I think that bouncer might even totally agree with you, Thad, but it's his job to enforce stupid rules. God knows I've enforced stupid rules and had fights with customers over things I knew were ridiculous and made myself look like a retard, but I didn't get paid to employ reason, I got paid to enforce stupid rules. And enforce them I did.
How lenient are you on the whole outside food policy? I've been to theaters where I've snuck in whole pizzas and hamburgers.
I think that bouncer might even totally agree with you, Thad, but it's his job to enforce stupid rules. God knows I've enforced stupid rules and had fights with customers over things I knew were ridiculous and made myself look like a retard, but I didn't get paid to employ reason, I got paid to enforce stupid rules. And enforce them I did.
Bars are pretty awful, anyway. Buy your beer at the store.
That said, giving you grief over having one that wasn't updated - but not expired, right? Lots of places don't except expired licenses - is kind of a dick policy.
I would amend your statement that bars are awful to say that TRENDY bars are awful. THIS was an awful, trendy bar. However, I am very comfortable at the local breweries.
Surprisingly, given Oregon's incredibly stringent liquor law enforcement, I've never had problems when I hand a bouncer/bartender my driver's license that still has the big, loud, red UNDER 21 square around my picture. They sometimes look confused for a moment, but then just check the birth and expiration dates and that's that.
There's a very great episode of Tony Bourdain's food network show A Cook's Tour titled The Elements of a Great Bar (http://tv-links.cc/documentary/A-Cook-s-Tour.htm) that basically covers my position on bars, except for one thing: dives. I like a completely shitty bar. The kind of bar where you're afraid your foot is going to break through the floor. Where beer tastes like nothing and the vodka tastes like gasoline and meat. Where, if you're under 28 and you're playing pool, an old man will ALWAYS get up and tell you what you're doing wrong.
There's actually a fairly good place a few steps from the front of the office. Rickenbacker's isn't actually a complete damn shithole or anything, but it does have a lot going for it. Primarily: Fat goddamn cat licking the straws and whatever else, a crippled diabetic proprietor who smokes cigars while hooked up to an oxygen tank and who will eventually, inevitably explode. A bunch of signs bearing carny aphorisms, Clark Gable's motorcycle hanging from the ceiling in such a way that it's guaranteed to crush you when the big one hits, good irish coffee, fairly good food, and smoking after nineish because nobody gives a fuck once the normal nine-to-five saps have left downtown. Also, an abundance of Irish guys who are really eager to pick a fight but usually too drunk to stand at that point so you can actually do that three stooges holding-your-hand-on-their-forehead thing while they swing at air. Honestly, I fucking love the place. Especially as a general test of character. I pretty much have a habit of bringing people there and not doing any further drinking with them if they turn out to be put off by any single one of these virtues.
I am exceptionally annoyed that most of the office does their drinking at the sports bar the next door over because it happens to have a jukebox and pool table.
Well, in the case of the juke and billiards-having place there is the slight drawback of dumbass jocks who will try to insinuate (i.e. shove) themselves between you and the bar regardless of whether you're actually seated on a barstool and who seem genuinely shocked when you elbow them in the throat for it. It only takes a couple times before you come to the conclusion that they're a little hazy on the idea that unwanted physical contact invites reciprocal unwanted physical contact regardless of the fact that the initial contactee happens to be wearing glasses. It's an unfortunately frequent misunderstanding and one I'd just as soon avoid, preferring to associate with humans who are a little more clear on the rules.
Also, the neighboring drunks tend to be, for some damn reason, old engineers, who make for infinitely more interesting conversation.
There's a joint a few blocks from here that I swear to fuck is used for time traveler conventions. ... Some parts of this town seem to have come pretty unstuck in time.
Portland also has an enjoyable tendency to cross bars with second-run movie theaters. It's something I haven't checked out yet, but plan to soon.Sounds like it'll be really brilliant or astoundingly crap. It's the kind of idea that you hope desperately will be great while at the same time being woefully aware that your expectations are probably far beyond reason.
The Lutz (http://www.yelp.com/biz/lutz-tavern-portland#hrid:tl2EyPa9sETYXZrWeBljaA/query:lutz)
*sex sex sex*... Bummer. Totally... Mystery Meatloaf props... lacklustery...:0... snaggle-toothed mutants... Prognosis
There are some pretty nice bars within stumbling distance of campus, here. And since it's a small liberal arts school with no Greek system or NCAA sports, you don't get the jocks-and-floozies atmosphere that comes with a lot of college bars. Mostly it's a neighborhood crowd, and the worst you have to deal with are the hipsters and the English majors.
Haven't got any Callahan's Crosstime Salloons around here, not that I know of. A couple places that are trying to be by filling the room with campy old shit.
Recently Abby found a pub downtown that has pulled pork sandwiches,
I just want something solid enough and simple enough, and enough of it, to stand up to a Guinness or two.
