Bill Burr- Ranting About AA Meetings!! 

"One time I was on the Demon Rum......AND I BLEW A DOG FOR A PINT OF GIN!"

Do you like peach schnapps?

Ahhh classic, for sum reason it reminds me of why are we forced to vote in pencil in Australia....

That works as a joke, but people often don't use their full name, nor are they expected to.

Because the success rate is under 5%. AA has stats. Ever wonder why those aren't published?

Sounds like heavy middle beach ball. I never drank that much but I got one .MR WELSH

That's an amazing story. Congratulations

That sounds like a huge lie tbh

@@hydroboostoxiaction6271 of cause its a lie. It wasn't 80 beers. I'm too ashamed but since you called me out... 170 beers per day

@@hydroboostoxiaction6271 Good detective work, Captain Obvious

11th tradition

Attraction not promotion lol

You’re in a cult lmao just go to church on Sunday, it’s simpler

Yes, absolutely. I've spent a few years in AA (on and off) and they 100% trade addictions there. Forget Unity, Service, and Recovery - their holy trinity is caffeine, nicotine, and sugar. The most insidious part? The higher power is supposed to be your main substitute for alcohol. They absolutely try to get you to get "high" on Jesus or whatever equivalent they can get you hooked on.

The blind leading the blind

I think you’re being a little too hard on them. It’s not their fault you struggle with a weight problem. That advice probably does work for many people. The purpose of recommending sweets is to help soothe cravings in the early stages of recovery. Rehab centers encourage that patients with heroin addictions continue smoking while they are in withdrawals. It’s better to smoke for a month more months than to suffer a heroin relapse. I do agree that many addicts have a tendency to exchange addictions. So many alcoholics pick up weed-smoking as an alternative and just become potheads. Possibly marginally better, but hardly a healthy habit.

Nah. You did. You and the big man upstairs. From my experience, he's greater than anything man made. Especially, a room full of misery.

@@dms942 this is reading like something from south park lowkey

I went to AA. I admitted I was still drinking and sat listening to everybody blatently dodge and lie to me about them not drinking and telling me that I should come back when I've quit... it is nice to get some help but I would urge caution.

A lot of addicts replace one thing with another.

@Bloodied Beserker Totally. My pops was an alcoholic. When he got "sober", he was still manipulating his way through life, and still does.

It is a cult

Yes a cult full of narcissists.

Everything is a cult based off this bs comment

Seriously. Even his misses (as far as being insulting) are comedic gold. "Piece of shit one bridge having ass city"

AA is a terrible program. Non stop life long guilt? Everyday you're weak? Lmao it creates anxiety and forces people to be weak af

Yea i got that vibe too

for real

Just like feeding religion to kids. I think it's akin to child abuse. People who are taught that bs spend their lives fearing they'll go to hell if they put a foot wrong, and hope and pray for a better life in heaven when they die. What a waste of the gift of life here on earth. This is all we get-make the best of it.

AA didn't say that, but maybe some jerk- off at a meeting did lol

@@markinmadisonwi that's what every chapter says "i am weak"

Spot on critique

I spent half my life in the program. Clancy's group in LA, etc. It saved my life BUT also had a shit ton of drama and highschool bullshit. I last after five years and stayed sober for 2.5 more years until my 13 y.o. daughter killed herself...

Well said. I know people it helped, I know people who didn't need it, and I knew people that couldn't be helped by anything.

You are a blind sheep addict, we in the world pity u

Some of these responses are wild.

Yeah man, its like saying a mom who likes a glass of red wine everyday is an alcoholic

Like weed, wine or masterbation

Facts. If you do something in moderation and can handle it and handle yourself it's not harmful

@@huntmine2343 Exactly! Like George Carlin said about drugs too. "Listen to your body. It'll tell you when you've had enough or when you're doing too much. It'll tell you when you've gained all you can with this substance and it's time to stop."

They are obsessed with themselves and their problems.

