Date: Friday, May 7, 1999 Time: 7:00pm Location: Archies Tavern, Jenkintown, PA
I stopped by for a quick drink with a few co-workers. I was moving house the following morning and I still had a good bit of packing to do, so I only had time for one. It was an ice-cold Yeungling Lager, my beer of choice. I remember when I got up to leave, my friend Alan saying awww come on ralphy boy...you've got time for one more. Normally that would have been enough -- a simple excuse to park my arse on the barstool and drink until closing time, then stumble home and pass out. But for reasons beyond my comprehension, that night, I said no. And I've not had a drink since.
So tell me about your last drink. Or what you were doing on May 7, 1999. Or what color pants you're wearing. Share with me people, and gain strength from the sharing.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yesterday three of us were sat outside the Star and Sailor drinking wine in the sun. Three bottles polished off in about 90 minutes. Lovely stuff.
Then home to have two cans of Kronenbourg and then a glass of port after dinner. Beautiful stuff.
I fully recommend having a drink ralph. It's good for you.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
And of course congraulations/commiserations depending on your viewpoint for having gone so long without a drink.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: congraulations/commiserations
I'd say it's about 50/50.
Your wine outing yesterday sounds positively lovely.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I visited my parents for dinner last night. Pater and I got through a good few bottles of Kronenbourg, and indulged in a post meal glass or two of Plum Vodka. On the whole, I find alcohol hugely overrated.
After a few drinks he told us that he'd recently had a dream in which the local vicar was felated by the entire congregation, one after the other, during communion. Then he chucked another bible on the fire and started talking about getting unconfirmed.
This probably sounds as if I'm making it up...
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Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Yesterday four of sat in a garden and got through three bottles of champagne/cava, three bottles of white wine, some Magners, and gin and tonic. It ruled. Though I'm caning the zantac today...
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
I had a pint of bitter shandy yesterday. I was fine for about five minutes then vomited and tried to start a fight with a 6 year old. Have I got a problem Rafe?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
No McDirts. You don't have a problem. You only had the one pint.
eta: Not a drinking problem anyway.
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Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
Wow misc, your dad sounds great!
I'm ill at the moment, so haven't drunk anything for a couple of days, so my last drink was about 1am or so on saturday night, well techically sunday morning I guess. I was round some friends' house for dinner and between six of us we got through lots of food and lots and lots of wine then I moved onto limoncello and I kept saying "I shouldn't have anymore limoncello or I'll fall asleep" and then, true to my word, I fell asleep.
I have no clue what I was doing on May 7, 1999, but I was at uni in Glasgow, so more than likely sleeping late, few lectures, few pints somewhere like nice'n'sleazys.
Pants - black.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
I've got this vague theory that, Grappa aside, the Italians make the gayest liquors in the world (Frangellico, Galliano, Amoretto, Limoncello) revolting, sticky, over sweet concoctions. It kind of makes sense when you think that they don't really like drinking, in the same way that People who don't really like the taste of booze will drink things like Baileys or Malibu and Pineapple.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I had a bit of a marathon on sunday, where I started at 1pm, very civilized on the staropramen at the Vibe bar in brick lane, and ended up wasted at mine, 4 am, hammering down jack daniels and 'boost' energy drink. Needless to say, yesterday wasn't as much fun as it could have been.
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Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
last night. was my last drink. about 9.40 pm with the second episode of the wire season 5. after trout and asparagus followed by summer pudding. can of red stripe.
chilled.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by doc d: was my last drink.
last drink of the night or last drink ever?
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Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
i think we all know the answer to that one.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
yeah
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
My last drink was a bottle of Svyturys Ekstra, which was part reward for shifting a shitload of boxes to our new house. Freshly chilled from our new 2.2m tall fridge freezer. Boy it was good.
On May 7th 1999 I was in Zürich working for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Looking at it now, their website hasn't changed that much. I heart Switzerland.
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Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
what was i doing on may 7th 1999? really fucking hurting after my 24th birthday, ill warrant.
my last drink was a triple shot of stolichnaya, sometime after 2am on christmas morning 2005. shortly after i did my last Massive Drunken Spew. then i crawled onto a sofa and thought 'this is so totally bullshit, im bored of this'. i say i havent done a massive spew since, but i do remember having to eat parsnips for my xmas dinner and a little bit of sick coming up. other than that, no spewing. yAy AbStInEnCe!
