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I was out with on a school trip to Cambridge university yesterday, and instead of attneding the lecture several of my friends, and I, absconded to a local pub for the day, and claimed to have looked around the museum all day. Whilst in the pub the subject of alcohol unsurprisingly arose, and I was shocked to realise quite how many of my friends either drink to excess, or not at all, and am therefore interested as to NS'ers opinions as to alcohol and drinking.

Not anymore. I think I've had a total of 5 beers in the last year.

As long as they're not driving on my highways, I'm ok with anyone giving themselves alcohol poisoning if they want it.

I will never expressly ingest alcoholic beverages, tea, betel, coffee, qhat, or any similar stimulants.

I drink when it's appropriate. I don't drink and drive, I don't drink if I have something important to do at the time or for several hours after I've been drinking. I also don't drink to excess at family functions or more formal events, but when it's just my friends and me or when I'm mellowing out at home after a lousy day at work I do drink, and I do enjoy it.

Drink how much you want if you can keep cool mind.

I don't drink for the fear of addiction. Half of my family has some kind of addiction. Plus, I would be under-aged.

I don't drink for the fear of addiction. Half of my family has some kind of addiction. Plus, I would be under-aged.

And being under-age matters why?

And being under-age matters why?

I thought I would throw that in anyways because it would be true. Not like it stopped me from getting drunk once, but I'm lucky I'm not addicted.

I've never been drunk, but I have drank, owing to peer pressure. It's just honestly not something I would enjoy. That and it just tastes vile. All of it. Seriously... who first drank enough of that to realise any side-effects?

I thought I would throw that in anyways because it would be true. Not like it stopped me from getting drunk once, but I'm lucky I'm not addicted.

Are you sure addiction isn't more psychosomatic in your case?

I knew someone who was so drunk on their 17th birthday that they had to be kept alive with electrical current, genius, although slightly alarming :)

I dont drink anymore, Made a fool of myself one to many times.

I drink if I feel like it...and never to get drunk...cause the whole throwing up and hangover thing the next day isn't all that appealing to me. I'm crazy enough as it is without alcohol in my system.
And besides...it's more fun to stay sober and laugh at the stupid drunk people :p

Are you sure addiction isn't more psychosomatic in your case?

I knew someone who was so drunk on their 17th birthday that they had to be kept alive with electrical current, genius, although slightly alarming :)

I've lost Uncles and distant cousins to drinking. From drunk driving to overdoses. My mother is in AA and I want to keep a clean record so I never have to go there. Drinking anyways doesn't appeal to me, I find it really not worth it.

I don't drink at all. For one I am 16, and I would prefer not to get caught drinking under age. More importantly my dad is an alcoholic and alcoholism runs in my blood, so I would prefer to simply avoid it completely than drink responsibly and risk losing control of my drinking.

I don't drink at all. For one I am 16, and I would prefer not to get caught drinking under age. More importantly my dad is an alcoholic and alcoholism runs in my blood, so I would prefer to simply avoid it completely than drink responsibly and risk losing control of my drinking.

Exactly my case.

i think drinking's alright as long as your not going to drive and your not doing it just because of peer pressure. Everyone has their happy limit (and for some that will be no alcohol at all), but you have to experiment to find it. i have a tee-total friends and waster friends and we all go out to the pub together. Tolerance is good!

I drink.

I'm of age to do so and I don't do so to excess on a regular basis. Just socially, really.

Word to the Wise: It is your right as an American citizen to refuse the on site Breathalizer and Sobriety Tests. Why would you want to do this? Well if you've recently had only one or two drinks, you will still be under the legal limit, but you will probably fail the breathalizer because the alcohol is on your breathe. You will then get a DUI based on that evidence alone, even though what you were doing was legal. It is also possible to fail the sobriety test even if you've had nothing to drink, as it is a test of coordination that people can fail based on fitness, fatigue, etc.

