You guys are not doing your part

[zeke]

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.

Same, but it's been over 12 years ago. Doctor said alcohol won't mix well with all the meds. Course had to test that assumption , and went home and had a nice cold one. Put me on my butt the next day.

Still make a little plus p Irish cream for the holiday coffee. Also still miss "whiskey night", which was the only thing that could make me think i was witty and good looking, but still couldn't change others reality.

 

[Greyman50]

Had quit except for a few at some events until wife passed. Need to quit again and am working on it……..

 

[chief38]

Eggs are bad! Eggs are now good. Coffee is bad! Coffee is now good. Statins are good! Now Statins are bad. The Covid vaccine is good. Now the Covid vaccine is bad. A glass of wine is good. A glass of wine is now bad! Yes - if you do anything in excess it's bad for you - including vitamins and exercise. Things that are "all the rage "and rushed to market lack long term research.

So what does this tell us Ladies and Gents? It tells me that the Doctors, Gov't. Officials and so called health experts know a lot less than they profess!!!!! It also leads me to think there is more to the story of just our health and their "concern". Could financial gain, loss or change in market share have something to do with "their findings"????? While I am not a Doctor, research director of any health organization, or professional health worker - I am astute enough and have paid attention long enough to see what history has shown us and disclosed about all the theories and conspiracy's along the way.

Do not abuse anything. Enjoy and savor the things that help us enjoy life. Do not abuse or over do any one thing - even if "they" say it's good for you because tomorrow, next week or next month it won't be!

 

[Lance Boyle]

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

Me as well. I was hardly a regular drinker but would have 2-4 socially in my 20- early forties.

Now it's rather rare, I had a 12 pack last me most of the summer at home augmented by a couple dinners at the fine German restaurant that imports Weihenstephan beers. I'm good for one, maybe a rare two. I just get full earlier in my aged years.

I often think I want a beer with dinner and then forget to get one. lol

Knowing I need to watch my carbs and sugars has me being less willful in alcohol or other less wise food choices. A bit of variety is maintained though. Lord knows I'm not eating steak three times a week at today's prices.

 

[16thVACav]

I limit alcohol consumption to days of the week ending in "y".

 

[JohnRippert]

I drank like a fish in my youth. These days I will drink maybe 3 times a week, and it is either a shot&beer or a mixed drink with sugar free soda. As Bryan Adams once said in a song, 'It just don't do me like it used to do'.

 

[Grayfox]

As a much younger man, I was a drunk. Never quite made it to alcoholic. I never reached the point where I needed a drink. But I was at the stage where, more often than not, one almost always led to one too many.
Been dry and sober almost 46 years now. Best thing I ever did.

 

[CalifEd]

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.

I was with a group that went to City Tavern in Philadelphia to sample some colonial food, or so it was advertised.
They had a beer sampler, 5 different brews, according to them these were authentic and produced as they would have been back in the 1770's, original ingredients and methods, etc.
2 were passable if you were already drunk or dying of thirst, one was made with Pine Needles (tasted like turpentine) the rest were so bad we just left them.
It was agreed, the real reason for the American Revolution was the sorry state of the beer at the time.

 

[Warren Sear]

There is not a damned thing funny about being a drunk.

 

[NYlakesider]

There is not a damned thing funny about being a drunk.

Maybe not for the drunk, but the people watching might have different ideas about that.

Full discloser, when younger drinking age was 18, me as a big older looking person had no problem getting served at 16. By the time I was 20 was well on my way to being a serious drunk. Tapered off considerably when I met the right girl. Now for the last 20 years might drink about 7-8. That is about 7-8 a year, all at a restaurant having a birthday party or anniversary, 1 drink one at each occasion!

 

[TXBryan]

If I drank the same way I did in my youth there's no way I would have made it this far. Lots of moderation for some years now. I certainly don't need it as once in a while I forget to have a drink and can, under rare circumstances go several days without a drink or thinking about it. Kinda reassuring.

Heard an interesting story on the radio yesterday while on a long drive. Generation Z has the lowest alcohol consumption rate of any generation since they've been tracking this kind of thing. My son is Gen Z, it's mid 1990s to about 2010 (they measure them faster these days don't they?). The first generation where cell phones have been ubiquitous and they've never known life without them.

They believe the reason these kids don't drink is that drinking is largely a social phenomenon and as these kids don't physically socialize much, relying on electronic media as a social outlet, the booze part has no place in their socialization. Not altogether bad but kinda tragic at the same time. The other reason is they smoke pot and that's considered a substitute as well as something more prone to happen when alone. Some expert's opinion based on polling.

