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While I can't say I completely abstain from alcohol. I might have the occasional drink to just be sociable, for the most part I stay away from alcohol. Its not a religious thing, its just that I really hate the taste of alcohol. Beer honestly reminds me of urine, and everything else reminds me to much of rubbing alcohol. People always tell me they can make me a drink and I won't be able to tell, but I always can, maybe my sense of taste is just better than everyone else's.I live in Wisconsin, were this attitude towards drinking seems to confound most people, strangely enough women have a bigger problem with me not drinking than guys do. This has always been annoying when meeting women, especially if I like them.
So seeing as 99% of people like alcohol, I always like to find out who else doesn't like it for what ever reason.

First, I'm in the same boat these days. I don't drink just for the sake of drinking anymore. It's gotten too old, it's not very healthy, It's been linked to the same cancer my father died of, and it's fairly expensive. When I was young, it always seemed like whatever I wanted to do was more fun with alcohol. Now, I have a drink or two and realize I can't drive anywhere, ride my Quad or my Sled, can't go shooting, hiking in the mountains isn't real smart after drinking, besides the fact you can't legally carry a gun while intoxicated. BUT, alcohol seems to screw my sleep up these days, so what's the point.

Second, What you say supports a theory of mine. I believe that when someone doesn't like the taste of something, it's often due to a sensitivity to it's taste. I HATE carrots and all that contains them. Up until recently, I thought carrot cake tastes no different than carrots to EVERYONE. It's literally all I can taste in it. I can take a salad, pick all the carrots out, and it STILL tastes like a pile of carrots to me, I can taste nothing else.

Never been a drinker myself.  I hate the taste of alcohol.  I've had friends say you have to get past the taste to get the benefits.  Sorry, If I don't like the taste-I'm not going to drink it.

I also just don't want to make a d*@k out of myself.  I've seen people do it, and I just don't want that happening to me.

Funny you should ask.  I've been on a tea kick of late.  Specifically black tea.  And, you're right, it's all a matter of taste.  To me Earl Grey tea smells like Dial soap.  I can't get beyond that smell and don't even get me started about the taste!

And then there's booze.  As a Greek I'm supposed to like Ouzo.  Can't stand it.  Used to like licorice as a kid but this stuff is too strong.  Supposedly a shot in a glass of cola is supposed to be awesome.  I say YUCK!  Then again I don't like vodka, rum, or hard liquor in general either.

Certain beers have their use, mostly as a ingredient in chili- chocolate stout is particularly good for this purpose, but use it sparringly so it doesn't overwhelm the flavor of the chili- but for drinking not so much.  It's very heavy and thick.  Almost like a liquid meal.  OTOH I find most American beer tastes like alkasetlzer. (The plain oldfashioned kind your grandma used to have in her medicine cabinate.)  Oddly I do rather like fermented honey.  Can't stand the stuff when it's fresh and nice but, put it in a cabinet and forget about it for a year or three, then rediscover it after the sugar has sperated and it's got little fermentation bubbles in it and it's awesome.  Properly aged wine's are also alright in my book.  Not that I drink it.  I'm really more of a soda man.  Dr. Pepper to be precise.

 :cheers:

The answer is no.

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I'm an alcoholic.

Braggart!

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I'm not of age yet, though I don't really plan to drink when I am "allowed". Just don't see any reason for it :P

, , ,then what are you going to use to get through sex with ugly chicks?  :bouncegiggle:

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I used to be a teetotaler, and now that I've graduated college, it seems likely I'll go back to that.  It's too expensive and I don't drink for the sake of drinking, if I drink it's a social thing with the guys I'd take a bullet for.

...I'm also going to stay abstinent ._.

Ditto....

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No, I'm not a tea totaler.  I used to drink a whole lot, now days it's just 5 beers on Friday and Saturday (5 each, not combined  :teddyr: ).  Sometimes, if I'm really feeling wild, maybe six beers.  Gave up on hard liquor ages ago, made me feel like crap for days afterwards.

