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| Madafaka |
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Child of the Moon wrote:
Happy belated birthday, Madafaka!
Thank you very much!
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| LadyJane |
Tonight I raise my glass (Seabreeze) to the victims of today's senseless violence in London.
STOP the MADNESS!!!!!
LJ.
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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Bloozehound wrote:
Well fellow Stoneheads and boozecruisers the day has come, me and my gal are getting married tomorrow at the beautiful picturesque lake travis, afterwards mucho celebration will commence into the wee hours of the morning, then we're off for a full week of maxin' and relaxin' at the Hyatt Regency in Maui (WoWie!!) for our honeymoon...
You guys be nice, I shall return...
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
'Constitution guarantees'
right to be drunk at home
Man sues police after New Year's Eve arrest,
says 14th Amendment OKs private drinking
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
A man arrested at a New Year's Eve party claims the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to be drunk in a private home, and is now suing the police who arrested him.
Eric Laverriere, 25, of Portland, Maine, filed his suit against police in Waltham, Mass., after they broke up the celebration and took him into protective custody.
Laverriere was incarcerated for nine hours until he sobered up after a night of beer drinking.
''One thing people should be able to do is drink in their own house," Laverriere told the Boston Globe. ''That's the beauty of the land of the free."
The computer-systems specialist claims the Massachusetts Protective Custody Law is designed to deal with public drunkenness and officers wrongly applied it when they took him from a private residence.
The law, which took effect in 1971, replaced a previous rule dating back to Colonial times that made public drunkenness a crime worthy of arrest, conviction and a criminal record. While it does not specifically mention public or private places, it allows police to take inebriated people to their homes, a treatment facility or a police station, where they can be held for up to 12 hours.
The current law notes people have to be drunk and deemed to be a danger to themselves or others, but they are not charged with any criminal offense.
Laverriere says in his federal lawsuit he had ''a constitutional right to be drunk in private, a privacy and liberty right founded in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
The clause states: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
''Heaven forbid if we've reached the point where police can take you out of your home because you're drunk and not hurting anybody," Harvey Schwartz, a Boston civil-rights lawyer who filed the suit on behalf of Laverriere told the Globe.
Laverriere admits he had imbibed several beers, but was not drunk when officers arrived to investigate a bottle-throwing incident at a police cruiser.
He says he was sitting in a recliner, watching TV and drinking water when police showed up.
Laverriere says he began videotaping the police activity at the party when they became "more threatening" when no one admitted to tossing the champagne and beer bottles.
Officer Jorge Orta ''came running to me, ripped the camera out of my hand and threw me down on the floor," Laverriere told the paper, adding he injured his shoulder and is slated to undergo surgery next month.
''I can understand if you're abusive to a housemate or you do something that is damaging or life-threatening they can come and remove you," he said. ''But if you're just sitting there having a good time with friends and don't do anything wrong?"
One neighbor, Joseph Saulnier, recalled the New Year's Eve party as a rowdy affair, telling the Globe, ''It was very loud. There were cars parked everywhere on the street. People were everywhere."
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| Madafaka |
Friday: beer night.
Saturday: red wine night.
Tonite: vodka night.
Tomorrow will be a slow day! |
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| LadyJane |
Where have all the lushies been lately???
Here's a story to warm our hearts:
ROCKPORT, Mass. (Reuters) - An ice-cold tumbler of vodka garnished with two speared pearl onions made history on Tuesday as the first alcoholic drink sold since 1933 in the coastal town of Rockport, Massachusetts.
"It's a great day for Rockport," toasted a beaming Peter Beecham, who led the effort to lift the town's ban on the sale of alcohol. "And this," he added, raising his $7.50 glass of Grey Goose vodka on the rocks, "is very good."
Until this week, Rockport, a quaint resort about 40 miles north of Boston, was one of 17 towns in Massachusetts where the sale of alcohol is illegal, in some cases to the detriment of the tourist industry.
"I don't think the ban ever made sense," said Bruce Coates, owner of the Emerson Inn by the Sea, where the first drink was sold during a lawn party overlooking the ocean. "We've had people cancel their reservations with us when we told them this was a dry town."
The United States banned the sale of alcohol from 1920 to 1933, the days of so-called Prohibition, but many towns still have old ordinances mandating that restaurants offer only soft drinks on their menus.
In Rockport, however, the ban on booze had a much deeper history. On the morning of July 8, 1856, a band of 200 hatchet-wielding women angry that their men spent too much money and time in local taverns raided the local watering holes and destroyed every drop of alcohol in town.
Rockport was henceforth dry, except for a year after Prohibition ended. During that time, when patrons of a toilet-less tavern used a nearby alley to relieve themselves, much to the neighbors' displeasure, the ban was swiftly reinstated.
Beecham, who has lived in Rockport for 14 years, said he hoped that allowing restaurants and inns to serve alcohol would help the local economy, but that bars and liquor stores would not be built.
While sales of alcohol were banned in Rockport, restaurant patrons could bring their own wine and in many cases did. "This was not a completely dry town," admitted Coates, holding a flute of champagne. "There was plenty of drinking going on."
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LJ.
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Parties call for non-alcoholic drinks too
If you're having friends over for a barbecue or a party, it's wise to have a mocktail -- or non-alcoholic drink -- on hand.