Bryan

 

[375hh1973]

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.

What about those of us who can enjoy it and not cause problems?

Sounds like youd be a piss poor king

 

[greenwellg]

Got married in 1989. Told her if I never have another drop of alcohol it would be fine with me. That was 36 years ago this November. Can't remember the last time I had a drink. I have carried her home with her face stuck in a doggie bag.
Still married. She has a lot of drinking to do to catch up with where I had been before 1989.
If I drink it's not enough to get in legal difficulty. Period. Good friend passed 15 years ago. His wife gave me a cabinet full of liquor. Much of it is still there.

 

[Mister Coffee]

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

Better than me. I'm down to three. Okay, two . . . Things just ain't like they used to be.

 

[Greyman50]

As for health care , just follow the money. Sad to say but seems to be true. Had 2 uncles that were Mds and several good friends( shooting and collecting) that were MDs. That was years ago, both uncles are gone and friends have been retired for years. Finding that several of my long term MDs are not what they used to be. Then there is a Major hospital group in N Fl. that sold out to another hospital group. Every good MD has left as well as many many nurses and other health specialists. Sad situation as many of the public will not/ never go back for health care.

 

[Bald1]

I'm a bourbon guy. If we go out I'll only have two. If I'm home I might have more. My wife likes Bombay and tonic with a lime. Or Grey Goose martinis. She can only have two no matter what. She's a light weight. I drink more beer in the summer than the winter. But an 18 pk could last me a month. Stella Artois unless I'm on the tractor then it's Miller Light.

 

[IAM Rand]

Houses and booze both go down in price the less people buy them. I am waiting for the good deals. I did do my part when I went to Tenn. Just sayin

 

[DWalt]

Depending on feedstock and process the production cost of pure ethanol will be in the range of $1.50-$3.00 per gallon.

 

[pawncop]

I have reduced my intake but primarily because I have quit ordering alcohol in restaurants. They charge waaaaaaay too much for a basic cocktail now. I drink wine with meals at home but rarely in the restaurant because they charge enough for a glass of wine and I can get an entire bottle for the same price.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I have spent my adult life in search of the perfect barstool. It has been a most excellent adventure.

The only time I was ever commode hugging, knee walking, speaking in tongues hammered was as a young man when I lost the Battle of Boone's Farm.

Since then I became a marathoner and not a sprinter. I reach my desired buzz level and maintain that until I cross the finish line.

Whatever drinking responsibly is I apparently do it.

Cheers!

 

[Bald1]

Boones Farm yikes. That was the sugar that got ya!!!!!!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Boones Farm yikes. That was the sugar that got ya!!!!!!

After it was converted to ethanol.

 

[Bald1]

I have reduced my intake but primarily because I have quit ordering alcohol in restaurants. They charge waaaaaaay too much for a basic cocktail now. I drink wine with meals at home but rarely in the restaurant because they charge enough for a glass of wine and I can get an entire bottle for the same price.

we spent 8 days on the Amalfi Coast in July. Not only was the food fantastic but the pricey were way less than here at home. I couldn't find bourbon everywhere but when I did it was usually Bulliet. The was an outdoor patio restaurant very close to our villa. I think we ate there 3 nights. A Bulliet on the rocks was $8. But I swear there was over 4 ozs in that glass. Around home I'd pay $12 for half the bourbon.

 

[65-2x2]

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 hear you. Then I could go into the illegal distilling and distribution business and make a fortune. My father graduated high school in 1929. There were no jobs for young men. He took a job hauling ice from Alabama to North Fl. Ice was not the money crop on the truck. Even when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, moonshining was still a big business in my area.

 

[seasoldier85]

"We speak of the conversion of water into wine, at the wedding of Cana, as a miracle. But this conversion is done daily by the goodness of God before our eyes. This is the water that falls from the heavens on our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines to be changed into wine; constant proof that God loves us, and that he loves to see us happy."-
Ben Franklin

 

[seasoldier85]

I have a cigar habit. To me there's nothing more relaxing than a good cigar and a glass of Bushmills. A Ketel One martini is a close second.

 

[Marshal Tom]

Lately I've been thinking that alcohol is bad for me and that I should quit it, so I decided to quit thinking!

 

[lihpster]

Lately I've been thinking that alcohol is bad for me and that I should quit it, so I decided to quit thinking!

Sound wisdom, Del.

 

[snubbyfan]

 

[Mister Coffee]

I have spent my adult life in search of the perfect barstool. It has been a most excellent adventure.

An important aspect of "doing our part" is supporting bars and bar culture. A good bar is a beautiful thing.