I used to drink pretty heavily...especially after the death of my younger brother back in 2003.  I drowned myself in sorrow and lots of beer back then.
I still like to drink beer but nowadays it's usually only on the weekends.
Now that I'm in college, I don't get any homework done if I drink.  Plus, I'm 35 years old.  I can't toss 'em back like I used to.

I don't drink hard liquor.  Ever.
Hard liquor smells and tastes absolutely disgusting to me.  All kinds of hard liquor.
Rum, vodka, gin, tequila, whiskey, you name it...I stay away from it.
But a 12 pack of beer, I'll drink the entire thing on a Saturday night.

Honestly, I think that alcohol is one of life's greatest pleasures and can't imagine a world without it.  (I feel the same way about coffee).  It eases the troubled mind, and the complex flavors of a merlot, bourbon or oatmeal stout are irreproducible.

Having said that, Nick, I fully support your right to be a teetotaller and think it's terrible that anyone would make you feel bad about it.  Those who are cursed with a dislike of alcohol are to be pitied, not despised.  I have relatives who are teetotalers and I wish they could share in the joy of strong drink, but they're not cut out for it.  I guess they have to settle for poor substitutes, like religion, and love.  :wink:

I drink at about the same level Jack does, no more than three beers in a sitting.  More than that and the negative effects start to outweigh the positives.

If your beer tastes like urine, you're probably drinking Budweiser. 

Not a braggart, just a Brit.  :wink: :drink:

I don't drink for a number of reasons.  My Baptist upbringing taught me that drunkenness was a sin, and in my 4 years in the Navy, I saw otherwise intelligent, rational people do  incredibly stupid things with horrific consequences due to alcohol.  Then, right after I got out of the service, I had a dear friend decapitated by a drunk driver.


And on top of that, the few times I have sampled alcohol, I have found the taste absolutely nasty. :tongueout:

So Dr. Pepper remains my poison of choice, and I continue to be high on life . . . . :cheers:

Something about alcohol in the Armed Forces, it just doesn't work out well. I hear people say "If you're old enough to serve your country, then you're old enough to drink." Complete BS. You should hear the crap I get when I say that I think the Army should raise their drinking age to 23 or so. I also have seen stupid crap, one guy didn't want to go the the field so after everyone rejecting his idea of having them break his leg so he wouldn't have to go, he jumped off a 3rd floor balcony and is crippled for life. I think there are alot of kids that join in part because they know they'll have access to alcohol right away. Alcohol (on the male side) plays a part in 35% of all rape accusations, except in the armed forces, where in the Armed Forces it jumps up to over 85%. Basically, 35% of men accused of rape had been drinking OUTSIDE the Armed Forces, while over 85% of men accused of rape IN the Armed Forces had been. Not sure if I worded that correctly.

I know the Army, and from my limited experience with other branches them also, just has some weird attitude or outlook like it's a weakness for someone to not drink because they can't handle it/family history/whatever. As if you're more of a man if you get drunk and be a total idiot than you would be if you chose not to drink because you can't handle it.

That said, I have drank pretty much my entire life, and never has it caused my any legal problems or social problems. I am and always have been adamantly against drinking and driving, and am against drinking if there is anything going wrong in one's life (divorce, legal trouble, boss on your ass, warring with one's neighbors) or anytime strong emotions are involved. It's funny how some people can drink ALOT and OFTEN and never get in trouble or lose control or make an ass out of themselves, , yet some turn into instant idiot just from sniffing the cork of a wine bottle. The latter group of people often act as if they are out to prove they can handle it by drinking more and more often.

EDIT: Dr Pepper tastes like poo, , , It has so much sugar I can actually HEAR my pancreas start bogging down when I drink it.  :teddyr:

You go too far sir!

Dr. Pepper is the elixir of the GODS!

