How often do you drink Alcohol?

[HappytheStripper]

oh,i can get seven shades of drunk.but im not aloud to talk about what happens after

 

 

Lmfao @ 7 shades of drunk.. I must teach that priniciple in my monday night AA meetings.. where all alcoholics get to gather and drink more.. @ the local Grand Hotel in Wanganui..

 

Ashley

[Boerseun]

Sheesh...

 

I have the worst case of tonsillitis ever. Yes, I still have my tonsils. Well, one of them, at least - the other one is gone, but that's a different story...

 

...but any case, I'm at home, sick as a dog. The tonsillitis always creeps up on me, first feeling like a slight scratch in the throat which I ascribe to smoking too much or something silly, and I hence ignore it. Then I wake up one morning, and the tonsillitis have spread infection to my ears and lungs. So, instead of a quick-fix, I end up half deaf, with pneumonia and a sore throat to boot. Throat so sore that I swallow myself awake. I kid you not. So, the only solution is to dose myself with all kinds of painkillers and antibiotics, and sit dead still and wait to die. It sucks.

 

So what's this got to do with alcohol?

 

Well, my dad popped in at my house last night to see if I was still alive. I called him feeling very sorry for myself (high as a kite on cough syrup and pain meds, by the way), and he decided to pop in with a few beers to cheer me up. Now my father is a very sweet old man, but what he knows of medicine and alcohol can be written in large letters on the back of a very small postage stamp. I just didn't care. My throat was hot and sore, and I needed something cold to swallow. So I decided them cold beers was the way to go.

 

And you can probably guess the rest. I was completely and utterly shitfaced. It was the weirdest beertrip ever (beer's all I drink, by the way - and cough syrup, evidentially). It was beer on top of Orochlor on top of Tonzolyt on top of cinnamon oil on top of Med-Lemon on top of killer 1-gram shots of aspirin. Gosh golly. Talk about losing control. I cannot understand how or why people go out of their way and spend money to get stoned. It's not fun, not fun at all. Nothing against a slight beer-buzz, but anything more than that you can keep, thank you very much. It's just very hard to say no to the next round, once you've hit the third.

[Monomer]

Sounds like a scary experience, Boerseun. I think the only way alcohol could benefit you in your illness is to gargle some vodka to kill the sore throat.

 

I have an alcoholic drink maybe once or twice a year, and it's usually one glass of wine if it's sweet enough. I used to drink cocktails at parties, but alcohol seems to make my skin break out and it dehydrates me, so I generally give it a miss. Also, I've usually been too afraid to drink excessively because I'm worried about losing control and doing something stupid, and I've enough regrets already.

[jungjedi]

Lmfao @ 7 shades of drunk.. I must teach that priniciple in my monday night AA meetings.. where all alcohoilics get to gather and drink more.. @ the local Grand Hotel in Wanganui..

 

Ashley

 

i love you.but not in a scarry coodepenant way

[Shapedoctor]

I'm an alcoholic with ~22 months of sobriety. I voted "never drink" although I did drink plenty before I quit. I enjoy cannabis in occasion.

[maikeru]

Every other day or few days. I stick mostly to cheap red wine mixed in with some juice, about 1/4-1/3 of a glass and rest juice. Never been drunk. I don't want to drink so much that I become drunk and do something retarded. I'm big on the idea of moderation.

[Guest chendoh]

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[Guest chendoh]

oKay I'm Backkk

[Boerseun]

Every other day or few days. I stick mostly to cheap red wine mixed in with some juice, about 1/4-1/3 of a glass and rest juice. Never been drunk. I don't want to drink so much that I become drunk and do something retarded. I'm big on the idea of moderation.

Ever mixed red wine with Coke?

 

Half red wine, half Coke - gives you the meanest of mean hangovers. But its a pretty popular drink over here. It's called a "katemba" in SA.

 

Myself, I stick to good 'ole Hansa Pilsner. Too often, actually. :hihi:

[gribbon]

Boerseun....I just realised...you changed your avatar again...you don't half like cows don't you? :hihi: :D

 

I like them too...:D

 

Here's a question: does anyone here think that the alcohol industry (particularly the alcopop manufacturers) is one that is administered by ruthless individuals who do not care about those that are killed by their products? Are drinks like Barcardi Breezer aimed deliberately at youth?

