Say Anything.

Gonna drink myself into a stupor to be fully prepared for this. *futurepost*

ALCOHOL RANT!

What's up with our attitude towards alcohol? It's a drug, right? We pretend that we treat it as one, but we don't. Alcohol is the only drug where it's ONLY okay to drink it when you don't need it. If you use alcohol for one of the things that it can be used for, like a drug, such as "temporarily relief of stress or anxiety" or whatever, then OMG THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU! You may only use it when you absolutely don't need it.

Can you imagine if it were only socially acceptable to take antidepressants if you were already happy? If you became depressed and started taking antidepressants, you would be some sort of outcast and possibly forced into a treatment center eventually, probably from side effects of the social stigma against using antidepressants to treat depression.

Imagine if you could only take antibiotics when you were perfectly healthy, but if you got an infection, GOD FORBID YOU USE PENECILLIN WHAT ARE YOU, SOME SORT OF WEAKLING?

Caffeine is a drug. We use caffeine when we don't need it; for recreational use, I guess you'd say. But it's not unacceptable to drink coffee in the morning to wake up. Why?

The same arguments that work in favor of decriminalization/legalization of marijuana work here, too. Maybe if there wasn't such negativity focused on using alcohol as a temporary coping mechanism (or whatever, this is just what I think of when I think of alcoholics), then people wouldn't feel the need to be secretive about it, and would probably rely on it less. Then, just like with any medication, if you experience side-effects, you stop taking it. One such side-effect would be dependence. Maybe if we didn't use it ONLY for recreational purposes, this wouldn't sound so hopelessly optimistic and naive. People become addicted to pain killers (or other medications) and then stop taking them all the time. It's all about moderation! A culture of casual abuse for non-medicinal purposes and ONLY non-medicinal purposes does not encourage moderation.

I'm not really offering any solution here, because I can't think of one and this glass of Baileys is oh so delicious. I'm just ranting because it was something I was thinking about at work. I was designing a leaflet in my head to be packaged with alcohol, with indications, contraindications, side-effects, pharmacology, etc.

I was with you all the way up to caffeine. I went and had a cup of coffee after that.

I hate my stomach. I hate my stomach when it interrupts my shower. I hate my stomach when I have a migraine.

Crap in the shower?

Ohya's this is humorous.

One of the kids on my caseload played WoW constantly and got charged with school incorrigibility ( stopped going to school) and the judge actually ordered his mother to cancel his WoW account. Court . ordered. to. stop. playing. WoW.

I felt like the coolest PO ever when I told him I played EQ for 5 years. We talk dork and it's fun.

OMG My WoW account is finally unlocked! I'm logging in now. Thank you again, Mysterious Benefactor!

[video=youtube;qMYMC6atRoE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYMC6atRoE[/video]

This is pretty amazing. Even without knowing how the song was made, I still like it. So watching them make it live is rather impressive.

(It's four DJs from France making a song out of different instrument samples each one is manipulating, for those who don't like to click links without knowing what to expect)

Gah! I just realized that I withdrew an extra $40 at the grocery store's self check-out earlier today, and I left it there! That makes me so mad!

That makes me sad, too. :( :(

I woke the kids up for school this morning, got them dressed and cleaned up and sent them out the door.. and they came back 2 minutes later.. no school!

We didnt get any huge storms or anything, but I guess it drizzled just enough to make the roads bad, and the school never bothers to notify anyone or add itself to the School Closings list...


I would have liked to have been able to go back o bed today.. :(

They call us at like 6am. That's the only thing they're good for, calling us about every single thing that happens.

The place where I lost my $40 found it and kept it! I got it back today...I'm so happy!

You just turned my cynical world view on its head. I'm dizzy....


Spatial disorientation aside, I'm happy to hear it!

Wow, that's awesome Wystro :D.

Thats awesome Wystro! Good people everywhere yesterday! Some asshat pulled out from between a gap in a long line of traffic right into my car causing me to veer into a snow filled ditch or hit him. Within 5 minutes some random guy stopped, helped dig me out and even used his newly purchased sand for under my tires. <3 Scott my hero.

If you were a man, you'd still be stuck in the snow. Just FYI. :(

Lol, people laugh when I use "asshat" to describe someone. They're like, what did you just call him? haha

Fucking alliance on Cenarion Circle. Douches...knowitall, live with their mom, fucking douche bags. I hate alliance, I swear.

O_O

I hate both sides equally.

The first PvP realm I played on, I never got past level 10 - and so I never even did any PvP - and I was already sick of it. I joined my friend's crappy guild and the people in it were like "DOOD WE SHUD RAID STOMRWIND LOL" as if it were the best idea in the world, and actually thought that they were 1.) going to succeed, 2.) the first people to ever think of it. General chat was like "LOL ALIENCE SUX BCUZ ALIENCE IS FAGZ AND IF U MAKE ALIENCE U SUX" and was pretty much what killed the experience for me. The race you choose to make your character has a direct correlation on your sexual preference and your gameplay abilities? Um...

A few years later I made another PvP character, also Horde, and actually levelled two of them to max level. That server wasn't anywhere near as bad, but it was also a server where the majority was Horde. The Alliance players were MAJOR assholes there. I made several kill-on-sight enemies (this is pretty drastic if you know me, and exceptionally drastic when you take into account that I was levelling and playing as a resto druid) because they just attacked me one too many times for no reason. There was an Alliance guild called "No Dailies Allowed" that would roam Isle of Quel'Danas during Burning Crusade and just steamroll any Horde members. There was an unfortunate bug that allowed Alliance players to attack Horde, and the guards would just sit there, so NOWHERE was safe.

Some of the rivalry was kind of fun. There was a rogue with the supercool name of Patdestroys who used to attack me every time he saw me. It took several times of me beating his ass for him to learn the power of the Thorns buff, and figure out how to use his kick ability vs. a druid, before he finally killed me. Then it wasn't as much fun anymore :( But every time I killed a rogue (their health drops quick because they are dual weilding all over my Thorns and they realize it too late), or a death knight (99% of them couldn't figure out how to use their many silence abilities, and when I shapeshifted out of their snares, after a few minutes most of them actually tried to run away), I would get a HUUUUUGE kick out of it. I dunno, maybe that's what the people who gank you feel when they kill you, but I can't imagine it's anywhere near as awesome as getting jumped and then kicking the crap out of the jumper with your lame healer dps.

Maybe I would fare better on a RPPvP server, if everyone played by the rules and I didn't have to actually RP. I don't think that if you were living in the Warcraft universe you would automatically attack every single member of the opposite faction you saw, just because you saw them. That shit is griefing, and not just being griefed, but the mindset apparently behind the griefer is what really angers me.

The unfortunate fact is that the internet in general, and MMOs in particular, is a culture of 15-25 year old white males who think saying things like "niggers rape fag jews, epic lulz" is the funniest and most original thing ever, and trying to get them to behave like civilized human beings is like trying to get a dog to start meowing. You have to be able to deal with those types of people without punching a hole in your monitor, or... or you end up punching a hole in your monitor. Because they live 5,000 miles away and you can't punch a hole in them :(