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Even in Pixie's story, even though he completely lost 3 hours of his memory, he did make sure beforehand that he had a reliable way to get home and he was around people he trusted (at least moderately, as his classmates) when he did it. That's pretty much all you can ask of anybody who drinks, and it should be left to their own discretion unless they've been proven to abuse it, in which case feel free to dump every bottle in the house down the sink and get them into a AA program.

I'm with Eli. Myself, I don't drink bar a few occasions (as I recall I downed a couple of Vodka' and Cokes to give me the nerve to get up on stage during Karaoke once). I'm not sure if I can call myself Tee Total but it's not something I down regularly.

Alcohol in my family is... not a positive thing but I wouldn't say we have any alcoholics, which makes this more difficult for me to explain. Attempting to avoid it's effects has resulted in me changing several of my schedules. For example, you might not notice, but I'm never here on what equates to Saturday nights, sometimes Sunday, GMT, from about 9 pm. People here go out drinking on Saturdays, and I've gone elsewhere to avoid the aftermath (except on the nights when I'm down nanna's, which conveniently means I've avoided it anyway). Alcohol, the things it does, especially to the people I love, frightens me intensely. It stops people acting like the 'themselves' I am familiar with. Perhaps that's selfish of me. I agree with Eli's statement that drinking is like any situation where you have to take responsibility, and nobody in my family seems to.

My anxiety re: alcohol is probably due to a couple of bad experiences growing up. Alcohol always seems to play some roll or another in those events. I can understand the urge to go out and forget for a few hours (and the fact people don't remember in the morning means they have less impetus to avoid it in the future), but I can't do that. I don't want people I love to have to watch that, the way I had to watch it tear chunks in the rest of my family on occasion.

Uh, yeah that go away from me a bit... anyway, my point Issy: I don't blame you for not caring about the drink.

Scarab wrote:I can understand the urge to go out and forget for a few hours [...]

Curiously enough, that is the very reason I turned out to dislike it after my experiment. What happened in those 3 hours? I might have been my deepest moment of shame, or maybe I had the greatest time of my life... But I'll never know, because I don't remember.

That's also part of the reason that I'm careful about drinking, and have no intention whatsoever of taking any illegal drugs. I have this thing about remaining in control of myself, and the idea of slipping up and doing something I end up regretting is a pretty scary one. I've taken alcohol often enough to understand the effects it has on me in small doses, namely that it makes me less nervous in social situations, and I go into it accepting that.

The most drunk I ever got was when I was at a festival that I didn't want to be at and my dad said we could go home when the booze ran out. If it had been beer we might have been there all night (I cannot drink beer for the life of me; it's freaking grass juice! Ew...), but it was just alcopop. I did drink quite a lot, but a rather high BMI and possibly being partially of Germanic descent (I'm pretty much a real life Viking) meant that I could handle it while only getting very light headed. I do still remember the occasion, so I obviously wasn't completely smashed.

So, happy International Women's Day everyone!

On behalf of the five or six women who still frequent this site, thank you very much, Vic!

By any chance does anyone watch Laurel and Hardy? I've watched one of their movies.

Still hilarious, wiped out all the creepypasta nightmares I had for the past two nights.

The Wild West Pyro wrote:By any chance does anyone watch Laurel and Hardy? I've watched one of their movies.

Still hilarious, wiped out all the creepypasta nightmares I had for the past two nights.

Yes, we watched a lot of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin videos and so on at uni, they were such expressive actors, able to get their meaning across with few or no words, that they were fantastic for teaching animators about gestures and so on. Also, still pretty funny, even after all this time.

Scarab wrote:

The Wild West Pyro wrote:By any chance does anyone watch Laurel and Hardy? I've watched one of their movies.

Still hilarious, wiped out all the creepypasta nightmares I had for the past two nights.

Yes, we watched a lot of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin videos and so on at uni, they were such expressive actors, able to get their meaning across with few or no words, that they were fantastic for teaching animators about gestures and so on. Also, still pretty funny, even after all this time.

Watched the Music Box, got rid of the big nasty Nightmare Fuel.

Laurel and Hardy are like Made of Iron+Epic Fail personified-almost everything to do results in massive damage, yet they can survive nearly getting crushed by pianos.

Charlie Chaplin, on the other hand, is Adorkable+Pollyanna (Male example) personified-he's adorable in almost everything he does, and even at the end of the day, when he's wandering off with yet no job and little money, he's still optimistic, which is one of the best parts of his character.