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Hmm. May 7 1999, I was working on a one year contract in a New York technology research center, which I took because the hours of a radio news reporter had finally caught up to me. Enjoying my desk job, my 9-to-5 hours, and my quirky renovated-barn bachelor apartment (shared with two roommates).
My most recent drink? A glass and a half of red wine last night. I typically have a few drinks over the course of the average week (wine, beer), though I expect my consumption will increase for the near term as rooster's parents are staying with us for a few weeks. It's not that I have to drink to cope, or anything like that, it's that I have to try to keep up.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
Was probably revising for mock GCSE's in year 10 and writing incredibly bad poetry.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
In May of 1999 I was living in Texas, probably taking a neuroscience final or preparing for one. Maybe even studying the mechanism of action of alcohol on the brain.
Congrats on your sober period ralph!
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by rooster: In May of 1999 I was living in Texas, studying the mechanism of action of alcohol on Ralph's brain.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
In 1999 I was living in Wetherill Road, N10 with Kellifer and struggling to turn my degree around.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I was living in Spain with a hangover, I suspect.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
May '99 I was getting way wasted in Essex, going nuts, dealing hash. Doing the radio show. Beginning my relationship with Christina (who is now married, as of a fortnight or so ago).
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Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: In 1999 I was living in Wetherill Road, N10 with Kellifer and struggling to turn my degree around.
You've been with her for 10 years and still not married her? I don't know if I should congratulate you or smack you upside your head.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I can't really remember. I'd just moved into my flat, just started a new job in Docklands, when it was more shit than it is now, and I'd imagine I was involved in some kind of disastrous relationship. I was also a stone-and-a-half lighter, and only earning a few grand less than I am now.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: You've been with her for 10 years and still not married her? I don't know if I should congratulate you or smack you upside your head.
Eleven actually. We got engaged ages ago, but haven't got married yet because we're waiting until you can come over to the UK, ralph.
FaeceBuk keeps telling me that my friends/exes have all got engaged/married/pregnund recently. I'm going to turn thirty next month.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Jesus. She must have the patience of a saint. Or she's not really that interested, and just biding her time until something better comes along...
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've been with my girlfriend for 8 1/2 years now and we're not even engaged. What do you think of that then ralph?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I think that's a bit weird. But I'm not judging you.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I've been married and divorced twice, ralph, and I'm only 36.
How does that grab you.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I've been married twice too, mart. But only the one divorce (so far). Nice try though.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I think that's a bit weird. But I'm not judging you.
But I'm a "devout" atheist and you don't get any tax breaks for getting married so the only reason for getting married is when we have children. Stupidly enough a father doesn't have the right to give permission for operations and things like that on a child if they're not married so we'll get married when we have are having kids.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Some people don't need the legally binding thrall of marriage like yourself ralph. In a sense, they rely on the understanding that it is pleasurable, not a duty to stay together. You know, like when they hammer a peg into the ground to keep the elephants from taking off.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: But I'm a "devout" atheist and you don't get any tax breaks for getting married so the only reason for getting married is when we have children. Stupidly enough a father doesn't have the right to give permission for operations and things like that on a child if they're not married so we'll get married when we have are having kids.
I'm a devout athiest as well. But it worked out that we *do* get a break on our taxes by being married. I didn't actually get married the second time until we had already had two kids.
So when are you planning on having kids? Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Heh. There’s a thing. Nine years ago I was just coming to the end of my 2nd year of Uni. A deeply unpleasant year where the squalor of shared houses really hit home and a number of inadvisable life choices were made. And run away from. Or hidden in the attic from. I was just about to move to London for my work placement year. This was to be a very wise move.
In many ways my life has not progressed at all since then – lol!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: So when are you planning on having kids?
She wants to start on that before she's 30 and although you should never discuss a lady's age, that gives me just over a year.....
