I hardly ever drink alcoholic beverages, and when I do, it is usually the super sweet stuff, like Godiva, Bailey’s, Pina Coladas, or a wine cooler. One drink is enough. I can’t stand the taste of beer or “harder” alcohols. Usually after one drink I will feel very sleepy and my face will turn beet red. I have never been drunk. Based on what I have seen with my friends, I don’t want to get drunk.
You know you are a vet nurse when: it’s 4 AM and you are out of creamer for your coffee, so you use kitten milk replacer instead.
I kind of get a kick out of watching drunk people. Just have fun with it! Like Jeff Foxworthy said, play jokes on them: Drop them off at the wrong house!
Nope, I don’t drink. Never drank much, just a taste here and there, but like Irish, I’ve never had enough to get buzzed let alone drunk. Sorry, but I just don’t understand the appeal of that. But hey, y’all have fun, back in school, I used to drive all the drunks home for two dollars a head.
All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.
Several people have said that they don’t drink because they don’t like the taste.
I’m not trying to be a wise-ass here (okay, maybe I am), but you don’t like which taste? There are hundreds of different “flavors” of alcohol out there. Surely you cannot dislike all of them? Fruity, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, thick, thin, hot, cold… any combination thereof…
For the record, I do enjoy a good drink now and again, whether it be wine, beer, or liquor. I probably drink at least once a week, but only get drunk once every couple of months.
ReserviorDog, to me there is no distinction in taste. Alcohol has one taste. Admittedly I have not tried every beverage out there, or even a large sampling of a variety of types. But the ones I have tasted, it all tastes like crap. Well, gasoline anyway.
I have had rum cake with the alcohol cooked out that tasted really good. But anything with the alcohol in it is horrible. Burying the alcohol under beverage doesn’t work. I’ve had rum and coke or whiskey and coke a few times. The last time, the first sip was mildly pleasant, and then went bitter. Every drink after was worse. Halfway through one glass, I added another coke to dilute it - didn’t help, still didn’t finish that glass.
Last time I tasted Champaigne, the alcohol “flavor” overwhelmed the taste completely. All I tasted was bubbly yuck.
People tell me alcoholic beverages taste good, I just have to try the right one. That’s not it. Wine, beer, Champaigne, whiskey in coke, tequila - all tastes the same. I can even taste it in cough medicine.
Maybe I’m unusual, maybe I’m unique, I don’t know. I just know how it tastes to me - bleck.
I used to drink any and everyone under the table. My poison was vodka, straight from the bottle. However, I would drink anything anyone put in front of me. I spent most of the time from ages 17-23 drunk. My best friend was even younger than me but we knew the owner of the bar…
However, I do not really drink now. I just don’t like it anymore. I think the night I puked out of a moving vehicle (I was too drunk to realize how stupid it was to open the car door and vomit while the car was going about 50 MPH.) was pretty much the end. Not because it was my worst drunk-experience–not by a long shot. I got alcohol poisoning once. I actually peed on myself while drunk. I was raped while passed out drunk. These are not experiences I would like to duplicate. Especially when I am preparing to start a family.
My husband rags me about it (not drinking) but I just can’t bring myself to party like I used to. I feel too old. (Not that drinking is a sign of reckless youth, I just feel out-of-the-loop as far as drinking goes.)
Come and live in an ex-mining town amongst the muck and the unemployment.
Drink is just fine ,it’s like there are lots of folk who don’t trust themsleves to be able to have fun drinking and not go over the top.
There is a marked differance between the way younger folk drink and the rest of us.Young people use it like a drug ,just to get the effect whereas more mature folk tend to socialise more - and booze is conducive to creating the right kind of ambience.
I dont drink much - I have absolutely no head for it, and I dont like the idea of behaviour-altering drugs anyway. None of my friends are big drinkers, either. A half glass of wine makes me tipsy, a shot of vodka makes me stagger. Ive never been rip-roaring drunk cause Im in the control freak camp. Plus I have no need to introduce a chemical into my system to be goofy or spontaneous or boisterous or outspoken (especially not that last). Maybe once a year I’ll have a drink in public - otherwise it’s only in the company of friends - Im too afraid to make an ass of myself. Occasionally I’ll have a little (very little) bit of wine with dinner, if Im visiting family or something and it’s on the table, but other than that I can count on my fingers the number of times Ive had alcohol since I first tried it five years ago.
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Quad, Im a transplanted Murrican - been living in Europe for two years. Cessandra is right about French food-vendors having to provide a free glass of water. The “on demand” thing is the key, see. Lotta people dont know about that, and French waiters do tend to be haughty, but it’s all an act. Just ask for it.
And Swiddles is right about the European idea of water generally being mineral water. But by and large, tap water is NOT, repeat, NOT a problem in Europe. To make a blanket statement here, it’s generally cleaner than American tap water, especially in large cities. (And notice the number of generalities - please dont take this as 100% reliable - it’s just based on what Ive learned from living here.) Just ask before you drink from any fountains, dont drink from streams, NEVER drink from still water, and use common sense about tap water. If it’s brown, or tastes funny, dont drink it. And if youre in doubt, ask a local.
If youre going to France and dont want alcohol, ask for “sirop avec l’eau” (zero uh-VEK low) - flavour syrup with water - same principle as Kool-Aid, but MUCH tastier. And they have cool flavours like black currant and peppermint.
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I don’t drink. I’m only 17 and I haven’t had many opporunities to (I’ve been fairly sheltered I suppose) but I wouldn’t go out to get drunk either. I’ve had one or two drinks before and I’m fine usually around holidays like Christmas and Easter or when we eat out at Moxies or Jack Astor’s (which is rare).
I don’t really like the taste of beer plus also I have a bit of an allergic reaction to some brands. (Kokanee I don’t know why that one and not others but I get a really itchy rash on the back of my hands if I drink it) I will be turning 18 soon and will be able to go clubbing and such but I won’t be drinking much when that happens.
I like to be in control of myself. (I don’t get obnoxious just really really silly when I’m drunk but I can get like that when I’m not drunk as well so it takes away some of my inhibitions as well) and with all the warnings and everything about rapists etc (my parents are worrywarts I know enough to protect myself I could have gone out clubbing responsibly when I was 16 in my opinion but I wouldn’t anyway)
I don’t mind drunk people (as long as their not abusive) I just don’t see the point of going and drinking so much you get sick.
What is all that stuff, and why did everyone suddenly forget how to quote? The entire board is littered with that “BlockQuote…font size…quote…stuff.” Sorry to ask this here, but why do we keep seeing that? Perhaps that’s what happens when you hit the “Reply with quote” button???