If you refuse the on site tests, you will then be taken to the local station where they will breathalize you, but the alcohol on your breathe will have hopefully dissipated by then.

Of course it's best not to drink and drive at all, and if you're driving drunk then there's no way for you to get out of a DUI. But if what you are doing is perfectly legal and the law tries to trap you, then it's best to remember your rights and to hold onto them.

And being under-age matters why?

It doesn't in my neck of the woods *g* I was 14 when I first got a half of Cider from the not-so-local pub. ^_^

I have seen many people who has been drunked and lot of them was under 13.

i don't drink or do any other drugs and i try to avoid coffee.
i respect other folk's decision to drink as long as they don't drink'n'drive, get abusive or otherwisely hurt other people or themselves.

I like to drink, I like rakija and wine, and once in awhile I like beer. I make my own mead and it is good mead too. I don't drink when I have to perform any task that could be botched by someone drinking, I save it for the right time, which is never work time.
@jordaxia, I think actually it was the first person to drink mead that drank enough to get drunk. But it had to have been GOOD mead. I know people in SCA who make simply Godawful mead.
Beer is an acquired taste and so are certain varieties of rakija. I am not a wine snob, I prefer sweet wines. This taste for dry wine is all very well but it's no fun!
I had my first taste of alchol when teething, a little mead brandy on my gums. I am not an alcholic nor do I even consider myself at risk for it. I am moderate in my habits. It's nice socially and if there were fewer constraints on drinking, I'd like it. Most of these constraints are caused by people who never learned to drink in a proper manner who then become alcholics.
Yes there's a genetic componant to alcholism, but some of it is a voluntary componant, not paying attention to signs that you've had too much.

im recently 16 and am proud that i have not been drunk for nearly a 2 week period!

interested as to NS'ers opinions as to alcohol and drinking.

Eh, I'll drink a lot when I can. So long as I don't have work/school the next day and I'm with friends and need to chill then I will drink. I will drink a lot when I do drink though. I think it's because it takes a lot to get me drunk, and I don't know when I'll be drinking again so I try to get in as much as I can. Usually I drink more in the summer. No school, it's easier.

I miss the summer terribly and feel like I've been in school for months already :(

This thread sounds like a scope for AA! I drink when I 'm out. Not excessively because I wouldn't expect someone to have to look after me. I have however found that in certain college groups of guys they have a tendency to drink a lot during the day. My brother used drink a lot when he was in college. No where near the point of developing a problem but his college work sure did suffer.

Incidentally, has anyone been into hospital for excessive drinking?

close freind of mine has, well i never have (see my original post ;) )

edit// actually, two have..

I do drink,but not much.i think i started around 13,sneaking into my cousins(well stocked) alcohol room and raiding some spirits.ah,good times.havent been drunk since end of july.start of august.that was fun,we went down to the beach lookin for girls.well i say beach its all rocks and no sand

I do drink,but not much.i think i started around 13,sneaking into my cousins(well stocked) alcohol room and raiding some spirits.ah,good times.havent been drunk since end of july.start of august.that was fun,we went down to the beach lookin for girls.well i say beach its all rocks and no sand

You live in Ireland, I wasn't aware you had beaches.... :p

I drink when I want.

I promised my parents not to drink a drop before turning 17, and so I did. I'm 21 now, and have been living on my own for 3 years already. I don't drink too much, but I do drink when going out, or watching a movie or so.

You live in Ireland, I wasn't aware you had beaches.... :p

well its only a beach in the technical sense of being beside the sea.it has no sand at all,and is very trecherous at night,and while drunk.and when drunk at night.and the pump sewage into the sea there.

but we do have actual beaches,that one is just shit,literally

I don't feel the need to drink 15 cans of lager and then puke my guts up the bus stop. I think people on the continent have a better attitude to drinking, and I see no problem, as long as it isn't in excess. I don't like beer though, only sweet stuff :D

well its only a beach in the technical sense of being beside the sea.it has no sand at all,and is very trecherous at night,and while drunk.and when drunk at night.and the pump sewage into the sea there.

but we do have actual beaches,that one is just shit,literally

So turning up bladdered was a brilliant idea then :rolleyes:

I don't drink, never have done. Never really appealed to me tbh

Bourbon.

