Topic: Thread for people who don't belong here (Read 49342 times)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #250 on:** 06 Oct 2009, 22:49 »

The beak is the size of your torso. It is useful for reaching the toucans favourite food, the unborn children of fallen nuns.

ViolentDove · « **Reply #251 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 01:56 »

Surely the queen mother drinks guinness from a slipper.

Also apparently Toucans can use their beaks to radiate heat to cool down the rest of their bodies. So that one would practically be a Toucan death-ray.

(this is actually true, I have a video of a toucan radiating heat somewhere)

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #252 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 02:38 »

The Queen mother drank Guinness from a Frenchman's stovepipe hat. She killed the chap before they let her marry the King and she kept the hat as a souvenir. The hat holds almost two gallons and the Queen mother would chug it all in one go. There's a reason she lived as long as she did!

elizaknowswhatshesfor · « **Reply #253 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 04:37 »

Bassist: By choice I wouldn't drink Bombay. I normally have Hendricks for normals & Tanqueray for Martinis, then not amazingly nice gins/whatever is cheap in Macro for with tonics. But is because I am mostly poor.

The shamrock thing is to show it's been poured properly (Or that's what I've been told by people who work for the company)

I used to write C**T in a customers pint of the black stuff everyday for the whole time I worked in one pub. He was an actual neo Nazi mind, had some fairly offensive tattoos. He didn't notice.

I also worked with a guy who could put skulls, bats & spiders webs & other things in pints, it became like a game. The bar was a theme pub so it sort of worked & the Guinness wasn't kept well enough for me to feel bad about the sacrilegious-ness.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #254 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 05:01 »

So wait, has the thread for people who don't belong here turned into an alcohol appreciation thread?

On a related note: it has been shown that alcohol abstainers are more likely to be depressed.

Woo!

öde · « **Reply #255 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 05:53 »

Caffreys and other Irish bitters are much better than Guinness anyway.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #256 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 07:51 »

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 07 Oct 2009, 05:01

So wait, has the thread for people who don't belong here turned into an alcohol appreciation thread?

That is the natural progression of things.

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 07 Oct 2009, 05:01

On a related note: it has been shown that alcohol abstainers are more likely to be depressed.

That makes sense. I'm depressed when I'm sober.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #257 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 08:00 »

Sadly, apparently it also applies to heavy drinkers

Boo!

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #258 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 08:02 »

But what if I drink lightly......all the time?

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #259 on:** 07 Oct 2009, 10:00 »

Drinking in moderation is not unheathy

SonofZ3 · « **Reply #260 on:** 08 Oct 2009, 12:01 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 07 Oct 2009, 08:02

But what if I drink lightly......all the time?

Tried this, drinking just enought o take the edge of in the morning, then continuing for the rest of the day. Ended up blowing my entire paycheck on alcohol for my last 4 years of college. Drinking a little bit all day is a hell of a lot of booze.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #261 on:** 08 Oct 2009, 12:10 »

Last four years of college? How many years did it take you?

Also, it does take a lot of money. I tend not to drink that much most of the time, and as such have been stockpiling some booze, so I'm ready to go now that my mid-semester "I'm totally going to fail because I have no idea what's going on" depression is hitting. Funny, I thought that once I had a couple of bachelor's degrees, that would stop.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #262 on:** 09 Oct 2009, 14:42 »

I'm pretty generally happy these days and I don't drink!

Then again, I do miss out on the opportunity to have little pictures drawn in the froth on top of my drinks. Perhaps I should drink more cappucino?

I went for a job interview at a cafe once and one of the tests was drawing a little chocolatey swirl on top of the hot chocolate. I didn't get the job.

Theriandros · « **Reply #263 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 09:49 »

Since this thread has turned into a congragational area for drinkers, I have to wonder: How many among you all actually waited till drinking was legal?

*is a 19-year-old American who has yet to taste anything stronger than root beer*

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #264 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 10:32 »

I started and stopped the same year. Age 16 (The legal age in the UK being 18).

Decided it was a bad idea and quit.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #265 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 10:53 »

Necro much?

I don't know when I started trying different drinks. I was definitely doing it by age 18; usually during family get-togethers. I started drinking on my own at age 19 and haven't looked back. It's just so damned tasty.

calenlass · « **Reply #266 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 12:07 »

I am a good american alcoholic. My first booze (that wasn't given me by my parents) was at a party when I was 13.

ummmkay · « **Reply #267 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 12:09 »

i waited until i was 21. most of my friends didn't, though.

