What's Your Opinion on Recreational Drinking? Choose Now!

[Mk]

What do you think about drinking? What do you think about younger people drinking? Is it healthy, unhealthy, or fun or distatesful?

And I mean alcoholic stuff, not drinking water or juice Pick the closest choice.

 

[Cyrus]

I always drink when I go out to the bars with my friends. Usually some beers or Jack and Cokes. Probably once a week.

 

[radou]

Same here, only it's once in two weeks or so.

 

[BobG]

I'm not sure how to answer since it depends on how much you're talking about. I like a beer or two, but I can't remember the last time I've actually done anything I'd consider "recreational" drinking. That makes it sound like the purpose is to drink, in which case I'd say I personally dislike the effects overall.

I'd say "recreational drinking" tends to cause more problems than it's worth for any age, if I understand what you mean by recreational drinking.

 

[brewnog]

Sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, and like the feeling overall (otherwise I wouldn't do it).

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

^Ditto I probably do it more atm as I'm in between jobs. But alcohol if handled in at least some sort of sensible manner is generally positive for me, alone, with friends and like the effects.

 

[Kurdt]

I'm British so I have to drink (its how we pay our taxes). I normally go to the pub most nights and have 3 or 4 beers with friends.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I'm British so I have to drink (its how we pay our taxes). I normally go to the pub most nights and have 3 or 4 beers with friends.

Did you know you can either pay daily or every few days, or you can more conveniently binge drink thereby paying your taxes all in one Friday night marathon. I know what you mean about it being more or less the law, it's certainly pretty much part of our culture to binge drink at weekends.

 

[Kurdt]

I'm not fond of the binge drinking option as I don't hold my drink very well and can only take it in quantities of 3 or 4 pints at a time. I do however drink fairly often because there's always some sort of musical event on in a pub where I live. For example I know there is a buskers night every day of the week in one pub or another around Newcastle and Gateshead. So I mainly go to those.

 

[baywax]

Everytime I collect on a contract I reward myself with plenty of beer. This can mean once a month or when you get those sticklers that adhere to the 90 day or even 120 day waiting period its a bit too much and I go out and reward myself for being patient. Then I reward myself for being so rewarding.

Kids drinking to excess appears to be a bad idea judging from the outcome I see in people who drank and I knew as a kid. Booze related diabetes, alcoholism, and generally perforated livers do not a happy camper make. Seems to wipe the memory functions out too (though they lurk in the sub-conscious). Luckily I never saw the point to drinking until later on. And that never amounted to much until... right now. Sheesh, whashts that rhinophant doing here again?

 

[neutrino]

I guess it's just like the internet and computer games.

 

[GoldPheonix]

Drinking is fun. Don't do it a lot nor in huge quantities, but still, it is fun.

Some licker tastes good, some tastes like crap. Some beer is good (Jesus American beer tastes like piss water; European beers like Luffe are pretty decent). Love white wine; red while is all right I guess. Saki is all right, especially in/with Chinese and Japanese dishes. Only had one martini in my life, and the vodka wasn't too bad.

But mostly, beer and wine. Neither are too great to get drunk on.

 

[Hurkyl]

(1) I can't imagine why people would drink.
(2) Wine fumes, and some beer fumes, make me feel ill.
(3) I dread ever having to interact with a drunk person!

 

[gravenewworld]

I like to drink beer. The only liquor drinks I like are captain and coke and gin and tonic. I hate taking shots, but I will do them. Can't stand wine and winos though. The only thing I hate about drinking is getting hung over. I get really really really bad hang overs. I have had ones that have lasted almost two days before. I probably get bad hang overs due to the fact that I am part Asian.

Some beer is good (Jesus American beer tastes like piss water; European beers like Luffe are pretty decent).

You haven't had some real American beers then. I have tried 100s of beers from all over the world and Americans definitely make some of the best damn beer in the world. There are some American beers that are far better than 95% of all German and Belgium beers no matter how much Europeans would like to claim otherwise.

 

[JasonRox]

I do it casually and rarely get too drunk as I don't like the effects. It would be awesome if I can just end the buzz when I get home or something. The buzz is fun when you're out, but when the nights over, I want it gone.

 

[ice109]

nah not me, not in concordance with my workout regimen

 

[Evo]

Let's remember too that recreational drinking means not getting drunk past the legal limit and not operating any vehicles or partaking in any activities that would cause danger to anyone or anything.

 

[JasonRox]

Let's remember too that recreational drinking means not getting drunk past the legal limit and not operating any vehicles or partaking in any activities that would cause danger to anyone or anything.

Well, then there is no effect at all so I don't know how someone can like or dislike the effect.

 

[Evo]

Well, then there is no effect at all so I don't know how someone can like or dislike the effect.

Good point.

 

[bel]

I don't like beer, but I will have a glass or two of wine (usually they serve red from Bordeaux, but port is good too) after dinner in parties or like functions. I see no harm in it, and it's generally enjoyable, especially if there's an interesting conversation acompanying it. I've never gotten to the point where I can't think clearly, either. The best drink is still the very occasional glass of Ontario ice wine alone though. And not being very old, I have nothing much against young people drinking. By the way, I think there's a study that indicates that a glass of red wine a day might reduce one's risk of cardiovascular diseases, sorry I can't cite it here though, I read it quite a while ago.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Let's remember too that recreational drinking means not getting drunk past the legal limit and not operating any vehicles or partaking in any activities that would cause danger to anyone or anything.

