[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
I drink mostly beer, nothing fancy either. Whatever 30 pack is on sale at Stop and Shop. I’ll drink a few gin and tonics if I’m out to dinner. I had a bad experience with wine when I was 16… can’t even look at it.[/quote]
I am that way with vodka, white rum, or tequila. They all make me a little quezzy just thinking about them.
I’ve been drinking far less lately, possibly has to do with the fact that I am not celebrating the holidays with my wife’s family - even she drinks around them.
There are 5 situations when I drink:
Sunday afternoons watching football with a Black Butte Porter, Guinness or Rogue Dead Guy (BBP and RDG are great local beers, I recommend if you have them in your local store)
Drinking a PBR or Hamms while I’m cooking dinner (this is a rarity, not because I can’t cook, but my wife loves to cook)
Smoking a Cigar and drinking scotch or rum (happens once every other month or so)
At my parents house, which is very odd. (Both my parents grew up with alcohol abuse. I have never seen my mom drink and I only saw my dad drink a beer once until I was 19.) But my dad keeps a stash of cheap wine and coors lite for when we come over for dinner.
If one of my 3 good friends are in town (they live in other countires) and wants to go out. This is the most dangerous, I’m guaranteed to come home hammered and $200 poorer.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Gin, wine, beer, Scotch, whatever else I have lying around.[/quote]
Win!
At some point in your life “Don’t give a fuck” kicks in pretty hard. If it hasn’t kicked in, you haven’t lived long enough.
This is probably a good thing, but I can’t relate to the “I can’t stop at 1” thing. Not a slight against anyone, just a lack of comprehension.
I can tell when my focus and balance start to go, or when I start getting cocky or preachy, so I just slow down (or speed up) depending on where I want to be.
But I pretty much always drink for the taste, so that probably makes a difference.
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
What are the drawbacks of 12oz of beer or 5oz of wine per day? Calorie count, I guess, and… ?
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From your own link - “For a 30-year-old man, the increased risk of alcohol-related accidents outweighs the possible heart-related benefits of moderate alcohol consumption.”
Increased risk of cancer seems to be a problem - your heart might be better, but your wife’s tits might also rot off for example.
Than there’s the risks of overconsumption, and addiction that come with any kind of substance use.
I don’t know what kind of dose they used, but lower test levels don’t seem very productive: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM197610072951501
Lets be honest here though, if your drinking it’s not for the health benefits. You don’t have a bottle of ethanol in the cupboard next to your fish oil, and vitamins.
Yes, Friday-Sunday, Scotch, Beer, Wine and Gin. Love my whisky, too much sometimes. The best scotch is the second one, which I always run for. If I go for three, it’s not going to be pretty.
I like beer, but feel bloated after a couple.
Wine is good, but I like it with food, for me it’s not a cocktail hour drink
Nothing is better than a gin and tonic after coming off the beach
[quote]BCFlynn wrote:
Yes, Friday-Sunday, Scotch, Beer, Wine and Gin. Love my whisky, too much sometimes. The best scotch is the second one, which I always run for. If I go for three, it’s not going to be pretty.
I like beer, but feel bloated after a couple.
Wine is good, but I like it with food, for me it’s not a cocktail hour drink
Nothing is better than a gin and tonic after coming off the beach[/quote]
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
49 pages-worth of two different Whiskey threads would say, yes, more than a few guys here drink regularly. I’ll often have a bourbon or red wine a few days a week, either with dinner or while cooking. Arbitrary rule of thumb: Nothing on days I lift. When eating out, I might have a beer if the mood strikes me (rarely).
[quote]chillain wrote:
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
I don’t care what “studies” big booze wants to push on us, a drinking habbit does not have “health benefits”.[/quote]
Actually, the research is legit:
Alcohol | The Nutrition Source | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health [/quote]
X2. Slightly more in-depth info from the same site:
Alcohol | The Nutrition Source | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Not sure Harvard School of Public Health = “Big Booze”. Is “Big Agriculture” behind all that fictional propaganda praising the health benefits of fruits and vegetables? If you don’t want to drink, no prob at all. But your statement is quite literally ignorant of the facts.
Some of the studies have looked into this. It’s not strictly lifestyle-related. Things like resveratrol, polyphenols, and other nutrients are most likely responsible.
What are the drawbacks of 12oz of beer or 5oz of wine per day? Calorie count, I guess, and… ?
[quote]maverick88 wrote:
Otherwise I feel like any of the benefits can be achieved with a good diet and exercise.[/quote]
Some studies have looked into grapes having similar health benefits as wine, so this could certainly be true to an extent.[/quote]
Well, there’s nothing particularly good about drinking. We do not live in an age where we have to fear the water we drink. Bottom line, however people like to break up their drinking they drink because they like it.
People who don’t like the taste drink to get fucked up. People who do like the taste drank originally to get fucked up and drank enough to acquire the taste.
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Gin, wine, beer, Scotch, whatever else I have lying around.[/quote]
Win!
At some point in your life “Don’t give a fuck” kicks in pretty hard. If it hasn’t kicked in, you haven’t lived long enough.[/quote]
This is the saddest thing I have ever read.
[quote]maverick88 wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Gin, wine, beer, Scotch, whatever else I have lying around.[/quote]
Win!
At some point in your life “Don’t give a fuck” kicks in pretty hard. If it hasn’t kicked in, you haven’t lived long enough.[/quote]
This is the saddest thing I have ever read.[/quote]
Then you clearly haven’t lived long enough. Or read enough.
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Not sure Harvard School of Public Health = “Big Booze”. Is “Big Agriculture” behind all that fictional propaganda praising the health benefits of fruits and vegetables?[/quote]
Big agriculture is the most devious of them all. First they push shit like high fructose corn syrup, corn fed beef, chicken that spends about 3 days of it’s like without antibiotics (max) before it’s slaughtered, genetically modified grains, etc… until that’s the accepted norm, than they push the premiums on regular stuff through the roof while touting the health benefits to justify why a chicken that costs pennies more per kilo to raise should cost 300% more at market. It’s brilliant.
It’s all about the hype, and the marketing. Walk around the grocery store. How many things do you see in there with a heart and stroke foundation logo because they’re “good for your heart”? How come Molsen, and Coors don’t have that logo on a two four when you go to the beer store? If they could use it, they would.
In other news, I hear ecstasy prevents cancer, and blow is good for your bowels. 6 Party Drugs That May Have Health Benefits | Live Science
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Not sure Harvard School of Public Health = “Big Booze”. Is “Big Agriculture” behind all that fictional propaganda praising the health benefits of fruits and vegetables?[/quote]
Big agriculture is the most devious of them all. First they push shit like high fructose corn syrup, corn fed beef, chicken that spends about 3 days of it’s like without antibiotics (max) before it’s slaughtered, genetically modified grains, etc… until that’s the accepted norm, than they push the premiums on regular stuff through the roof while touting the health benefits to justify why a chicken that costs pennies more per kilo to raise should cost 300% more at market. It’s brilliant.
It’s all about the hype, and the marketing. Walk around the grocery store. How many things do you see in there with a heart and stroke foundation logo because they’re “good for your heart”? How come Molsen, and Coors don’t have that logo on a two four when you go to the beer store? If they could use it, they would.
In other news, I hear ecstasy prevents cancer, and blow is good for your bowels. 6 Party Drugs That May Have Health Benefits | Live Science
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Shit man, you need some booze.
I might have a glass of wine or two to be polite company in a social context… maybe a beer or two if it’s a social context because of me (bday, etc.)
I actually love it… I just can’t afford it: time, health, but mostly financially.
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
Big agriculture is the most devious of them all. First they push shit like high fructose corn syrup, corn fed beef, chicken that spends about 3 days of it’s like without antibiotics (max) before it’s slaughtered, genetically modified grains, etc… until that’s the accepted norm, than they push the premiums on regular stuff through the roof while touting the health benefits to justify why a chicken that costs pennies more per kilo to raise should cost 300% more at market. It’s brilliant.[/quote]
You don’t have to buy it.
You can grow your own corn and raise your own chickens on it if it really bothers you that much. People have been doing that for a few millennia; I’m pretty sure it works.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
Big agriculture is the most devious of them all. First they push shit like high fructose corn syrup, corn fed beef, chicken that spends about 3 days of it’s like without antibiotics (max) before it’s slaughtered, genetically modified grains, etc… until that’s the accepted norm, than they push the premiums on regular stuff through the roof while touting the health benefits to justify why a chicken that costs pennies more per kilo to raise should cost 300% more at market. It’s brilliant.[/quote]
You don’t have to buy it.
You can grow your own corn and raise your own chickens on it if it really bothers you that much. People have been doing that for a few millennia; I’m pretty sure it works.[/quote]
I can raise them for you too. 
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
Big agriculture is the most devious of them all. First they push shit like high fructose corn syrup, corn fed beef, chicken that spends about 3 days of it’s like without antibiotics (max) before it’s slaughtered, genetically modified grains, etc… until that’s the accepted norm, than they push the premiums on regular stuff through the roof while touting the health benefits to justify why a chicken that costs pennies more per kilo to raise should cost 300% more at market. It’s brilliant.[/quote]
You don’t have to buy it.
You can grow your own corn and raise your own chickens on it if it really bothers you that much. People have been doing that for a few millennia; I’m pretty sure it works.[/quote]
I can raise them for you too. :)[/quote]
I’ll drink to that.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
This is probably a good thing, but I can’t relate to the “I can’t stop at 1” thing. Not a slight against anyone, just a lack of comprehension.
I can tell when my focus and balance start to go, or when I start getting cocky or preachy, so I just slow down (or speed up) depending on where I want to be.
But I pretty much always drink for the taste, so that probably makes a difference.[/quote]
Sounds a lot like me, except I tend not to ever really speed up, because as a personal preference I just don’t like to get ‘really drunk.’ I also don’t drink that often either, I’m perfectly fine with going out and DDing, and still having a great time.
