DRUNK

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luv de.

how far you have to walk?

or did you know this and just feel like expressing your h8 red for heineken

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ja

can't even find anyone who will go to hour of happy right now :(

beck's isn't considered shit here, it's just...cheap. like oddly so. i don't get it but i keep buying it.

• When touring in the wine-growing regions, camping in one or all of the vineyards that sit on the banks of the Rhine is strongly recommended. When you get there, ensure that you wrinkle your nose at the sweet wines that are sold to tourists, express a bit of interest in dry wines, and bingo - you will be dragged into the wine racks by the delighted owners and forced to taste huge quantities of their best produce. Expect to be joined by half the staff and their families.
• Never, ever, walk on the grass. Ever.
• Never cross a pedestrian crossing when the man is red, even if nothing is coming. On the other hand, crossing where there is no official crossing-place is perfectly acceptable.
• Old ladies expect you to give way, especially if you are young and at the head of a long queue. Sharp elbows are the best defence.
• If you are in Munich, get up early one day, go to the market in the centre of town, and obtain a Weisswurst. You must go in the morning, because by midday they are past their best. They are white sausages made from the white fatty gunk that runs out of the pig when they cut its throat, and taste very nice. Try one, you will be surprised. Honest.
• Never, ever spend an entire evening drinking Altbier. It is very nice but gives you a pounding hangover.
• If you get caught up in a bar where drinking songs are being sung, do not hide behind your beer hoping that nobody will notice you. It is far more acceptable to join in. Of course nobody expects you to know the words, you're a foreigner, so just wave your beer around and make appropriate singing noises during the chorus.
• In what used to be the West, it is much, much better to be thought a foreign tourist than a foreign worker. Unemployment is a big problem and feelings against 'foreigners taking our jobs' run high.
• In Hamburg, get onto one of the harbour tour boats (Hafenrundfahrt). They are well worth it, as these are some of the biggest shipbuilding yards in the world, and your little grockle boat is dwarfed by the shipping that is in dock. Awe inspiring.
• Planten und Blomen in Hamburg is a horticultural park, a bit like Kew Gardens, London. At dusk in the summer months, go to the fountains (near the Telemichel - see below). They have coloured lights beneath them, and in the evenings for an hour or so they dance to music played over loudspeakers across the lake.
• The Telemichel is Hamburg slang for their telecommunications tower. There is a rotating restaurant (with an excellent menu) at the top, from which it is possible to look down on Planten und Blomen, the Olympic Village, and also plummeting bungee-jumpers. On a summer's day it is often also possible to look down on swarms of hot-air balloons.
• If you switch on the radio, don't be surprised if the music sounds the same on every channel. This is absolutely normal.
• One in three Germans is a smoker. Cigarette promotions are held in bars, and asking for a non-smoking seat in a restaurant will be met with blank looks...
• ...Except in Berlin, where service doesn't extend to blank looks. Expect a disdainful stare from the bar area where the staff are enjoying a drink.
• To tip waiters customers usually round up the bill to whole units. For example a beer costing DM4.50 costs DM5 with tip.
• Public transport is excellent all over Germany although it's cheaper to rent a car and drive for long distances than it is to take the train.
• Credit and debit cards are not as widely accepted in Germany as in the rest of the West. Cash is always welcome, even small change in fact, as keeping the Pfennig in circulation is the subject of a campaign in Germany. Since this entry was written, the Euro has been introduced, no doubt causing the pro-Pfennig campaigners some concern.
• Also the subject of a campaign was the Ampelmännchen - the little green figure telling you it's safe to cross the road. In the old days of the east/west divide the DDR benefited from the services of a very jaunty little figure, complete with hat and, in one case, an umbrella. Due to EU standardisations the figure was to be replaced with the generic international version and people all over the East were up in arms.
• Germans are generally very friendly and hospitable people, all the more so in the East. It's perfectly normal if you're in a crowded restaurant to squeeze onto a table with a few complete strangers.
• Indian restaurants in Germany are terrible, because German food is very bland and there's not much of a demand for late-night chicken vindaloo. The mainstay of the German fast food industry is the doner kebab.
• When buying fruit and vegetables in a German supermarket weigh your own produce, push the button corresponding to what you're buying and affix the resulting sticky label on the plastic bag. It's not cool to have separate bags for everything, so put your potatoes in with your carrots and beans with all the labels on the outside. Bring your own bag to carry your shopping in and don't forget to recycle.
• Recycling is very popular in Germany. Biodegradable rubbish gets taken away and composted, glass is melted down (bottles generally have a deposit) and re-used, and most packaging bears the 'green point' which indicates that it can also be recycled.
• Nudism is acceptable in many public parks. Picture the first sunny day in May, with half a dozen naked men trying to convince themselves that it's warm enough to be sunbathing and a little old lady in a coat and furry hat out walking her dog and not paying them the slightest bit of attention.
• Drinking in public (or at work) is also tolerated and the police, although they don't stand any abuse, are generally lenient.
• You can visit the Reeperbahn, Hamburg, the most famous and biggest red light district in Germany. You can have a look in hundreds of sex-shops for every need you have, and can also have a nice time in the pubs, drinking whatever you want until you drop on the floor. But be careful, as 'a little bit' of champagne will cost you.
• Every 'Hamburger' thinks Hamburg is the most beautiful town in Germany, maybe in the whole world.
• Hamburg has got a lot of water. It has a harbour, and it has some lakes in the middle of the city. You can sit at the sea or harbour, and have a drink. There are no pubs, just a few restaurants, where you pay $10 for a small beer. So be careful.