I drink lots, everyday if i can:)

So turning up bladdered was a brilliant idea then :rolleyes:

yes well we were drunk at the time,so it seemed like a great idea.

Thanks to Freshers week at my university, I've drunk more in the past week than in the last six months. 6 nights so far, drinking until I can't remember drinking

yes well we were drunk at the time,so it seemed like a great idea.

At least you haven't attempted to cook a £50 beef joint when absolutely pissed, not a great idea, especially when the microwave explodes :(

Thanks to Freshers week at my university, I've drunk more in the past week than in the last six months. 6 nights so far, drinking until I can't remember drinking
Hahaha.

We used to have a week of drunken debauchery for the first years.

But then they had to go and eliminate OAC so all the first years were underage.
They really need to lower the legal drinking age to 18. It was only 19 to keep booze out of the highschools and now that there's one less year of highschool, that won't be an issue.

At least you haven't attempted to cook a £50 beef joint when absolutely pissed, not a great idea, especially when the microwave explodes :(

you haven't tried to break into the bathroom while a girl was in there while drunk.

Thanks to Freshers week at my university, I've drunk more in the past week than in the last six months. 6 nights so far, drinking until I can't remember drinking

well you can be really proud of yourself then and congrat yourself on a superb start into college life. remember, that's what college is for :rolleyes:

From experiences, I know what kind of embarrassments I can open myself up to when I drink too much. Besides, the fun usually is not worth the hangover. - (And, you can have more fun when you are not numb and the room doesnt keep moving on you.) I still have a drink or two every once in a while...
IMHO, I guess its all good, just in moderation.

I used to be able to drink a lot and nothing bad ever happened but when bad things started happening and my life became unmanageable (ie - missed work; black-outs; financial problems) I had to realize I had a problem and deal with it. :eek:

I drink on social occasions (about once or twice a month, on average) and I try (and almost ever succeded) not to get as drunk as to have hangovers in the morning - or worse.

I don't drink cocktails: I believe that they're good only to get drunk as fast and cheap as possible. I also don't like cheap beers, and while the ones I like tend to be quite more alcoholic, they are also too expensive to be wasted when I'm not able to taste them properly (and this helps not to get too drunk :) )

i don't drink often but when i do i go all the way.
i'm pretty tolerant of booze, so just having a few (with a meal or whatever) isn't much fun or particularly exciting for me, and other drinks taste nicer... hence the not drinking often part. if i am going to drink i may as well do it properly and get wasted every once in a while. edit: problem is that can get very expensive :(

I don't drink alcohol. No beer, no wine, no hard liquor. I frankly don't really approve of doing so personally, though I wouldn't try to bring Prohibition back. Part of it is that my grandfather was an alcoholic, and frankly I always thought my father drank too much...

For me, the fact that I don't drink alcohol affects me about as much as the fact that I don't eat ketchup. I just don't do it. Frankly, people can understand it or they can not; I don't give a damn. There's no law saying you have to drink alcohol, and if people want to think I am a recovered alcoholic, let them, because they are idiots for making such a ridiculous assumption.

Hmm .. I've been drinking since I've been thirteen. I suppose it was something to do.

I'm seventeen now, and I drink pretty often, although I never get drunk.

It's just what happens here, I don't know anyone that doesn't drink, I quit for a year or so.

It's really strange thinking about it, kind of depressing too.

I don't mean to hijack the thread - but how strongly is the age limit for drinking enforced in the US?

I don't mean to hijack the thread - but how strongly is the age limit for drinking enforced in the US?

It's enforced... but there's so many people who don't give a damn, it's kind of unenforcable on any kind of a grand scale.

