My roommate is complaining to the other roommate about her boyfriend.

[JVS]

This is funny.

Point one is relatively clear cut. He has fallen into the practice of evaluating all financial transactions in terms of how many beers he could afford with the money involved.

Point two is that he no longer really talks with her, although she seems to feel that this is more of an issue of not having anything to talk about rather than some kind of avoidance. She does complain about him being out of touch.

Of course, on Friday night she went to his house with a bandage after talking for 10 minutes on the phone about his sprained ankle. She even stopped at the store to get a bandage for it even though at the end of the conversation he had said it wasn't a bad injury. She decided if he had talked for 10 minutes about it, it probably needed the bandage. Turns out it wasn't such a bad injury.

Any advice?

[Mojambo]

1. Get new roommates. n/t

[JVS]

2. It's short term housing. One girl moved out yesterday. Her teenage sister who had been here for...

about a month left too, along with the guy who had been on the sofa for a few days. Kid sister watched a lot of music videos.

[democracyindanger]

3. Thinking in beer dollars is bad?

Only if you're, like, a terrorist Nazi.

[JVS]

4. Dude, totally. It's important to know how much Stella Artois a deal costs.

[Pierre.Suave]

5. Beer Dollars...

I will have to start doing this myself.

:rofl:

[JVS]

7. Wait, there are 2 things at work here.

There is denominating everything in beer, So this is like saying That entree costs a 24-pack of highlife (it's $11).

Then there is owing a debt of beer. Say your friend buys some beer at the bar. If you don't have a chance to buy another pitcher, you owe them a beer debt. This means that although you know you owe a $10 pitcher, to convert it back into cash would be gauche. You must buy $10 worth of alcoholic beverage with your friend at some time. Consistent systems of beer debt can eventually mean long-term friendship.

[Pierre.Suave]

8. You forgot one more point...

we owe each other beer when we meet in Germany.

[JVS]

9. Yes. And beer debt cannot be converted.

Well, maybe it can become weed debt or something, but you gotta be able to get fucked up on whatever tender is exhanged. No airplane glue payments though.

[Pierre.Suave]

10. You are correct

Beer Debt can only be repaid in Beer.

[JVS]

11. Or cider, or shots. Or if it grows to large, you bring a bottle of whiskey to your friend's house..

and a great miracle occurs.

[Pierre.Suave]

12. Ok, lets codify this as...

Beer debt can only be repaid in Alcohol, or, if agreed upon by both parties, whichever recreational drug they choose.

[JVS]

13. A general guideline should be that repayment of a debt should be in equally or more intoxicating...

beverages.

For example. A few months ago I was at a mexican restaurant with friends. One of them ordered a strawberry margarita, but the one that they brought out was frozen and he is especially sensitive to frozen drinks and he wanted to send it back. I volunteered to relieve him of it, but it ended up on his bill. I agreed that I was in debt to him for about $6.50, but as it was alcohol and he is often out of town on work, I left a 6 pack of cider (I had seen him ordering it before) with his roommate to repay the debt. 6 bottles of cider is probably stronger than 1 margarita.

[Pierre.Suave]

14. Agreed

I would be pissed if I bought a bottle of fine Whiskey for 200 bucks, and was repaid with a 40 dollar bottle.

Beer debt can only be repaid in an equal or greater amount of Alcohol, or, if agreed upon by both parties, whichever recreational drug they choose in an amount sufficient to equal the effect of the same amount of Alcohol being repaid.

[JVS]

15. That's right. You should pay about the same, but use the opportunity to value shop to increase...

effect.

No discharging a pitcher debt by buying one large beer at the ballpark.

But if I owe 2 $10 pitchers worth, I can totally go to the grocery and get a $20 bottle of scotch.

[Pierre.Suave]

16. absolutely

[Ikonoklast]

6. Please refer back to Post #1.

Implement.

[datasuspect]

17. make sure Larry doesn't let the cat of the bag

and mr. roper doesn't kick you out

[JVS]

18. I am not on three's company!

[Pierre.Suave]

19. Yeah but if you were...

think of the sex you would be having...

:rofl:

[JVS]

20. And it would be that 1970's kind

[Pierre.Suave]

21. YEAH!

:rofl: