It's Wednesday- can we do something fun?

heyimbren

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Wednesday- can we do something fun? :   To be considered a Newfie (unoffical Newfie) you need to be screeched in.  Which is kissing a cod, then taking <strong>a shot of screech ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Screech" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Screech</a> ),</strong> and then the Newfie will ask "Are you a Newf?"  And you say " 'deed I is, me old cawk.  Long may yer big jib draw!"  If you mess it up...you take another shot!! If you do it at Trapper John's on George Street then you get a certificate too. 
Posted by PaigeMcC[/QUOTE]

Screech looks like a pirate drink. But this makes sense, as it is the Maritimes after all.

PaigeMcC

ahahaha, Screech is actually Jamaican rum imported to Newfoundland.  So yeah, pirate-ish.

omg...BUTTON!!! YOU NEED SCREECH AT YOUR PIRATE WEDDING!!!!

ekathleen684

Dwest- this site helped me understand, LOL
http://home.cogeco.ca/~husky66/Milk/

heyimbren

Funny story about milk bags:

My family and I went to the grocery store one day and we bought a bag of milk. We put all of our groceries in the trunk and proceeded to drive home. We were on an expressway and going about 90 km/hr (sorry, I don't know m/hr) and all of a sudden we heard something go SPLAT on the road, and a few people walking/driving stared at us.

We turned around to see what had happened and apparently our trunk hadn't been properly closed so our bags of milk FLEW out of the trunk (since we were driving pretty quickly) and exploded on the road.

breezerb

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Wednesday- can we do something fun? : I think that milk and alcohol would make my stomach feel worse... the thought is making my stomach turn.  Also, your milk is in bags... ?  I've never seen bagged milk except for expressed breast milk and I really hope that isn't what you were drinking!
Posted by dwest2201[/QUOTE]

Yep, good ole Canadian milk.  It comes in a big bag that has 3 smaller bags of milk (4L worth) and you just put it in a plastic pitcher to pour.  Maybe it stays fresher this way? Bags are generally good for 3 weeks. It is fantastic. 

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PaigeMcC

EKath - that site is hilarious.  However, we do have milk jugs as well.  At least in NS.

Bren - omg! I can just picture that and it makes me giggle to no end!

breezerb

Bren - That is too funny, but also sad. I would be sad to lose my milk bags.  But not as sad as the times I have left my Tim Hortons cup on the top of my car.

PaigeMcC

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[QUOTE]Bren - That is too funny, but also sad. I would be sad to lose my milk bags.  But not as sad as the times I have <em>left my Tim Hortons cup on the top of my car.</em>
Posted by breezerb[/QUOTE]

<div>ZOMG! These are the most tragic moments of my life.</div>

ekathleen684

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[QUOTE]EKath - that site is hilarious.  However, we do have milk jugs as well.  At least in NS.
Posted by PaigeMcC[/QUOTE]

Good. I think the milk bag would be a CON on my reasons to move to Canada list. It seems like there would be too many accidents that could have easily been prevented with a jug.
 
I'm not super clumsy with milk, open containers always seem to have bad idea written all over them.

heyimbren

We have carton containers as well. We buy chocolate milk in cartons, and we used to buy regular milk in bags, but then my sister betrayed us and ended up lactose-intolerant... so now we have soy milk in cartons. I don't like soy milk, but I won't drink 4L of skim, so i just buy little cartons for me.

I always end up leaving pizza on the roof of the car. Okay, not always, but it's happened three times in my life

PaigeMcC

I'd just like to point out that we went from drunk stories to milk stories.

That is all.

breezerb

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[QUOTE]I'd just like to point out that we went from drunk stories to milk stories. That is all.
Posted by PaigeMcC[/QUOTE]

muah ha ha... I am so powerful I can make people do that!
 
but in sad, cruel reality all of my drunken nights end with milk... and bathtubs.

catemeg

This "milk in bags" thing is taking some getting used to.  And I thought it was weird that in Spain, they don't refridgerate it!  They buy it and use it within 24 hours, then buy more.  Which is why they only buy 1/2 - 1 L at a time.

And in China, it's all in cartons and never refrigerated.  But no one buys it anyway.

PaigeMcC

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Wednesday- can we do something fun? : muah ha ha... I am so powerful I can make people do that!   but in sad, cruel reality all of my drunken nights end with milk... <strong>and bathtubs.</strong>
Posted by breezerb[/QUOTE]

<div>A dirty drunk, eh?!</div>

GreenPepperBurger

I'm SO weird when it comes to milk. I really prefer it out of the cardboard (but I'll begrudgingly drink it in plastic if there's nothing else) and it has to be no more than 1%, preferably skim. Whole milk tastes like cream to me. Oh, and even if it's a day before the expiration date, I won't drink it.

