Social WR Lounge v280: Debauchery, Degeneracy & The Destruction of Western Civilization (A lot of D's)

[Andy Capp]

It won't let me use it on here some reason.
I don't know actually. I would have to look that up.

@StoneColdSteveAustin why do you care?

 

[sickness2.0]

Mind you, @sickness2.0 I can only say that because I still have these in reserve,

Andy, I was just watching animal house earlier LMAO. Love that movie.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[Andy Capp]

No. You change yours enough for the entire website.

 

[tonni]

https://avenuepub.com/menus/food

What should I get? Chili's closes in an hour and taking a $22 Uber to Chili's at 32 seems like I'll have a real sad self realization on the $22 Uber ride back.

Before Covid this was my fucking jam.


The Escargot de Bourgogne Sauvages looks amazing and I was thinking of getting this in honor of @tonni
Toast aux Champions
A Belgian tradition, cremini mushrooms and caramelized onions sauteed in a cognac cream sauce

Fancy! I hope you will be moaning and saying my name as you eat the onions.

 

[Andy Capp]

Andy, I was just watching animal house earlier LMAO. Love that movie.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

https://avenuepub.com/menus/food

What should I get? Chili's closes in an hour and taking a $22 Uber to Chili's at 32 seems like I'll have a real sad self realization on the $22 Uber ride back.

Before Covid this was my fucking jam.


The Escargot de Bourgogne Sauvages looks amazing and I was thinking of getting this in honor of @tonni
Toast aux Champions
A Belgian tradition, cremini mushrooms and caramelized onions sauteed in a cognac cream sauce

Cassoulet.

 

[sickness2.0]

Aw man.. well I like you.

 

[tonni]

Ben is a dumb little twerp.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

As far as femme fatale characters go I've always been more of a fan of Faye Valentine but her look doesn't translate to cosplays so well.

I've noticed something with characters like Faye and Revy, they're often depicted with their hair having a purple tint to it but I think that's just the animators way of rendering dark, raven hair. So when cosplayers use purple hair in their cosplay it looks off.

Always had a thing for Faye. She reminded me of a girl I lived with at the time.

Mostly disagreeable but attractive enough to get away with it, and good at what she did when it came down to it.

Hot.

 

[tonni]

@AgonyandIrony that website made me hungry.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

 

[Andy Capp]

Aw man.. well I like you.

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Does anyone ever yellow let it mellow?

Funny, our toilet busted the other day. There was a lot of mellowing going on. Apparently toilet parts are supposed to be changed like every five or so years. Fuck me I think I've had like triple that'

Btw, that sink pissers reddit someone shared a bit back was fucking hilarious.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

@Jack V Savage
@Khabib Khanate

Okay questions pertaining to your conversation:

1. If you could make one change to improve today's liberal democracies what would it be, and

2. What about making that change would give you the most hesitation?

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Poor @Khabib Khanate missing @Prokofievian right now

Oh yeah, what happened to Prok? He was a solid poster but just kinda disappeared.

This space has gotten a little less safe since he stopped posting.

 

[Andy Capp]

@sickness2.0 let's make amends

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

Oh yeah, what happened to Prok? He was a solid poster but just kinda disappeared.

This space has gotten a little less safe since he stopped posting.

He's taken to beating my ass in chess but is sadly incommunicado otherwise.

 

[Islam Imamate]

For the worse... in comparison to what it was previously?

Surely you can't think that. France was a feudal society where social hierarchies were firmly entrenched and even legally coded. The revolution gave that a swift kick in the ass and brought into existence the current form of flawed, liberal democracy.

Secular liberal democracy >>>>>> feudalistic, monarchy with a state religion.

To me, the flaws of the French Revolution are the expected and forgivable effects of a society that so swiftly said fuck you to 1,000+ years of backwardness.

Definitely for the worse, hence why there was a counter-revolutionary peasant uprising. After all, the Revolution plunged the continent into war and who fought that war for the French? Conscripted peasants. Like I said, the ideals of the French Revolution sound nice in theory but it ended up creating a massive bureaucratic government that was in many ways far more invasive and coercive than the monarchy was before it. Conscription is one example but so is appropriating all church lands and property and trying to radically remake the church in France by only allowing state approved priests to practice. Many peasants, like those in the Vendee, weren't very happy with that. Premodern religion tended to structure local communal life in a way that was surprisingly sensitive to local particularities but the top-down project of the French Revolution had no such sensitivities.

The nobles that the peasants resented were the absentee nobles who lived in the cities but lorded over the countryside, nobles like those in the Vendee who lived among their peasants(and therefore more in tune with their local circumstnaces) were more well regarded. Revolutionaries in Paris were certainly just as alienated and imposing as many of the nobles before them, more so if anything given they built a more invasive state apparatus.

For the most part I think gradually reformed constitutional monarchies are preferable to republics born of radical revolutions.

Poor @Khabib Khanate missing @Prokofievian right now

I don't get it, does he also resent the French Revolution?

 

[essie]

Ben is a dumb little twerp.