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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 84 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

As someone suffering from a few health problems because in my 20s, I took this meme literally...

Don't.

Find an alternative way to relax.

[–] hoch 22 points 2 years ago

As someone suffering from a few health problems in my 20s, I took this meme literally...

Pourin' a drink now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Likewise

Go for a walk, go on a hike, go fishing, get a BBQ going: don't just drink your day away.

I'm an avid hiker now but I'll never forget my doctor telling me at 24 that if I didn't stop drinking I was going to be dead before 30.

[–] troglodytis 5 points 2 years ago

...while drinking

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Here for a good time not a long time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah let me ruin a nice day out by reducing my consciousness of this nice day and fucking my health while I'm at it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't have enough free time to relax without chemical assistance.

[–] PP_BOY_ 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thats bullshit and you know it. I hope you can find the help you need someday though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's literally not. It takes me a few hours to stop thinking about work shit and everything else I have to do and I don't have that long at the end of the day. I didn't say I drink every day or even every week. I wouldn't even say I have a drinking problem. Most days I just sit around being still stressed out for an hour or so after I get all my shit done and then go to bed. You don't know shit about me so keep your platitudes to yourself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Someone doesn’t need to know you to know how self-medicating anxiety (what you’re describing) with alcohol fucks people up long term

They did manage to be a dick about it, but yea the more someone feels like they can’t stop those thoughts, the deeper the need is for something sustainable (a practice, a hobby, a life change, a med, etc.) that can help them do that

Even at its best, if someone sidesteps all the side effects of alcohol, it still just delays someone from learning how to master those thought patterns in themselves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I know how to break out of those thought patterns. The problem is, like I already said, it takes longer to do than I have time for. It's not like there's a switch I can flip off.

I'm going to be fucked long term regardless of what I do anyway because the society we've constructed is fucked and built around continuously making everything worse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

You’ve got my support.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Finally, some advice I can get behind.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Way ahead of you, bro.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Saint Harambe, passing on his wisdom. RIP you fucking legend. This day drink's for you.

[–] troglodytis 13 points 2 years ago

Gorilla keeping it rilla

[–] paddirn 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] mkhopper 10 points 2 years ago

This looks like an IRL Far Side comic.

[–] adj16 6 points 2 years ago

Why wait until you’re not at work?

[–] luckyhunter 6 points 2 years ago

It is football season. Find a local game and go tailgate! Or golf! Or just sit on the couch and slam beers!

[–] unreachable 6 points 2 years ago

homer of the alternate Simpsons universe

[–] Fades 6 points 2 years ago

Spoken like a true new-to-alcohol person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Wisdom of our ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I tried this, and I ended up in jail

Stuff.jpg: He was a severe alcoholic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

People, remember most gorillas don't know about alcohol. He certainly means drinking water.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

do something athletic or anything outside

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Get yourself a heavy glass mug. Lift gains while you drink.

[–] datelmd5sum 1 points 2 years ago

I like to cycle around the lake and stop at the pubs surrounding it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

"I'm just saying if they don't hang down to here, you should use the Bakunyuu tag!"