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One For the Road

One For the Road

by Adam on July 10, 2014 at 12:41 am
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  1. Barlakopofai
    Barlakopofai
    July 10, 2014, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Honestly, it probably came with advertising. Once you make people think alcohol tastes good, they start drinking enough of it to like it.

    • SRSteue
      SRSteue
      July 10, 2014, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      So enjoying alcohol is a lot like Stockholm Syndrome?

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      July 10, 2014, 4:33 am | # | Reply

      Then you taste it and realized it tastes like piss but you’re too prideful to actually admit it and keep drinking because it’s the “cool” thing to do.

      Alcohol lost its usefulness when we able to distill drinking water in mass quantity. If you say it helped shy people to start talking to each other then I say grow some balls and talk to each other without the help of alcohol.

      • ohplease
        ohplease
        July 10, 2014, 8:43 am | # | Reply

        You’ve never had a pinacolada then, right? Because that tastes like heaven. Virgin ones, not so much. I love a good cocktail and it makes me feel good. I have a feeling most people don’t really care about the taste, especially alcoholics who’ll drink listerine to get drunk. This convo took a serious turn. Good comic Adam!

      • Michaelangelo
        Michaelangelo
        July 10, 2014, 11:51 am | # | Reply

        Beer tastes amazing. Are you on crack, Mr. AckAckAck?

        • Barlakopofai
          Barlakopofai
          July 11, 2014, 12:16 am | # | Reply

          Beer tastes like fermented weiner juice .-. Trust me, I know alot about weiner juice

      • TheRedwolf
        TheRedwolf
        July 10, 2014, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

        You could also be less rude and keep in mind that some people just can’t communicate with others really because of things like anxiety disorders. I have very strong anxiety in general, but particularly social, and it has been medically diagnosed. Even with medication it’s difficult for me to go out and talk to new people. Granted, I also don’t use alcohol for that, because it’s pointless, but just telling people to “grow some balls and talk to each other” is ignorant and acerbic, and both unnecessarily.

        • Barlakopofai
          Barlakopofai
          July 11, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

          Well it’s not that ignorant and acerbic, I have the same thing too, but I just repress my inhibitions without alcohol :3

    • Yes
      Yes
      February 10, 2019, 5:58 am | # | Reply

      People drink alcohol because it lowers their blood pressure, making them happier. Til tomorrow.

  2. Tony McGurk
    Tony McGurk
    July 10, 2014, 4:27 am | # | Reply

    I wanna see the letterbox arguement video

  3. Jeff Clough
    Jeff Clough
    July 10, 2014, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    Spring Break videos…TITillating…I see what you did there!

    And I don’t drink alcohol because it’s cool, I drink it because I do like the taste. Well, not wine so much…or hard liquor…but beer? Oh my, yes. Yes, I do like the taste of good craft beer.

    • AlixeTiir
      AlixeTiir
      July 10, 2014, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      I prefer wine and hard overly sweet liqour. I add lime juice.

  4. Mahnarch
    Mahnarch
    July 10, 2014, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. Guess I gotta stop making those videos… 😀

  5. Shannon Love
    Shannon Love
    July 10, 2014, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    Prior to prohibition, apparently, the majority of drunks were much less obnoxious.

    Being able to “hold your liqueur” didn’t just mean staying on your feet but remaining largely functional. Back then booze was cheap and there wasn’t a nanny state so drinking until you went blind wasn’t regarded as accomplishment.

    During prohibition, however, getting plastered became something of a status symbol. As prohibition didn’t make the consumption of alcohol illegal, there was no crime in being caught drunk but since you were a bad boy breaking a law, you got cool points. So, people stopped trying to maintain control when drunk and started acting out to make sure everyone knew what a rebel they were.

    There were plenty of hard core drunks back prior to prohibition. That is what prompted the prohibition movement. But in the main, they tried to disguise their drunkenness by remaining in private or being unobtrusive in public.

    The “town drunk” was the guy who couldn’t disguise it. At lot of the classic humor attributed to the town drunk comes from their utterly transparent attempts to act sober.

    • qka
      qka
      July 10, 2014, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      During Prohibition, it wasn’t illegal to make alcoholic beverages. It WAS illegal to sell or transport them. So you could make your own hooch, consume it at home, and be totally legal.

  6. J-L
    J-L
    July 10, 2014, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

    That bug’s name is Edgar. We have a named bug!

    Is this the first time a bug has been named?

    • Adam
      Adam
      July 10, 2014, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

      Well, his name is Edgar for that strip.

  7. James
    James
    July 10, 2014, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

    In the town I grew up in, we elected the drunk as mayor. The hard part was finding the drunk–we were ALL drunks by anyone else’s standard. The advantage was, he left us alone more or less, unless he ran out of booze.

  8. Izzie
    Izzie
    July 28, 2014, 11:27 am | # | Reply

    I think I’d watch Edgar’s videos. Arguing with a mailbox, that’s something I’d do when I had NOTHING to do..

  9. TB Tabby
    TB Tabby
    July 18, 2022, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    I blame Prohibition.

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