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Alcohol drinks are gross
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sneakypete
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speculawyer said:
Meh, I smoke hookah because I enjoy the smoke - both the taste and the sensation, not so much the effects of tobacco.
platypotamus
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HappyBivouac said:
That fails to redeem it. He says he likes the taste of alcohol, but he still doesn't drink for the taste. That is fail.
I don't understand the appeal of alcoholic drinks. Now, to be fair, I am only 20 and have never drank. I imagine I will drink some when I am 21, but not very much at all. Most alcoholic drinks smell like shit and end up making you do stupid shit you regret. Why the hell would I ever want to do that? People in this thread act like it's impossible for them to live without alcohol. That doesn't make any sense to me at all. I'm sure some drinks probably taste good, but I don't see how there can possibly be more to it than that. Don't give me the BS of "You'll never get a woman without alcohol" I have a girlfriend of 4 years, yeah, fuck your shit.
esquire said:
There's really no solution other than to keep drinking until you are ready for bed/ready to go home. :lol This is why I avoid drinking during the day; I get a nice buzz going, then before long, I'm sleeping at 6pm LoL. Damn happy hours at my favorite Mexican restaurant!
sneakypete
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Hylian7 said:
Lots of people drink a few drinks at the end of a long day to unwind a bit. A couple of years ago I worked construction in the hot sun all summer, and there was nothing that I looked forward to more than a couple of beers with friends after a hard day. So fyi, not all drinkers are alcoholics/college fratboys that drink to blackout levels, atleast not every day.
Oh and I didn't notice anyone say this - "You'll never get a woman without alcohol" - but if you hear that it's safe to assume they're a rapist.
Dizzle24 said:There's really no solution other than to keep drinking until you are ready for bed/ready to go home. :lol This is why I avoid drinking during the day; I get a nice buzz going, then before long, I'm sleeping at 6pm LoL. Damn happy hours at my favorite Mexican restaurant!
Pffffft. lern2daydrunk. Seriously, I love getting a solid buzz going at noon and keeping it going all day until my night classes.
Hylian7 said:
There is a common conception among non-drinkers that alcohol makes you lose control over your actions and do things you don't want to do, but this is rarely true unless you are getting blind drunk.
What really happens most of the time is that alcohol lowers your social barriers allowing you to do things that you really want, but are normally too uptight to do. If you suddenly start acting like an asshole when drunk, then you are probably an asshole in normal life who tries to hide it.
nelsonroyale
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Second said:
Although I enjoy a good cider and some quality sake, there is nothing wrong with your opinion. Alcohol is massively overrated and there is a lotof rubbish out there
Thagomizer
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awww yeah
EDIT: Whoa, Blue Moon has coriander in it? No wonder it's tastes like shit to me. Coriander is one of the most wretched things known to mankind.
shadowsdarknes
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You are?OptimoPeach said:
StrikerObi
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Hylian7 said:
But people like you act like you can't drink without getting stupid drunk.
In college I drank to get drunk. Maybe a few times a month.
I'm not saying you should drink, but I am saying you should probably experience something yourself before making sweeping generalizations about it.
Eventually you grow up and learn that this is stupid. And then you can drink to experience the drink itself, and not to just drink until you are stupid, which nobody really respects outside of school.
I'm four years out of college and now I drink a beer or two and really enjoy it, the beer itself, not the effects of it. It goes well with food and I'll be damned if it isn't fun to taste the zillion different beers available today.
Overall my first advice to people that say they don't like the way beer tastes is usually to stop buying cheap beer. If you're drinking PBR or Bud Light, of course you hate beer. They taste like B.O.
Scuba Steve
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Complex Shadow
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whoa whoa whoa whoaThagomizer said:
awww yeah
EDIT: Whoa, Blue Moon has coriander in it? No wonder it's tastes like shit to me. Coriander is one of the most wretched things known to mankind.
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fuck you.
