Rationales on drinking, OK or NOT ?

[ConcernedCanuk]

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." -- W.C. Fields

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." -- Henny Youngman

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." -- Humphrey Bogart

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. " ~Frank Sinatra

[Burma Jones]

1. In Vino Veritas (n/t)

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Thank you - that too!

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[mouse7]

3. Depends on how bad your handovers get as you get older.

When I was 21, I could suck down a brewery or two and wake up with only feeling a little fuzzy.

I hit 30, and suddenly, I wake up feeling like I'm doing clinical trials of "Night Of The Living Dead" vaccines after just drinking a couple of rounds.

It's not necessarily getting "older and more mature." Sometimes, it's simply losing one's ability to tolerate feeling like a third world cesspool the next day.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I'm fine with beer, but "hard stuff" just ruins my next day

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While I'm here

-Toronto today - right this minute!

[gyopsy]

5. I drink for fun

And it's totally cool. I get smashed maybe once a week and I very rarely get a hangover. The key is to know when you've had enough. I usually try to drink enough to get drunk but not enough to start feeling REALLY drunk.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. For fun is fine, as long as one doesn't get"mean" I think it's OK too!

[Nikia]

7. I don't think that it is a good thing

It is fine in moderation, of course, but I think that it is easy for it to become a really negative thing for a lot of people, both by drinking way too much in one sitting and drinking somewhat heavily often. I don't drink often at all. If I did, I would probably become an alcoholic since I have a tendency to drink a lot in a short period of time despite the fact that I don't like what it creates in me, negative emotionwise.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Re: - "I don't like what it creates in me, negative emotionwise"

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I agree, that if this is what drinking does for you that it is NOT a good thing, for you.

For myself that sort of thing never happens. I just get more relaxed, my pool game gets better, and for some reason my French improves (I'm slightly bilingual).

I've calculated that my "peak" pool playing is after 3 beers, and starts to sort of "slide" a bit after 8 or so. But by that time - I don't care! I don't get sick, I don't get headaches, and I can do without it. (but I prefer not to)

So for those it causes problems I agree with you, it's not a good thing.

But for me, when the budget allows - I think it's just fine!

[Baclava]

9. Doppleganger?

"I've calculated that my "peak" pool playing is after 3 beers, and starts to sort of "slide" a bit after 8 or so. But by that time - I don't care!"

Exact copy of my golf game.

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. LOL - so it ISN"T just my imagination. - cool !