If you never drank, when you wake up in the morning, THAT'S the best you'll feel all day.
With apologies to Dean Martin.
If you never drank, when you wake up in the morning, THAT'S the best you'll feel all day.
With apologies to Dean Martin.
Yeah and when I really partied I usually woke up in the morning feeling the worst I would all day. Or potentially as good as I did the night before. Turns out quality>quantity.
I miss the occasional cigar, but I don't want to pay the tobacco penalty for insurance, and I fear that lying to the insurance company is akin to wronging the Mob.
I guess an Islay Scotch is the closest I get to a cigar nowadays.
I still have 20+ pipes and 4-5 pounds of assorted tobacco in mason jars. Also tempting, but not going to happen anytime soon. Tobacco ages like a good wine or scotch. Maybe when I'm all grown up. 
Pfft, you'll never have remorse over the equivalent value of a new car! Depreciation, duh! A base, stripper 2014 Corolla is $17,610 delivered, and an S is $22,110 (both 6-speed manuals of course). Let's see what papa craig has for us in that range, shall we?
I could put maybe a few tanks on gas in a truck with all the money I have ever spent on booze. Never really got the appeal of hard liquor, home-brew beer I can definitely get behind.
The friends, stories and general revelry I've enjoyed in the past 10 years are far more valuable to me than a $100,000 car. Although I suspect my total may be a bit more than that lol.
wearymicrobe wrote: I could put maybe a few tanks on gas in a truck with all the money I have ever spent on booze. Never really got the appeal of hard liquor, home-brew beer I can definitely get behind.
Drinking is another way of breaking bread. Bread is, after all, simply another fermentation process. It is a shared experience that can bring people together.
Did some math and I figure I'd probably have $28,500.
Worth every penny.
i have never spent a penny on it and still dont have any money, so dont worry about,like they say, i made enough money to buy miami but i pissed it away so fast, jimmy buffett, i either drank it up or i gave it away, hank jr, most of the money i done stuck up my nose, lynard skinard, you get the point. If i live to be 70 i am gonna start drinking like hell, me
N Sperlo wrote: A 2006 study by Texas A&M University found that the average American walks about 900 miles per year. Another study by the American Beer Institute found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. Therefore, Americans get approximately 41 miles per gallon.
Wow. I probably get somewhere between 5000 and 10000mpg (and climbing)
Haven't done the math, but whether it is $2,000 or $20,000, I can tell you that I'd just spend it all on booze again. Probably better booze and less of it, but still booze.
Oddly enough, I've only really been drinking regularly over the past few years since the ex-g/f and I discovered wine and I discovered craft beer. I spent about $500 on wine during each of the last 5 trips to Watkins Glen. Some of our friends would spend far more (we'd come home with 4-6 cases - they'd take home over a dozen). I have a hard time getting out of the local beer stores without shelling out $100. Fortunately, I only do that every couple of months or three.
Of course, there is probably a correlation between the amount of alcohol consumed and the gut I've been developing over the past few years... 
Lancer007 wrote: The friends, stories and general revelry I've enjoyed in the past 10 years are far more valuable to me than a $100,000 car.
Yes, this. They say that money spent on experiences yields more enjoyment utility than money spent on things. Although with this group, the moeny we spend on our things allows us to have the experiences we have. In my mind, a good night out drinking with the friends or a good day blasting through the mud at a rallycross are equally valid ways of blowing ~100 bucks and having some fun.
When I was a kid I heard the Skynyrd lyric "I drink enough whiskey to float a battleship around" and figured that seemed like a pretty good life goal. Which reminds me, I need to look up the displacement and see how I'm doing....
Lancer007 wrote: The friends, stories and general revelry I've enjoyed in the past 10 years are far more valuable to me than a $100,000 car.
This +1
I'm in the same boat; alcohol is not something I sit in the corner and enjoy alone. I drink it with friends and we all have a blast. I wouldn't change those memories for anything, least of all a car.
Now, there are some nights I wish I had dialed it back a little bit, especially due to the misery of the recovery time, but even those can be valuable experiences.
N Sperlo wrote: A 2006 study by Texas A&M University found that the average American walks about 900 miles per year. Another study by the American Beer Institute found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. Therefore, Americans get approximately 41 miles per gallon.
I am kind of surprised you can get this sort of street cred for the price of a used hatchback. The joys of depreciation.
I just spent $100 to make another 25 gallons of beer. I regret nothing but am glad I quite smoking 4 years ago.
bearmtnmartin wrote: I am kind of surprised you can get this sort of street cred for the price of a used hatchback. The joys of depreciation.
That Maserati looks too much like a Chevy Monte Carlo for my tastes.
Teh E36 M3 wrote: I'm coming up on the $108K number, I'm certain. Meh. I could have done more "productive" things, but I have funnier stories. And a Ferrari is for someone who can't get laid on their own anyway.
Thankyaverramuch, saved me the trouble. 'Candy is dandy, liquor is quicker.'
Toyman01 wrote: I still have 20+ pipes and 4-5 pounds of assorted tobacco in mason jars. Also tempting, but not going to happen anytime soon. Tobacco ages like a good wine or scotch. Maybe when I'm all grown up.
Never happen.
I like to mix scotch with carrot juice. I get drunk but I see good.
Mitchell wrote:bearmtnmartin wrote: I am kind of surprised you can get this sort of street cred for the price of a used hatchback. The joys of depreciation.That Maserati looks too much like a Chevy Monte Carlo for my tastes.
Debadge, get it wrapped in bright yellow, red SS badging all over it, proceed to troll.
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