holy fuck. super rage cat that spits blood as a superpower.
I can't believe I never got into comic books before.
This is exactly the reason I never intend to get into comics.
COMICS: nothing but barfing cats as far as the eye can see
Not gonna lie, somewhat uncertain what that was meant to achieve.
Clearly I understand the fact that for every tiny bloody thing that exists in life there is a massive spectrum of variety to do with it and I was making a facetious comment regarding how ridiculous comics can be.
Example:
Someone: "Oh god this russian cartoon just had a 5 year old's father murdered in front of her and then she retreats into a dark and hideously twisted world to try to cope."
Me: "This is why I never watch anything Russian: they are a twisted, depressed people."
You: post examples of cheerful Russian art/media/whatnot.
Well, I say that, but you'd never find anything simultaneously Russian and cheerful.
Phonogram - haven't heard of that one. Looks interesting.
It's a pretty good book - I know the dude who wrote it and he's a walking encyclopedia of music. All the covers of the issues there are reproductions/parodies of actual album covers from the 90s.
The way people discuss drinking has never made sense to me, and always made me wonder why they do it.
because alcohol is literally the best thing ever
i probably prefer alcohol to sex
if I weren't so crippled by anxiety I am 100% positive I would be a raging alcoholic
You know a lot of alcoholics get that way because they turned to alcohol to self-medicate their own anxiety. It has anti-anxiety properties similar to barbiturates.
Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this.
Oh well. Hitting submit reply anyway!
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Phonogram - haven't heard of that one. Looks interesting.
It's a pretty good book - I know the dude who wrote it and he's a walking encyclopedia of music. All the covers of the issues there are reproductions/parodies of actual album covers from the 90s.
Does it identify what album covers? Because I don't recognize any of them. I especially love the top center one.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
holy fuck. super rage cat that spits blood as a superpower.
I can't believe I never got into comic books before.
This is exactly the reason I never intend to get into comics.
COMICS: nothing but barfing cats as far as the eye can see
Not gonna lie, somewhat uncertain what that was meant to achieve.
Clearly I understand the fact that for every tiny bloody thing that exists in life there is a massive spectrum of variety to do with it and I was making a facetious comment regarding how ridiculous comics can be.
Example:
Someone: "Oh god this russian cartoon just had a 5 year old's father murdered in front of her and then she retreats into a dark and hideously twisted world to try to cope."
Me: "This is why I never watch anything Russian: they are a twisted, depressed people."
You: post examples of cheerful Russian art/media/whatnot.
Well, I say that, but you'd never find anything simultaneously Russian and cheerful.
Japan posted a link to a picture a couple of days ago that said "Much of Russia considers Dostoevskiy Station too depressing."
I laughed for a solid ten seconds without even clicking on the picture, because the first thought that entered my head was "there must not be a Russian word for 'irony.'"
The way people discuss drinking has never made sense to me, and always made me wonder why they do it.
because alcohol is literally the best thing ever
i probably prefer alcohol to sex
if I weren't so crippled by anxiety I am 100% positive I would be a raging alcoholic
You know a lot of alcoholics get that way because they turned to alcohol to self-medicate their own anxiety. It has anti-anxiety properties similar to barbiturates.
Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this.
Oh well. Hitting submit reply anyway!
Really? Drinking never cured much anxiety for me, if anything it just made things worse.
holy fuck. super rage cat that spits blood as a superpower.
I can't believe I never got into comic books before.
This is exactly the reason I never intend to get into comics.
COMICS: nothing but barfing cats as far as the eye can see
Not gonna lie, somewhat uncertain what that was meant to achieve.
Clearly I understand the fact that for every tiny bloody thing that exists in life there is a massive spectrum of variety to do with it and I was making a facetious comment regarding how ridiculous comics can be.
Example:
Someone: "Oh god this russian cartoon just had a 5 year old's father murdered in front of her and then she retreats into a dark and hideously twisted world to try to cope."
Me: "This is why I never watch anything Russian: they are a twisted, depressed people."
You: post examples of cheerful Russian art/media/whatnot.
Well, I say that, but you'd never find anything simultaneously Russian and cheerful.
Japan posted a link to a picture a couple of days ago that said "Much of Russia considers Dostoevskiy Station too depressing."
