@very-rusty saidTook me a while to understand AA's notion of the "dry drunk" but now I think I've seen it in action in some cases, where the completely abstinent person still behaves in the same disinhibited, self-centered, inconsiderate way that a drunk who was actually under the influence of imbibed molecules would.
Kevin,
You do understand sit on it and rotate right? 🙂 😛
What consideration do you show other Subscribers here?
Let me answer for you.........NONE!!!!
-VR
So the overall benefit of abstinence really only accrues to the former drinker and their liver and general health, but there's not much social benefit, because the people the abstainer interacts with still have to deal with the shadow of the drunk personality.
Just writing this out by way of explanation of what I meant by that phrase.
P.S. -- I also consider Tucker Carlson on Fox "News" to be a dry drunk.
@very-rusty saidYou'd better "cover your ass" before I "rip you a new one".
Man I thought you were brighter than that.
Some of my best friends are gay, and some of the kindest good hearted people I know. Obviously you're not!!! 😛 🙂
-VR
Hoping you can see how violently anti-gay such straight-guy phrases might sound.
A more subtle nightmare scenario:
To my great surprise, Dive was riding on the same train as I and approached me in the tea car as it rattled across the tundra.
Of course it was no surprise to him, for he had plotted it. Like something out of Hitchcock he proposed that we switch forum roles: I would write in his style for a year, and he would write in my style.
I'll admit that in a moment of weakness I offered to give him my reading list for the past 50 years so that he could convincingly season his posts with K11-esque diction, cadences, and references -- but I did somehow manage to pull myself back from the brink, or perhaps something beyond myself pulled me back.
@kevin-eleven saidYou would have to give him your crayons as well.
A more subtle nightmare scenario:
To my great surprise, Dive was riding on the same train as I and approached me in the tea car as it rattled across the tundra.
Of course it was no surprise to him, for he had plotted it. Like something out of Hitchcock he proposed that we switch forum roles: I would write in his style for a year, and he would write in my style.
...[text shortened]... omehow manage to pull myself back from the brink, or perhaps something beyond myself pulled me back.
@the-gravedigger saidFrom you I am happy to allow such insolence.
You would have to give him your crayons as well.
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@kevin-eleven saidLIke yourself and your buddy gooster I was like that before the drinking every started! 😛 😉
Took me a while to understand AA's notion of the "dry drunk" but now I think I've seen it in action in some cases, where the completely abstinent person still behaves in the same disinhibited, self-centered, inconsiderate way that a drunk who was actually under the influence of imbibed molecules would.
So the overall benefit of abstinence really only accrues to the fo ...[text shortened]... t I meant by that phrase.
P.S. -- I also consider Tucker Carlson on Fox "News" to be a dry drunk.
My liver is fine but thanks for caring, have you had a check up lately? Probably run a brain scan if you can afford it! 🙂
-VR
@kevin-eleven saidHappy or not live with it! 😛 🙂
From you I am happy to allow such insolence.
-VR
@the-gravedigger saidYou best not give him my crayons. ðŸ˜
You would have to give him your crayons as well.
-VR