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Boro_Bandito:
I'm horrible about learning professors names, especially in a large class, because I never have to address them directly so it hardly matters.
jill the ripper:
I usually call my teachers Ma'am, or Miss if they're young to mid-life and might be touchy, and Sir.
My English professor teases me about it every time, but I can't help it.
Respect was pounded into my brain by midcentury British authours.
RedLion:
The thing is, people who are going to drink are going to drink, whether it's illegal or not. 16 is too young, but 21 makes no sense. The law says that at 18, an individual becomes responsible for himself/herself and is fully in control of their life and has to deal with the consequences of their actions. They're an "adult" in the view of the law in almost every way --but apparently not to drink. It's just contradictory. A person is old enough to be forced to go fight and die in a foreign land, mature enough to be thrown into a maelstrom of death and chaos, to watch their friends die, but they're not mature enough to drink?
A lot of people are never mature enough to drink. There are plenty of 50 year olds who can't hold their liquor. I've never been much of a drinker. Again, with that sort of thing, I'm a bit lame. The only hard stuff I like is vodka. Can't stand things like tequila, brandy, etc. Mostly I'm a wino. Champagne and wine are generally the only alcoholic thing I drink on a regular basis. When I'm with a large group of friends and there's beer, I'll have enough to loosen up, but I've never gotten plastered. I've seen plenty of 17 year old girls so drunk that they're passed out for an hour until they wake up to projective vomit on the wall and then pass out again.
As far as teacher names go, it really depends on the teacher and your relationship with them.
Lines:
In high school, I never called my teachers by their first names. If they had a nickname, like my calc teacher was G.Faul (his last name was Faulhaber and he didn't care if we used a nickname) and a history teacher was Ms. G, but it would have been so weird to call them by their first names. Now, as most of my profs prefer being called by their first name, I use their first name OR whatever title they specify. If I forget their names, I don't bother with titles, but usually these are the professors that teach lectures or whatever.
--- Quote from: Boro_Bandito on 11 Mar 2008, 18:36 ---Linds, for most its not the way it tastes, especially not at first, its the way it makes you feel after severl shots/beers. People like to drink because people love to get drunk.
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Well that was when I was 17, when I had my first drink. It was vodka and Mt. Dew, which was what the people I was with were drinking. Seriously one of the worst combinations on the planet. But then again, most high schoolers don't know shit about mixing drinks properly or knew what types of alcohol went in what. Other than doing shots or drinking cheap (read: awful) beer, typically the people I knew favored vodka and either Mt. Dew or Red Bull, the other worst combo ever. I have actually discovered what I do and don't like now and none of the above are appealing. But there was one good underage combination that worked out: frozen berries, Propel (flavored water, for those who don't know what that is), and vodka thrown in a blender. It's like a slushie with a kick.
Also, I don't like to drink to get drunk. I like to drink because I found a drink that actually tastes good.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 11 Mar 2008, 10:01 ---His books are all pretty terrible, why highlight one specifically?
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There are at least five Stephen King books I will actually stand behind, a number of his short stories and a few of his novellas.
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