I laughed for a solid ten seconds without even clicking on the picture, because the first thought that entered my head was "there must not be a Russian word for 'irony.'"
When I saw that article I just thought "finally, they fucking realised"
The way people discuss drinking has never made sense to me, and always made me wonder why they do it.
because alcohol is literally the best thing ever
i probably prefer alcohol to sex
if I weren't so crippled by anxiety I am 100% positive I would be a raging alcoholic
I don't know what alcohol you have been drinking but I want some.
Alcohol is just fun. And a social lubricant. And can make sexy times better. All depending on usage amounts of course. Drinking half a bottle of jack = bad times. Having a few drinks = good times.
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and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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Phonogram - haven't heard of that one. Looks interesting.
It's a pretty good book - I know the dude who wrote it and he's a walking encyclopedia of music. All the covers of the issues there are reproductions/parodies of actual album covers from the 90s.
Does it identify what album covers? Because I don't recognize any of them. I especially love the top center one.
I was about to say I couldn't remember, but amazingly someone at Wiki actually cataloged this.
1 Elastica - Elastica
2 It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah - Black Grape
3 Definitely Maybe - Oasis
4 Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
5 Suede - Suede
6 The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
TPB This Is Hardcore - Pulp
Phonogram - haven't heard of that one. Looks interesting.
It's a pretty good book - I know the dude who wrote it and he's a walking encyclopedia of music. All the covers of the issues there are reproductions/parodies of actual album covers from the 90s.
Does it identify what album covers? Because I don't recognize any of them. I especially love the top center one.
But I drink scotch, which is not really the Australian beverage of choice.
It's the "alcohol poisoning woo!" attitude I don't get that soooo many people seem to have.
It's partially a kind of "macho" thing, I guess I would say. Like, WOO I drank more than you. In your face! And you do feel good while you are doing it until a certain point. Then you feel terrible. Some people are suckers for peer pressure. Some people are alcoholics. Some people are just looking for a good time and go overboard. Some people are convinced that that is the way to do it, and are misled.
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and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
But I drink scotch, which is not really the Australian beverage of choice.
It's the "alcohol poisoning woo!" attitude I don't get that soooo many people seem to have.
It's partially a kind of "macho" thing, I guess I would say. Like, WOO I drank more than you. In your face! And you do feel good while you are doing it until a certain point. Then you feel terrible. Some people are suckers for peer pressure. Some people are alcoholics. Some people are just looking for a good time and go overboard. Some people are convinced that that is the way to do it, and are misled.
Hey, for some of us, alcohol is our retirement plan. If I drink myself to death before I can retire, it insures that 1) I don't have to worry about retirement, and 2) what years I do have are awesome.
You know a lot of alcoholics get that way because they turned to alcohol to self-medicate their own anxiety. It has anti-anxiety properties similar to barbiturates.
Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this.
Oh well. Hitting submit reply anyway!
oh god yes that's one of the best things about it
GABAergic bliss
If you hate your brain, alcohol is a godsend. It turns the damn thing off.
But the from sober to 3-drinks in, I'm still anxious, and I worry about drinking too much and throwing up.
So as a result I haven't had a drink in about a week, and I only had two the last time I did.
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alcohol poisoning is hard to get
I only know one person who's had it and he drank half a bottle of absinthe
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It was either the Seattle Weekly or the Stranger that did a write-up on the guy who penned that.
He's a Seattle native. It's supposed to be pretty good.
I read his book Louis Riel, about the 1800s Canadian Indian activist. It was really good, and I want to check this one out.
I do think it's kind of funny that yet another underground cartoonist has kind of come out as a relationship-challenged recluse. I love underground/indie comix but I do think the autobiographical ones end up sometimes coalescing into a blur of "I'm an awkward balding dude in my 30s who collects jazz records and model trains." Like, their nerdy hobbies are never even popular nerdy hobbies.
I read his book Louis Riel, about the 1800s Canadian Indian activist. It was really good, and I want to check this one out.
I do think it's kind of funny that yet another underground cartoonist has kind of come out as a relationship-challenged recluse. I love underground/indie comix but I do think the autobiographical ones end up sometimes coalescing into a blur of "I'm an awkward balding dude in my 30s who collects jazz records and model trains." Like, their nerdy hobbies are never even popular nerdy hobbies.
In my experience, only the strangest people do model trains.
