Considering this thread, perhaps because the choices you make are terrible?
It’s too damn hot for the Internet to be just walkin’ around!
Any other fans of the Supersuckers out there?
I like a big shot of whiskey in the morning
And a big old shot of cocaine in the afternoon.
Hel, shoot whatever you got, but man you’d best got a lot
'Cause I can see right now that yours’ll be gone real soon.
MAN, I love that band!
Can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning, slacker. There’s nothing wrong with getting drunk at 2 PM. Getting drunk every day by 2 PM, that’s the problem. I used to be one of those people that thought I had “a problem” if I drank before 5 PM. Then before noon. Then I figured people who have to set a time to start drinking (and chide others for not doing so) are sanctimonious dickbags.
In one of Gerald Durrell’s books he quotes his brother Lawrence, in response to his family’s scandalised by his early morning whiskey’s, saying something like “Once again I can only express my relief that I live in Greece now, where unlike the English they do not believe in restricting pleasure to specific times”.
My husband has a weird personal rule whereby he won’t drink before noon unless he’s on a plane or a boat, in which case drinking is allowed at any time. Me, I don’t drink in the mornings unless it’s my birthday or Christmas morning, in which case a champagne breakfast is required. Or if I’ve been drinking all night and haven’t stopped yet, but I don’t really do that anymore as since I’ve been in my 30s my hangovers have changed from unpleasant occurences to evil entities intent on destroying me.
Aren’t you in high school? It’s wrong to get drunk at all, since you’re underage.
Are you getting drunk because you enjoy it, or because you feel sad/bad/mad and are trying to avoid dealing with those feelings?
You’re just comfortably leaving out the fact that the internet would critizise you for not being drunk at 2pm.
He’s in college–third year. I believe he said he was 20 last time I checked, so he might be 21 by now.
His posts are just similar to a high schooler’s.
Also, it’s in the Bible that you don’t get drunk early. It’s mentioned in Acts 2.
Unless you’re at work, there’s not a damned thing wrong with getting drunk at 2pm. Just stay hydrated and don’t overdo it.
When I used to encounter that practice, I countered with the fact that it was always noon somewhere!
I don’t think that there’s an hour in the day that hasn’t been exposed to my drunkenness at some point or another. Ahh, university…
Then again, that was because I was either at a party, an after-party, a pub lunch, or moving from one to the other. Don’t drink alone, PSXer - it’s a waste of booze
"Be always drunken.
Nothing else matters:
that is the only question.
If you would not feel
the horrible burden of Time
weighing on your shoulders
and crushing you to the earth,
be drunken continually.
Drunken with what?
With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will.
But be drunken.
- Charles Baudelaire Full poem at this link.
That is an utterly fabulous poem. Love it.
As my mother would’ve said
Because you’re CAPABLE of doing something productive and you should get off your butt and do something USEFUL with your life
Seriously you can do what you’d like, but you need to think. Tomorrow you could step off the curb and be hit by a bus, is being drunk the last thing you want to do with your life?
The Internet has put the world at your keyboard. There are books to read, pictures to look at, things to discover. Don’t like them? Make your own. There are free blogs which to write your opinions.
Do you think you should be drunk? Fine then get a blog and write about WHY this is OK?
You’re only young once, and you can sleep when you’re 40. Now is the time for you to get out and be alive, people are found of saying “It’s never too late,” let me tell you 99% of the time not only isn’t that not true, but usually, “It’s later than you think.”
Go for it. Just be kind to those QVC operators when they ask you to repeat your credit card information.
“…Washhu Mean yoush ken unnershtnd me? Waaant Shree 'Merican grrrrl piwwows. Whaa…? Ret meeshpik chu your shupervisor…”
Moderation in all things. But a glass of champagne while opening gifts does sound nice. Would it go well with the smell of cooking bacon, eggs & coffee though?
Champagne… or bacon & coffee…or champagne…or bacon & coffee? Both such great ideas, but it really is either one or t’other…
Champagne and a smoked salmon bagel of course, I’m not some kind of savage.
No, it’s the first thing I want to do with my life - the last thing I want to do with my life is die. I don’t get to choose the how and the when of dying, but I do get to choose the how and the when of living.
Why are there so few songs and poems written in praise of sobriety?
Drunk by noon is great. I’m going on vacation tomorrow and I plan on at least two days I start drinking when I wake up and don’t stop until I pass out that night.
Two notes if you do it all of the time it’s bad and secondly pacing is important the guy passed out by noon has a problem.
I am often tempted to have a nice glass of wine on a quiet, snowy afternoon while watching an old movie on TCM. Followed by a lovely hour long nap… Like so many other things one eagerly anticipates in life, this plan inevitably results in disappointment. (…ring…ring…“Sali? The car won’t start, come pick me up.” “Sali? It’s Mom…listen, I need a ride to the doctor’s right away, I can’t see out of my left eye.” “Mrs. Sali, this is the school, listen, I don’t want to scare you, but…” or “Hi, it’s your old college roommate, we’re just passing through and we’d love to meet you for dinner at a restaurant 20 miles away.” And there you are, reeling, buzz wearing off real quick. I realize my situation and the OP’s situation are like different planets, but be aware that the drinking might be fun, but some law of the universe will insure that the post-drinking will not be fun.
And if it gets to be a habit? Don’t go down that road, friend.