0bsessions · « **Reply #268 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 12:41 »

I didn't drink until about three months shy of my twenty-second birthday. It wasn't due to any respect to the law or anything, I just really wasn't interested at that phase of my life.

Caleb · « **Reply #269 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 12:48 »

I first had my first drink at a swim team party in college when I was a freshman at the age of 18. Then I had my second through eight drinks and got violently ill. Good times.

It's not "initiation" it's team togetherness.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #270 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 14:39 »

Got riotously drunk for the first time July 4th '03, so I was 15 then. My brother took me to a small party over at some older friend's house and they thought it would be funny to get the teenager drunk. I'm happy to say I know how to drink moderately though.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #271 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 15:48 »

I first got drunk at 14, but I didn't drink a lot until I was 16. Even then I limited myself to one night a weekend, every other week.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #272 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 16:04 »

I first drank when I was 17 and continued to get incredibly drunk at every high school party I attended. By the time I was 18 I'd stopped drinking and I haven't had anything to drink (nothing alcoholic obviously) since then. So 5 years wheee?

scarred · « **Reply #273 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 16:06 »

First drunk at age 17.

Eris · « **Reply #274 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 16:09 »

I had a few sips of drinks when I was 16/17, but I didn't really have that much interest in the whole thing, even after I turned 18 and could go to the pub. I still don't drink that much, but do every now and then. I have still never gotten blackout drunk, or thrown up from drinking, and am planning to keep it that way. I also have never had a bad hangover, even when I got close to vomit-drunk; just a little headache the next day.

One of the things I worry about if I have kids is that they will be the kinds of kids that go and get smashed in a park every night, because I have no idea how I would deal with all that.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #275 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 16:12 »

first time i got drunk was at summer gymnastics camp with my best friend, a girl from far away who i was totally in love with, and a couple of our camp counselors.

i think i was probably 15 or 16. it was the summer between freshman and sophomore year of highschool.

anyway, we had a blast and it was totally awesome and me that girl ended up furiously making out for the remainder of camp (like, one or two days

) and of course i proceeded to be a brilliant American teenager and get blacked out every weekend for the following several years.

nowadays i almost never drink. not because i'm morally opposed to it or anything, i just rarely want to drink but if i do, i will. it's a rare enough occurrence that i can't begrudge myself that "luxury."

Reed · « **Reply #276 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 16:18 »

I think the first time I got really drunk was probably somewhere around 14/15? I stopped drinking for about 6 months when I was 19 when I realized that about 3/4 of the time I drank I went too far and wound up blacking out.

These days I pretty much consider drinking regularly (as in at least 1/2 the week) a necessity for making it through grad school.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #277 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 00:44 »

Quote from: Eris on 04 Nov 2009, 16:09

One of the things I worry about if I have kids is that they will be the kinds of kids that go and get smashed in a park every night, because I have no idea how I would deal with all that.

I was just considering this for myself this morning.

First things first, I realised that there's really not much that I can say to discourage a teenager from doing something if they've really got their mind set on it. Second, I don't think I have that much of a problem with my hypothetical kid getting drunk at, say, 16 at a party with friends and hopefully by this point I'll have taught them enough common sense to not go overboard (hopefully hopefully). Anyway the best advice I could say is just to ask them to think carefully about what they're like when they are drunk, and if sober them would want to hang out with drunk them. At least, that's what got me to stop getting shitfaced all of the time.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #278 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 01:11 »

Get them drunk silly and take video. That should shame them.

Spluff · « **Reply #279 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 03:00 »

I started getting drunk on a regular basis when I was 14. When I was almost 17 I was getting filthy drunk on a regular basis, and doing very stupid things. Then when one morning when I woke up with no recollection of the night before, covered in vomit and having to pay for a bunch of things that we had broken I realised I should probably tone it back.

Most of my problems were probably more closely related to who I chose to hang around with than the alcohol though.

Theriandros · « **Reply #280 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 05:11 »

I feel like I'm extraordinarily sober now. Dammit.

1 year, 9 months, and 8 more days to go...

snalin · « **Reply #281 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 05:27 »

16, and been drinking more often and lesser amounts ever since.

