You're right, this stereotype is in poor taste. My family has Irish-Catholic heritage and used to make jokes like this all the time to each other. That doesn't make stereotypes okay to perpetuate, though...
But hey, you can stereotype everyone who makes a one-off joke a raging Nazi, right?
You state that you are anti fascist in your bio, bit of a hypocrisy stating that and indulging in stereotyping of an an entire nation at the same time.
Because alcoholics aren't really "functional", they just manage their addiction better than other addicts, until the addiction takes over (as it always does).
From a former "functional alcoholic" 34 years sober this year.
Because functioning through trauma still leaves the trauma behind. It affects how you relate to others. Hell, it affects who you are, and the kind of responses you are able to make in stressful situations.
Having recently reread The Thin Man, I can say without doubt that it's Nick Charles. Nobody else could be awakened from a dead sleep at 3am by a thug holding a gun on him and have the first thing he says be about having a drink.
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But hey, you can stereotype everyone who makes a one-off joke a raging Nazi, right?
Doesn't make it right, but it doesn't make them all fascists either.
Check my post history, I don't go spamming "hey look the Irish are a buncha drunk idiots lol"
There was another commentor (who had more likes than mine btw) who said "All of them. They're all Catholic."
Gonna assume he's a fascist as well?
From a former "functional alcoholic" 34 years sober this year.
It’s more than just the alcohol.
"Give me constancy
And give me chastity
But do not grant them yet"
Am sad
Or happy
To say
Am not awake yet
Spewin’ McGregor
-Doug Stanhope
https://youtu.be/sdPcjIrSvcs?si=5uiksxZF73A4YkLN
I’ll go with St. Monica, or St. Matthias. But it could be Lloyd Bridges in Airplane!.
Somebody have a bottle of cognac for me.
https://youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA?si=wAJBA6Z1xhUWPKGb
Whomstsoever utters such a question ist thou that ist now the thing you said.
I don't make the rules.
Dean Martin and Winston Churchill are my favorites.
St. Vincent of Saragossa, if you drink wine
St. Arnold of Soissons, if you prefer beer
The Virgin Mary, who picks up he slack in areas none of the others specialize in, in this case all other alcoholic beverages