Granted I can't stand the sweetness since they switched to using corn syrup.  Then again the key here is moderation.  Too much of anything will kill you.

I  do drink. but not much.  Its just a matter of time and effort.  I just don't get around to it.  I like good beer good wine, and alcohol in general.   But I don't have a drink a month, so I'm prettyy much in the club.  but DO NOT TAKE COFFEE FROM ME  :hatred: :hatred:
-Ed

I got away from soda altogether and don't miss it at all. I do often buy Mt Dew if I'm driving back from Anchorage in case I get tired, but when I drink it, it's WAY too sugary. Caffeine these days just doesn't work well for me, one cup of tea after noontime and I can't sleep worth crap, one cup BEFORE noon and I'm so sleepy after lunchtime that I have to drink another cup just to make it until quitting time. Soda     makes me more thirsty, but, I did love it when I was a kid.

I LOVE tea in the morning. It has many benefits, as people can google for...
It has a coffee buzz with HEALTH benefits.

LOVE beer at night with my wife.
Wine just puts me to sleep, but beer just makes me jolly.
CHEERS

I agree that alchohol is not for some....actually that includes ME. Problem is...I have a problem. I have tried AA,rehab,and head shrinkers...no go. I wish I could stop...really. But I can't seem to beat it. It's actually a terrible problem. Everytime I get into some kinda trouble...booze is involved. Stupid things....I been arrested for beating up garbage cans,I fell asleep on a train track in L.I.,jumped out of a moving vehicle,threw beer at a security guard at a concert,crashed a truck into a tree,got caught with my pants done with someone's wife....ugh. All of these were back in the '80's....but I continue to have health and legal problems due to alchohol. Now when I drink,I stay home-ALONE ('cept I sometimes post on this board totaly sh!tfaced....some of you  may have noticed.... :wink:)

Oh...and I don't drive. I walk . Or catch a ride.

RCMerchant,

Look on the bright side.  At leat you aren't that Phelps guy.  One picture of him taking a hit off a bong and he goes from golden boy to pariah.  You can drink yourself stupid on beer, liquor, mexican p**s water, or whatever your poison is and no one will bat an eyelash.  But take a bong hit?  Smoke a cigarette in public?

LOOK OUT!

So what if you fall off a bus bench or two?  So what if you've woken up in your own rancid buttermilk puke?  So what if you've woken up in stranger's houses without your pants, covered in honey, wearing a tiara, and a smiley face drawn on your tallywhacker?  At least you're not smoking anything, like that Phelps guy, right?

 :bouncegiggle:

Same here. If I've ever been dragged out for the night by some chick, I need a drink to relax. But then I always get into trouble, which doesn't help when I'm drunk, plus being completely psychopathic to boot. So, now I just get loaded and rat-soaked in the comfort of my flat.

I only started drinking when I was 18, but it's got worse and worse as each year has gone by. That's mainly down to periods of unemployment, bad relationships and my past really disturbing me. BUT, I don't want to stop. I'm going to die one day and if my life is not looking so rosy right now, so what? I'll just bow out sooner, a jolly drunk and all guns blazing.   :drink:

The expense is one reason I could never figure out how people could be heavy drinkers of the hard liquor. Even beer, while you can always find places to serve cheap crap at a buck or so a glass, when the bar charges you $5 for a pint I can't see how anybody would feel like drinking more than one or two.

I like beer and the occasional wine, but wine I take only occasionally, not enough to even know the names of what I like (except that I pretty much don't like any whites). For me a beer splurge is to have two in the same week. As my wife is working part of the week in another city, I've been getting into this bachelor-night thing of beer, wings and a movie on the laptop. It's raised her eyebrows a couple of times when she found two beer bottles in the recycling bin.

