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Students' Union decided to put on Oktoberfest tonight, to make up for the Week of Welcome Beer Gardens that got cancelled because it rained. This time they were smart enough to set up tents, even though the weather conditions did not consist of precipitation.
Anyway, I don't really understand why people would want to hang out in a tent and drink beer and eat pretzels. And in a more general sense, why people make the decision to drink themselves silly for the sake of fun.
Odd Boy thinks that my inability to understand has something to do with introversion/extroversion. Like how people at either extreme regard the other as being 'deviant' and strange, even 'wrong.' (The SOC lecture today was on social deviance, but my prof took 50 minutes to basically say that what is perceived to be criminal depends on culture. That is, perspective.)
Anyway, the motto of the day was: Protest excess! Don't go to Oktoberfest! Instead come hang out with the Azns at the 'Plant. Isn't hot Azn chicks/guys with beer better than pretzels with beer? (Originally it was just the first two lines. But it made a whole bunch of caucasians look at me like I was from another planet – or like that guy who looked at me the same way when I told him I wasn't a drinker and I was at university to study, not to party –, so I gave it a little thought and remembered that CSC was meeting at Powerplant tonight anyway. We didn't know that they started charging cover at 8pm instead of 9pm so there went $2 again, then I paid $9 total for my meal, a Shirley Temple mocktail, and the tip.)
Anyway, I don't really understand why people would want to hang out in a tent and drink beer and eat pretzels. And in a more general sense, why people make the decision to drink themselves silly for the sake of fun.
Odd Boy thinks that my inability to understand has something to do with introversion/extroversion. Like how people at either extreme regard the other as being 'deviant' and strange, even 'wrong.' (The SOC lecture today was on social deviance, but my prof took 50 minutes to basically say that what is perceived to be criminal depends on culture. That is, perspective.)
Anyway, the motto of the day was: Protest excess! Don't go to Oktoberfest! Instead come hang out with the Azns at the 'Plant. Isn't hot Azn chicks/guys with beer better than pretzels with beer? (Originally it was just the first two lines. But it made a whole bunch of caucasians look at me like I was from another planet – or like that guy who looked at me the same way when I told him I wasn't a drinker and I was at university to study, not to party –, so I gave it a little thought and remembered that CSC was meeting at Powerplant tonight anyway. We didn't know that they started charging cover at 8pm instead of 9pm so there went $2 again, then I paid $9 total for my meal, a Shirley Temple mocktail, and the tip.)
