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If You Had to Give Up One?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Nashville, TN
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Nashville, TN
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I love beer, but I love the internet more
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Beer > Internet
That reminds me, its Celebration Ale time !!!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
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I thought you were going to ask the right one or the left one....I'm fond of the right one. I have my right hand on it with a beer in the left. 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Parker, Colorado
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You'll pry my booze and my cable modem outta my cold, dead hands you bastards! Just you try it!
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Toronto
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Salamanca, España
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada
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haha it's a closer debate for me than it should be...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The back of the room
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I've given up on booze, too.
It hasn't given up on me, though. 
I choose to vacillate.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Are we choosing the one to give up or the one to keep?
Either I've had too much alcohol or too much internet.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2005
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I'd give up the internet. The internet doesn't make parties more fun, and it doesn't taste good either.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
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Since I have like two bottles of Bud a year, the beer would be easy to give up.
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: In yer threads
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I drink alcohol maybe twice a year soo...
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: USA
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I don't drink, so...
Lame poll?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Nashville, TN
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Originally Posted by RAILhead 
I don't drink, so...
Lame poll?
you should start, i started at 14 never looked back.
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Nashville, TN
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i'd still give up alcohol over internet, how else would i get my porn?
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
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A few days away from the internet and I get the shakes,
so internet > booze.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 1999
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I'd give up the net and go back to the old internet...TV! Granted its only download but it goes well with booze!
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"He who is tired of Weird Al, is tired of life"
Homer J. Simpson, the 90's
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Washington DC
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Bye bye internet. We had some good times. 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Manhattan, NY
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A better poll would have been, "Which would you rather give up all internet access or masturbation?"
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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That's like, "Would you rather give up food or sustenance?"
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
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Originally Posted by RAILhead
I don't drink, so...
Lame poll?
Well, yet another thing the "Rails" have in common. (What was that other thing again...?  )
I actually quit drinking a few weeks ago. I even spent lunch at a bar today and I thought it would be weird, but it was a non-issue.
Anyone want to buy a two tower homebrew kegerator set up? I might keep it for sodas... I'll let you people know later.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Nashville, TN
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why would anyone quite drinking? that's like quitting breathing!
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
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Originally Posted by macfantn
why would anyone quite drinking? that's like quitting breathing!
I'll assume you aren't really that stupid.
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Oh man. Yikes. I guess I'd give up booze, use the internet more, make more money by ebaying stuff, and buy a lot of pot.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
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Drinking. I like the occasional drink or two, and even a few more if there is a good reason, but its not an every night sort of thing. Plus if I'm not drinking, and my female friends are.... well... they'll need a DD for the drive home at least.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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I don't drink at all. To me this is like asking to choose between getting shot and getting free money...
Okay, maybe not that extreme.
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: The Rockies
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Here's a variation on the question: Which would be better for you to give up? Looking at all the multi-thousand posters, most of us would probably be better off giving up the internet than drinking, unless you have a problem with alcoholism.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "Working"
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Originally Posted by Railroader
I'll assume you aren't really that stupid.
Well if he started drinking at 14 that could have inhibited his brain development, which would explain some of these threads...
Oh yeah, I don't drink (yet), so I suppose that would be easier to give up.
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Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Since I have like two bottles of Bud a year, the beer would be easy to give up.
No wonder you don't drink often, cause you're not even drinking real beer.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Originally Posted by Rumor
No wonder you don't drink often, cause you're not even drinking real beer.
hahahahaha. Nice. This man speaketh truth.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Across from the wallpaper store.
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Well, I'm not one of you beer nazis but I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone drinks Bud.
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"Altruism is killing America. We who want to save America must repudiate this killer, root and branch. We must understand and explain to others that the acceptance of altruism necessitates the violation of individual rights... and that the arguments for altruism are baseless..."
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Moderator Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
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I can't recall the last time a drank a mass-marketed cheap domestic beer is. I live around the corner from a kick ass brewery and within a couple hours drive of about a dozen more.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Moderator Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
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Just remembered something humorous.
When I was down in San Diego a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend of mine about beer. I named off a couple dozen and he asked me "You must like that expensive imported beer."
I laughed really hard and told him almost half of the list was a block from my house. It doesn't get more domestic than that.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: 54 56' 38" .058N / 10 0' 33" .071E
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Originally Posted by centerchannel68
Oh man. Yikes. I guess I'd give up booze, use the internet more, make more money by ebaying stuff, and buy a lot of pot.
Yeah, sounds like a ok plan with me
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The gene pool needs cleaning - I'll be the chlorine.
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Moderator  Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
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Let’s see.
The Internet provides me with lots of entertainment, whiling-away-time time, and of course porn.
All forms, shapes, and (re)incarnations of alcohol taste vile and disgusting, and make me feel like cutting out my tongue.
I think I’d drop the alcohol (that I wouldn’t even dream of drinking as it is now) and keep my Internets.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hong Kong
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Originally Posted by macfantn
you should start, i started at 14 never looked back.
I started at 14 and gave up at 18.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Since I have like two bottles of Bud a year, the beer would be easy to give up.
You've given up already.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by Railroader
I actually quit drinking a few weeks ago.
I thought you were a beer affiniado? What gives?
I've stopped drinking a couple of times in my life, for a couple of months at the time. Mostly to make sure that I could. But red wine and good beer are always calling me back. And then there are the health benefits.
I am contemplating a no alcohol lent this year. Contemplating.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: BFE
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I use the Internet about a dozen times a day. I have a beer a few times a week.
Definitely would lose the Internet. I enjoy the beer more.
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2006
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no brainer booze. I don't drink so its easy for my to give up alcohol 
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Michael
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Netherlands
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when on holiday, i love NO INTERNET and plenty of cold BEER 
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
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I couldn't live without the internet
no irc, no macnn, no world of warcraft!
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
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And then there are the health benefits.
I thought it was Decided (by the Smart People) a few months ago that there was really no proof one way or the other as to whether that glass of red wine had any health benefits at all...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Northern VA - Just outside DC
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This poll is Stupid spelled with two "O" 's !! (STOOPID)
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by Oisín
I thought it was Decided (by the Smart People) a few months ago that there was really no proof one way or the other as to whether that glass of red wine had any health benefits at all...
Apparently that's not the case. A recent double blind study in Scandinavia (don't ask me for a link, I read it in the Globe, our local daily paper) did indeed find that regular moderate alcohol consumption lowers the risk of heart disease quite dramatically.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Washington DC
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There was also a study (I can probably get a link from a friend if necessary) that compared drinking habits to overall mortality. There was a definite and strong trend showing that your mortality decreases as you drink more, up to about two drinks per day. At three drinks or so you break even. After that further drinking increases your mortality.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rochester, NY
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Well, I can't do my work effectively without the Internet, which means I wouldn't get paid.
While my work without alcohol would be inferior, it would still be good enough to get paid.
Therefore, if given a choice, I would have to give up the alcohol.
If I had to choose between giving up alcohol or giving up non-work-related Internet activity, that would be a closer call. If I weren't posting on teh 'NN, I'd have more time to drink!
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Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
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Originally Posted by Mastrap
Apparently that's not the case. A recent double blind study in Scandinavia (don't ask me for a link, I read it in the Globe, our local daily paper) did indeed find that regular moderate alcohol consumption lowers the risk of heart disease quite dramatically.
Tsk! Don’t you know by now never to trust anything that comes out of those pesky Scando countries? 
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