You know why? It’s because teetotaller is a little to close to totalitarian. I’ve read “1984”. I have a semi-literate vocabulary. I know what I’m talking about. What’s next? A hour of hate directed at the “Whassup!” guys? Is that it? Is that what’s next?
On a completely unrelated note, who here thinks Mark Metcalf deserves more of a career. You may know him as the heavy from “Animal House” or the heavy from “One Crazy Summer”. I think he deserves more. Sure he was in “Drive Me Crazy” with superstar Melissa Joan Hart, but it’s not enough. His talent is so vast. He could play the heavy in almost any movie. How about a remake of “Apocalypse Now” with Mark Metcalf as Col. Kurtz? Or a biopic based on the life of Winston Churchill with Mark Metcalf as the heavy on the staff? Let’s start a petition. Jumpstart Mark Metcalf’s career!
**Mofo Rising ** thus pontificated: “You know why? It’s because teetotaller is a little to close to totalitarian.”
Oh grow up, Mofo. Have you ever stopped to wonder why some people don’t drink? There are many reasons, including allergic reactions (wheat, sulfites, various other ingredients), biological intolerance for alcohol, having alcoholics in the family. Most people who don’t drink, won’t tell you WHY they don’t drink but it’s not always because they’re prudish totalitarians… but to dislike someone based on the fact that they don’t drink is just well… dumb.
Remind me not to go to a DopeFest with you. You wouldn’t like me, anyway. :rolleyes:
I don’t drink. I have no reason to. If you don’t want to like me because I don’t drink . . . I think that’s a pretty stupid reason, but what do I know? I don’t even drink.
And it’s not because I’m a prude. I may well be, but that’s not why. Part of the reason is that, among other things, alcoholism runs on both sides of my family. I have no desire to fuck myself up with alcohol as some of my relatives have done.
I don’t drink because my father, stepfather, stepmother and maternal grandfather are raging drunks. They frequently drank to the falling-down stage and would start drinking befor 9AM.
I have been exposed to alcoholism since before I could walk. I never want to behave like that. I don’t drink because I fear the loss of control. When you’re growing up in a family with a violent drunk, all you have to hang on to is control over yourself since you can’t control them. It’s the same reason that I don’t do drugs…or smoke cigarettes, either. It’s a scary thought to have no control over a craving for a substance.
I don’t impose my beliefs on others, I don’t really discuss them. I just say “oh, no. I don’t drink. Thank you, though.” and if they ask why I say “my dad’s an alcoholic.”
To this day, the smell of beer turns my stomach. I don’t dislike anyone for drinking unless they drink to excess, and then I am wary of them. I can’t help it. It’s ingrained. I don’t see why anyone would dislike me for not drinking. Chances are, I have a better reason for not drinking than they have for drinking.
I don’t drink because I have a history of depression.
The last thing I need is to add additional deppresents to my already lame brain chemistry. That said, I HAVE had about a half dozen drinks in the last five years, but never more than one in several months time.
Am I the only one who read the OP and didn’t take Mofo Rising’s statement seriously?
Mofo says:
“. . . because teetotaller is a little to close to totalitarian. I’ve read “1984”. I have a semi-literate vocabulary. I know what I’m talking about.”
Well, you SHOULD drink, because “sober” sounds too much like “sofa”, and you don’t want people sitting on you!
Well, maybe a few Doper wimmen…
(agree with Crunchy, tongue in cheek - but isn’t it always between your cheeks? Even if you put it between someone else’s cheeks too? It isn’t detachable… …of couse, if it was, you wouldn’t worry quite as much about getting a date… …but you can always buy a bag of dates at the grocer…)
I guess some people have no sense of humor towards this subject. I can sort of understand why after reading some of the accounts here but jeez people, lighten up. It was a joke!
Maybe youse guys should have a Martini or something
Go figure . . . you have a couple of relatives die because of alcohol, you have two alcoholic (and physically/sexually abusive) grandfathers, and you wonder why I didn’t respond jokingly to your thread. A few months ago alcohol could have easily killed me. If I had followed my doctor’s orders and stayed on Zoloft, the same would still be true.
Exactly, Crunchy. And I’d also like to point out that the title says “trust”, not “like”. And no one wondered why you didn’t respond jokingly. We just wondered why you posted seriously to a non-serious thread. You don’t HAVE to post to every thread, you know.
I’m just a social drinker, and some of my friends don’t drink, but it’s always from lack of taste for it.
I have met some true Drys, real reformer-type prohibitionists, but they never seemed too far out of line for me. They accepted their fate of being born too late.
It’s my understanding that most people don’t drink. Of course, this is all hearsay on my part, as I am a college student.
No, what disturbs me is that nobody responded to my petition to jumpstart Mark Metcalf’s career. Better days, I suppose.
On another completely unrelated note, I just got a job for the city, and they made me fill out a “loyalty” form. Among other things, it made me promise that I would never join the Communist party or attempt an armed overthrow of the government. I saw that and thought, “Well, there goes my weekend.”