Not blacked out yet, but have puked. It's not nice when you realize that the floor is moving while lying down, and you really, really have to puke even though you don't really know how to get up from where you are.

Won't repeat that anytime soon, at least.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #282 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 06:16 »

I've never drunk, although I would say that coming to uni has made me more acutely aware of how unusual that is than ever. It isn't that people generally pressure me, because most people are mature enough to respect other people's choices, it's just that everything social centres around alcohol somehow (and even the things that don't, like ice hockey and dance, have occasional boozy nights).

I am old enough to drink, though. It must be crazy to be at uni and not be legally allowed to have a beer.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #283 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 08:27 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 05 Nov 2009, 06:16

It must be crazy to be at uni and not be legally allowed to have a beer.

Depending on where you go, it doesn't really matter. Where I went, it just results in fines for people who can't run fast enough when the cops come to a party. Or the acquisition of a good fake ID (mine once fooled a vice squad officer).

Ballard · « **Reply #284 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 09:58 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 05 Nov 2009, 00:44

Quote from: Eris on 04 Nov 2009, 16:09
One of the things I worry about if I have kids is that they will be the kinds of kids that go and get smashed in a park every night, because I have no idea how I would deal with all that.

I was just considering this for myself this morning.

First things first, I realised that there's really not much that I can say to discourage a teenager from doing something if they've really got their mind set on it. Second, I don't think I have that much of a problem with my hypothetical kid getting drunk at, say, 16 at a party with friends and hopefully by this point I'll have taught them enough common sense to not go overboard (hopefully hopefully). Anyway the best advice I could say is just to ask them to think carefully about what they're like when they are drunk, and if sober them would want to hang out with drunk them. At least, that's what got me to stop getting shitfaced all of the time.

I've been wondering about this a lot lately. I drink fairly often (to the point of trashed once or twice a month) and smoke a lot of weed, but I feel like I've turned out a decently responsible and self-aware teenager. I would dig it if my kids ended up that way.

Thing is, my mother is a strict-ish conservative Russian lady. I feel like it was the way she raised me (with a zero-tolerance policy for any drugs and a lax attitude towards alcohol provided she trusted me), and not the influence my friends had on me, that shaped my attitude towards recreational substances.

I would be content if my kids knew how to have a good fucking time but also when to stop. I would be totally cool with smoking with them (I don't know if I'm going to smoke often for the rest of my life but I treat it as a pleasant habit rather than a way to get fucked up so I'm fairly certain I'll always be fine with it) when they got to be around my age.

The only problem is, kids with cool parents grow up to be douchebags! The coolest kids I know all have somewhat conservative parents and they balanced that influence with their desire to escape the bubble it caused. I worry that if I choose to be a (responsible, loving) friend to my kids rather than an authority figure, they will grow up to be worthless prats.

Is being a hypocrite the only proper way to raise your children?

Thoughts?

BlahBlah · « **Reply #285 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 10:04 »

I'm 17 and I've never been really drunk and I hardly ever drink. My parents think I am slightly weird because of this and are always going on about how they used to go to the pub every week when they were 16+. I would get drunk every ~~week~~ night if I had friends who wanted to but they all have quite strict parents and we're not cool enough to get invited to parties.

pwhodges · « **Reply #286 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 15:02 »

Quote from: Ballard on 05 Nov 2009, 09:58

The only problem is, kids with cool parents grow up to be douchebags! The coolest kids I know all have somewhat conservative parents and they balanced that influence with their desire to escape the bubble it caused. I worry that if I choose to be a (responsible, loving) friend to my kids rather than an authority figure, they will grow up to be worthless prats.

Is being a hypocrite the only proper way to raise your children?

If you are enough of a friend to your children, then they will respect you enough to listen when you tell them to be sensible. It is possible to be a cool parent while still looking out for your kids.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #287 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 04:45 »

Yeah see the problem of "cool" parents is they often aren't "good" parents, even though it's entirely possible to be both.

allison · « **Reply #288 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 06:46 »

He's totally dark man. He's wearing sneakers with a suit!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #289 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 17:11 »

I looked everywhere to find a youtube vid for that when I was typing my last post. Thx for havin my back doggs

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #290 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 03:12 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 06 Nov 2009, 04:45

Yeah see the problem of "cool" parents is they often aren't "good" parents, even though it's entirely possible to be both.

