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    Drugs: The warm blanket on a cold day or...

    ...the Long Dark Night of the Starchild.

    So here's the fun of my Monday night. I come home freezing cold from work because no taxis were available. Wet and cold but hey, I laugh it off. After all, the night's over isn't it?

    Oh, it isn't.

    A very good friend of mine is on MSN and, to use the vernacular, rat arsed. Absolutely blind drunk. He tells me he's going to his girlfriend's house, who only lives around the corner from me.

    Seems that on the way, the combination of Guiness and wine catches up to the lad. So at 2 a.m., when he's kicked out by his girlfriend's dad because of all the noise his vomiting was making, he finds himself unable to get back home, it's icy cold and it's starting to rain. What is a boy to do?

    Remember that his idiot friend lives nearby.

    So I get a call asking if he can stay the night. I say sure, thinking that all he needs is to sleep it off. I get a spare duvet and pillow set up on my bedroom carpet. Like I'm going to all the trouble to set up a bed at 2:30 a.m. He arrives, goes upstairs, and promptly is sick out of my window.

    Followed by going to the bathroom and promptly passing out on the floor.

    Followed by me semi-carrying him back to my room where he is sick again into a bucket that's right next to my head. I sleep on a futon people, I was eye level to the puke.

    I got in total, 2 hours of sleep. I had oh so much fun explaining the situation to my family this morning as my friend dragged himself out my door and off to work. And I get the fun of seeing him again tonight! Yay me.

    My solution to this state of tired, simmering hatred I've got going on? Two cups of strong (organic fairtraded!) Arabica coffee mixed with hot chocolate and Kaluhua coffee liquor.

    So as the combination of caffiene, ethanol, and flavouriods hit my bloodstream, opening up synaptic pathways that lead to the sweet spot, I'm reminded of the best advice I ever heard.

    Chemicals make everything better.

    Share your misery! I love company.
    Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
    -Richard Dawkins
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  • #2
    So as the combination of caffiene, ethanol, and flavouriods hit my bloodstream, opening up synaptic pathways that lead to the sweet spot, I'm reminded of the best advice I ever heard.

    Chemicals make everything better.

    Does your friend share this opinion?
    Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
    And notifying the next of kin
    Once again...

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    • #3
      Well, people who enjoy drinking poison have negative effects, when held in a 'friend'-status.

      I wouldn't get all depressed, you helped someone when he was in a trouble, if he's a friend of yours, he will pay it back -- somehow.

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      • #4
        My friend has to spend 8 hours frying burgers with a hangover. I doubt he has much of any opinion beyond the urge to kill himself.
        Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
        -Richard Dawkins

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        • #5
          He won't have a hangover forever, will he?

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          • #6
            Re: Drugs: The warm blanket on a cold day or...

            Originally posted by Starchild
            ...the Long Dark Night of the Starchild.
            You forgot the subtitle -- Another Boring Episode of Gays of Our Lives.
            A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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            • #7
              He will if Mr. Baseball Bat, Señor Blind Rage, and myself have anything to say about it.
              Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
              -Richard Dawkins

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              • #8
                Re: Re: Drugs: The warm blanket on a cold day or...

                Originally posted by MrFun


                You forgot the subtitle -- Another Boring Episode of Gays of Our Lives.
                Smookie, isn't there a culturally repressed, politically unrepresented, hamster minority whose history you have to get back to revising? Hurry, they depend on you!

                *kiss kiss*
                Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                -Richard Dawkins

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                • #9
                  Chemicals make everything better.
                  I love it!!! Its my new msn name!!
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                  "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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                  • #10
                    Personally I'd give the bastard a bill for care services.

                    That means he won't repeat the stunt until he pays it... which is unlikely.

                    I'm not saying you should have kicked him out or been anything but understanding at the time - but this child sound's like he's got a LOT of growing up to do.
                    Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
                    "The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84

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                    • #11
                      The sad thing is he has matured a lot in the past two years. Oh well, he'll either learn or die. Nature is a cruel but just teacher.

                      I'm just a cruel teacher.
                      Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                      -Richard Dawkins

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Cruddy
                        Personally I'd give the bastard a bill for care services.

                        That means he won't repeat the stunt until he pays it... which is unlikely.

                        I'm not saying you should have kicked him out or been anything but understanding at the time - but this child sound's like he's got a LOT of growing up to do.
                        What a bunch of bull****. People make mistakes, hopefully he'll be able to learn this on his own. Being a **** doesn't make anything better on anyone.
                        "I predict your ignore will rival Ben's" - Ecofarm
                        ^ The Poly equivalent of:
                        "I hope you can see this 'cause I'm [flipping you off] as hard as I can" - Ignignokt the Mooninite

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Cruddy
                          Personally I'd give the bastard a bill for care services.

                          That means he won't repeat the stunt until he pays it... which is unlikely.
                          i bet your mates love you...
                          "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                          "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                          • #14
                            Don't answer the phone between 11pm and 6am. It's only asking for trouble.
                            "Stuie has the right idea" - Japher
                            "I trust Stuie and all involved." - SlowwHand
                            "Stuie is right...." - Guynemer

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                            • #15
                              Well I'll always remember with a mixed sense of decadent blissfulness and anger one incident during the first organized excursion by the cool gang (that was us) of the university on our first year. Many things happened during that excursion in a remote beautiful mountainous region of our fair country . People stopped being virgins, hearts were terminally broken for the first time, alcohol poisoning, hotel owners at the edge of a nervous breakdown, a whole village male population wearing their fathers' suits which were too small for them and coming to the one and only "bar" of the region to try and get into bed with some of the girls from our university, nearly broken bones, bloodshot eye dawns and a lot of staggering.

                              The incident I talked about and I think it encapsulates pretty much the atmosphere happened in an indeterminable time of the night when alcohol levels in the blood must have been very high since everything was double and in our room we were sleeping actually had collapsed. All of the sudden I hear a disgusting sound right next to me in bed. I couldn't realizie it or rather believe it but there he was one of my best mates on his knees with his face above my open bag with all my clothes throwing up in it. I simply went back to sleep conveinced I was seeing a dream. The next noon when we woke up the stench left no doubts. All my clothes fopr the trip were puked over. Shattered my friend didn't remember any of it but he remotely could gather that at that time he thought that my bag was the toilet. he was crushed that he let me wore whatever of his clothes I wanted including his very nice coat.

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