There was the co-worker of a friend of mine who ate nine Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts. What the fellow soon learned, painfully, is that the yeast in donuts often hasn t completely risen and can expand further in the stomach. Paramedics were called and his stomach was pumped as the office looked on. Though we can all learn a lesson here, this was not an act of decadence. Do not confuse decadence with gluttony.
Dogs understand self-indulgence better than humans.
It s too much of everything, and a lack of moral virtue. Mothers never want you to have too much of anything, and they think a lack of moral virtue reflects poorly on them, so if you bring up the subject with them, it will be a very short conversation. True, the Romans may have invented the orgy, and the opiate poppy was first smoked in Turkey. And the French deserve a lot of credit just for bourdelaise alone. But L.A. has given the world some pretty memorable acts of hedonism.