Attitudes toward alcohol

[Mik]

My daughter likes the occasional cocktail at a restaurant, but really doesn't drink regularly at all. I guess they are smarter than us after all.

[xenon]

I remember watching Deadwood and thinking - how tf did they drink so much all the time. Our generation might look similar to the next one?

[Doctor Phibes]

I still remember getting a school workbook back from my 3 year old son's kindergarten. They'd asked him to describe his dad, and when asked what my favourite drinks were, he'd responded with 'Wine and beer'.

[bachophile]

I barely drank as a teen or twenties. Weed was much kewler than alcohol at the time. I tnink it was only in my forties I started to take wine more seriously, and now my most common drink is a beer with dinner, maybe twice a week. Firday nite dinner always has a bottle of wine. I guess that’s it for me. I have a number of unopened expensive whiskeys received as gifts from patients. But they stay mostly unopened.

[Copper]

There was a bar on Route 7 called the Pawn Shop, at one time my 5 roommates and I had a streak going for 7 months. At least 2 of us were in that bar every night.

We were in there drinking all the time, and we weren't alone. We were probably 25-26 years old.

[taiwan_girl]

@xenon said in Attitudes toward alcohol:

how tf did they drink so much all the time.

North Asia is still like this, especially a place like Korea. Seems like it is either 0% drinking or drinking to unconscious. LOL

[Copper]

DUI was ok back then, or at least more tolerated

Some day we'll wonder how we ever let people drive with cell phones turned on

[jon-nyc]

@Copper said in Attitudes toward alcohol:

There was a bar on Route 7 called the Pawn Shop, at one time my 5 roommates and I had a streak going for 7 months. At least 2 of us were in that bar every night.

We were in there drinking all the time, and we weren't alone. We were probably 25-26 years old.

Yep.

[89th]

@Copper said in Attitudes toward alcohol:

at one time my 5 roommates and I had a streak going for 7 months. At least 2 of us were in that bar every night.

You failed to mention you lived in a 1-bedroom apartment. I don't blame the other guys for going to the bar and drinking at night.

[Copper]

@89th said in Attitudes toward alcohol:

lived in a 1-bedroom apartment

It was a 5-bedroom house in an "Embassy" neighborhood in McLean. It had a swimming pool that was great for toga parties.

The neighbors were polite, but they didn't miss us when we left.