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[challenge entry] What Didn't Win the War:
Liquored up Bill W. Bots in the elite Mobile AA unit getting drunken messages from God and spewing quasi-religious crap that has nothing to do with stopping drinking.

You B3tans, even those without a drink problem, should appreciate an Look at AA before you get sucked into that crap. Here in the US, it really is a state-sponsored religion, the Constitution be damned.

From the How We Won The War challenge. See all 326 entries (closed)

(Reverend Mykeru, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:02, archived)
# whee.
politcal rants and conspiracy theories.
just what I came back for.
(I helped save b3ta! zog why change it now?, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:12, archived)
# Ah look
I missed you again. I'm off home now, byeeeeeeeeee!
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:14, archived)
# 'strue mind
alcoholics anonymous is a very dodgy organisation, and alcoholism as a condition was invented as a psychological aid to help people with a drink problem. it might get results, but it can be quite damaging too
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:15, archived)
# what?
hogwash.
and who cares anyway. as long as AA doesn't have internment camps like the scientologists, I'm not worried and I'll have no whining!
(I helped save b3ta! zog why change it now?, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:17, archived)
# i care cos i thought i was an alcoholic
now i've just got a drinking problem! hurrah!
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:20, archived)
# I thought I was an alcoholic for a while
Then I discovered I was just a social binge drinker.

That actually puts me in the same class as those teenage slags you see laying in the gutter on Friday evening because they've had too many Bacardi Breezers.

I still havent decided which I'd actually prefer.
(goat thinks you're shit, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:35, archived)
# That very much depends...
...on if you actually _like_ bacardi breezers.

ptui, they're 'orrid... where's me pint?
(Ginge, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:06, archived)
# I got worried when one of my friends kept
jokily referring to me as "the alcoholic"... Then I realised she doesn't go out much or remember how to have fun anymore. I feel much better about myself now, and yes, Banana, if you're offering, I will have that pint.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:26, archived)
# oh zoggy
hows the tune shit going?
(I helped save b3ta! weebl Mashed farts, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:21, archived)
# you mean the one you sent me?
I listened to it and liked it, but I haven't been able to get my head around it because I've got to go into the studio this week with kiss kiss bang bang, and the songs not um... quite finished yet!
in fact, I shouldn't even be here spazzin the board!

and spacefish, having a "problem" is relative to what's normal. and since everyone in the UK (at least from the impression I get from you guys) is an alcoholic, it's impossible for any of you to have a "drinking problem". you'd have to call it a "drinking normal" or a "drinking standard" or something.
(I helped save b3ta! zog why change it now?, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:29, archived)
# even better
*sigh* why do aa make drinking problems sound like such a bad thing?
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:33, archived)
# Anyone for a pint???
(I helped save b3ta! Banana, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:36, archived)
# cheers
all this activism's made me thirsty
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:52, archived)
# To be fair
While I certainly drink heavily while I'm in party mode, which is of course the
whole time when I have visitors over for a party, and most weekends, I don't drink
all that much during the week usually.

I've been smoking every day, but I ran out yesterday and won't be getting more for a
few weeks at least. Yipes!

(I helped save b3ta! priestess I remember when this was all fields, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:47, archived)
# smoke the carpet! quick!
i reckon mine must have about an ounce in it by now...
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:51, archived)
# I could probably scrape together one joint
From all the nearly empty baggies and various leaf debris lying around. Truth be known I
could probably do with a break, I have work to do and I've been getting very lazy lately.
(I helped save b3ta! priestess I remember when this was all fields, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:29, archived)
# Oh but they do
The courts in the US force people onto AA programs. They are forcing
people to take religious instruction. I wouldn't mind so much but it can only work
if it's voluntry. The courts are turning Narcotics Anonymous into the easyiest place to score!
(I helped save b3ta! priestess I remember when this was all fields, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 17:45, archived)
# I've been doing it wrong
"The courts are turning Narcotics Anonymous into the easyiest place to score"

I thought that was the sex addict 12-steppers
(Reverend Mykeru, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:29, archived)
# Decisions, decisions
I would rather be a friend of "Bob" than a friend of Bill W.
(Reverend Mykeru, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:36, archived)
# Aren't they cute?
Nor does AA have cool nautical uniforms like Scientology:
(Reverend Mykeru, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:28, archived)
# I feel better now.
"Dodgy". I like that, as part of the charming British repetoir of complete understatement. Of course, as a Yank, I prefer terms like "fucked up", which pretty much covers a religious organization that scams people at their lowest ebb.

Now, if folks think a little political/religious ranting is out of place here, I apologize. I had my catharsis. I feel better now, as an atheist who did the 1-step program: Don't drink, stupid.
(Reverend Mykeru, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:21, archived)
# Know the difference
between and drunk and an alcoholic?


Alcoholics go to meetings.
(raz, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:04, archived)
# I have a T-shirt
with something very very similar written on it.
(goat thinks you're shit, Mon 22 Jul 2002, 18:19, archived)