Why Do You Even Drink?

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

No boats here. But you stick with your rancid grape juice because you don't know any better. Enjoy!

bored today? 

[RSD1]

30 minutes ago, Hummin said:

bored today? 

Sheesh. Do you wanna know what color underwear I'm wearing too?

[save the frogs]

On 10/10/2024 at 4:49 AM, Kinok Farang said:

20 years sober now but if i could i'd have a drink tomorrow.

I can honestly say i had more fun in the pub with the lads than any other time of my life.

 

Basically, you can fart and all the lads start laughing at your farts because everything is funny when you're drunk.

We're way too uptight and serious in normal life. 

So getting drunk is an outlet to let loose. 

It's a psychological release from all the tension of being serious all day long at work. 

 

[save the frogs]

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

show me your selection then 😄

I don't know much about wine. 

I'll take your word for it that that wine tastes good and is worth the exorbitant price tag.

In fact, wine is so good that it's highly addictive. You end up drinking it every night, sometimes 2-3 glasses.

It's way too easy to go beyond safe limits where it starts to harm your liver and shrink your brain.

So screw wine. 

If I gave up pizza and cakes and ice cream, I can give up wine too.

 

Such is life. We're cursed creatures. A lot of stuff that tastes good is not good for us. 

I'll give God a piece of my mind when I see him. 

Why can't alcohol just be good for us, damn you God !!!!

 

[Gottfrid]

1 hour ago, RSD1 said:

Really, you can't fix me?

Hard keeping to topic?

[Hummin]

9 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

I don't know much about wine. 

I'll take your word for it that that wine tastes good and is worth the exorbitant price tag.

In fact, wine is so good that it's highly addictive. You end up drinking it every night, sometimes 2-3 glasses.

It's way too easy to go beyond safe limits where it starts to harm your liver and shrink your brain.

So screw wine. 

If I gave up pizza and cakes and ice cream, I can give up wine too.

 

Such is life. We're cursed creatures. A lot of stuff that tastes good is not good for us. 

I'll give God a piece of my mind when I see him. 

Why can't alcohol just be good for us, damn you God !!!!

 

I drink maybe 8 - 12 bottles of wine in a year on average, and most of them in the summer in my orign country. 

 

This year so far raw assumption of my alchohol consumption.

 

15 beers, 5 bottles of wine, 6 glass of cognac. 2 white months included. 

[save the frogs]

8-12 bottles of wine per year seems reasonable  

[RSD1]

13 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Hard keeping to topic?

That's all you got? How disappointing.

[RSD1]

8 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I drink maybe 8 - 12 bottles of wine in a year on average, and most of them in the summer in my orign country. 

 

This year so far raw assumption of my alchohol consumption.

 

15 beers, 5 bottles of wine, 6 glass of cognac. 2 white months included. 

Oh gawd, another boring and pedantic list maker. 

[Kinok Farang]

38 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

Basically, you can fart and all the lads start laughing at your farts because everything is funny when you're drunk.

We're way too uptight and serious in normal life. 

So getting drunk is an outlet to let loose. 

It's a psychological release from all the tension of being serious all day long at work. 

 

That describes my mates and i perfectly.

Saying that,when i go and see them now i tell them "I'm off after your third pint". After that it's like listening to a gang of loonies.

[bkk6060]

I still drink, but have cut way back.  Some recent studies have said any amount, even one beer is toxic and not good for your body.  Very sad, drinking can be very enjoyable and relaxing.

[KannikaP]

On 10/10/2024 at 11:13 AM, CallumWK said:

I notice our resident troll is again very active in this thread, shame his posts get removed before I have the chance to read them

 

How do you know that his posts have been removed?

[KannikaP]

20 minutes ago, Hummin said:

15 beers, 5 bottles of wine, 6 glass of cognac. 2 white months included. 

Surely you mean per MONTH?

[Baht Simpson]

3 hours ago, Speedhump said:

Duh. Because I can. I like the taste of both beer and water. I drink both, but not in one glass.

Beer is 90+% water.  ;} 

[Baht Simpson]

People drink alcohol for varying reasons. Personally I prefer to drink for taste rather than effect and I rarely over-indulge. 
 

I also like beer and wine culture and trying new and interesting varieties. 

 

Getting drunk doesn't interest me but I admit I do enjoy that heady feeling after the first or second glass and loosening up a bit.

 

I like to keep a rough record of what I drink and stick to a weekly limit or it becomes like Russian Roulette with your health.

 

We're all different.

[Hummin]

48 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

Oh gawd, another boring and pedantic list maker. 

You sounds like a great guy and sure have many good friends who you share interesting things with. I replied to save the frogs, not you.

[Hummin]

38 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Surely you mean per MONTH?

Nope, I do not drink much, but when have friends over we share a bottle or two among us of quality wine, and a few glasses who complement the food. 

 

A good Cognac and coffe as well. 

 

The less I drink, the more I enjoy drinking. Some know what I mean, most do not

[RSD1]

10 minutes ago, Hummin said:

You sounds like a great guy and sure have many good friends who you share interesting things with. I replied to save the frogs, not you.

Nope, not great, no friends. Unlike you of course. An expert on everything and a true legend in your own mind. Reading your long, boring, trite, and self-absorbed posts, I can only imagine you have tons of friends and are the life of any party. Olé. 

