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The story
A thread on 5ch’s “Newsspeed VIP” board blew up after a poster said they’d started drinking first thing in the morning with salmon as a snack. The poster revealed they’d lost about ¥30,000 at pachinko this month, and admitted they were too drunk to even remember what they’d played. As they kept posting photos of sashimi, extra-thick sausages, hamburger steak, and other drinking snacks, a lighthearted back-and-forth with other users unfolded. Their stance — “you don’t drink cheap booze for the taste, it’s about getting a good buzz on the cheap” — drew pushback from posters who said they wanted booze that was both cheap and good, sparking a bit of a debate over how to approach drinking.
What people said
(´;ω;`) I'm not going again this month… I was so drunk I don't even remember what I played, and I was shocked to find I'd lost about ¥30,000
(´;ω;`) I can't get through the day without drinking
(´;ω;`) Never tried that, doesn't it end up reeking of alcohol?
(´;ω;`) I'd been saving up for one all month and then it all went up in smoke yesterday… I'm genuinely gutted
(´;ω;`) No gays allowed!!!
(´;ω;`) Yep, first drink in two weeks and it feels amazing
what a cheerful breakfast
(´;ω;`) What's in the cup is shochu mixed with cola — even I'd draw the line at that much soy sauce
(´;ω;`) Not anymore, I headed back to Kyoto last night
(´;ω;`) Ha, "a banana, seriously?" — now that takes me back
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(´;ω;`) I guess so… but I'm definitely not rich… the fact that a pachinko addict like me is moaning over just ¥30,000 should tell you everything
I'm a Takatsuki resident
(´;ω;`) I'm obviously not going to say… Takatsuki's basically Osaka anyway
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I lost too, the day before yesterday, it's rough
(´;ω;`) What machine did you play?
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Is it any good? 🥺
(´;ω;`) Honestly, nobody drinks cheap booze for the taste, right? It's about how cheaply you can get buzzed and forget everything that sucks
So any old thing'll do, huh? No way 🥺
I want booze that's cheap AND good 🥺
(´;ω;`) Nah, I'm straight (callback to the earlier gay joke)… it's really not bad, the Kikukawa shochu is decent… probably not that different from the cheap ¥1,300-for-2L barley stuff… though next to proper single-distilled (otsu-rui) shochu it does taste kind of plain
(◍•ᴗ•◍) How about a cheap wine like Alpaca (a popular budget Chilean wine brand in Japan)?
It's fun once you find a wine that suits you
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Explain logically exactly what's so sexy about it 🥺
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Background and Key Points
This thread is one of the “live-commentary style” chat threads 5ch’s VIP board is known for — rather than centering on a specific incident or policy issue, it’s built around one poster’s day of drinking and pachinko losses. Where opinions split was over the “value of cheap booze”: the poster argued that cheap alcohol isn’t about taste but about getting drunk cheaply, while other users pushed back, saying they wanted booze that was both cheap and good — a real difference in attitudes toward drinking. It’s worth noting that the amount lost at pachinko and which machine was played come solely from the poster’s own account and can’t be independently verified.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “(´;ω;`) Drinking from morning till night!!!“
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