Me, I'm sorry you feel like I'm being a hypocrate. I'm just expressing my opinon. I feel the war could have been planned out better. No I did not expect it to go out without a hitch. There is always a hitch and it is always about money. The under root of everything is money. Yes, there was the whole taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION thing, but the taxes were raised and you proved my point. They didn't want to give up money without debating it.
I'm really sorry that you lost family. One of my closest friends lost her uncle. I'm right outside New York. I felt the effects. I was one of those people who was glued to their TV screen. I'm still one of those who look up in the air when they hear and airplane. I am still feeling the effects. The point I was think people can overreact. My area loses power a lot; it's no big deal. It's about every week or so. Power loss is no big deal. Yes I DID survive the blackout of 2003. I survived all of them that have happened since I was born. I had no power from the time it started till 2 AM. My friend got stranded at Korean School and my mum had to go pick her up. No one made a big deal out of it. Then we turn on the radio and they're going on about how it could be a terror attack.
As for Sadam, why aren't we doing something about North Korea? We KNOW the have weapons. Plus we're the ones being hypocrites if we expect everyone else to get rid of their weapons and we don't get rid of ours.
I know this country is a mainly Christian Country, I jut don't like it being called that. That is one of the points that America was founded on and you may not see it that way, but I believe if you all group us under one name it kinda of hides the rest of us. I'm sorry that's my view after being told I was going to hell several times a day because I don't believe in 'God.' I'm not going to get into that and please, no one try to convert me. I've got three friends who are already trying.
Aristotle said, even if you have knowledge, if you can't convey it people still think you are a simpleton.
I'm sorry for you loss.
I will over look the cursing.
Captain Obvious- I agree, Gore was a spoiled brat about the whole Florida thing. Not the definition of a graceful loser. Sorry about posting the wrong chapter.
I'm ending the debate. I will post no more chapters that have politics as of today. You can talk to me about it if you want but I'm not going to respond cause it's unfair to everyone else for it to be posted here.
"Ten hut!" Coach Newman demanded. All the player flying around on the field immediately landed on the ground.
"Ten hut hut two!" the player answered. They held their brooms to the side with the base near their feet and the broom part in the air. They put one hand behind their back. Each them stood straight, not looking at Coach Newman walking in front of them.
The coach called the command for them to relax. (Shades of marching band. The last commans was Paradaehes, but I can't spell it.) The team visibly relaxed but didn't move their feet or divert their attention. "This is our new reserve Seeker Li Evans. He played several years on a minor team and now we've chosen him to be our new reserve. Now what are you ladies doing just sitting there? Get to work! I want to see twenty laps around the ring. Yes, Brown, you will be carrying your brooms. Then I want to see seventy-five push-ups. After that break off into sections and leaders you have your instructions. Seekers, I want to see you when you're done with the warm up." The team nodded and all set off running around the track.
"Why do we run?" Li asked the nearest person to her.
"It builds up endurance. He doesn't like us complaining of being tired," the person explained. "You're the new seeker right? From what I hear you could take my job. Is it true that you flew fifty meters off the ground upside down at a hundred kelos per hour?"
"Actually it was only thirty meters and I was going in circles. The snitch was feeling artistic that day," Li explained.
"Did you really capture the snitch?" the person asked excitedly. Li nodded. "That was an awesome move. My cousin captured it on some omniculars and let me watch it. That was a brilliant play. You must be brilliant!" I wish I could have seen that." Li bit her lip to stop herself from telling this person to shut up. The person chatted on for about fifteen laps without realizing that Li was slowly pulling ahead trying to get out of hearing range so she wouldn't be first to murder the annoying seeker. "Hey wait up! I'm sorry, I'm really rude. You probably have no idea who I am. I'm Mike Stevens. I'm the seeker for the Cannons. We're supposed to go to the coach after warm up. I supposed he wants you to learn all the drills." Li nodded again.
They team finished their laps and started doing the push-ups. Li made sure to stay away from the chatty seeker.
"Avoiding Meve?" James asked. Li looked at him. He had managed to be next to her even though she was more than a little far away from where everyone else was.
"Meve?" Li questioned. James laughed at the confused and yet repulsed expression on her face.
"That's what we call Mike Stevens. Somewhere along the lines we figured out he shuts up when we call him that," James told her.
"Is this all you do for warm-ups?" Li asked. "On the minor team we did a lot more for warm and these push-ups? Only doing seventy-five? Hundred is more like it. And what's with this two handed business?" Li put one hand behind her back and continued to do the push-ups. "It isn't a challenge on two hands at all." James put on hand behind his back like Li. He tried to do a push up and lost his balance. Li snorted.
"Hey shut up Slytherin," James said in his mock 'I'm-superior-to-you' voice.
"Right Griffindor," Li smirked.
"Do you only have one facial expression?" James asked.