Milk in bags and the thought of it not being refridgerated gives me the skeevies.

heyimbren

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Wednesday- can we do something fun? : muah ha ha... I am so powerful I can make people do that!   <strong>but in sad, cruel reality all of my drunken nights end with milk</strong>... and bathtubs.
Posted by breezerb[/QUOTE]

...bathtubs filled with milk?

I think the conclusion is almost milk /> alcohol.




But maybe I'm just crazy.

catemeg

Honestly, my hometown had a milk delivery service where they'd deliver fresh milk from a local farm in recyclable glass jars.  That was the most delicious milk EVER, and definitely the most environmentally friendly.  But it was too pricey, so my parents didn't get it.  Everytime I babysat a family that had that milk, though, I'd definitely have a glass!

Still... don't.... get.... milkbags.  But then, I prefer all things in easily held and controlled containers like cartons and boxes and bottles.  Cereal bags and rice in bags drive me nuts!

breezerb

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Wednesday- can we do something fun? : ...bathtubs filled with milk? I think the conclusion is almost milk /> alcohol. But maybe I'm just crazy.
Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]

Haha. I always take a bath every night, when I am drunk is no exception.  This has led to several near drownings.

PaigeMcC

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Wednesday- can we do something fun? : Haha. I always take a bath every night, when I am drunk is no exception.  This has led to several near drownings.
Posted by breezerb[/QUOTE]

<div>you need water wings;)</div>

dwest2201

Okay the idea of keeping milk in a bag inside of a container such as a pitcher was only semi-weird until I read that you don't cover it or reseal the bag... WHAT?!

That just grosses me out to no end.  What if you have something like left over chinese or anything garlic or like buffalo wings or something in there... wouldn't it absorb the smell?  I'm imagining eating a bowl of garlic buffalo flavored cheerios fro breakfast... BARF!

Hazel_B

Bren - I have many friends that went to Western, I think the worst stories I ever ehard came out of the Saugeen - Maitland residence. Although my friends at Fanshawe were pretty bad too. Maybe it was a London thing?

Cate - If you think that milk stuff is weird, in New Zealand I had condensed milk in a toothpaste tube.

heyimbren

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[QUOTE]Okay the idea of keeping milk in a bag inside of a container such as a pitcher was only semi-weird until I read that you don't cover it or reseal the bag... WHAT?! That just grosses me out to no end.  What if you have something like left over chinese or anything garlic or like buffalo wings or something in there... wouldn't it absorb the smell?  I'm imagining eating a bowl of garlic buffalo flavored cheerios fro breakfast... BARF!
Posted by dwest2201[/QUOTE]

We have these special milk bag like shaped containers... that are like pitchers? Gah this is confusing. Anyways we put the bag in a pitcher, and just cut a little hole in the corner of the bag so it pours like a regular pitcher. It doesn't absorb anything I don't think?

Hazel - I didn't live in Saugeen thank goodness. The Saugeen stripper story scared me away. But honestly, it's such a big residence that if you wanted to be left alone you could and if you wanted to party you could find a party anywhere. I think it's something like a few thousand kids in two connected buildings? Crazy.

jemmini6

I posted mine in the SB thread, so here's the copy/paste (so I don't have to type it again. LOL)

"Sadly...I think I win so far.  I won't go into too much detail, but I was 15, it was my first time drinking, ever, I had 8 double shots of Jose Cuervo dark tequilla (and keep in mind I probably only weighed like 95 lbs back then).  Long story short, I ended up getting driven home on the HOOD of a car and woke up on the bathroom floor of my friends house wearing a different shirt.

Needless to say, I was in college before I had another drink and I still cannot drink tequilla to this day."

I went to ASU, which has been known as a party school, so I obviously have a bunch more stories, mostly of other people (probably because I don't actually remember mine). 

It's sad, but I'm only 23 and can't really get drunk anymore.  Any more than like 3 beers, I go from being mildy buzzed that night, to hung over in the morning...it kinda sucks.

nottheonlydreamer44

I cannot add to the milk convo unfortunately because milk in any form kind of grosses me out. But if we're talking drinking here then I have lots of stories. I agree with the tolerance level changing as you get older - though I admit I can still handle my own fairly well.

My funniest story would be senior year of HS @ 16 (the first time I ever really got drunk). I was at my friends g-parents house and he broke into their liquor cabinet. I ended up drinking an entire bottle of Absolute Vodka, while we attempted to play strip pool, in about 25 mins. It tasted like water to me.  2 guys, 2 girls. My friend and her BF left to go have sex and I stayed downstairs with our other friend. I ended up trying to perform some oral stimulation (for the first time ever - I was still a virgin) but it didn't happen, I passed out in his lap instead.