That one caught my eye too. Seemed like the biggest endorsement for the place on the whole page.Quote from: Corwin M.*sex sex sex*... Bummer. Totally... Mystery Meatloaf props... lacklustery...:0... snaggle-toothed mutants... Prognosis
Strange. I'm going to a so-called "liberal arts" school (in that the major selling point is the English Program) and the campus bar is usually chock-a-block with floozies and jocks. Heck, it's pretty much the same crowd as Kazz pointed out in most of the places along the Downtown-University bus route: too loud to talk, too crowded to dance, and there's popped collars and tramp stamps everywhere.
Portland also has an enjoyable tendency to cross bars with second-run movie theaters. It's something I haven't checked out yet, but plan to soon.Sounds like it'll be really brilliant or astoundingly crap. It's the kind of idea that you hope desperately will be great while at the same time being woefully aware that your expectations are probably far beyond reason.
I will not ever understand your town's infatuation with Pabst.
Brodie: Okay, then let's talk about coming up with a schedule for visitation rights.
Rene: For what?
Brodie: For the mall. I figure you can take the odd days, I'll take the even days and weekends. When there's any special feature like a sidewalk sale --
Rene: Brodie, Brodie --
Brodie: -- or a boat show --
Rene: BRODIE! ...I've always taken you with a grain of salt. On your birthday, when you told me to do a striptease to the theme of "Mighty Mouse", I said okay. On prom night, at the hotel, when you told me to sleep under the bed in case your mother burst in, I did it. And even during my grandmother's funeral, when you told my relatives that you could see her nipples through her burial dress, I let that slide. ...But if you think I'm gonna suffer any of your shit with a smile now that we're broken up, you're in for some SERIOUS fucking disappointment!
I actually did not drink today.I actually dhrrrr guh get me a brick i need to end this
I had sake for the first time recently. You could probably run a car with it.
Let us assume, for the moment, that you are correct.
Given that Budweiser does not have a very good track record with beer -- a beverage I DO believe is great -- I find their foray into shellfish-based beverages to be horrifying in principle AND in execution.
So my parents moved and let me clean out their pantry for free food. Among it was half a bottle of Crown Royale. Having never really drank before, I took a sip.
It was like a wood factory inside my mouth.
How the hell is this enjoyable.
Wah wah wah, I'm a 16-year-old girl or a pansy
What kind of drinks are there that don't taste alcoholic but make breathalyzers explode?
What kind of drinks are there that don't taste alcoholic but make breathalyzers explode?I SUFFER SO YOU MUST SUFFER AS WELL
What kind of drinks are there that don't taste alcoholic but make breathalyzers explode?
No Buge, no. Bad Buge, bad.
No one on these boards are allowed to be lame enough that they drink to excess while trying not to taste the alcohol. I'd rather someone took up smoking or something else equally retarded.
Quote from: LyraiWah wah wah, I'm a 16-year-old girl or a pansy
What kind of drinks are there that don't taste alcoholic but make breathalyzers explode?Anything that'll get you as messed up as you want will evaporate on your tongue faster than you can taste it.
Then you probably shouldn't be drinking 80-proof whiskey.
Please ask somebody else.Still want to know the true meaning of this.
some sort of loony with no tastebuds to speak of.
Please ask somebody else.Still want to know the true meaning of this.
:mystery:
I wonder how drunk you have to get Thad in order to have him type like most drunk people.
I liked beer from a young age. My dad gave me half a budweiser when I was 8 while we drove home from his construction site. I thought it tasted awesome.
You mean "type like most people". You have to remember that these forums have a very unnatural level of literacy.
Fat Tire is ass.
Course, the first beer MY dad gave ME was a Fat Tire. Which makes him way cooler than Guild's dad.
Fat Tire is ass.
What're the rules and shit on mailing open containers of Whiskey?
Smirnoff stuff (my favorite flavor is watermelon)
So anyway, I like 151 and Coke.
Long island iced tea
So anyway, I like 151 and Coke.
The perfect combination for when you want to become instantly inebriated, but need to concentrate on something else than your drink. Like thesis statements, or girlfriend issues.
Or you could make it an awesome excuse to tool cross country to hang with your buddy.
Or you could make it an awesome excuse to tool cross country to hang with your buddy.
What, with an open whiskey bottle in the car?
however, in some states it also has to be 'trash'::(:
so just throw a trash bag around it for good measure.5, Informative
Now you too can drive cross country to get drunk with your friends!
TRANSLATION:
Those bags are fuckin' awesome. Also, if you're a book-n-dice nerd, they make fantastic dice bags.
Really? I swear Costco sells Crown Royal for like $25 a bottle.
Those bags are fuckin' awesome. Also, if you're a book-n-dice nerd, they make fantastic dice bags.QFT. I got one too.
:proceed: Tell me more.
Yes, well, nowadays I get drunk off two beers, so you might want to find someone more contemporary.
:tldr:
It wasn't so much that I drank too much beer as that I didn't drink enough water.(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)It wasn't so much that I drank too much beer as that I didn't drink enough water.(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
Iipa is just a super hoppy, very bitter beer. you typically can't taste the alcohol in them. they do run a bit stronger than your average gas station selection, but that's the case with virtually all decent beers.hatelove to be a prick,butisn't that the point of an IPA? Isn't Dogfish Head's claim to fame unusually potent examples of whatever they brew? I'mnotwell-versed in expensive beer drinking, andcouldn't claim to bean expert.
