7mo ago

Kelly - Daze of Whine and Poses

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Boomers and their alcohol, iconic duo.
- It started back when they were incessant burdens, and their parents soothed them with brandy.
  
  Wild that was a home remedy for a tooth ache in kids for a long time. Setting them up for a life of alcoholism.
- Hey now plenty of millennials like their booze too. Myself included.
Not to be a maoist but alcohol is bad and you shouldn't drink it. Weed is fine. It's nice. No one ever drowns in their own blood from weed. Alcohol though I have seen a few
- Cheers I’ll drink to that
- No one ever drowns in their own blood from weed, but lung cancer is a bitch
- I used to love weed, but now it gives me anxiety/panic attacks. Alcohol is pretty much the only drug I can enjoy anymore. Unfortunately for me, I've gone a little overboard at some parties lately. Nothing that has impacted my life, but enough that I feel like I took it too far. I don't want to be straight-edge :(
  
  If it has to be a depressant drug then you are in a rough spot. Alcohol is just so very convient. I don't actually like weed myself, it just doesn't suit my temperament. I have had good experiences with a medium dose of mushrooms. Not enough to get proper high but a little bit less will get you drunk. More than microdosing. It is a dumb plan I can't in good conscious recommend to anyone though.
now that we're in a new Gilded Age we're getting a new Temperance Movement to go with it
tag yourself. I am "men now"
- I'm incessant burdens.
- Dog piss soaked "past due" bill.
That dog is cool as hell
Kelly nails it with the Nagging Harpies.
What can I say? Dudes rock.
- I don't really drink, but a generous explanation might be the "edge" of living under capitalism. Sometimes religion is the opiate of the masses, sometimes it's alcohol. And sometimes it's just opiates
- addiction is a motherfucker; once you're trained, and the initial training can be completely accidental or out of your hands in a tangible way, sobriety is something that requires discipline to maintain, the reward parts of your brain want more. ex smokers want the anxiety relief, alcoholics want to exist in that state because they feel more themselves in it now. It's especially hard if your addiction is socially acceptable. Alcoholics and nicotine addicts have to stare at their addictions every time they shop, go to a gas station, and in quite a lot of social situations. and quite often the brain, especially for the first few years, loves to invent reasons to relapse on sight/perception of the favored drug use, and logic and "good sense" are present all the way up to the point of use, telling you not to and it's happening anyway because addictions circumvent the rational. It's seriously just pure will for a while, and most people just do not have that in sufficient quantity.
  the specific rationale will be different for everyone with the problem, but "taking the edge off" is implicate in the problem; their brain is screeching that they're not okay, not normal, and [thing] would fix it. That's all it is. It's sad. It really sucks to be around addicts of any type who are not in control, but... I really don't think of it as excuse - that person sincerely believes they need it and their brain is fully complicit in an unconscious and overpowering way.

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