Hmm .. I've been drinking since I've been thirteen. I suppose it was something to do.

I'm seventeen now, and I drink pretty often, although I never get drunk.

It's just what happens here, I don't know anyone that doesn't drink, I quit for a year or so.

It's really strange thinking about it, kind of depressing too.

What part of London are you from btw?

Oh Course I drink Soda and Water and Tea, But I will never drink beer or any other stronger alcohol

I drink, sometimes. Around once a week I'll go out and get drunk with friends. Most nights I'll have one can of lager because I like the taste. It's probably not too healthy, but it's fucking fun.

it really depends on whose asking ;)

I don't drink much (especially for my age) I quick pint will do me fine

I was out with on a school trip to Cambridge university yesterday, and instead of attneding the lecture several of my friends, and I, absconded to a local pub for the day, and claimed to have looked around the museum all day. Whilst in the pub the subject of alcohol unsurprisingly arose, and I was shocked to realise quite how many of my friends either drink to excess, or not at all, and am therefore interested as to NS'ers opinions as to alcohol and drinking.
I am currently drinking a rum-and-diet, as a matter of fact.

I started drinking at age 7, when I was permitted a glass of wine with dinner. My parents tell me I was permitted to taste alcoholic beverages before that age, but I don't remember any of that myself. I consistently turned down beer and wine in favor of juice until I was about 15, only accepting a small glass of sweet white wine for toasting at formal meals.

I started drinking recreationally around 15 or 16, and (predictably) my drinking peaked during college. I've never been a binge drinker. I currently will enjoy a beer after work or a few drinks at happy hour, but I've never been especially interested in long-term drunkenness. I honestly credit this moderate stance to my parents, because drinking was never a forbidden thing...I was always allowed to drink alcohol if I wanted to, and so I never developed the "forbidden fruit" complex that I think many American kids have about drinking.

Not anymore. I think I've had a total of 5 beers in the last year.

As long as they're not driving on my highways, I'm ok with anyone giving themselves alcohol poisoning if they want it.
Shouldn't you not be drinking at all, Keruvalia? <Narrows eyes> Bad Muslim! ;)

Remember the line about cheap seats in heaven?

Do you drink?

well, now, what do you think? :rolleyes: of course! :p

I don't mean to hijack the thread - but how strongly is the age limit for drinking enforced in the US?

It depends. If you're some idiot who drank way to much, is acting like an ass hole, and you decided to drive/go out then it will be enforced. If you're just hanging out with some friends drinking, then of course it isn't enforced.
I don't think I've ever been ID'd for anything.
I also think it depends on age. People will flip if they see a drunk 11 year old, but if you see a drunk 20 year old, you really don't care. The only cops who enforce the limit on people who are 16+ are jerks and they would have found something else to bitch at you for anyway.

:sniper: :p :gundge: i seee nothing bad in drinking just dont drink to much or youll be messed up like most people in this world

Yea, I drink. Probably too much. It helps me forget who/what I am.

I'd prefer that my sense of reality and peception don't get thrown out of whack, thanks. It's great fun messing around with drunk people, though.

Plus, I despise the taste of alcohol.

im no drunk but in partys now thats a diffrent story but thats not the point the point is that if we dident do so much drinking and more working and trying to make the world a better place we would have peace but peace is a lie :sniper:

you haven't tried to break into the bathroom while a girl was in there while drunk.

you havent been pissed and then been purposely rammed by a mini pink van for being on the road at the time. haha good times. :D

I'd prefer that my sense of reality and peception don't get thrown out of whack, thanks. It's great fun messing around with drunk people, though.

In case you weren't aware, it is possible to drink alcohol without getting drunk. Alcoholic beverages can often be very very tasty, even if you don't drink enough of them to feel any drunk-effects.

Plus, I despise the taste of alcohol.
What kinds have you tried? I'm not trying to pressure you into drinking (as if I could), I just happen to know of some very tasty alcohol-type-yummies that are worth trying.

