Why do you drink alcohol?

[Kyriakos]

Just a question. It is not meant in some holier-than-thou attitude, given that although i do not drink any alcohol (at least since a decade now) i am a quite heavy smoker anyway...

I used to drink something like one or at most two small glasses of vodka each week. Even in the university years. I never did like alcohol much, apart from some softer drinks like liquiere and cogniac. I particularly liked strawberry liquiere, but again never drunk a lot.

So, to those who drink alcohol from time to time, what do you see in it? (i smoke still, but the feeling of pleasant dizziness i used to have when i started smoking is no longer there at all, and only a slight sense of enjoyment from smoking keeps on existing).

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.

 

[warpus]

Many reasons. Because I like the way it tastes.. because I like the way it makes me feel.. because it is a part of dinner.. because Polish easter or Christmas just isn't complete with shots of vodka.. Because my friends offer it to me as a sign of comradery.

My favourite drinks are tasty beers.. there is a lot of variety there - I love sitting down after a long day at work and enjoying a nice pint of of a dark or wheat beer, or whatever suits my mood at the time. You sit back and you sip it and it's awesome.

Shots of vodka are also a common Polish social instrument, meaning something you do in a group. "Let's drink to our health!" or "Let's drink to Steve!" or whatever.

I don't really enjoy getting drunk, but it's hard to get me drunk these days anyway. I need to drink quite a bit to get to that state, and by then it really ceases to be enjoyable. So for me it's mostly about the taste and at times tradition, not to mention the social aspect.

It's like with bacon, really. It tastes good and it makes you feel good and it's good sharing bacon with others in a social setting.

 

[AdamCrock]

To Praise Dionisos of course ! ^^ I drink a lot of alcohol to get away from daily life. The good points are : Good feeling, exhiliration. The bad point are : Stupidity, not making much sense, acting like an idiot and much more .... To drop an addiction (Well the alcohol is very addicting) You need the 'bad things' grow so large that You no longer take pleasure from drinking.

 

[Winner]

Mostly because it is a social lubricant. I usually have a few beers with my friends; or some wine if girls don't want to drink beer.

If I drink alone, it's a glass of wine/beer in the evening, when I read something or watch a film.

After an unpleasant experience in my early 20s, I stopped drinking spirits almost completely. If I am really forced by social convention, I can manage a shot of slivovice or something like that, but in general I avoid it (and I would NEVER buy that crap in a pub; people who do are idiots in my opinion). Spirits and hard alcohol exist only to get people drunk quickly, which is the exact opposite of what I like to use alcohol for.

Oh BTW, smoking should be banned outright in all pubs, bars, and restaurants, without exception.

 

[AdamCrock]

Oh BTW, smoking should be banned outright in all pubs, bars, and restaurants, without exception.

I am a smoker therefore I strongly disagree with that. However we can go out to have a cigaret so the smoking ban is allright with me (as long as we (the smokers) can go to have a smoke somewhere )

 

[Virote_Considon]

I drink to help me for... Forget...

 

[sophie]

Because it tastes good. Because I like getting drunk/tipsy occasionally. Because it makes for fun social gatherings.

 

[bhsup]

It tastes good. it's as simple as that.

 

[duckstab]

I like the taste of some alcoholic beverages, and the relaxing effect is pleasant. I never drink to the point of actual intoxication anymore.

 

[madviking]

As I recently played in a game of Card Against Humanity:

"I drink to forget _______"

("Self loathing")

 

[Camikaze]

I don't drink alcohol because it tastes good, because for the majority of alcoholic drinks, it doesn't. Ever since I started drinking a wider variety of beers, I've become pickier, to the extent that now I don't really like many beers and find it much harder to force them down. I'm kinda glad cider has become a thing, because it actually does taste decent.

Alcohol is more of a social thing for me. Not that my social interactions always involve alcohol, but I just don't really drink outside of them. I don't have any alcohol in my bungalow at the moment. I bought a bottle opener the other day, but haven't seen anything around that piques my interest. Of course, when you're drinking socially there's that point beyond which the night starts to deteriorate (the other week I was with a group of Australians, and we made a terrible translation error; apparently 'mega' comes after 'super' in German), and I only really like drinking up to that point. I think I'm usually fairly good at judging it, but then I think for a lot of people, drinking beyond it is not necessarily a matter of wanting to, but of not judging it well.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I don't drink because none of my friends drink.

That was pretty simple.

 

[warpus]

I don't drink alcohol because it tastes good, because for the majority of alcoholic drinks, it doesn't.

Well, that's just like your opinion man.

I love the way certain beers taste. Love sitting there on my deck, holding a pint of a craft beer in my hand, in the appropriate type of glass. I sit there and I sip it. It can be quite wonderful.

That's why I don't drink light beers - they don't have any taste. I don't really consider some of the beers. They're just refreshing alcoholic beverages.

 

[Kyriakos]

To Praise Dionisos of course ! ^^

Maenads can be dangerous though

 

[Camikaze]

Well, that's just like your opinion man.

I love the way certain beers taste. Love sitting there on my deck, holding a pint of a craft beer in my hand, in the appropriate type of glass. I sit there and I sip it. It can be quite wonderful.

That's why I don't drink light beers - they don't have any taste. I don't really consider some of the beers. They're just refreshing alcoholic beverages.

Some beers are great. But nowadays I don't enjoy the prospect of ordering a random beer as I did a couple of years ago. If you've got yourself a case of your favourite, then sure, it's going to be good. But if you're in a random bar/restaurant and order a beer, chances are it's going to be fairly meh. Unless it's like a Belgian restaurant or something.

 

[History_Buff]

I'm in about the same boat as Camikaze. Getting a little adventurous with trying different beers just taught me to love wheat beers and dislike most everything else. Of the standard Canadian pub beer, I can kind of enjoy Kokanee, but that's about it.

 

[Kyriakos]

I never liked beer at all. For a year i tried it, going out one year after highschool ended with some people from the old school. We mostly ordered "Two Heineken" with the increasingly boring/lame joke "Two Heidegger"

 

[Yoda Power]

I confine my drinking to social occasions with my friends. I love the taste of several types of alcohol, but health reasons make me avoid it.

 

[Cheetah]

I started to drink to have an excuse if my absolutely terrible flirting attempts were to cause embarrassment or less than enthusiastic response from the fairer sex.

After enough practice I could manage do to the not-completely-stupid flirting without alcohol, but by then I had developed a pretty good taste for it, and now drink because it taste good.

Well, also, it's fun to be a bit buzzed. And really, if there is any kind of drink that is related to civilisation itself, it has to be alcohol!

 

[The_J]

[x] I don't (99% of the time).
Doesn't taste good, makes me tired and the thinking slow. Not a favourable condition.
Last time I drank alcohol must have been 3 weeks ago, since I asked a girl what she'd like, and the answer was whine :/.