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
heh. I can't picture you as a father. But truth be told, I can't picture myself as one either.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Actually that was a bit self pitying. I have definitely progressed in the past nine years. It is just that some of that time has been really shit, and I still live in a shonky shared house. We have a cleaner now though. Although she just quit this morning. Swings and roundabouts…
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Golden Brown really is a complete arse-hat, isn't he?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
He certainly is. What the hell is the point in spending public money to get a study done by professionals into the dangers of something then deciding that you don't really like the findings so you're going to completely ignore it.
I may have to vote Tory.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm not sure I could bring myself to vote Tory. But where I live, it's either them or the Lib Dems. Christ!
I read a BBC News article last week in which Brown referred to "the new lethal strain - known as Skunk". In fact he used the word LETHAL three times in that article. On the number ten press briefings page, questions were asked about why he was now calling it lethal - his secretary said something like "nobody is under any doubt about the dangerousness of this drug - which is why it is illegal". Well of course there's some doubt about it, otherwise why is being reclassified against the advice of the advisory body?
Is alcohol not a dangerous drug? How many people does that kill in a year? LETHAL alcohol, that is. And LETHAL fags. It's an old argument, but still true.
*fume*
Also, lol @ the fact that this thread started out about alcohol, and is now tending toward cannabis. Slippery slope, and all that...
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Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Is alcohol not a dangerous drug? How many people does that kill in a year? LETHAL alcohol, that is. And LETHAL fags. It's an old argument, but still true.
*fume*
What about LETHAL food? How many people die because of obesity each year?
What drug are you referring to btw?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: What drug are you referring to btw?
Cannabis. Our PM has just announced that it's going to be reclassified as a Class B - which comes with a possible five (as opposed to two) year prison sentence for posession. I wonder what will happen in practise...
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I wonder what will happen in practise...
A larger portion of your population will wind up in prison. Like here in the US.
quote:More than half a million people were behind bars for drug offenses in the United States at the end of last year, according to numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In a report released Sunday, the Justice Department number-crunchers found that people sentenced for drug crimes accounted for 21% of state prisoners and 55% of all federal prisoners.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't understand why when prohibition has been proven time and again not to work governments feel the need to keep doing it.
MJ use in Holland is lower among dutch teens than in all the surrounding countries where it is illegal. If it is legalised and taxed then it means
A) Extra money for the government B) Less people in prison for pointless crimes C) It can be grown legitimately thus cutting down on drugs being used to fund terrorists D) The strength can be more closely monitored thus putting a stop to this "super skunk"
Probably more good things as well.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: A larger portion of your population will wind up in prison. Like here in the US.
I'm not sure how that'll happen as our prisons are so overcrowded. Coincidentally, they've just released *Pete Doherty from gaol after 29 days of a 14 week sentence for... (deep breath)... driving while uninsured and with no MoT while in possession of crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
to be fair, it only takes about a week of heavy skunk use before you're ready to kill yourself to stop the voices.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: to be fair, it only takes about a week of heavy skunk use before you're ready to kill yourself to stop the voices.
How heavy are we talking here, Kanye?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
stopping only to sleep, and then sleeping in a cupboard where 5 people continue to smoke the entire time you're snoozing.
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Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Yeah...what constitues heavy use? I smoked anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 ounce a week for about 15 years. And I'm fine.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I think it depends if you're already some kind of mental.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I can only speak from the perspective of a mental.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
They say it brings out the schizophrenia in you. Have you heard about that, Kanye? What about you, Benway? Jimmy? Steve? Anyone? Bueller?
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Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I can only speak from the perspective of a mental.
Me too. So what's your particular mental disorder, Steve?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I ended up convinced that either a) I was on the Truman show and everything was being recorded, or that b) my parents had somehow told everybody I knew to act differently around me because I was mad, so everything was setup to prevent me from realising that I was actually insane. Literally, every person I came into contact with had somehow been forewarned, and the reality I experienced was totally managed and 'false'.
The thing is, there is a line between thinking that this kind of thing could be the case, and then switching over to genuinely believing it. It maybe seems like an easy line to imagine crossing, but it changes everything once you go over it.
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Dark.
ETA: My worst weed experience was sitting in my attic as a helicopter circled overhead, convinced that it was the police and that they could see the smoke rising from the eaves and somehow knew that I was smoking an illegal drug. When I got went downstairs searchlights were shining in through the windows, dogs barking outside, sirens etc.