My issue with AA is that they insist if you associate with ANY person who sips alcohol just once a week isn’t worth your time and you MUST escape into our weird cult to survive. I’ve heard of whole families that get ripped apart because their family member replaces their own loved ones with these self pity meetings. A few of these groups are okay, but it’s not based off anything scientific. The answer AA members say is “well, maybe that’s just the single meeting you went to” all of the meetings are similar and creepy..it’s never about “well today I got a job and what’s best, I didn’t feel that urge to drink”. Instead the banter is “I’m completely useless cause I drank myself into oblivion”. Again, they insist, “you just went to the wrong meeting”, but all the meetings seem to be about personally beating yourself up

@@stevenw.miguel I agree. You will also meet people who are bragging about how strong they are to resist their addiction.

@@wmason1961 talking to real professionals is what’s helping me. I still crack, but man I crack way less when a true professional says, “it’s a bad day for you, what’s upsetting you?” rather than “you need to cut a million people away from your life, even the ones that are responsible”…see the difference?

But who will listen to their victim story 😂

Most are just bs. Life is sometimes easy, and sometimes not easy.

Definitely works for certain people. For others, it makes them want to drink and they end up having to get a couple drinks in them to get through the meeting.

@@MaynardCrow agreed. Didn't mean this as a comment to bash on anyone that it helps. Should have worded it a little wiser.

You’re right - AA’s success rate is the lowest of any option. It’s a worse rate than just going cold turkey on one’s own. Secular programs have a much higher success rate. I’m not sure why AA even exists anymore. All AA does is set up drunks with other drunks.

Yup - the 5% success rate is an abysmal failure. That's the real reason for anonymity. After all, if it was successful, wouldn't you want everyone to know and release data to show it?

@@nthomas87 That's actually not true.

Yeaaaa it’s a thing with bill; he doesn’t actually have real alcoholics around him every day to show that.......the homeless guy on the corner drinks 6 a day AT MINIMUM

It happens if you have a working mind and average iq and knowledge

2 is never enough.

Telling someone that "They should be in AA" is nonsense. That is one's own decision to make. Boasting about sobriety isn't a good look. Live and let live.

@@earthian3658 attraction? What’s that mean

@@OutdoorBlues it means someone sees you living a good life after using drugs or drinking. Someone finds that attractive. They are interested and give it a go. Rather than boasting about how good your life is and telling other people what they should be doing.

​@@earthian3658Christians should take that into consideration...😂

Did you get honest yet

@@accidentalmusic2749 Yes, and I love it. Are you in the program?

@@Mandrake591 no I'm to drunk to drive to a meeting do you have anything to drink 🙃

@@accidentalmusic2749 🤣

Most AA meetings are bad because they are unscientific and run by people with no psychology or health background. People should go to doctors and psychiatrists for their addiction issues not pastors and other drug/alcohol addicts.

Or his liver is failing from years of abuse. Good drinking buddy of mine had his tolerance go to shit once he wrecked that thing.

Your PO fucked up or you went to the wrong meeting. You normally would have been referred to NA. That wouldn't have been better though. Whoever had the bright idea that heroin junkies, meth tweakers, and stoners were basically close enough to put together in a group called Narcotics Anonymous probably never did any of those drugs.

I did it off an on and I found it fake and non-inviting and realized their is a hierarchy of turds. It was worse than high school and I have experience in a handful of big cities as well as small...no difference. I tried hard just to be included... that's a problem. Hey, if it worked for you great but a group of fucked up people with issues beyond being able to socialize properly...man it made my shit worse until I stopped doing THAT!

Congrats on your sobriety. :)

Nah, addicts with "god" in their heads will absolutely diagnose strangers. It's inevitable. AA pushes a rosy vision and wrings its hands of reality. One thing I never got was how anyone could read out loud about how decisions based on "self" put them "in a position to get hurt" to a room that they damn well know has r*pe victims in it. I can't believe all of them are so full of the spirit of a just and loving higher power that they've gone tone deaf. Maybe they just figure it's ok cause the passage is popular?

You better?

"Works if ya work it, sucks if ya dont!" Ive been sober 8 yrs and my ass didnt go to no meetings at all. Did that shit as a kid. Its trash. I went to a counselor once a week for a yr. Shit was great

@T B Don't get Moronic my 52 yr old ex girlfriend is dead she died in January from a Binge Drink spree. Alcohol is not to be played with. Bill sounds like my Dead Ex who left my Son's without a Mother to go Binge drink.

Real alcoholics tend to the from the DTs or liver failure.

That’s a shit meeting- Those who want help will leave and try a different meeting