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View Poll Results: Is Wolverine an alcoholic?
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yes
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no
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04-21-2008, 02:49 PM
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#21
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Yeah, I spend WAY too much time here!
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I got two friends and one of them is an alcoholic he`ll even tell you he is and he can get up in the morning and go to work but when he gets home it`s beer time.
The other can drink like 4 beers and he`s well on his way to staying at the bar for several more hours.
It`s good that both of them don`t drive.
I think Wolvie is an alcoholic also.
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04-21-2008, 05:04 PM
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#22
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Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
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So in the Marvel Universe, it's ok to be an alcoholic, but it's wrong to be a smoker?
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04-21-2008, 05:12 PM
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#23
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Jedi Order
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pendragon
So in the Marvel Universe, it's ok to be an alcoholic, but it's wrong to be a smoker?
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Goodness, I think they all but took smoking out of Marvel by the 70s already...
I wonder how many Marvel heroes still smoke? I think there's Fury, the Thing, Wolvie...
Trivia: When was the last time we saw Reed Richards smoke his pipe?
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04-21-2008, 05:43 PM
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#24
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Iron Man
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Most of the smoking done by Marvel characters even into the 80s and 90s were the somehow-less-offensive (?) cigars...and yeah, that was mostly Ben Grimm, Wolverine, and Nick Fury.
Still, some villains still smoked (the Mandarin could be seen with a hookah pipe sometimes), and some of the bad-boy heroes smoked too (Gambit did, originally).
Other than that, it's been relegated to minor characters in "adult" themed books for a long time now, it seems.
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04-21-2008, 06:03 PM
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#25
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Jedi Order
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Location: Habs Nation
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Ooooh... Good one. I forgot about Gambit!
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04-22-2008, 06:06 AM
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#26
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Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
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Having worked in a drug and alcohol treatment centre I don't think my view is weird at all, just practical and realistic. Drinking is a problem when it becomes a problem. That problem might be tendency towards violence, it might be not being able to function without alcohol, it might be health related or anything else, but it's when it becomes a catalyst or crutch that's when you've officially crossed the line.
Some people can drink and get blitzed every weekend and it still not be a problem, it's just recreation. A way to wind down or whatever. Other people can't take one drink without serious negative consequences of one sort or another. That's why I say drinking is a problem when it causes problems, because once is starts causing problems, health, behavioral, whatever, that's the indication to take a serious look and seek help. That's the line in the sand.
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