I don’t think so. I’m not going to comment on Din’s particular case, although in reading his thread, it sounds like one hell beast of a marriage he can do without either way (Wait, am I commenting? I’ll stop), but there are some crazies out there who are terrified of the magical powers that Demon Rum apparently has over everyone. I once went out with a guy who had zero tolerance for drinking of any kind. Really? Someone having a single cuba libre is a problem for you? While I find your objection to putting cola in fine rum is admirable, thinking that anyone who drinks or is drunk has a problem, or will turn obnoxious, or whatever else crazy ideas you have is, um, crazy. These people are not rare.
I think I’m going to have to train myself to slooooowly cut down, rather than relinquish it all one awful (or happy to be pregnant?) day. She has my sympathies. I just hope you don’t eat sushi around her 
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Have we done a thread where we talk about all the religious crazies we’ve dated? Or friends who have tried to convert us - after being friends with us for years, knowing we’re irreligious? If not, we should.
I’m a homebrewer, and I love red wine, good whiskey, and well-made cocktails. If my doctor told me I had to stop drinking, it would be a calamity. I’d do it, but I know I’d look wistfully at good booze for the rest of my life.
Want to make my head explode? Have my doc tell me, “You have to give up either booze or cheese. You pick.”
No! NO! I don’t want to live, doctor, just kill me now!
Wouldn’t bother me at all. Bottles of beer sit in my refrigerator for years unopened. I like wine, but I seldom even think about drinking any before dinner unless my wife is. Take away my Coke and Mountain Dew and I’ll be upset, but alcohol, no big deal.
Lord no, I don’t eat it in front of her. I could if I really wanted to, but that’s too much of a dick move. Even for me.
She’s Japanese, too, so no one in her family understands why she won’t eat sushi.
This is too horrifying to contemplate. I am going to go give my Epoisses a hug.
I’ve been craving sushi - the raw, mercury filled stuff - since roughly day 1 of my pregnancy.
I also live about a block from a sushi restaurant I drive by every day on the way home from work.
I still eat the cooked, not-too-high-in-mercury kind pretty regularly, but it’s just not the same.
Is the mercury problem really that huge a deal for the fetus? I’m not being snarky–I just genuinely am curious. Like, what is the likelihood that the baby could get hurt? Is this kind of a “Let’s just play it safe” or is it really important not to?
Yes, mercury can be a big problem. The risk of acquiring unwanted organisms through raw fish is also not trivial.
Aka potheads.
Actually, I may need to change my answer based on the glass of Chateau Lafite I had last night. Gah that was good.
I know a few like this. The worst one is Straight Edge, also into shitty music, vegan and with a mean misogynist streak. He is also an atheist, which has sort of forced me to reconsider some of my views on obnoxious assholes.
Yup - enough can cause brain damage, and there are some fish that have quite a lot of mercury. Fortunately, there is also a lot oflists of what fish contains how much mercury, and there are a lot that are fine to eat a few times a week.
My favorites happen to be on the “never eat” and “eat rarely”, of course.
This douche wasn’t quite at the Straight Edge level of silliness, but I guess he got touched by everyone’s least favorite alcoholic uncle, and had some issues with drinking of any kind, on any event, in any quantity. There was something about health issues(?), I think., and drinking turning you into a RAWR!!! monster! Whatever, he smoked a lot of cigarettes and was annoying.
cries No dammit, I gave up meat willingly, I can’t do more! I’m from Wisconsin, I’m pretty sure they don’t allow us to give up dairy products!
It wouldn’t bother me if I couldn’t drink ever again, but it would bother me if single women couldn’t drink ever again–that would be like saying I couldn’t ever drink OR have sex.
I have about a beer a week, and some weeks I don’t drink at all. Maybe I’ll have two or three in a week if a couple of great beers have come up at the same time, and I may have a few drinks at a party or holiday (not at New Year’s because we host a party and I prefer to stay sober in case of emergency).
If someone told me that I am a problem drinker, I’d look at them like they had three heads. Your statement seems to imply that this makes me a problem drinker.
These posts have me wondering whether there are differences in the way people taste alcohol, similarly to the differences I’ve read in tasting other substances. Is there alcohol intolerance similar to lactose intolerance?
Me myself, I’ve had plenty of chances to try alcoholic drimks, and I’m just not particularly interested in them. I find the taste of alcohol itself mildly unpleasant. If it wasn’t for the alcohol, wine would taste like strong fruit juice, which I’m okay with.
Kiros, do you like the taste of the alcohol itself, or do you separate it from the taste of the drink it’s in?
Me, I’m in the ‘live and let live’ camp. I don’t care whether you drink alcohol or eat mushrooms or eat cheese; if you enjoy them, I’m glad that they bring pleasure to your life. On the other hand I’d be just as happy in a world without mushrooms, alcohol or cheese.
Broad, sweeping generalizations are usually problematic, and they seem even moreso when the topic is drinking. The anti-drinking crowd (n.b., I’m not necessarily including you in that group, Merneith – I don’t know enough about your views) tends to love to make statements that if x holds true, then you have a drinking problem.
Case in point: the classic “Do you drink alone?” test. Why, yes. Yes, I do. I also sleep alone, eat alone, watch TV alone, sometimes even go to movies or dine out alone. I also do most of the above with friends. It doesn’t mean I have a problem – it just means I spend a lot of time alone.
I drink a glass of homemade sangria nearly every day throughout the summer. In the winter I have some Bailey’s with my coffee now and then. I’d be annoyed and a bit bummed. I’d certainly do without it, but it’s a treat to me and I’d miss it.
I have an occasional drink - probably once a month or so. I get fairly buzzed about once a year, at Passover. I get roaring drunk about once a decade, based on my record over the last couple.
However, I quit drinking back in my teens (and again in my early twenties) precisely because I didn’t want to be in a situation of “never again”. For me, it’s OK to say “I’m not going to do X right now because it’s causing problems”, but to say “I’ll never do X again” is an entirely different matter.
I don’t do well with that, it just drives me nuts. It doesn’t matter if it’s because someone told me I couldn’t, or because of some outside circumstance.
So I’m going to say that it would bug me quite a bit.