DWalt
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Saw this today. A new low. Don't just sit there, do something. https://www.reuters.com/business/he...health-concerns-rise-survey-finds-2025-08-13/
You guys are not doing your part
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Yeah, I quit in 1993 and sales have dropped significantly. And I doubt if'n I started up again at 72 I could accomplish the torrential consumption of my 20's. The business is doomed I tell ya.......
Joe
Joe
Hey, I'm doing all I can!
Quit cold turkey 30+yrs back. Best thing ever done. Not a drop since.. Spent my 20's in an alcoholic haze but never affected work. Makes you do stupid stuff. Destroys lives and ruinatation of families are its result. My rant for today...
It sounds like my story, I had reached my liftime consumption level in my 40s so I cut it out.
It is a wonder that the greatest generation didn't drop before the baby boom. They lived in a cloud of cigarette smoke, were awash in alcohol and drove cars without seat belts! I guess they were tougher than we thought they were.
I did my best on Saturday. About 6 is all I can do ....
I'll drink to that!
I read an article once, maybe in American Heritage or something like it, about alcohol consumption in the US in the 19th century.
Our generation, mid 20th century onwards, is one of teetotalers in comparison.
Our generation, mid 20th century onwards, is one of teetotalers in comparison.
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One also has to remember that during the 19th century and before, the alcohol was safer than the drinking water.
And a lot of that way back in the Colonial era and early 19th Century was hard cider and rye whiskey.
Beer didn't become big until the mid 19th Century with the large German immigration, IIRC.
Finally...some good news. Alcohol is the ultimate societal curse. I said it before, I'll say it again...when I become King, my first decree will be the reinstatement of prohibition...and penalties that fit the crime for those that dare to defy their King.
I don't believe that for a second...every western has someone drinking water from a hoofprint and nobody died from it, they only died from indians.
I read an article a few years ago that hypothesized that alcohol was responsible for civilization.
With it, large groups of strangers, normally bands of small competing tribes, would gather together en masse for festivals/ceremonies, get drunk, get friendly, and cooperate and build stuff together, like cities and societies, and so forth...
(Well, it's a theory anyway!)
With it, large groups of strangers, normally bands of small competing tribes, would gather together en masse for festivals/ceremonies, get drunk, get friendly, and cooperate and build stuff together, like cities and societies, and so forth...
(Well, it's a theory anyway!)
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StrawHat
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I have recently become fond of NA (non alcoholic) beers. They are generally under 1 proof so I can have an NA with dinner and for the next couple and not have to worry about driving etc.
Not all NA beers qualify. Like anything, some are excellent for drinking, some are best used on your compost pile.
I have yet to find an NA wine worth a second sip.
Kevin
Not all NA beers qualify. Like anything, some are excellent for drinking, some are best used on your compost pile.
I have yet to find an NA wine worth a second sip.
Kevin
My prostate and bladder give me fits all night any time I have a drink.
Due to medical reasons I haven't had a beer since January and I miss me proper pints.
Hopefully one day soon we will have a happy reunion.
I've got a lot of catching up to do.
Hopefully one day soon we will have a happy reunion.
I've got a lot of catching up to do.
LVSteve
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British DUI laws greatly curtailed my drinking once I got a car.
I'm sure that seems odd to many here who were able to legally drive at 15/16. In the UK you can't get a car license until you are 17, and I couldn't afford one until I was nearly 19. In our household, there was no danger of my father allowing me to drive his car or getting one just for me.
I'm sure that seems odd to many here who were able to legally drive at 15/16. In the UK you can't get a car license until you are 17, and I couldn't afford one until I was nearly 19. In our household, there was no danger of my father allowing me to drive his car or getting one just for me.
Upon medical advice, I quit drinking alcohol over 2 1/2 years ago. Happily, the servers at the Eagles keep a jug of unsweetened iced tea for me. But I still tip them like when I was drinking alcohol. They are doing me a big favor.
hkcavalier
US Veteran
I enjoy beer. My running group is out of a local brewery. Nothing quite like a pint or two after running 3 miles in summer heat. I'm not too snobby with my beer at home. Sol Cheladas and Coors Banquets. We have hard stuff, but it's mostly for cooking. Sometimes the vodka gets used for Bloody Marys or a White Russian, but maybe twice a year at most. I don't do bourbon anymore.
I'm doing my part. All in moderation. A little sipping whiskey is a good way to end the day.
Non alcohol wine, is called .......
Grape Juice.
Grape Juice.
When I was a teen, I worked on a farm owned by an old hellfire and brimstone Baptist teatottling woman. She was death on the demon rum (or any other alcohol) and she hammered me on it. "You ever notice beer looks just like cow....urine? Even foams up the same way." Only she used a more colorful word. But the advice she gave me stuck with me. "If you never try it, you'll never know what you missed."
Well, "Dollbaby" (I'd have NEVER called her that to her face.) I can't say I've never tried it, but I can say it never went past that stage. I've never found anything I liked the taste of. Nasty tasting stuff. Eventually I just stop trying, early in my 20's. She was right. I never missed it.
Now, I never cared if someone else did. Wasn't my job to nag them about it. I just didn't want it.
Well, "Dollbaby" (I'd have NEVER called her that to her face.) I can't say I've never tried it, but I can say it never went past that stage. I've never found anything I liked the taste of. Nasty tasting stuff. Eventually I just stop trying, early in my 20's. She was right. I never missed it.
Now, I never cared if someone else did. Wasn't my job to nag them about it. I just didn't want it.
YeshuaIsa53
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At least two of my friends let it get the best of them years ago. I always try to keep one or two bottles around to sip on occasion, and there are two cold beer in the fridge. They've been there at least a month or longer all alone. In moderation. Don't drink and drive.
I dont drink any more.
I dont drink any less, either.
I dont drink any less, either.
All things in moderation…….
Ne quid nimis.
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