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more about #drinking more comments → drunkexpatwriter: Is there some reason people can't just drink rum and coke? Also, has it not occurred to the authorities in San Fran that enough rum and cokes will gi... more » unfuckwithable: Prohibition for Pansies would be the perfect Death Cab for Cutie tribute band name. more » Matt Cherette: Wait, when did Sparks get banned!? more » RaptorAvatar: Four Loko is far too sketchy to ever be successfully banned. more » fatmonalisa: Can't the hipsters just add vodka to Jolt soda? more » pollyannacowgirl: Nothing clever to contribute. Just that I despise drunk drivers immensely. And they never die in accidents; it's always their poor sober victims who... more » sanyucat: Wait . . . there's someone named Dick Lugar? How has this not been an item before? more » A Message To Rudy: Well, she does look like she enjoys a good highball. I bet her voice sounds like three packs of cigarettes too. more » intime: You'd be drunk too, if you were married to Dick Lugar. more » manchops: I'm putting my money on Laura Bush. THE DRUNKEN LIBRARIAN RIDES AGAIN! more » BookishLookish: Which is why New York City is among the greatest cities: You can get your drink on, even get sloppy, then hail a cab home. A car is a drinking girl's ... more » Banjo-Sea Kitten: And there's this: about one out of every six federal inmates is in federal prison for marijuana. more » BettyCrocker: Is that her, looking wistfully at the phallic microphones and thinking, "If only, if only...."? Ok, I'm puerile. But his hair sucks and he looks lik... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Back in the mid-90's there was a great magazine called Bikini, and for a while they had a "Dick of the Month" feature. NASCAR driver Dick Trickle and... more » Gawkerati: An Independent ... that would be ... Bill O'Reilly ... he's fair and balanced ... more » -
#hipsters
Prohibition for Pansies: Bathtub Bootlegging Hipster Juice
File Under: Ideas Bad for Humanity. An industrious writer embarked on a mission to recreate the now-banned Hipster Holy Water known as Sparks. Reactions? "God, that's so fucking gross," and "This is the best day of my life." Success! [SFWeekly] -
#lifeskills
Sen. Dick Lugar's Wife Arrested for Drunk Driving
Charlene Lugar, the wife of staid Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar, was charged with DWI in McLean, Va., last night after driving into a parked car. Now we know who does all the partying (or vodka-in-the-coffee-thermos drinking) in the Lugar family. More » -
#drunks
How Not to Advertise an Alcoholic Beverage
Bad enough the lady is drinking and driving with only one hand because she's holding a (hallucinated?) dragon in the other hand. Also, her eyes are closed. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge.]
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#obviousthings
"Alcohol likely played a role" in fence-jump impalement of self-proclaimed ninja.
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#bullshit
Wine criticism: Bullshit. Add it to the list.
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#science
Study: Jocks Act Like Jocks
High school scientists have discovered that high school athletes are more likely to drink and fight than high school non-athletes (nerds). WHOA. More » -
#gossiproundup
Whitney Houston Should Just Go Home And Rest
Whitney Houston had a wardrobe malfunction and forgot about her own album. Paris Hilton craves shellfish. Akon wants his baby mama to be his Myspace friend. All that and more in your Monday Morning Gossip Roundup! More » -
#shutupbrooklyn
Wine Bar, Gangs, Crazies Fight in Williamsburg
A committed band of coots, cranks, and wingnuts in Williamsburg are ready to do whatever it takes to ensure that their neighborhood doesn't get one more wine bar, which would make all the gangs come in. More » -
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#advertising
Are Booze Ads Making You a Drunk?
Whoa: The British Medical Association is urging a complete ban on alcohol advertising and sponsorships in England, home to many drunks. But the media needs that money! Who's more disingenuous here—ad agencies, media companies, or doctors? It's close! More » -
#drunkhistory
Everybody at the New York Times Used to Be So Wasted Every Day
"Those rewrite men—some of them were so drunk!" So begins Gay Talese's entertaining reminiscence on just how drunk the New York Times was, in his day. Mad Men? "Hell. The drinking that went on in journalism was beyond that." More » -
#science
College Kids Maintaining, Bro
The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs—the most popular journal—found that the binge-drinking and unprotected sex habits of students at America's drunkest colleges has barely changed since the early 90s. So what's the problem, right? High-five. [JSAD] -
#science
Nine Out of Ten Drunks Deny Driving
How many of you are "binge drinkers," meaning you had five drinks in a night once last month? (All you drunks raise your hands). Now, how many of you drove after getting wasted? (Pause). Liars! Science knows. More » -
#science
Scientist Thinks He's Better Than You Cause You Drink, Is That It?
Wet-brained scientists have discovered that long-term alcoholics may misread the emotional cues that people project with their facial expressions. And how! More » -
#marketing
At Least You Have Beer In a Box
Are you a sad football-watching drunk who wants nothing more than to guzzle cheap American beer and pass out in front of the flickering televised sporting contest, momentarily forgetting your copious problems? No, you're the future of beer marketing! More » -
#drinking
The Rotgut Economy
Yes, everyone drinks more in a recession, but they drink the cheapest, vilest swill they can find. The New York Times reports while wine sales are up, the industry is hurting because high-end wines are in a tailspin. More » -
#siftingthrough
Ben Silverman, We Will Miss You
That NBC chair Ben Silverman is flying/being pushed out of the peacock coop isn't really all that surprising. He's always been kind of a disaster. A blowhard (in more ways than one) party boy with streaks of ego and irresponsibility.
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#nightlife
No matter how fancy the club is, there are fruit flies in the liquor. Enjoy.
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#science
Russians Even Drunker Than Suspected
Good lord: more than half of all deaths of Russians aged 15-54 can be attributed to "excessive alcohol consumption." More » -
#thatswhattheyallsay
You Drink Moderately For Your Health. Ha.
You, the sweaty awkward one: you look like the type that desperately justifies your daily drinking. Science says it's good for your heart or your mind or something, right? Wrong! Lush! More » -
#advertising
Breakthrough Beer Ad Uses Awkwardness of Purchasing Porn for Comedic Effect
This sexuadvertisingly-transmitted viral has been going around quietly for a while but we haven't seen it since we're not beer-guzzling porn freaks (professionally). We're sad to admit that this vibrator-featuring Bud Light ad is amusing on its own merits: More »
