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Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

I wrote part two

I had woken up and drank the last two beers and laid in bed with the room spinning most of the day. I managed to get some water down and sleep some. There
had been a party at my flat the night before. I'd had no money, no alcohol, and still managed to get blackout drunk. My flatmates had laughed at me when I
emerged to fill a water bottle. It wasn't funny to me anymore.
I fled the house the next day and went to work. I was ashamed. I didn't know how I was going to face my flatmates. As the work day went on, that sense of
shame grew and grew as it got closer to hometime. I'd driven off so many of my friends already. Relationships with family were beginning to deteriorate. My
credit cards were maxed as was my overdraft. I was about $15000 in credit card debt alone, not counting my student loan. I had about $150 in my bank account
which was just barely enough to cover that week's rent.
And I still craved alcohol. More than anything, despite where it had brought me, I just wanted to be drunk.
I left work. I made it about 200m down the road before I pulled over and phoned the one friend I thought I had left and broke down crying.
My life had become completely unmanageable. I needed help. I couldn't do it on my own anymore. I had tried to control alcohol, and it had wound up
controlling me.
I walked into my first AA meeting with my stomach still twisting from the hangover. It was the same one I had been to and ran out of two years before. I had
thought people would recognise me and judge me.
The chairperson asked if there were any newcomers and I raised my hand, full of fear and shame.
He asked if I wanted to share. The words came tumbling out and for the first time, I felt less ashamed. I had admitted that I was beaten.
People I didn't know offered me their phone numbers and told me to call anytime. I didn't believe them. But I saved their numbers all the same.
Someone else talked about the times they used to book themselves into a motel room, far away from anyone they knew, and drink nonstop for days on end. I
stared in disbelief. That was what I had done on many occasions.
Something I heard in that meeting that hit me like a lightning bolt, was "if I don't drink today, I can't be drunk today."
It was so simple.
I didn't get drunk that day, because I didn't drink that day.
I went to another meeting the next day. I didn't drink that day, either.
I went to more. People said to me just make sure you don't have alcohol in the house. I said I couldn't afford to buy any, and they smiled kindly and said
'well, that's called pocketbook sobriety.'
I took a job, working long hours in Australia.
I went to a meeting in Melbourne, and said that I was terrified because I had a large sum of money in my pocket. A guy came up to me after the meeting and
struck up a conversation. It turned out he ran a skydiving business, so I went skydiving. It cost some money, but less than getting drunk did.
I flew home not long after, and in the six weeks I had before I went back to work, I didn't drink. I went on a road trip with a friend, relocating a car he'd
bought in Auckland to Christchurch. Before I flew back to Auckland, he said to me 'there's a million and one things you can be doing, just don't drink.'
I didn't.
It took me six months to get the courage to clean underneath my bed. It wasn't pretty. There were at least 4 empty spirits bottles, plus assorted cider and
wine bottles.
I told my mother I was sober when I had hit six months. She had known, because for the first time in years she had seen me eating ice cream.
No one had told me that I would get a sweet tooth once I wasn't pouring sugar in the form of alcohol into my body.
I began to lose weight. I stopped obsessing over alcohol as I had done in the first weeks of sobriety.
I began to be able to be around other people having a drink and not want to snatch it out of their hands.
I started having bizarre dreams. I would dream I was drinking. I felt drunk. I would wake up in bed, just as I had so many times, not knowing how I had
gotten there. It would take me a minute or two to realise that I was not actually hungover because I had dreamt I was drinking, without actually drinking.
I reached a year's sobriety. I couldn't wipe the grin from my face when the chairperson asked if there were any milestones.
A workmate asked me why it was I didn't drink. After a few seconds consideration, I told her that I was an alcoholic. I wasn't ashamed. I was proud of it.
I was proud of the fact that I'd recognised I had a problem and was taking action to fix it.
I began to make new friends. I began to have female friends for the first time in my life.
I picked up old hobbies and developed new ones.
I began reading books again and actually finishing them, and being able to remember what they were about.
I took a long break from AA, as I had begun to disagree with some of what I heard there.
I still didn't drink.
I began seeing a therapist. I started going to the gym again.
I went overseas for work in an extremely stressful environment. I didn't drink.
I returned and walked into a meeting one Friday night. The first person I saw was a friend I hadn't seen since I'd taken my break from AA. He said he had
known the moment he'd seen me that I hadn't been drinking, because I was looking so well.
I claimed my two year coin and proudly displayed it on my wall.
I set goals and reached them.
I began to go on dates and enjoyed them simply for what they were.
A friend I'd written off in my drinking days reached out to me, and we met for lunch. I had thought he disowned me because of my drinking. It turned out that
he'd gone through his own hell, a different one to mine, and had taken a long time to get his head straight. It wasn't at all about what I'd done.
I'm two years, five months, and two days sober today.
I have some kind of life these days, and I have it without needing to drink.
I don't need to drink to celebrate the good times, and I don't need to drink to get over the bad times.
I hope sharing my experience may help someone.