[Hummin]

1 minute ago, RSD1 said:

Nope, not great, no friends. Unlike you of course. An expert on everything and a true legend in your own mind. Reading your long, boring, trite, and self-absorbed posts, I can only imagine you have tons of friends and are the life of any party. Olé. 

I have a life, and do my best, while you sound bitter

[steven100]

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

I still drink, but have cut way back.  Some recent studies have said any amount, even one beer is toxic and not good for your body.  Very sad, drinking can be very enjoyable and relaxing.

I'm half cut again ...          i'm really toxic now ..

[RSD1]

25 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I have a life, and do my best, while you sound bitter

Sure you do. And all those steroids you take only seem to make you more boring.  

[save the frogs]

29 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I have a life, and do my best, while you sound bitter

you got a stalker.

you should be flattered. 

[Sigmund]

Once or twince a month...(1) or two (2) well filled glases of great red wine won't hurt. Very enjoying with a good meal. A few stronger drinks with mixers and ice,  every few months when out in a club late...well,  why not... ?

 

But the main problem of drunks (those who need their drinks daily)  is that they will never admit that they are drunkards and second it's a disease that often needs a properly qualified mental health professional to cure. And that can be a challenge to find in Thailand or in within many humble or poor communities in the west.

 

Drink like drugs, alters the mind, alters common sense, can cause depression (that is errorneously relieved with more drink), causes agressive behavioural patterns and many other well known issues.

 

As for drinking and driving, no comment. But with all the Police corruption in Thailand, it's a child's play for a drunk,  caught behind the wheel,  to pay his way out of the check-point.

[Sigmund]

On 10/10/2024 at 8:02 AM, BritManToo said:

I like to drink Pepsi!

At the end of the day, over consumption of Coke, Pepsi and similar could be causing more deaths and serious health issues then moderate consumption of booze...

 

If I may say, anything is good in moderation and self discipline, and everything can get bad if one looses it.

 

Thank you.

[Hummin]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

you got a stalker.

you should be flattered. 

Poor man, the only entertainment he got, 

[connda]

11 hours ago, steven100 said:

exactly ...  and same here,  if I wanna sit here and enjoy my cold beer while reading all the nonsense that appears on AN daily then that's my god damn constitutional right  !  no one pays ya rent ...    only you..

 

I'd rather have a mini-keg of craft beer in a tub of ice.

 

[connda]

11 hours ago, madone said:

I cut way back on booze a few years back, it wasn't a conscious decision but something that happened over time simply because I wasn't having fun anymore. I still have the occasional drink, but it is getting harder to come up with an appropriate occasion.

Yeah - you and me both, and there must be more of us out there.  It's something about getting older and changes in the metabolism.  It just doesn't feel like it use to.  Alcohol, weed, even "other stuff" (I won't elaborate other than to say - "Timothy Leary's dead...Noooo, no no, he's outside, looking in, Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones you better, watch your speed," and Carlos Castaneda and his brujo friends).  Most mind-altering, feel good stuff is now in the "Been There, Done That, It Was Fun, Don't Feel Like Doing It Anymore Because It Doesn't Have The Same 'Feel') category.
So now I just get my jollies in different ways without the buzz.  But with that said, I know many guys and gals who quite literally drink themselves into an early grave and alcohol, bars, and hanging out with others who like to get hammered is a central part of their lives right up into their elderly years.  It's funny, I have a friend like that, a bit younger than me, who now has some serious health problems...and suddenly his kids, grand-kids, and family have become really important to him.  It's good to see.  I have wondered how many of the bar-flies will hang with him to the end?  But family and non-bar-fly friends have become important.  That's something to celebrate.  But if the bar-flies want to indulge, more power to them.  I'm not going to knock it, but now it's just not my cup of tea. But for everyone else?  Up to you! 

[connda]

11 hours ago, madone said:

 

You do realize there is more to life than high school right? 

 

The situations you describe, while they do occur are outliers, not the norm.

I cut way back on booze a few years back, it wasn't a conscious decision but something that happened over time simply because I wasn't having fun anymore. I still have the occasional drink, but it is getting harder to come up with an appropriate occasion.

Another huge deterrent is passing by bars in my day-to-day routine and realizing that the crowd holds no appeal to me.  There are increasingly few attractive, vital folk at the tables (male or female) . It seems to me a bad time to open a venue, the people drinking today were the same drinking 10 years ago with no steady infusion of new blood.

     

Yep.

[connda]

11 hours ago, madone said:

 

A decade and change ago, this is what my maid saw every Monday morning, but wine bottles and Heineken

Ohhh - loved rich red wine, but <gag> terrible freaking hangovers. 

[connda]

11 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

It was about alcohol, wasn't it?

Yeahhhh, but you decided to take a detour down this lane:

🤑"Most of them might be losers, came here after a failed marriage, insufficient funds, or any other low income, hoping to forget their misery by buying booze and sometimes sex.

Poor life I'd say."
So you got this reply:
🙄 "It never fails to amaze me, the number of "Holier Than Thou" and "Richer Than You" types who can't wait to pontificate on Aseannow about being morally superior to other expats here."

I thought the shoe fit, so I put your foot into it and tied the laces for ya.