This is reasonably true but man, my friend has the coolest parents and he and his siblings are all totally awesome people who are totally together (my friend and his brother are finishing music degrees from a fancy school and are managing one of Sydney's more successful metal bands, which they are both in, my friend's sister is studying film production at another fancy school) and the parents are just the raddest folk ever. I wish they were my parents

allison · « **Reply #291 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 05:35 »

My parents are incredibly cool in that they are not "cool" at all, but they let me have my freedom. I know right from wrong and I always call, I've never been in trouble with the authorities and I've never been hospitalized because of my own stupidity - so they trust me.

Also my stepmom is only 35 and yeah, she's actually cooler than me.

0bsessions · « **Reply #292 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 15:31 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 06 Nov 2009, 04:45

Yeah see the problem of "cool" parents is they often aren't "good" parents, even though it's entirely possible to be both.

My dad put it rather well:

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As a parent, you have more important shit to do than being your kid's best friend. Once they've managed to survive past eighteen, moved out, and stopped using all of your electricity, then it's cool to go get drunk with them.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #293 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 22:50 »

My worst too much alcohol story, and I think I've told it before maybe? but I was 19 home for Easter break with a 1.75 of Southern Comfort. We got to the party at 11pm, and I was home at 1:10am. I was just chugging the stuff straight, the last thing I remember was my friend Betsy saying "woah you should maybe slow down" and I'm like "WHAAAAAAAAAAaat! EVER this shit is so good and I can totally handle it yo!" I woke up the next morning with burns on my hand and my butt hurt really bad. I called the people I was with, asked them about my burnt hand. "Yeah you fell in the bonfire", oh like I tripped? "No, you were just standing there when you crumpled and fell backwards into the fire. Justine pulled you out, and you handed the bottle to Sydney and said 'I don't think I want this anymore'". Okay so why does my butt hurt? "You decided you had to puke, so you opened the car door and rolled out when we were taking you home." At a stop sign or something? "Nope. We were driving down the gravel road going like 35 or so and you basically rolled out of the car. I think we'd slowed down when you opened the door though". I don't remember any of that, but I do remember my friends handing me to my mom and me crying at her telling her "I don't want to die I don't want to die I don't want to die I love you I don't want to die... I think I drank too much mom. I love you, and I don't want to die" I think I thought I either had alcohol poisoning or had convinced myself I was gonna go Bon Scott style.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #294 on:** 08 Nov 2009, 04:20 »

Once again, the BBC proffers a relevant article. It is as if they read this forum and then write the news especially for us!

Edit: is "proffers" actually a word?

Edit edit: Yup, apparently so.

Alex C · « **Reply #295 on:** 09 Nov 2009, 14:26 »

Quote from: Ballard on 05 Nov 2009, 09:58

Is being a hypocrite the only proper way to raise your children?

Thoughts?

In my experience, it really hurts, actually. I suppose you don't mean being hypocritical literally, however. I had terrible parents though, so what do I know?

elizaknowswhatshesfor · « **Reply #296 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 10:39 »

http://www.cracked.com/article/195_7-things-good-parents-do-that-screw-kids-up-life/

As a companion to the beeb article...My parents did an awesome job of being honest yet strict about about drugs & drinking. Shame I ruined it by having a drug habit....(Recovered)

silverstar · « **Reply #297 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 15:27 »

Adding my two cents...

When I have kids I fully intend to be a parent and not a friend - however, I'm not going to be like my parents are. I don't want my kids so intimidated by me that they feel they have to hide every aspect of their lives outside of the house. I would like to think that I'll be loving, supportive, and understanding - but not a push over. Oh, and when I'm proud of my kids, I will tell them. When I'm disappointed, I will let them know but I won't hold it over their heads. When they've royally screwed up, I'll let them know but I won't hold it over their heads.

(BTW - the hiding every aspect of your life outside the house from your parents, whom you still live with, will catch up to you. When it does, it will not be pretty. Sadly, I speak from experience...but at the same time, once it does explode out into the open things seem to be a lot less stressful.)

La

pwhodges · « **Reply #298 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:10 »

Quote from: silverstar on 09 Dec 2009, 15:27

I would like to think that I'll be loving, supportive, and understanding - but not a push over.

Excellent. But just don't think it'll be easy!

jhocking · « **Reply #299 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:27 »

Don't listen to him, just because he is a shitty father doesn't mean parenting is hard for everyone.

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