It wouldn’t bother me. I drink maybe a couple of beers per month. On a hot day, I’d probably substitute Coke or lemonade or some other cold drink.
Yeah, I’d be pretty furious too. Some nights I drink, more often than not I don’t, but good beer tastes good. Gin and tonics taste good. Martinis taste good. Wine with the right meal tastes good. And Single-malt Whiskys and Whiskeys taste REALLY good. Not to mention the social aspects and everything else.
Lady, you’re all right.
**jjimm **and kayaker, I’ll PM you with where you can send the booze to show your love. International shipping rates be damned!
MeanOldLady, Zsofia, jjimm, et al.
Drinks are on me anytime y’all are in the Pittsburgh/Johnstown vicinity!
I would be extremely annoyed, although I’d get used to it if there were an actual medical reason for it. If it were the product of, say, rampant Puritanism in the area where I lived (not implausible), I think it would be the last straw that would make me quit my job and move.
Would I be allowed to use alcohol in cooking? If so, I wouldn’t probably be all that upset. My alcohol use is equivalent to one or two bottles of wine a month, and I don’t get that much funnier or relaxed when I’m tipsy. And unfortunately, I’m not that much of a wine taster. But I’d definitely not like losing stuff like madeira sauce, wine-poached fish, strawberries Romanov or chocolate and whisky mousse.
I would need to be pretty drunk to visit Pittsburgh. 
^That is too true.
To the OP: Why just ask non-alcoholics? I know a couple of unrepentant alkies who would be royally pissed if told they could never have a drink again!
Well we expect we know the opinion of many alcoholics. 
But seriously, in Dinsdale’s thread, someone said that non-alcoholics don’t care if they drink or not, so this thread appears to have been spawned to check on that question.
It’s been 8 or 9 years since I went on medication for which mixing with alcohol is a no-no. Before that I enjoyed a drink with dinner and a beer with my buddies. Since then I haven’t had a drop of alcohol and I don’t really miss it.
What I miss is that I can no longer take decongestants when I have a cold!
Minor annoyance, I suppose, though I’m such a sporadic drinker that the absence wouldn’t be something I noticed daily. I quit when my gallbladder flared up in December (a couple of hours after a glassful of very bad red wine, which is coincidental but certainly gives it a negative association) - among other things, my liver wasn’t happy with the gallbladder and I figured it was best to not annoy it too much. Aside from being sad that I couldn’t enjoy wine with Christmas dinner, it was a non-event.
I think I’ve had one glass of wine since then.
Someone who was a wine connoisseur or whatever would probably be harder hit.
I’d be really annoyed, regardless of the reason.
I like wine, I like having it with nice meals (and not nice meals!), and I like going to wineries and wine tastings. Same for beer, and we also home-brew. I wouldn’t miss hard alcohol as much, simply because I don’t drink it as often and don’t really like most mixed drinks.
I miss having wine with dinner now (pregnant), but it’s easier because I know I’ll be able to have some again soon, and also I chose this, it’s not some outside force making me do it.
I’ve always felt a little like the kid at the adults table when it comes to alcohol. I don’t like the taste of beer or wine, and more than one drink makes me go to sleep. In general it’s just not a pleasant experience for me.
However, try and take away my caffeine and I’ll fight you to the death.
Well, I’m annoyed by it. Alcohol interferes with one of the essential meds I take. No, I won’t suddenly keel over, but even one glass of wine hits me almost immediately, and my med won’t work properly. If I have one drink occasionally it’s bearable, but I just know if I have more than that I will feel bad the next day. Not a hangover, just will be unwell. I miss it a lot. I have a great fondness for single malt Scotch.
Sackcloth and ashes. A little part of me would die.
Since I am home today, I think I am going to pour myself a drink just to make sure I still can.
I wouldn’t care. I barely drink at all as it is; maybe once every few months. It’s fun, but if I had to quit completely it would be no big deal at all.
Well, as Ferret Herder pointed out, the question of whether a non-alcoholic would care was brought up. And it’s something I wondered about before–people will often say, “Well, if you’re NOT a [blank] addict, you won’t care if you stop.” (I feel like this comes up in a lot of anti drug programs in schools, too.)
Plus, if you are an alcoholic, it’s probably obvious you don’t want to stop–you’re addicted physically to where you can’t stop. I just wanted to discuss how strongly people who aren’t necessarily addicted would feel. I mean, I’m not addicted to a lot of things (anything, really) but I’d still be upset at giving them up.
My recent diagnosis of Irritated Bowel Syndrome led me to do a food challenge for dairy, and it turns out that dairy is causing most, if not all, of my symptoms. I’m with you on the big “NOOOOOOOO!!!1!!!1”
I can’t tolerate caffeine either. And carbonation isn’t recommended for people with IBS. I drink a lot of water. 
Exactly. If someone was told that they could never drink a beverage they enjoyed or a food they loved, or play a game they liked, etc., they’d probably not be very happy about it.
If an alien race came to the planet and said, “Women of the human species exhibit an unhealthy attraction to chocolate, so we’re destroying the cacao bean plant down to the smallest seed and vaporizing all existing chocolate,” there would be riots. This doesn’t mean there’s a real addiction, just that people like the stuff and this action is pretty unfair. On a smaller scale, an individual chocolate fan would be really annoyed if they were told they couldn’t have chocolate, even if their weight is good, teeth are fine, and there isn’t any other major reason why it’s really problematic.
Which is, of course, complete bollocks.
Righto. I’d kill you if you took my bicycle away. Kill you dead!