• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Expectation: drugs, alcohol, groupies, debauchery

    Reality: sitting around laughing about childhood stories over a few beers

    Guess that’s why they’re still around going strong decades after their big break.

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        5 months ago

        And yet, adding alcohol as a descriptor paints a more complete picture.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, but nobody does heroin responsibility. Nobody just has two blows. Let’s not even talk about how crystal meth not even once.

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          You aren’t wrong, but I know a guy that would go on random binges while on leave.

          One time he fucked off to Golden Gate Park, living on couches and the street, did heroin for a week and then reported for duty like nothing happened.

          How he served his full 8 without discharge is beyond me.

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            5 months ago

            I’ve also met some characters while in. Had a dude who would house Marlboro Reds in the field, but wouldn’t touch them back home. Such an odd thing to me, considering how nobody really just smokes sometimes. You either smoke, smoke a cigarette when you’re really drunk, or don’t.

            But yeah, I’ve just always drawn a distinction between drugs and alcohol, but maybe that distinction was drawn for me and I’ve just kept it out of habit. I don’t think it’s that, because I also won’t go as far as to include caffeine in the discussion, but you can bet I’d house the caffeine mints.

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              5 months ago

              Indonesian cigarettes actually taste good, so I actually DO smoke while I’m in Indonesia, but almost never (as in like 1 cigarette a DECADE) while in Canada

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        A drug but a legal drug you can buy from many stores. While stores do sell other of those kinds of drugs on occasion, they far less likely to be entirely (federally) legal.