Has anyone managed to "Quit" ?

[Oobly]

I managed to quit Coke. The drink... ended up replacing it with water. Happened at the same time as a bunch of other changes in my life, so it wasn't as hard as it could have been.

[azhdar]

I started drinking and smoking at around 15. In my early twenties I drank a lot, drove drunk, smoked weed and did a lot of speed (some cocaine, but mostly prescription stuff like Aderrall). Then there were the party drugs, whatever someone was selling. I never messed with crack, meth or needle drugs, that just seemed too hardcore even for me. But basically anything else was fair game.

I had a friend, Dan, who loved to drink wine. He would buy it in actual jugs. I'm not even sure where he would get it in jugs. Every night there would be a party at the house he lived in, and Dan had his turntables set up, spinning all kinds of electronic music and drinking out of his jug while we played Tony Hawk or whatever game was on, then we'd all pass out until morning. One morning we all woke up to the sound of Dan's girlfriend screaming at the top of her lungs. Someone ran upstairs to see what was going on. Turns out that Dan had snorted an 80mg oxycontin the night before in addition to his jug of wine. He overdosed and his girlfriend woke up to find him lying dead next to her. As soon as I heard someone upstairs say, "he's dead," I got up and left right away, figuring cops would be coming there soon and not wanting to be around for that. It was a super selfish decision on my part, but one that characterized the kind of person I was back then. I never showed my face at that house again.

That night pretty much ended my run with hard drugs, but I continued on drinking occasionally, just trying to keep it in moderation. I started directing my energies towards more respectable activities, started a small business (auto detailing), and then I met a girl with whom things got serious pretty quickly. But even as I was trying to clean up my act, this girl was heading in the opposite direction, and I knew it was a self-destructive path so I broke up with her, which was about the hardest thing I ever made myself do. The next day I went to work at my part-time night job and it was a really slow night. Basically I had 8 hours to sit there and second-guess my decision to break up with her. By the time my shift ended I was ready to turn off my brain. So I called up my old party buddies and met up with them. As soon as I walked in the door of my buddy's apartment I downed a half a bottle of JD like an athlete downs a gatorade. The night got crazier from there and I ended up blacking out, falling off a rooftop (don't ask), and waking up all scratched up from the fall, at someone else's house with no memory of how I got there, other than the fact that my car was there so apparently I drove myself. I checked my cell phone call log, and sure enough I had drunk-dialed that girl about 5 times the night before. I was mortified. I had been doing so well, and in one night I felt like I had ruined it all.

Not long after that night I gave up drinking altogether. I haven't touched a drink since then (some time in 2003). Some people seem to be able to handle it in moderation, I'm just not one of them. I quit smoking about a year later.

So anyway, yeah it's possible, but for me I just had to learn the hard way.

Thanks for sharing. Bring many memories, the drunk calling, the drunk driving, how can we be so stupid ...

[FrostyToast]

Ejaculation is healthy for men. Getting it regularly keeps the prostate going and that prevents getting prostate cancer later in life. Sex with someone or jacking off does not matter .

I heard somewhere sometime that it releases necessary protein in the body. I could be totally wrong and am too lazy to Google it.

Ejaculating most definitely has its benefits and downsides.
Though, honestly, I would rather be short of some protein if it meant not getting prostate cancer.
Moral of the story: get out the lube bois!

[GenKaan]

I managed to quit World of warcraft after a few years. Was addicted for a few years but I was a kid and had no responsibilities, so no real harm done. Got dumped because of it, but that wasnt so bad since she was crazy anyways.

Managed to quit snus as well, that was harder but my current wife didnt like it so I quit. More or less locked myself out from the world, detoxed for 4ish days and is no longer addicted to nicotine. I like the drug so a few years later when I found out about e-cig I replaced candy with that and now vaping 3mg MBV juices. Can go a day with out vaping so compared to my old nicotine addiction this is a walk in the park.

After leaving my old job my keyboard/cap addiction has more or less gone down to zero as well. Have the keyboard and cap sets I want, now I only trade my artisans for caps that fit my layout better than the one I have. I do enter some sales still, think Im going to sell of a few to have some paypal cash for IF I ever win a Bro again

[redbanshee]

I managed to quit World of warcraft after a few years. Was addicted for a few years but I was a kid and had no responsibilities, so no real harm done. Got dumped because of it, but that wasnt so bad since she was crazy anyways.

