The shock of finding a real-life elitist....

[Grey_Focks]

*snip*

Yup, had one of those assholes before.
Just do what I did. Half (or a whole bottle) of eye drops in their food and that should take care of it. Nothing like a dude shitting his pants in front of everyone to take the wind out of his sails.

Oho, I hadn't thought about poison before. I leave for work in about half an hour, and I'm pretty sure both he and my new lady friend and working tonight. Immature though it may be, I'm strongly considering this.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Oho, I hadn't thought about poison before. I leave for work in about half an hour, and I'm pretty sure both he and my new lady friend and working tonight. Immature though it may be, I'm strongly considering this.

And your new ladyfriend might consider it an immature and insecure thing for you to do, should she twig to it.

 

[thekrimzonguard]

...I said it doesn't make you less drunk, merely slows it down because food latches on to the alcohol. She said it makes you less drunk for the same reason, leaving out the important fact. So I was left there to stew while she was sitting there being all smug because she can use google and lie.

She could argue that if the alcohol absorption is sufficiently slowed, then the liver will be able to remove some alcohol before the entire drink is taken into the bloodstream - so there is less alcohol in the blood at any one time. Thus you get less drunk.

There's also evidence to suggest that it's the speed at which you get drunk that affects your response to alcohol. It was shown that the memory 'black outs' caused by alcohol are linked the rate of blood alcohol increase, not just total blood alcohol. (Will try to find source, sorry.)

Maybe metabolism changes after a meal affect alcohol digestion, too. It's a good discussion, whatever the answer. Of course, it sounds as though she was fueled by self-righteousness and belief in student rituals rather than actual facts.

OT: It's mind-rendingly frustrating arguing with anyone you can't see eye-to-eye with. Some people just aren't worth it, and hopefully those listening will realise they don't have a clue too.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Oho, I hadn't thought about poison before. I leave for work in about half an hour, and I'm pretty sure both he and my new lady friend and working tonight. Immature though it may be, I'm strongly considering this.

And your new ladyfriend might consider it an immature and insecure thing for you to do, should she twig to it.

also true, but based on what I know about her sense of humor, I'd think she'd laugh about it.

 

[zHellas]

I'm probably usually the snob but you should have punched that chick :\ or squeezed her bewbs or something.

Or punched her in the breast. Apparently that's somewhat the female equivalent of kick-in-the-balls.

OT: You probably should have put that ***** in her place by either a big rant, or a punch to the face.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

OT: It's mind-rendingly frustrating arguing with anyone you can't see eye-to-eye with. Some people just aren't worth it, and hopefully those listening will realise they don't have a clue too.

Which leads to my usual answer to argumentative people at parties "I'm considering whether it's worth my time to dispute your point or if I should just wrap a bottle around your head."

One smarmy fuckhead responded with "Oh yes, meatheads like you always turn to violence as your first option." To which I pointed out "If you'd been paying attention my first 'option' was to consider my options and evaluate the effectiveness and/or desirability of said options."

Then I brained him with a bottle.

 

[Canid117]

2 days later, it's still annoying me lol.

I'm guessing you completely lost the argument then.

I did, because she quoted the exact words I said, bar the part that made the argument. I said it doesn't make you less drunk, merely slows it down because food latches on to the alcohol. She said it makes you less drunk for the same reason, leaving out the important fact. So I was left there to stew while she was sitting there being all smug because she can use google and lie.

How did you lose the argument then? shouldn't you have just added that little detail she left out?

 

[the Dept of Science]

I'm guessing this girl was meaning "I go to uni, therefore I have a lot of experience getting drunk" as opposed to "I go to uni, therefore I exist on a higher plane of knowledge to thee".
Although, something tells me that she probably never did a double blind test to verify her theory.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Okay, so I was at a barbecue on Sunday, when the shift turned to drinking. I'd not long been on a course that had a portion where drinking and it's effects were explained. My argument is that I'd been told for a fact that eating doesn't stop how drunk you get, merely slows it down by around 20 minutes. I knew this was a fact.

However, a girl there disagreed, and when I asked her to explain why she disagreed, her response was simply "Do you even go to uni? So you probably don't know what you're talking about"

That was it. No 'show me proof' or anything, just the fact that she's managed to squeeze some money out to go to uni. Bearing in mind I'm currently on a gap year before starting uni, this is the kind of thing that's particularly incensed me.

So escapists, tell of your experiences here; I'm curious to know whether anyone else has experienced this level of snobbery.

