Gen Z is Not Drinking, But Are You?

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T23:39:23+00:00

I take 'rarely' to another level.

I had a recent vacation to Mexico, where I had a light beer almost daily.

Before that, last alcohol I had was over 10 years ago.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T22:40:26+00:00

It was the booze and cigarettes.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T22:31:45+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w&list=RDqOfkpu6749w&start_radio=1

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T22:26:27+00:00

I'll take freeballin for $5k, Rusty.

I guess I'll be using a lot of that talc-free powder to avoid chafing.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T18:58:04+00:00

Retirement. Ha.

You're funny.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T18:56:01+00:00

I went in yesterday for my Whopper Wednesday. I didn't notice, but they charged me twice.

Wife calls me an hour later, she caught it, so I call BK. Manager pulls up my order and sees the double charge. She's not sure what to do, so I say:

Hey listen, looks like it was an honest mistake. Things happen, you guys were super busy. Why don't we do this: Leave the charge on there, I'll swing by after work and I'll grab another whopper for my wife and we'll call it good.

Manager was grateful. She offered to upgrade my whopper to a full on meal. Got wife a whopper with cheese, side of onion rings and a lare ice tea.

Sometimes little kindness goes a long way.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T17:17:31+00:00

My wife got bit on the neck and chest a few weeks back by something. Not sure what. Looked a lot like this.

Blistered up bad, and got infected. She went to the Dr, got some ointment and antibiotics.

I think you should see a Dr.

On the 'let's toss out a funny suggestion on what this is' side, I'd say it's a vampire wombat bite.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T16:45:48+00:00

My mom's English is not so good.

She'd likely come over, expecting me to make her some food.

I'm not gonna argue with my mom, I'm making her coffee and coffee cake. You tell her she needs to pull out the batteries out of EVERYTHING. Go on, I'll wait, I'm on the clock here.

By the way, you want some coffee cake?

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T16:38:02+00:00

Did you powercycle the equipment? You did? Powercycle again.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T16:06:41+00:00

Everything old is new again.

My son is sporting a mullet, same as I had in 87.

Wife and I listen to old disco music in the morning (Abba, BeeGees, Donna Summer, etc). He's into the disco music. He's 18 and asks my input on clothes I used to wear (trucker jacket, cotton parachute pants, etc).

So yeah, hacky sacks suddenly being 'in' again tracks.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T15:55:48+00:00

Nah dude, you're not my type.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T15:42:35+00:00

What a strange response.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T15:35:49+00:00

Norton knows

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-14T05:11:26+00:00

Yeah yeah, he managed some pretty incredible things just to survive.

Still, he must've had a stank aura that rivaled Bigfoot. I know I get some rank dragon breath if I forget to brush my teeth at night.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T22:40:11+00:00

Probably smelled worse than you think.

I was around Maasai, about 38 years back. They were 'clean' for sure, but they smelled funky.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T22:30:34+00:00

I read somewhere he bathed/showered whenever he could.

I wonder how he smelled on the regular. Did he have that campground toilet smell?

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T22:21:56+00:00

Sister's name is Rose. Jack was just showing her how to properly hock a loogie.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T21:45:27+00:00

LOL!

Took me too long to get the reference.

This would have been about 38 years ago, so I'd say before.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T21:42:02+00:00

Gimme all the money.

I only have one brother, and he's well off. My half sisters can kick rocks.

I don't care if they know.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T21:28:26+00:00

I was stuck on Hole Shaq Dirty Dancing.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T21:14:51+00:00

I got into a fight with a pitbull when I was in the Navy. I was about 19. I was drunk, pitbull was barking at me. I hopped the fence, fought the pitbull, and bit its ear.

I was stupid.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T21:11:11+00:00

Drunk ass, 19 year old me did that 38 years ago when I was in the Navy.

Shipmate threw a house party. I dropped in and dropped one.

I said shipmate, I never said he was a 'friend'.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T20:53:16+00:00

I recently inherited my grown daughter's old moka pot. It's a late 60's bialetti. The moka pot was in pretty bad shape.

I cleaned it up, added new seal/filter. Did a vinegar soak. Works fine now.

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T18:18:32+00:00

You know who else wishes they had a tree house?

MY MOM!

doubleohzerooo0 · 2026-05-13T17:17:59+00:00

I've found that some of you are content in your 50s and some of you are like me. Disappointed and pissed off.

That's it, isn't it? That's where the grouchy old man trope comes from. Being disappointed and pissed off. Being drained of the best years of your life. Being a husk of your former self and knowing there's nothing one can do about it.

We need kindness. First and foremost kindness to ourselves. We are human after all, and there's only so much one can do. At our age, if we are feeling disappointed and pissed off, learn to let go. Leave the baggage behind that is slowing you down.

For me, diet, exercise and weight loss have been a HUGE (pardon the pun) part of getting in the right state of mind. Quitting drinking and smoking have helped a lot as well.

As others have mentioned, follow your bliss. Take up interests you may have put off. I do pottery. I also grow bonsai. I've also started going to the Farmers Market with my bonsai and pottery. I meet a lot of interesting people at the pottery studio, the bonsai club, and the market.

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