I later found out that they were chasing a burglar, who had taken refuge somewhere in the vicinity of my flat. It deeply fucked me up at the time, but not enough to stop me rolling up a fat one the following night.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I nearly passed out with fear once in the bar because I thought a passing motorbike was an atomic explosion. Sounds stupid, but that was pretty terrifying.
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Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Fucking hell. Users Anonymous confessions of GREATNESS.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Come on NWoD, you must've done some stupid stuff on a drug, one time. Spill, bitch!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, one time I went to a party with nwod and we got wasted on weed and pills, and he disappeared for a while. I started getting freaked out so I went upstairs and he was in the bedroom of the person who's party it was, and he was like making out with the bed, kind of humping it (clothes on) and talking to it, so I was like dude! what? And he then starts going on about how much he loves me and goes to grab my cock. Then when I told him that I wasn't into it he was all crying and shit and telling me all this stupid crap about how much he wanted to live in France, and how he'd always wanted to be a cartoonist. So I was like, yeah alright, but then he draws all these insane scribbled pictures and goes round showing everybody at the party. That shit was fucked up. Funny though. I only wish I was making it up
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Poor NWoD - that's terrible. I wish I hadn't asked now.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah he got quite...confused.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I once hand-bonged a tulip. I whitied so hard I had to stick my head out of a cat-flap for air because my hands became balls of plasticine and I couldn't manipulate the lock. I came back in and carried on. pleased with my own hardcore powers. But actually I had been laying out in the porch for an hour, passed out apparently.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I once hand-bonged a tulip.
This is basically a euphemism for jacking a guy into your mouth, right?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
It sure is, Tulip.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
So a side effect of drugs is that they turn you into a gay?
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
can be.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You still here, Walphie? Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Yeah, but pot never turned me gay.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
skunk is rubbish. the first time i ever smoked like, proper skunk, i ended up so high i couldnt understand the door to the toilet cubicle in the jazz cafe loos, and had to have what seemed like the loooooooooongest wee in the world with 15 women peering round the corner at me going 'whats up with her? doesnt she understand doors or something, ha ha ha?' yeah, ironic. it was a very strangely shaped cubicle, and the door was at a funny angle, and i just assumed it was a design feature and left it open. does that even make sense? the whole situation was so nonsensical i have never found any way of effectively articulating it. its just... bad juju, man. that was off, like, three tokes or something.
its such a tricky one, the whole skunk thing. my experience of it- it made me mental, and i recognised this, and stopped doing it. i know so so many people who have been rendered mental by it, and stopped smoking it, but its all totally anecdotal and most of them do tend to veer towards the mental side of the street anyway. ahem. except misc files, who is probably in his natural state the least mental person in the entire world, so what does that tell you. so i dont really know what to think about it. skunk- its even confusing when you havent smoked it for five years. let that be a warning, or something.
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Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
maybe i was trying to invite all those ladies into the cubicle with me. maybe skunk did turn me gay. dunno.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Yeah, but pot never turned me gay.
You were gay well before the pot?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: ...most of them do tend to veer towards the mental side of the street anyway. ahem. except misc files, who is probably in his natural state the least mental person in the entire world...
WTF? Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Yeah, but pot never turned me gay.
You were gay well before the pot?
No. I've never been gay. Never even considered it. Although my recent viewing of Brokeback Mountain has made me reconsider...
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Although my recent viewing of Brokeback Mountain has made me reconsider...
You're thinking of the wrong BM. It was my illustration of Black Mask shafting you with a petrol pump that made you reconsider.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
heh. I think I'll start calling Black Mask Brokeback Mountain. Where's he been anyway? It seems like weeks since I've had a good insulting session. Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Skunk's rubbish. If I were to get stoned any more, I'd want a gentle blurring of the edges, the capacity to find everything on the TV either fascinating or hilarious, and a good night's sleep, not being rendered unable to speak for 90 minutes, and having to crawl to the toilet. Then forgetting what I went there for.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I can't let this happen anymore. Look. It's Skornk
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Sorry. I've edited it now. Too much weed and pills you know?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
way to edit and make me look quite the jerk.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hey coming up to the big 10k there buddy. Good times.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
But no, it's been explained. Don't worry about it. Nobodys against. Jeez. I thought this was gonna be both a doozy and a hoot and it was neither.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
What should I do for my 10k? Actually scrap that. Hands up who couldn't give a rats.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you...want to move to France?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: What should I do for my 10k?
