What Is Your Relationship With Alcohol?

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  1. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    extreme indefference. can't remember the last time i gave a shit about it, nor had any. i'm one of those lucky bastards who never had a problem with it.
    just no real attraction. only time i drank to amount to anything was when i was in tech school in the air force 40 years ago.
    i did that on weekends to clear the coffee i had to od on during the week to keep from falling asleep and the trouble that would have got me into, in tech school.
    after that, it way maybe once or twice a year or none.
    i have so many things that interest me in my life, and its hard for me to imagine anything more boring then recreational chemistry, lawful or otherwise.
    even if it was free i doubt if i'd care about it very much. no way in hell i'm gonna waste money on it that i can spend far more gratifyingly on trains, computers, art supplies, et al.
     
  2. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    I drink very seldom these days. I am not a big fan of alcohol's effects on the body (dehydration, altered metabolism, impaired protein synthesis, lowered testosterone, etc.), or the way it makes me feel the next day. But I do like a few craft brews or even some hard liquor every now and then. So my relationship with alcohol these days is much different than it was when I was in my 20s and definitely had an alcohol problem, to the extent I was getting drunk almost every night.

    One thing I can say is that when I do drink, even now, it can be very hard for me to stop at just one or two drinks. This is perhaps the biggest reason for not drinking so often.
     
  3. r0llinstoned

    r0llinstoned Gute Nacht, süßer Prinz

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    Been drinking almost every day lately. But usually just like two beers at night after work. I have a nice IPA on tap for tonight.
     
  4. GLENGLEN

    GLENGLEN Banned

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    Over The Years I Have Always Enjoyed A Drop, Haven't Been Drunk For About 18 Years

    And Haven't Thrown Up For 29 Years.

    Nowdays I Hardly Touch The Stuff And When I Recently Went To My Local Bottle-O

    They Asked Me Had I Been On Holidays And I Said No, I Just Haven't Been Here

    For 4 Weeks.... :)



    Cheers Glen.
     
  5. Mattekat

    Mattekat Ice Queen of The North

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    We're just friends.
     
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  6. Mattekat

    Mattekat Ice Queen of The North

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    Congrats! I think this is a really responsible decision.
     
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  7. r0llinstoned

    r0llinstoned Gute Nacht, süßer Prinz

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    You're typing this as you enjoy a glass of red, dont you lie to moi!!!!!
     
  8. soulcompromise

    soulcompromise Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I have found similar results with alcohol. When I was drinking I didn't like what it was doing to my body and hated always being hung over.
     
  9. Ashalicious

    Ashalicious Senior Member

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    Thank you. I feel really good about it.

    How are you? I'm wishing you were still in town so we could hang out. Are the pups happy to have you home?
     
  10. Mattekat

    Mattekat Ice Queen of The North

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    I'm alright. Home is much more boring than vancouver was. And yes there are lots of happy dogs here lol, and a boyfriend. I'll have to make it back to Vancouver sometime soon!
     
  11. M_Ranko

    M_Ranko Straight edge xXx

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    There isn't one. I'm a pretty hardcore t-totaller/straight edge type, and I'm actually very intolerant and judgemental of alcohol and drug use. I've been clean all the way from childhood, and I never even experimented with anything in my teens despite immense social pressure and outright ridicule. I've seen enough of the resulting damage and lunacy around me, so suffice to say, the practice has no place in my life.
     
  12. Ashalicious

    Ashalicious Senior Member

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    You know I'd love that :D

    Can you post pics of your pups sometime soon?
     
  13. YouFreeMe

    YouFreeMe Visitor

    I like alcohol, sometimes I wonder if I like it too much. But probably not by most people's measures. I drink enough to get buzzed and occasionally drunk about two nights a week. I just try to keep any bad tendencies in check.
     
  14. Mattekat

    Mattekat Ice Queen of The North

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    Of course I can! I'll post some in the pets section somewhere. I'll take a few tomorrow.
     
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  15. Meliai

    Meliai Members

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    Stop after one lol, that's all I've got. I'm the exact same way after my second beer, I start to feel good after 2 beers and wanna keep going.

    You can try the ol' drink water in between each drink trick, but that just makes me feel bloated unless I'm day drinking in the sun.
     
  16. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    kind of like this.

    i've really kind of lost interest in getting drunk anyway. i still enjoy a couple beers after work a lot of the time, but being drunk doesn't really feel good anymore, and it limits what i can do to entertain myself (for example, i can't play video games for shit once i have a buzz). and hangovers have gotten awful in my old age. plus, there's such an alcoholic culture everywhere i go, i basically get forced into drinking more than i want to more often than i want to anyway, so i never really have the desire to go out and get drunk on my own because it's already out of my system.

    i'm kind of like others above who have a hard time stopping once they've started. i can do up to 4 drinks and stop anytime i want to, but after the 5th there's pretty much no stopping me.
     
  17. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    I would also classify myself as binge drinker when I do. Can't seem to go to the pub for just one or two drinks. No, I'll polish two drinks in half an hour and I'm stumbling around in the search for more. Well, that was back maybe a couple of years ago.

    What happened with me was, a friend of mine would come over every weekend and we'd go through a case of rum or bourbon and for nothing. We'd go to bed drunk. Wake up hungover. And then I felt like shit all day and I guess at some point I asked myself "is it worth it?" Of course not. So I cut back. That 10/11pm time, I'd stop. Get onto waters and go for a bong instead. And even when I am out now, I can feel a certain point between "I'll be okay after a sleep" and "nope, I'm done". And I when I reach that point I ask myself "Jocelyn, do you really wish to wake up feeling bad tomorrow, eating comfort foods, headaches and sweats, or you wanna go home all cute and get sexed."

    I choose the sex.

    I don't really class myself as anybody to look up to, I'm just who I am. Not a hero. Not a role model, I'm just someone that'd prefer to hit the bong than the bottle at this stage in my life. Still drink few nights a week, I love a beer. Love my mead. Love my rum. Sure I might knock a ew down my gullet and makes me feel good, but no more ridiculously getting fucked up for no good reason. I'll leave that for unattended parental teenage backyard parties, holidays and Oktoberfest.
     
  18. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    We see bloodshot eye to eye


    Hotwater
     
  19. r0llinstoned

    r0llinstoned Gute Nacht, süßer Prinz

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    I just had a few pretty strong local brews. Im 'buzzed' but not really 'drunk'.



    cheers rollinstoned
     
  20. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Hey guys

    I'm posting from a nice beautiful sunny morning in south Deutschland while under the beautiful serenity of the oak tree in a bier garten. I'm two half steins in, about to get my third and I'm feeling really good. :)
     

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