― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Nobody especially enjoyed smoking or drinking (beer and heavier spirits at least) the first times they tried them did they?
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
it does, because to buy drink you have to pretend to be older than you are. so a 15-year-old *might* *just* be able to pass for 18, but 21 is a stretch.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Sororah T Massacre (stevem7...), January 19th, 2006.
i didn't enjoy cigs until i actually learned to inhale the fuckers, but i always liked drink.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Loved cigarettes straight away, from the first one. Which kind of puts the lie to the old "you only enjoy cigarettes because you're addicted to them" line. I was really anti-smoking until then because I thought people only smoked to look cool. Then my best mate started smoking at 15, and we were sitting in the pub one afternoon and I think I was asking him why he smoked, does it actually do anything, etc, and I tried one just to see...
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jibé (Jibé), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― mei (mei), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Semantics Semantics) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
I discovered good beer as opposed to mass-produced domestic lager in 1995 and have become a beer snob. Occasionally vodka, a good smoky single malt, or wine.
Accentmonkey and the Dirty Vicar have seen me drunk, once twice.
― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― „©ROXYMUZAK„© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak½ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Thirteen sounds incredibly young to me, but I suspect I'm on the naive side, too.
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak½ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
At The Forum? I was there.
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
MAN.
xp oh!
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
My family are quite unconcerned about alchohol so I always had the odd small glass of beer throughout growing up, which in retrospect meant I didn't go through the rebelious/forbidden phase like many of my peers. I was 15 in 1990, and at that time alcohol was seen as quite passé. Weed, speed, trips and Es were what many people were doing, so I didn't bother much with regular drinking (of course I sometimes go pissed, but only when there were no drugs around)
It wasn't until I was 20 until I suddenly realised how much I enjoyed getting drunk (which was after I'd completetly cut back on drug use), so I suppose you could either say I started drinking at either 2 or 20.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
It was in the ruins of a castle.
― Mestema (davidcorp), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I had nothing so much as a sip of beer (yecch) until I went to college, and for my first two years, I had nothing more than a tiny wine cooler or half-cup of keg beer just so I could fit in at parties. When I studied in the UK during my junior year, I began drinking half-pints of cider every so often, but it was far more often that I'd head to the pub at 8 pm and order a coffee. Once I had Guinness for the first time, I realized that beer could be sort of tasty, so I eased into that. (I was such a pussy that the first beer I ordered at an American bar, after I turned 21, was Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.) And Kelsey and I used to make gin and tonics the summer we started dating. But I'd say it wasn't until senior year that I really began drinking, and not until after college that I did it with any real regularity. I remember contemplating the summer after college about how I was imbibing all of these chemicals via coffee, cigarettes, and beer, and how that was sort of a new(ish) thing.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
the first time i got drunk was when italy won the '82 world cup--i was over at a friend's house. his parents were italian immigrants and his uncle busted out the homemade wine and gave us all a couple glasses and pulled silver dollars out of our ears. i was not quite eleven.
i didn't get sick from it until i was 20, though.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Pretty much only drank cheap beer in high school - it was easily stolen, as everyone knew someone who worked at a grocery store. When one of us worked the overnight shift with no one else on duty, we'd stock up for weeks.
Developed actual taste buds and an aversion to beer when I graduated high school and started getting served in bars with the people I worked with.
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I got caught drinking by the police when I was 14, it was a really bad day.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever been sick from drinking in my life.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
it regenerates but not in a magical fashion
― bomb diggy diggy diggy bomb diggy bomb (jim in vancouver), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
like you can still fuck it up. you're not wolverine
Otm.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 27 March 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
I know but the problem is when I'm.drinking i forget exactly that
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
I think deems would know if he gave himself cirrhosis in his late teens is what I'm saying
― samovars are trying to steep (wins), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
Because that was fuckin aaaaaaages ago
― samovars are trying to steep (wins), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
this is true
― bomb diggy diggy diggy bomb diggy bomb (jim in vancouver), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
What are the cirrrryhmptoms
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
yellow skin
― samovars are trying to steep (wins), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Wait that's the cirrrrrhympsons
― samovars are trying to steep (wins), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Fuck the liver, I'm just concerned about the beer bloat right now
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
16 yrs old and got caught drinking at the beach
i lied and said i was 18 and didnt have my wallet (so didnt have id with me)
when the police officer calls me and i walk away from him he flashes his light on my ass and says wut u got back there son?
i say what? he says if youre lying to me i can arrest you
i give him my wallet and he fingerprints me and i get to go to an aa class but it doesnt go on my record
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
sorry i said i was 21 because this happened in the states (i was in san pedro i think at the time)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
My stepdad used to knock back at least 20 odd pints of bitter and countless brandies on an average day-sesh. He nearly died of pneumonia about 10 years ago and got told he'd be dead soonish if he didn't change his ways. He is in his early 70's now and still has 3 or 4 beers when he goes to the casino, or The Funhouse as he calls it. Most other people I knew who used to drink as hard as he did are in the ground - including one who died in his late 30's and another in his 40's. Some people are maybe lucky or their organs can take more of a pounding than others. I have this peasant superstition type belief that a good diet might help - disclaimer - it is probably bollocks!
― calzino, Monday, 27 March 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Going back a ways, we totally drank at school. Irish coffee beforehand, cokes-with-vodka during the day, and excursions to the parking lot for peach schnapps (!) were commonplace. We even found a tunnel underneath the school, nicknamed the "bomb shelter" - for all we knew that is in fact what it was intended for - and day-drank within it.
In fact it was in this school that I heard a particularly elegant phrase about drinking, one that stays with me to this day. One of my cool older sister's cool friends had a 7-11 Big Gulp cup with her on the way to Latin class (klassy!). She was asked if it was Diet Coke, and she said, "Yes, but it's been doctored." Beat. "It's been doctored, and now I'm nursing it."
At the time, this turned me inside out with longing and envy. In retrospect it was actually pretty commonplace, probably not very original, and indicative of people whose lives were not as together as they seemed. But at the time....
― takin care of bismuth (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:36 (seven years ago) link
haha thats awesome
we had doctored drinks and bottles all the time
drinking in class and at lunch
man no one ever batted an eye
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link