Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@bimmy-lee well, the one they sell here in Mexico is sugar-free, but it is rather sweet. As soda tends to be.

It's weird in that it tastes exactly as you'd imagine it to.

@StableInvadeel - I’ve actually mixed iced coffee and coke on my own before, but I added a few other choice ingredients as well and didn’t have a pure experience. Mexican Coke (capital C!) is a desirable thing here, or at least it was for a while. I think the sweetener used there makes it closer to the original formula. I remember older people saying it tastes like Coke used to taste before all the HFCS.

@bimmy-lee yeah I've heard about that. I guess it's because the one we have here is made here, so the recipe is probably not experimented with as much. Maybe.

I just played Kirby's Dream Course for the first time, multiplayer, and it was... weird but more entertaining than expected. Had some good laughs because neither of us knew what he was doing and failure ensued. Final result was a draw.

@bimmy-lee Thank you. And yeah, it's partly avoiding the main site but the biggest "issue" is that I struggle with being consistently active outside of messengers. I do see notifications and read them but it can take me a long time to actually write back since I don't always feel like doing a public social. So, do know that I see replies and appreciate them at least.

My condolences for having a sensitive nose btw (goes out to @Tyranexx as well). Smell doesn't make my ears ring but thanks to said physical impact stimuli have on me I can imagine the connection. Somehow this reminds me of a friend who has full-blown synaesthesia. For her (some) words have flavours, numbers are associated with colours, and materials make a sound and sometimes have a taste. For starters she cannot stand anything clay as it makes her hear a piercing, high-pitched sound and makes her taste blood. She doesn't take any substances and is of fine mental health for the record.

It was a fun conversation when I found out about how she perceives the world and she, in turn, found out that this is not normal. Nothing like a mutual "Wait, what?".

@bimmy-lee Well... you see, there's this thing in Amsterdam, about there being copious amounts of certain shops, so it wasn't just cigarettes...

I've been smoking over 10 years, and if my memory isn't failing me yet, then I've quit around 14 years ago. It was pretty damn hard in the beginning, though. Especially when going out and drinking with friends.
I definitely recognize the not knowing what to do with the leftover hand that you guys discussed earlier, so at some point, I just started drinking more slowly, so that when it was time for the next round, I could hold a glass in each hand instead...

And I'm by no means a control freak (mind you: not that you explicitly said so), but yeah, lack of constraint over substances can certainly be annoying. It feels like losing.

I can understand you trying to involve other people, but I've found that, weird as it sounds, the best remedy to stopping any addiction, is actually WANTING it and wanting to succeed in it, because just understanding that it's bad, or that you're hurting and/or disappointing friends and loved ones isn't enough.

I've experienced this myself, because I also quit drinking at one point, due to me having such a massive, probably triple hangover from New Year's Eve once, that I was still sick of it days later, and I managed to lay off the beer for almost 7 months, but then summer came, and me and my friends and colleagues hung out, someone put a beer in front of me, and I just drank it automatically.

Directly afterwards, I was kinda disappointed in myself, but also found that I enjoyed the beer, and I've always been able to keep it to an acceptable level ever since then, becoming more of a quiet enjoyer instead of a binge drinker, like I used to be when I was younger. So, in short: I never really wanted to stop drinking, I just needed some time off because I went too far, but smoking, yeah... that HAD to go.

And besides: as you know, I only drink on weekends, and never more than 4 glasses of something mixed, and if it's beer, then I'll drink 6 to 8 at most. (when I'm at a party or birthday from someone else, I drink beer, because I don't want to be an inconvenience or that one guy that they'd have to buy Bacardi for)

Oh, and as for that coffee Coke: I think I'll pass, but thanks for the offer.

@HobbitGamer that sounds So tempting. Words really can't convey the experience of having everything you've ever known, and everything with memories attached simply bulldozed right before your eyes and the entire way of life replaced wholesale within a few short years with an alien one you neither understand nor could dream of affording, and certainly aren't welcome within. "Despair" and "hatred" are far too mild terms to describe the resulting sentiments. There's no "out with the old in with the new" to move on to.... There literally nothing that replaces it but private residence.

I am currently Mr. Voorhees, I am the law at camp crystal lake since everybody keeps littering >: O WHERE DO THESE BEER CANS KEEP COMING FROM!?!

Looking for a good, out of left field movie to watch tonight thats good for Halloween. Any suggestions fellow chit chatters? I have Hulu prime and netflix

@NintendoByNature As in horror/suspense? And does it have to be Halloween-themed?
If not, then check out Crimson Peak, if you haven't seen it already. Horror in a Victorian setting. Pretty cool and creepy.

Almost showtime again!

@ThanosReXXX Hah, TGIF indeed! I can totally sympathize with Friday Brain Syndrome....

