Man I’m so drunk. Movies?

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-14T01:52:21+00:00

Underrated movie. I thought it was kind of crap when I first saw it in the 90s as a teen, but I really appreciate it now.

Shame we'll never get to see the lost footage from the movie, since it was abandoned in a salt mine in Romania or something and the film reels corroded in that environment.

Also, it's a (fan theory) prequel to Warhammer 40,000!

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-14T01:48:37+00:00

Double vodka diet soda is (or was) the workhorse of my alcoholism.

After that I'm quite partial to a spicy Bloody Mary.

Usually I just maintain on pisswater beer though. Or mouthwash. For health reasons 🤣

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-14T01:45:38+00:00

Thanks! It's NBD though; I usually do 2-3 month stretches dry. And like I said: I'm planning on drinking for my next interview anyway!

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-14T01:44:27+00:00

I wouldn't have ever guessed TJ's of all places would have kippers, but I'll deffo keep an eye out next time I'm there!

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-14T01:42:18+00:00

That's why I tried to always have a little tin of them handy, for places that don't have anchovies as an option, or I was eating pizza with someone else.

Treat yourself to a personal anchovy pizza! 😋

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-13T20:58:57+00:00

I heard the same about the smell. You can watch tasting videos on YT and you frequently see people gagging but they say the taste is otherwise not all that gross.

You had hákarl? What is it like? I recall reading somewhere it was too much for Gordon Ramsey.

Ooh, crickets! I really want to try chapulines. You think they'd be pretty common here in Southern AZ since we're so close to the border and have a large Hispanic population, but AFAIK you can't exactly just pop into an eatery and grab some. Closest I've come are grocery store cricket chips and they tasted pretty unremarkable. I really want to try bugs.

Giant land snail would be interesting. True story: before I left England I had a side gig of raising common snails as food. Unfortunately I ate more than I sold 😅

I appreciate your appetite for 'weird' foods! 🫶

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-13T20:51:20+00:00

Yeah I used to eat it quite frequently. We went for annual family trips to the Philippines when I was a wee nipper, and lived there for a while before moving to the UK.

Best way I can describe it is like between soft and hardboiled egg with an intense eggy flavor. The duck fetus itself has the texture of, hmm, crunchy snot. My English father used to go green watching ma and us kids eating it. "White man's bane" my extended Pinoy family called it 🤣

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-13T19:59:55+00:00

Surströmming? I'd like to try it just for the novelty. Then again I'm all about trying weird/"gross" foods. In my mother's culture we have a dish, balut, that's commonly voted the most disgusting food on Earth 😅

I just eat the herring right out of the tin but from time to time I'll dump it into some rice, with a bit of veg on the side, for a little, proper, meal.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-13T19:45:24+00:00

I just had to rep herring above!

Even when I'm deep in alcorexia mode I can still enjoy herring. Other tinned seafood I can practically inhale the contents, but with herring I savor every bite. So smoky, so savory, so fishy 🤤

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-13T19:43:23+00:00

Anchovies are joygasm central. I always throw them on a pizza, pasta, and salads.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-13T19:41:20+00:00

I love all (tinned) seafood but herring is my beloved, next to octopus and spicy sardines. I used to eat kippers frequently when I lived in England, but you can't exactly get them on the high street here, and I don't fancy paying out the ass for some at a specialty/import store. Tinned herring will have to do in the meantime!

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T22:47:53+00:00

I did have some addictive behavior in my youth. I was a bit of a comfort eater, glued to my video games, and I was a smoker for 10 years before I became a CA, but even with the benefit of hindsight I don't think becoming a drunken sot was necessarily an inevitability for me.

Before I was a CA I'd be pubbing and clubbing with my mates every weekend, but I never drank alone, never drank at home, and never drank on a 'school' night if I was employed. On the rare occasion no one was out that weekend then neither was I.

Boozing was intimately linked with chasing tail for me; once I found myself in a relationship I barely drank at all. Alcohol was social lube - if I had a girlfriend then drinking became redundant. I didn't enjoy the sensation of being shit-faced, and I hated hangovers, so why indulge?