Comrade Blyatlov fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Apr 26, 2018

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# ? Apr 26, 2018 04:17

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Been too busy with work and crap; hit 18 months about a week and a half ago.

# ? May 20, 2018 02:09

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Checking in on everyone

# ? Jul 18, 2018 17:56

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

I've had a few moments where a cold beer with a hot dog on a warm day sounded extremely tempting. Enjoying some other refreshing drinks instead.

# ? Jul 18, 2018 18:29

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Yeah, I had one moment in Tahiti where I thought a cold beer would be lovely. I drank a ton of San Pel instead and I'm doing well.
Hitting three years in November.

# ? Jul 18, 2018 19:29

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

I wrote about my experiences with AA
Mcnally kindly reformatted it for me.

Comrade Blyatlov fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Sep 3, 2018

# ? Sep 2, 2018 19:19

McNally: Sep 13, 2007; Ask me about Proposition 305

Do you like muskets?

Slavic Crime Yacht posted:

I wrote about my experiences with AA

This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't written this in Notepad.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Sep 3, 2018

# ? Sep 2, 2018 20:08

McNally: Sep 13, 2007; Ask me about Proposition 305

Do you like muskets?

Here's Two Finger's wall of text without the "copy/pasted from phone" filter run over it.

Slavic Crime Yacht posted:

I've written in the past on my experience with addiction, and on my experience with recovery.

Now I want to write about my experience with that most famous organisation, Alcoholics Anonymous, and on the experiences I have had with the people within.

I will not name names, but anyone who has been a part of my recovery will no doubt recognise certain people.

I was absolutely desperate when I first rolled into a meeting. I had gone to a 'Young Persons in Sobriety' meeting, since that's what I thought best - the support of my peers.

The AA program itself is a simple one. If you want to really, really boil it down, it more or less comes to 'don't rely on self-will, sort out the poo poo you caused, and try to help every other poor bastard, and finally, just live a better life.'

It's a simple program, but not an easy one. I want to be very clear on this point. I have never had an issue with the 12 step program. I think it's a fantastic tool.

Anyone who has been in or out of AA will be familiar with the 13th step. For anyone who isn't, "13th step" refers to when you have a very emotionally vulnerable person trying to get sober, and someone who has been sober for a longer period (usually a couple years) gets involved in a sexual relationship with them.
I have heard it compared to dragging someone out of a car wreck and loving them.

I don't really see it differently to that, as crude a metaphor as it is. Looking at my own emotional state when I came in, I was in no way, shape, or form ready for a sexual relationship with anyone.

The potential for abuse in such a situation is enormous. While it is commonly a man preying on a woman, I have also seen the reverse of this situation.

And that's one of the examples I want to discuss.

Very early on in my sobriety, I made a couple of friends and began to spend time with them outside of AA.

Then one night I saw a woman angrily saying to one of them 'well you might as well just be drinking again.' I was genuinely shocked. My impression was that it looked like a fight between exes, and I was correct.

It turned out that she was about 4 years clean, and he was just months clean when they got involved. To his credit, he called it off because he did not feel that he was ready for a relationship.

I then saw her wage what I can only describe as a calculated, and frankly disturbing one woman war on him. All kinds of rumours were spread, and she would try to drag anyone and everyone into it.

