Marx said “Religion is the opium of the people,”1 but history shows that people also used…well, opium.
1Actually, he said a bunch of stuff in German. I’ve never read any of it, by the way.
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Poop deck: Not by the hair of my ginny-gin-gin
My favourite part of this portrait is his eyebrows. You know how people try to appear sober when they’re drunk. This man’s eyes are glazed and sleepy, but his eyebrows are perked right up: “I’m not drunk. She how alert I am?”
What kind of a drunk are you? Belligerent? Sleepy? One time when I had too many, I got cheerfully insistent. I decided that one of my friends needed hear this wicked song. Like need to hear it. You godda do it. It’s catchy, y’know? Anyways, I’mmunna just…look I can puttit on right here. Lemme jush get my phone.
Well. I do like Iron Maiden and “Can I Play With Madness?” is a great song, but no one needs to hear it. So heed my tale and be good to your liver; be good to your friends, and don’t get obnoxiously tipsy.
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Poop deck: Buying in State
Have you seen some of the things people leave out in condo foyers? It’s like a little socialist microcosm1: leave what you can, take what you need.
It fascinates me. Sometimes there’s something useful like books or unused picture hangers. Sometimes it’s questionable like an open bottle of vitamins. Or one time I saw a used “Kama Sutra for Beginners” book and I don’t even know what to think about that.
1 That’s socialism in a nutshell, right? People share stuff. I don’t know why people struggle to understand it.
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Poop deck: The inn crowd
He’s just going to slip the fiddler a couple ducats and tell him to act like they’re old friends. Oldest story in ye olde book.