Post here if you're drunk

[Thatguy]

5 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Wow, looks like we need a "Post here if you're sober" thread for the temperance crew.

😉.

Just to make it clear to everyone, when I said I was sober I meant that I was unaffected by alcohol at the time I wrote it, not that I don't have a drink.

[FatherAlabaster]

15 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

😉.

Just to make it clear to everyone, when I said I was sober I meant that I was unaffected by alcohol at the time I wrote it, not that I don't have a drink.

In that case, I'm sober too... Here's to sobriety

[AlSymerz]

If you can sit up straight in a chair without help you're unaffected by alcohol

 

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

I can't sit straight up in a chair drunk or sober. I'm a sloucher and a feet up on the desker not to mention a can't sit stiller.  I could never work in an office.

[AlSymerz]

I move in chairs but the only two places I get uncomfortable and have to move is planes and buses where there is no legroom. Thankfully my need for buses is next to zero so they don't worry me so much but I really hate sitting on commercial airliners and I'm too cheap to pay for Business class. If I ever went overseas I'd probably pony up the extra for Business but between covid and laziness I don't see international travel in my future even when it will be cheaper to fly overseas than it will domestically.

 

[Dead1]

10 hours ago, navybsn said:

Giving up the car is much easier in Europe than the US unless you live in one of the major urban centers. Not even an option where I live. It's 5 miles to the nearest grocery and 12 miles to work. When I was younger, I did commute by bike quite a lot, but in my current city there isn't much allowance for cyclists and the Florida weather makes it rather miserable most of the year. When I lived in Sicily, we did not have a car for 2 years and it was easy. The US needs better infrastructure and public transport options desperately, but y'know that would be socialist and stuff....smh.

 

Giving up a car in Australian regional areas is like giving up breathing.  Public transport is a joke (literally last passenger train was in 1978 and bus services are expensive, intermittent and unreliable).  Even in the capital of Tasmania, only 7% of people use public transport  - locals are too addicted to cars and government too addicted to not investing money in promoting public transport.

And the towns are spread out over many kilometres and where I live it's all hilly.      

I did used to walk to work where I lived previously but caught the bus back home as it was extremely steep.

 

The modern Australian town/city is also very car orientated - instead of lots of local shopping centres or medical practices, the focus is on centralised concentrated "precincts."

 

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As for giving up alcohol, no not doing that.  Just good to be able to have a beer on a weekday or social event without impeding my faculties let alone driving abilities.

 

 

 

 

 

[Thatguy]

I think we have an interesting subtle linguistic thing going on here. I do not think an Australian would say they are sober and mean that they are teetotal or a reformed drunk.  I think we would always mean I am not currently drunk.

Whereas I think Americans could take this describing a lifestyle choice rather than the current circumstance.

Dunno. I could be wrong.

[AlSymerz]

Many Australian's will tell you they are sober simply when they let go of the glass they are drinking from.

[FatherAlabaster]

8 hours ago, Thatguy said:

I think we have an interesting subtle linguistic thing going on here. I do not think an Australian would say they are sober and mean that they are teetotal or a reformed drunk.  I think we would always mean I am not currently drunk.

Whereas I think Americans could take this describing a lifestyle choice rather than the current circumstance.

Dunno. I could be wrong.

It's ambiguous here, it could either mean "I don't poison the temple of my body with your lowly peasant beverages" or "I swear I'm ok to drive home, Mr. officer".

[GoatmasterGeneral]

10 hours ago, Thatguy said:

I think we have an interesting subtle linguistic thing going on here. I do not think an Australian would say they are sober and mean that they are teetotal or a reformed drunk.  I think we would always mean I am not currently drunk.

Whereas I think Americans could take this describing a lifestyle choice rather than the current circumstance.

Dunno. I could be wrong.

In the states the word sober is frequently used by reformed alcoholics and addicts in conjunction with a time. "I'm sober 5 years" or "I've been sober 3 months." People who do enjoy the occasional drink might say "I'm driving tonight so I'll need to stay sober." Heavy drinkers when accused of shenannigans or tomfoolery might say "Not me I've been sober since Thursday." But people don't just randomly announce their current state of sobriety like "Hey it's 10:45 Saturday night and I'm sober" unless there's a good chance they'd normally be drunk. Teetotalers don't normally use the word sober to describe themselves, they'd simply say "I don't drink" or "I never touch alcohol" or something like that.

[AlSymerz]

I've been completely sober for about three hours (taking into account that I don't really know how long it takes

the last drink last night to get out of my system).