Write a really great story in installment posts and bail on it before you finish.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, yeah.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
basically like how The Tripods was on TV. Great sci fi should never end.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
why are you confused. i was only saying you have never seemed very mental. i think thats even sort of a compliment, isnt it? i dont know. im confused. whats going on. are you high? am i high? oh man. this is like the crystal maze.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
OMG you guys are so high!
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
it sounded a bit like you were saying misc was boring and square, discus -- even when he's high.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
i'm going to drink some guinness now, and then i'm going to play golf.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Guiness yes, golf... not so much.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Fancy a pint, Kanye?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, sounds good. Where are you
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: i'm going to drink some guinness now, and then i'm going to play golf.
Could you have one around 7pm? For me? To mark my 9th anniversay being all sober and shit?
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: it sounded a bit like you were saying misc was boring and square, discus -- even when he's high.
eh. not my intention. soz misc files.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Yeah...what constitues heavy use? I smoked anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 ounce a week for about 15 years. And I'm fine.
So, Ralph, what are you growing these days out on the farm?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Not pot, if that's what you're implying. Just vegetables. And a bunch of fruit trees. No drugs. I stopped smoking pot a few years ago.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Um, how should I put this. I wasn't hoping you were growing any, because that would be all like shedloads of illegal and stuff. And I certainly wasn't asking because it's been so long since I've had any that I can hardly remember what it was like. Oh no no no. How could you possibly think such a thing.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
*tokes
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Don't worry, cats. There's a hip new plant on the scene: *Salvia
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I've grown Salvia (the garden variety) before. It's pretty.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I've grown pot in the past, but never outdoors. I purchased one of these from an ad in High Times magazine:
I remember how the literature that came with it talked at great length about tomato plants and roses. I'll bet anything that nobody ever grew either of those things.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I bet Ralph was a really good hippy.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I'm too young to be a proper 60's style hippie (born in 1963) but yeah, I was alright.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm picturing you as (a younger version of) a character called The Truth in GTA San Andreas.
He lived in the woods in the middle of nowhere, grew pot and drove a VW Kombi called The Mothership.
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Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
It always comes back to games, doesn't it? Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
So Ralph, does that mean that you were still tokin' when you'd stopped drinkin'?
My contribution to the skunk debate. I realised after a while that I didn't like weed that stopped you going out to Pubs and stuff because you were too paranoid/couldn't be arsed to move, or speak. A good quality hash seemed the way forward, except where could you find a good quality solid in the UK? Giving up seemed the best way all round. Kids today don't know how lucky they are with all this skunk around. When I was a kid the best herbal weed you could hope for was a £10 bag of Joe Bush full of twigs and seeds, but you know what? I were happy, and I never felt need to develop psychosis and start stabbing my peers.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by McDirts: So Ralph, does that mean that you were still tokin' when you'd stopped drinkin'?
Yeah, but it's been a little over two years since I last toked.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Yeah, but it's been a little over two years since I last toked.
Man, your next spliff's gonna be a blinder! Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
there's not going to be a next spliff. I'm done.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
Yeah, but a spliff goes a bit too well with a nice cold beer maybe..? Or an ice cold Kiwi 20/20, whatever you fancy really.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
meh
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Man I'm gonna drink some cold beers tonight. It's been so warm today, and I've got a long walk home so I'll be all hot and worn out, but the thing keeping me going is the thought of flicking my shoes off, putting my feet up, and necking an ice cold on. Y'know that little shiver you get after the first few swigs because it's so damn good. Nothing better.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
ah yeah. I might go for a swim down at the ol' lido after work, then go and treat myself to an ice cold cider and a nice cigar, sat in the sun in a pub beer garden, secure in the knowledge that I can walk away afterwards and get on with stuff.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Why has god sent you demons to torment me?
curses god Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Why has god sent you demons to torment me?
Because Black Mask is away.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Heh. Good one dude.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
you know what i like? i like it when your partner brings beer home for you both to drink.
mmm. cold beer. red stripe i hope.
or when you share beer and chips on the common in the sunshine.
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