Thagomizer
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shadowcomplex said:
Genetic, mate. It tastes like soap to me. You know that taste experiment you did in High School Biology, where the class would put a piece of paper coated with some chemical on their tongues that would be completely tasteless to most of the class, but one or two kids would react like they just tasted dog poo?
Same principle.
Scuba Steve
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I would say that I'm surprised that so many folks here think that drinking a beer/alcohol = getting shitfaced drunk.
However, I probably thought the same way when I was younger so I have sympathy. :lol
Here's a tip, kids: everything these guys are telling you about alcohol/beer are true. It really is a taste that has to be 'accquired' (and not everyone will do that, and there's nothing wrong with that) and it can be an enjoyable experience without getting drunk and making an ass of yourself.
Enjoying a cold beer after a long/hot day, or having friends over, sitting out on the porch in the evening after a BBQ drinking a beer....man, those are some of the simple pleasures in life.
And I tell you this as someone who probably can count on one hand how many times I might have been 'drunk' and as someone who didn't drink at all until I was nearly 20.
It doesn't always have to be the annoying fratboy who gets fucked up then drives home like a dumbass.
However, I probably thought the same way when I was younger so I have sympathy. :lol
Here's a tip, kids: everything these guys are telling you about alcohol/beer are true. It really is a taste that has to be 'accquired' (and not everyone will do that, and there's nothing wrong with that) and it can be an enjoyable experience without getting drunk and making an ass of yourself.
Enjoying a cold beer after a long/hot day, or having friends over, sitting out on the porch in the evening after a BBQ drinking a beer....man, those are some of the simple pleasures in life.
And I tell you this as someone who probably can count on one hand how many times I might have been 'drunk' and as someone who didn't drink at all until I was nearly 20.
It doesn't always have to be the annoying fratboy who gets fucked up then drives home like a dumbass.
Dogenzaka said:Uhh...that's not exactly wise advice.
Whatever. Haters gotta hate.
Son, that was the wisest of advice. Get to living, before you get to dying.
And to the OP (and others) - it would be good to try to get used to the taste of alcohol, and try to find a couple common drinks that you can stand (or maybe even learn to like), because you don't want to be "the guy who orders a soda" when the boss takes you out for drinks after work, or you are entertaining a client, etc...
Tedesco! said:
Dee. Licious.
Testify!
Bitmap Frogs
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Tastes like happyness.
Not a party drink.
Mr Nash
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Bitmap Frogs said:
Tastes like happyness.
Not a party drink.
I've been meaning to try some of the fortified wines out there despite not being a huge wine drinker. Port is at the top of the list. I just have a strange compulsion to be smoking a pipe while I'm at it.
HappyBivouac
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xxracerxx said:
America's education system/society/jesus tells people that drinking anything with alcohol = holy fuck you're so fucking wasted you have no control over your thoughts and actions you're going to go drive drunk and blow up a bus full of orphans. So then anyone with less than half of a brain goes and either
a) does the above
b) says "no way I'm not drinking nuh-uh never."
Bitmap Frogs
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Mr Nash said:I've been meaning to try some of the fortified wines out there despite not being a huge wine drinker. Port is at the top of the list. I just have a strange compulsion to be smoking a pipe while I'm at it.
Then try it out =D
Now, smoking or no smoking fortified wines are excellent and they have a unique feeling on the soul. Beware tho, they feel as light as water yet they carry 15-20% alc.
sneakypete
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Majmun
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pjberri said:
Are you drunk? Read the OP, I'm 25 years old.
And why do some of you think that people who don't like alcohol are virgin basement dwellers?
I personally don't need alcohol to talk to other people. I have a great personal and social life and can basically get any girl that I want! Even with 0% alcohol in my blood.
FormallyMegadrive
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sw33tclyde said:
I'm going to wear an elaborate Old Gregg costume for my friend's 21st next year. It's gonna be epic.
chicko1983
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I like to get drunk.
Generally when I drink some nice wine, I want more. Same with nice scotch or beer. I end up getting drunk becuase I have had lots of nice drinks.
