Re: Failure of.. (reading/tv/blu-ray)
By: Ogg to Arelor on Mon Feb 06 2023 11:07 pm

I have been told in a very serious manner I must be an
emotional-cripple because I don't want to partake in Big-
Bottles.

"emotional cripple" is hilarious. And that is from the people
who participate in big-bottles? If they need a bottle for
enjoyment, I would think they are the cripple.

Lol, well, fun fact is some days after I posted this, somebody showed me a video from an Argentinan warning other South Americans against our habits.

I don't have the video here, but some pieces I remember:

"This place will turn you into an alcoholic."

"There is no way of socializing here other than drinking and eating. If you try to go out with friends to do something else, then at some point somebody will drag the group to a bar."

"Just after finishing job, my workmates told me to go out for some fun. They took me to a bar. Here they always give you snacks for free with your drinks, so what a lot of people does is to walk into a bar, drink and eat, then walk into the next bar in the street and drink and eat some more [...] by the time I realized I had been drinking and eating since 3 pm and it was nearly 11 [...] despite my efforts not to drink that much I was feeling like shit the next day."


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Hello Arelor!

** On Tuesday 07.02.23 - 07:17, Arelor wrote to Ogg:

Lol, well, fun fact is some days after I posted this,
somebody showed me a video from an Argentinan warning other
South Americans against our habits.

I suppose it's not really much different among youth anywhere
else actually. Tail-gate parties (primarily in the parking lot
at some sports arena, or just at someone's home) would be
common here too.

"There is no way of socializing here other than drinking
and eating. If you try to go out with friends to do
something else, then at some point somebody will drag the
group to a bar."

Yeah.. it's called a pub-crawl here. Very common at university
towns.
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Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-

Yeah.. it's called a pub-crawl here. Very common at university
towns.

When I started working my first "real" job in San Francisco, my bus (an electric trolley, actually) picked me up from the Ferry building, right
on the bay. I'd have a friend meet me, we'd take the train to the next
stop, get off, have a drink, then get back on.

5 or 6 stops later, we'd end up at my apartment on the other end of
town, along the ocean.

The beauty of San Francisco back then was that you could get anywhere on
public transit, 24/7, and an monthly unlimited bus pass was $28.00.




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