After too many rounds of praying at the marble alter, I gave up recreational drinking. In my mind, Bacardi and Drano are about the same thing.

For all practical purposes, I quit drinking on my 21st birthday.

 

[baywax]

You haven't had some real American beers then. I have tried 100s of beers from all over the world and Americans definitely make some of the best damn beer in the world. There are some American beers that are far better than 95% of all German and Belgium beers no matter how much Europeans would like to claim otherwise.

Please let me in on some of the brand names of the American beer you like. I've enjoyed Olympia, Rainier and Old Millwalkie(sp). I don't know why but I liked the Olympia best in the wide mouth bottle. Thanks

Here's a good reason to keep a high tolerance of liquor.

I sat down with the great uncle of a girlfriend once. He was an immigrant from the Ukraine. His farm had been over run by the Nazis during WWII and they killed his family in front of him to convince him to become a Nazi sympathizer. (This is what he told me that morning)

The only reason his kind of information came out of him was because he had offered me a full glass of Vodka to drink while he did the same. Full, unadulterated Vodka ... I managed to drink it by about 11 AM but I also managed to hear a personal, person to person account of some of the details involved in war an life and struggle.

I recommend the experience to everyone of you. No whining!

 

[radou]

Well, then there is no effect at all so I don't know how someone can like or dislike the effect.

You mean, there is no negative effect?

 

[JasonRox]

You mean, there is no negative effect?

There is no positive or negative. The legal limit does not get you buzzing at all.

 

[BobG]

After too many rounds of praying at the marble alter, I gave up recreational drinking. In my mind, Bacardi and Drano are about the same thing.

For all practical purposes, I quit drinking on my 21st birthday.

"Praying at the marble alter?"

I thought you were talking to Ralph on the big white phone.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

There is no positive or negative. The legal limit does not get you buzzing at all.

If your going to get ratarsed then makes use you take public transport, of course in my case I don't use anything but.

I would hate to be the designated driver, oh yeah right you all enjoy yourselves while I watch everyone else get more and more unintelligible and nurse a coke. *shudders*

One of the benefits of never learning to drive.

 

[mathwonk]

does recreational drinking mean drinking as a game? or for enjoyment? so apparently recreational drinking does not mean competitive drinking. does it mean enjoying the drink or the companions? so can you enjoy drinking bad wine with good friends? or good wine with strangers? i can enjoy a nice glass of andrew will after everyone else has turned in, but is that recreational?

sorry but mathematicians need definitions to respond to a test question.

 

[radou]

There is no positive or negative. The legal limit does not get you buzzing at all.

I don't know what you mean by legal limit. Perhaps the maximum amount of alcohol tolerated in your blood whence behind the wheel?

 

[Cyrus]

Yes, and it can be as little as 1 beer.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

does recreational drinking mean drinking as a game? or for enjoyment? so apparently recreational drinking does not mean competitive drinking. does it mean enjoying the drink or the companions? so can you enjoy drinking bad wine with good friends? or good wine with strangers? i can enjoy a nice glass of andrew will after everyone else has turned in, but is that recreational?

sorry but mathematicians need definitions to respond to a test question.

Recreation I think assumes enjoyment, if it isn't enjoyable then it's a problem. You can't really do maths on a social event, or a drinking alone event, unless you want to create some sort of mathematical scale of enjoyment against x? And I'm sure most people could not consider their habits in any sort of logical framework. It's more a psychological field, and in that case it's not reducible to the mathematical.

Mathematicians , not everything in life is solvable by an equation

I know you weren't serious btw

 

[symbolipoint]

Small amounts once in a while, or small amounts every few days -
but I prefer coffee far far more than alcohol. Alcohol makes critical logical problem-solving and conceptual thinking very difficult. Alcohol seems to be a big interference to studying.

 

[radou]

Alcohol makes critical logical problem-solving and conceptual thinking very difficult

Umm, I'm not so sure about that.

 

[JasonRox]

Small amounts once in a while, or small amounts every few days -
but I prefer coffee far far more than alcohol. Alcohol makes critical logical problem-solving and conceptual thinking very difficult. Alcohol seems to be a big interference to studying.

Coffee doesn't help in the thinking category at all. Atleast that's how I experience it.

 

[Astronuc]

I find that with age, I do not like being inebriated. If I drink an alcoholic beverage now, it's usually with a meal or snack. I might have one drink of beer in an evening after work.

I have a preference for dark beers (stouts and porters), certain red wines (syrah, shirarz, Lembergers, merlots), and single malt scotch. And that is usually in conjunction with a meal.

 

[scorpa]

I rarely drink, and have never been or desire to get drunk. Everyonce in a while I might have a cooler or beer with some friends, usually while camping, but my favorite is probably just good old rye and coke. I used to hate beer but I've kind of developed a little bit of a taste for it since I started curling again last winter lol.