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Old 03-13-2006, 04:23 AM   #21
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I read first that this thread's title was Vomit steak...
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Old 03-13-2006, 05:16 AM   #22
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Would you like peppercorn on that steak sir? One second...

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You know, this kind of upsets me. You drove home in the state you were in?
The act of throwing up coupled with the realization that I had just done so in someone else's car sobered me up most effectively.

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I'm always shocked when American people just talk blatantly about driving drunk, as if it's the most normal thing to do in the world. I'm confronted with this all the time on the internet.

Over here in Belgium, we've had the BOB campaign (ads against drinking and driving), and it really worked. Amongst my friends and me there's the unspoken rule that you don't drink and drive, ever. If someone is drunk enough to consider driving home, we stop him. By force if it's necessary. Sometimes you just have to protect people from themselves.
We drink a lot. We do a lot of crazy stuff when drunk. But we'll never drive, because it's just asking for trouble.
Agreed. But the story I related happened when I was 17, over twenty years ago. Stupid kids do stupid things, and that incident in particular is what taught me to watch my alcohol intake very closely when I'm driving.
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The act of throwing up coupled with the realization that I had just done so in someone else's car sobered me up most effectively.
That's 100% an illusion. Adrenaline can give you the illusion of soberty, but the fact remains that the alcohol severely blurred your senses.

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Agreed. But the story I related happened when I was 17, over twenty years ago. Stupid kids do stupid things, and that incident in particular is what taught me to watch my alcohol intake very closely when I'm driving.
Yeah, well, mistakes are made to learn from I guess. I just have the impression that drinking and driving is still much more socially accepted in America than over here. Maybe because of the larger distances in America and the weird notion that everyone starts driving a car at the age of 16. I think the average age at which people start to drive a car in Belgium is closer to 21.
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Why did I first read this thread straight after eating my lunch? Anyhow, I tend to be sick when I get migranes, unless I have my medication on hand. Before I discovered migraleve, I was always really ill when I got migranes. Incidentally, that was the last time I was sick.
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The last time was about six months ago, due to a mild case of food poisoning. I was violently ill with such a tremendous and unprecedented volume and sheer ferocity that I have since nominated each round I suffered through as the moment in my life when I would most liked to have been standing face to face with a politician.

Also the only moment. It went like this: HwaaAAAAAAAAAARGGGHH! Which was pretty amazing, as it wasn't my voice making the sound. By "amazing", of course, I mean "thoroughly unpleasant and alarming."
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Yeah, well, mistakes are made to learn from I guess. I just have the impression that drinking and driving is still much more socially accepted in America than over here. Maybe because of the larger distances in America and the weird notion that everyone starts driving a car at the age of 16. I think the average age at which people start to drive a car in Belgium is closer to 21.
It's interesting... over here you can drive a car legally at 16-18 (depends on the state) and drink legally at 21. Apparently over in Belgium, then, you can drive a car legally at 21 and drink legally at 16-18...

The "problem" is that in the US, the situations in which it's useful to drive come a lot earlier, apparently. For instance, a typical 21-year old is about 3 years into college and has held some kind of job for as long as well. Unless you live in a spot with really good public transit, I don't see how you'd manage without a car (unless you like forcing your parents to cart you around).

Lena: Yeah, you more or less got it. Motion sickness is when what your inner ear is telling you is your motion and your eyes are telling you is your motion get completely crossed up.

Many people throw up... I'm "lucky" in that I tend to just get extremely woozy and feel like I'm gonna throw up (but I never do).

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Unless you live in a spot with really good public transit, I don't see how you'd manage without a car (unless you like forcing your parents to cart you around).
That´s a problem over here too. I mean public transportation. We live 8 km outside a small town. There are busses but I´ve never been able to catch a bus to or from work because of timetables not fitting my needs.
We´re also 1 h outside Stockholm (which has a lot of public transportation that seldom is on time during rush hours) And it´s more expensive for me to take the train to Sthlm than to drive my own car. And our gas prices are quite high. (something like $4.8 per US gallon)
Not that this had anything to do with vomits.
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The last time was about six months ago, due to a mild case of food poisoning. I was violently ill with such a tremendous and unprecedented volume and sheer ferocity that I have since nominated each round I suffered through as the moment in my life when I would most liked to have been standing face to face with a politician.

Also the only moment. It went like this: HwaaAAAAAAAAAARGGGHH! Which was pretty amazing, as it wasn't my voice making the sound. By "amazing", of course, I mean "thoroughly unpleasant and alarming."
ROFL! Don't hate me, but your story (or rather, or style of telling it) just caused me tears of laughter... oh my...
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This thread is just sick...

Geddit? Sick? I'm almost too good...

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Mira I DO like you! LOL

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The worse tasting thing in the world is vomit. No competition.
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ewwwwwwww. Can we change the title to 'Emesis Streak?' It sounds much less icky.
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Mushrooms.....
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Unclean cock.
You're supposed to pluck all the feathers off before you cook it, you know.
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Wonderful comeback! applause...

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