"A RIVER OF BOOZE... Inside one college town’s uneasy embrace of drinking"...

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verage blood-alcohol levels in students stopped by the police have risen steadily—this year one blew a 0.33, more than four times the legal limit

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What does it say about me that none of that article shocked or appalled me when I read it? Seems pretty run of the mill to me

Though, I did find the parts about bar owners, history of bars in Athens, and the local politics to be interesting.

I figured out my tailgate & what I spend aint shite after they talked to that other dude...

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Though, I did find the parts about bar owners, history of bars in Athens, and the local politics to be interesting.

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Jimmy verified everything we tell folk on the SECR about how the ACCPD & UGAPD work & the administration's stance on alcohol...

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Now that high school isn’t far off, he’s had conversations with his daughter about what to do if she’s pressured to drink. Take a beer and empty it into the toilet, he tells her. No one will know if you refill the bottle with water

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And in other news the pussification of our great country continues!

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I am proud to have been one of the founding fathers of this greatness


Y'all did a great job Peter, but those of us that came in after you perfected it. It's obvious by our record during the 90's. Lot's of downtown all-americans on those squads.

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I was in grad school then in the 90s and I think that was the true hedey before it got all douched up. People just rented empty spaces, built a bar, sold 2 or 3 types of beer, Jager, and Vodka. The bars all smelled like smoke, stale beer, piss, and vomit. No one had cell phones to track where each other was... O' Malleys was still open for the rednecks from Hull so they stayed away. You would hear the Pixies, Janes Addiction, and Smashing Pumkins along with local and regional music regular bars played on personal stereos...slapping the face of ASCAP and BMI... you didn't hear much gangster rap unless it wwas ironic and the hispters stayed over by Prince Ave and out of harm's way...
Thre are still a few good spots, but wayyy to many bars that were ripped from the soul of Buckhead... the Cheesy Buckhead, not the old cool one...

So, you either got that or hipster joints now. I hate both.
The worst we had to deal with was the Dead Head crowd and for all their shortcomiings, the gals from that subculture were incredibly easy to trick into vile acts... plus, they always had weed...

What were we talking about again?

I gaurantee you that most of the people in the article puking on themselves and passing out downtown and the ones being carried out of Sanford by their dates......are all kids from atlanta.

The rest of Georgia learns to drink and how to hold our liquor in junior-high and high-school. But, then when you get to UGA you meet all these loud squeaky dweebs from ATL that are partying for the first time........and they completely suck at it.

As usual, atlanta sucks on infinite levels. It's incredible.

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I gaurantee you that most of the people in the article puking on themselves and passing out downtown and the ones being carried out of Sanford by their dates......are all kids from atlanta.

The rest of Georgia learns to drink and how to hold our liquor in junior-high and high-school. But, then when you get to UGA you meet all these loud squeaky dweebs from ATL that are partying for the first time........and they completely suck at it.

As usual, atlanta sucks on infinite levels. It's incredible.

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Sorry to say that this is now a statewide issue (though, to your point, it likely did originate with the suburban atlanta crowd). Problem is nobody learns how to pace themselves or build up a tolerance or to handle their drunk selves anymore. They just go balls to the wall the first time and every time after that. Just stop drinking like they're going to reenact prohibition the next morning every single time you go out Save that kind of drinking for the Cocktail Party when the points matter

Claiming to be a founding father from the 90's is laughable. There are people that started the music and drinking culture from way before our time. The stories from the 50's, 60's, and 70's are eye opening and that was before we showed up.

The ones that came in the 90's were and still are a bunch of Atlanta surbunites riding the Hope.