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LuckyCharms

(17,414 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:48 PM Jul 2018

I have not had a drink in about 5 years.

Not for any particular reason, except that I didn't enjoy it that much anymore. Also, I quit smoking around the same time, so not drinking made it easier.

I swear, WHEN Trump gets taken down, I'm going to go out to a good bar and I'll be swilling the hard stuff right out of the bottle and dancing on tables the whole night.

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I have not had a drink in about 5 years. (Original Post) LuckyCharms Jul 2018 OP
When Trump gets taken down... Initech Jul 2018 #1
I lost my taste for drinking a few years back but I'll join you. In_The_Wind Jul 2018 #2
I stopped both around 2004... jodymarie aimee Jul 2018 #3
Here's to us! LuckyCharms Jul 2018 #6
If I have a drink I WILL bum a smoke jodymarie aimee Jul 2018 #8
I'm sorry to hear that. LuckyCharms Jul 2018 #11
No I won't start smoking again jodymarie aimee Jul 2018 #13
"No I won't start smoking again." LenaBaby61 Jul 2018 #38
Are you mercuryblues Jul 2018 #4
I will be dancing in the streets and joining the HUGE celebration. democratisphere Jul 2018 #5
YES! leftieNanner Jul 2018 #15
I'll join you PJMcK Jul 2018 #7
I'll drink to that! Ligyron Jul 2018 #35
I remember those days SonofDonald Jul 2018 #42
Drink enough to piss on every picture of 45 that you see Sanity Claws Jul 2018 #9
Wins the intertubes tonite! n/t Mopar151 Jul 2018 #32
I only drink on the weekends. iscooterliberally Jul 2018 #10
Stay away from the hard stuff vlyons Jul 2018 #12
I know, I was just exaggerating. LuckyCharms Jul 2018 #14
Have some Urbana with that stuff. n/t rzemanfl Jul 2018 #16
When Trump is gone I'm taking a trip and try some of that exotic weed I've been hearing about. walkingman Jul 2018 #17
21 years 6 months and 4 days SonofDonald Jul 2018 #18
. LuckyCharms Jul 2018 #24
I'm drinking right now. NurseJackie Jul 2018 #19
I doubt he will ever go down. But I also doubt he runs again in 2020. nt USALiberal Jul 2018 #20
I don't drink either, but when Trump is taken down, PatrickforO Jul 2018 #21
No I am going to flash my boobs. I live in a Senior Park. lol Oppaloopa Jul 2018 #22
I use my boobs to get out of speeding tickets. LuckyCharms Jul 2018 #23
lol guss Jul 2018 #28
I think there are going to be huge parties in the streets! I know I'll be out there! C Moon Jul 2018 #25
I stopped drinking, too, but I'm planning a bottle of fine champagne. Vinca Jul 2018 #26
Let me know where you'll be. WinstonSmith4740 Jul 2018 #27
LOL. But you might find that after so long w/out, you won't enjoy that night of celebratory boozing. Honeycombe8 Jul 2018 #29
A nice salmon filet, with roasted potatos and fresh asparagus, Mopar151 Jul 2018 #33
Ohhhhhh...now you're talkin'! Mmmmm. nt Honeycombe8 Jul 2018 #34
I stopped guss Jul 2018 #30
Will roll a big fat doobie, break out my best bourbon and japple Jul 2018 #31
Easy! Cha Jul 2018 #36
I've thought about this a lot. I'm betting the partying will be intense. nolabear Jul 2018 #37
I seldom drink anymore either. Coventina Jul 2018 #39
I pulled aside a bottle of Champagne Best_man23 Jul 2018 #40
Great idea! Denis 11 Jul 2018 #41

Initech

(100,042 posts)
1. When Trump gets taken down...
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:52 PM
Jul 2018

I'm hopping the next Uber to the nearest bar and going hard! I will be gladly celebrating in the streets!

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
3. I stopped both around 2004...
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:53 PM
Jul 2018

they DO go together...stopped seeing the jackass I was with...natural progression...I am with you, tho ..Parents quit smoking as soon as Surgeon General came out with warning...my Ma(87) still says she likes to go around smokers and sniff them !!

Here's to us Lucky...

LuckyCharms

(17,414 posts)
6. Here's to us!
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:56 PM
Jul 2018

If someone lights up a smoke on the next block, I can smell it! I still kinda/sorta like the smell...but I don't think I'll ever go back to it. Good for you for getting rid of the jackass!

LuckyCharms

(17,414 posts)
11. I'm sorry to hear that.
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 05:03 PM
Jul 2018

I'm sure it had an effect on you even though he was a jackass. Also, I'm of the mind that if you can just have a smoke every once in awhile when you have a drink, it is ok. I tried doing that a few times, and I always started smoking again, so I had to finally go cold turkey.

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
13. No I won't start smoking again
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 05:09 PM
Jul 2018

I like breathing too much...I got asthma and emphasema....both gone now..my Doc said that CAN happen....

LenaBaby61

(6,973 posts)
38. "No I won't start smoking again."
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 09:21 PM
Jul 2018

I hear you.

