discovered that with all his drug experimentation.

he may have been a junkie but he was also a misguided genius. his books changed my outlook greatly.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Flick James on May 05, 2010, 05:38:23 PM
Interesting fellow. He's kind of like Ayn Rand on drugs. I don't mean that as a bad thing.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on May 05, 2010, 09:17:32 PM
I guess he must have discovered that with all his drug experimentation.
Dunno who the hell that is...but yeah.  It's pretty fleeting.  Can be at least from my own experiences.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 05, 2010, 09:24:29 PM
I guess he must have discovered that with all his drug experimentation.

he may have been a junkie but he was also a misguided genius. his books changed my outlook greatly.

I don't think he was a junkie, he only experimented with mescaline and other non-addictive psychedelics as far as I know.  He asked for an injection of LSD on his deathbed!  Read "The Doors of Perception," if you haven't.

I'm not so sure his genius was misguided, either!


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Flick James on May 05, 2010, 09:27:54 PM
Aldous Huxley was a writer, philosopher, and dabbler in pschedelic drugs long before the hippies did it. He wrote Brave New World about a dystopian future where all babies were raised in test tubes and each was conditioned to fulfill a certain role (laborer/engineer/teacher/etc.), and everyone was kept happy and stoically subservient through the use of a drug called SOMA. An interesting cat. He had some very unusual socio-political ideals. He believed in a decentralized type of socialism, which, as far as I can reason it, means a type of socialism that does not lead to communism. At least that's my understanding.  


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on May 06, 2010, 06:43:05 PM
Aldous Huxley was a writer, philosopher, and dabbler in pschedelic drugs long before the hippies did it. He wrote Brave New World about a dystopian future where all babies were raised in test tubes and each was conditioned to fulfill a certain role (laborer/engineer/teacher/etc.), and everyone was kept happy and stoically subservient through the use of a drug called SOMA. An interesting cat. He had some very unusual socio-political ideals. He believed in a decentralized type of socialism, which, as far as I can reason it, means a type of socialism that does not lead to communism. At least that's my understanding.  
There is a drug called Soma...and it does keep you happy.  Beyond that, I'll have to check out his writings.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 06, 2010, 09:25:57 PM
Aldous Huxley was a writer, philosopher, and dabbler in pschedelic drugs long before the hippies did it. He wrote Brave New World about a dystopian future where all babies were raised in test tubes and each was conditioned to fulfill a certain role (laborer/engineer/teacher/etc.), and everyone was kept happy and stoically subservient through the use of a drug called SOMA. An interesting cat. He had some very unusual socio-political ideals. He believed in a decentralized type of socialism, which, as far as I can reason it, means a type of socialism that does not lead to communism. At least that's my understanding.  
There is a drug called Soma...and it does keep you happy.  Beyond that, I'll have to check out his writings.

"Soma" was originally an Indian ritual drug described in various ancient texts, but no modern researcher has been able to figure out for sure what drug they were talking about.  Descriptions made it sound like a psychedelic.     

Huxley took that name for his fictional pleasure drug used to keep the population sedated.

Given that history, I was shocked when the pharmaceutical company decided to market a muscle relaxant under the name "Soma."  To those in the know that name suggests it's a drug of abuse (and as Happy points out some people have used it that way, though muscle relaxants don't sound particularly fun to me).  Why would you want to give your supposedly clinical drug a name that has that kind of history? 


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on May 06, 2010, 11:00:20 PM
Aldous Huxley was a writer, philosopher, and dabbler in pschedelic drugs long before the hippies did it. He wrote Brave New World about a dystopian future where all babies were raised in test tubes and each was conditioned to fulfill a certain role (laborer/engineer/teacher/etc.), and everyone was kept happy and stoically subservient through the use of a drug called SOMA. An interesting cat. He had some very unusual socio-political ideals. He believed in a decentralized type of socialism, which, as far as I can reason it, means a type of socialism that does not lead to communism. At least that's my understanding.  
There is a drug called Soma...and it does keep you happy.  Beyond that, I'll have to check out his writings.

"Soma" was originally an Indian ritual drug described in various ancient texts, but no modern researcher has been able to figure out for sure what drug they were talking about.  Descriptions made it sound like a psychedelic.     

Huxley took that name for his fictional pleasure drug used to keep the population sedated.