This was one of the first things I saw in AA which deeply disturbed me.

Another key point of AA is the sponsorship model. A sponsor is someone who is sober as a result of working the AA program, and who will help to guide the newcomer through the program.
This is a real double-edged sword.

I think a buddy system like this is great. Having someone to guide you is incredibly helpful, and for me at least gave me some direction and was instrumental in me remaining sober, particularly in the first year.

What I do not think is great, is the potential for codependence.
Somewhere along the way, and I don't know where, a lot of dogma began to spring up surrounding the AA program.

My first sponsor insisted on several occasions that I needed to discuss any major decisions I made with him before taking them.
And not to single him out, but I have heard this from several people, particularly in the Young Persons in Sobriety group I mentioned earlier.

There is no mention of anything like this in AA's Big Book.
I cannot see this as anything but an unhealthy dependence.
Something else that happened, that drove me away from the Young Persons in Sobriety group permanently, was a sexual assault.
A woman I knew was groped by an old man (I always found it strange the number of old men that were in a supposedly young people's group).

The response from the group was to hide behind one of the AA traditions.

Three�The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.

They interpreted this to mean that they could not stop anyone from attending a meeting, ignoring the fact that the first AA tradition is:

One�Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.

At the point where a sexual assault happens, in my opinion, it needs to be immediately and strongly condemned, and in a situation such as this, that member immediately needs to be banned.

A failure to do so, is effectively a tacit endorsement of the actions.

But it did not stop there. It was variously suggested to me that because I had not personally seen the action, I had no way of knowing that the woman was telling the truth. Victim-blaming, in other words.

It was also suggested to me that if I did not like the group's response, I was welcome to approach the police myself. I responded that it was her call what she wanted to do about getting the police involved, but that if the group allowed him to continue coming, they would drive away any women who don't want to be sexually assaulted.

I was appalled by the lack of response to the situation. I was even more disgusted that the underlying message seemed to be 'we can't stop anyone from coming, even if they are harming other members.'

So I voted with my feet, and refused to go to that meeting anymore.

An epilogue to this anecdote, is that I asked another member what had happened to the man responsible, since I hadn't seen him in a long time. I was told that he had died of cancer. I replied 'good.'

I still feel the same way. This was only one incident, and if there was one, there were more. I do not feel the slightest bit of remorse for that man being in the ground.

I had begun seeing a therapist because I was realising more and more that, despite being sober, the underlying emotional and mental issues that had driven me to drink in the first place were still there.

At that time, the prevailing message I heard in AA was 'you are broken and will never get better, the only way to live is through this program.'

I took serious issue with that philosophy.

I didn't come to AA to be indoctrinated, I came to AA to get well. I told my therapist this, and she mentioned various other methods of recovery.

I mentioned to a few within AA the misgivings I was beginning to have, and the answers I received disturbed me on a lot of levels.

When I had first come into the program, what I heard most of all was 'do whatever works for you, this is what works for us.' I think that's a great message.

What I heard when I began to express misgivings was that I would simply go out and drink again. That if I were to leave AA, I would lose my sobriety and be right back where I started.
And that completely missed the point.

My resolve to die sober has never changed. I don't believe it ever WILL change. I simply disagreed with what I was seeing within groups of AA. And with that in mind, I eventually made the decision to withdraw from the fellowship.

I stopped going to meetings, but continued to work my program the best I could. I discontinued the sponsorship arrangement I had, because of a particular event.

My flatmates were smoking pot one night, and I went and stood outside with them while they smoked so I could smoke a cigarette. I kept my distance, probably two to three meters. When we went back inside, my throat was dry and I was giggling. I realised I must have caught some second-hand smoke and was mildly stoned and I freaked out. I phoned my sponsor immediately and told him what had happened. I calmed down fairly quickly and realised that inadvertantly catching some second-hand smoke is not at all the same thing as downing a box of beer.

When next I saw my sponsor, he told me he'd discussed it with his sponsor and they could not see how I could have done this by accident.

I made the point that if it had been intentional, I would not have freaked out and immediately picked up the phone the way that I did, and that I never liked smoking pot anyway. But I felt like the trust that had existed between us was broken, and I chose to discontinue that relationship.
And so it was that I left AA.