And when I am drinking, I like to sit and talk to other people (beats drinking a nice drink by myself). Hence it turns out that I am usually drunk around other people who I like and are generally having a good time.
I associate being drunk with so many good times in my life, I dont think I will ever get tired of getting drunk.
But each his own I suppose.
Generally when I drink some nice wine, I want more. Same with nice scotch or beer. I end up getting drunk becuase I have had lots of nice drinks.
And when I am drinking, I like to sit and talk to other people (beats drinking a nice drink by myself). Hence it turns out that I am usually drunk around other people who I like and are generally having a good time.
I associate being drunk with so many good times in my life, I dont think I will ever get tired of getting drunk.
But each his own I suppose.
InaudibleWhispa
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And also, in defense of getting drunk, I have done so hundreds of times and I haven't once, ever, done anything I regret. The people who haven't drank, please stop telling us the effects it has if you haven't experienced them yourself. There are bad drunks who act like complete idiots, sure, and everyone says and acts stupid from time to time, but it's just funny in the morning for the most part, not embarrassing or regrettable.
You'll hear stories of people going out and sleeping with monsters, but if you don't go out with the intention of sleeping around, you won't end up sleeping around. I don't typically take anything passed a kiss when I'm drunk because I know it doesn't usually end well and I've never been the guy to go for a drunken one night stand. You don't lose all control when you're drunk...
You'll hear stories of people going out and sleeping with monsters, but if you don't go out with the intention of sleeping around, you won't end up sleeping around. I don't typically take anything passed a kiss when I'm drunk because I know it doesn't usually end well and I've never been the guy to go for a drunken one night stand. You don't lose all control when you're drunk...
malingenie
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Second said:
Well that's like, your opinion, man.
exception to this rule:
Jagermeister (tastes like cough medicine on its own) + coke
= sweet coke ftw.
Most of everything else does taste tolerable but not actually enjoyable.
And I am with the beer hate squad, I dont care if its bitter which has been correctly brewed or horrible lager. It is created as a cheapo alternative to spirits for football fans and is advetised as. It tastes like shit in my opinion. I am in the UK btw.
I haven't really tried wines so I will keep my mouth shut before the wine defence force grab their uncorkers to stab me.
I haven't stopped trying some of this stuff though, never know maybe 1 of them may be good.
Jagermeister (tastes like cough medicine on its own) + coke
= sweet coke ftw.
Most of everything else does taste tolerable but not actually enjoyable.
And I am with the beer hate squad, I dont care if its bitter which has been correctly brewed or horrible lager. It is created as a cheapo alternative to spirits for football fans and is advetised as. It tastes like shit in my opinion. I am in the UK btw.
I haven't really tried wines so I will keep my mouth shut before the wine defence force grab their uncorkers to stab me.
I haven't stopped trying some of this stuff though, never know maybe 1 of them may be good.
SundaySounds
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What you need is just a drink that doesn't taste like it has alcohol.
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It's delicious simply because palmer is delicious, and that's all you taste!
Also:
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Mint Chocolate milk. So good. Also works with hot chocolate.
It's delicious simply because palmer is delicious, and that's all you taste!
Also:
Mint Chocolate milk. So good. Also works with hot chocolate.
SundaySounds
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This is really good too. The lime compliments the lemon tea really well, but the alcohol taste is a lot stronger in this drink that in the palmer+vodka. The regular Smirnoff also goes down a lot better than the lime.
Steppenwolf
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After watching Mad Men i began to mix my own Martinis and i love them.
I'm also mixing my own Caipirinhas for many years now. This is truly a ritual that i do for pure pleasure and taste, not to get drunk.
I'm also mixing my own Caipirinhas for many years now. This is truly a ritual that i do for pure pleasure and taste, not to get drunk.
ColonelColon
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I still don't understand why I'm weird for not drinking alcohol at restaurants. wtf? I can't have individual preferences?
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