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and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
Most people who die from acute alcohol abuse die either because they were doing something stupid like driving or boating, or they aspirated on their own vomit.
That's why the best thing you can do for somebody who is passed out drunk is to make sure they're lying on their side.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I only know one person who's had it and he drank half a bottle of absinthe
tell that to like a quarter of the freshman girls that I saw as an RA all four years of college.
If you start throwing up, that's low-grade alcohol poisoning. If you get blackout drunk, that's pretty severe alcohol poisoning, because you can't remember anything because you actually gave yourself literal mild brain-damage.
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It's partially a kind of "macho" thing, I guess I would say. Like, WOO I drank more than you. In your face! And you do feel good while you are doing it until a certain point. Then you feel terrible. Some people are suckers for peer pressure. Some people are alcoholics. Some people are just looking for a good time and go overboard. Some people are convinced that that is the way to do it, and are misled.
The only times I've ever drunk so much I ended up regretting it, it was because I was hanging out with friends who had higher alcohol tolerance than me (and mine is pretty high BTW) and I just ended up keeping pace with them by association.
Like, if they poured themselves a drink, I'd hold out my cup to get topped up. If they opened a new bottle of something, I'd down my drink and get a taste of whatever they were pouring. That sort of thing.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I only know one person who's had it and he drank half a bottle of absinthe
tell that to like a quarter of the freshman girls that I saw as an RA all four years of college.
If you start throwing up, that's low-grade alcohol poisoning. If you get blackout drunk, that's pretty severe alcohol poisoning, because you can't remember anything because you actually gave yourself literal mild brain-damage.
I had to call an ambulance for dumb freshman girls who were unable to speak because they were so drunk far too many times.
I was about to say I couldn't remember, but amazingly someone at Wiki actually cataloged this.
1 Elastica - Elastica
2 It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah - Black Grape
3 Definitely Maybe - Oasis
4 Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
5 Suede - Suede
6 The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
TPB This Is Hardcore - Pulp
Nice!
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
You know a lot of alcoholics get that way because they turned to alcohol to self-medicate their own anxiety. It has anti-anxiety properties similar to barbiturates.
Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this.
Oh well. Hitting submit reply anyway!
oh god yes that's one of the best things about it
GABAergic bliss
If you hate your brain, alcohol is a godsend. It turns the damn thing off.
But the from sober to 3-drinks in, I'm still anxious, and I worry about drinking too much and throwing up.
So as a result I haven't had a drink in about a week, and I only had two the last time I did.
There was a comic that did a whole bit on that, on how he would drink just so he could shut his brain up long enough to fall asleep at night. Everyone in his audience found it hilarious, but I was just like...I know this problem....
Sadly drinking does nothing but fuck your sleep cycle up, sure you'll pass out, but you'll wake up at 3am and stare at the ceiling the rest of the night.
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The American attitude to drinking has always terrified me. 21 is a stupidly high legal age.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Love-Guns. The hippies are fighting back!
Not gonna lie, somewhat uncertain what that was meant to achieve.
Clearly I understand the fact that for every tiny bloody thing that exists in life there is a massive spectrum of variety to do with it and I was making a facetious comment regarding how ridiculous comics can be.
Example:
Someone: "Oh god this russian cartoon just had a 5 year old's father murdered in front of her and then she retreats into a dark and hideously twisted world to try to cope."
Me: "This is why I never watch anything Russian: they are a twisted, depressed people."
You: post examples of cheerful Russian art/media/whatnot.
Well, I say that, but you'd never find anything simultaneously Russian and cheerful.
Girlfriend had a German friend over for the weekend. We went wine-tasting. Hubbybro was the designated driver.
We had a pretty interesting conversation regarding the attitudes of Americans vs. Europeans regarding drinking & driving.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
because alcohol is literally the best thing ever
i probably prefer alcohol to sex
if I weren't so crippled by anxiety I am 100% positive I would be a raging alcoholic
They're fake guns. Apparently that's EA's booth.
Don't be silly. He's Australian!
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's a pretty good book - I know the dude who wrote it and he's a walking encyclopedia of music. All the covers of the issues there are reproductions/parodies of actual album covers from the 90s.
You know a lot of alcoholics get that way because they turned to alcohol to self-medicate their own anxiety. It has anti-anxiety properties similar to barbiturates.
Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this.
Oh well. Hitting submit reply anyway!
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Does it identify what album covers? Because I don't recognize any of them. I especially love the top center one.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
But I drink scotch, which is not really the Australian beverage of choice.
It's the "alcohol poisoning woo!" attitude I don't get that soooo many people seem to have.
I laughed for a solid ten seconds without even clicking on the picture, because the first thought that entered my head was "there must not be a Russian word for 'irony.'"
Really? Drinking never cured much anxiety for me, if anything it just made things worse.
When I saw that article I just thought "finally, they fucking realised"
I don't know what alcohol you have been drinking but I want some.
Alcohol is just fun. And a social lubricant. And can make sexy times better. All depending on usage amounts of course. Drinking half a bottle of jack = bad times. Having a few drinks = good times.
but they're listening to every word I say
I was about to say I couldn't remember, but amazingly someone at Wiki actually cataloged this.
1 Elastica - Elastica
2 It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah - Black Grape
3 Definitely Maybe - Oasis
4 Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
5 Suede - Suede
6 The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
TPB This Is Hardcore - Pulp
The top right is Oasis' Definitely Maybe
Well, I just guess we'll have to settle with smug. Happiness is not an emotion for them.
It's partially a kind of "macho" thing, I guess I would say. Like, WOO I drank more than you. In your face! And you do feel good while you are doing it until a certain point. Then you feel terrible. Some people are suckers for peer pressure. Some people are alcoholics. Some people are just looking for a good time and go overboard. Some people are convinced that that is the way to do it, and are misled.
but they're listening to every word I say
Hey, for some of us, alcohol is our retirement plan. If I drink myself to death before I can retire, it insures that 1) I don't have to worry about retirement, and 2) what years I do have are awesome.
oh god yes that's one of the best things about it
GABAergic bliss
If you hate your brain, alcohol is a godsend. It turns the damn thing off.
But the from sober to 3-drinks in, I'm still anxious, and I worry about drinking too much and throwing up.
So as a result I haven't had a drink in about a week, and I only had two the last time I did.
I only know one person who's had it and he drank half a bottle of absinthe
I read his book Louis Riel, about the 1800s Canadian Indian activist. It was really good, and I want to check this one out.
I do think it's kind of funny that yet another underground cartoonist has kind of come out as a relationship-challenged recluse. I love underground/indie comix but I do think the autobiographical ones end up sometimes coalescing into a blur of "I'm an awkward balding dude in my 30s who collects jazz records and model trains." Like, their nerdy hobbies are never even popular nerdy hobbies.
tell that to like a quarter of the freshman girls that I saw as an RA all four years of college.
only a little bit. I fired up a new guy and killed the shaman in the first town but I haven't been home much the past couple days.
In my experience, only the strangest people do model trains.
but they're listening to every word I say
That's why the best thing you can do for somebody who is passed out drunk is to make sure they're lying on their side.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Nah alcohol poisoning isn't that hard to get.
You poison yourself with alcohol so you are vomiting/confused/dangerous to others/fitting/stop breathing etc etc.
If you start throwing up, that's low-grade alcohol poisoning. If you get blackout drunk, that's pretty severe alcohol poisoning, because you can't remember anything because you actually gave yourself literal mild brain-damage.
again, different story over here
most girls have been drinking since they were 13/14, so they know their limits.
the only girl I've seen get incredibly bad from drink over here was from New Zealand and wasn't used to keeping up with us. That was a messy night
The only times I've ever drunk so much I ended up regretting it, it was because I was hanging out with friends who had higher alcohol tolerance than me (and mine is pretty high BTW) and I just ended up keeping pace with them by association.
Like, if they poured themselves a drink, I'd hold out my cup to get topped up. If they opened a new bottle of something, I'd down my drink and get a taste of whatever they were pouring. That sort of thing.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I had to call an ambulance for dumb freshman girls who were unable to speak because they were so drunk far too many times.
Nice!
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
There was a comic that did a whole bit on that, on how he would drink just so he could shut his brain up long enough to fall asleep at night. Everyone in his audience found it hilarious, but I was just like...I know this problem....
Sadly drinking does nothing but fuck your sleep cycle up, sure you'll pass out, but you'll wake up at 3am and stare at the ceiling the rest of the night.