Apparently, my girl friend came back down, saw us on the couch and rang this fisherman's bell on the wall - as it's been retold to me I jumped up completely delirious screaming, "woah woah are the cops here?!?!?" She got me out to her car and I couldn't stay in the seatbelt or even really stay conscious. I remember getting to her parents house and falling out of her car into the street proclaiming that I could, "totally drive myself home!"

I did not (thank the good Lord) but her mom dropped me off at home. I fell out of her car and told me friend to just tell her mom that I was "not feeling well". LOL. I remember nothing after that but I woke up to me laying in my broken bed, my lamp broken on the floor and puke all over me with just a shirt on. My mother was not pleased to say the least.

2 days of grounding for that and thank God I didn't die. LOL.

BCRockies

I'm not positive but I think the milk in bags is an east coast thing or maybe even just Ontario? It's actually something I miss out here in BC. We have jugs and cartons. Friends think I'm nuts when I describe milk in bags but I do love the taste of it. I drink a lot more milk when I'm visiting Ontario.

As for the drunk story, the town I'm living in has a festival the second weekend in July every year. Last year I had to work at the pool and missed it. We did have drunken people running in the open doors and jumping in the pool (it was extremely hot on deck that day with minimal air flow so kept the emergency doors open).

This year I made sure I wasn't working for it and at 9 am on the Saturday, I got a phone call asking if I would be interested in joining a bocce team. We won our first game and didn't play again until late afternoon so we decided to celebrate and were pretty toasted for our next game. We got put out in our third game which was definitely alright with me as by 8 pm I was dropping drinks and slurring my speech. I was being taken home by 930 pm but as we passed the food tents, I had the biggest craving for a burrito. I got my friends to  wait with me for 10 minutes while I waited for this amazing burrito. It was worth the wait for the whole 15 minutes that it stayed in me.

Bec20

I don't think I've ever had milk froma jug.  And cartons annoy me.  Unless you drink milk reallllly slowly, it's going to be fresh.  There's only about 1.4 quarts in each of the bags.

I don't have any funny drunk stories.  I'm not a big drinker, because my anxiety tends to act up when I drink.  From what I can tell from the couple times I've actually drank enough to really feel it I tend to be affectionate, giggle a lot, have to fight off panic attacks, and am klutzy.  It's quite the combination.

My funny drunk story invoves my boyfriend's roommate in residence his first year at university.  We had been dating for about 7 months when I went to visit him for the second time and I met his roommate (D).  We went to bed early, squished into his twin bed, and were woken up by Daround 2am.  I was just coming out of the bathroom when D went in.

Well, half an hour later it becomes clear that D has vomited all over the bathroom when the two other guys they shared the bathroom with came in.  First the other two guys showed up and within a few minutes, half the floor was crowded into the room trying to wake D up.  It ended with all of D's sheets being pulled off and getting into an argument.  That was how I met most of Kyle's floor... in his bed, half asleep, in the middle of the night.

tafft1

Oh god where to start..seriously..

Okay the WORST I ever got was back in 2004 at a gaming convention. At said convention there was an OPEN BAR at this club in Vegas for their 5th anniversary celebration. Before I even got to the bar about half a  mile down the road , guys had been buying me beers all through the dinner - so I was already buzzed when I got to the bar. I started double fisting rum and cokes and this started at 7pm.

As the night went on I actually had to ask OTHER people to go up to the bar and get me more drinks because they wouldn't give me any more , lol. I even dragged my friend out on the dancefloor and ended up grinding on him - in front of his wife and my boyfriend at the time..yikes!

That evening I made the amazing wardrobe choice of this long sleeve black shirt with a zipper across my chest area which ended up being unzipped more than I would like to admit by myself and random drunken gamers over the course of the night. At one point I was so drunk I would go up to random people , grab their nametags from around their neck that we were all wearing ( think of the size of an index card) , and put it close to my nose so I could read it , tell them I love them and hug them.

At midnight the open bar ended and my boyfriend at the time helped me outside , turned to say goodbye to someone , and I fell down 3 large concrete stairs , slammed my head into a steel pole , stood up and got sick right there. I still remember hearing a few women behind me say " Did you see that girl get sick on the stairs ?"

Apparently on the way back - some random strangers helped my boyfriend get me back to my room but I kept saying how I would basiclaly sleep with them all..I was drunk until 5pm the next day.

leia1979

Never heard of milk in bags before. See, this place is educational.

GPB - we're opposites. I like whole or 2% milk but think 1% or less tastes like milky water. Even still I really only drink milk as hot chocolate or accompanying chocolate.

And I hope we one day get Tim Hortons or even Dunkin' Donuts here. I always see Tim Hortons ads on the boards of the Canadian NHL rinks.

I don't have any good drunk stories. I really don't like alcohol much. Once I was down in SoCal visiting a friend and all the roommates and I got this huge tub of some fruity drink with like 10 straws in it. Let's just say the night ended in puking. And that was the last time I had more than two drinks...I think it was the summer of 2001.