harshing out your good friends for making bad decisions.

[MyOneAndOnly]

if you're a functional alcoholic are you really an alcoholic?

[mxzombie]

that is exactly the point that functional alcoholics try to make. i think it's bully

[Order 66]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

i mean

over summer at least i drink pretty much every night

6-8 beers just seems like a lot of liquid to deal with.

i'd usually do one beer when i got home from work. maybe one after that. then a drink with dinner. i am not of the mind that drinking every day is inherently a bad thing. but 6-8 beers.. i dunno. like i said, too much liquid.

i go through gallons and gallons of water and gatorade a day because i'm using creatine and i get dehydrated easy to begin with (and i don't like to admit it but i drink about that many beers every night)

the only thing is you pee alot and can get a little bloated. it goes right through your system

[Dead Frequency]

Hugs not drugs you guys

as far as i can tell creatine is about as healthy as drinking 6-8 beers a night

[MyOneAndOnly]

order is on the juice

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Order 66

i go through gallons and gallons of water and gatorade a day because i'm using creatine and i get dehydrated easy to begin with (and i don't like to admit it but i drink about that many beers every night)

the only thing is you pee alot and can get a little bloated. it goes right through your system

i dunno

maybe it's because i drink IPAs almost exclusively

6 good IPAs every night would be rough. 6 bud lights i guess would not be.

[Order 66]

Originally Posted by Graveflower

as far as i can tell creatine is about as healthy as drinking 6-8 beers a night

nah i think all it does is hydrates your muscles. though its probably not easy on my kidneys since i'm a heavy drinker to begin with

good stuff though. i've burned shitloads of fat

[MyOneAndOnly]

last winter I tried to calm it down by drinking Amstel Light instead of all the IPAs I usually enjoy. Instead of a few beers a night I started going through 8 or 9 Amstel lights. I had to get up every night just to catch up to all the piss.

horrible. better to have less, get the buzz and enjoy the drink

[Dead Frequency]

Yeah, I stopped fucking around with garbage beer after I turned 21

[Dead Frequency]

Originally Posted by SuckSuckStyle

nah dude. part of being a friend is coming at them when they can't see how bad they're fucking up. it doesn't have to be aggressive or hostile, but sometimes people need to get CHECKED. my friends have done it to me and i'm glad they did. i wish they'd done it sooner, to be honest.

sounds like you need a sit-down beer with your buddy and give him a straight up "WTF" and offer help. tell him what you're seeing and why you're concerned FOR HIM.

let him stew for a while after that. give it time. see if he makes an effort to change.

if nothing changes or it gets worse, draw a thicker line and be firm. tell him you're not getting involved, etc. distance yourself and let him make his decisions. whatever happens happens. but if hes your homie you gotta try and tell him what's up.


i'm going through something kinda similar;

one of my best friends of 12 years was supposed to get married this past october. her fiance was awesome. i loved him we were really good friends. he had become a part of our little family. they had a really good thing going. they bought a house a year ago and are both doing really well in their careers.

in july she freaked out about the thought of married with a house and talk of kids and a 5 year plan to sell the house and move eslewhere/career advance opportunities...etc. she wanted to have the world to herself again. and i understood everything she meant- i know her. she's 26. shes a wild one. i told her i supported her if she really felt she couldnt go through with it but whatever you do, dont hurt him. tell him. work it out. because she still loves him. a lot. she tells me this every time i talk to her. still.

she cheated on him
they broke up
it got nasty
now she's basically living with this new dude. they're constantly drunk. she's alienated her friends because she's so incredibly wrapped up with this guy and doing whatever he wants to do. he's kinda creepy and controlling. they're always fighting when they're drunk. but all she does is make plans with him to go to paris and shit and basically living the life she had before, but with a shitty guy and headed for a trainwreck.

through all of this i was her personal therapist......and like i said it got nasty. i love her, so i was always down to give a shoulder. but i'm not down with the messy drunk nights and getting blown off so she can get shitfaced with him. so basically i kept a safe distance until she could show me that she was capable of sitting down and having an honest conversation. we had a little chat. she knows how i feel. not much has changed except i'm not around as much.

she'll figure it out. it's her life, not mine. I can't make her decisions for her, but i can make sure they don't make my life miserable, too.

tough love is still love.

Yeah, I hear ya. That's pretty much where I'm at. I mean, I'm not his mom and i don't want to be a controlling aspect in his life. It's just like dude if you French fry when you mean to pizza, you're gonna have a bad time.

[SuckSuckStyle]

this makes me want a beer.

[mercurial]

christ some people are a buncha crybabies about some beers

[D.]

There's a dude on the megabus, a row in front of me to my right, who is flipping throuh a marijuana magazine. It's called Treating Yourself(?)

[mxzombie]

TREAT YO SELF

[Luke de Spa]

YO DESERVE IT

[Luke de Spa]

YO SOY EL DESERVE IT

[Luke de Spa]

my girlfriend

[D.]

The dude with the weed magazine.... a girl came on the bus and sat next to him and now they're bonding over weed

Dude looks like posts on Hipinion and he has a pink iPad but I mean...go for it, brah

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by Order 66

they drink all the time on mad men and get work done just fine

yeah well, mad men get work done with christina hendricks in the office

do you think you could get work done with christina hendricks in the office

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

i can find a video for you if you want probably

pretty sure i've seen that on xtube

Originally Posted by Eulogy

how does that work

[teh b0lly!!1]

i feel like a huge tool saying this, but whats the fuss about beer anyway?
it tastes like shit. once in a while its cool but as in everyday drinking? fuck that

red wine on the other hand is awesome

[Luke de Spa]

if millions of people like something and you don't, it's probably you

that being said, most beer is terrible. ever had a microbrew?

also, got any other food aversions?

[teh b0lly!!1]

microbrews are definitely better. most beers just lack subtlety, they just taste like bitter shit. some are better than others though. at least with microbrews it tastes interesting and fresh.

can't think of any food aversions. i hate industrial mayo, but if i make it myself its awesome. i dunno what makes the difference but i can't stand the smell of an industrial jar of mayo.
other than that i'll have it all.

[Eulogy]

dude you need to come to the states and let me pick out a few dozen beers for you

your life will change forever

[MyOneAndOnly]

The USA has be best beer in the world.

End of discussion

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

dude you need to come to the states and let me pick out a few dozen beers for you

your life will change forever

ill hold you to that when this happens

[MyOneAndOnly]

the USA also has the worst beer in the world.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

the USA also has the worst beer in the world.

this is absolutely, 100% false

pull your head out of your millercoors/inbev ass for a few seconds and find the good stuff. there is a lot of it.

[Trotskilicious]

he said we have the best and worst which is true kind of