But here in this new uni I have been struck by the way alcohol is incorporated into EVERY social event. First night here - Party in the bar until late.
Second night here - Pub Crawl until late - make your own way home. Third night here...I mean I could go on...
Even the clubs that you'd think have absolutely no alcoholic pretentions are in for it. From a flyer I was given: "Come to the Christian Union! We'll have an informal meeting to introduce new members, and then head off down the pub!"
Am I alone in thinking that anyone so desperate to get drunk EVERY BLEEDING NIGHT must have some serious s##t in their lives they're trying to shut out?
AAGHH! Every damn night they get pissed in a room of deafening noise and foul air that makes your clothes instantly unwearable without fumigation and full decontamination procedures.
Or am I just being a prude?
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"FOOLS! Will I have to kill them ALL?!?!"
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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx
[This message has been edited by Kosh (edited October 03, 1999).]
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"I promise you, Wilma, that not one man on this force will rest until the criminal scum that did this are behind bars. Now let's go get a bite to eat." - Frank Drebbin, Detective Lieutenant in Police Squad
M. Doughty.
Luckily, I go to college while living at home, so I am effectively shielded from any and all forms of social interaction.
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I do indeed and shall continue
Dispatch the shiftless man to points beyond
--
Soul Coughing
How does anyone become addicted to stuff which tastes so AWFUL????
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I can resist anything.......
Except Temptation
"Attention, students! Someone has spiked the punch. Your parents have been informed."
Monty, I don't know what they got up to in Glasgow, but you're MEANT to get pissed all the time wqhen you're a student.
Because I had to go home for the weekend, I missed a stonking piss-up where some of my classmates bounced off out of town to a music festival in Conneamara.
I intend to make up for lost drinking time this week.
No, you're not being prudes. Some of the girls in my class don't drink, purely because they can't abide the taste of beer (and if you thought bottled beer was bad, you should taste it straight from the tap in a nightclub _ugh!_ I had to go on vodka and Red Bulls for the rest of last night it was so bad) and that certainly doesn't stop them having a good time.
Of course, when you have four 9 o'clock starts in the week (quantum physics being three of them!), it helps to moderate the sauce intake. Still, last Thursday I stayed up watching "The Life of Brian" and "Image in the Sand" until 3.45am, and was still able to rise at 8.30am (same day) after about 6-8 cans of lager.
What I find most disturbing about this is that The Foxy One seems to be implying that he cannot drink.
Can you say "Achilles Heel"?
Soon, very soon.
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"So, no room for Bender, huh? Well I'll build my own lunar lander, with balckjack, and hookers.
In fact, who needs a lander, or blackjack?
Ah, screw the whole lot o' ya!"
-- Bender, Futurama.
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"FOOLS! Will I have to kill them ALL?!?!"
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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx
I don't care - I go out to have a good time, and I don't think that I need to get totally off my face in order to do it. I have a good time, and can still remember it. I don't know if I am missing out on the key aspect of being a student, but even if I am, I've still had the best two years of my life whilst being at university and have still got my final year left after this work placement that I'm on.
And the moral is.....you don't have to drink to have a really good time.
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Do business with us, or we'll ruin you.
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HMS White Star (your local friendly agent of Chaos and a d*mn lucky b*st*rd:-) )
HMS Whitestar: If you don't want to drink, don't. We can drink here when we're 18, but I haven't touched a drop. As for the 21st birthday, mine's in 3 months, and I'm greatly looking forward to it.
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Do business with us, or we'll ruin you.
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Gaseous A. - when you are on the other side of 30, you'll remember your restorative powers with amazement. Enjoy. It goes by so fast.
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"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
Bette Davis - Old Acquaintance
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With 17 hours of class, guess what I'm doing.
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"All you people, can't you see, can't you see
How your love's affecting our reality
Everytime we're down
You can make it right
And that makes you larger than life"
-Backstreet Boys
[This message has been edited by Michael_T (edited October 05, 1999).]
WHAT A BUNCH OF WUSSES!
First thing: NO-ONE drinks beer for the taste. Unless it's Budvar or Pilsner. Or Real Ale. Or. . . never mind. You drink it to get wasted. Getting wasted is what being a student is all about. So what if it's not healthy? You can't go through life insulating yourself from anything that might be slightly unpleasant. Drinking, smoking, drugs, sex, pornography, driving fast and recklessly. . . I've done all this, maybe even at the same time (my memory's a bit hazy). Some of them I've decided I don't like (well, OK, only one of them) but at least I KNOW.
Let's face it, we're all nerds here. Most of you equate the above with the bullies, the jocks, the tough guys, the popular kids. But don't dismiss these things out of hand.
I used to drink, when I was in college and grad school. I, also, hated the taste of ber, and preferred other liquors, sich as amaretto, saki, vodka, gin, a few of the sweeter wines... I built up quite a tolerance, and was only ever sick once (when I drank two McDonalds-glasses (Super Size) screwdrivers (the second with extra vodka.) However, I learned that several members of my genetic line were alcoholics, and that I was exhibiting some of the warning signs. That, combined with some altercations and the infamous Melinda & Michelle Incident, caused me to stop drinking entirely. I still feel a craving for it sometimes, but I haven't touched it in years now.
I smoked a cigarette once. Lousy. Dead, burning weeds in your mouth. I just don't get the allure.
Drugs? Why bother? I exist in a reality all my own ANYWAY.