There was no farewell speech, no dramatic ending, I simply left.
I held onto the tools I had learnt there and fully intended to use them in my life to maintain my sobriety, and as mentioned, I clung so tightly to the thought that I would never drink again.
And I have not.

What did happen, were two things I had heard discussed by long-term AAs.

First, I discovered what it is to be 'dry drunk.' Dry drunk refers to when an individual is in a lot of emotional pain but is not drinking. They exhibit a lot of the same erratic, reactive behaviours a practicing alcoholic does.

For my part, I was in an extremely toxic work environment with favouritism, nepotism, emotional abuse, and surrounded by practicing alcoholics. Put simply, everyone in that job was an alcoholic, it's just that I was the only one that knew it.
When I came home, I caught up with a friend of mine. I treated her terribly. At some point she looked at me and said 'this boat's really traumatised you, hasn't it?'

I didn't really know what else to do with my days, so I returned to AA meetings. I burst into tears in one of them.

What came next, was what's known as a rock bottom in sobriety.
Every addict or alcoholic knows exactly what their rock bottom was. That's the experience with drugs or alcohol that forces them to take recovery seriously. I know what mine was. I will never forget it.

What happened for me, is that I had suffered a romantic rejection, and then had a string of interactions with women that usually ended after two or three dates. I had gotten the boot from a job after a week for not being up to scratch.

I couldn't explain how I had done so poorly at that job. It was nothing complicated, nor anything I hadn't done before. But somehow, I just could not make myself put in a real effort to do work of a high standard.

Money began to grow tighter and tighter, and I still couldn't make an effort to find another job.

I began to feel I was toxic, that no woman wanted me anywhere near her. I was useless, no employer would keep me. I was a drain on everyone around me, emotionally and financially. And I didn't want to ask for financial assistance, because I'd already done so when I first went into recovery, and I have too much pride to allow myself to ask for help over and over.

Then I got sick. I got hit hard by a flu bug of some sort, and was more or less confined to my bed for 6 weeks. My physical health wasn't great, but that kind of isolation is dangerous for anyone, particularly someone with my disease.

I went downhill, fast.

My mother suggested that I come visit for a weekend so she could look after me. I don't think I smiled once the whole time I was there.

I lay in bed at her house staring at the ceiling. I realised I was feeling like there was no future for me.

That I would somehow hurt every woman I encountered. That I would drive away friends again. That I would push my family away. That I would never be good at any job.

These were EXACTLY the same feelings I had had when I 'broke' and went into recovery.

I got scared. I reached out to an online support group I had used and said how I was feeling, then turned my phone off and lay staring at the ceiling until I eventually fell asleep.
Mum ordered me to see a doctor since the bug had stuck around so long.

I made the appointment, with no intention of discussing a flu bug.

I instead read the doctor the messages I had written that Saturday night as I lay in bed restlessly.

I told her how scared I was of feeling this way.

She pointed me toward some online resources and asked me if I was open to the possibility of taking a drug which might help me. I replied that I was open to trying anything within reason.
So I was put on antidepressants for the first time in my life.
I have heard from some members of AA that they consider any kind of mood altering substance off limits, but I've always thought that's bullshit.

These pills help me function, and allow me to feel joy in everyday life.

I have gone a little off topic, but gently caress you, this is my story. You want a different one, go find something else to read.
To come back to the topic of AA, I feel it's important to discuss the rejection I had.

The stated reason why she could not continue seeing me was that it hit too close to home for her, as a family member of hers was an active alcoholic.

I was very disappointed and more than a little resentful, but I accepted her decision. The only thing was, I had no idea how to process it.

So I went back to my homegroup. And almost unplanned, I asked someone new to be my sponsor.

I knew of him before I asked him, but I didn't really know him.
I didn't dislike him, but neither did I particularly like him either.

What I did know about him is that he had been sober for 22 years, so whatever he was doing, it was working. I also knew that he worked in an entirely different field to me, so his life experiences would be very different to mine, and I might learn something from him.