Drinking is probably the least harmful of all the drugs on this planet.

this is something that happened a few minutes ago. here in australia the use of drugs is quite unusual, but in recent years there has been an increase in numbers of "chromers" (paint-sniffers) and just a few minutes ago we had to call the cops on a group of 6 girls aged between 9-15... 9 YEARS OLD.

here we all are discussing drinking habits and there are little girls some aged 9 years old getting off their faces by rotting their brain literally.

that makes me absolutely sick in the gut.

I'm drinking right now. *falls out of wheelchair*

Drinking is probably the least harmful of all the drugs on this planet.

least harmful? so you would say that downing 12 cups of espresso is worse than downing 12 shots of tequila? you know, maybe you're right. i think i'll go try both and compare. if i'm not back within an hour, it'll be because of caffeine poisoning

Well, seeing as I'm only 13, no, I don't drink.


Also, I don't plan on drinking too much when I'm older, I find it idiotic.

My mother and her friends drink, then are loud and annoying, then she's mean the next day... no thanks.

Besides, I have a weird nose, the smell of alcohol (along with those stupid sprays, and also flowers) sets it off, I get a major headache, and get weak and sick.

Plus, In vegas, some drunk dude ran through a fountain and I fell off the fountain and almost threw up from the smell....


Have I made my point clear yet?

least harmful? so you would say that downing 12 cups of espresso is worse than downing 12 shots of tequila? you know, maybe you're right. i think i'll go try both and compare. if i'm not back within an hour, it'll be because of caffeine poisoning

You do realize how little caffeine is actually in a cup of espresso, right?. 12 shots of tequila is 7.2 oz. of alcohol. For comparison, no one's ever survived consumption of more than 1 oz. of caffeine.

Duh, of course! :D

this is something that happened a few minutes ago. here in australia the use of drugs is quite unusual, but in recent years there has been an increase in numbers of "chromers" (paint-sniffers) and just a few minutes ago we had to call the cops on a group of 6 girls aged between 9-15... 9 YEARS OLD.

It most certainly is not. I don't know what rock you've been living under...but i'd say more than half of all young people have at least experimented with drugs.

What kinds have you tried? I'm not trying to pressure you into drinking (as if I could), I just happen to know of some very tasty alcohol-type-yummies that are worth trying.

Aye, I find the "I don't like the taste of alcohol" thing a little weird. There are so many different types of alcoholic beverages out there, of pretty much any flavour disposition...everyone would probably like the taste of something.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with drinking, as long as you stay within your limits. There are thousands of different brews, and one of them MUST suit your taste somewhere.

And if you can't hold any liquor whatsoever, fine by me, just don't try to ban alchohol. That went real well in the twenties.

well i am irish so i drink alot , alot alot , like double figure a few times a week , for one i like drinking and two i need quite alot ot get drunk at all , also i think the pub is great place to meet up with frineds and watch sports and so on , i am 19 now and have been drinking since i was 16.

Egh, I drink sometimes, but not too often and not too much. I used to drink really heavily in my mid-teens, but I tend not to anymore. Mostly I just don't feel like it. I don't mind having a few drinks with friends, but it's been a while since I've actually been drunk.

I find alcohol to be pretty mediocre as far as mind-altering drugs go, though. Usually if I'm set on the objective of getting off my face, there are better, cleaner and cheaper ways of doing it.

Checklist

Hangover? Check.

Tired? Check.

Sick? You bet.

Can't remember a damn thing from last night? Affirmative.

Do it again next weekend? Oh hell yes.

When do my weekends start, you ask? Well I go by the four day plan... Sunday through Wednesday is pure studying and come Thursday night, that crap just goes out the window and the fun begins.

Yay, Freshers week is over now! I'm so sorry liver, I didn't mean any of it to hurt you, it's just the chirrosis is part of the experience...

Oh, and Revasser - the first line of your sig...never seen truer words in my life.