How much do you drink each week?

[Seabiscuit36]

Like RJS it runs in my family but oddly no one is a full blown alchoholic(waking up every day to vodka for breakfast) or violent.  In highschool my friends would come over to family parties and got freaked out how much the Thomas family put down.    

Honestly Zanshin, i drink out of habit.  Come home, grab a beer, put dinner together, have more beer, watch tv, more beer, xbox 360, more beer, pillow. 

[rjs246]

For those of you with the multi-drink-a-day habit...why? Just curious.

Um, because reality is boring. Also, being drunk gives me an excuse to say all of the idiotic things that I have inside of me, that are just begging to get out and would otherwise be completely out of line.

Oh, right. I almost forgot. Genetics. Every male on the maternal side of my family for as long as there is any recollection has been a booze jockey. I've just mastered the art of being functional... so far.

definitely worth teaching to the rest of us.

Practice. And a disdain for people who can't keep their shtein together. Those are the only two ingredients you need.

[Diomedes]

Well said.

[PhillyandBCEagles]

I probably drink about 10-15 beers a week.  This is a fairly new development, though.  My senior year of college I was drinking 3-4 nights a week, 10-15+ beers (or the equivalent in liquor) a night.  Capped it off the last week and a half of school when I got absolutely blackout drunk 8 nights out of 9.

[Munson]

I don't drink often, but when I do I binge drink. Probably not the healthiest thing to do.

But I like to make myself believe I'm not that bad because I just toss some everclear, fruit punch, and mountain dew together, drink it really fast and do it again until I get smashed. Therefore I get really drunk off not a lot of alcohol. The problem being that the not a lot of alcohol is 190 proof. Oh well.

Beer I don't usually drink unless I'm playing beer pong or trying to keep myself drunk/buzzed after I can't find liquor anymore. I love being in college.

Better yet...I miss senior week. Good week.

[mussa]

take advantage of it shteinlips.  i wish i was back in college. beast ice 12 packs daily from latimer's deli. college was a drunk fest. not only did I get served pretty much at every corner shop, there was a bar around the corner that housed underagers and I had a fake ID.  those were the dayz

[phattymatty]

I don't generally trust people like that,  but I acknowledge their existence.

amen.  i don't trust people who don't drink either.  i mean if they're a recovering alcoholic or something, i can live with that.  but people who don't drink just because?  something is shady in my book.

[Seabiscuit36]

narcs

[Rome]

I don't generally trust people like that,  but I acknowledge their existence.

amen.  i don't trust people who don't drink either.  i mean if they're a recovering alcoholic or something, i can live with that.  but people who don't drink just because?  something is shady in my book.

I don't give a shtein if people don't drink.  That's their choice.   When they get judgmental about it, well, that's when I have a problem.

We went to a birthday party for one of my daughter's friends at a country club last year and a few of us had cocktails during the party.  Nothing major, just a bloody mary or two.  I heard through the grapevine that our drinking was considered "awful" and "irresponsible" by some of the other parents, and they decided to forgo parties where alcohol was served from that point on as a result

Can you f'ing believe that shtein?  We're adults and we're having a couple of drinks.  What's the big deal?  It's not like we got shtein-faced or anything.

The good thing is, now that the tightasses no longer attend parties, we can get together and have a good time without having to deal with the puritans glares anymore.

[rjs246]

I don't trust people who won't have a drink outside of recovering alkies. There's something creepy and uptight about it. Plus it immediately eliminates a number of conversational possibilities.

Anyway, people who don't like beer and prefer liquor also give me a willies... actually that's not accurate, they just remind me of women. What kind of man doesn't like a dozen or so beers? No kind of man.

[Rome]

One of my buddies insists he's allergic to beer.  Some ingredient in it makes him sick so he doesn't drink it.

He drinks scotch like it's water, though, so he's alright in my book.

[Susquehanna Birder]

A friend of ours is a non-drinker. The lore goes that he used to drink, but he gave it up (we don't know the details). But it's okay because he has such a big personality anyway. Life of the party, even sober.

[rjs246]

One of my buddies insists he's allergic to beer. Some ingredient in it makes him sick so he doesn't drink it.

He drinks scotch like it's water, though, so he's alright in my book.

Allergy to beer is real, so I guess that gets a pass. But you know what? I'm allergic to leaves and grass and pollen of all kinds and I still go outside, so maybe this dude should just tighten up and deal with it.

[mussa]

I can understand why people frown on it. I mean bad, bad shtein can come from the result of drinking, and some people experience this more than others and therefore think every person with a drink tries to have sex with statues or fat women, or wants to bring humanity down or kill christ.  I mean I can get pretty hammered and maintain, thats genetic, my grandpa housed manhattans all night and never acted a fool and was a hard workering moral person.  To wrongly judge people you don't know for drinking because of your own experiences or other idiots actions is not right. in other words go farg yourself.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

FYI:  My average is now a lot higher thanks to Sunday's game.