Punch, for example, is a classic drink with infinite variations. The name "punch" comes from the Hindi word for "five" -- punch. Adapted by the British in India, it traditionally is made with five ingredients.
But those five ingredients can be anything you'd like:
• Citrus fruits such as pineapple and orange give punch a tropical flavor.
• Adding cranberry, apple and ginger will turn punch into a tart sparkler.
Serve punch in tall glasses with colorful garnishes. Twists of lemon or sliced fruit work well, and lots can be done with ice.
For more information, visit www.foodnetwork.com.
(This thread was almost on page 3 btw)
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Sunday.....Red Wine Day  |
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| HellsRollingThunder |
Has anyone ever tried Blue Nun? That was supposedly Brian's
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| Madafaka |
Thursday Night: National white wine (NORTON)
Saturday Night: National beer (QUILMES)
Oh my god, I skipped Friday Night! I'll fix that tonite |
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| Madafaka |
Yesterday was "The Friendship Day" in Argentina.
I've celebrated with my friends with a lot of red wine.
Come on you guys, are you still sober? |
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| LadyJane |
As long as I am able to swallow, the RO Drinking Thread will NEVER RIP!!
Seabreeze..number 3...what a day!!.
Nice chatting with you, Parmeda!! Everything will be okay!!
LJ. |
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| T&A |
for no particular reason it's a J&B and Ice night.... |
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| Madafaka |
Red wine for dinner and later, Absolut Raspberri
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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LadyJane wrote:
As long as I am able to swallow, the RO Drinking Thread will NEVER RIP!!
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| keefkid |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Impoverished alcoholics turn to a strange brew
By GRAEME SMITH
Globe and Mail
MOSCOW -- Vyacheslav Rogachev's hunt for a strong drink would start before he could move his legs in the morning. He would wake up in his Moscow apartment half-paralyzed with a hangover, flop onto the filthy linoleum and crawl through the sticky residue of the previous night's drinking toward his stash of solvents.
On a good morning, Mr. Rogachev found leftovers from the previous evening: cologne, furniture polish, wood glue or even his favourite, varnish already mixed with salt and soda water, ready to drink.
Finding enough cheap solvents was tough two decades ago. People had to line up for days to buy these household products in Soviet times.
"Now it's everywhere, anywhere, any shop, any time of the day or night," says the 50-year-old recovering alcoholic, stubbing out the fifth cigarette of the afternoon in a diner ashtray. "It's too easy."
The chemical cocktails that Mr. Rogachev used to mix in the privacy of his bedroom have emerged as the fastest-growing segment of Russia's alcoholic beverage market, increasingly sold as alternatives to traditional drinks.
Alcohol producers say they're losing market share to manufacturers of antifreeze, cologne, varnish, and dozens of other intoxicants as Russia's impoverished drinkers embrace cheap, strong, dangerous spirits.
The trend even threatens vodka's popularity. Statistics released this month by Russia's National Alcohol Association show that production of vodka and spirits dropped by 9.2 per cent in the first five months of 2005 compared to the same period last year, to 472 million litres.
During the same period, the association says, a new category of so-called substitute drinks enjoyed a 38.2-per-cent boost in production, to more than 17 million litres.
"It's a very alarming figure," says Pavel Shapkin, director of the association.
A large basket of items can fall into the category of substitute alcohol products: cleaning liquid, insecticide, rubbing alcohol, drain cleaner, bath perfume, de-icing solvents, glass-cleaning solution, fire starters, hoof-softening chemicals, even vomiting agents for animals....
Man that is some very sick s--t...you are lucky if you die from this, the brain damage must be much worse... |
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| egon |
I had me a GOOD weekend. It involved BBQ's, pools, big french lunches, perfect weather, wine, 5ltr beer kegs and a lot of doing nothing.
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| egon |
did joey move to bristol and change his name?
http://beehive.thisisbristol.com/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=9310&PageID=75575 |
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| Madafaka |
quote:
egon wrote:
did joey move to bristol and change his name?
http://beehive.thisisbristol.com/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=9310&PageID=75575
Hahahaha! Good post! |
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| BILL PERKS |
54 SOBER DAYS |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
BILL PERKS wrote:
54 SOBER DAYS
I thought the thread said no sober allowed. |
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| Madafaka |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
I thought the thread said no sober allowed.
You thought right! |
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| Dan |
I have been mostly drinking Sparks lately along with the occasional Ice House Ale. But I am still recovering from the UFO gig Friday and subsequent party that had me drinking Sparks, Sierra Nevada and Tequila shots til 6am. |
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| Madafaka |
I'm drinking beer right now.
Did somebody drink ABSOLUT APEACH?
There's not in my country yet! |
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| Madafaka |
Yesterday was Mick's Birthaday and nobody drunk in his honor... Really weird. Are you all sober? I can't believe it! |
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| BILL PERKS |
56 DAYS |
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| Child of the Moon |
In fact, I did drink in Mick's honor last night. Mostly took in a variety of stuff, whatever was lying around, mainly because I'm broke as hell. But it was a good night. More birthday cheer to Mick! |
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| egon |
oh god,
why did I say yes, when asked to go for
"a few wednesday evening drinks"?
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| Poplar |
after a few days off the juice...
3 glasses of wine and a beer - i'm done. |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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Poplar wrote:
- i'm done.
Me too....now if this hangover would just go away. |
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