Drinking + WoWFollow

Normally tea (esp PG Tips when I can find it).

But on Saturday night after my 10-man, Trilliant runs the Drunken Pug Party. I prefer beer (Boddingtons) or wine (the new Red Bicycle chard is great). Rules include:

Every time someone dies, drink.

Every time we wipe, drink.

Every time someone bails on the fail raid, drink.

Every time someone randomly DIs one of the melee, drink.

Every time you're not on vent, drink.

Every time you're on vent, drink.

etc.....

There are a lot of rools. And, shockingly, there are a lot of wipes =)

Sixpoint Gorilla Warfare Coffee Porter.

I don't play WoW anymore, I just like drinking.

Preaching to the choir.

Amen.

Saying weed is OK because it has medical uses is absurd.

Of course, it's absurd that alcohol is legal and weed is not. Alcohol is physically addictive, pot is psychologically addictive (that means no withdrawal symptoms, just a yearning). Alcohol makes people fight, and weed makes people relax.

Weed has it's downsides ... It can affect your short-term memory if you use it heavily.

People drink and drive, and kill people. People drink and lose control of themselves. People drink and start fights or commit violent crimes. None of that stuff is associated with weed (although you really shouldn't smoke and drive either, it's not nearly as destructive). I hate the hypocrisy that one is legal and the other is not.

Edited, Sep 25th 2010 11:17am by Jordster

SoCo and diet Coke when I'm drinking casual, 151 and diet if I'm looking for a buzz.

When I've got the time to get fancy my hands down fav though is red death -

one shot each -

SoCo
Vermouth
Slo Gin
Amarillo
Vodka

Shake it on the rocks
Pour over the rocks

Add about 1/3 OJ for color, stir and you'll get a beautiful blood red club drink that's so smooth you won't even know you've done five shots

I'd say that while playing WoW at home, 90% of the time I am drinking water, 8% of the time I'm drinking soda and the remaining 2% would be some girly alchoholic drink like a Smirnoff Twister that usually lasts me several hours at the rate I drink one. I used to drink soda more but I decided to cut down on sodium a little and cutting back on my diet drink usage seemed like a good way to do it.

I don't drink to get drunk. I don't think I have ever been 'drunk' in my life actually. It's just something to drink now and then for a different flavor from what I typically drink. Sometimes I look for something with a little alchohol when I have a cold because it seems to help a bit which is probably why many liquid cough medicines contain a fair amount of alchohol.

I don't do pot though. I could never see the point in using something that had so many known bad effects and the people I knew who used it a lot weren't really people I wanted to be like. I never really felt the need to go get drunk either but since I have known a lot of people in my life who drink moderately with no ill effects, I don't have a problem with having an occasional drink myself.

The effects of moderate alcohol consumption are chronic, slow liver damage. It can also affect your ability to digest certain sugars.

The effects of pot are non-carcinogenic damage to your lungs, and some loss of short term memory.

Alcohol is FAR more addictive (there is no such thing as PotAnon, for a reason). Alcohol has much worse effects on society. Just open the newspaper on any given day and there will be a story about a drunk drive who killed someone. A quick glace at today's paper ... Easy to find evidence of alcohol destroying lives. EDIT - and here is another one that happened the next day.

I grew up in a posh area of Toronto where over half of everyone I knew smoked pot. Many of them have grown up into responsible professionals - lawyers, doctors, teachers, a psychologist and even a specialist in autism! My wife, who is farrrr smarter than me, smokes weed every day to alleviate her anxiety. And cause she likes it! And she is terrifically successful.

I'm not trying to say "Weed is good, alcohol is bad." I drink sometimes, too. I am just so sick of living in a world where both the law, and a good portion of people, feel that drinking 10 beers is just fine, but smoking a couple of bowls is a crime. I've met adults in positions of authority who drink daily but who think that weed is a terrible thing. I just don't get it.

Someone I know got caught in the same car as someone smoking a joint in Indiana. It looks like he is going to get 15 days in jail. That's for a first offense with no criminal record. He's from Canada... in Canada we're not stupid enough to turn young people who smoke pot into criminals. Imagine the toll that would take on our people, our jails and our economy. Ugh.

Edited, Sep 27th 2010 1:59pm by Jordster

I see some people with sense are finally chiming in on the subject.
No, alcohol isn't evil, or from the Christian Devil, but it's just not good. There have been two major prohibitions in USA history, and one was wrong, the other right. Here's a hint: The wrong one's still going on.

I find some good music and a few warmup battlegrounds pretty relaxing. Thats mostly how I WoW these days, just battlegrounds. Been honor capped about 6 times recently, boguht a mount, then back to honor cap, repeat across multiple characters.

Arena is fun, but I have a problem sticking to a schedule where I play with actual people. I tend to logon, immediately they always want to arena. Most of the time I just want to chill and BG. I'm not a great arena partner for that reason. Skill wise I'm fine, but I'm too much of a loner in WoW. Its like my escape from the real world.


I rarely drink when playing WoW but I've had a few wicked battlegrounds while half in the bag.

You play a rogue as your main. The only class to be rated 0 out of 10 for fun in arena this season!

On topic. I tend to drink water, fruit juice, squash or if somehow there can be found in the house, a coke variant. I prefer the juice but it is a little expensive to keep doing that everyday...

The fact that THERE IS A POTANON should tell you something. Do a little research, you stupid little kid. Nice try sounding smart, though. Even though those programs (AA, MA, and GA) aren't actually about dealing with the products but about the underlying personal issues of the individuals ... no, I guess it wasn't a very nice try at all. I've never seen anyone fail so hard at defending pot. You make me ashamed to have been a smoker.