Porn? Yeah, I hide my collection of videotapes in my desk in my bedroom. I've seen Pam and Tommy, and I wasn't impressed.
Sex? Got a supplier for that. And I like her, too. We don't get the chance often enough, tho.
Actually my biggest vices are comic books (about a $150 a month habit,) regular SF books ($30-$150 a month,) and Hardee's Monster Burger (2000 calories a shot?.)
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"We shall not yield to you, nor to any man." -- Freak, The Mighty.
I wouldn't mind them all getting wasted so much if I wasn't caught in the firing line so often. My halls have thin walls you know, and the smell of vomit travels far! As for those of you getting sex on tap at the mo', I bare a foxish incisor and growl. 8P
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"FOOLS! Will I have to kill them ALL?!?!"
Okay. The Monster Burger is sorta like Burger King's Double Whopper With Cheese, except it's got bacon, and no tomato or onion. Lots of mayo. Drips, if you're not careful. Best when eaten in "combo" meal (Combo #5, around these parts,) with "Super-sized" curly fries, and large sweetened iced tea. An almost-certain artery clogger. My chest feels tight after wolfing one of these down. *WOLF!* Yum. Ow. Ahhh.
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"We shall not yield to you, nor to any man." -- Freak, The Mighty.
Monty: Shooters are a way of selling less drink for more money. Mix it sweet, pour into small container, and sell for a dollar a shooter, about half a shot. Believe me on this, I've done my homework. Did eleven Watermellons one night. Got pretty drunk, but then, I was drunk when I started. We kept tipping the waiter when he brought them, and of coarse, he kept bringing them.
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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx
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"We shall not yield to you, nor to any man." -- Freak, The Mighty.
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"...when all that is driving my heart forward
is you, thoughts of you, hopes for you,
and a fading dream with a Mona Lisa smile
that whispers "are you thinking of me too?"
46 days till the dreams become reality...
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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx
Jump up and down, and stir it all around,
Throw your ass in the air,
throw your stomach contents on the ground.
Take one step left, and one step right,
One to the front, and one to the side;
Get some air once, get some air twice,
And if you fell like this then you're probably diced.
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"So, no room for Bender, huh? Well I'll build my own lunar lander, with blackjack, and hookers.
In fact, who needs a lander, or blackjack?
Ah, screw the whole lot o' ya!"
-- Bender, Futurama.
Monty, true, getting wasted every night seems a bit excessive. And the novelty will wear off. Along with your tongue. OTOH, university is about the only point in your life where you can get wasted often.
Personally, I find the best part of being drunk is being with a load of friends, who are all equally drunk. Getting drunk by yourself is a bit funny, but socially, it's great.
And GA, you drank Vodka and Red Bull? In a friggin' nightclub? Jeez, did EVERYONE in your family die at once, or is the nightclub that cheap?
And Lee's right, no-one drinks alcohol for the taste. Well not at first. But after having sat through 4 hours of an old blaok waffling on about adaptive threshold measurments, then sitting through a two hour seminar on the same thing, nothing quite hits the spot like a pint of Fosters in the pub.
(I still mean to organise the UK Flare pub-crawl. Maybe when some of the 18-20 US people come over, and then we can watch them have one drink, and through up. Or claim to have an 'addictive personality'. And then laugh. Laugh. Laugh at their tiny faces. BWAHAHAHAHAHA).
(Oh, and does anyone in the UK know of someone with an 'addictive personality', or is this a specific US/JMS condition?)
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You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston."
-Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
BTW, I'm still firmly of the opinion that in the UK, you have problems, you go to the pub, talk to your mates, and get over it. In the US, you spend several hundred dollars an hour for someone to ask you about your childhood. Anal.
I love making sweeping generalisations.
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You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston."
-Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
[This message has been edited by PsyLiam (edited October 07, 1999).]
I also am mildly resentlful of my burgeoning "reputation" here. You see everyone seems to think because of my voice that I am (eeesh!) American!
And you shouldn't rule out that Flare Pub Crawl idea yet Liam, it's feasible to haul together you, Lee, OS, Myself, and perhaps Chris G, Chris H and...er MaGiC perhaps. That sounds quite sufficiently explosive!
(Although I agree about getting an American in too )
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"FOOLS! Will I have to kill them ALL?!?!"
Liam, in my capacity as senior Brit Forumite (and in the near-permanent absence of Goffy or Chris H, who's gonna quibble with that?) I'm delegating the organising to you. Think of yourself as Ivanova starting out on her diplomatic duties. 8)
Ya know, some people just get pissed for the hell of it. That and the photos can be damn funny.
*Wishes the scungy pricks at burger king would bring out bigger better meals here*.
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"Diplomacy is the art of Internationalising an issue to your advantage"
Field Marshal Military Project
http://fieldmarshal.virtualave.net
Right, I'm lacking ICQ for at least a week, although the computer shop has finally finished the insurence claim, so I've just gotta wait. What would be the best night to go out, counting work, uni, and all that.
I'm still waiting for my grant, but apart form that, I'm pretty much up for it any night. Are MaGiC and LOA still around?
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Cordellia: "Well, does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?"
Xander:"I'm seventeen. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex."
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"FOOLS! Will I have to kill them ALL?!?!"
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Cordellia: "Well, does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?"
Xander: "I'm seventeen. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex."
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Sorry, bit to much of a plug there. Still, whatcha gonna do about it eh? HA!
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Cordellia: "Well, does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?"
Xander: "I'm seventeen. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex."