Lighten up, Francis.
“Lighten up?” I have no problem with alcohol, but I do with drunkenness, and then mainly because of the lives lost and the families destroyed and so on.
What I’ve seen here is denial of the seriousness of this, and that generally comes from people in danger. This is well known.
I drink because I’m British. It also helps me play pool better.
Makes as much sense as the dribble you’re spewing.
Look it’s your life and there are gutters everywhere.
pulls dart out of leg, returns it to amanset
This is performance art, right?
My feelings too pretty much, except don’t even attempt to keep a buzz going, too difficult later to deal with it, the extra anxiety and general hangover from a mere thimble-full of booze. Had some expensive vodka recently, to me it tasted like rubbing alcohol. It’s difficult enough just to try and stay healthy, did not realize getting old would suck this much. 
I am considering getting a water cooler so I will have it to stand around while I complain about my ailments.
At least I don’t have to raise my voice anymore to the kids on my lawn, ordered my own personal megaphone from amazon.com.
I haven’t seen anybody comment on this in a while, but there’s a huge difference between the taste of alcoholic drinks and alcohol itself. I’m pretty sure nobody likes the taste of alcohol itself, although I’m probably at the lower end for being able to tolerate it. On the other hand, I LOVE the taste of all sorts of alcoholic drinks and would drink non-alcoholic beer in the same circumstances you would. I’d drink non-alcoholic whiskey if it weren’t a chemical impossibility! The thing is that once the taste of the alcohol itself starts coming through, my enjoyment of a drink falls through the floor, and that’s why mixed drinks exist.
I also like using whiskey like vanilla extract, seasoning all sorts of foods with the delicious taste of whiskey, even savory foods like beans and squash soup. I don’t actually drink all that much, but I definitely like my alcohol to taste good, and generally speaking you can’t get the taste of alcoholic drinks without the alcohol coming along for the ride. What you CAN do is use alcohol with a stronger flavor, so you use less of it.
So . . . The fact that I and a few others here think you’re a dick makes us alkies?
“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the table,
after four I’m under my host.”
- Dorothy Parker (of course)
No, it’s fucking not. My family has a long history of alcohol addiction. “Getting drunk, even now and then” is so NOT alcoholism – it’s a hell of a lot more involved than that. If you think that, then you obviously know jackshit about addiction.
Peaton (of peat) – I think you knew what I meant. 
(Dear god, I need a drink after reading all of this nonsense!)
Get invited to parties much?
I made it clear I have no problem getting high and enjoying myself, although as I get older I do it a little less. People who get drunk at parties and make trouble or messes or whatever are the ones who tend to not get invited again.
I don’t think he was asking the question because he doubted you drank.
I think he was asking the question because you come off as judgemental, intractable and generally unpleasant.
Yeah, what she said.
I am judgmental of alcoholism; it is a serious problem and I heard a lot of denial coming out of some of the messages.
It is not hard to tell people they come across as arrogant. So what? We all have our faults. It reminds me of Ben Franklin’s circulating a memo as to how he could be more perfect and all his neighbors came back with “humility.”
When is the appropriate time to start posting nonsense all over the place? I want to post nonsense NOW, I don’t wanna wait like 5 years.
Hah! What I post – that alcoholism is a serious danger to be aware of – is “nonsense” because I just recently joined. That is very good sense.
The nonsense you posted was the confidence that you could accurately diagnose a person as being an alcoholic based on the content of the one post she made.
That’s some powerful willful ignorance, there, to pretend that’s not the issue.