I'm no saint and I actually started drinking beer when I was 15, because I was with an older crowd and NY State drinking age was only 18 then. But I've never been into heavy or regular drinking. Seeing drunk friends and hearing the stories made me wonder why anybody would ever want to repeat the experience after once waking up in a strange bathtub in a disgusting state. A couple of times while sitting around with friends drinking pitchers I found myself wobbly-kneed when I stood up, with my teeth feeling numb like I'd been to the dentist. It was not a pleasant feeling.


Who won?


And that's another thing about alcohol. It may lower your inhibitions but doesn't it also severely affect, ahem, performance?

On the weekends I really enjoy a good dark beer, Sam Adams Black, San Miguel Dark or Guinness, also like to have a little bourbon in the evening. My favorite one is Jim Beam, but Jack Daniels and Makers Mark are very good too. I like the taste of the beer and the bourbon, the relaxed happy feeling side effect that 1 or 2 beers or a shot of whiskey gives me is just a fringe benefit, as has been said, all things in moderation.

Between the garbage can and me...welll the cops broke it up before I could show it who's boss! Dam can was lucky. I might have killed it.  :wink:

As for sex and booze....the answer....for me at least,is No. I don't need viagra....gimme some Black Velvet. Hell my peter gets hard when the wind blows.  :buggedout:

Okay RC, that's enough information  :teddyr:

Just curious, have you tried controlled drinking? 

I'm with you.  I'm not old enough to drink and I have no interested in doing it when I'm older.


That question wasn't directed at me, but I feel I'll get the same question from someone anyways, so I'll just answer it.  I'm not going to have sex until I'm married.  Why should I do it anyways?  I feel as if I am a rare breed of teenager.

I don't drink.

I'm a T total, totally.

 Sorry, but Menard hasn't been around latley...just trying to pick up the slack.  :tongueout:


I drink about 3 nights a week....oddly enough....I take Fridays and Saterdays off.  To an alchoholic....there often is no control....once I start...I can't stop untill I pass out or run out of booze. I AM drinking less,though...just because I aint as young as I used to be.

I went through a drinking phase in my 20s.  It wasn't crazy but every Friday would see me downing a few to get a buzz.  Granted a few times I went overboard.  Hell, I'd even argue I gave myself alchool poisoning once or twice.  That was before family responsiblities.  Nowadays I seldom drink.  I need to sleep it off and with kids, your sleep schedule is unpredictable.  If I drink now, its to enjoy the taste of a nice cold beer.  And yes, I love the taste of beer.

I'm a sort - of teetotaller I guess, I don't drink hard liquor but I have a beer once in a while. The last time I had a beer was over Christmas last year. My Dad unfortunately had a problem with alcohol and I felt that drinking heavily would seriously affect my life as it did his, so I made the decision that I don't need alcohol in my life.

 :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:

Well said!

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

RC, I wish I could give you karma for that remark and the one about beating the hell out of the garbage can.

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HI ,   Yeah I am a tee totaler I drank a little in college but at parties and the like it is almost like a right of passage at that age I guess.  I just don't like how it makes me feel I like to be totally aware and alive.  I am not moralizing I just don't dig it.
Regards,
Jim

I don't drink any alcohol at all. Stopped drinking the stuff over 15 years ago because being drunk had became my natural state of existence. Got nothing against alcohol or those who can drink it responsibly. Just know that I can't.

Drank like a fish until about age 26 or so.  After I got married I rarely drank.  After my cancer scare in the late 80's I gave it up for good. Haven't had a drink of any kind for about 20 years.

I gave it up a few years ago for health reasons. it wasn't helping me get over my diabetes. I think I iss the stuff surrounding it mroe than the hooch itself. Hanging out in bars, taverns and the like with friends who still drink isn't the same when you don't. it changes the social aspect somehow. When I hang out with people who don't drink, then things are fine.Plus I miss the crisp smell of a good beer.  But it will be worth it if I can put "The Sugar" behind me.

