# Why I don't trust people who don't drink. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380 "2000-10-26T06:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/21 "2000-10-26T19:53:06Z")
What city do you work for? 1943 Berlin? ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/22 "2000-10-26T20:04:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mofo Rising \* > **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.** _Yipes!_ I’m glad that I never had to sign a loyalty form! …and I work for _state_ government! (if I had, I would have had to give up my aspirations to take over the country with my weather gun!) K. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/23 "2000-10-26T20:10:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mofo Rising \* > \*\* What’s next? A hour of hate directed at the “Whassup!” guys? Is that it? Is that what’s next? > \*\* I’m all for this suggestion. When can we start? ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/24 "2000-10-26T20:30:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mofo Rising \* > \*\*No, what disturbs me is that nobody responded to my petition to jumpstart Mark Metcalf’s career. Better days, I suppose. > \*\* While I can see the upside (I mean, who else can deliver any line from the “Is that a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ on your uniform?!” genre?), you have to remember the Law of Unintended Consequences. Any uptick in Mark Metcalf’s career will lead to a corresponding uptick in Stephen Furst’s career, most likely in the form of spraying Metcalf with seltzer water while gleefully observing, “This is so great!” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/25 "2000-10-26T20:42:57Z")
As I have posted before, I rotted out my stomach, my sister was driving drunk and was in an accident that paralyzed her left arm, and my brother ended up in the hospital with kidney and liver failure. We are part Russian and part native American. All of us gave up drinking so we could stay alive. I have no problem with people drinking, or a lot of other things. I have a major problem with people who try to tell me what I should do. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/26 "2000-10-26T20:56:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\*I have no problem with people drinking, or a lot of other > things. I have a major problem with people who try to tell > me what I should do. \*\* And when did this happen in this thread? Mofo made what seems like an obviously tongue-in-cheek comment. Just look at the “logic” he used to arrive at his conclusion as to why he doesn’t trust non-drinkers. He never told anyone to drink, or that they _should_ drink. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/27 "2000-10-26T21:26:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mofo Rising \* > \*\* What’s next? A hour of hate directed at the “Whassup!” guys? Is that it? Is that what’s next? > \*\* Don’t we already have that? And Crunchy Frog, I think the reason people reacted negatively was that we didn’t see the OP as humorous. You did. Good for you. Some of us are rather tired from being mocked for not drinking. And tired in general. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/28 "2000-10-27T01:33:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mofo Rising \* > \*\* > “WHAT DO YOU WANNA’ DO WITH YOUR LIFE?” \*\* I’ll tell you it ticks ME off when someone asks ME what I’m gonna do with my wife!!! I’m a female doggone it!!! I can BE a wife, but what in Sam Hill does THAT have to do with what I’m doin’ with my wife??? Ohhhhhhhhh, a \*\* LIFE \*\* _nevermind_ ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/29 "2000-10-27T02:47:55Z")
I’m pretty sure you’re talking about the same Mark Metcalf… He played the master and the cheese guy on Buffy! Therefore, he rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/30 "2000-10-27T04:05:46Z")
George Thorogood said it for me: “If you don’t start drinking, I’m gonna leave.” I have a sense of humor (probably too much for my own good), I’m the son of two alcoholics and I drink every night. I do not and will not question why or why not anyone else drinks, and I expect the same in return. We all make our own decisions. I do not judge others for the choices they make and will not listen to anybody who judges me for mine. To you teetotalers: good for you; I hope you stick to your guns. And for all my fellow enthusiastic drinkers: good for you, too, and may I buy you a drink? My point: be yourself. You’re beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/31 "2000-10-28T08:11:17Z")
“What three things does drink especially provoke?” “Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.” –Macbeth, Act 2, Scene iii I don’t drink much–maybe one beer or glass of wine a month, and I suspect it’s less than that. You wanna drink, and can do so responsibly? Fine. _shrug_ Don’t care for drinking? Think it’s evil/irresponsible or just not fun? Fine. _shrug_ Oh, and Mofo Rising? I agree with you that Metcalf deserves more of a career. But to call him “the” heavy of Animal House does an injustice to James Daughton (Marmalard) and John Vernon (Dean Wormer). Still, Metcalf’s pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/32 "2000-10-28T10:03:03Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s next? A hour of hate directed at the “Whassup!” guys? Is that it? Is that what’s next? Actually, I drink (mmmmmmm, Cuervo Gold…) and I am all for an hour of hate directed at those guys, and the lizard, and those damned frogs. Whatever happened to just using scantily clad women to sell beer? I used to feel so studly when I drank because I knew bikini-clad supermodels just flocked to guys that acted silly and urinated frequently. Now I’ve gotta be all clever and catch-phrasy to pick up women. Sheesh. Pass me the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380/33 "2000-10-28T13:35:45Z")
… and the **number 1** reason I don’t drink… I used to work in a bar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-trust-people-who-dont-drink/38380.md?page=1)