When only coke hits the spot

[CurlyDarling]

Hello, my name is Deidre and I'm an alcoholic. And Jimmy Crack Corn, ‘cause I don't care.

I came to the realisation that I was dependent upon alcohol during my first week in Paris. Whilst I had lost the Moscow Winter Weight, I prefer to be French skinny when I'm in France, so I decided to go on the same emergency diet I've used since late 1980's: the Victoria Principal 7-Day Bikini Diet.

Unfortunately, this diet does not permit the consumption of Bordeaux, champagne or any other alcoholic beverages.

Usually, I like to begin drinking at 5pm, which I consider to be an acceptable start to the cocktail hour. By 6.45pm on Day One of Principal's diet, a bit shaky, I found myself at the wine store, purchasing a bottle of good Chablis.

On Day Two, I didn't make it to 5.30pm. By Day Four, I'd taken the liberty of amending the diet to permit a bottle of wine a night, but only one bottle. And, of course, a glass of champagne.

We are all raving alcoholics in Russia, expatriate and Russian alike. Russia makes you one and you can't avoid it. I come from a long line of alcoholics. I'm half-Russian and half-Irish, for God's sakes: a veritable genetic guarantee that drinking would become, given the opportunity, which living in Moscow presented, my favourite pastime.

But then I noticed that Principal's Diet also forbade coffee. Since coffee isn't fattening, I read on, curious as to why she wouldn't permit its consumption. (It never occurred to me to obey this absurd prohibition, by the way.) Coffee, Principal says, should be avoided because it's addictive. Oh dear! Not that.

What's wrong with addiction, anyway? I'm addicted to many things and I decided to list them out (in no particular order):

1. Alcohol; 2. Diet Coke; 3. Codeine; 4. The American TV series "Lost"; 5. Cigarettes;

6. The King of Spades; 7. Running; 8. Caffeine;

9. Moscow; 10. Masturbation; 11. Nitrous Oxide; 12. The omelettes at Nespresso on Petrovka;

13. Adrenaline; 14. Pump Class; 15. Sex; 16. Any news or gossip concerning Angelina Jolie; 17. Work; 18. Pesto sauce; 19. Pulling out my hair during periods of high stress; 20. Frequent massages; 21. My blackberry; and 22. Whitney Houston's song: "Give Me One Moment in Time".

Reviewing my list, I knew at once I couldn't sacrifice any of these things without a long stint in rehab. I also realized that my life would just be unpleasant without the pleasure they bring me and that I wouldn't be voluntarily giving any of them up during this lifetime. I don't "give things up" and I don't limit the amount of pleasure I permit myself to experience.

I believe we Americans started it, but pleasure, particularly physical pleasure, has become something evil to be avoided. Personally, I think we should grab as much bodily and other gratification as we can, whatever its source.

Yet, knowing my predisposition to chemical dependence, I never tried any real drugs on the theory that I would like them so much, I'd end up overdosing and dying before the age of 30. I'm saving hard drugs for my 65th birthday, when I plan on starting my stint as a !!!!ed-up drug addict. I've always thought it would be cool to die of a heroin overdose at 70.

As it turns out, a bottle of wine has about 600 calories and a glass of champagne 100. Limiting myself to a yogurt for breakfast, a chicken sandwich at lunch and steamed vegetables for dinner, I managed to get the Parisian svelteness I'd been seeking without having to listen to that self-denying prude, Victoria Principal.

Of course every day I did have to throw in long runs that got me high on endorphins, two packs of energy-burning cigarettes and lots of calorie consumptive masturbation. The only thing that I was missing for really quick weight loss was cocaine, but, alas, that will have to wait.

I call this programme "Deidre's Daring Dependence Diet" and I highly recommend it to anyone still carrying their Moscow Winter Weight.

xxoo, DD
Deidre Dare
Moscow News

[Lucker]

I suppose , predictably , I find articles like this absolutely distasteful .
The writer sets herself up as a chummy person with a good sense of humour .
But quite the opposite is true . She represents the type of woman who makes you want to be anywhere other than near her .
She is true low life .
Unsophisticated and thick as two short planks .
I can forgive her the Alcohol lies --- who just drinks one glass of Champagne after opening a fresh bottle ? Does she store the left over until the following evening ?
No . It is her other claimed dislikes . What a sad and cheap woman .

[Sarah]

I suppose , predictably , I find articles like this absolutely amazing.
The writer sets herself up as a chummy person with a good sense of humor .
And no doubt it is true. She represents the type of woman who makes you sexy, wanted and beautiful.
She is true high style life .
Sophisticated oriental woman I would say... (well, at least she has some Russian blood so I have the right to say so).
She is so funny and must be rich too - who else just drinks one glass of Champagne after opening a fresh bottle ?
And she is so generous - she sends the leftover to our dear RR to KGB
And RR cries every other morning, when he receives the Regular Mail parcel, but it is empty
He does not like her for that - he has no sense of humor. What a sad and not very expensive man!

Thank you, Ramon, for the morning lesson of English - good style is a good style. You can not kill it.

[CurlyDarling]

I don't think that it's our aim to discuss this woman here. It would be much more interesting to discuss the artickes written by her. And I should tell you, dear heart Ramon, that I haven't read anything more interesting and fascinating than Dedre's comments on expats' life in Russia.
I think , you also have something to tell us about it from your own experience. Why not try? Than we will be able to compare the works of two authors writing on the same subject.That would be fair, don't you think?

"Я послал тебе черную розу в бокале золотого как небо Аи".

[Lucker]

The fact that she is Russian , half Russian or a Norwegian masquerading as a ski pole has nothing to do with it .
However , the one thing that she definitely is not , is Oriental .
Whatever you may say about such people , you would never accuse them of being brash , vulgar and generally tasteless . As per Deidre Dare , an invented and completely unsubtle persona .
The one thing you do not learn from Miss Brain Less is anything about France and Paris or anything in them .
The whole article is a list of a very stupid persons alleged likes and the disclosure of how much of a waste of time and space her and her chemical addictions are .
I think we can reasonably conclude that Miss Brain Less is very ugly as no male enters her world and she appears consumed by drug taking of various kinds , in between bouts of masturbation . Ugly mind and ugly brain can only rest in an ugly body -- one that wears glasses becuse it squints .

[CurlyDarling]

I dont see what the problem is. Instead of leaving negative messages you need to get a life and stop with the jealousy!
She isn't ugly(is it possble to discuss anybody's appearance at all, moreover, knowing that you look not a drop better?) on the contrary.
http://visualrian.com/storage/PreviewWM/3890/79/389079.jpg?1240494834
http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/apr2009/9/8/deidre-dare-pic-bitterlawyer-com-159867148.jpg

[Koshka]

Ugly mind and ugly brain can only rest in an ugly body -- one that wears glasses becuse it squints .

She isn't ugly(is it possble to discuss anybody's appearance at all, moreover, knowing that you look not a drop better?) on the contrary.

:becky:


a drawn game,

if it was a competition of rudness

[Lucker]

To you , negative messages are ones you do not like .
She looks ghastly and her picture confirms my worst fears .
Too much war paint and dressed like a characater out of a thirties US film .
Hardly someone you want walking alongside .
Smoking and wearing a dead animal .

[CurlyDarling]

Sarah's colleagues used to work with her. As far as I remember, they have a good opinion about her.
Tastes differ. For me , she is a beauty. Look at the shape of her face, at her expressive eyes. Real beauty!

[CurlyDarling]

As for dead animals, almost all women wear fur coats in winter in Russia. I ,personally, adore furs, even their smell. Of course, I am brain less and ugly for you personally, so the game really ended in a draw.

[Lucker]

Pictures are air brushed etc .
She must be frightening in real life .
Fish eyes .Cold .
She reminds me of Aunt Agnes

[Koshka]

Sarah's colleagues used to work with her. As far as I remember, they have a good opinion about her.
Tastes differ. For me , she is a beauty. Look at the shape of her face, at her expressive eyes. Real beauty!

..................................