[Boerseun]

Boerseun....I just realised...you changed your avatar again...you don't half like cows don't you? :eek_big: :D

Love cows! Especially Medium-to-Rare!

Here's a question: does anyone here think that the alcohol industry (particularly the alcopop manufacturers) is one that is administered by ruthless individuals who do not care about those that are killed by their products? Are drinks like Barcardi Breezer aimed deliberately at youth?

Beer tastes bad. End of story. It's bitter, and very hard to convince kids to drink it. So the alcohol industry invented alcopops as an 'entry' drink, to make a tasty, sweet, soda-like drink for the kids and associate it in their ad campaigns as part of a 'cool' lifestyle. If you look at the ads, apparently you simply cannot snowboard without having a alcoholic drink of the alcopop persuasion afterwards. They connect everything to do with youth to alcopops. So, in order to be 'cool', and 'with it', you have to drink. And because beer tastes like crap, they have catered for the kiddies with all the suger-laden alcopops out there.

 

So, when you start to acquire a more refined taste, and sugar kinda puts you off, the shop shelves are laden with beer, ready for the young beer-drinking debutantes. And so the cycle continues. Look at beer ads - they are aimed at a slightly more mature market than the alcopops ads. But if they weren't hooked by alcopops at an earlier age, chances are less that they'll fall for beer later on. Or so the theory goes, at least. And I state the former as fact: A friend of mine had a bar in my hometown, and I was there quite often when the reps from South African Breweries (the guys who bought Miller in the States) pitched up, and we became good buddies with them as well. They explained the whole marketing strategy to us, over a couple of pints.

Alcopops are intentionally placed as an 'entry' drink into the world of alcohol, because it entices the kiddies. So once the kiddies enter the liquor store, they become inquisitive as to the other products on the shelves. It's the bait that lures them into the bigger (more profitable) world of regular drinking and alcoholism (more profitable to the liquor manufacturers, at least).

 

They're manufacturing alcopos because of the bottom line. And blindly following the dictates of the bottom line have made many people do stupid and unethical things, whilst they themselves are actually good people.

 

Alcopops is simply an artifact of evil corporate culture. Make More! More! More! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE!

 

Besides, it tastes like crap. It's sticky and gooey and if you really believe that you cannot snowboard/skydive/rollerblade/off-road/surf/paraglide/hangglide/parachute/freefall without having some form of 'brewsky' afterwards, then you're the perfect gullible idiot consumer and they've got you, hook, line, and sinker.

[Queso]

One thing I've learned NEVER to do,

is drink when you think you're getting sick.

 

O man! Alcohol tends to destroy my immune system.

Every time I do this I get terribly ill for days. Feverish. Destroyed. Ugh.

Alcohol is Poison. Makes us feel loose. Loose Juice. Makes us wanna dance. Yuh! :shrug:

[robnibg]

If someone drank 6 shots of vodka once a fortnight, then what chance would they have of liver cirrhosis?

[Boerseun]

If someone drank 6 shots of vodka once a fortnight, then what chance would they have of liver cirrhosis?

Zero to very low, I'd say. I might be wrong, however.

[freeztar]

If someone drank 6 shots of vodka once a fortnight, then what chance would they have of liver cirrhosis?

 

It depends...

 

Does that person have a family history of liver disease?

Does that person also smoke?

Does that person exercise?

Is that person overweight?

How old is the person?

etc. etc.

[DougF]

Voted "Well i rarely get drunk but i drink often" as I will have a beer when I get home at 5:00pm eat dinner then drink a beer........ go to bed 12:30am.

 

 

OK: Well I usually drink a six pack a day, but thats only one beer an hour.

 

 

 

Java, Water or Beer now, :)

but I use to be into Rum and Coke and all nighters. :)

that 15 years ago. :)

[goku]

only got drunk once, BIG mistake!

my great uncle makes mussqedine wine, i'll drink about haff a cup if i'm very sick.