Don't you hate yourself!? Is everything I thought I knew about you a lie?
Pepsi forever.
Kazz is apparently as big a wuss about dicks in his ass as he is about huge, big wangs slapping him all over the face!
...Safeway has made me start signing a fucking list every time I buy beer.
...Safeway has made me start signing a fucking list every time I buy beer.
I don't... what does that even do?
where I buy comics and coffee,
...Safeway has made me start signing a fucking list every time I buy beer.
I don't... what does that even do?
where I buy comics and coffee,
Wait, you can buy comics and coffee in the same place now? Madness.
Your mistake is in assuming that the cops anywhere ever only arrests people if they have a reason.
I love PBR. I love beer. I love everything. I'm happy.
This is the first time I've felt like this in months.
I don't want to get into the details of my life right now but ASSAULT FROG hasn't felt good in a while.
I'd like to thank Beer for a wonderful evening.
I'd like to thank Baby Jesus for beer.
I read that as Sailor Jupiter.
Anyway, you should all drink margaritas from now on. No drink is better.
I have been trying to work my tolerance up since I turned 21.. Moved on from Dekyuper on to some light vodka.. What I should not have done was gotten Aftershock. Fuck my life.
Being sober is awful.
The clarity with which I perceive the world is painful.
Whenever I want a laugh, I watch Frocto playing Pachinko and rambling drunkenly.
:happy:
I hear frocto's mom knows how to spruce up her poisons.
www.youtube.com/mrcarlander
For the record, I did not vomit later like I predicted.
Not saying the live experience isn't preferable.
This also might have something to do with the fact that the first person to finally do it weighs literally one third of some others.
Not saying the live experience isn't preferable.
This also might have something to do with the fact that the first person to finally do it weighs literally one third of some others.
I weigh 400 pounds
Good sir I do not believe that any amount of liquor could lower anyone's standards to such dubious levels.
I just spent $200 on shot glasses loooooooool
I would like to state for the record that, while I'm the drunkest I've ever been, I still have some semblance of an adherence to grammatical accuracy and would not, in fact, make out with any of you (potentially to the delight of onlookers who have a predisposition towards homoerotic acts of the male persuasion, such as my esteemed colleague in enormous bipedal android combat, Mars R. Dragon PhD.). I still have standards, after all, and I would still not engage in such acts with one Fried Octopus despite his being such a braggart regarding his (and I quote) "dick-sucking lips." I would, however, engage in virtual gladiatorial combat with such a virtuous individual for the delight of said onlookers, as often are such acts mistaken for desire in onlookers, as evinced by many a prospective author on the Internet.
Thank you for your time. That is all.
and ted is super awesone
It's nice to see a good Irish relationship.
Correction: it's good to see a good relationship.
Hey MCE, let's have a fully conversation here right now. Let's make it like ten pages.
this is the bf,
mce is clearly out of her mind as evidenced by the previous posts, please disregard all slander regarding my spaghetti preferences.
this is the bf,
mce is clearly out of her mind as evidenced by the previous posts, please disregard all slander regarding my spaghetti preferences.
my favorite part of this is picturing mce (i think of her as sounding kinda squeaky) cupping her hand over her mouth and speaking in as deep of a voice as she can to pretend she is really two people
i don't care how it really went down that's how i saw it
alcojol.
nah it was a rum and coke followed by two beers and a shot of jagermonster
Jäger Monster (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050808) is the least appropriate character on Sesame Street.
You enter the necromancer's sanctum. There are casks of an unknown liquid lining the walls. At the center of the room, there is an altar, with a brown, boiling portal, with a texture like quicksilver, pouring out of the wide, shallow offering pit. The necromancer casts his gaze at you, eyes wild and red, teeth twisted in a horrible, cackling grin.
"His power flows through me! My throat burns with his power! I am indestructable! I sure as shit am not afraid of the fucking police now! I AM HIS INSTRUMENT, THE GREAT GOD, LAPHROAIG GUIDES ME"
Roll for initiative.
a more aggressive and concentrated force push.
All Jedi are presented with exactly three options at all times. This is because of, I don't know, midichlorians or some shit.
http://drinkify.org/ (http://drinkify.org/)
Tell it what you're listening to, it will tell you what to drink........
"THE MGMT"
- 1 PBR
Serve cold.
"THE CHEAP GIRLS"http://drinkify.org/have%20nots (http://drinkify.org/have%20nots)
- 1 PBR
Serve cold.
"THE HAVE NOTS"I'm noticing a bit of a trend with Boston bands...
- 1 PBR
Serve cold.
"THE KABBAGE"(http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/793/notbadz.png)
- 2 oz. Vodka
- 2 oz. Coconut milk
- 4 oz. Club-Mate
“The Mongrel”
1 bottle Marijuana
Serve neat. Stir vigorously.
I scrolled to the right looking for a punchline ::(:
I am embarking on a bad decision for no reason.
Is... do you expect the vodka to vinegar in a year? Does vodka even vinegar?Oh, come now. It's just 5-6 shots. I was just worried it'd get stronger over time, but that doesn't seem to be the case.I am embarking on a bad decision for no reason.