I can tell one thing so far - the main character of this novel is not the girl on the picture, who actually wrote this book. She was probably a friend of the heroine, and she knew about the affairs of the main character, and of the company too much, plus there is a fiction thing here too (author's fantasy). As for the heroine, she was a very, very attractive American – actually she was unbelievably beautiful, who spoke very good Russian and who had a CIA background and she was not even hiding it. She explained that she resigned from CIA to take this position in Moscow. She was about 35 at the time I knew her, and she was not married. She had a boyfriend back in US, and I have no idea if she was dating in Moscow. She attracted everybody’s attention, that’s for sure – men and women, as her beauty was unforgettable. I lost track of her 4 years ago, but I hope my BP friends, who worked in this company until the end of the story with the westerners, will tell me more. They were not the very top management, but top anyway, who had an access to Russian oligarchs and to BP oligarchs of this company.
Actually, I am waiting for their comments, as I guess they will be shocked now and may be offended. We will see.
PS - I am still reading - I am on the Central Committee part yet.

this discussion is only a second round
see here
http://www.gogabber.com/showthread.php?t=3254&page=3

[Lucker]

It seems to me that the Russian IQ has moved into minus territory.
We are talking about one article which centers on a neurotic drug addict who frequently masturbates , probably whilst smoking .
On what possible grounds do you want to defend this trollop ?
As my good friend in Krsasnovarsk said , " Even a beautiful woman becomes an embarrassment when she shows her dirty knickers "

[Koshka]

:becky:

http://www.gogabber.com/showpost.php?p=75480&postcount=76

[Lucker]

Good word "Fugly" , must remember .

[Sarah]

and wearing a dead animal .

As a wearer of dead animals in winter time (come visit Siberia with me in January), I declare that this fur on the picture is artificial

[hannah]

We are talking about one article which centers on a neurotic drug addict who frequently masturbates , probably whilst smoking .
probabably whilst smokin masturbate only english...guys.well only in case if some of them not that so frugal and can afford to buy some siggy but nothing else.cocaine is tooo expensive as well as cham:smokin:paine:becky:

[Lucker]

, I declare that this fur on the picture is artificial


That's not what Boris the Arctic Fox said as some Basnet shot him .
Anyhow , even worse than walking around with a dead animal round your neck is a person who cannot afford the real thing and tries to look as though they have got a dead animal trying to choke them .
Let Boris live , I say .

[CurlyDarling]

Boris The Arktic Fox's life and death aren't dependant on us. If it's his destiny and the Hunter is in a good form and mood Boris is to be killed. And eaten by the Hunter himself or his pack of Huskies. Boris's skin will be thrown away or will be used as a rug by the Hunter's wife Agnes. Isn't it better if Boris isn't forgotten but loved and his fur is laid on the shoulders of ladies not under the boots of cruel hunters?
But if the destiny is favourable for Boris the Arctic Fox, the Hunter will have a hangover and won't be able to find his rifle. Boris the Fox will stay alive and one fragile lady shivering with cold will have to go to GUM in Red Square in Moscow and buy an artificial copy of Boris made by a coat-maker Liberman while looking at Boris's photo in the "National Geographic" journal. What's bad in all these happy end stories ?

[Lucker]

If a Siberian down and out needs to kill a Boris to keep himself and his family warm , that seems OK .
But there is no other acceptable reason for killing an animal unless you are being attacked by a crocodile and have a can of hairspray to propell into its eyes . Or if you are being attacked by Philip the Lion , you are entitled to smash him over his head with your handbag .
Killing for the sake of killing or for cosmetic reasons is surely very squalid .Look what it has done to most Americans !!
We never kill Arctic Foxes here in Team GB .

[CurlyDarling]

Have you ever eaten beef or lamb? If yes, did you pour your tears onto your plate?

[Lucker]

.
Killing for the sake of killing or for cosmetic reasons is surely very squalid . .

Whoever wrote the above seems to have grasped the nettle!!
It is up to individuals to decide how they approach the matter of eating animals for food .
Apparently without meat eaters most of these usual farm animals would disappear .]
Regardless , the argument for wearing dead animals is quite different and unsupportable unless you just do not care .

[CurlyDarling]

What is the difference? I can't live without a fur hat as well as you can't live without a beefsteak. I can't live without boots with fur linen inside as well as you can't live without pork chops.
People are hunters , it's in their blood. Do you know how do they kill poor hens in the factories? Will you be having your today's dinner with a good appetite?

[Sarah]

We never kill Arctic Foxes here in Team GB .

You guys killed so many foxes and their hunters during your history, that it is time to have a break.
Plus to CruelDarling's question I would love to ask you, Ramon - what are your shoes made of?