The stepfather?
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Oh right! Guess I blocked him out. shudders
Iāve known alcoholics, and they come in different types. Some like him, yes, but others who acted in very different ways from each other.
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stepfather #1 was the alcoholic. stepfather #2 was an asshole for different reasonsāalthough he might have drunk in moderation only by comparison.
Well, he said that heād like me to be involved in years 3, 4, and 5. He said, āYeah, um, I want to you play an aāhole for about three years.ā And I said, āSure, Rick, Iām your boy!ā
I generally avoid them. They suck all the fun out of drinking.
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It must be very accurate, since it took them 12 years to make that movie.
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For a couple years, mesa Arizona. Detroit, places in Kansas, some places in roseburg OR. Shit, if you had a decent down payment, my current house. But regardless, all I was trying to say is thatās a lot of financial commitment at the expense of arguably more important stuff. Thatās all 
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Drunken digitsā¦
What bugs me is that $2 drinks are bottom shelf. Friends donāt let friends drink swill.
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Jeeze. But I guess my MIL used to drink like this. A couple 30 packs each week of the cheapest piss at the beer distributor (yes, including PBR, but usually Milwaukeeās Best). Miller High Life, Yuengling, and Bud Light Lime were considered for special occasions. I used to worry about my underage SIL, because there was never food in the house, since MIL drank her calories.
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A relative of mine who is a psychologist sometimes works in the local hospital emergency room doing psych intake evals. They told me about how the ER team has a term, the ā500 clubā, for people who can walk in under their own power with .500 BAC. Most people would be in a coma or dead at that level. Alcohol tolerance isnāt a myth. Long-term life expectancy at those levels is another matter.
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You say that like itās a bad thing.
Ditto.
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This is bullshit. Itās an old statistic that has been debunked ages ago. The short version is that they took self reported alcohol consumption stats, noted that this was smaller the total amount of alcohol sold (most likely, if you stop to think, because of underage drinking, and drinks bought but not consumed), and then multiplied the amounts each group drank to get the total to match. The result? The people who said they drank a high amount (who likely already overreported the amount they drank) saw their figures inflated astronomically. Meanwhile an unrealistic proportion of americans donāt drink at all.
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Something clearly has to be done.
ā¦can we ban alcohol?
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When I was a little younger (early 20s), Iād drink 3 Steel Reserves a night before bed. Which amounts to about 9.72 US āstandard drinksā.
I didnāt notice it causing problems for me during the day. But I decided to stop for a week, and felt so much better in general that I only drink on the weekends now.
Granted those 9.72 standard drinks were being processed by a guy who is morbidly obese, so I do have a little more wiggle room than someone with a healthy amount of tissue. But still, drinking like that is stupid, less enjoyable, and just really hard on the body.
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People who can walk in under their own power with a BAC of 0.500?
Uh, this poses an ethical dilemma.
Itā¦ Seems important that we study such people to determine how the hell they can do that. Like, this could lead to breakthroughs in toxin resistance drugs or something that the military can take advantage of during chemical warfare or something.
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What dilemma?
Iād say both count as a plus.
Also,
How the fuck is that even possible? I used to be an alcoholic, and even then I only drank more than 10 drinks a night on weekends. More like a six-pack when I had to get up and go to work in the morning.
Yeah, but. . . āSteel Reservesā? That might explain it.
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Itās better than Earthquake or Stack, and I canāt stand fuit-based liquor. Those always give me a migraine. Getting sloppy piss-on-your-hands-and-shoes drunk on malt liquor doesnāt cause migraines for me.