luv berlin

but what is their law on smoking it :o?

half a dozen naked men trying to convince themselves that it's warm enough to be sunbathing....

i'm drunk and you're at work

i love a drunken revival. because i'm a southerner, i suppose.

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[i/]am0n, who is am0n?, well he symbol smiled in technicolor.[/i]

guess i'll do my drinking here now

do i detect a hint of reproof?

any ill will was stillborn i assure you

can i join you here why bc i think i am drunk

i wish i could play this game, maybe tomorrow

not drunk btw :(

I've finished pretty much all the tasks I need to this evening that require co-ordination + remaining upright. Drinking water, but. There's a 2001 Penfold's bin 28 Kalimna shiraz, right over there.

holy shit i feel terrible today. sigh.

i'm gonna feel terrible tomorrow

tza we will go get some restorative tom ka or pho on monday

gettin there

2nd bottle almost gone, reading a not-great scifi book w/ too many words in it, back to drinking water thinking too much about tomorrow

first rule of bein drunk is never thinking abt tkmorrow

that's what did me in last night!

fuckin hate beeer

needs more alcohol, less carbonation

Bought boozes for next weekend's party today. Doing a big vat of hot chocolate and providing add-ins of rum, kahlua, peppermint schnapps. Also, mulled wine.

I've never much cared for beer, except when I was in the UK and went on the "Guinness as meal replacement" plan.

yeah, i make an exception for guinness

i miss lingbert.

― estela, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:31 PM (9 months ago)

he is fixingto make me pasta in a week. hope this helps.

for two years or so i had so much fun giving him shit. dude when u gonna have us over? how many times have u come over to this house. he relented and had me n lx and urs over. pasta, that buttery reheat garlic bread, drinks. he thought it a disaster for some reason but srsly, a one room apt and we gotta bring our own chairs? my expectations aren't high (love u neways so no matter). so now it's
redux and i am on for some freeeeeeeeee dinner

i believe the exact quote is 'when are you going to have us over you dick?'

which email i was bcc'd on, and then it turned into a conversation between jergins and me about other stuff, and at some point during it ilx went down and jergins sent me some alternative links to try, so now when i need to find an ilx link i search my email for 'you dick' and it works like a dream. thanks, lingert.

i am superstoked for this guy. he is a nonposter@ this pt and a guy who doesnt big up himself enough as it is and i am happy 2 do it so:

have u ever been offered a joblike , go to uruguay, it's on us, look at some trees and dirt and shit and report back. ? and then when u get back the say , thats tight go to uruguay again, on us, and tell us more. ? no. i havent been ofered this job

poorly typed but well stated. cheers to lingly.

cockspur btw for those scoring at home

cept it's nearly gone, what's next flor de cana?

<3 an early-times-drinkling, olympics-watching, thumpy-listening vacation

I've still got 1/2 a bottle of cockspur here waiting for you guys come visit again.

no clean glasses atm though. slacking due to too many movies lately.

I've still got 1/2 a bottle of cockspur here waiting for you guys come visit again.

<3<3<3 tell me when the link to id station is

like every 15 min? or catch a 5 :) ima going to sleep soon though - exhausted.

i would like to open the discussion to how rakishly u wear your hat>? anyone. like straight brim straight up or off at an angle or inbetween. how conciously do u think about it

what a woods question

I just watched a pile of late 40s/early 50s noir movies - brim angled to the side and forward = most rakish; brim straight and hat tilted back on yr head = earnest newspaper guy; brim straight and low over yr eyes = mean gangster; brim angled to the side and hat tilted back = drunk; if tie is also askew, ur super-dronk and about to be hit by a train/mugged

my goodness i love you people.

@ jergins: jaunty!
@jaq: yay yes, & i can return your dish!
@jaq: brilliant!
@estela: love you too!

he thought it a disaster for some reason but srsly, a one room apt and we gotta bring our own chairs? my expectations aren't high

lol gotta bring our own chairs wednesday

loool

nrought a chair only 1 cuz ursul4 ditched but it was tight, curry and then i went to dick's and got us milkshakes

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lingbert in uruguay again btw

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¡VIVA!

one glass of wine.

i miss walking past dick's on my way to the gym and snickering at fatties eating fat but i also do not miss walking past dick's on my way home from the gym and smelling hamburgers and being really hungry. also safeway that smelled like donuts ALL THE TIME.

guys

whoa

oya

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aw

<3

DRUNK

hi

again?!

Bc Wheeeeeeeeee! !!!!!

Totally! !!!!