How Often Do You Drink Alcohol?

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:
Yep. Actually a colleague invited me to a barbecue tomorrow to celebrate this Summerday (most important holiday here) and she warned me that “you’ll be the only sober person there”, so I refused.

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really? That sucks man.

You dont want to be known as the “outsider” when it comes to work people. I would DEFINITELY rethink that strategy of isolating yourself from the rest of your coworkers, especially in that casual setting.

Its a day time BBQ so there will be at least a few hours in the beginning when everyone will be sober. i would show up early, mingle a little bit and then when people start getting drunk you can make up something and politely excuse yourself.[/quote]

Actually I’m quite isolated from my coworkers already, but it’s more of a cultural thing. I don’t know any colleague who meets with other colleagues outside work except some Russians.

The main issue is that it’s outside the city and next day I’m working (at evening though), so I can’t just leave, I’d need to wait until the next day late morning, so I may not even get to the office in time. The second issue is that my colleague is planning to cancel the barbecue so she can go stay with me. I know where this is going to and I don’t want it so…

But yeah, if the barbecue was in the city, I could just leave when things start to get annoying. I’ve done that a few times already even in the company Christmas party, where all alcohol, no exception, was free…

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I’m partial to the very occasional rum or bourbon but I never really get plastered. At nearly 40 I don’t tend to suffer hangovers very well.

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I have personally found a direct positive correlation between amount of bourbon ingested and deadlift one rep max.

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May I just show this beautiful picture? I didn’t take it by the way.

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Since I started working in a hospital last fall hardly ever. I work every weekend which means my days off are during the week, like today. Hard to find a drinking buddy on a thursday night :frowning:

After the first month of my new job I thought the weight loss was from the endless walking. Walking helped but really it was because I wasen’t polishing off a case and a half every weekend. My body is thanking me and so is my bank account for that matter.

I’m the type that if I have one I want twenty. I never drink on a worknight though.

Went to a wedding reception last month that was pure agony. Open bar and I never had a drop, had to work the next morning.

Next couple weeks I’m going to my friends fishing camp for a day or two. I plan on being bombed, stoned and full of good eats the entire time to make up for it. I’ve had a really shitty month emotionally and I deserve it…along with the brutal hangover that will follow said binge lol.

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[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
I have personally found a direct positive correlation between amount of bourbon ingested and deadlift one rep max.[/quote]

Funny, I still attribute my first 700+ pull to Maker’s Mark.

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[quote]belligerent wrote:
Good to know that there are a lot of other non-drinking T-men out there.

It’s a big advantage in some ways, really. One can avoid a lot of drama by staying out of the bars and clubs altogether.
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I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself

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[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:

[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:
Never, I’m teetotal.
It wasn’t always like this, but I was just more of a casual drinker at most. Like, if going to a date then I’d have a drink, but that was it. Then I realized there was no point on it, it’s too expensive and the taste (except one specific drink) is nothing too special so I just quit.

Only got drunk once, when I was 16. It was one of the worst experiences of my life (due to many reasons) and that taught me a lesson.

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I’m not saying you should change your drinking habits here, but everybody that messes with booze ends up having at least one awful drunken night. Not to mention that being 16 years old and drunk is a recipe for disaster. There has never been a tolerable drunk teenager on this planet. You might have fun getting drunk as an adult with the right people.[/quote]

It’s still not my thing though. I guess the issue was that my first drunk night was so awful and it also brought some revelations, like, “those guys you’ve known since you are 5 are not very nice friends”

I feel very, very uncomfortable in an environment with drinkers as well. I guess I’m out of the loop and I don’t find them funny at all, rather, annoying.

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Everyone feels that way.
Being sober around a bunch of drunk people is the most annoying thing I can think of.
Unless of course you have another sober person to harass them with.[/quote]

I agree, the times I am the designated driver to a club usually suck, its loud, stuffy, full of morons, smells like tobacco smoke and sweat and you get bumped every 12 seconds. But when I’m drinking I love it… Drugs ey

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I used to get completely swaysted 3-5x a week. I’ve cut back to once a month or so now.

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5 days a week, getting hammered maybe 1 time a week…Everything else is a couple beers…

Hammertime its diet coke with vodka…LITs, maybe twice a week I get hammered.

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vodka and diet coke? that doesnt sound very tastey at all lol

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[quote]gregron wrote:
vodka and diet coke? that doesnt sound very tastey at all lol[/quote]

Vodka and diet Mountain Dew, Voodoo for the win.

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[quote]gregron wrote:
vodka and diet coke? that doesnt sound very tastey at all lol[/quote]

Hence why it’s what I use to get hammered with…cheap, low calorie, effective…then I go to the bar, buy one or two drinks and save money.

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[quote]austin_bicep wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:
vodka and diet coke? that doesnt sound very tastey at all lol[/quote]

Hence why it’s what I use to get hammered with…cheap, low calorie, effective…then I go to the bar, buy one or two drinks and save money.[/quote]

you ever go the vodka tonic/vodka soda route? Squeeze some lime in there and its just like drinking a sprite.

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[quote]austin_bicep wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:
vodka and diet coke? that doesnt sound very tastey at all lol[/quote]

Hence why it’s what I use to get hammered with…cheap, low calorie, effective…then I go to the bar, buy one or two drinks and save money.[/quote]

Do Vodka 7’s. Or Vodka and Diet 7

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Bacardi Limon and Powerade Zero(any flavor). Low cal and tastes great

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Wine only.