This exact same thing happened to me, got dumped but she was crazy as hell! 


Blizzard sent me a free week of WoW recently so I re-installed and logged in. Its like a whole new game I had no idea what the hell was going on, was kinda fun to just see what had happened since i had left. Well the guild I was in is now #1 on the server literally 10 seconds after I logged in I got a guild invite and the next 20 min was people freaking out over me playing again, i was like "haha sorry guys its just a free week of gametime" apparently I was one of the best healers they ever had and the guild leader offered to buy a years subscription for me to come back and heal, I graciously declined though.... cant be getting back into WoW again!  I like my GF!!

[Binge]

Drinking, certain foods, upgrading my PC yearly, preordering games, buying anything from or produced in partnership with EA games, watching orange is the new black, watching it's always sunny in Philadelphia, playing guitar due to issues with hands/wrist, and having Birthday parties.

[SpAmRaY]

Drinking, certain foods, upgrading my PC yearly, preordering games, buying anything from or produced in partnership with EA games, watching orange is the new black, watching it's always sunny in Philadelphia, playing guitar due to issues with hands/wrist, and having Birthday parties.

Never quit birthday parties!

[BlueNalgene]

I've quit by way of cold turkey both cigarettes and caffeine.

Cigarettes was fairly easy.  I still had cravings and was a little edgy, but it was tolerable.  And now, cigarettes taste disgusting.  I still enjoy smoking occasionally (just not cigs), and I can do it without being addicted.  It is more of a hobby and stimulant rather than a crutch.

Caffeine was way harder.  I had a big problem with caffeine use as self-medication for a while.  I'm talking a pot or two of coffee, 6+ cans of soda, and green tea pills a day to keep the edge going.  It got to the point that I was no longer awakened by caffeine, it just made me twitchy while I wanted to fall asleep.  I decided to cold turkey for a while.  The physical pain was brutal.  I had a headache that quite literally lasted a month, I was sore all over, and my previously agile mind was reduced to mush during the withdrawal period. Hellish.  That was a few years ago.  Oddly, my weight didn't change despite the lower sugar intake.  After I was clear of it, I consciously decided to allow myself a single caffeinated drink per day.  It is a constant battle to keep myself from falling back off the wagon with that one.  Now that I'm in grad school, I have more need for stimulants again.  My current intake is a 5 hour shot at 3 PM, a single soda with dinner, and whatever else I can scrounge up on days I have seminars.  It is definitely a habit still, but it is in moderation - not totally wrecking my life.

What can I say though?  I like my uppers.  That is why I have to stay away from them.  Downers don't have the same pull on me.  I have a strong enough willpower to moderate my intake now that I've matured.  I will continue to do them though, because I realize that I kinda need them.  I am a much more effective person with proper dosing.  It would be tempting to try a very small dose of something powerful like an amphetamine or study drugs as a regular intake without increasing the dosage to mitigate tolerance, but the risk is too high.

[Joey Quinn]

Drinking, certain foods, upgrading my PC yearly, preordering games, buying anything from or produced in partnership with EA games, watching orange is the new black, watching it's always sunny in Philadelphia, playing guitar due to issues with hands/wrist, and having Birthday parties.

You should never stop watching it's always sunny.

[FrostyToast]

Drinking, certain foods, upgrading my PC yearly, preordering games, buying anything from or produced in partnership with EA games, watching orange is the new black, watching it's always sunny in Philadelphia, playing guitar due to issues with hands/wrist, and having Birthday parties.

Seems like you did quire a bit of...
Binging.

I'll just leave...

[Steezus]

I used to drink a ton of coffee every day, now I just drink coffee on occasion. I was at the point where I'd get caffeine headaches any day I didn't have coffee.

My only other bad habit is smoking bud which I've cut back on but have no plans to quit.

I got out of hand with wax in the beginning of this year, it made me super lazy and my grades were starting to. I decided enough was enough, I don't want to ruin my opportunity being at college so I slowed down quite a bit. I'm still a daily smoker but going from daily wax to bud is a huge difference.

[Air tree]

My new years resolution is to quit procrastinating and actually do something with my life rather than waste away and sit around and just wallow in my depression. Wish me luck..



