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Finnegan

Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 1081 Location: in that cool mountain air, on an appalachian trail
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Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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I was really hoping this thread would take off again and my fellow sinfesters could experience the cathartic release of confessing their secrets. but if you find it too embarrassing without ms. frisby to post your secrets anonymously, please feel free to pm them to me and I will post them with every confidence intact. _________________ Formerly Green_Finn
hey! rock bottom's not that bad
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Finnegan

Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 1081 Location: in that cool mountain air, on an appalachian trail
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Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | I recently spent two days in hospital after my house friends found me bouncing off the walls and trying to crawl to the bathroom to vomit. I said I'd accidentally had too much to drink on an empty stomach. I'd drunk 70cl of navy rum & swallowed approx 30 cocodamol tablets (which i'd stolen & hoarded). I don't know whether it would have done the trick, tbh, but I've accidentally survived worse.
Last time I tried it - about 5 years ago - I got bored of the floaty, giggling, slow finality of it and took a bread knife to my wrists. Fuck knows how I woke up the next day, but I did.
RECENTLY I LEARNED that nurses will rehydrate you and pretend like nothing happened |
_________________ Formerly Green_Finn
hey! rock bottom's not that bad
we've got glow-in-the-dark fish down here that's rad |
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stripeypants

Joined: 24 Feb 2013 Posts: 4741 Location: Land of the Grumpuses
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:34 am Post subject: |
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I drink out of coffee stirrers. They are the perfect size for coffee mugs, so I never thought much about it. But then I recently read that some people are offended by this practice, so I thought I had better come clean to you all.
In honor of this, I am drinking out of two right now - because for some reason that was fun when I was a kid, and I want to recapture the magic. _________________ ::lesser crisis mode::
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 21165 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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isn't that why they are hollow? because otherwise, they are just stealing perfectly good coffee from you. _________________ aka: neverscared!
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Atrophy Annie

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Your Mom
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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I never used to understand why people didn't drink out of them. But I also still don't understand why people drink coffee.* >_>
*I do but I'm really just emphasizing that I think coffee is disgusting. And I realize this will likely result in someone going BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT or OMG YOU'RE SO WEIRD! _________________ Way to kill the conversation, Patty.- Trevor |
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ShadowCell
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 7395 Location: California
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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if people actually think drinking through coffee stirrers is offensive then that is all the more reason to do it |
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Samsally
Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7536
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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I had no idea it was offensive to some. That seems like a really ridiculous thing to get in a fit over. I just don't do it because COME ON I do not have patience for that bullshit, give me ALL THE COFFEE IMMEDIATELY thank you. _________________ Samsally the GrayAce |
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Monkey Mcdermott
Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3352
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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AAAaaaaand now im gonna  _________________
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stripeypants

Joined: 24 Feb 2013 Posts: 4741 Location: Land of the Grumpuses
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently, pretentious women drinking cocktails with coffee stirrers is a thing, and that's why it is offensive. I don't know how common the sentiment is, but it was all I was finding when looking up 'drinking out of coffee stirrers' earlier.
I can attest that drinking out of double coffee stirrers is as exhilarating at 30 as it was at 10, though I still don't know why. And you can get five times as many coffee stirrers as you can big straws.
Also, I don't ever drink coffee, and I usually drink cold drinks out of them. I also don't find them hard to drink out of, so maybe I've just got great suction powers. _________________ ::lesser crisis mode::
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Samsally
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Monkey Mcdermott wrote: | AAAaaaaand now im gonna  |
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fritterdonut

Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1458
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:45 am Post subject: |
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I never really trust plastic coffee stirrers (for stirring or drinking) because some sort of deep-set dislike for mixing very hot liquids and plastics. The whole Nalgene BPA fiasco didn't help either. I refuse to use straws with hot drinks (or highly alcoholic ones) for the same reasons.
I generally drink my coffee at temperatures approaching the surface of the sun though, so maybe that's why. Pulling a floppy straw out of your coffee isn't very appetizing. _________________ The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum |
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stripeypants

Joined: 24 Feb 2013 Posts: 4741 Location: Land of the Grumpuses
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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You can get special paper straws, and there are also glass straws and steel straws. Though none of those, espexially the steel ones, are good for hot drinks. The glass ones are good sometimes, but I've heard they can crack. And I'm sure paper straws get woobly like noodles in hot drinks. _________________ ::lesser crisis mode::
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Vox Raucus

Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 1274 Location: At the Hundredth Meridian
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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I've used metal straws for hot drinks (specifically a Bombilla) and it worked just fine. _________________ The cat's indifferent or he's just furious, it seems that he's never neither |
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Him

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4367 Location: On edge
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Finnegan wrote: | Quote: | I recently spent two days in hospital after my house friends found me bouncing off the walls and trying to crawl to the bathroom to vomit. I said I'd accidentally had too much to drink on an empty stomach. I'd drunk 70cl of navy rum & swallowed approx 30 cocodamol tablets (which i'd stolen & hoarded). I don't know whether it would have done the trick, tbh, but I've accidentally survived worse.
Last time I tried it - about 5 years ago - I got bored of the floaty, giggling, slow finality of it and took a bread knife to my wrists. Fuck knows how I woke up the next day, but I did.
RECENTLY I LEARNED that nurses will rehydrate you and pretend like nothing happened |
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Heh. I've tried to kill myself a couple of times. This year. I'm in therapy so it's fine. _________________ A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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fritterdonut

Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1458
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Finnegan wrote: | Quote: | I recently spent two days in hospital after my house friends found me bouncing off the walls and trying to crawl to the bathroom to vomit. I said I'd accidentally had too much to drink on an empty stomach. I'd drunk 70cl of navy rum & swallowed approx 30 cocodamol tablets (which i'd stolen & hoarded). I don't know whether it would have done the trick, tbh, but I've accidentally survived worse.
Last time I tried it - about 5 years ago - I got bored of the floaty, giggling, slow finality of it and took a bread knife to my wrists. Fuck knows how I woke up the next day, but I did.
RECENTLY I LEARNED that nurses will rehydrate you and pretend like nothing happened |
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Depending on the type of Cocodamol tablets, that dosage would probably cause death via hepatotoxicity due to the mixture of alcohol, paracetamol, and codeine. It would be extremely unpleasant (I cannot emphasize this enough), with the possibility of lingering for multiple days while your internal organs slowly shut down (your liver and possibly kidneys, most specifically). Meanwhile, you'd have to deal with seizures and intense vomiting and extreme internal pain.
So yeah, don't do it is my best advice. _________________ The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum |
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