I'm most amused by the fact that you aren't seeing the bigger picture.

THIS BIRD TOTALLY WANTED TO JUMP YOU.

 

[thekrimzonguard]

I'm guessing this girl was meaning "I go to uni, therefore I have a lot of experience getting drunk" as opposed to "I go to uni, therefore I exist on a higher plane of knowledge to thee".
Although, something tells me that she probably never did a double blind test to verify her theory.

Ditto to this, you do learn a lot about drinking at university.
Although, experience of getting wasted doesn't really match up to actual science.

 

[garlicncow]

Bouncers who take their jobs too seriously. I work at a bar (topless, to be exact), and there is seldom need for anyone to be "bounced". people have been asked to leave because they were drunk and getting belligerent, but there has yet to be any case of the bouncers having to actually resort to violence. most of the bouncers are cool, but two new guys who just started are absolute assholes. I'm a barback/cook, and my job is usually a bit "dirty". There really is no hierarchy except that the owner and manager are in charge, and even for them, if we disagree with one of their decisions, they understand that we may know more about certain subjects and they listen to our opinions.

These bouncers on the other hand, they didn't get the "don't be an asshole because you have large muscles" memo. They try to order me around and tell me how to do my job, and get all "you wanna piece of this, *****?" when I disregard what they say. They act like they beat up drunks on a nightly basis (they don't) and they are cool because of it (they aren't). To make matters FAR worse, I recently started dating one of the bartenders, and the one bouncer keeps trying to flirt with her, even when I'm standing right there. I say something, and ofcourse, he resorts to the "I have giant steroid induced muscles and you don't" attitude, and it ends with me telling him to not be an asshole and just walking away, to which he laughs in response.

Wow, didn't mean to go on like that, guess I just had it kinda building up for a bit. I don't even know if that qualifies as finding a real life elitist. Close enough, though.

/pat it's ok just stab them a little bit in the foot.

 

[JLML]

Eeeh, yea. One of my friends. But he's stupid. No really, he has to be. For example, he is (or at leas was) convinced it's fully realistic to non-scope with sniper rifles, while running (CS style anyone?) or that it's possible to build a "laser-pistol" kinda like those you see in films (star wars anyone?) with current technology.

 

[Uber Evil]

Yeah, they exist pretty much everywhere. Actually, I'm pretty sure that life is 50% bastards. I think it's just higher on the internet because some of the bastards are a bit shy in real life.

I had one person call me a yob because I wasn't upper class. To which I told him a colourful story of my ancestors burning upper class settlers in Ireland to death.

Did that shut him up. That sounds absolutely awesome.
OT: No, can't say I have, because I'm pretty much the most well informed person in my grade in my town. Everybody I know takes my word as the word of god pretty much.

 

[Luke5515]

I got to a school where 33% of the kids are Rich with rich parents. This isn't usually a problem. I have a lot of friends who are like that and we get along great. Problem is, a lot of them aren't that kind and have the sort of snobby attitude that you would expect from country club patrons looking at some vagabond. Gets irritating.

 

[Jewrean]

This.

In other words, no evidence = no worthwhile arguement.

EDIT: Actually this one is better. But most of you have probably already seen it:

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

I meet them a lot. Being unemployed they assume simply im a drop out who didn't have it to get into Uni. (A: My school was ill-funded so I couldn't get the req' for Uni. B: Im unemployed because the area I live in is so rural and cut off, you basically need to lop off an arm and sell it to a employer to land a job around here)

Of course that doesn't stop me from either proving them wrong with their "Post MiT in Physics" crap or if there an egotistical male, A punch to the nose. (Or a roundhouse kick to the sternum, depends if my hands are in my pockets or not)

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Food in the stomach does somewhat effect alcohol absorption, but I guess that could just be rate of absorption and... anyway, on topic!

There are elitists all the time that I come across. Elitists who think that anyone who isn't a Libertarian is a Fascist (not all Libertarians are like this- but more and more the bulk of them are due to Glenn Beck). There are elitists who think that because I'm a vegetarian, I'm some kind of wishy-washy wanna be hippy going through a phase. Elitists who think that because I listen to punk rock I cannot appreciate blues or classic rock. Furthermore, my brother is an elitist who thinks I'm a tosser because I don't drink or do drugs and I'm not a U.S. Marine (marine elitists are probably the most common where I am now that I think about it).

There are elitists everywhere. This is a fact of life.