I don't want to end up just ****ing up my life and staying somewhere that I don't want to be.


Hopefully I can muster up some kind of drive and get my self out of this ever growing pit...

[tp4tissue]

I managed to quit World of warcraft after a few years. Was addicted for a few years but I was a kid and had no responsibilities, so no real harm done. Got dumped because of it, but that wasnt so bad since she was crazy anyways.

This exact same thing happened to me, got dumped but she was crazy as hell! 


Blizzard sent me a free week of WoW recently so I re-installed and logged in. Its like a whole new game I had no idea what the hell was going on, was kinda fun to just see what had happened since i had left. Well the guild I was in is now #1 on the server literally 10 seconds after I logged in I got a guild invite and the next 20 min was people freaking out over me playing again, i was like "haha sorry guys its just a free week of gametime" apparently I was one of the best healers they ever had and the guild leader offered to buy a years subscription for me to come back and heal, I graciously declined though.... cant be getting back into WoW again!  I like my GF!!

Omg, dis kid....  Abandons Guild for Girlfriend.  Back in oldentimes. They'd torture you for desertion.

[noisyturtle]

Video games are not unhealthy, your lack of moderation is. You are a fool if you believe otherwise, and that goes for things like drinking as well(except smoking ciggs, they are just flat out bad for you.)
You are making it a problem by not being able to control yourself like an adult.

[demik]

yeah. quitting is easy. i do it all the time. it helps when you lack no motivation to continue.

[romevi]

Video games are not unhealthy, your lack of moderation is. You are a fool if you believe otherwise, and that goes for things like drinking as well(except smoking ciggs, they are just flat out bad for you.)
You are making it a problem by not being able to control yourself like an adult.

Haven't read any posts above. People think games are bad? I love vidya. Don't have much time to play anymore, but after the kid goes to bed and the wife is feeling exceptionally tired one evening, I like to turn on my system and go numb.

[noisyturtle]

Video games are not unhealthy, your lack of moderation is. You are a fool if you believe otherwise, and that goes for things like drinking as well(except smoking ciggs, they are just flat out bad for you.)
You are making it a problem by not being able to control yourself like an adult.

Haven't read any posts above. People think games are bad? I love vidya. Don't have much time to play anymore, but after the kid goes to bed and the wife is feeling exceptionally tired one evening, I like to turn on my system and go numb.

Exactly, if anything I find them to be a very healthy alternative to blowing off steam. No risk, all reward.

[HoffmanMyster]

So anyway, yeah it's possible, but for me I just had to learn the hard way.

Damn, that is intense.  I never would have guessed you had this storied history.  Thanks for sharing.

[njbair]

So anyway, yeah it's possible, but for me I just had to learn the hard way.

Damn, that is intense.  I never would have guessed you had this storied history.  Thanks for sharing.

It seems like a lifetime ago.

BTW, to everyone here, if we ever meet in person please feel free to punch me for drunk driving.

[suicidal_orange]

My new years resolution is to quit procrastinating and actually do something with my life rather than waste away and sit around and just wallow in my depression. Wish me luck..



I don't want to end up just ****ing up my life and staying somewhere that I don't want to be.


Hopefully I can muster up some kind of drive and get my self out of this ever growing pit...

Sounds good, but I've been saying something must change for years and it's not happened.  It's easy to say "this is not satisfying" but working out what's missing and what to do about it is a whole other story...

Any idea where you want to go?

[HoffmanMyster]

So anyway, yeah it's possible, but for me I just had to learn the hard way.

Damn, that is intense.  I never would have guessed you had this storied history.  Thanks for sharing.

It seems like a lifetime ago.

BTW, to everyone here, if we ever meet in person please feel free to punch me for drunk driving.

I won't take you up on the offer, but I do feel very passionately about not drunk driving.  As you can probably imagine, it's an interesting topic of discussion in my state.  :-/

[njbair]

So anyway, yeah it's possible, but for me I just had to learn the hard way.

Damn, that is intense.  I never would have guessed you had this storied history.  Thanks for sharing.

It seems like a lifetime ago.

BTW, to everyone here, if we ever meet in person please feel free to punch me for drunk driving.

I won't take you up on the offer, but I do feel very passionately about not drunk driving.  As you can probably imagine, it's an interesting topic of discussion in my state.  :-/

Why, because beer capital USA?