"Nope, I've got two facial expressions, smirk and smug smirk," Li told him. (JERRY THE FROG PRODUCTIONS! Go check it out and yes that line is not mine.) James raised an eyebrow.
"I want to see seekers now!" yelled the coach. Li gave a 'smug smirk' to James and went over to the coach.
Li spent the rest of her day listening to 'Meve.' She resolved at the end of the day to get a pair of ear plugs. 'Meve' had obviously been a Hufflepuffs and Hufflepuffs were so damn cheerful and talkative. After practice Li apparated right away to Narcissa's house for the rehearsal dinner.
"You stink!" Narcissa yelled as soon as Li entered the house. "Go take a bath and change!" Li complied with Narcissa's orders and trudged to the stairs. Bellatrix held a handkerchief over her nose as Li passed. Li gave an amused snort.
Li made her way downstairs after her bath. She was tired an could barely keep her head up. She looked up to see everyone waiting.
"Sorry," she muttered.
"S'ok Li, anything to bring out the beautiful flower that you are," Lucius said mockingly. Li sent Lucius an indignant glare. He looked away innocently and offered his arm to Narcissa. Everyone else turned away except Severus who had just arrived.
"What you looking at?" Li asked. She walked down the remaining stairs to Severus. "If it's the dress, I know. Narcissa chose it out, I have nothing to do with this atrocity." The dress Li was wearing for the night was a dark midnight blue with sparkles on it. Her hair was still tied back in the fashion she always tied it in and in her opinion Li looked like a boy in a dress with the exception that the dress was low for her tastes. Li gave Severus a hug and he had the sense to hug back and not just stand there. "What's been happening Sev?"
"Oh nothing much. I've been working," Severus told her. "I need your help. One of my potions requires a charm outside of my ability."
"I'll help if you tell me why a potion I made recently blew up in my face," Li bargained.
"So what did you put in it?" Severus asked. The two chatted for a while. Narcissa came over to them.
"Oh LILY, one of the ushers is sick and you'll need to find a date," Narcissa said quickly. She then fled back to Lucius' side as not to be in the path of an exploding Li.
"What the Hell!" Li shouted. Lucius shushed her from across the room. Li glared at him. "Sev? Will you go with me?" She turned to her friend and gave him puppy dog eyes. Severus sighed inwardly.
"Sorry, I have to go with Bellatrix," Severus muttered. He made a disgusted face. Li chuckled.
During dinner Li consumed a lot of wine so that she wouldn't have to put up with the person on her other side who must have been some relative of 'Meve.' Severus looked down the table to see Li swaying back and forth in her chair. Li was drunk as a skunk, hammared and other sorts of words that mean drunk.
"Hey Lucius, I think Li's going under," he whispered to Lucius.
"Li never could hold her alcohol," Lucius chuckled. "Why don't you take her back to her hotel?" Severus nodded and got up. He walked over to his friend. Li was very airlocked.
"Come on Li, you're going home," Severus told his friend. He pulled her up by the arm.
"No I'm not, let go of me," Li attempted to pull her arm out of Severus' grasp and ended up falling over.
Severus dragged Li out of the room. He took out a vial and looked at it lovingly. He sadly made Li drink it's contents. This potion had taken months to develop and he only had one other bottle. The potion allowed someone else to be apparated with the person doing the apparating. The two brought them to a corner near Li's hotel. He dragged her inside and upstairs to her room. Li managed to comprehend that he wanted her to open the door and found the key. Severus figured he had better unlock it and did so. The door opened.
"Thanks for the lovely evening," Li said drunkenly. Her words slurred together. She put her arms around Severus' head and pulled it to her height. She leaned forward and kissed him. Severus opened his eyes wide. What should he do? He felt Li collapse. That answered his question. He picked her up and brought her inside. He laid her down on the bed and exited the hotel room. The door locked behind him. Half of him hoped she wouldn't remember and the other half hoped she would.
These are all the words I've found for being drunk, being intoxicated with drink or being a drunk.
airlocked
aled (up)
arseholed
banjo'd
bender
bend one's elbow
bevvied up
bladdered
blitzed
blotto
blow out
bombed out
booze-up
brained
cane (it)
cunted
dipso
drunk as a skunk
hammered
kaylied
lagered (up)
lagged /laggered
langered
lager lout
lashed up
leathered
legless
loaded
mashed
mortalled
mullered
munted
nuclear sub
off/out of one's box/chump/face/head/tits/tree/trolley
on the hoy/lash/razz(le-dazzle)
out of it
palatic
paralytic
pickled
pie-eyed
piss-artist
pissed (as a coot/fart/newt)
pissed up
piss-head
piss-up
rat-arsed/faced
ratted
ripped (to the tits)
rubbered
shedded
shirt
shit-faced
slaughtered
sloshed
smashed
soak
sozzled
stewed
stinking
stocious
sup
tiddly
trolleyed
trousered
twatfaced
wankered
wasted
well gone
wellied
whirlies
wrecked
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