if you don't drink alcohol: how come?

there should be a 'I AM TIRED OF BEING DESPERATE FOR THE LOO ON THE LONG BUS RIDE HOME' option (this is only a prob when drinking pints tho)

None of the above really applies to me, I simply lost the taste for it.

there should be a "sick of passing out on the bus and waking up in zone 6" option too. know too many people who've done it

after two weeks at the edinburgh festival i have lost the taste for booze completely

and by "lost the taste for" i mean "really enjoy two very nice cocktails, max"

wayyyyy too many nights of "a pint of the 1664, please" - again and again and again

oh god i love booze

i have some sloe gin at home. it's like liquid pudding.

my problem these days is that in order to feel any real effect from booze i have to:

1) spend a lot of money
2) get very sick the next morning

:/

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It's complicated. The most direct explanation is that I wasn't very social at age 14-17 or so when most people get into the habit of drinking and by the time I was going to parties etc, nobody was trying to prove anything or peer pressure anything, so it really never was necessary - with an overlap period in between where I was just being stubborn. Flash forward to the present day (age 25) and I just really have never seen much of a reason to start drinking (nothing against anyone who does), combined with the fact that I'm convinced I'd be a really annoying drunk - sarcastic, maudlin, and needy. Also: history of alcoholism in family.

Who is "Oystein"?!

oh god i love booze
yeah
i started drinking again
for health reasons

This is my third day off the sauce, having decided to try for a baby.

yay! babies are way better than alcohol.

says the person who doesnt drink. reason? i go from zero to really drunk. theres no in between.

I don't like the taste mainly. And the whole quantity thing, I dunno how people can drink 3 or 4 pints of beer in a couple of hours. I sometimes drink spirits with coke, but I've kinda gone off that lately.

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Where's "Because I couldn't stand the hangovers"?

i cant believe 28 people on ilx dont drink.

I'll have a drink sometimes - usually to unwind after a long day - but my social drinking virtually stopped after I left NYC and lived in cities where I had to drive everywhere. My tolerance is so lightweight that even half a beer can impair my judgment. So I tend to not drink when I go out.

But I've also realized that I don't much like being drunk anymore. I can be a pretty self-conscious drunk; I tend to either talk too much or not at all. It's easier to just drink water or soda, or have one drink and make it last all night.

why are all these doctor guys around here like in their 20s. i always think of doctors as being 40 or older.

Who is "Oystein"?!
;_;

I haven't drunk anything since i had two bottles of wine three nights ago. feelin fine.

HAI!!!!

I'm unsurprised that no one on ILX is high on life.

why be high on life when you can be high on whiskey?

"Or cocaine?"

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I just started college and I think I may actually drink less, at least for a while, because I've realized that drinking and getting high and going to parties aren't actually inherently fun; it's just that I had really awesome friends I did all those things with. the kind of friends who were just as much fun to hang out with while sober, or while hungover the next morning. need to find some of those people here.

Oh, OTM. I've been slowly realizing the tangy part of that, the friends part, lately.