Well, according to others, I haven’t sucked it up enough to be considered a good boy.
All this talk is making me want a beer. I’ll be having some tomorrow night at dinner for my friend’s birthday.
AND IT WILL BE DELICIOUS! Nyah.
Yes, because all that is EXACTLY what I said in my post.
Funny how self-righteous you just got ranting against someone you believe to be self-conscious (your evidence being one tiny line). I said “…seems as if…”. I did NOT say “every person who has a drink…” or even “everyone who ties one on”. Geeeeeeeez lighten up.
FWIW, upon catching up with the rest of the thread, I have to agree with the sentiment (paraphrased) to the OP of “You need to hang out with a better class of drunks”.
Because as I stated, I have met, not the kind of drinker the OP describes, but those who actually get angry and insulted if you don’t keep up with them drink for drink and puke for puke.
Now THAT is boring and not fun. I mean God KNOWS what a turn on it is for we girls when some sweaty, staggering, drunk is blowing nasty whiskey breath in our face and yelling “what??? ya too good for a drink with me? What???” With this type, a polite “no thanks” just enrages them.
Actually, you did say that every person who likes to drink is pushy and obnoxious. If that’s not what you meant, you might want to work on your communications skills. “Seems like” doesn’t really help either; it would still be racist to say “it seems as if black people like watermelons and auto theft.”
I have to ask…
What the hell kind of places do you hang out in, that this sort of thing is allowed??? Where was everyone else? Where were the bouncers?
You quote my statement and then still don’t understand it and continue to deliberately misconstrue it. Perhaps you should learn some reading comprehension.
And comparing an act a person does by choice and for entertainment to a person’s race? Could you be more ignorant?
Bouncers? We doan need no steenking bouncers, Didn’t you notice my location? 
No, seriously as someone else mentioned above. I think this is something people see (or at least we wild Alaskans see) when they’re much younger and out partying. Then as they get older they do start drinking with a higher class of drinkers.
Or maybe it’s something I just saw a lot because once upon a time I was a wee hottie, I dunno.
Ahhh, I get it, the poor bastard was just topping off the “antifreeze”
But seriously, why didn’t someone just toss him out.
I don’t know about CanvasShoes, but as I mentioned above my worst experiences with pushy drinkers were in college. This was at private parties, not bars with bouncers. I really did know a girl who would start screaming at people if they weren’t drinking enough. She was not a particular friend of mine but was in my social circle so we often wound up at the same parties.
The pushiest drinkers I’ve encountered since college aren’t people I’ve met in real life, but people in this thread. I don’t mean you SteveG1, but those who are saying that people who prefer not to drink should just force themselves to do it until they get used to it. In real life the most common problem I run into these days is people who keep offering me drinks after I’ve told them “No thank you, I don’t drink”, but I think usually they are just trying to be nice.
My boyfriend at the time was an absolute angel. The epitome of a "gentle giant’. The guy had been following me around and Chaz just figured the guy was being friendly (Chaz liked his beer and bongs a bit also), he was NOT the jealous type. But once I finally got through to him that the guy was actually starting to scare me, he quietly went over and said a few things in the guy’s ear. I haven’t the faintest what he actually said, but the guy disappeared after that.
Other men I’ve seen behave like this, I’ve luckily seen from afar. And now I’m a comfy old granny, so unlikely to have drunken slobs hanging all over me. And yeah, as Lamia said, most of this kind of stuff took place back in the day.
To the op:
I am a drinker. I do not give a flying fuck if you ever have a drink. I also do not give a flying fuck if you start drinking tonight and never stop until you are dead in the gutter.
There, it’s under %100 now.
Look, I know you aren’t so good with the English. But your statement clearly means that it seems to you that people who like to drink get really obnoxious. Maybe you should diagram the sentence. There was no qualification of “some people” or “just the alcoholics”. “Seems to you” doesn’t limit your statement, either.
Now maybe that wasn’t what you intended to say, but it is what you said. Don’t get all pissy with me a day later because you can’t communicate effectively.
And Villa, you don’t call Jack bourbon because some Kentucky hillbillies don’t want you to, and you call it sparkling wine because the French don’t want you to call it champagne? What are you, a Midori Sour drinker?
Whoah–as long as we’re clear that this isn’t according to me. I really really don’t give a shit whether you like it or not. I was just describing my own rationale for trying beer repeatedly, even though I found the bitterness initially overwhelming. If you don’t want to do this, it’d be completely ridiculous for me to think less of you for it–just as ridiculous as it’d be for someone to think less of me for having done it.
I don’t call Jack bourbon because it isn’t bourbon, and I don’t call Californian sparkling wine champagne because it isn’t champagne. I am not sure why this is a difficult concept for people. Well, to be honest, I am pretty sure why it is difficult for poor little ivn.
Oh of course, it has something to do with the French. It must suck then! :rolleyes:
Yeah, actually, you’re outvoted in the thread. “Tennessee Whiskey” is a subset of “bourbon”.
Oddly enough, I wasn’t aware that SDMB threads were the method by which alcohol was classified. I learn something new every day!
There’s probably an actual debate to be had concerning whether or not region-specific names for products that can effectively be produced in multiple places are a good thing, but it’s getting in the way of this perfectly good pit thread turning on the OP.
My point was, if you’ve been drinking for a long time and you still have never developed a taste for it, why would you *keep *drinking? I’m not talking about the initial, “Gross, this is a cheap drink and/or a taste I’m not used to.”
If you’re not going to read a whole thread about why the OP is a social retard and then agree with him, why should I read past your first sentence before determining that you are, too?
I think I’ll take you up on that nap, though, thanks.
If that’s directed at me, please quote any post where I’ve said that. If that’s not directed at me, please quote any other post where someone’s said that. Because I don’t remember anything of the kind, and if you can’t pull up a cite for it, please take the straw man somewhere else where he can get the loving attention you apparently feel he deserves. Personally, I haven’t said that you should, simply that may be the case that if you do not explore new things, you’ll miss out on a lot. I also noted that it’s entirely possible that there’s an actual physical reason for the different “taste,” similar to the problem with cilantro.
Because you like the effect.
I’m not really a huge fan of the taste Nyquil, but when I have a cold, I take it - and its wonderous - not the taste, it still tastes disgusting, but the effect.
Some people ENJOY being a little tipsy, or even (although I never understood this) fall down drunk. I suppose they could get the same effect popping pills, but booze is a legal and easily acquired way to enter an altered state. And as long as its done in moderation, without impacting their health or their life (or perhaps more importantly, those around them), why judge?
I’m sure other people drink and don’t enjoy it because its expected. Which I think is a little sad. Although I don’t agree with the OPs rant, I can admire his teatotalism in the face of apparently overwhelming persistent opposition from people he considers his friends.