When we first sat down to discuss the arrangement, he asked me what I wanted out of it. I told him I wanted to continue with my sobriety, but that I wanted to grow as a person.
He suggested to me that growing as a person is a little outside of a sponsorship arrangement, as in his view all a sponsor is for, is to help someone stay sober.

This was an attitude that I liked.

He also mentioned that he strongly disagrees with the idea that AA should become one's life, but that AA is simply a tool to help one live. This mirrored the views that I had developed.
I do not know whether I consider him a friend, a mentor, or a teacher, or some mix of all three.

But I respect him.

My relationship with AA has changed over my time in and out of it. I feel that it has matured.

AA is and always will be an important part of my life. But it is not my life.

I have made a conscious effort to practice the program in my life. I don't do it perfectly, but anyone who says they do is lying.

What I do know, is that through working the AA program, I was able to stay sober through some very difficult times.
What I also know, is that I have personally been of great help to some people who were suffering very badly.

There was an event recently, which bothered me a great deal. I met an alcoholic who, bluntly, was the worst I've ever seen. Great efforts were being made to get him into a medical detox unit because the amount he was drinking, he was likely to die if he immediately stopped.

Quick consultation was made and a friend and I babysat him overnight. We were giving rationed amounts of alcohol under medical advice, and supervising him to make sure he didn't do anything stupid. It was an extremely draining experience.
I was again disgusted to see just how few people were willing to put their hands up to help. One in particular said that he was not a babysitter, which really stuck in my craw given that he had previously told me I needed to get more involved with service work.

But helping to get him well also proved to be a very rewarding experience.

The 12th step of the AA program is perhaps the most important.
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

Whenever I am helping someone else with their problem, my own simply ceases to exist. There is no better cure for my own alcoholism than helping someone else overcome theirs.

And more than that, I have discovered a great deal of satisfaction in being of service in other ways.

What my experiences with AA have taught me can be summed up pretty simply.

"It works if you work at it."

It's completely true. Where in the past I have been at AA because I felt I had to be there, now I go there because I want to be there, and because I want to help others.

I doubt I will ever forget how the lows felt, particularly not now that I have felt them sober, and if I can do anything to help someone through that, I will.

# ? Sep 2, 2018 20:15

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Thanks dude. I didn't realise phone posting would gently caress it up like that.

# ? Sep 2, 2018 20:55

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

have any of you been following this thread in GBS because Pennywise the Frown's posts should be forced reading for middle schoolers :stonk:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3844738&pagenumber=19&perpage=40

# ? Sep 3, 2018 05:22

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

shame on an IGA posted:

have any of you been following this thread in GBS because Pennywise the Frown's posts should be forced reading for middle schoolers

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3844738&pagenumber=19&perpage=40

that dude is worse than the guy i was helping in the latter parts of my writings

gently caress he's in a bad way

addiction takes no loving prisoners, kids

# ? Sep 3, 2018 06:47

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Hope everyone is doing ok.

I hit 23 months this week and have two years in November.

# ? Oct 11, 2018 01:36

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

gently caress yeah dude

# ? Oct 11, 2018 01:39

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Good poo poo man. What day in November? I'm three years on the 23rd nov

# ? Oct 11, 2018 01:46

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

my sister that i kicked out for drinking has been sober for 3 months now and it owns

# ? Oct 11, 2018 02:18

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

TF CURES GENERATOR posted:

Good poo poo man. What day in November? I'm three years on the 23rd nov

November 9th

:unsmith:

N4B that�s awesome. You guys working on rebuilding?

# ? Oct 11, 2018 02:37

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

weve been rebuilt. she apologized for being a jerk, i apologized for having to do it

shes stayed over for days since then and we're fine. we spend half our time sending memes and talking about dragonball z bc we grew up watching it after school on toonami and we never stopped laughing at it

i think getting away from CT did her a ton of good and her bf is a legit nice dude who likes talking to me about a-10s

so yeah sobriety is rad keep it up everyone

# ? Oct 11, 2018 02:48

maffew buildings: Apr 29, 2009; too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

9 years 11OCT, but I've got 2 hours to botch it, plenty of time!

