Oh christ, a speck of stuff isn’t going to hurt you. The Gawker Media Empire™ turned into a gaggle of pearl clutchers and monocle poppers so gradually, I hardly noticed. 

OK I will concede that the credibility of assumptions about 2 people can be equal, but in this specific case you are literally only getting one side of this story...so while you can probably make reasonably accurate assumptions about him based on his own words, you cannot safely assume anything about this woman. This…

Not really man. He wrote an entire letter we can use to make assumptions about him. We have nothing from her.

Yep, drop that buzzkill controller asap.

Just... wow. So much is wrong about that relationship. My advice for NSHG’s girlfriend would be to ghost him. He’ll probably over-react and become even more controlling, she’ll see him for what he really is, and realize she dodged a bullet.

It might make me miss a morning work out, which I will just make up for after work. But I’ve never missed a real obligation (work or otherwise) because of a hangover.

Not that far away from the original business idea of the Car Talk guys.

I would do this on condition that whomever is using my garage lets me (and my kids) help and learn.

Yeah, it’s all the booze: white wine, rum, vodka, anything. Even with water, even with food. I was able to play the pattern off as “oh, well, I’m getting all these migraines anyway!” but now that I’m on new meds and I’ve had a lot of control days of not drinking, the pattern is too clear. I’ll probably still have a…

Fair enough - but I think conflating “happy hour” with mandatory drinking is still a problem. You may need to attend these kinds of events to get ahead, but rarely will having a seltzer in hand the whole time bring you down.

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Control-Alcohol-ebook/dp/B004AHKC3O/">Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Control Alcohol</a> really did make it easy for me to quit. 1.5 years alcohol-free now.

I decided to do Dry January this year. By far the longest I have gone without a drink (in the past I had gone three weeks a few times). I had absolutely no physical or mental symptoms of withdrawals or anything like that. And for real, the first 2-3 weeks was a breeze. But the last week has been an absolute struggle.…

I did that during the two-month interval between when my toaster broke and I found another one in one of the many, many free boxes I pass whenever I’m walking around Portland doing errands. It took only a couple weeks to find a replacement for my broken Brita pitcher.

It reminds me of Windex. As did the taste of gin, the one time I tried it.

Do you have a toaster oven?

lol the “instead” is absolutely vital to my plan

I’m with the other commenter - framing happy hour as “mandatory” is a bizarre way to think about things. It sounds like it’s helpful for networking to attend happy hours - but again, is *drinking* at a happy hour mandatory? I find at most things, it isn’t.

Step 1: Get debilitating chronic migraines

lol @ pretty much mandatory. no way

1) Smoke weed everyday instead