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coldnight The ONLY Thought Provoking Content Poster (Moderator)
Joined: Mar 21, 2004 Posts: 2470 Location: Vermont
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject:
My drinking days...
So as not to sound like a prude, allow me to relate some foolish drinking days of yore.
I think I was 14 or 15; over a summer I siphoned off the liquor cabinate at my mothers house. Nothing like drinking Gin or vodka straight from a litre bottle, who boy yummy. /sarcasum
Anyways, aside from being quite drunk, we were on foot and every car we saw we thought it was cops coming to bust us. I remember being falling down drunk and bouncing off the hard dirt path (with my face) while trying to run and laughing an awefull lot.
However, when we mixed beer, wincoolers, champagne and a little hard liquor, it was a bad scene. We'd thought we'd be cool and take our bikes - bicycles infact. Well, its a miricle we didn't end up in the major road by our house - we were sloppy and riding down the hillside in the dark was a real rush... but... man, when I was sick later that night, it was bad news. I remember my mother asking if I was okay - and she must have known I was being sick. So she just let me suffer - good lesson, thanks mom.
I was only ever sick once after that - on a potent spanish red wine that snuck up on me in a big way... haven't been nearly so drunk since.
I hope you folks who are drinking lots can learn what I did, without major trouble or someone getting really hurt.
I still drink, and if I know I'm not driving I may have 2-3 drinks. But, if I'm dancing, half a drink is usually enough... its more fun to be in control if you are leading. Oh and leading very drunk followers, no matter how cute they think thier drunkenness is, sucks.
Joined: May 05, 2003 Posts: 7698 Location: Western Washington
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject:
I won't allow myself to drink. Alcoholism runs HEAVILY in my family. All the people in my family who are alcoholics or have been previously in their life (or when they were living) include:
Both grandparents on both sides
2 uncles and 1 aunt on my mom's side
1 aunt on my dad's side
2 cousins on my dad's side
Both parents
All my aunts and uncles except for one (who happens to not be blood-related as he married INTO the family), all grandparents, and my parents are or have been alcoholics. I refuse to drink because I know the alcoholism tendency runs in my blood and I know the chances of me becoming addicted are very high. _________________ Help me GoogleBomb for Joe's publicity!
Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 5386 Location: Cananada
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:19 am Post subject:
Yah, in the generation before me, there is some issues with alcholoism. One of my moms cousins died of liver failure because he drank so much. But as far as I know, I am the only one in this generation who had a problem. But of course, my family doesnt really know. To this day my mom thinks that Im jsut not a drinker. I let her think that, since I dont drink anymore. But a few of my cousins are heading on the same road that I was once. Its quite sad actually.
coldnight The ONLY Thought Provoking Content Poster (Moderator)
Joined: Mar 21, 2004 Posts: 2470 Location: Vermont
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:
Kealiki - its pretty impressive you understand that about yourself... if I remember right, your not even 30 yet? There are alot of people in the world with alot less self-awareness... and thats sad. I hope you can keep away from drink - loosing control of ones self is terrible.
Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 5386 Location: Cananada
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:29 am Post subject:
I started drinking just after I turned 17, and I drank heavily all throughout my last year of high school with my friends, and the summer that followed, and then when I started my first year of college all the health problems started, and I realized, I have a problem. I drank to escape from the piles of work I had to do. ANd that work didnt get done. So I quit. Just like that. Im only 20, but the only drink I have had since I stopped over a year ago was at my aunts wedding this summer, when my sister asked me to try the wine. I didnt like it.
Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 5386 Location: Cananada
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:
I hadnt really been drinking for too long though, so it wasnt too hard for me. But Im worried about some of my cousins, mostly the one who withing the first second I saw her this summer, asked me when I was taking her drinking.
Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 63 Location: disneyland
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:
Kealiki wrote:
I hadnt really been drinking for too long though, so it wasnt too hard for me. But Im worried about some of my cousins, mostly the one who withing the first second I saw her this summer, asked me when I was taking her drinking.
Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 5386 Location: Cananada
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:49 am Post subject:
This was like 2 months ago. And I never took her. She may be 2 days older than me, but she acts 2 years younger. If I took her out, she would have got pissed and I would have ended up babysitting her allnight. I was seriously considering dumping her off on my sisters boyfriends brother though. He is good with chicks like that.... hehe.
DJ_Mittens I look sexy in my Joe's Jeans™ Peacock Trousers (changed by Patgrun)
Joined: Feb 17, 2004 Posts: 4711 Location: Winnipeg, skeeter capital of the world.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:49 am Post subject:
I have lots of respect for people who recognize they have a problem and they take corrective action.
I fortunately don't have one. I don't think I've had a drink in the past two weeks. I don't really get addicted to things. I've done drugs, and I don't feel a need to keep doing them over and over again. I've done lots of drinking and I don't see myself lusting for the bottle again. I'm going to drink tonight, because I want to, but if someone told me to not drink I wouldn't. It's no big deal.
Guess I'm lucky.
Kealiki and homn, do you ever feel the desire and force yourself to repress it, or do you just not feel like drinking? _________________ Most problems can be solved through violence. Those that cannot are not worth solving.
Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 5386 Location: Cananada
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:21 am Post subject:
I dont have to really repress the feeling to drink anymore, because of all the problems it gave me. If I want my stomach to bleed and if I dont want to be able to eat for a week and have excruciating stomach cramps, then sure, I will drink. Its that easy.
But I have found other ways of dealing with my problems instead of drinking now. Although, some may say they arnt good for my mental health.
Like, to prevent myself from getting stressed out in the first place, I have programmed myself not to care as much or get worked up about things. This sucks because although I dont get as stressed and dont have axiety attacks anymore, I cant get really excited about things either.
To escape, I read. Problem, this means I read way too much.
And when I go out and party, I just dont drink. Sure, I dont have the same kind of fun that I used to. But I dont make and ass of myself anymore. And I can laugh at the people Im "babysitting" who are. Oh yah, no more hangovers. Thats the best thing about not drinking anymore. THere was nothing like heading off to work in the morning either feeling horribly ill or still alittle tipsy.
Joined: May 05, 2003 Posts: 7698 Location: Western Washington
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject:
I've never tried alcohol so I don't feel the urge to "supress" it. Although if I were to start, I'm sure that would change, since my chances of alcoholism is very high. _________________ Help me GoogleBomb for Joe's publicity!
Joined: Feb 26, 2004 Posts: 1635 Location: Connecticut
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:30 am Post subject:
is alcoholism a genetic thing?
i think it just depends on the person. My parents drink...too much, but they're never out of control or letting it effect their work or anything. my brother drinks entirely too much, my parents smoke, my brother smoke, i have no urge to really do either. I drink MAYBE 3 times a year. Way too many aunts and uncles drink a bit more than they should. I don't really think it has much to do with genetics, I think it depends on the type of person you are. I'm the type, that I will never drink when im in a bad mood, because i don't want to associate being drunk/happy with alcohol whenever im upset. I dunno, im just not the tpe to give into peer pressure. _________________ http://www.jeremyhalvorsen.com
"Just because I rock doesn't mean I'm made of stone"
I believe it's been proven that people become alchoholics because of both circumstances and genes. However, just because it's in your genes DOESN'T mean that you'll become an alcoholic. It's just that you have a higher than normal chance of becoming one.
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