Living with alcohol.

[Dretlin]

Fortunately I have never been an seriously bad alcoholic. The nearest I got was when I was 22 and a sales rep and expected to take clients out to lunch every day and have a pint with them. I found myself drinking at the weekends as well which up to then I had never done. I started to have soft drinks at lunch during the week using the excuse that my job depended on my driving licence. This strategy worked and the weekend desire to drink receded. Nowadays I get through a couple of beers and shorts a week at most. 50% of the time I don't drink at all in any given week.

I have known alcoholics and ex-alcoholics and I know that alcoholism can be a life breaker.

If you are, have been or are worried you are becoming an alcoholic this is the place to discuss it.

I enjoy a good beer every couple of weeks. I do not enjoy being drunk, which may place me in a minority in my age group. Like your story, I am 22 at the moment.

Binge drinking in Glasgow seems all too familiar and I am uncomfortable with being used to seeing vast numbers of others nearly paralytic.

I enjoy good quality beer and wine infrequently - leave your Buckfast and Mad Dog at the door please!

[Tank]

Fortunately I have never been an seriously bad alcoholic. The nearest I got was when I was 22 and a sales rep and expected to take clients out to lunch every day and have a pint with them. I found myself drinking at the weekends as well which up to then I had never done. I started to have soft drinks at lunch during the week using the excuse that my job depended on my driving licence. This strategy worked and the weekend desire to drink receded. Nowadays I get through a couple of beers and shorts a week at most. 50% of the time I don't drink at all in any given week.

I have known alcoholics and ex-alcoholics and I know that alcoholism can be a life breaker.

If you are, have been or are worried you are becoming an alcoholic this is the place to discuss it.

I enjoy a good beer every couple of weeks. I do not enjoy being drunk, which may place me in a minority in my age group. Like your story, I am 22 at the moment.

Binge drinking in Glasgow seems all too familiar and I am uncomfortable with being used to seeing vast numbers of others nearly paralytic.

I enjoy good quality beer and wine infrequently - leave your Buckfast and Mad Dog at the door please!

I tried one sip of Buckfast once and that was enough  

[PoopShoot]

But Glasgow is in a dry county!

[philosoraptor]

My parents didn't really drink growing up.  I had my first drink as a teenager, and while my friends drank a lot when I was in college, I never was a heavy drinker.  After I turned 21, I did drink with some regularity, but rarely in excess.  I liked trying new things, and once I figured out what I liked, I stuck with it.  I don't really like beer.  I have to be in the mood for hard liquor.  But man oh man, do I love wine.  I can drink a bottle or two by myself, easily.  I don't do it all that often, though.  Generally, when my friends drink, I am the DD.

I will admit though that right after I got fired from my shitty job with the shitty bigots, I got shitty myself for 4 days straight just because I could.  I'm not proud of that, but it did happen.  I've never been much of a hair of the dog type drinker-that week with the 4 day bender was the exception.

[Ã¥scertain]

I don't think there is a problem with alcohol and what it's used for. Life can be a vast shitty interpertation - especially when false justifications for it are erradicated.
Using ANYTHING and depending on it is dangerous, though HEALTH wise.
bottom line is though, if something makes you happy - do it.
If your happy being a drunken man who talks to himself and complains about society - DO IT.
If your unhappy living day-to-day ingesting life as is- DON'T DO IT.

[Whitney]

For most people the secret to quitting an addiction is to 1)decide you want to quit and have solid reasons for why 2) Work on gradually reducing usage 3) Set a quit date and stick to it 3) If necessary, start step one again and repeat repeat repeat till you are successful in quitting.

At least that's what worked for me with quitting smoking.

[Dretlin]

I tried one sip of Buckfast once and that was enough  

I had my first deep fried mars bars last year. I could feel myself gaining weight as I ate it.  

[PoopShoot]

Just move to any of the grey areas, they're all dry.

[Thumpalumpacus]

... and here I thought Kentucky was the home of the mint julep.  Turns out it was only the motel room, apparently.

[PoopShoot]

... and here I thought Kentucky was the home of the mint julep.  Turns out it was only the motel room, apparently.

In all fairness, only half of the state is dry.  And I live less than a mile from the bootlegger.

[Thumpalumpacus]

And yet the largest cash crop is?

[PoopShoot]

And yet the largest cash crop is?

IDK, but my neighbors tend to grow tobacco.

[epepke]

Before the advent of mechanical refrigeration, it was well nigh impossible not to live with alcohol.

[PoopShoot]

Before the advent of mechanical refrigeration, it was well nigh impossible not to live with alcohol.

Pioneer brewers would actually brew their same grains three times in order to have enough beer for drinking.

[epepke]

Before the advent of mechanical refrigeration, it was well nigh impossible not to live with alcohol.

Pioneer brewers would actually brew their same grains three times in order to have enough beer for drinking.

That's pretty small beer.