Given that history, I was shocked when the pharmaceutical company decided to market a muscle relaxant under the name "Soma."  To those in the know that name suggests it's a drug of abuse (and as Happy points out some people have used it that way, though muscle relaxants don't sound particularly fun to me).  Why would you want to give your supposedly clinical drug a name that has that kind of history? 
Hmmm...didn't know the history on the name.  Learn something new everyday.

It is a drug of abuse.  A lot of people misuse it cause of the side effects, especially when mixed with alcohol.  It's bad enough when it makes you feel like you're walking through quicksand.  Why add alcohol?


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Sister Grace on May 07, 2010, 06:55:56 PM
Aldous Huxley was a writer, philosopher, and dabbler in pschedelic drugs long before the hippies did it. He wrote Brave New World about a dystopian future where all babies were raised in test tubes and each was conditioned to fulfill a certain role (laborer/engineer/teacher/etc.), and everyone was kept happy and stoically subservient through the use of a drug called SOMA. An interesting cat. He had some very unusual socio-political ideals. He believed in a decentralized type of socialism, which, as far as I can reason it, means a type of socialism that does not lead to communism. At least that's my understanding.  
There is a drug called Soma...and it does keep you happy.  Beyond that, I'll have to check out his writings.

"Soma" was originally an Indian ritual drug described in various ancient texts, but no modern researcher has been able to figure out for sure what drug they were talking about.  Descriptions made it sound like a psychedelic.     

Huxley took that name for his fictional pleasure drug used to keep the population sedated.

Given that history, I was shocked when the pharmaceutical company decided to market a muscle relaxant under the name "Soma."  To those in the know that name suggests it's a drug of abuse (and as Happy points out some people have used it that way, though muscle relaxants don't sound particularly fun to me).  Why would you want to give your supposedly clinical drug a name that has that kind of history? 
Hmmm...didn't know the history on the name.  Learn something new everyday.

It is a drug of abuse.  A lot of people misuse it cause of the side effects, especially when mixed with alcohol.  It's bad enough when it makes you feel like you're walking through quicksand.  Why add alcohol?

Sometimes they make you warm and fuzzy. i like Huxley views on schizophrenia moslty.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: HappyGilmore on May 07, 2010, 07:40:18 PM
I read that Jim Morrison named his band The Doors after Huxley's book.  Guess it makes sense considering the band's output.

Aldous Huxley was a writer, philosopher, and dabbler in pschedelic drugs long before the hippies did it. He wrote Brave New World about a dystopian future where all babies were raised in test tubes and each was conditioned to fulfill a certain role (laborer/engineer/teacher/etc.), and everyone was kept happy and stoically subservient through the use of a drug called SOMA. An interesting cat. He had some very unusual socio-political ideals. He believed in a decentralized type of socialism, which, as far as I can reason it, means a type of socialism that does not lead to communism. At least that's my understanding.  
There is a drug called Soma...and it does keep you happy.  Beyond that, I'll have to check out his writings.

"Soma" was originally an Indian ritual drug described in various ancient texts, but no modern researcher has been able to figure out for sure what drug they were talking about.  Descriptions made it sound like a psychedelic.     

Huxley took that name for his fictional pleasure drug used to keep the population sedated.

Given that history, I was shocked when the pharmaceutical company decided to market a muscle relaxant under the name "Soma."  To those in the know that name suggests it's a drug of abuse (and as Happy points out some people have used it that way, though muscle relaxants don't sound particularly fun to me).  Why would you want to give your supposedly clinical drug a name that has that kind of history? 
Hmmm...didn't know the history on the name.  Learn something new everyday.

It is a drug of abuse.  A lot of people misuse it cause of the side effects, especially when mixed with alcohol.  It's bad enough when it makes you feel like you're walking through quicksand.  Why add alcohol?

Sometimes they make you warm and fuzzy. i like Huxley views on schizophrenia moslty.
That they do.  Sad I know that, but hey, live and learn.  Overall I don't regret anything.  It brought me to where I am.

Drinking a little tonight, but I'm not drunk yet.


Title: Re: I'm Drunk
Post by: Raffine on May 07, 2010, 08:12:44 PM
We're drinking rum n' Cokes here.

Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.

Happy Friday!

Here's a link to download a recording of Huxley reading his radio adaptation of Brave New World with a very odd music score composed and conducted by my musical idol Bernard Herrmann.

Enjoy!

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/06/vintage-lp-huxley-na.html (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/06/vintage-lp-huxley-na.html)