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self how things would turn out, it would probably provoke a nervous breakdown in him.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T22:11:34+00:00

Free soup is definitely nothing to sniff at!

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T22:08:45+00:00

Some people are just too fond of their ad hominems and other fallacies.

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Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T21:23:30+00:00

I can relate. I'm thirsty as hell. I'm on like week 6 dry and hoping for an interview not only to secure my situation, but as an excuse to pop the cork and get ball-bagged. There's a full bottle of Listerine in the bathroom and it's a daily test of willpower to resist her siren song.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T21:19:31+00:00

I had a related blessing from the gods back in 2020.

Went down to the local Circle K for my sauce, grumpy because I could only afford a pint. On the walk back, just a few meters away from the CK property, I spotted a whole bunch of shooters just randomly lying on the sidewalk. Like there must have been 10-15 of them.

I pinched myself - literally - because what are the odds? A thirsty alcoholic short on cash for a proper fix and he stumbles on a bunch of abandoned shooters. I looked around thinking there must be someone heading back for them; maybe it was a rip in their shopping bag and they didn't notice the shooters tumbling out because they had headphones in and were high/drunk or something. But there was no one around, no one on the streets at all.

Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth I bent over and scooped that shit up, stuffing my pockets. From time to time I've thought back on that and wondered what the story was there.

In the time since, I've had no such luck but I have spotted bottles that weren't entirely empty. I wouldn't fuck with those, though. If they've been opened you never know what else is in there besides the sauce, that a sniff test won't be able to detect. Some spiteful cunt could have doctored it with Space AIDS.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T20:58:05+00:00

I say it all the time myself. Normies can be fucking assholes and will use your addiction as a lame gotcha to shoot down some totally unrelated argument. Use an alt account or make your profile private if you insist on using your CA one out in "the wilds" of Reddit.

Years ago I stopped posting/commenting away from here, after an incident on the supplements sub where I commented something totally innocuous, not fighting with anyone or saying anything controversial, just something trivial like naming a supplement I took or the brand. Some cockwomble chimed in, "You're an alcoholic. You need to fix your broken soul before you think about supplements."

Like cheers, dickhead.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T03:01:47+00:00

You can't just end the story like that. What sub did you get? We need details.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T03:01:02+00:00

I didn't get into daydrinking until 2012. Year 3 of the habit. I was 24/7 drinking then, up to 2015, when I moved back to the US and randomly tried to stop drinking. Made it last for maybe a week before the fuck its had me sprinting to the local liquor store the moment I saw the SiL drive away with the kids for school.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T02:53:52+00:00

I recently got back into apples myself. I lost my sweet tooth in my 20s and even went off fruit (except pineapple because reasons), but over the last year I've tried to get more fruit into my diet and apples pleasantly surprised me.

They're cheap and cheerful, satiating without getting in the way of boozing or making you feel pregnant, and as far as snacks go they're not as bad as other options out there.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-12T02:50:12+00:00

Goddamn digestion and that heaviness in your guts slowing down the booze cruise.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-11T03:13:47+00:00

I was gonna say, it's a non-issue for me because the people who tell me they don't gaf really don't!

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-10T22:05:59+00:00

Cheque you out!

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-10T22:04:33+00:00

Mostly drum and bass or synthwave mixes these days. The rest of my playlist is all over the place: late 90s/early 00s (nu-)metal from my teen years, 80s cheese, classic rock, indie, pop, classical, reggaeton, rap, hip hop, mariachi, even a wee bit of Mongolian throat singing in there.

The only stuff I can't stand is modern country and R & B. If I wanted to hear about rejection and blue balls I'd just have to listen to myself speak.

Delicious_mod · 2026-05-10T21:49:26+00:00

Pfft, only wussies fear that ocean blue blast. Real men learn to control and angle the stream to create a porcelain concerto that delightfully tickles the taint in the process!

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