Useless Conversation

[WayAbvPar]

Having my first drink of hooch in 42 days. Ooooh, sweet brown liquid, how I have missed you. Get in my belly. 

How could you pour it with your hands shaking so hard? 

[ghost]

Having my first drink of hooch in 42 days. Ooooh, sweet brown liquid, how I have missed you. Get in my belly. 

Some sort of Mormon holiday preventing the sale liquor early in the year?

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oh goody!  More fucking snow today!  Yay!



(please kill me now)

[Paelos]

Herschel Walker won a cooking show contest over other B-list celebs, proving yet again that if Herschel says he's going to do something, he's going to do it and likely win.

http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2014/02/11/ugas-herschel-walker-wins-rachael-vs-guy-celebrity-cook-off/

[Chimpy]

People here are all freaking out about thunder snow.  I don't give two shits about the thunder, trying to get home from work in a couple inches of sleet/snow/freezing rain and being able to get out of my house tomorrow (I have a job interview at 9) are what matters to me.

[Signe]

We used to get thunder snow in New Mexico.  It was weird the first time it happened.  I'd never seen that before.  Good luck with the interview, Chimpy.  The gigantic mound of heavy snow that just slid off the roof has made me feeling freaky nervous.  I'd make a murder/suicide pact with Rhyssa except I'm pretty sure I'll be impaled by the monster icicles hanging from nearly everything the minute I walk outside. 

[ghost]

Thunder Snow sounds like the name of a male porn star. 

[Ironwood]

I miss snow.

[Abagadro]

Some sort of Mormon holiday preventing the sale liquor early in the year?

Nah, part of a new weight loss plan and it was getting a bit out of hand over the holidays (I'm going to take January off every year I think, I just extended it a couple of weeks because it was going well).  Combined with not eating like I actually wanted to be a fat bastard I have dropped 20 pounds since the first of the year. I'm going to limit my alcohol to the weekends from here on out and if it impacts my weight I will cut it out altogether again.

[ghost]

What kind of booze do you usually drink?

[Abagadro]

Whisky of various types and red wine.

[ghost]

My doctor, who advises what amounts to a modified adkins diet, says that hard liquor is better than wine for weight loss.  This makes sense, as wines and beers and ciders have a lot of sugar.  I'm so old now that if I drink anything during the week I'm essentially worthless the next day.  I just can't hold my liquor.

[Miasma]

Etiquette question.  You buy the bar a round and leave how to handle it up to the bartender (as usual they decide to just give everyone a shot of Jägermeister due to lack of imagination).  Would you not give the person who bought said round and surrendered their gold card the same shot as everyone flipping else yes/no?

If it matters as exigent circumstances this was done on "family day" at a margarita bar two counties away from their place of origin and there were only seven other people there half-heartedly watching the olympics.

I miss snow.

Even if this?  Wow I looked it up and that was four years ago nevermind.  I swear time is moving faster the older I get.  If someone doesn't take me out soon all of your lives are just going to be a blur.

[calapine]

Etiquette question.  You buy the bar a round and leave how to handle it up to the bartender (as usual they decide to just give everyone a shot of Jägermeister due to lack of imagination).  Would you not give the person who bought said round and surrendered their gold card the same shot as everyone flipping else yes/no?

Jägermeister is a cheap, horrible supermarket-shelf liqueur. All my childhood time that was a drink for old people. That it seems to be popular nowadays is prove marketing can sell any shit.

[Sky]

You obviously weren't in a band promoted by the Jager.

Because Jager girls.

I like anise, so I could deal with it if it was free and cold.

[Lantyssa]

Jägermeister is a cheap, horrible supermarket-shelf liqueur. All my childhood time that was a drink for old people. That it seems to be popular nowadays is prove marketing can sell any shit.

Grey Goose is also proof.

[Signe]

The first Christmas I spent in Dunoon there was so much snow we weren't sure where the car was.  It was about mid-thigh for me in most places but was so drifty that in some places it was twice as tall as me.  We had to stay longer than we intended because Dunoon and snow plows don't see eye to eye.

[Margalis]

Grey Goose is good!

[Der Helm]

I like anise, so I could deal with it if it was free and cold.

I was on a birthday party of a friend of a friend and someone pulled a bottle of Jägermeister from the fridge. It had a thick crust of ice on it.
That was the only time I enjoyed drinking it. So much in fact that me and the guy who's birthday it was finished the bottle all by ourselfs. It almost killed him and I had the worst hangover of my life.
Fuck that shit. 