[Remenition]

My dad's been in the process of quitting smoking. Albeit I have no idea what he does most of the time as he lives in China, but at least when I see him, he's only been smoking one a day at most as opposed to him smoking a pack a day like he used to. It's possible!

[HoffmanMyster]

So anyway, yeah it's possible, but for me I just had to learn the hard way.

Damn, that is intense.  I never would have guessed you had this storied history.  Thanks for sharing.

It seems like a lifetime ago.

BTW, to everyone here, if we ever meet in person please feel free to punch me for drunk driving.

I won't take you up on the offer, but I do feel very passionately about not drunk driving.  As you can probably imagine, it's an interesting topic of discussion in my state.  :-/

Why, because beer capital USA?

Because always drunk  xD

[absyrd]

I quit the marijuanas about 14 years ago. In college I was taking part in smoking at least an ounce a day; dangerous when your dorm hall has 39/40 potheads. Once I left school, I just felt ill every time I smoked.

Wyfe will have quit smoking cigs 10 years as of November 24th. We gonna party. More important than a birthday, imo.

[Remenition]

I quit the marijuanas about 14 years ago. In college I was taking part in smoking at least an ounce a day; dangerous when your dorm hall has 39/40 potheads. Once I left school, I just felt ill every time I smoked.

Wyfe will have quit smoking cigs 10 years as of November 24th. We gonna party. More important than a birthday, imo.

Pot makes my friend hella paranoid so he doesn't really like it. Me and him are real tight 

[Leslieann]

I was borderline alcoholic.

When I lived in the dorms on base I would be drunk for 3 straight days. Get off work Friday and immediately start drinking until Sunday. Would wake up and take shots of tequila to get rid of my hang over then continue partying.

After I got my own place and I found my self drinking by my self on the weekends. (and this wasn't just a beer or two) I realized I had a problem. I quit cold turkey for a year.

Now I enjoy drinking craft beers on the weekends with friends. I tour breweries, beer tastings and may buy a 6 pack with different craft beers. But I will never drink with the only purpose of getting drunk again.

Some of that could be blamed on the military lifestyle.
So may highs and lows, with nothing to fill the middle. You have to find a way to fill your life in ways that are different than the civilian world and many can't do that.

Not that the military helps the matter.
The Air Force would tell us at one briefing not to drink then at the next roll out a couple kegs. They shove all those people into dorms on base, but do very little to keep them active or engaged outside of work. Universities often have things going on on campus, not to mention they are more open to comings and goings, whereas the military base does little to no activities (and do no promotion of them) and you are much more cut off from the outside world.

[Joey Quinn]

I quit the marijuanas about 14 years ago. In college I was taking part in smoking at least an ounce a day; dangerous when your dorm hall has 39/40 potheads. Once I left school, I just felt ill every time I smoked.

Wyfe will have quit smoking cigs 10 years as of November 24th. We gonna party. More important than a birthday, imo.

An ounce a day! **** that's a ton.

Worst my friend and I have gotten was about an oz a week at the start of this year.

Would you say you were actually addicted to it?

[Steezus]

I quit the marijuanas about 14 years ago. In college I was taking part in smoking at least an ounce a day; dangerous when your dorm hall has 39/40 potheads. Once I left school, I just felt ill every time I smoked.

Wyfe will have quit smoking cigs 10 years as of November 24th. We gonna party. More important than a birthday, imo.

An ounce a day! **** that's a ton.

Worst my friend and I have gotten was about an oz a week at the start of this year.

Would you say you were actually addicted to it?

I've been smoking too much, decided to save some money and got 1.25 lbs last week. I wouldn't say I'm mentally addicted but my body is dependant of it. I don't have an appetite at all unless I smoke. I'm not planning on this forever. Once I get out of college I'll definitely stop to get a job.

[Joey Quinn]

I quit the marijuanas about 14 years ago. In college I was taking part in smoking at least an ounce a day; dangerous when your dorm hall has 39/40 potheads. Once I left school, I just felt ill every time I smoked.

Wyfe will have quit smoking cigs 10 years as of November 24th. We gonna party. More important than a birthday, imo.

An ounce a day! **** that's a ton.

Worst my friend and I have gotten was about an oz a week at the start of this year.

Would you say you were actually addicted to it?

