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Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:58

@ScaleSilver49 like it a lot actually. It’s also on the list of “surprisingly doesn’t make me feel sick”

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:56

@shatroopa well in Mexico yes you kind of have to. Gin and tonics for some reason don’t make me feel poisoned. Haven’t figured that out.

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:55

@ScaleSilver49 usually either while having intense debates in Exarchia or on the beach on some island at night with anarchist nudists dancing around bonfires and playing rebetika in the background, you know, as one does…

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:53

@BendtheBow anarchist parties in NYC in the ’00s were always remembered by the quality of the (homemade) absinthe: ” that was the one where we all got totally fucked up” “oh you mean the one where everyone got sick?” “the party where the absinthe didn’t really do anything….”

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:51

@Speck1275 my wife loves wine so I have to learn enough to be able to get her something she’ll like, but honestly, it makes me feel vaguely sick. It always makes me indignant when you go to a fancy dinner party & you HAVE to drink wine or seem a weirdo. But I don’t WANT to feel sick!

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:47

@LindsayPB well the raid 2 blocks from my flat Tuesday night, I counted at c.12 cops w automatic weapons. And it seemed to be for an ordinary drug raid (rastas hang out in the next-door park & do drum circles). How many cops carrying machine guns are there on the loose on any given day?

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Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:42

@LittleWhiteTab @JosephCoward never had a bad trip in my life. Always learned something that seemed important at the time. But one day I just had this very powerful feeling “that’s enough”, a sudden knowledge that I’d learned what I needed to learn from it, & have had no desire to do acid ever since

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:38

@duhduhduh_d no if I’d started drinking enormous amounts of beer, and then moved to cognac, I suppose a case could be made. But I just never liked beer & used to be mostly a teetotaler.

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:31

@james_e_baldwin oh they are from entirely different planets. I’d recommend one shot of Laphroaig just to see.

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:30

@robynynyn exactly, I need to find the spot where I’m slightly happy and buzzed but can still operate heavy machinery (as it were). They say that a person who is just 3% drunk is actually better at solving problems, but after that you get worse at it very rapidly

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:27

@BrianGallaghe17 granted it is an unusual thing to talk about such things on twitter but it is my way of procrastinating from two writing projects and one recording I’m supposed to be doing this afternoon

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:27

@BrianGallaghe17 I’m just thinking aloud. My dad became an alcoholic & made my mom’s wife miserable for twenty years. Then he got motor neurone disease and drank himself to death which wasn’t entirely irrational in retrospect. So it’s a reasonable thing for me to be worried about such things.

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:25

@HandleOfRy I had a friend who was trying to break a cocaine habit who decided to become a tea maven but iirc it didn’t really work. Tea doesn’t move me. I mean it’s okay, when others make some I usually share a cup, but I never seek it out.

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:23

@alraven3 yeah I’ve been wondering too. I’m from a working class background but a lot of my tastes are aristocratic. I just can’t abide all those people in the middle, especially high middle. Hence my passionate dislike for the PMCs, which I’m supposed to be a member of now

Thu 25 Jun 2020 13:07

@RaspaPLUSdevi well the scary thing is perhaps this sort of massive military-style raid is now so common that it’s not considered news.

Thu 25 Jun 2020 12:49

@pigreen1 @RidingTheScree I’m not saying they can’t be overcome, but the left has been trying to address them through organisations which include both sides & are therefore dominated by the administrators.. That’s not going to work.

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Wed 24 Jun 2020 21:33

@rebeccagwilson @nikadubrovsky Why thank you! We’ve been married for a year but we still haven’t had a proper wedding. Were going to do it in Berlin on Mayday (perhaps the first of a whole series of weddings in various cities) but then … well, you know.

Wed 24 Jun 2020 12:12

@bygeorgist @girlziplocked well you know there was blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, rock’n’roll, funk, soul… People also tend to forget that African-Americans actually are Americans.

Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:40

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld I was in my local LP coordination hub to visit my friend Elif (27) – when the results started coming in, about half the kids were like “where can I get some heroin?” and the other half were “where I can get some weapons?”

Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:36

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld that’s why they’re in mass rebellion and who can blame them?

Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:35

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld I’m just getting a feel for the next half-generation, and my sense is there’s a (totally justifiable) rage as people who feel their elders have decided they’re fated to live in boxes, with their main emotional relations online, for 30 years until the seas boil and they die