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Social Criticism- Drinking

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Proze
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I was at a "Freshman Party" the other night dropping something off to some kid and decided to shoot a game of pong. Besides being yelled at as I was reaching for a rollback and asked what play button was and immediately after being asked what a re-rack was, I was shocked by how mean these kids were to each other about drinking. They kept calling one kid a pussy because he didnt want to play pong and other kids were being made fun of for not finishing something when they were obviously not up for the challenge (sweaty, green tinge, unfocused eyes). I started drinking with a really close group of friends at our families camp in the thousand Islands, we were closely mentored by older friends and siblings. This is where I learned how to responsibly pollute my body with toxic waste of all chemical makeups. This weird party attitude sucks and Im fucking sick of it. Get drunk and fuck is the goal of high school these days and the aggressiveness and defensiveness that kids have toward it is sooo fucked up. Does anyone else think that Americas youth is looking for the wrong things, believing in and following the wrong things and just not getting the point at all. its just a frustrated observation ive made. reply, look at, read, delete, do what you will.
May 9 2010 5:21PM
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Calvin.
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Amen brotha.
May 9 2010 5:26PM
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Well thats what happens when teenagers teach teenagers to drink rather then adults, like it should be.

LOWER THE DRINKING AGE!
May 9 2010 5:30PM
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Abc567def
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proze lets shotgun a beer on the deck in 5 min, if youre not there your a fuckin' pussy!
May 9 2010 5:31PM
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bstuck1
Posts: 426 - Karma: 46
Started drinking while camping with a circle of friends in the woods. Drinking and chilling is how it should be done.
May 9 2010 5:36PM
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blackoutbill
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Fortunately, my buddies are not like this. I've played games of pong where I drank the others teams beer because they were way to fucked up but I've also played games where someone drinks my beers because I'm at my limits. More often than not, the early hours of the morning roll around and we call it quits, even if there is an unfinished game
May 9 2010 5:41PM
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lloyd_christmas
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being mean and making fun of each other is part of the fun. that's what guys do. in the end, you'll take care of each other, but i know i personally abuse my friends and they abuse me about drinking. i feel like it's guys' way of showing that you care, as weird as that sounds.
May 9 2010 5:42PM
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lloyd_christmas
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^...*clarification- i would never do that to somebody i didn't like or didn't know.
May 9 2010 5:44PM
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dela
Posts: 63 - Karma: 102
I love the teenage drunk elitism that goes on at parties.
May 9 2010 5:46PM
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skiierman
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well... you're in highschool. what do you expect? they're all hormone raged kids with no sense of being responsible. it's a lot like frats actually.
May 9 2010 5:49PM
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Slinger1x1
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last "freshman praty" i went to

we got paid $80 to pick up two 30's. we ended up buying two of our own with the profit.
we went to drop it off, asked to come in and play some pong. we started to just run that table as loads of stupid freshman girls showed up. we ended up drinking their two thirties and teaching these kids the rules of pong and how to play quarters and how to not be a complete idiot.
we just fucked around, then we left for our friends part with two free 30's and palyed some pong there and had a good time

freshman are fun and easy
May 9 2010 6:44PM
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blackoutbill
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I guess I forgot to mention, we are juniors and seniors. I've never been to a freshman party because the underclassmen at my school either smelly or ugly
May 9 2010 6:55PM
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zylstra
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i agree completely
May 9 2010 7:04PM
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Proze
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Hahaha dude dont get me wrong if i was in the same building as you I would gladly shotgun a beer, play pong and anything else you want to try me in. I've just been trying to make a conscious effort not to get blackout drunk four nights a week because Im honestly afraid of becoming an alcoholic when school lets out.
May 9 2010 7:06PM
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skiierman
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i think that only works for young ladies. i know for myself and a bunch of my friends its just... sorry for partying!
May 9 2010 7:14PM
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prontocuts.com
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My whole thing on drinking is:

We live in an amazing world, with an INFINITE amount of music to discover, books to read, people to meet, places to see.