I've been smoking too much, decided to save some money and got 1.25 lbs last week. I wouldn't say I'm mentally addicted but my body is dependant of it. I don't have an appetite at all unless I smoke. I'm not planning on this forever. Once I get out of college I'll definitely stop to get a job.

+1 for no appetite without smoking but I can barely taste anything so eating is usually a chore. I'm hoping that by the time I graduate it'll be legal so I won't have to stop to get a job. )

I need to go get a med card.

[Steezus]

I quit the marijuanas about 14 years ago. In college I was taking part in smoking at least an ounce a day; dangerous when your dorm hall has 39/40 potheads. Once I left school, I just felt ill every time I smoked.

Wyfe will have quit smoking cigs 10 years as of November 24th. We gonna party. More important than a birthday, imo.

An ounce a day! **** that's a ton.

Worst my friend and I have gotten was about an oz a week at the start of this year.

Would you say you were actually addicted to it?

I've been smoking too much, decided to save some money and got 1.25 lbs last week. I wouldn't say I'm mentally addicted but my body is dependant of it. I don't have an appetite at all unless I smoke. I'm not planning on this forever. Once I get out of college I'll definitely stop to get a job.

+1 for no appetite without smoking but I can barely taste anything so eating is usually a chore. I'm hoping that by the time I graduate it'll be legal so I won't have to stop to get a job. )

I need to go get a med card.

Same, I've been waiting for PA to legalize it and if that's the case then I would continue. I have found a good medium of smoking and school so I can still maintain decent grades and pass all my classes. I make sure to get my core engineering classes work done first before I hit the bong, any other class isn't too bad.

[jaffers]

I started drinking and smoking at around 15. In my early twenties I drank a lot, drove drunk, smoked weed and did a lot of speed (some cocaine, but mostly prescription stuff like Aderrall). Then there were the party drugs, whatever someone was selling. I never messed with crack, meth or needle drugs, that just seemed too hardcore even for me. But basically anything else was fair game.

I had a friend, Dan, who loved to drink wine. He would buy it in actual jugs. I'm not even sure where he would get it in jugs. Every night there would be a party at the house he lived in, and Dan had his turntables set up, spinning all kinds of electronic music and drinking out of his jug while we played Tony Hawk or whatever game was on, then we'd all pass out until morning. One morning we all woke up to the sound of Dan's girlfriend screaming at the top of her lungs. Someone ran upstairs to see what was going on. Turns out that Dan had snorted an 80mg oxycontin the night before in addition to his jug of wine. He overdosed and his girlfriend woke up to find him lying dead next to her. As soon as I heard someone upstairs say, "he's dead," I got up and left right away, figuring cops would be coming there soon and not wanting to be around for that. It was a super selfish decision on my part, but one that characterized the kind of person I was back then. I never showed my face at that house again.

That night pretty much ended my run with hard drugs, but I continued on drinking occasionally, just trying to keep it in moderation. I started directing my energies towards more respectable activities, started a small business (auto detailing), and then I met a girl with whom things got serious pretty quickly. But even as I was trying to clean up my act, this girl was heading in the opposite direction, and I knew it was a self-destructive path so I broke up with her, which was about the hardest thing I ever made myself do. The next day I went to work at my part-time night job and it was a really slow night. Basically I had 8 hours to sit there and second-guess my decision to break up with her. By the time my shift ended I was ready to turn off my brain. So I called up my old party buddies and met up with them. As soon as I walked in the door of my buddy's apartment I downed a half a bottle of JD like an athlete downs a gatorade. The night got crazier from there and I ended up blacking out, falling off a rooftop (don't ask), and waking up all scratched up from the fall, at someone else's house with no memory of how I got there, other than the fact that my car was there so apparently I drove myself. I checked my cell phone call log, and sure enough I had drunk-dialed that girl about 5 times the night before. I was mortified. I had been doing so well, and in one night I felt like I had ruined it all.

Not long after that night I gave up drinking altogether. I haven't touched a drink since then (some time in 2003). Some people seem to be able to handle it in moderation, I'm just not one of them. I quit smoking about a year later.

So anyway, yeah it's possible, but for me I just had to learn the hard way.

