Comments on: Drinking with the ‘dant http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: El Duderino http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/comment-page-1/#comment-418886 El Duderino Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:03:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/#comment-418886 Isn't teaching squids to drink like teaching fish to swim? Isn’t teaching squids to drink like teaching fish to swim?

]]> By: Babs http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/comment-page-1/#comment-418884 Babs Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:17:23 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/#comment-418884 Knowing a little something about USNA, I find this latest endeavor to be a buch of crap. Any Mid worth their salt already knows how many drinks will make him/her drunk. The problem is not so much awareness as it is individual control. You want to get blasted, which is something no institution can stop, make sure you are in a safe place so you don't fall out a window, get run over by a car, raped, etc... I think the idea of placing the burden on your shipmates is a good one. Knowing a little something about USNA, I find this latest endeavor to be a buch of crap. Any Mid worth their salt already knows how many drinks will make him/her drunk. The problem is not so much awareness as it is individual control.
You want to get blasted, which is something no institution can stop, make sure you are in a safe place so you don’t fall out a window, get run over by a car, raped, etc… I think the idea of placing the burden on your shipmates is a good one.

]]> By: Jim Collins http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/comment-page-1/#comment-418888 Jim Collins Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:29:53 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/#comment-418888 badbob If there ever was a "class" that was needed it would be "Responsible Drinking 101". Think about it this way. If you go about it legally one day you can't drink and then the next day you can. Twenty-one is right in the middle of that time when you think that you are invincible, that nothing bad can happen to you. I was fortunate enough to have parents who that the 21 drinking age was BS. I was allowed to drink beer in our house from the time I was 16. By the time I enlisted I had a pretty good idea what my capabilities were, then I was fortunate enough to have some good PO's and CPO's to rein me in until I learned what I was doing. "Drinking 101" not a bad idea at all. badbob
If there ever was a “class” that was needed it would be “Responsible Drinking 101″. Think about it this way. If you go about it legally one day you can’t drink and then the next day you can. Twenty-one is right in the middle of that time when you think that you are invincible, that nothing bad can happen to you. I was fortunate enough to have parents who that the 21 drinking age was BS. I was allowed to drink beer in our house from the time I was 16. By the time I enlisted I had a pretty good idea what my capabilities were, then I was fortunate enough to have some good PO’s and CPO’s to rein me in until I learned what I was doing. “Drinking 101″ not a bad idea at all.

]]> By: CPT J http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/comment-page-1/#comment-418885 CPT J Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:23:18 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/#comment-418885 I dunno, $6.95 per head just doesn't go that far these days. I mean, you can't get a decent rat for that price, let alone proper hardtack to go with it. Weevils are extra. I dunno, $6.95 per head just doesn’t go that far these days.

I mean, you can’t get a decent rat for that price, let alone proper hardtack to go with it. Weevils are extra.

]]> By: badbob http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/comment-page-1/#comment-418887 badbob Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:38:13 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/#comment-418887 Do you get credit for it? Like a bio lab? Sheeesh... Since when do we have to teach responsible drinking to 21 year olds who have volunteered to give over their future to the US military? More manifestations of the Nanny State embedded and implemented by a Nanny O-6. Sure, I read the news reports about outrageous behavior from time to time but this is like hitting a mosquito with a sledge-hammer. A social engineering one at that. Another sellout to the vast insidious, PC machine. Spin it any way you want. b2 Do you get credit for it? Like a bio lab? Sheeesh…

Since when do we have to teach responsible drinking to 21 year olds who have volunteered to give over their future to the US military? More manifestations of the Nanny State embedded and implemented by a Nanny O-6.

Sure, I read the news reports about outrageous behavior from time to time but this is like hitting a mosquito with a sledge-hammer. A social engineering one at that.

Another sellout to the vast insidious, PC machine. Spin it any way you want.

b2

]]> By: Skippy-san http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/comment-page-1/#comment-418880 Skippy-san Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:51:42 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/11/drinking-with-the-dant/#comment-418880 Call me a cynic, but seems to me that this is just a way to get some free booze and free food. Which is good officer training in and of itself, but probably would not have stopped me from heading out to Dino's the very next weekend and doubling the legal limit. Then again, I was lucky enough to have come of age when things were not so intense and the drinking age was 18.......as it should be. Call me a cynic, but seems to me that this is just a way to get some free booze and free food. Which is good officer training in and of itself, but probably would not have stopped me from heading out to Dino’s the very next weekend and doubling the legal limit.

Then again, I was lucky enough to have come of age when things were not so intense and the drinking age was 18…….as it should be.

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