# D'ya ever just feel like drinking? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375 "2017-04-27T16:04:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/21 "2017-04-27T19:06:50Z")
Does the Pope wear a funny hat? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/22 "2017-04-27T19:09:43Z")
Yup and I do something about it too. My wife and I like to have a cocktail most evenings before dinner. When my dog was alive all three of us would sit on the porch and people watch, me and my wife with a drink, my dog with a bone. If my dog heard the cocktail shaker, she’d get up and go wait by the door. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/23 "2017-04-27T19:15:05Z")
Sure. Depends on _what_ and _why_ I feel like drinking on whether or not I follow-through. Socially? I’ll drink lightly. Very lightly. Celebration? Sure, I’ll have a sip or two. Dinner? Depends on what’s for eating - Maybe a beer, more rarely a glass of wine. Maybe not. Contemplation? Time to dust off the whisky, and pour a couple fingers-worth. Pissed, tired, frustrated, depressed? Give me some water. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/24 "2017-04-27T19:48:53Z")
I would drink a few beers every night if I didn’t have to do sports stuff with the kids, didn’t have to worry about getting fat, wasn’t so cheap (it would be so much easier if I could develop a taste for Budweiser instead of the $2/bottle stuff I prefer), and my wife wouldn’t get pissed at me. So I drink when we get together with friends (once or twice a month lately) and have the odd beer at home when there’s nothing going on. I think about having a couple of beers every night. I think about going out for lunch and having a couple. I think about watching a game and drinking a few on a Saturday afternoon. A lot of thinking, not a lot of drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/25 "2017-04-27T20:43:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, yeah. When the sun is low and the work is done, the favored glass comes out (the Bushmills glass, not [the other one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=370772))… At least it wasn’t [one of these!](http://zombiesites.com/timewarpmemories/glasses/B&Rshow.jpg) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/26 "2017-04-27T21:43:02Z")
> [@Gus\_Gusterson](#): > > I think about having a couple of beers every night. I think about going out for lunch and having a couple. I think about watching a game and drinking a few on a Saturday afternoon. A lot of thinking, not a lot of drinking. I got your back, **Gus**! I’m picking up your slack, and I ain’t even thinkin’ about it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/27 "2017-04-27T21:50:19Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I’m a non-smoker, never was a smoker, probably have had no more than 5 cigarettes in my entire life, and think smoking is a disgusting habit. > But once in a while I’ll take a break from work, sit outside on a nice day, put my feet up and think “this would be a great moment to have a cigarette”. > I’d probably regret it the second I took that first drag though. What you really need is a good cigar. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/28 "2017-04-27T21:56:29Z")
Yes. Yes I do. (Feel like drinking, not a cigar) ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/29 "2017-04-27T21:56:37Z")
Not as such, generally. There are some alcoholic drinks I like the taste of, and I may have one with supper when I go out to eat. Or I might feel like having something minty, and the burger joint with the mint-chocolate shakes is closed, but I’ve got the ingredients to make a grasshopper. Or I’ll have a glass of mead or whatever with friends or family, because camaraderie. But wanting to drink something specifically alcoholic for its own sake? It just doesn’t occur to me. I suppose I don’t see the point, since I dislike the sensation of being drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/30 "2017-04-27T22:36:35Z")
> [@](#): > > D’ya ever just feel like drinking? Not really. Not any more. I used to enjoy a can or two of cider after work, but cider has a huge sugar content so I stopped. I’ll have a pint or two if I’m socialising, but I’ll have nibbles as well. I’ll drink wine with a meal, but not on its own. I’ll drink port as an aperitif or with cheese & biscuits or after a meal. I don’t drink spirits at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/31 "2017-04-27T22:50:03Z")
Not so much in the past 10-15 years or so. I used to drink heavily when I was younger, and it takes a toll. A big party for me now is 2-3 glasses of wine or the occasional gin & tonic or two. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/32 "2017-04-28T02:21:40Z")
Come, come. Are there any of us who don’t throw back a few large gins with the post-breakfast pack of Camel straights? ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/33 "2017-04-28T04:29:18Z")
I quit drinking about 26 years ago. In that 26 years I have had a couple of drinks . I still get the urge for a nice glass of scotch quite often. I just don’t want to fall back into the habit. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/34 "2017-04-28T05:22:58Z")
I used to, then with the passage of time not really all that much and nowadays never. Spending most of my adult life in Thailand, I’ve noticed doing that either turns you into a raging alcoholic or lets you get it out of your system, and I guess it was the latter with me. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/35 "2017-04-28T08:09:22Z")
Yes. Mostly on hot days when I happen to see a pineapple. (Like, say, if I am by purest happenstance in the grocery store, where I have gone specifically to buy a pineapple, clutching a half-pint of rum.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/36 "2017-04-28T10:46:16Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Come, come. Are there any of us who don’t throw back a few large gins with the post-breakfast pack of Camel straights? When on vacation, I typically wake, bake, Bloody Mary, _then_ make the coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/37 "2017-04-28T13:15:55Z")
Not anymore. I’m probably the most successful dry drunk you’ll ever meet. I decided to do a Sober October a few years ago and after a month I decided that I felt so much better and I’d saved so much money that I would just keep it going for a little while. Then the strangest thing … I figured out that I didn’t really enjoy being drunk. I enjoyed a fine IPA for the taste of it, and being slightly buzzed is fun but I figured out that once I tipped past buzzed into drunk the evening just sucked from then on out. So I’ve been drink - free for going on two years now and I never really get the urge anymore. BTW … I never refer to myself as “sober” as I do enjoy my altered states I just don’t lean on alcohol to achieve them. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/38 "2017-04-28T13:26:14Z")
I feel like drinking far more often than I actually do. I’m not that interested in having just one drink, maybe to be sociable, but it’s a waste of time. I want to drink to get drunk, but that consumes a lot of time also, not totally wasted because I enjoy some of that time, but as I’ve gotten older the follow-up time is longer and less pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/39 "2017-04-28T21:44:19Z")
Yes 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dya-ever-just-feel-like-drinking/785375/40 "2017-04-29T10:52:59Z")
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