I've a story kinda similar.. Thanks for sharing dude, great work that you got out of it. ^:)

[Joey Quinn]

+1 for no appetite without smoking but I can barely taste anything so eating is usually a chore. I'm hoping that by the time I graduate it'll be legal so I won't have to stop to get a job. )

I need to go get a med card.

Same, I've been waiting for PA to legalize it and if that's the case then I would continue. I have found a good medium of smoking and school so I can still maintain decent grades and pass all my classes. I make sure to get my core engineering classes work done first before I hit the bong, any other class isn't too bad.

) dude, we think the same

The only work I can't do high is Calc, anything else and I'm fine. My GPA is still above 3.0 so I wouldn't say it's negatively impacting school. It helps my head so you may actually be able to say it's good for my school work.

[Steezus]

+1 for no appetite without smoking but I can barely taste anything so eating is usually a chore. I'm hoping that by the time I graduate it'll be legal so I won't have to stop to get a job. )

I need to go get a med card.

Same, I've been waiting for PA to legalize it and if that's the case then I would continue. I have found a good medium of smoking and school so I can still maintain decent grades and pass all my classes. I make sure to get my core engineering classes work done first before I hit the bong, any other class isn't too bad.

) dude, we think the same

The only work I can't do high is Calc, anything else and I'm fine. My GPA is still above 3.0 so I wouldn't say it's negatively impacting school. It helps my head so you may actually be able to say it's good for my school work.

Great minds think alike

It definitely is very beneficial for me to just relax the mind after a long day of exams or studying. I'm currently sitting around a 2.8-3.0 freshman year first semester but I took a lot heavier load this semester than I should have. Come next semester it will be much easier and I can working on bringing my GPA back up, hoping to average higher than 3.5 after that. So many kids have been failing out of my major that they lowered the minimum GPA to a 2.6 but I need to have at least a 3.0 for a few intern offers I've had.

[Joey Quinn]

) dude, we think the same

The only work I can't do high is Calc, anything else and I'm fine. My GPA is still above 3.0 so I wouldn't say it's negatively impacting school. It helps my head so you may actually be able to say it's good for my school work.

Great minds think alike

It definitely is very beneficial for me to just relax the mind after a long day of exams or studying. I'm currently sitting around a 2.8-3.0 freshman year first semester but I took a lot heavier load this semester than I should have. Come next semester it will be much easier and I can working on bringing my GPA back up, hoping to average higher than 3.5 after that. So many kids have been failing out of my major that they lowered the minimum GPA to a 2.6 but I need to have at least a 3.0 for a few intern offers I've had.

What major? I'm an ME but I only need a 2.5 for my scholarships (currently @  3.4). Heavy class loads are manageable if you prepare for it, 18 credits this semester has been hard but I've survived it so far.

[Steezus]

) dude, we think the same

The only work I can't do high is Calc, anything else and I'm fine. My GPA is still above 3.0 so I wouldn't say it's negatively impacting school. It helps my head so you may actually be able to say it's good for my school work.

Great minds think alike

It definitely is very beneficial for me to just relax the mind after a long day of exams or studying. I'm currently sitting around a 2.8-3.0 freshman year first semester but I took a lot heavier load this semester than I should have. Come next semester it will be much easier and I can working on bringing my GPA back up, hoping to average higher than 3.5 after that. So many kids have been failing out of my major that they lowered the minimum GPA to a 2.6 but I need to have at least a 3.0 for a few intern offers I've had.

What major? I'm an ME but I only need a 2.5 for my scholarships (currently @  3.4). Heavy class loads are manageable if you prepare for it, 18 credits this semester has been hard but I've survived it so far.

I'm going for Computer Engineering, I'm just taking the core engineering classes at the moment that are meant to weed out people. None of my core engineering classes(Physics, Calculus, Chem) curve and my Calc class does not have any homework points as well. Once I get into my major related classes it will be much easier for me.

[HoffmanMyster]

Once I get into my major related classes it will be much easier for me.

Lucky.  )  We were still weeding people out first semester of senior year... 

[Steezus]

Once I get into my major related classes it will be much easier for me.

Lucky.  )  We were still weeding people out first semester of senior year... 

The reason why I'd say it will be easier is that the classes will then involve programming and computer related classes that I already have a fair bit of background in.

[swimmingbird]

I quit smoking through running

[ander]

Yikes, I thought you meant keyboard-collecting.

