Your average friendly nihilist from Finland.

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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    • At 30 you reach the peak.
    • At 40 you start to have small health problems that don’t go away and are mostly annoyance.
    • At 50 you seek help because it’s more than annoyance. You get your first permanent medication.
    • At 60 it’s somewhat limiting and for the first time causing Intermediate pain.
    • At 70 it’s debilitating and pain is a familiar companion. You might have your first seizures.
    • At 80 if it hasn’t killed you yet, it soon will. You are probably an invalid or close to it.
    • At 90 if you are still hanging on, you are waiting for death and welcoming it.

    That’s pretty much it, ±10 years.


  • Heavy use of alcohol does cause gradual brain damage in the areas it affects. Frontal lobe, memory and motor centers taking the biggest hit. Actions become more selfish and impulsive, but not always violent or hateful. That really depends on the character beneath, but not always.

    I know three lifelong alcoholics personally. All of them have the same delusion that they could have been something great, but there was a conspiracy to ruin them, by “the man” and they had no choice but to take the path they took. They feel very bitter and sometimes get in to crimes and violence just to rebel and give some payback to totally random recipient. It can be muggings, petty theft or repeated DUIs, because “fuck the man”.

    Then again I’ve met the sweetest childlike characters near the local drunk shelter that have slurred speech and walk funny with very small steps even when they are sober.

    … so you never know.