 

8 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

"I swear I'm ok to drive home, Mr. officer".

 

One thing lockdowns here helped with was the number of people who did that. It didn't stop them of course because people are stupid, but the numbers definitely dropped.

[Fraser]

Proper deep into a binge, drank everything tonight, from Cider to spiced rum, few pornstar martinis and now some fruity cider, if its being handed to me its getting consumed. That kind of night tonight 

Music is good though! Early All Shall Perish currently 

[Fraser]

Always me posting here, hefty session tonight. Currently sat in my crypt listening to early Pentagram. Should go to bed but think il have another Johnnie Walker Black Label. Why the fuck not eh

[AlSymerz]

Not like anyone could tell if I was drunk, I talk just as much crap drunk as I do sober!

 

[Fraser]

🤘🏻

[RelentlessOblivion]

Damn early days of this thread were pure gold. Also with AutoCorrect half my recent post probably sounds like I’m drunk but tonight I actually am… Pretty sure there’s a hard and fast no politics rule here these days so I won’t go into details about my need to not be sober

[Sardonicist]

I've been doing the 2 bottles of wine, its a good trick, still checking my eyes for jaundice frequently lately. Human reason is not for control. The beyond human animal is into control. If I use my reason to stay sober, that would be control and I would lose my reason. The animal seeks pleasure, the human beyond reason seeks the most elaborate escape from the conditions of existence. So I focus on not caring about anything. I don't care if my animal drinks. The problem with not caring about anything is it is very hard have anything to say, or write. Having an opinion is caring. But then there is the principle of least action. (Or is it the law of least resistance, or the principle of easiest path? water always travels to the lowest place) It is easier to listen to music I habitually listen to than music I don't like so perhaps I can listen to music I like over just putting on the radio, like listening to the radio would be hard, or even not listening to music would be more difficult than just listening to the stuff I like. So I can still do what I like doing without having an opinion. So I drink because not driving down the road to get wine would require more effort than not.

Tonight I have been revisiting my favorite nature video. God video. God is nature. Nature is God. God does not have a plan for me. But their is a design for me. This video is Gods design for me. 

 

 

 

[Sardonicist]

I was a complete loser with a home brew kit. The alcohol shops used to be closed on Sundays. Party at my flat every Sunday. I was useless with females and never got laid. But I was learning to play black metal guitar and putting a band together. One day a woman who had never been into metal at all showed up for home brew, she fell in love with Black Metal and me. We lasted 10 years. She was our bass player. She raised our daughter. 

 

[AlSymerz]

30 years ago we used to make our own fake rum and bourbon. We'd buy a small bottle of the essence, mix it with water and sugar and let it age. It was rough shit and we had no idea of the alcohol content but it costs us about $5 a bottle when even cheap bourbon was $25 a bottle. Then the government taxed the essence and the 50ml bottle ended up being a higher price that a bottle of named bourbon so we stopped doing it.

[Sardonicist]

On 4/20/2022 at 9:02 AM, KillaKukumba said:

30 years ago we used to make our own fake rum and bourbon. We'd buy a small bottle of the essence, mix it with water and sugar and let it age. It was rough shit and we had no idea of the alcohol content but it costs us about $5 a bottle when even cheap bourbon was $25 a bottle. Then the government taxed the essence and the 50ml bottle ended up being a higher price that a bottle of named bourbon so we stopped doing it.

30 years ago I bought a still and made sugar alcohol spirit and flavored that with bourbon essence, no aging, but the adults did not appreciate my black out antics and my mother returned the still, giving the shop workers a telling off for selling a still to a 16 year old. 

Mostly I made beer, not from scratch, in NZ there are home brew beer tins, add sugar, add water add home brew beer tin, ferment, bottle wait 4 weeks. I also made fruit wine and mead. There was a Amon Amarth video on how to make mead that got me going on that, they demonstrated a method for alcoholics, bottling was optional, as soon as the mead was fermented it could be drunk straight out of the barrel, the downside being wicked hangovers. I was bottling it to make way for more mead, but never aged any of it. 

A few years ago I wanted some affordable butter scotch schnapps. I made my own butter scotch schapps flavor and mixed it with vodka, it was pretty good, but heated or processed sugary substances are no longer part of my life, aside from grape wine. Cheapest Pinot Noir is the supermarket specifically. I made a few batches of 'fruit' wine also. The fruit was left in how water for a few hours to flavor it then removed, then sugar and yeast added and then considered ready to consume once fermentation was complete.... 

 

Edited April 25, 2022 by Sardonicist
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