You’ve reached that time of night when the best thing to do is just close the tab and go to reddit and fawn praise on random strangers’ pet photos.
GF got a stocking stuffer card game of something akin to, “I’ve Never.” We broke this out after drinking. The current house rule is that you have to tell the whole story when you answer yes.
Bad idea while drinking. Fun, but embarrassingly bad.
Sometimes we play a little game at the house that starts with, “hey, would you like to have a beer with me,” but ends in singing along with somewhat random 80s songs.
No regrets.
My work holiday party was tonight. We either do it in the middle of January because peoples’ schedules are free or because the organizers are lazy.
Anyway, happy holiday hugs to literally and non-ironically all of you because this is a community of almost entirely good people which is a hard thing to find now.
Also, if you order a white russian and it has latte style foam then what fucking universe is this bullshit happening in?
That’s kind of annoying that they push the holiday party to this late in Jan? I like two weeks into Jan so I can finally assume everyone is free of holiday BS and get to work.
I would prefer that they didn’t, and I think that we’d get better participation in December, but I think that basically people who want to go to holiday-ish parties make it work and people who don’t find reasons regardless.
The only solution is to have two parties, one during the holidays and one two weeks after. That seems like a nice compromise, the kind of idea we’d come up with after a few drinks.
Isn’t there an “I’m Busting My Balls at Work thread” for this kind of sentiment? You’re bringing down the room, dude.
Well yes that is kind of my jam Mark Asher
I suggest you try the high-alcohol jam!
My dad used to have his holiday party in January. It’s cheaper, and it’s easier for people to attend because they … don’t have all the holiday bullshit going on.
Coincidentally enough, at his last holiday party I got drunk on White Russians. It was terrible.
Hello, drunk thread! I have missed you!
I received shipment of new bourbon today. They are delicious. Mysteriously, there is now also a non-trivial portion of each bottle missing.
This sounds like me when my girlfriend asks who ate (insert something she thought would not get eaten) with me. I always hedge a bit on the answer. “I think they were bad. They smelled and they needed to go.” Her: “They were Doritoes.”
So I’ve been experimenting with various martinis. Particularly dirty vodka martinis. There is a certain amount of olive juice that ruins it. OTOH doing it the right way, equal parts of dry and sweet vermouth can save the drink. Now I need to purchase more tools.
But not tonight. The wife is not sanguine at all. Think I just have to finish my mistakes. Heh.
You’ve reminded me of a period in my twenties when my friends and I were totally into dirty martinis, the dirtier the better. More like olive nice with a splash of vodka. Then one day, I couldn’t stand them. Couldn’t even look at them. Just totally done. Haven’t had one in probably twenty years.
So there was a bar named Bernard’s near where the various people that worked in the business hung out. I was doing shows then. Sue Nero hung out there. The bartender’s name was Rose. I used to go there to have a few vodka martinis before work. This was our hang out. The girls were working at ShowWorld on the corner.
My friend Danny wanted to meet a stripper. I told him that, while he had a fine source of coke, he was not allowed to talk to the people there.
Danny was let into the bar because of me. And he fucked up. He walked up to Vanessa Del Rio and tried to get laid. Do you have any idea how stupid that is? He was grabbed by three guys and tossed out of the bar.
The martinis were sublime. Danny had a broken jaw. All was well.
But Rico went a bit to far, he was escorted from the bar and then the punches flew?
At the Copa
Copacabana
The hottest spot north of Havana
Not sure who Rico is. :) Danny OTOH thought he was hardass. He got into it with the bouncer on the way out. The bouncer was ex-military and way harder than Danny. No charges were pressed because large amounts of drugs. The girls were big porn film stars at the time and dancing for big money, due to their fame. The bar was a sort of safe zone for people in the business, so the staff was careful to keep things… mellow. Keep the cash flowing.
Tony sailed across the bar