Yeah it gets on my nerves when people act elitist about what they drink and try to shove fancy norwegian craft beers down our throats

Us normal people like plain beer and stuff like Jack D/Coke :hubbahubba: and they need to get over it

I recently starting drinking that, it is good

Should give you the beer before the yard work , that way you'll think its FUN hahah!

...Who the hell doesn't like a Jack and Coke?

EDIT: Had a few drinks last night with the gents, and by drinks I mean a god awful bottle of $25 bourbon. Did the job though so I'm not complaining.

I sure do drink, but much like other things in life (movies, games, music, women, etc.) I've become increasingly picky.

I will outright refuse to drink cheap, crap piss beer (Budweiser, Bud Light, Coors, Miller, Heineken, Corona, Molson, Labatt, Sapporo).

When it comes to beer I prefer decent wheat beers, or ales, and if given the option always prefer tap than canned/bottled.

If I had to say a preference as far as brand goes so other people know what I mean, sort of like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Gordon Biersch Hefeweizen, Guinness Extra Stout.

Above all of those I by far prefer mixes. Captain Morgan/Cherry Coke, Smirnoff or Absolut/Oranda Juice or Orange Soda, Seven-Seven (or 7 and 7), Boot Rear (Southern Comfort/Root Beer), Jack or Crown and Coke, Brandy and Apple Juice, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barenjager by itself.

Eventually when things get stabilized at home I'm gonna make an attempt to brew my own wheat beer.

As for how often I drink, it's pretty spaced out. Sometimes I won't drink anything for months, other times I'll party an entire weekend or a couple random evenings in a week.

Er... me. It's not compulsory, is it?

Me.

I hate Jack and I hate Coke.

my post ended up in the smoking thread :confused:



so here I'll just say,



I really shouldn't drink...

Actually I hate coke too. I only drink water and milk throughout the day, never liked fizzy drinks.

But with JD it's alright.

I'm a social drinker. I never drink alone but it's always something I do with friends on the weekends.

Every once in a while, but I'm not a big fan of it. For whatever reason (Irish blood?) I don't really feel any different when I imbibe, though I've never really tried too hard. The most I've ever had in rapid succession was four drinks.

If you're a bigger guy that probably won't do much, especially on a full stomach. I have a massive tolerance, but it takes me at least five or six to feel anything. Less if I haven't eaten that day, but if you drink more you'll feel it.

I've posed this challenge to every one of my friends: If they can find me an alcoholic drink where I can get a decent amount, tastes good, and the cost is equal to or cheaper than a soda of the same size, I'll drink it.

I could drink piss water for cheaper than that, or I could get some expensive drink that doesn't fill me up (not the point of drinking, I know) OR I could get a 24 oz bottle of coke for $1.25, which tastes delicious, is cheap, and there's plenty of it.

Another problem with me is I consume a lot of liquids during the day (between 1/2-1 gallon on a good day) and I don't think that would translate well were I to drink something with alcohol in it.

Edit: I know that I wouldn't be drinking alcohol all day, but as I am now I drink a lot during the evening, and that's when I'm just doing whatever/relaxing. I have no idea how much I would if drinking were an actual activity for me.

Edit 2: 4lokos are bad for you, apparently. That's a shame, because those sound like the closest thing I would have gotten to drink.

Alcohol is actually much, much more unhealthy than everyone assumes. Something to think about :vaultboy:

In addition, it's better to drink little, but every day, than drinking that same amount on one day once a week. :foodndrink:

Now that you've pointed this out. I feel completely different about alcohol, [censored] booze c'mon your fizzy drink :mohawk:

Everyone including the consultants and nursing staff I saw during my recent trip to hospital, it would appear... :unsure:


Again, drinking every day goes against the advice I've seen: having the odd alcohol-free day is thought to be quite beneficial, though binge drinking is admittedly probably not a terribly good idea.

Alcohol pays a much bigger part to overweight and stuff related to it than you'd think, at least accoridng to studies shown a while ago on the MTW3 news here in Finland.