...WHY IS IT TWELVE @_@ I THOUGHT I WAS PAST WAKING UP THIS LATE

Daylight Savings Time started today, so your body woke up at 11. I was actually up late enough and noticed it at about 3 AM EST DST, but it was disconcerting.

It doesn't start over here until the 30th, though.

Hold on... If I can cut my wakeup time down to 10 by then, the clock change will boost that to 9! That's better than it's been in years! (I wish I was joking about that)

I thought DST started at the same time all over the world?

IslaKariese wrote:I thought DST started at the same time all over the world?

There are parts of the world that don't even do it. There are even parts of the US that don't do it. Nothing about DST is universal.

Narra's right, we don't even do it out here in AZ. I highly recommend finding somewhere that doesn't participate, seriously it is the nicest thing.

...Wait, so how does that work with timezones? It's confusing enough figuring out what time it is when you're crossing them, but it you're going from one state that does DST to one in another timezone that doesn't... how the hell does that work?? *confuzzled*

Cell phones (or at least all the ones I've had), will automatically update.

IslaKariese wrote:...Wait, so how does that work with timezones? It's confusing enough figuring out what time it is when you're crossing them, but it you're going from one state that does DST to one in another timezone that doesn't... how the hell does that work?? *confuzzled*

I don't think there's ever a circumstance where one state is more than an hour separated from another state that shares a border with it. Some states just oscillate between being in sync with the states to their west and the states to their east. I just dealt with this a few days ago, pushing the clock forward when we crossed into Arizona from California, then leaving it the same when we crossed into New Mexico.

... This talk about time confuses me. I'll instead take off in the TARDIS and return to page 2 in this thread:

I recently discovered my favorite period of history was...

Wait...

Wait for it...

Prehistory.

Seriously It's fun to think how did people live before they invented basic things such as fire, cities, writing and civilization itself.

Victin wrote:... This talk about time confuses me. I'll instead take off in the TARDIS and return to page 2 in this thread:

I recently discovered my favorite period of history was...

Wait...

Wait for it...

Prehistory.

Seriously It's fun to think how did people live before they invented basic things such as fire, cities, writing and civilization itself.

AND FOUGHT MAMMOTHS

Victin wrote:... This talk about time confuses me. I'll instead take off in the TARDIS and return to page 2 in this thread:

I recently discovered my favorite period of history was...

Wait...

Wait for it...

Prehistory.

Seriously It's fun to think how did people live before they invented basic things such as fire, cities, writing and civilization itself.

I have a book on ancient Mesopotamia right now. That's about as far back as you're gonna get in recorded history, and there's not a lot of it. It's very fascinating.

One of my friends is a history major. It makes for interesting conversations, when I can follow them (since history is one of my worst subjects).

The Wild West Pyro wrote:

Victin wrote:... This talk about time confuses me. I'll instead take off in the TARDIS and return to page 2 in this thread:

I recently discovered my favorite period of history was...

Wait...

Wait for it...

Prehistory.

Seriously It's fun to think how did people live before they invented basic things such as fire, cities, writing and civilization itself.

AND FOUGHT MAMMOTHS

I'm now picturing a guy riding a mammoth and the other people going: "Gronk what?" "I sit mammoth." "Mammoth be food." "Come get me."

Scarab wrote:

Victin wrote:... This talk about time confuses me. I'll instead take off in the TARDIS and return to page 2 in this thread:

I recently discovered my favorite period of history was...

Wait...

Wait for it...

Prehistory.

Seriously It's fun to think how did people live before they invented basic things such as fire, cities, writing and civilization itself.

I have a book on ancient Mesopotamia right now. That's about as far back as you're gonna get in recorded history, and there's not a lot of it. It's very fascinating.

That's so cool!

IslaKariese wrote:One of my friends is a history major. It makes for interesting conversations, when I can follow them (since history is one of my worst subjects).

I know how much history is an important subject (I'd argue with anyone who dares to say otherwise) but I find it very boring. It's nice to know random trivia and all that, but being forced to study and then study again it in school is boring. Just like swimming.

I had SUCH trouble with history in school. I'm really glad I never have to take another history class in my life now.

I love history. It was never my BEST subject, but I do enjoy learning new and interesting tidbits of information about the world that was before me.