It’s a toxin that makes you sick, and a major carcinogen. So many people have ruined their lives with alcohol.

10 years sober and grateful every single day that alcohol is no longer a part of my personal existence. It may work well in other people’s lives but I’ve learned definitively that it does not work for me in mine.

I love it, but as I get older I have to watch myself with it more. A fun night of drinking and chatting increasingly comes at the cost of the next day.

Sometimes I wish I could get synthol whiskey though.

I used to drink quite a lot, i’m not sure if i ever really liked it in hindsight. I never had alcohol at home and i never drank at home. I completely quit 10+ years ago, and ever since then i kinda realised how weird drinking and drinking culture really is. People who drink, can’t comprehend how it is even possible to not drink. Some people try to sell you alcohol like their life depends on it. “C’mon, it’s really good” “it’s just a glass” “you can’t even taste the alcohol”

The most disturbing thing to me is when you hear people talk about alcohol when they talk about or plan a party. “Will there be enough? Oh god if we run out of beer, what then? People will flip out.” I honestly find it super weird how all present and accepted it is, while other things aren’t. Like i had a girlfriend who was a good wine drinker. She would order a lot of wine, to just drink by herself, which was always no problem for her, because it was legal, but things like smoking weed was the devil, because it was illegal.

Alcoholism killed my mother, and transformed my father’s asshole-ish personality into something completely unbearable. So I don’t really drink.

I’m not a drinker at all, I don’t personally like it. I don’t go on nights out where there’s alcohol, cos I just don’t see it as a good thing. Don’t judge others for drinking though

Yes please!

I never even tried it🪷

Loved it in my late teens to early 20s, can’t stand the taste or effects in my early 40s. Bodies and mindsets change.

I feel like people just do alcohol as an excuse to cut some of their constructed bullshit. Like you can only be open or optimistic or whatever if you’re weak and stupid, so you must weaken yourself to express the full breadth of yourself. Like there’s a culturally approved kind of jester’s privilege¹ contingent on being drunk.

Thank you, but I’m not a coward, have a sense of taste, and don’t like hangovers. I’ll do drugs that are actually worthwhile if I want drugs. I’ll spit in the King’s face (probably)sober if I want to spit in a face.

¹not exactly, but very close to it, and it encourages us to at least discursively isolate the deeper self from the surface reflexive self. It’s shit and i hate it.

Im a social drinker. Though it doesn’t always agree with my stomach. It’s great for karaoke.

To me it’s like cinnamon, I would never consume it in a concentrated form but lightly added to something else delicious I really enjoy it. Some of my favorite treats and indulgences have some alcohol or are alcoholic drinks. I’ve seen how it can fuck up someone’s life though.

When we have people over we have a mini fridge with some beers and sodas and other drinks for people to enjoy but no one is asked to drink or directly offered alcohol, it’s just available. That has seemed to be the norm for other social events I’ve attended, so maybe pushy drinkers are a cultural, regional or age dependent thing.

I could always take it or leave it. A glass of wine did seem to ease menstrual cramps, back in the day. Now I don’t drink at all because I take a medication that doesn’t play well with alcohol, but I can’t honestly say that I miss it.

I hate feeling drunk, which is why as I close in on 60 I’ve been actually drunk a number of times you can count on one hand (most of those when I was in my 20s). But I like the feeling of a drink inside of me. So, to quote @Hildegarde:

Yes please!