For awhile (college & just after) I was with a crowd that liked mixed drinks, and I settled on gin and tonics as my favorite. Then I realized that what I liked was the tonic. Nobody ever blinked an eyelid if I ordered a "tonic and lime", and in fact one friend was surprised when I mentioned something about drinking a non-alcoholic beverage. He thought I'd ordered a cocktail.

I guess I'm saying that the alcohol content wouldn't be a big part of the social aspect for me. But then I don't really hang out in bars, so I don't actually have a "social aspect".

I don't drink nearly as much as I did 15 - 20 years ago, but I still enjoy liquor, especially if I'm out with a group of people.  Sadly, I LOVED to be drunk when I was in my 20s and 30s.  I mean, I REALLY LOVED the feeling of being drunk.  If I went to a bar, I'd start out drinking beer and shots of Sambuca as soon as I got there.  Within the first half hour, I'd have 3 or 4 shots and keep filling my glass from the beer pitcher to get myself feeling good as early as possible.  Then I'd keep drinking beer and getting occasional shots throughout the rest of the night.  Sometimes, I'd switch from beer to scotch.  Often, I barely rememebered what happened during the final hour or two of the night.  But I was always laughing and talking and having a great time.  Just felt great and I loved it.  I still feel this way when I drink, except now I only drink like this a few times a year as opposed to several nights a week when I was younger.  This is probably a bad (and sad) state of affairs, but that's me . . .

This is getting off subject but Eddie Izzard does this great bit about the stoned Olympics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5X-9brvoq0

To be sure I'll say NSFW.  Anytime somebody mentions Phelps now-I think of this

I'm a nondrinker also. I thought I was the only one who could taste (and despise the taste of) even minuscule amounts of alcohol in things. Friends have occasionally tried to tell me "you won't even taste the alcohol in this," but I always do. Sometimes I wish I could say I don't drink for religious reasons (only very rarely), but in actuality, I just can't stand the taste of any form of alcohol, be it beer, wine, or hard liquor. I also never saw the point in drinking, since it is expensive and makes you (potentially) stupid.

Like a couple of others, Dr Pepper is my weakness. I understand ghouck's aversion to soda; I've heard of others giving up soda altogether and then trying it again later, only to find it is too sweet. I, however, am not there--I drink waaaay too much Dr Pepper. The caffeine doesn't affect me anymore, at least in regard to sleep, and as for getting too much sugar, it's possible, though soda is usually the only sweet thing I have during the day. I'm not much of a candy eater, and I don't usually have dessert. So add me to the 1% of nondrinkers and to the list of Dr Pepper addicts.

I'm currently addicted to Mountain Dew,  Diet or regular doesn't matter.  Really want to get off the caffeine though.

I've been keeping track so far. I have been craving a beer on the way home from work and have indulged that urge. One beer becomes 3 per night, sometimes followed by a swift shot of 'ol Uncle Jim. When weekend rolls round (I've counted the cases in the kitchen) it's about 16 beers and 4 whiskeys.  Oh well. :lookingup:

One of us!  One of us!  One of us!

 :cheers:

At the moment a former drinker since I stopped drinking since the end of February in order to get ready in case of having to get an emergency surgery for what was at the time a hernia (turned out to be just a cysts, but still had to get surgery to remove it.)  Decided to get what liquor was left in my system out before my surgery.  Decided to keep this going since I have another surgery at the end of July and decided to not have any liquor until I get fully recovered from my surgeries.

Been a huge tea drinker for a while now, once I got off of drinking soda (still have the Red Bull Cola now and then, and I also have the Mt. Dew throwback while I still have some cans left.)  Make tea every couple of days once I run out and down a good bit of it during the day.

It's always kiddie cocktails for me!  I've only sipped other people's alki-hall drinks, but I've never been drunk.  I kind of want to get drunk because being drunk looks like so much fun!  But every time I sip I get a tummy ache, so maybe I can't drink?

Don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs...consider myself straight edge even if I don't fit into everyone's image of what that should be not that I really give a damn. My life...my choice.