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24 Apr 2007, 12:57 pm

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Actually, with age, it improves - to use a software metaphor, you wind up writing yourself an emulation subroutine so you can appear to be more like what's expected.


Wow, what a coincidence! I wrote about a NT drug emulator that had approximatedly the same meaning, but I, for sure, understand what you mean, and believe it is really a good metaphor.


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24 Apr 2007, 1:05 pm

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[How do you guys think you do with alcohol? Sometimes it makes it worse, sometimes it makes it easier.


Wow, another coincidence!! ! I hadn't read this both when posted my emulator drug!
I believe alcohol is bad.
I used to drink often, it seemed normal to me, and I couldn't see no problem on that, but, a few time ago, I changed my life a lot, stop smocking, starting making exercises, eating so many fruits, etc... and drinking very few, and I felt much more happy than before. I am considering the possibility of deffinnetly stopping drinkind, in spite of the fact that that will mean another social loss.


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24 Apr 2007, 9:50 pm

Neuromancer wrote:
GenericUserName wrote:
[How do you guys think you do with alcohol? Sometimes it makes it worse, sometimes it makes it easier.


Wow, another coincidence!! ! I hadn't read this both when posted my emulator drug!
I believe alcohol is bad.
I used to drink often, it seemed normal to me, and I couldn't see no problem on that, but, a few time ago, I changed my life a lot, stop smocking, starting making exercises, eating so many fruits, etc... and drinking very few, and I felt much more happy than before. I am considering the possibility of deffinnetly stopping drinkind, in spite of the fact that that will mean another social loss.
i find myself drinking in alot of social situations, and lately, at home. I've been under some emotional stress lately from moving, and also female issues, which are probably the cause of it. I don't have more than a few beers, but it's enough to alter my state of mind a bit i guess. I also think i just need a drink by me at all times, as part of my OCD. I notice i drink alot of fluids durring stressful situations, expecially at work. It doesnt matter if it's water, juice, soda, or probably even beer if i was actually able to drink alcohol at work. If i'm engineering something and i really get into it i start to drink alot, and also pace.



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25 Apr 2007, 1:07 pm

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[]i find myself drinking in alot of social situations, and lately, at home. (...) I don't have more than a few beers, but it's enough to alter my state of mind a bit i guess. I also think i just need a drink by me at all times, as part of my OCD. I notice i drink alot of fluids durring stressful situations, expecially at work. It doesnt matter if it's water, juice, soda, or probably even beer if i was actually able to drink alcohol at work. If i'm engineering something and i really get into it i start to drink alot, and also pace.


I drink a lot of juice!! !
I used to think I never drink excesively, but now I know I was wrong, as I can't support much alcohol. As I used to drink much less than most people around, I used to think I didn't drink excessively but I was wrong. I stood for a year drinking very few alcohol, and including may face changed, showing me I had an alcoholic face despite drinking only moderately, I am thinking in stoping it definitely, because I few happy everryday by now, except the days after drinking, say, 5 glasses of weak beer, that turn me lazy for exercises the following morning.
But I drink more juice than anyone, by now a delicious manga one!


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25 Apr 2007, 1:09 pm

I drink too much pop and I have sh***y teeth



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25 Apr 2007, 2:18 pm

i think the obsessive need to drink something, alcoholic or not, at all times is part of our disorder. i'm not sure if it's documented or not, but it's deffinately a trait of mine, and obviously others. i wonder how many of us have this same obsession?



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25 Apr 2007, 2:21 pm

I consume a lot of pop...popsicles and ice cream too :oops: but that's because it's really really good :D



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25 Apr 2007, 2:49 pm

Hi, Dan!


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25 Apr 2007, 3:08 pm

GenericUserName wrote:
i think the obsessive need to drink something, alcoholic or not, at all times is part of our disorder. i'm not sure if it's documented or not, but it's deffinately a trait of mine, and obviously others. i wonder how many of us have this same obsession?


I don't believe it, anyaway I don't believe we have a disorder.
I believe when I was young alcohol helped me in so many social circunstances, I hated parties and other crowded places, but after drinking I could really enjoy it.

But I noticed I can't support alcohol as other people can, worst to me... anyway I am living now a morning life different from the nocturnal of other time, and I feel much more happy, well...


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25 Apr 2007, 6:52 pm

Dear GenericUserName, I'm not sure where to jump in here. I have never used any recreational drugs of any sort, but I have a hint for fitting in better. When I was a teen, I remember my mom telling me she didn't trust one of our neighbors because she would never look her in the eyes. I thought, What? I couldn't stand to look in people's eyes. But I figured that if not looking made me seem untrustworthy, I'd better learn how to do it. It was extremely painful at first, but now, decades later it is natural for me. I have finally learned how to not be so blunt and thereby offensive. Just be like Thumper's mommy: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.



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26 Apr 2007, 7:56 pm

lelia wrote:
Dear GenericUserName, I'm not sure where to jump in here. I have never used any recreational drugs of any sort, but I have a hint for fitting in better. When I was a teen, I remember my mom telling me she didn't trust one of our neighbors because she would never look her in the eyes. I thought, What? I couldn't stand to look in people's eyes. But I figured that if not looking made me seem untrustworthy, I'd better learn how to do it. It was extremely painful at first, but now, decades later it is natural for me. I have finally learned how to not be so blunt and thereby offensive. Just be like Thumper's mommy: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
Yea, i picked up on the eye contact thing a while back, and it seems to work for the most part, except with females, where i guess maybe i give off the wrong impression sometimes.
As for not being blunt, the more i think about it, i noticed that it's easier to make friends when i am my normal A-hole self. Maybe not everyone likes me, but the people who i relate to like me better when i'm blunt. Expecially females.