Confess something that might surprise others or damage your reputation on JUB - 2014

[belamyi]

I just wasted 111 minutes of my life watching Tyler Perry's Temptation.

The film was not screened for critics, but has received universally negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 16% based on 32 reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 27%, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Many point to the fact that the main character was "punished" with HIV for cheating on her husband, further miseducating and stigmatizing the disease.

The film was nominated for two Razzie Awards including Worst Director for Tyler Perry and Worst Supporting Actress for Kim Kardashian.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

What do you mean?

"Zero tolerance to sobriety" means constant drunkenness.

 

[Agent Provocateur]

...Kim Kardashian was in a movie?

Now I feel like curling into a ball in a corner and sobbing until the memory of learning that leaves my mind.

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"Zero tolerance to sobriety" means constant drunkenness.

Ah, I see. I worded it improperly.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

What do you mean?

EDIT: Never mind, I think I get it.

What I mean is that the drug I've always had the absolute least attraction to (alcohol) can be extremely therapeutic if taken in small doses and extremely infrequently. My mental difficulties can be absolutely overwhelming and if once every month or two I decide I need to have a few drinks, I don't see the issue in it. I had a few drinks a few days ago and it turned out that I had one of the most amazing boundary-setting, motivation-explaining and reservation-clearing conversations with my ex (who's coming to stay with me for a few months) that I've ever had with anyone.

If I decide I'm becoming too reliant on alcohol as a coping mechanism, zero-tolerance is the way, but as the enjoyment window of alcohol is much too slim for me to actually take much pleasure from it, I don't see it happening.

Any drug.

Ah, I see. I worded it improperly.

It's just that the language of language isn't always the language of logic.

 

[Agent Provocateur]

What I mean is that the drug I've always had the absolute least attraction to (alcohol) can be extremely therapeutic if taken in small doses and extremely infrequently. My mental difficulties can be absolutely overwhelming and if once every month or two I decide I need to have a few drinks, I don't see the issue in it. I had a few drinks a few days ago and it turned out that I had one of the most amazing boundary-setting, motivation-explaining and reservation-clearing conversations with my ex (who's coming to stay with me for a few months) that I've ever had with anyone.

If I decide I'm becoming too reliant on alcohol as a coping mechanism, zero-tolerance is the way, but as the enjoyment window of alcohol is much too slim for me to actually take much pleasure from it, I don't see it happening.

This being said, if you have genuine problems with one or more substances, abstaining from that intoxicant (or absolutely any of them if you have a deep-rooted issue with it) is the only way to maintain your sanity and physical health. I hate almost everything about alcohol, and I would only ever consider drinking as an absolute last resort. I will never touch weed, coke, painkillers or Ativan ever again, but I will have a few drinks every month or two as a stress relief coping mechanism.

And if I find myself relying too much on alcohol as a crutch, off to NA and AA I go.

 

[belamyi]

It's just that the language of language isn't always the language of logic.

No: it's that the language of people is sometimes not so much a language as a mental diarrhetic flux.





































I should be well aware of that

 

[belamyi]

This being said, if you have genuine problems with one or more substances, abstaining from that intoxicant (or absolutely any of them if you have a deep-rooted issue with it) is the only way to maintain your sanity and physical health.

Right, go tell that to people who feed on the Bible... and to those who suffer the consequences of it all.

 

[Agent Provocateur]

Right, go tell that to people who feed on the Bible... and to those who suffer the consequences of it all.

Religion can be a compulsion and/or addiction just like any other.

 

[belamyi]

Religion can be a compulsion and/or addiction just like any other.

But how do you revert the process of insanity in people belonging to groups who, far from being persecuted by a federal agency, get privileges from federal administrations?

 

[Agent Provocateur]

But how do you revert the process of insanity in people belonging to groups who, far from being persecuted by a federal agency, get privileges from federal administrations?

I guess we'll have to start a 12-step program for Bible humping.

 

[belamyi]

I guess we'll have to start a 12-step program for Bible humping.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Spencer Tracy thinks Los Angeles is "the Promised Land" :roll eyes:

 

[xbuzzerx]

^ Spencer Tracy thinks Los Angeles is "the Promised Land" :roll eyes:

You're welcome to move out...

 

[mikey3000]

You're welcome to move out...

Criticism of the status quo only helps to preserve it from degeration.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Criticism of the status quo only helps to preserve it from degeration.

The only person on all of JUB who holds up Los Angeles as some type of purported or self-conceived utopia is Pat, while mocking that same image after being the only person advocating it.

 

[pat grimshaw]

The only person on all of JUB who holds up Los Angeles as some type of purported or self-conceived utopia is Pat, while mocking that same image after being the only person advocating it.

I asked about that place here—

^ Is it sacramento?

What is Davis?

Why did Gertrude Stein think Oakland is a dump?

Where is Russian River and do all they men go nude there?

is that appalling old Thurston Howell III a member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco?

Is it true that California pioneered the notion of 'White Flight"?

Do any men swim nude at venice Beach?

I hear California sand is grey.

Is it true that Californian schools try to downplay the fact that the Japanese bombed the place in '42?

Does the conspiracy plot in the movie 'Chinatown' have any basis in fact?

Is it true that the remnant Babylon set in DW Griffith's Intolerance is buried in the sand?

—but didn't get much intelligent response

 

[maxpowr9]

You're welcome to move out...

You don't want to be his Hepburn?

 

[MissAnne]

My throat is sore from guzzling coffee down too fast.

 

[maxpowr9]

My throat is sore from guzzling coffee down too fast.

It's not from squirt?

 

[MissAnne]

It's not from squirt?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.