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...less upsetting if it weren't for the fact that before O'Neal signed up for Twitter, his writing career consisted of spelling his name with a Sharpie. He's crushing my Dorothy Parker-level quips, like "Beer summit koan: If you dispel low-income racial tension by removing alcohol, you dispel upper-income racial tension by adding alcohol," with Shaqisms like "Happy birthday, harry potter main charachter dude." I am being beaten by a man whose giant fingers cannot even hit the correct keys. (See excerpts from the world's most popular Twitterers...
While not an official medical term, drunkorexia refers to the combination of alcohol abuse and anorexia or bulimia—a medical condition that researchers and therapists say is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially among female college students. (It joins an already absurd eating disorder lexicon that includes words such as “manorexia” and “bigorexia.”) Those afflicted typically starve themselves all day before drinking in order to offset those liquid calories, or dangerously binge and purge food and alcohol...
...order to ensure that there’s ample room for the beer shotgunning to follow in the evening. And nothing gives that tired screwdriver more kick than an empty stomach—an emptiness that’ll also help you achieve the same comedic stupor with less alcohol...
...Harvard seems to have largely dodged drunkorexia. J.P. Chilazi ’10, president of University Health Services' Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors, said he hasn’t heard of the condition being a problem here and noted that a 2008 campus survey found 96 percent of all Harvard students eating before or while drinking. But as “someone who knows a fair amount about alcohol consumption patterns,” he said he found the condition’s name to be “bizarre” and hoped for a “more technical...
Never fear, though. C'est Bon and Doma are both placing large shipments of alcohol for the weekend ahead...