Why would I want to waste PRECIOUS hours of my life, in a state of mind, where I can not experience such things. And don't tell me that drinking makes it better. The company of friends and loved ones, is what makes "it" better
May 9 2010 7:17PM
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fivefootthree
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i very much agree with this
++k to you
May 9 2010 7:19PM
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buddychaps
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Alcohol is treated solely as a drug among teens in America, and we wonder why the drinking age is 21.
May 9 2010 7:20PM
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Gnarshred
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Damn this kinda nails it on the head and hits me hard for sure. I didn't make too many close friends this year and didn't have a girl in my life. I also drank more than I ever have. Coincidence? I think not!
May 9 2010 7:25PM
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find
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so true. so many kids just get blackout all the time and that's really not what drinking is about. it's clearly not fun to be up puking all night and feel like ass the whole next day, not to mention that it usually ruins the nights of the people you're hanging out with. i don't see why people don't seem to know the difference between drinking and getting fucked up. maybe if anybody knew how to drink responsibly without putting themselves or others in danger, lowering the drinking age would start to be considered on some sort of serious level.
May 9 2010 7:33PM
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Thenowhereman42
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Obviously you party with assholes. When I go to a party everyone laughs and friendly matches of beer pong are exchanged and nobody gets yelled at for not drinking. Get better friends. Hang out with stoners.
May 9 2010 7:50PM
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B-Har406
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yes
May 9 2010 7:51PM
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Proze
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Hahahahaha the amount of marijuana consumed by a person has absolutely no effect on them not being an asshole. You will learn that weed isn't some all calming all chilling magic plant. Weed can turn people into real assholes.
May 9 2010 7:55PM
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ECB
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I feel that the drinking age should be the same as the driving age, 18.  This way, there will be less dwi's and dui's because when you become 18 you will be allowed to get a permit, and then license after a set number of hours of driving (20 in most states as of right now)

I don't feel like ranting about the benefits about this, but it clearly works in other countries, and I feel that kids should not be allowed to drive (under 18).  I'll be honest, when I was 16, I had my license and I should not have had it.  I don't care how smart you are, or how good of a driver you are, your brain is not fully developed when you are 16, and you have so much to learn, I feel that it is too young to start driving.  Maybe get a permit at 16, but not a full license, it is toooooo young.
May 9 2010 7:57PM
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ECfreeski3
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well the bad news is college has those kids too. but dont worry, youll find friends who are in the same mindset as you. that said, i do enjoy getting retarded with my friends and doing stupid shit
May 9 2010 7:57PM
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t_rob
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what the fuck do you expect out of a bunch of 14 year olds?
May 9 2010 8:00PM
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panojibber
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I really agree with this. An ideal night of drinking for me is to have a few beers and just chill with friends, not to get fucked up out of my mind and not remember it the next morning.

I send it pretty hard sometimes, but I'd rather take it easy instead.
May 9 2010 8:03PM
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Thenowhereman42
Posts: 5682 - Karma: 65
Actually an all calming all chilling magic plant is exactly what weed is. Why can't we all just get abong?


May 9 2010 11:20PM
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ECB
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You mean like drug dealers?
May 9 2010 11:24PM
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popNfresh44
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word, word, word. I completely agree
May 9 2010 11:25PM
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MadSteezin
Posts: 4572 - Karma: 936
I love it!
May 9 2010 11:28PM
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Sklar
Posts: 8864 - Karma: 31,612
i missed your intelligent posts, seems like t has been a while
May 9 2010 11:28PM
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Funnel
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Solid. Very correct.
May 9 2010 11:34PM
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Kevski
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Don't even get me started on frats. I watched some of my closest friends transform into total douchebags in the period of 4 months as they started up a frat. A frat that I nearly joined at first. Summed up by their "one more" rule: whenever you say you're done drinking, you have to chug one more drink otherwise you're a pussy.

Fuck that shit, drinking is supposed to be a social thing, an excuse for a good time, not a competition in attempt to prove a correlation between how much you can drink and dick size.
May 9 2010 11:45PM
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thisandthatfilms
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imean it really depends who you are, I'm a junior in high school, been drinking since freshman year and at parties that I attend its nothing like that. No hazing noone being an asshole (with some exceptions) and deffinitly no forcing kids to do shit that they don't wanna do
May 9 2010 11:47PM
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skiierman
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well that doesn't make sense or else frats would drink less alcohol than mormons.
May 9 2010 11:53PM
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foodisfun
Posts: 5427 - Karma: 287
i'm so glad other people have the same thoughts as i do
May 9 2010 11:54PM
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yellav
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zap
May 9 2010 11:55PM
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Dainsey
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and that's why i smoke.
hahaha
/claim i'm cool cuz i smoke weed
May 9 2010 11:55PM
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yellav
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im tryna be drug and alcohol free for a year... im four days in, three hundred sixty one to go. agree with a lot of points in this thread far too lazy to go and quote/pick them out though.
May 9 2010 11:56PM
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skiierman
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you want to go up to guardsmans and do shrooms friday? its gonna be fuuunnnnn ;)
May 9 2010 11:57PM
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yellav
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bastard.