@KarateLuigi I do also have noise sensitivity. I don't particularly care for very loud noises; while I'd love to get to a rock concert or two, the sheer noise level coupled with the amount of bodies (also not a crowd person) is a definite nope.

Ever since college, I've also had where it's harder for me to concentrate on what I'm doing if a noise in the background is overpowering all others (someone talking obnoxiously, or even just an annoying earworm sound). It helps if there's nonverbal or nonsensical background noise that I can't key in on.

Watch one of the ones I, "Mr. Voorhees" star in as the lead role. If you want one that's really "out of left field", then perhaps watch the one where I'm in space somehow.

Little Monsters. It’s a comedy horror zombie flick transpiring during a kindergarten field trip in Australia. Hulu.

@NEStalgia I feel ya, man. I lived in Summerville, SC. Wide open spaces to five lane roads and tanger shopping centers.

@ThanosReXXX - I’ve heard of these shops. In fact, some friends brought me back some very potent souvenirs in college because I didn’t have the funds to join them for a spring break in Amsterdam.

Totally with you on the “wanting to do it” and “wanting to succeed” aspect of kicking an addiction. It’s the only way. The times I’ve succeeded in the past were due to this. I’ve tried every stop smoking aid over the years, including acupuncture and even a hypnosis seminar, but I’ve only ever succeeded when I really wanted to quit and had the desire to succeed. I’ll not be responsible for influencing my kids to pick up the habit, and that’s a powerful desire to see me through.

I’m an everything in moderation sort as you’ve mentioned about yourself, though I’ll have some weeknight beers, but tobacco is my kryptonite in that regard. It’s either all or nothing for me. Glad you were able to kick the habit and keep it kicked.

You sure about the coffee flavored Coke and Bacardi? You never know. Think about how pleasantly surprised the first person hungry/brave enough to eat a crab had to be about their discovery.

@NintendoByNature - Plenty of good suggestions already, but I have to chime in. If you’re in the mood for some 80s cheese, Class of Nuke Em High on Prime. It’s dumb and funny.

@HobbitGamer yep. Actually i miss the Tanger era. It's not near here, it's some ways away in the formerly more rural area. But that was the good old days. It gets much much much worse than that. Last i heard that was on the rocks too. Rumor had it they were considering turning it into... Wait for it....a high rise luxury retirement"community" (a.k.a where stock brokers go to die...... Though id gladly offer the service much cheaper. )

@ThanosReXXX of course in the states most people learn to embrace the nightmare existence and don't understand what people complain about due to their mind altering perception happy pills. We Happy Few remains more of an infotainment documentary in my opinion.

That and booze. We have nothing but endless bars and restaurants and luxury and booze stores. As of last month the grocery stores now sell booze too. Endless booze everywhere..... And pharmacies.... Booze and drugs and luxury homes everywhere. Because everyone's just that happy. i suppose I'll have to become a drunk at some point.... It's what they expect of everyone after all!

Speaking of rjejr..... .

Btw just to illustrate how fast it's going downhill it got worse after my post.... Apparently the very last store other then food and convenience stores within an hour is now closing..... Poor business? No! The property owner wants to build.... Can you guess? Luxury high rises there! It's now daily it gets worse!

@bimmy-lee Well, the truth of the matter is, that besides the odd Cherry Coke, I don't like Coke without mixing it all that much, and I've already tried most of the official Coke flavors out there. Except coffee, that is, but it doesn't really sound all that appealing to me. I'm not a huge ice coffee fan either. I like my coffee hot, and that doesn't mix very well with a cold, carbonated beverage.

I do like sea food, though, so no argument there. Although I do have to say that as a young kid, it did take me quite a bit of courage to try my first fried calamari rings...

@ThanosReXXX thanks my man. I've seen the beginning, but not fully thru.
@hobbitgamer I think ive seen that? Can't recall.
@SheldonRandoms seen em all. You're truly a spectacle. Best in the biz my friend.

@NEStalgia Well yeah, true. But wouldn't it be nice if weekdays were more enjoyable too? I am a natural cynic so I try sometimes to check my complaining.

Not that I am effective, but I try.

@NEStalgia Yeah, I reckon. We don't have that kind of "take a pill for whatever ails you, and then take ten more" culture over here. We also don't lose as many pop (and movie) stars to medicine overdoses. In fact, we've lost none of them to that, so far...

I'm almost tempted to invite you over and let you cool your jets and relax a little, though.
But all kidding aside, you'd find even this bustling city a sea of tranquility and normalcy, compared to what you're describing. And there's plenty of green areas over here as well, such as parks and all that. All in walking distance.

@NintendoByNature Oh, then I guess you owe it to the movie AND to yourself to sit through it entirely, this time around.

@bimmy-lee hmmm I might check out wolfcop half werewolf half cop
Thanosrexxx just might have to.