[Strazos]

Drinking Jager was one of the only two times I've ever blacked out...that deer's blood shit is terrible.

[Pennilenko]

Grey Goose is good!

I call bullshit, the local liquor store has at least ten different varieties of $20 bottles of vodka that taste infinitely better.

[Strazos]

Where's Slack - he's some kind of liquor expert, right?

[Hawkbit]

My friends tell me I was possessed by the deer on the bottle for an evening.  The last thing I remember I jumped out of a moving car.  I only remember waking up in the lot next to the 7-11. 

Sadly, the above is entirely true.  It's bad stuff.

[Ironwood]

That as only four years ago ?  Christ sake.

What is wrong with time ?  Why does it go faster and slower without pattern ?

[MrHat]

The markers for remembering shit are based on moments instead of sequential time :(

[Sky]

I don't know about slower, but the phenomenon of years being faster as you age is perspective. At age 20, a year is a full 1/20 of your life, a huge amount of time. At 40, it's half as long 1/40th of your life.

I think Top Gear said that. Why haven't I watched that show before?

[Merusk]

The markers for remembering shit are based on moments instead of sequential time :(

Yep. We survived to this point because we remember situations and moments and where things happened, good or bad.  That's important to applying the next time it comes up and you need to fight, flee or fuck.  That it was when we were 3 or 35 isn't.

[Ironwood]

I fucking hate sales people.  I mean, really, really can't stand them.

I'm not talking about assholes phoning me either;  I'm talking about the ones I have to work with.

[schild]

Jägermeister is a cheap, horrible supermarket-shelf liqueur. All my childhood time that was a drink for old people. That it seems to be popular nowadays is prove marketing can sell any shit.

Grey Goose is also proof.

Grey Goose is good!

I call bullshit, the local liquor store has at least ten different varieties of $20 bottles of vodka that taste infinitely better.

15 or 16 years ago or whenever Grey Goose came out, there weren't many vodkas better than it. Now that the vodka market has, in essence, taken off - you can say what you're saying. Belvedere was really the only other option back then for good vodka (and it was better than GG). Skyy and Absolut were and are still awful. That people drink Absolut is a case of advertising working. That people continue to drink Grey Goose is simply because it's both drinkable and familiar.

Also, Jaegar. Bah, ain't no thing. You want horrible, look at the liquers popular in the black community in the mid 2000s. Alize, Hypnotiq, etc. They'll give you fucking diabetes while wrecking your liver.

Source: Basically an alcoholic from 1998 - 2006/7.

[Numtini]

The markers for remembering shit are based on moments instead of sequential time :(

For most of us, not as much happens as you grow older. Between 1985 and 2000 I lived in three different regions, 8 different homes, and had five completely different jobs. I took a career track position and from 2000 to today I've lived at the same place and had the same job and bitched about games on the various Lum diaspora boards. When I think of shit that happened in the last 15 years, it's vacations, our daughter being born, my cat dying, and actually a few games that absorbed my life for periods of time.

We drink Svedka, are we picking a great bargain or just drinking cheap? We live on Cape Cod, so don't bother to say it means we're alcoholics, that goes without saying here.

[Phildo]

Also, Jaegar. Bah, ain't no thing. You want horrible, look at the liquers popular in the black community in the mid 2000s. Alize, Hypnotiq, etc. They'll give you fucking diabetes while wrecking your liver.

When I go out now, the shot to do is Fireball.  So we're back to cinnamon liqueurs.

[Signe]

This is why Absolut is so popular.

 (NSF-INSECURE MEN)

I can bring you more reasons but this one is the best. 

[Lantyssa]

Grey Goose is good!

I call bullshit, the local liquor store has at least ten different varieties of $20 bottles of vodka that taste infinitely better.

A $5 bottle of vodka run through a brita filter is better.

[MrHat]

I've been running Tito's for a while now.  It's good and cheap.

[Lucas]

Maybe you already had this kind of (important and fundamental for the destiny of mankind :P) conversation, but WHAT'S WITH PEOPLE USING "IT'S" INSTEAD OF "ITS" when required ?? Is it some kind of trend/fashion internet thing that makes everyone feel cool?

I've been wondering this for a while, and decided to post after noticing yet another wrongful use of "it's" in a Broken Age update on Steam (" Broken Age Act 1 is now here in it's full glory! " )

Am I missing something?

/non-english native grammar nazi mode - off