You guys are not doing your part

[DWalt]

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/

 

[pharmer]

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

 

[lihpster]

Hey, I'm doing all I can!

 

[DixieRanger]

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...

 

[65-2x2]

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.

 

[raljr1]

I did my best on Saturday. About 6 is all I can do ....

 

[mojave30cal]

I'll drink to that!

 

[Onomea]

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.

 

[Rudi]

I cut back considerably from my younger days. But I still enjoy a few drinks.

 

[SMSgt]

I'm 73 and just getting started. When I walk into my favorite hangout, they just set my drink on the bar. Don't even have to order.

 

[lihpster]

I read an article once, maybe in American Heritage or something like it, about alcohol consumption in the US in 19th century.

Our generation, mid 20th century onwards, is one of teetotalers in comparison.

One also has to remember that during the 19th century and before, the alcohol was safer than the drinking water.

 

[quikdraw67]

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.

 

[dockmurgw]

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.

 

[dockmurgw]

One also has to remember that during the 19th century and before, the alcohol was safer than the drinking water.

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.

 

[Onomea]

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!)

 

[StrawHat]

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

 

[armadillo]

My prostate and bladder give me fits all night any time I have a drink.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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.

 

[LVSteve]

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.

 

[Golddollar]

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.