A comment was recently left by the writer of the Stories from Thailand blog.
He asked a reasonable enough question (why don’t you stop drinking?) which I pondered upon whilst browsing through the posts on his site.
Before replying to his initial comment I stumbled across a post of his (http://storiesfromthailand.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-i-dont-drink.html) which explained why he doesn’t drink and invited those who do to state their case.
Here is my reply:
“It’s a waste of money.”
This is subjective. Alcohol is a luxury purchase but no more a waste of money than other items of pleasure such as art, music, film, fine cuisine, holidays etc.
“It gets you intoxicated and when people are drunk they do stupid things”
Not everybody drinks to excess. Sometimes I get more pleasure out of one drink than ten and while I have done stupid things when drunk I find there is a fair balance between my sober and non-sober acts of stupidity.
“Do you drink?”
Yup.
“Everyday?”
Not currently but I have done in the past.
“Then, you’re a loser! Convince me you’re not!”
I disagree entirely.
Elsewhere in the post the writer argues that time spent sober allows him to increase his teaching qualifications and therefore his earning capacity.
Considering that most farang teachers earn an absolute pittance I find it laughable that one should bring their peanut based salary into the equation.
I balance a busy work life alongside my penchant for beer and earn many times more than some of best paid teachers and lecturers in Thailand.
In financial terms I am certainly not a loser.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Why I do drink – Part 1
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6 comments:
Dear Sir,
Please may I sign up to the Drinking Non-Loser club as well.
Methinks our friend doth protest too much: "it gets you intoxicated and when people are drunk they do stupid things." (my emphasis). I think these second- and third-person pronouns really should be in the first person.
In short, Thaistory can't hold his beer and blames the rest of us for it. He needs to relax and sip a cold one.
Cheers (and keep up the excellent blogging).
I want to sign into the Drinking Non-Loser club too. Or the Drinking Loser club. Either way. I've definitely done just as many stupid things sober as drinking. Although, I think drinking stupidity might tend more toward physical danger than sober stupidity does.
I for one can certainly say that I'm not a loser because I'm prone to bouts of binging on alcohol.
Although I'm homeless, unemployed and at the time of writing in serious debt due to said binging, at least I drink my alcohol out of a glass (or straight from the bottle if needs be), as opposed to a brown paper bag like some folk. Losers !
Wow Total Spender is still alive!
I thought the Korean's had imprisoned you or something......
Some teachers make over 100.000 baht a month!
100,000 baht is a long weekend at Nana....
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