come camp out at brighton friday night dummy im gonna shotgun mountain dews while everyone else gets drunk
May 9 2010 11:59PM
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skiierman
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i doubt ill be in shape to drink... haha
May 10 2010 12:01AM
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Kevski
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Haha of course it doesn't make sense. But to them it does, so naturally they think the way to make their dick bigger is to prove who can drink more.
May 10 2010 12:10AM
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Pee_and_Ski
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same but with my family/cousins

as a life long american i can say that we are all retarted. my spelling is proof

May 10 2010 12:50AM
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BMB
Posts: 3138 - Karma: 232
i agree with much of this, you can say all you want about "Oh lower the drinking age" which has some to do with it, but it's more to do with american culture in general.  I will continue to make this argument, but the fact is that Television and Videogames, and other modern entertainment systems are destroying America's youth.  Show's like Jersey Shore, the Real World, and any other fucked up MTV/VH1 reality show is destroying our youth.  It's dehumanizing the soul.  Anyone remember my religion prof rant well look it up, it has a lot to do with this.  It's just that most American Freshmen in  highschool, have no respect for alcohol and the consequences that it can bring.  They use it and abuse it like everything else in their life.  Idk about you, but America is about to have a major generation crisis, much worse than the 60's.  If my predicition is right we are gonna "get it" around the year 2012.  /end rant
May 10 2010 1:25AM
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THATS_STREET
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see the problem is that you were probably drinking with people who are assholes regardless of if they are drunk or not. so next time just dont hang out with people that suck and youll have a better time.
May 10 2010 1:45AM
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oreopancake.
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I drink with some people who become obnoxious assholes when they drink, but the majority of the kids I party with are laid-back and chill.

I think this could probably be solved by lowering the drinking age, thus allowing parents and caregivers to teach their kids to drink responsibly. Just my two cents though.
May 10 2010 1:46AM
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Gnarshred
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Very very good point. I am not anti-drinking. I drink a shit ton. well less now than earlier this year. But anyway, when I'm drinking at some random house party in Boulder with a bunch of assholes, not too fun, no matter how drunk I am. But if I am at my or one of my buddys' place, We can send it and have a great time. just like in the weed thread. Weed doesnt make you calm, alcohol doesnt make you an asshole.
May 10 2010 1:49AM
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XtRemE11
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in my opinion, there are the do-ers and the people that like to sit back and watch. and highschool college, or pretty much between the ages of 14-28 is where you see people transform into these types of people.

throughout the last 5 years of so, i have lost about 6 good friends, im not gonna blame it totally on drinking, but its a large part of it. when people started going to party's in like 8th and 9th grade, some people kept going, and party's were a weekly thing for some people, where some people maybe went to a couple party's a year. and now, the people who spent all their free time drinking or going to party's have almost fully transformed into the people who sit around and watch. alot of my friends who i used to ski with every weekend, now completely quit, they spend half the week getting drunk, they give me and my other friends shit when we don't want to party with them. and in general just have this really shitty attitude towards everything, like fuck going out and doing things, lets just rely on alcohol to make us happy. its like the most active part of their life is playing beer pong. its just fucking depressing.

now the people i still hang out with still drink, but not with the purpose of getting wasted, but more just because its a beverage that exists and they feel like drinking it. like we will have a couple drinks if we are staying around the house one night, just treating it like any other beverage. not getting shit faced and pissing on the floor, none of that shit, we dont go around to party's showing off how badass we are shotgunning beers and shit.

ive never enjoyed being drunk, thats why when i drink i dont have more than enough to give me a little buzz. if i want to feel good i go out and do something.

i just cant have any respect for people who rely on being in this dumbed down state of mind to be happy, if you cant be happy being yourself, then you have some problems and need to stop drinking to try and fix it.
May 10 2010 2:56AM
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