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First round of Pint's on me with a Whisky chaser ;)
Back when I was 20 the whiskey was in a shot glass and it was dropped into the pint and it was called a boiler-maker. Stumble home time. ;)
I have heard of that way of drinking it, too many Boiler Makers would kill me lol.
There is one long time friend that when we meet up we always have Whiskey chasers as tribute to a friend that died, thankfully it does not happen that often, me Whiskey and fresh air is a Lethal combination. ;))
Oh yes. Being able to get legally sh*tfaced at 18? Not cool. A Trans Am smashed into a bar I was drinking at with my friends in '79... we stumbled out to see an epic wreck where guys (my age then) in the car didn't survive. I never drove home at 18-22... then I eased off. Fun times...
I'm assuming here that you don't mean that in the usual garage way. When I was 19 four of us drove to a racing course for go-karts at Mitchel Field- it was surrounded with old tires, and two of us drank beers until we felt fairly drunk. We then proceeded to drive the course in turns (in MY Dodge Colt) to see if we could. My drunk friend plowed into a tire wall right off, and that was that. But I only grazed some walls, slowly learning where I had to adjust my lack of reaction time. In the end I also plowed into a wall, but it was the fourth time around at 50MPH. Somehow no tire broke the windshield, but I learned how to drive impaired. Adjust for lower reaction time. And later I got a professional driving job in the five boroughs. That drunk test made me a better driver even when sober. Experience counts. All kinds.
For all the bad, in the end I think the good outweighs it. And yet, I crave another world.
Fair enough. I do have a lot of contempt for things like social media, Trump, SJWs, etc. that exists now. Things have to have been simpler back in the day, at least to some extent. But for sure the technology and advances in medicine and such are better today. It's always a give and take situation.
The big thing I worry about is how the advancement of technology and other capacities are able to so easily be used against us. Improved weapons make for better defense, but when nukes are devastatingly more powerful than the ones that vaporized the life in parts of Japan, it really concerns one when your president makes light of such threats on a social networking platform of all things. The internet brings everyone closer together than ever before, a vital part of current revolutions and activism, but it also gives hackers and sabotage artists endless avenues to cripple us. There is a dark side to all things, and for all we progress I see just as much regression. The phones that carry so much advancement and potential are instead used in ways that sap people's attention spans and disintegrate their ability communicate. Of all the knowledge at our fingertips, we're content to do other things. I just worry. @Birdleson, agreed, as a fellow Yank. I say this all the time to my parents, often with disdain and sometimes wonder, but we're living in history, I'm sure of it. Trump is a big part of that, and I don't think we've seen the end of just how paradigm shifting he will be once Mueller is done with his business.
We don't have a massive enemy to the scale of the Axis powers like we did in the 40s, but other attacks on journalists, on norms and on the kinds of immigrants that built our country by those who claim to be the most American really do sap the optimism out of you. But then I think about how my gay friends can now get married if they want, how women are able to seek such amazing opportunity and how our own government are using their checks and balances to stop divisive and poisonous policies from taking form and I rest a little easier. The bad are powerful, but the good aren't sleeping at the wheel or giving an inch. In that, I dare to find some kernel of optimism.
We call that a 'depth charge'...
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 I told you I'd cut you in for 15% I can't do any more than that.
'We've got 500 million in the case, and 20tons of Columbian pure in the tankers, now go help Thundy.'
We're still operating them, too! Why else would I be rocking this sweet mustache?
Exactly why I can never really get on board with the whole "born in the wrong generation" thing. Give me having to put up with people being whiny bitches on social media over being treated like a second class citizen any day.
But...yeah....
15% is fine.... @Creasy47, oh, I know. I really enjoyed your porn parody of GE, which was just the actual cut of the film with little sex scenes placed in between major scenes starring yourself playing Bond with that big porn stache. It strains logic in the film that you have facial hair in your scenes and Brosnan doesn't in his, but you try your best and show some nice technique with the various women. The casting of the porn version of Xenia was inspired as well. Those thighs! @thelivingroyale, absolutely. It's easy for me to say what I do because I'm white and it would be easier for me to fit in in other times, but for others I can understand why they wouldn't want to look back. I'm really proud of where we've come, considering where we were just fifty years ago.
Back to topic. Again.
The past-going away or coming back?
Congrats man! Keep the miscreants in line!
It was like the time I helped create that ice hockey thread as an offshoot of the Free Chat discussion.
I put them straight again. Gave them no other option.