"I drink infrequently"
"I drink a few drinks a month"
"I dont drink more than a few times a year."
Nah, there are lots of ways to do this
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If you're trying to justify your drinking to me after I said "Oh, I don't drink" I'm really gonna think you're an alcoholic because I said nothing to warrant you needing to justify yourself. I just don't like drinking myself.
Almost every single time I have made a comment about how I do not like alcohol, I get a few replies from people trying to justify their consumption to me, as if I said I hate people who drink.
I guess I'm lucky. Since I retired from drinking no one has pushed back when I've declined to partake.
I think in some areas, the culture is starting to shift around that a bit. I remember the 2000-2010s era having a lot of shows that were more on-the-nose about the topic and then seeing more people talking about how to properly interact with recovering alcoholics on social media in the years following.
Purely anecdotal, of course. I just get the vibe that some areas where drinking used to be very expected, have learned to treat it as a choice
Also don't drink, can confirm.
This is always weird when the doctor asks. Both my wife and I are not adverse to drinking and do but like it took us several years to use up a bottle of cognac she had picked up because she wanted to do up eggnog all special one year. So the answer is always. Yes but very very very rarely.
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Alcohol is a great solvent and widely used in flavor extracts such as orange and almond concentrating and preserving the essence of flavors.
It's use can add natural flavors to a great variety of recipes.
Whatever, boozer
One drink at a time!
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I drink because I like to support local business. It just happens that the local business I want to support are breweries.
You betcha and I have a few great ones nearby. Cheers! 🍻
Sometimes the point of alcohol is just to get a little bit drunk.
Similarly, asking anyone to defend their position on why sobriety is superior will eventually have them sound like they are insecure and judgemental.
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If you are in a position where you need to defend your booze consumpion, you're probably an alcoholic.
Not really. Say you have one beer a week after mowing the yard. I could say, "If you aren't addicted, then just quit."
I could say, "If you aren't addicted, then just quit."
Did anyone actually tell you that 1 beer a week is too much? Because it's not a real case scenario in my mind.
And even if they really did it's probably their own problem, and you don't really have to defend yourself for doing that.
In any other case, if a person tells you "hey, tone it down with the booze" you probably should.
This sounds like it starts from the assumption that it can only be consumed for the effect, not the taste.
I drink once, maybe twice every year, and never more than 2-3 drinks. And I specifically either sip a finger of Jägermeister, a White Russian, or expensive gin tonics (Scapegrace is brilliantly rich and nuanced, for instance), because I enjoy the taste.
What I do not enjoy is getting drunk. Not only because the following two days are worse than death, but especially because I don't like how my body slips out of my control and how it encourages my mind to drift toward the dark place.
You drink alcohol EVERY YEAR?! Wow, look at this boozehound over here.
I think alcohol like music can not be separated from its effect upon the mind. I think those effects are entirely the point we take it, I think if it was just taste you would not drink your White Russian. I think when you drink it it is because you want to visit or at least be reminded of your dark place. Like all drugs it is vital not to ignore the positive effects they can have while also being very aware of the long term negative consequences. As to answering the original question I think if you drink less than the average it is permissible to give as your reasons that you sometimes like the way it makes you feel. You drink in the same way you put on music, not because of the sound or the taste but because it takes you to somewhere else and for a little while that is where you needed to be.
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I love the taste!
I'm also addicted to the substance.
Look at this guy, he actually likes the taste instead of just being addicted to the substance!
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I'm fine with my 12-pack a day of Keystones.
You need different friends.
Why would you need to defend anything?
So nobody takes your booze.
It's actually quite simple, sounds like you need to change your friend group
Oh, I don't have friends, it was just a shower thought.
That's a pretty subjective statement as it really depends on whom you're defending it to. Does consuming any amount of alcohol make one an alcoholic? I suppose differing people will have differing definitions.
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Try it with opiates lol.
I don't have a drink problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem.
I don't abuse alcohol. I love alcohol, so why would I abuse it?
Nah I'm alcoholic, why defend it beer makes me happy
I'm almost through that case of Christmas Ale I bought in November.
I enjoy drinking
sure as long as your accurate. There were things suggesting one or two servings per day was actually healthy but if your using it to justify more then it immediately falls apart. Also you can justify the pleasurable effects but if it ever interferes with anything at all then that is out the window.
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