If I still drank, I’d be dead, or have killed somebody.
I’d probably rather be around drunks than other people’s children.
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I dont drink any more and if I do have a drink its maybe 1 beer and thats like once every month or 2.
I cant train as hard if I drink any more.
I haven’t had a drink in over a year. It just stopped making sense to do it anymore.
Moderation is the key. I have a Sam Adams for dessert when I take my girl out to dinner, because it’s really fucking tasty. If I’m visiting my college friends, I may have 4 or 5 beers. Contrast that with high school and college, when I used to get wasted Friday and Saturday night EVERY week. I’m talking from the ages of 15 to 20. Once I turned 21, it got old.
I don’t like to sleep late, I don’t like to feel like shit, and I don’t like being arrested. I have a much higher probability of those three things happening if I stay out til 2 and get wasted then if I don’t. I’d rather fuck my girl, watch a movie, and go to sleep at midnight.
[i]Too Drunk To Fuck
Dead Kennedys[/i]
[b]Went to a party
I danced all night
I drank 16 beers
And I started up a fight
But now I am jaded
You’re out of luck
I’m rolling down the stairs
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I’m too drunk, too drunk, too drunk
To fuck [/b]
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A few times a year and then very lightly. A bottle of wine with dinner split with my wife.
No special reason. Just got tired of it and switched to water or iced tea.
I like red wine. But when I have some, it’s usually just a glass.
I was a big drinker back in school, but ever since I started studying a degree I’ve stopped. I still love a drink at a social event, but that’s rare these days. Reasons:
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I feel like I have better stuff to do than to waste money on drinking.
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Being as health and fitness focussed as most of us here, I consider alcohol to be a nuisance.
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Being drunk with a few good friends is good, but at a social environment I do tend to look for opportunities to talk to the femmes, and looking like an idiot doesn’t help.
I’ve drank one time so far this year, and try not to make a habit of it. At best, I’ve had small periods of time where I’ve been a once a weekend drinker, but after a while, it starts to run me down, and I get depressed. I’m 26 now, and I only started to drink the summer before college. Also, since I’ve made my physique goals one of my top priorities, I know that drinking takes a back seat. Alot of my friends, who are awesome, go out every friday, and get completely hammered. Sometimes I go with them, but often I just sit it out. They understand why, and it doesn’t affect our relationship at all, aside from not partaking in the majority of those outings. Everyone has to do what they’re comfortable with, and live their own life.
-Greg
i recently had a long month holiday where i drank too much over the whole time but i have gotten a lot of it out of my system. after going out most nights and drinking i can see there are better things to do.
what many of you miss out on are the times where you are with a few good friends eating good food and drinking a few rounds of a good brew. they are some of my most enjoyable times and if i could reduce my drinking to those occasions i’d be quite happy.
I don’t drink, smoke, or do any drugs, never have. Hell, I rarely take medicine when I’m sick (maybe that’s just stupid, though).
I’m very uncomfortable around people when they are drinking. As I’ve gotten older, and so have all my siblings and cousins, I’m pretty much the only one who doesn’t imbibe. The thing that bothers me is that I love them all, they’re great to be around, I like who they are. When they drink, they become other people who happen to look the same. They’re personality quirks get exagerated and they get annoying and they just aren’t the same people. It’s the same for every friend or acquaintance I had that would drink too.
Bottom line, if I like someone and care about someone and I want to be around them, it’s because of who they are, not who they are while drunk.
My two cents,
Take it easy,
Toby
I generally dont drink at all. Alcohol goes in my blood real quick. And beer gives me the runs the next day. The only drink I have is during my Sunday night Chillout ritual. Other than that, its coffee or Perrier for me. Sure, others give you the look, but after a while they get used to it. Not my problem, anyway.
I don’t really think about it too much - If I do I can get a bit neurotic about it e.g. If I’m out with friends who are drinking, I’ll literally break into a sweat about whether I should drink or not.
I’ve just found that if I just get on with what I’m meant to be doing, the answer of whether I should drink comes naturally. But I guess I’m in the lucky position of not being hooked on anything yet.
I’ve started to take fish oil on a daily basis, and that seems to have helped with not being so mentally beaten the day after a night out. Anyone else ever noticed that?
Hasn’t anybody put a scoop of chocolate Grow! in 16oz. of dark beer?!
Grow!/Metabolic Drive plus Negra Modelo = Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!
Me. I fucking hate alcohol. It tastes like absolute shit, gives me bad gas (beer especially) costs alot, and is full of calories. I guess I’m not a real Canadian!
no big deal,
tin can
Going on 5 years now without drinking. Someone once asked me if I went through a 12-step program. I told them that my program took only one step - I quit. I’ve felt a ton better. I don’t mind it when people drink around me - watching drunk people while sober is funny as hell.
Don’t drink even though I can easily and very readily have them anytime I want even though I’am 18. Never liked them and never will.
I’ll throw my hat on the straightedge ring…
I’m 25 and I don’t drink at all.
I’m virtually a non drinker, I’ll have a small amount maybe every 6 months.
For awhile I was just your usual social drinker, A beer here and there nothing to serious. Then my wife and I split up for a few weeks and I took a turn for the worse with driking. It came to the point where it was common for me after work to pick up a 12 pack and drink that before going to bed. Then on the weekends find some house party take in a 24, and a bottle of rum and end up passed out in a park somewhere. Luckily I had some good friends to keep me from getting arrested, but the turning point for me was one party where I did my ususal, just much faster, in about 2 hours I had wanderded off and passed out in a park down the street, by the time a couple of my friends found me, I had two 12 or 13 year old girls standing around me screaming rape, with people walking by on the street and the cops heading to the house party due to the noise. Luckily I was gotten back into the house and passed out in the bathtub without any problems. The next day when we were sitting at Denny’s with our hangovers and I was told what happened, it made relize that I had a problem, and for about 4 months I didnt touch any booze. And it was that week too that I started going to the gym. Now though I am back to being a social drinker, but even that has losts its appeal to me. Like alot of the other people here I still hang out with my buddies who drink and have a great time myself without drinking.