# ? Oct 11, 2018 05:57

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

I believe you will do what God wants you to do

Namaste

# ? Oct 11, 2018 06:14

maffew buildings: Apr 29, 2009; too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

Ok now it's 9 years

# ? Oct 11, 2018 14:15

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

maffew buildings posted:

Ok now it's 9 years

This is great. Congrats

# ? Oct 12, 2018 00:33

Sarah: Apr 4, 2005; I'm watching you.

I just want to say to everyone here that now that I've been abstaining from alcohol for 8 months that I am truly sorry for all the hosed up people out there that push alcohol on those staying sober. I can't imagine the social pressures that you guys go through when someone offers and you turn it down, because I have a human growing inside me and that's not enough for some people to accept that I'm not drinking and move on.

I'm at the point now that when it comes up in conversation I just excuse myself from it because I'm really tired of defending myself on why I shouldn't be drinking, which absolutely no one should have to do.

So congratulations to everyone still hanging in there, and gently caress all the people trying to force failure.

# ? Oct 12, 2018 01:27

maffew buildings: Apr 29, 2009; too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

I feel bad for them, they're too dumb to realize me saying no equals more for them

# ? Oct 12, 2018 01:30

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

To be honest, holidays are the worst.

My grandfather was, and my younger brother is where I was at about three years ago. He�s worse though with 2 dui�s under his belt.

My mom is the typical 70�s hostess (watch a that 70�s show party episode) and gets offended if people aren�t having fun aka blitzed out of their mind.

I don�t know. Maybe this year I�ll just cook up a bunch of pasta and do board games or stuff w my kids (21 & 16) instead of dealing with family crap.

# ? Oct 12, 2018 01:56

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Two years

# ? Nov 9, 2018 06:57

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Congrats man! I had my psych checkup yesterday and the doc asked if I still had cravings and I can only remember one- there's was a hot July day where I really wanted a hot dog and a beer. He said it's good that my cravings are on experiential wants (summer refreshment, enjoying socializing with a drink) and not craving the substance itself so much.

# ? Nov 9, 2018 07:31

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

That�s awesome, but I know I�m not at that point yet. I still get the weekly thoughts of go ahead and have one, it was a bad day at work, or ex managed to monkey wrench plans, again, it�s ok have one no one will know.

Bunch of co-workers tonight we�re talking about bar crawling this weekend and I think I started salivating.

It�s still a day by day battle for me, but I like where I am currently.

# ? Nov 9, 2018 07:47

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Three years sober

# ? Nov 22, 2018 12:03

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Congrats buddy.

# ? Nov 22, 2018 16:07

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Congratulations!

# ? Nov 22, 2018 16:44

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

TF CURES GENERATOR posted:

Three years sober

Syrian Lannister posted:

Congrats buddy.

EBB posted:

Congratulations!

# ? Nov 22, 2018 21:47

Naked Bear: Apr 15, 2007; Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

Congrats, duder!

# ? Nov 23, 2018 04:46

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

For my fellow sober buds,

Ok to add bitters to club soda / ginger ale, or not?

I'm simply looking for something different for the holidays, kind of like a LLB.

# ? Dec 20, 2018 03:23

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

If it were me I would say no. Different juices go pretty well with club soda, and mixing them can get decent results.

# ? Dec 20, 2018 03:56

thetechnoloser: Feb 11, 2003; Say hello to post-apocalyptic fun!; Grimey Drawer

Eugh. Not a bitters man. Diet coke and lime is my go-to.

# ? Dec 20, 2018 08:05

maffew buildings: Apr 29, 2009; too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

If you think you should ask others then it is almost exclusively always something you already know you shouldn't do has been my experience

# ? Dec 20, 2018 16:08

LtCol J. Krusinski: May 7, 2013

Bitters are hard alcohol- 40�ish percent alcohol. I know it only comes out in small dashes, but it�s definitely alcoholic.

# ? Dec 20, 2018 17:06

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

maffew buildings posted:

If you think you should ask others then it is almost exclusively always something you already know you shouldn't do has been my experience

# ? Dec 20, 2018 17:29

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Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Thanks guys

# ? Dec 20, 2018 19:49

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