To which my reply would be something along the lines of, “Ok. Wanna play foosball?”
My response would not be, “How fucking boring are you, you big pussy? You are not truly experiencing life and you should just go back to your mom’s basement where you belong, you loser.”
On the other hand, if I offered someone a drink and the response was, “Why do you want me to make a fool of myself like you do, you sloppy drunk? Besides the smell of alcohol remindes me of the time when I was a kid and I was raped by alcoholic farm animal, so I’ll thank you to keep your evil firewater to yourself!” … my response would be something along the lines of, “Ooooo-kay …” followed by me steering way fucking clear of that psycho.
This whole post of yours? Awesome. Pure. Fucking. Genius. Not that Yog is going to pay any attention to it, because he’d actually have to engage in a little (gasp!) *self-examination *and then (double gasp!) concede to the possibility that he was wrong, but I thought you should know that *someone *appreciated it.
See that? Pussy drink.
Preemption of Humor-Impaired Assholes: It’s a fucking joke.
Well, my response would be to offer them a non-alcoholic drink of some kind, and then ask about foosball; but otherwise, Jack, you’ve said pretty much what I would.
We have beer and wine Fridays here at work and people try to force me to have a beer or a glass of wine. I don’t want to learn to like wine and I hate the taste of beer. No matter how many times I’ve explained, some will keep trying (but you’ll like this wine)or insist that I must not be a drinker.
Well, I think getting together with a bunch of your buddies, going to a bar, throwing back a couple of pitchers and spending the evening joking around, bitching about work and awkwardly hitting on the opposite sex (or same sex if that’s your thing) is more of a life experience than watching Dragonball reruns. Don’t you?
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On the other hand, if I offered someone a drink and the response was, “Why do you want me to make a fool of myself like you do, you sloppy drunk? Besides the smell of alcohol remindes me of the time when I was a kid and I was raped by alcoholic farm animal, so I’ll thank you to keep your evil firewater to yourself!” … my response would be something along the lines of, “Ooooo-kay …” followed by me steering way fucking clear of that psycho.
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I want to party with you, Cowboy!
Look, I’m not here to pressure the OP to do anything cool, but I think his sanctimonious attitude is way off base. Even if people who drink regularly sometimes “get-drunk-off-their-ass-and-make-a-fool-of-themselves”, so what? If you don’t make a fool of yourself once and awhile, you aren’t trying hard enough. And the only reason these “assholes” are offering you a drink is because they think it might help you lighten up and have some fun.
Now as a drinker, I do sometimes find the pushy drinker to be a bit annoying. Especially when they start coming around with shots. I’m looking to have a few drinks, not be fucked up for work in the morning.
I am having trouble with this whole thread, because in my experience, drinkers ARE pushy, pushy people. And I am 34 and more than confident enough to say, “No, thanks”…and I DO drink! I drink generally 1-2 mixed drinks per evening and that is all I will drink. Period, end of discussion.
And yet not only do I get pushed to try beer or wine or whatever I also get made fun of for my foofy drinks.
Now I don’t really care after all - no one is going to make me drink more than I choose, and I am a grown-up girl and can handle myself in these situations, but it is a little annoying that every drinker I know has to call attention to it everytime. “Oh, look at mika! She’s having her cute little foofy drink. Bring me a real drink - a BEER!” And they only get worse as they drink more.
At the same time, it’s the status quo, and I accept that, so I just shrug and move on.
This is basically what I wanted to post. People who are drunk – to be clear, I don’t mean people who’ve had a couple of drinks, but those who are well and truly drunk – are excruciatingly boring. I always figured one of the big benefits to drinking must be that it dulls your ability to recognize how very tedious your similarly drunken friends have become. For instance, consuming large quantities of alcohol seems to make people believe they’re gripping storytellers. I’m sure those long, rambling, and pointless anecdotes are very entertaining for the drunk person doing the telling, but they’re not all that engaging for the sober person (me) who they’ve cornered as an audience.
For most of my life I havent drank. And most of the people I know DO drink. And this pushy thing you guy’s are talking about is rather uncommon in my experience.
Maybe I just hang out with a better class of people.
Hey now, I had some *great *times watching Dragonball reruns with one of my best friends in college when we both still lived in the same building. And I don’t even think any of them involved alchohol! (Iron Chef, on the other hand…)
Learn to drink something less frou frou, then.
I started dating my last boyfriend because he was an *amazing *storyteller at the party where I met him. Unfortunately, I eventually realized that he was *only *that outgoing when he was drunk, and the rest of the time he was pretty much painfully self-deprecating and laconic. As with most things, YMMV.
GOD I CAN’T FUCKING STAND THESE PUSHY YOUTUBE USERS, THINKING THEY’RE ALL BETTER THAN ME, WHAT A BUNCH OF TROGLODYTES, ONLY RETARDS WATCH YOUTUBE, UGH HOW DISGUSTING, MAN I’M AWESOME.
I could care less whether people want to drink or not. However, when someone trots out the “I don’t like the taste” excuse, I do think they are a pretty big vagina. Newsflash: No one liked the taste of alcohol initially, its an acquired taste. Somehow, the rest of us all managed to get over it. So if someone’s only objection to drinking is that they don’t like the taste, I won’t say anything to them, but I will think they need to suck it up and be a big boy/girl.