If binge drinking is the once a week thing, the finnish youth does that quite a lot from age 15-18. That's a habit I've been avoiding, I only drink like 5 times a year. (a lot when I do, but only 5 times a year)

Hmm. Well I think red wine is delicious, but a lot of people I know can't stand it. It's probably always going to cost more, but I don't mind paying more for a tasty treat I suppose.
If you ever do go out drinking (say at a pub), you could maybe alternate between alcoholic and soft drinks so that you don't end up smashed. Or even two soft drinks to every alcoholic one if you really drink a lot usually. Of course that's pointless if you simply just hate the taste of alcohol.
Just looked up 4loko and it sounds like vodka and red bull would probably taste similar, although I personally wouldn't have more than 1. Alcopops like bacardi breezers are cheap and taste a bit like normal pop (duh), but be careful you don't get carried away, forget it's alcoholic and drink it like normal soda.

I have medical issues that have prevented me from eating or drinking a single thing for 3 years so no I dont. I get fed through tubes so never got the opportunity and never will sadly

Cheers

The chronic effects of alcohol are quite complex, in large part because you're actually dealing with the sum of acute effects over many years rather that proper chronic effects. This is further complicated by differences between just what kind of alcoholic beverage you're talking about, due to differences in acute effects (due to amount of alcohol and rate at which it is consumed), differences in caloric content, differences in other chemicals typically present in the drink, etc. Throw in obesity considerations, as you have done, and the whole affair because ridiculously complicated due to the numerous other contributing factors to obesity (both lifestyle and genetic factors), as well as the numerous co-morbidities associated with obesity and the interaction of those co-morbidities with various possible chronic effects from alcohol consumption. This is the kind of thing that can be difficult to sort through even if you're a medical professional and spend a substantial amount of time reading through the literature on the subject. If you think you have any kind of handle on it from a single study passed through the lens of a news program (almost guaranteed to completely distort the actual conclusions of the study), then saying you're in way over your head would be a massive understatement.

Technically you could get piss water for free...whose your supplier where you have to pay him? Anyway try Palm Bay.

Well the article was specifically talking about vine with food and how many advlts think it's not a big deal, at all, in any way. In addition it took up the mass drinking once a week and compared it to drinking the same amount, but spread over the whole week, which has a much bigger impact on you. That study didn't only measure vine, but actually getting drunk with any drink once a week. Of course I don't know the specifics of everything, such as what happens after 7 years of drinking little ever day compared to drinking once a week a lot for 1 year, but the evidence the study showed was convincing. I'm just saying, don't underestimate the impact alcohol has on your health, it is most likely bigger than you think, especially if you don't think it's such a big a deal :foodndrink:

Don't underestimate it, but don't put a blanket overestimation on it either. It can have a significant impact on your health, but many, many things factor into whether or not it actually does have any significant impact. Just so you understand where I'm coming from, my own profession (drug discovery) requires me to at least have some knowledge of a fair number of fields related to how substances interact with the body (molecular and cellular biology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, just to name a few). Just understanding the chronic health impacts of a drug that's very specific and selective is tough enough, and alcohol is about as non-specific and non-selective as drugs get. So when I say "it's complicated" I'm not just trying to pass off platitudes.

That's not saying that people should just ignore the possible effects of alcohol on their health because it's complicated, but rather that blanket statements in this area are useless, and if people are concerned about how they could be impacting their health they should actually take a bit of time and examine the specific risk factors that are applicable to themselves.

If I hit the town with friends then we drink, but on normal weekdays I don't drink that much. It's funny, drinking is a part of our culture, we can legally drink from age 16, but most start before, like at age 14, I've just never had the need.

No, haven't drunk for a very long time. Only time I ever got drunk was at a party when I was 16 or 17, apparently I had six with a girl although I doubt that. Not that I wouldn't want have given the girl one, she was way out of my league.

Still that wasn't why I stopped, reason was I hated the feeling of feeling sick and that feeling you get when you lay down close your eyes and the room starts spinning. I also don't see why anyone would need drink to have a good time.... says alot for your communication skills if you need influence from an alcoholic beverage to have a good night... which can't really be considered a good night if you can't remember it now can it. Seems like a waste of an evening.