I think I’ve still got some of the old discussions saved as text files somewhere…

Dark ages indeed – Bush at record popularity ratings, hard to imagine isn’t it. And now he’s gone and his successor is a black liberal whose dad was a muslim and whose middle name is Hussein. If you’d had told me that back in ’03 I would have thought you were on more than just alcohol.

My fame exceeds me!!!!

I’m utterly gobsmacked to run into another Chimpster after all this time.

Don’t take it personally, but I don’t remember ANY of the people from those days. Memory not what it once was… or maybe it is… I don’t recall. Bloody alcohol probably.

There a two sure ways to tell if your brain has been damaged by the booze. First, your short-term memory goes. Then… um… er… has anyone seen my keys???

Good times.

I don’t actually think that alcohol should be banned, but it should only be allowed if other drugs that are much LESS harmful (such as cannabis, shrooms, LSD, ecstacy etc) are also allowed. It is unbearable hypocrisy that people get locked up for dealing and using these substances when they cause nowhere near the amount of harm that alcohol causes. Yet when it comes to alcohol we get stupid advertising campaigns advising us to drink responsibly. Idiot government doesn’t think we can be responsible with other drugs that are actually safer?

Alcohol is one of the nastiest drugs, up there with tobacco and heroin. I remember reading about the police in the valley a few months ago saying how glad they were when more people were taking ecstacy use going on, because it vastly reduced the amount of violence they had to deal with.

- the one or two red wines I’d have when out to dinner
- those few quiet drinks I’d have at a barbeque or party
- the occasional glass of bubbly around Christmas time.

So I don’t think I can go along with a ban on alcohol. But how about making anti-social behaviour a criminal offence. Then we can lock up or fine all of the Cronulla idiots. And we can take action against the party-goers that puke and piss on your nature strip. And against the clowns making racist and misogynist comments at the cricket. And the glass droppers. Etc, etc. Because really I don’t care if their behaviour is due to alcohol, dope or just some ingredient that God left out at birth. I want effective sanctions against it anyway.

Luckily they are white, so you can get away with talking about them like that…

(are you the same mars that used to post on the smirkingchimp?)

…is regarded as a normal part of Aussie life…

Maybe “normal wasn’t the work I would have picked.

Maybe defining or essential? Increasingly intrinsic?

And let’s point out the main fact of the matter – most of the people in question have been BLIND PISSED. So it’s related to this problem we’ve been hearing so much about lately of “yoof” binge-drinking. We all know alcohol can make you do stupid things, and there are some people who become real c*nts under the influence of alcohol. If they were under the influence of any other substance the media would be up in arms about tougher drug laws – “Jail the Alcohol Users and Dealers”. My friend’s an ambo and he says that almost all of the cases they get called out to on Friday and Saturday nights are alcohol related.

I can’t express how furiously angry it makes me that a marijuana is criminalised when this IMMEASURABLY worse, more dangerous drug, and the fucking stupid behaviour it engenders (violence, sexual assault, road carnage), is regarded as a normal part of Aussie life. If society can put up with this then why the hell can’t we legalise pot? (I’m talking to you, Anna Bligh)