If we decided to break our addiction and got rid of all of our cool KBs—for that's the only way you could do it, like pouring all the liquor down the sink—we'd have to type on some lameass RD or membrane board. And how could we stand that for very long? There's no way out, I'm telling you.

[KnivesM]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

[romevi]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

[bocahgundul]

Quit fapping and quit eating watermelon

The Seinfeld episode "The Bet" is one of the best episodes ever, and a lesson on what happens if you quit fapping.

More like a lesson on that people lie about not fapping ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

bro i really quit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

nah, just lyin

y u always lyin

Yep can't hold it anymore

[HoffmanMyster]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

Nope

[heedpantsnow]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

Nope

Coke.

[Steezus]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

+1 to that, been calling it pop my entire life.

[ander]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

+1 to that, been calling it pop my entire life.

Go ahead, make your smug little comments. The fact is, it's a big subject, bigger than you'd ever imagine—otherwise I don't think you could possibly be so cavalier about it.

Behold (click to zoom):





It's Other that's the killer. For example, in many parts of the U.S., all soft drinks are referred to as "Coke", or even "Pepsi". (You ask for a "Coke" [or "Pepsi"] and the server says, "What kind?" Then you say "Dr. Pepper" or "Mountain Dew" or whatever. To order your drink by name, right away, would seem odd or pushy. I've actually been through these places and heard such exchanges.)

And that's just the U.S. If you think you have the courage, take a look at this list of soft-drink names by country. As you'll see, deciding what to call this stuff is a worldwide paradox.

I'm glad I had a chance to raise your consciousness a bit on this complex, globe-spanning topic. I trust your lives will never be the same, drink-name-wise. Mine won't.

[HoffmanMyster]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

Nope

Coke.

Triggered

[romevi]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

Nope

You know it to be true.

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

Nope

Coke.

Now you're going too far.

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

+1 to that, been calling it pop my entire life.

Go ahead, make your smug little comments. The fact is, it's a big subject, bigger than you'd ever imagine—otherwise I don't think you could possibly be so cavalier about it.

Behold (click to zoom):

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It's Other that's the killer. For example, in many parts of the U.S., all soft drinks are referred to as "Coke", or even "Pepsi". (You ask for a "Coke" [or "Pepsi"] and the server says, "What kind?" Then you say "Dr. Pepper" or "Mountain Dew" or whatever. To order your drink by name, right away, would seem odd or pushy. I've actually been through these places and heard such exchanges.)

And that's just the U.S. If you think you have the courage, take a look at this list of soft-drink names by country. As you'll see, deciding what to call this stuff is a worldwide paradox.

I'm glad I had a chance to raise your consciousness a bit on this complex, globe-spanning topic. I trust your lives will never be the same, drink-name-wise. Mine won't.

I've had several conversations about this in high school. It's actually pretty important to me.  :-X

[Oobly]

I quit drinking pop at least 2 years ago

Another citizen who knows the correct way to identify that fizzy drink.

+1 to that, been calling it pop my entire life.

Go ahead, make your smug little comments. The fact is, it's a big subject, bigger than you'd ever imagine—otherwise I don't think you could possibly be so cavalier about it.

Behold (click to zoom):

Show Image

It's Other that's the killer. For example, in many parts of the U.S., all soft drinks are referred to as "Coke", or even "Pepsi". (You ask for a "Coke" [or "Pepsi"] and the server says, "What kind?" Then you say "Dr. Pepper" or "Mountain Dew" or whatever. To order your drink by name, right away, would seem odd or pushy. I've actually been through these places and heard such exchanges.)

And that's just the U.S. If you think you have the courage, take a look at this list of soft-drink names by country. As you'll see, deciding what to call this stuff is a worldwide paradox.

I'm glad I had a chance to raise your consciousness a bit on this complex, globe-spanning topic. I trust your lives will never be the same, drink-name-wise. Mine won't.

That's really interesting... It took me some time to get used everyone here calling all soft drinks "limonadi" since it's derived from the English "lemonade", but Coke is.... well, it's Coca-Cola.

Maybe we should all just call them soft drinks?

To clarify my earlier post, I really meant I quit the soft drink by the name of Coca-Cola. What made it easier was also that it doesn't taste as good here as it did in South Africa, which was discussed previously in another thread.