I have a friend who said when tRump's taken down, she'll take me out for an expensive steak dinner @ a restaurant that a relative of her co-owns on the beach in So. California (Manhattan Beach, Ca). I've been a strict vegan since the late 1980's, and I got past the taste of meat long ago. I told her, when tReasonous fatso's taken down, and I mean really taken down, buy me a huge basket FULL of organic fruit--something I KNOW I'll enjoy eating and will EAT. I had a friend who celebrated when Pres. Obama won the presidency in 2008, and he lit up a cigar to celebrate, and he hadn't taken a puff in almost 30 years. Well, he's been smoking ever since and can't stop. Want's to, but can't. He's on his 4th anti-smoking med. The anti-smoking patches over the counter didn't work and the other 2 anti-smoking prescribed meds haven't helped. He's had 5 members of his immediate family die from lung cancer (smoking-related), amongst them, two 1st cousins, both of their dads, his brother who died from lung cancer @ 30, and both of his parents died of lung cancer (smoking-related-they both smoked King-sized Herbert Tareyton's since they were both about 18 years old, and died when they were both 66 years old, the same age he is now).

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
5. I will be dancing in the streets and joining the HUGE celebration.
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:54 PM
Jul 2018

Independence Day from drumpf et al and the redumbliCON party.

leftieNanner

(15,067 posts)
15. YES!
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 05:09 PM
Jul 2018

I think it would be fitting to put Trump, Ryan, and McConnell in the back of a horse drawn cart, with all three of them in orange jump suits and shackles. Drive them around DC - Hell, drive them across the country and let us mock them and throw rotten tomatoes in their faces.

PJMcK

(21,998 posts)
7. I'll join you
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:57 PM
Jul 2018

Vodka and weed form my escape from TrumpWorld but when he's gone, the evening's beverages will be on me.

Who else will join us?!

Ligyron

(7,616 posts)
35. I'll drink to that!
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 09:13 PM
Jul 2018

The only way I can smoke weed is if I have a few drinks first. Otherwise, I get kinda paranoid for some reason.

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
42. I remember those days
Thu Jul 26, 2018, 02:56 PM
Jul 2018

With me if I smoked a bit then drank it barely left me with only one foot in reality, you know, the one you hang over the side of the bed to touch the floor with.

Kinda, sorta....

"An Irishman is never too drunk"

"As long as he can hold onto a single bade of grass"

"And not fall off the world"

From a plaque in my Parents kitchen since I was young.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
12. Stay away from the hard stuff
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 05:07 PM
Jul 2018

If you've not drunk alcohol for 5 years, your body will probably get drunk faster than you realize. We want you to ENJOY kissing that clown in the WH good-bye. Beer and wine are just as festive as hard liquor. Buy a bottle of good champaign and share it with your pals.

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
18. 21 years 6 months and 4 days
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 06:03 PM
Jul 2018

Even dumpf can't make me take a drink.

But I do love the joke flower though, I have a big ol fattie spiced with keef and coated with hash oil waiting.

For that day......

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
19. I'm drinking right now.
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 06:06 PM
Jul 2018

Vodka, St. Germain, Cointreau, White Cranberry Juice, Rose's Lime Juice ... shake with ice... strain into martini glass, garnish with floating thin lime slice (or fresh/frozen cranberries).

PatrickforO

(14,559 posts)
21. I don't drink either, but when Trump is taken down,
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 06:53 PM
Jul 2018

I'm getting a couple bottles of Asti Spumante and get a nice buzz on.

C Moon

(12,209 posts)
25. I think there are going to be huge parties in the streets! I know I'll be out there!
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 07:15 PM
Jul 2018

CHEERING and hooting until I lose my voice!

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
29. LOL. But you might find that after so long w/out, you won't enjoy that night of celebratory boozing.
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 07:23 PM
Jul 2018

I went thru a happy hour phase many years ago. Party party party. Scotch & water.

After the party phase was over, I quit drinking. I never liked it much, anyway. I usually have maybe one or two drinks a year.

I would never want to tie one on, now. I no longer enjoy the feeling or the taste.

I quit smoking years ago. I quit having even an occasional drink around that time, afraid that drinking might weaken me and lead to a smoke.

When Trump gets taken down...I don't know what I'll do to celebrate. I'll have to give that some thought.

Mopar151

(9,975 posts)
33. A nice salmon filet, with roasted potatos and fresh asparagus,
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 08:19 PM
Jul 2018

Living well is the best revenge! For those about to enter Hell, a tall ice water is the perfect ironic toast goodbye.

nolabear

(41,936 posts)
37. I've thought about this a lot. I'm betting the partying will be intense.
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 09:17 PM
Jul 2018

I doubt I'll get faced, but I'll certainly whoop in the street and have a couple glasses of champagne. And probably sleep better than I have in two years.

Side note: I recently had some bloodworm done and our hospital has incorporated graphing so you can see test results in graph form going back ten years. Happily I'm pretty much normal except for one set in 2016 where everything spiked. I was perplexed about what on earth had happened. I didn't recall any health disaster. A friend just smiled and said "You do know that was right after the election, right?"

I intend to outlive the bastard and if he's ever buried in a public place to go there and join the line to piss on his grave.

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