My 100th post!

fdoosey · Post by **fdoosey** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:03 pm

LuckyStrikes wrote:i love the monekkey. w edraink jagermeiifiter
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Aww, Lucky's blitzed! You go for it, sweetie!

LuckyStrikes · Post by **LuckyStrikes** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:16 pm

Iam a little drunk. we did shots. the monkey left. Palinka ppulled the plug.it was time too. Absinthetime.

Generic Jug · Post by **Generic Jug** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:29 pm

LuckyStrikes wrote:Iam a little drunk. we did shots. the monkey left. Palinka ppulled the plug.it was time too. Absinthetime.

Damn, if youre dirnking absinthe, I'm gonna ge so jealous.

Omar The Tentmaker · Post by **Omar The Tentmaker** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:47 pm

Generic Jug wrote:If I eat Palinka's brain, do you think I'll gain some of his powers?

Mmmm...brains...

ill take his luiver if you think itll get me drunk

Palinka (RIP) · Post by **Palinka (RIP)** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:52 pm

Generic Jug wrote:Damn, if youre dirnking absinthe, I'm gonna ge so jealous.

What else would one drink of a Friday night?

massivedrunk · Post by **massivedrunk** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:53 pm

dont eat palinkas brain, who will corect m e white whwin whin posseed

Generic Jug · Post by **Generic Jug** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:54 pm

Palinka wrote:
Generic Jug wrote:Damn, if youre dirnking absinthe, I'm gonna ge so jealous.
What else would one drink of a Friday night?

Oh, I dunno, maybe cheap vodka because WE LIVE IN THE STATES AND CANT' GET ANY YOU FOOKIN BARSTARD GRARARARAR

massivedrunk · Post by **massivedrunk** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:56 pm

land of the free and home o fthe gbrave my white arse

Omar The Tentmaker · Post by **Omar The Tentmaker** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:57 pm

MassiveDrunk wrote:land of the free and home o fthe gbrave my white arse

land of the spensive home of the cutoff

Palinka (RIP) · Post by **Palinka (RIP)** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:19 am

Generic Jug wrote:Oh, I dunno, maybe cheap vodka because WE LIVE IN THE STATES AND CANT' GET ANY YOU FOOKIN BARSTARD GRARARARAR

And that's my fault, how?

I moved. So can you.

Plenty of opportunities for English teachers in Europe (and you appear to know your stuff reasonably well). Get yourself a T.E.F.L. certificate and an aeroplane ticket to Prague, Bratislava, Lisbon or Budapest and you're away. Absinthe on a Friday night can be yours.

Alternately, get yourself an M.A. or a P.H.D. (or similar) and the Universities will fall over themselves to give you housing, a resident's permit, health insurance, a good salary. etc...

Or you could stay in the US, "Paralysed by fear..."

LuckyStrikes · Post by **LuckyStrikes** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:27 am

What monkey? Absinthe? I didn't have any. Palinka's pulling plugs?? Who ate his liver?

Generic Jug · Post by **Generic Jug** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:12 am

Palinka wrote:
Generic Jug wrote:Oh, I dunno, maybe cheap vodka because WE LIVE IN THE STATES AND CANT' GET ANY YOU FOOKIN BARSTARD GRARARARAR
And that's my fault, how?

I moved. So can you.

Plenty of opportunities for English teachers in Europe (and you appear to know your stuff reasonably well). Get yourself a T.E.F.L. certificate and an aeroplane ticket to Prague, Bratislava, Lisbon or Budapest and you're away. Absinthe on a Friday night can be yours.

Alternately, get yourself an M.A. or a P.H.D. (or similar) and the Universities will fall over themselves to give you housing, a resident's permit, health insurance, a good salary. etc...

Or you could stay in the US, "Paralysed by fear..."

All it takes is a Master's to get them to fall all over you? Well, shit. Unfortunately, I like the States and plan on staying here for now. Not because I'm "paralyzed by fear" (asshat *grin*), but because...well, for now, that's just the direction my life is taking me. Hell, I've never even been out of the country. I hope to visit someday, but I think my home is here.

And hell, I could always get my absinthe in the mail.

Palinka (RIP) · Post by **Palinka (RIP)** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:19 pm

Generic Jug wrote:...I've never even been out of the country...

What a ringing indictment of modern society.
One hundred years ago you would have been sent on "The Grand Tour" in order to complete your education. Three to six months in which to get; blitzed in Berlin, rancid in Rome, laced in London, pissed in Paris, attenuated in Athens, bleary in Budapest, loaded in Lisbon, vile in Vienna, caned in Copenhagen, monstrous in Moscow, trashed in Talinn, vomitous in Vilnius, dreech in Dublin, maudlin in Madrid, smashed in Stockholm, bombed in Bratislava, egregious in Edinburgh, arseholed in Amsterdam, blootered in Brussels, etc.

Sadly, the only folk still keeping on the idea (if not the Byronesque traditions) of "The Grand Tour," are the Australian and Canadian backpackers. And they only seem interesting in taking pictures of their girlfriends in front of monument. As if in some way they need to prove that they had been there.

The camera has been the death of civilisation. Now instead of visiting a place and getting to know it by getting hammered in a local bar and attempting to speak to the regulars, tourists scurry to one landmark after another, kodak clutched in sweaty hands. Secure in the knowledge that they can safely move on to the next destination, as they have captured part of the soul of this place in their infernal machines.

A cliche that is often bandied is that a picture is worth a thousand words. What price then a memory? Sometimes sitting in a quiet bar writing up the day's experiences is so much more rewarding. Often literally, I have often been given free drinks by bar owners under the mistaken, and uncorrected, impression that I am some sort of travel writer. And years later coming back to those journals, the evocations within. The spilled metaxa staining one page, the smudged ash of a filtre disc blue, the smear of grease from a Bavarian sausage, the slight whiff of vomit from the pages relating to Romania...

Throw away the shackles of your cameras, my friends. Learn how to order a drink in as many languages as you can. Arm yourselves with pen, paper and passport. Go travel. Drink heavily and experience the world. It is waiting for you.

TARTANSPECIAL · Post by **TARTANSPECIAL** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:27 pm

My god Palinka, how dare you!!!!!
You missed guttered in Glasgow :P

Palinka (RIP) · Post by **Palinka (RIP)** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:36 pm

TARTANSPECIAL wrote:My god Palinka, how dare you!!!!!
You missed guttered in Glasgow :P

My apologies. I was going for capital cities.
Of course, Glasgow is a capital city for drinking in.