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"No. And I don't take my car with me when I go out drinking either."
Good. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case with many people.
"Wow. You craazy guy. You should come over here and really show London how to party."
I think I will! I'll bring my accordion.
"It's interesting. You spend all day at work. Youy're stessed. You all finish and go to the pub after. Everyone waits for their pint. When it arrives, they allput it to their lips, take a sip, say "ahhh", and almost visibly relax."
Like soma in Brave New World!
"Personally, I don't think it's any different than taking headache tablets."
Well, unless alcohol has suddenly become a (legitimate) medication...
"BTW, I want �1.50 everytime I'm quoted. I paid to copyright anything I type, and I'm now charging."
Send me a bill.
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Sunspot, you mom sounds like my mom, except that my mom is a paranoid freak thanks to the fact that she's a lawyer.
My homelife isn't a Brady Bunch picknick either. Being the only son, my mom is more paranoid about me. She is always preaching about Catholic issues, and says that the Church we go to is being underminded by Satan. She also believes that there will be 3 days of darkness comming so she bought black draps to shield us from evil things. I have to constantly hear why Jews are greedy and damned, why Blacks are out to steel you money, why Mexicans are cheats, and why I should stay at home instead of doing community service since she never did any of these "crap" in the Philippines. She never lets me talk to my real dad, because they divorced and he's gay. She wants me to go to a nearby college instead of an out of state one since she thinks it's for the best of the family. She also wants me to marry a White girl so that my children can have blond hair and blue eyes!
Well, enough of that for now...
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James Bond- "I'm sure that they are very well rounded..."
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I'm afraid I don't have any deep insights to share here, but I find it rather interesting that "drunk driving" in the U.S. is "drink driving" in the U.K. And what we call a cookie, they call a biscuit! Crazy.
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"No. And I don't take my car with me when I go out drinking either."
'Good. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case with many people.'"
Ah. So because some people aren't responsible when they drink, drinking is bad? Isn't that like saying, oh, I don't know, that because some people aren't responsible with guns, then guns are bad?
We also pay for our petrol per litre. But our cars are sold with miles per galleon information. Crazy. That biscuit sounds good though.
------------------ "A fully functioning, cybernetic, technologically advanced team of superheroes... and NOBODY'S got a flashlight?" - Polly Ester; Samurai Pizza Cats
You go out with friends to buy Buffy the box set? As in Buffy the vampire slayer? OH MY GOD!
Personally, I think "Buffy" is just a pathatic attempt to illustrate that women can physically fight as well as "Ramble" (which we all know is not true, maybe with the exception of China). But instead of fighting the commies, she fights the so called "devils", and instead of using a M-60 machine gun, she prefers to kick ass with her "high heels" and stab things with her trusted "wooden spikes"!
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"Ah. So because some people aren't responsible when they drink, drinking is bad? Isn't that like saying, oh, I don't know, that because some people aren't responsible with guns, then guns are bad?"
Well, I can give you some positive aspects to guns, but I have yet to hear a positive aspect to drinking besides, "it lets people drug their problems away!"
------------------ June is National Accordion Awareness Month. "I love being British. We don't have to do any real work, we sit around looking smug, pointing at the US and saying 'We used to be young like that once.' Then we drink tea." - Liam Ka--thingy
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I'd like to know where you got "drug your problems away". I said drinking helps you relax. It also helps you talk about those problems more easily.
The good points? It's relaxing, fun, enjoyable, helps you socialise, and makes you impervious to criticism. What more do you want?
Oh, and Buffy (and Angel) is currently one of the top 5 programs on TV today. Sorry, but it's true.
------------------ "A fully functioning, cybernetic, technologically advanced team of superheroes... and NOBODY'S got a flashlight?" - Polly Ester; Samurai Pizza Cats
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"'I'd like to know where you got "drug your problems away'."
See below.
"The good points? It's relaxing, fun, enjoyable, helps you socialise, and makes you impervious to criticism. What more do you want?"
Paraphrase: "It distorts your brain. What more do you want?"
------------------ June is National Accordion Awareness Month. "People are buried however they choose to be, apparently. Unless you've never written your will, in which case your body is shipped to Meltakron V and reanimated to serve as a robot in their yttrium mines." - Simon Sizer
------------------ "A fully functioning, cybernetic, technologically advanced team of superheroes... and NOBODY'S got a flashlight?" - Polly Ester; Samurai Pizza Cats
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If a person need alcohol or drugs to make friends, relax, or jump-start an conversation, then that person is just sad.
And NO, people who are on drugs, people who drink frequently or heavily are the ABSOLUTE MINORITY, and the rest of us do not agree with your concepts!
But hey, they can nock themself out, and maybe they'll die faster , so the rest of us don't have to take care of their problems. Yup, it's gonna be a better society for us, less crackheads or drunks sucking on wellfare and taking up hospital beds; I bet we'll even get a tax deduction once all the drunks and crackheads are out of the picture, we can greatly reduce our healthcare budget!
What can I say, it's just mother nature's way of weeding out the weak that's unfit for the society.
------------------ If a diamond is a woman's best friend, why does a man has to settle for a dog?
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It must be great to be so right about everything.
"And NO, people who are on drugs, people who drink frequently or heavily are the ABSOLUTE MINORITY, and the rest of us do not agree with your concepts!"
What you don't seem to realise is that that that only applies to America. Different countries do things differently. I know, it's shocking, but people over here DO drink frequently, and the young ones often DO drink heavily. Just not in the self-destructive way you seem to think.
------------------ "A fully functioning, cybernetic, technologically advanced team of superheroes... and NOBODY'S got a flashlight?" - Polly Ester; Samurai Pizza Cats
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