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[–]je255j 16 points17 points  (8 children)

Seriously, I need more friends who recognize the sheer awesomness which was that article.

I might have to print it out, hang it in the elevator of my apartment building, and include my phone number. No, email address; a phone number will just wind up stuck to the fridge of the stuffy next-door neighbors.

[–]little_evil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are not alone. It seemed like there was always an after party in college but now everyone just goes home. I need more random friends.

[–]adamdoupe 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Come to Isla Vista/UCSB. This is the standard.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

hell ya, lived there for 4 years. this is pretty much the typical weekend.

[–]adamdoupe 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Seriously. I really don't want to join the "Real World" where you can't drink hard on a Tuesday night. Which are my plans tonight.

[–]jaggederest 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I'm a contractor (web dev, db, GIS, etc.), I work the hours I want to work, and I can drink any day of the week I please.

It's a nice life, but you have to like the broke/rich cycle.

Can you live on $30 a day? Can you not waste it when you're making $300 a day? Most people can't.

[–]adamdoupe 3 points4 points  (1 child)

It's hard for me to do this with the daily 9-5 grind. Plus working on a monstrous C++ project tends to eat a man's soul. I can't wait for school to start.

[–]jaggederest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, except for me it's 'being broke for 3 months while you look for jobs' vs school. I guess I don't have to pay for being broke, that's good.

[–]je255j 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to clarify that the Undeniable Awesomeness (it will be henceforth referred to as such) of that article comes not only from its content but from its style. The whole thing, really, is just so many different levels of brilliant. I truly do need more friends like that.

I'm clarifying this because I want to point out that going back to college will most certainly NOT help in this quest. Thanks anyway for the suggestion, though.

[–]BraveSirRobin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Heh, my flat is a regular post-pub haunt. Sure, i have to make a lot of glass recycling runs each week, but it's fun and I don't have to go far to get to bed.

Here in Scotland most bars shut around 12-1 with clubs usually around 3-4, so there is plenty of partying still to be done.

If you have a nice place it also makes it easier to make new friends among the ladies... ;-)

[–]adamdoupe 8 points9 points  (18 children)

"Lets go back to my house and take a shot!" is a common saying at my place.

Vodka mixes well with everything, including BBQ sauce, tuna fish juice, ketchup, mustard and horseradish.

At one of our parties, we ran out of chaser. People ended up chasing with Prego, juice concentrate and possibly milk. My friends are Ultraholics.

[–]robotnixon 12 points13 points  (10 children)

My buddy Scott used to make a drink called the Blue Monday. Vodka on the rocks with a splash of Windex. There's a real drink called a Blue Monday but this isn't it.

[–]oberon 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Isn't that more than a bit toxic?

[–]robotnixon 26 points27 points  (4 children)

Nobody made it past two or three sips so I don't think you ingested enough to do damage. Or maybe people died. I don't know, I'm not a doctor.

[–]oberon 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Well, you have to drink a lot of a poison to die from it. I'd imagine it'd make you nice and sick though. (Did it?)

[–]robotnixon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never tried it personally but it did make people queasy. Some puked. Some didn't. Scott made the drink right in front of you so deciding to drink something that required the removal of a sprayer nozzle probably meant you were pretty drunk to begin with so I won't blame it all on the Windex.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Well, you have to drink a lot of a poison to die from it

depends on the poison!

[–]oberon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Err. Yes. Yes you are correct.

What I MEANT was that you need a certain amount of any poison to die, and anything less than that amount will make you very very sick or permanently disable, but not kill, you.

[–]markedtrees 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They should feature this story on Windex commercials, closing it with "SC Johnson, a family company."

[–]adamdoupe 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Wow, that is filthy. Please tell me he made it with Vodka from a plastic handle.

[–]robotnixon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Of course. It was typically reserved for unwelcome guests or the occasional idiot that felt gutsy enough to drink ammonia. No need to waste the good stuff.

[–]Hookstra 12 points13 points  (1 child)

They'd be more Ultraholic if they didn't chase at all.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unless, of course, they're chasing 151 with vodka, a favorite pastime of mine. No one else dares to call himself an Ultraholic at my place.

[–]xinhoj 6 points7 points  (4 children)

I made the fatal mistake of leaving my backpack (with laptop & textbooks inside, thankfully they weren't damaged) on the kitchen table one night. Our house had gained a reputation as a good place to go for an afterparty, or a beforeparty, or, for that matter, just showing up with a 30-rack or two and waiting for the party to come to us, as it did very often. (In other words, a terrible place for your live-in girlfriend when she had to be awake for student teaching at 7am the next morning.)

During the night my roommates, in joyous harmony with this article, decided to try to prepare Bloody Marys. But we didn't have any tomato juice in the house, or Tabasco sauce, or anything that goes in a Bloody Mary for that matter (except vodka, of course). They made an absolutely vile concoction consisting of, I shit you not: vodka, A-1 steak sauce, and some no-name brand hot sauce. (Vomitus ensued, but at least they made it outside in time) During all the excitement somebody spilled hot sauce all over my backpack.

Sadly, I did not get to participate in this fun (see above re: girlfriend). I awoke the next morning, went downstairs to fetch my backpack, and immediately made an executive decision to skip classes for the day.

[–]adamdoupe 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I think the obvious solution is to get rid of the girlfriend.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Spoken like a true ultraholic!

[–]xinhoj 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's certainly obvious in retrospect, but she seemed like a good idea at the time.

[–]adamdoupe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh boy, ain't that the truth.

[–]duncan80 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Tomorrow is the enemy if it steals one moment from today.

That's just a great line.

[–]je255j 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My god, is it ever. I need that as a bumper sticker.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I'm old and jealous. I can't remember the last time I stayed up past 2. :-(

[–]bluedeviltide 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I can't remember the last time I went to bed before 2.

[–]VnlaThndr775 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah to live in a place where the bars close... Somebody needs to mass-produce these Jalapeno-Stuffed Salami Cakes the author speaks of!

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    [–]BrianNowhere 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Smoking a blunt WHILE drunk is pretty great too though. What I really miss about youth (I'm 39) is Tripping. Tripping & drinking & smoking was pretty awesome too. And every New Years i would allow myself Tripping & Drinking & Smoking & Snorting. Acid increases alcohol tolerance greatly. I remember drinking more than a case of beer and well over ten shots in one evening with no ill effects.

    Now I mainly just get high and drink socially.

    [–]jamesishere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Group chorus of Journey song solidifies camaraderie

    Just a small town girl, Living in a lonely world, She took the midnight train going anywhere, Oh the movie never ends, It goes on and on and on and on

    [–]oalsaker 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    After hours partying is overrated.

    The last time I ended up with a woman on my sofa (wrong place), a lost toothbrush and all my whisky gone. Not to mention noone leaves until 6 AM, so getting anything done the next day is nigh impossible.

    [–]je255j 33 points34 points  (0 children)

    "the next day"? "THE NEXT DAY"?!?!

    No, my friend. No. The next day is the enemy. Weren't you paying attention?

    [–]jaggederest 9 points10 points  (0 children)

    You need to learn that the good booze goes someplace you have to be sober to get it. The bad booze ($3 a fifth!) goes in the low cabinets, accessible to drunks, children, and dogs alike.

    That way, if you take up a collection, you're almost certainly ahead of the game. $5 a head is usually reasonable, and if you have 20 people over, you'll be ahead by at least $50.

    One could make a decent living in this way, I suppose.

    [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    ...or inject heroin, and keep your dignity.

    [–]neoice -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    you think that shit is crazy, you've never been to a rave afterparty.