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Megillah Gorilla posted:Whenever I tell people I don't drink they look at me like I'm from the moon. Some get incredibly aggressive over it. It's probably the same kind of people who get mad when someone says they don't eat meat. "What?!!? You're not exactly like me?!!? I thought you were a good person!"
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I'm pretty sure that people who don't drink also don't really go anywhere either, case in point, my parents just sit around all day watching HGTV
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm pretty sure that people who don't drink also don't really go anywhere either, case in point, my parents just sit around all day watching HGTV The fact that you think drinking is a prerequisite for being interesting tells me you're not interesting and you know it deep down.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:17
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madmatt112 posted:The fact that you think drinking is a prerequisite for being interesting tells me you're not interesting and you know it deep down. Or going places and doing things. It wasn't that long ago that people were super upset at non-smokers coming to concerts and poo poo.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:20
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spacetoaster posted:It's probably the same kind of people who get mad when someone says they don't eat meat. Yeah that's because they tell you they don't eat meat after you've cooked $60 worth of ribeyes and, oh, they don't like asparagus or corn either, so if someone could just go to mcdonalds and get them a large fry they'd really appreciate it (they don't drive, you see)
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Aug 22, 2018 20:24
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Nerses IV posted:Yeah that's because they tell you they don't eat meat after you've cooked $60 worth of ribeyes and, oh, they don't like asparagus or corn either, so if someone could just go to mcdonalds and get them a large fry they'd really appreciate it (they don't drive, you see) That's pretty different from the situation the guy was talking about. But yes, arriving at a host's home and complaining about what's offered is a douche move.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:27
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm pretty sure that people who don't drink also don't really go anywhere either, case in point, my parents just sit around all day watching HGTV Lol that you think many of those top 10% aren't people who just stay home and drink all day
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Aug 22, 2018 20:30
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*30 second bud light commercial about drinking beer being great* *hushed quick voice saying "enjoy responsibly" at the end* We are successfully self-regulating you see
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Aug 22, 2018 20:39
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Whenever I tell people I don't drink they look at me like I'm from the moon. Some get incredibly aggressive over it. Same, or they feel entitled to interrogate me about it and aren't satisfied with true answers
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Aug 22, 2018 20:55
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The Bloop posted:Same, or they feel entitled to interrogate me about it and aren't satisfied with true answers Just tell them you're a recovering alcoholic. That usually does the trick.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:56
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madmatt112 posted:The fact that you think drinking is a prerequisite for being interesting tells me you're not interesting and you know it deep down. Hey! I drink alcohol, therefore I am interesting!
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Rutibex posted:It's starting to get real annoying to have to put up with all these dumb fad plastic bans. "let's ban plastic bags!" "No wait it's drink straws that's really to blame!" It's all feelgood bullshit designed to make individuals feel like they are Making a Difference(tm) meanwhile industrial waste is the source of like 97% of garbage or some similarly ridiculously high percentage.
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spacetoaster posted:It wasn't that long ago that people were super upset at non-smokers coming to concerts and poo poo. ... What? Who cares dude if you're there to have a good time you're there to have a good time. You don't need to drop E at a rave to have fun, either.
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm pretty sure that people who don't drink also don't really go anywhere either, case in point, my parents just sit around all day watching HGTV I feel like the majority of people who watch HGTV do so with a glass of wine or bud light in the drink holder of their couch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXYaiyqGd0
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Aug 22, 2018 21:16
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I feel like the majority of people who watch HGTV do so with a glass of wine or bud light in the drink holder of their couch. Not my parents, they're sober the whole time and enjoy it when those kids are so stupid because there's no way they can get a house with stainless steel appliances on that budget!
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Aug 22, 2018 21:18
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Moridin920 posted:... What? Yeah, there was a time when non-smokers started refusing to come to events at smoking venues and owners/promoters started making events non-smoking. It pissed a lot of smokers off. Now you see them all standing outside in little groups sucking their little death dicks.
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I burn through 2 pairs of shoes a year just from wear. Usually most of the way through a third pair. I walk a loving lot at work though, and used to walk more at a previous warehouse job where I'd walk the soles off shoes in 3 months. If I cared enough to buy dress shoes or if I ever needed to buy boots again (2 good pairs left in the closet from the army), those would probably be every other year expenses. But funny you say something about hoarding shoes, because there are a lot of people out there that collect sneakers and basketball shoes and poo poo. CRUSTY MINGE has issued a correction as of 21:27 on Aug 22, 2018 |
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Aug 22, 2018 21:25
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DrPossum posted:this is my fave chart Nice to know I'm leading the pack in something.
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Aug 22, 2018 21:25
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That's ten drinks a day holy poo poo, impressive
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Aug 22, 2018 21:44
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Lucid Nonsense posted:Nice to know I'm leading the pack in something. I’m between the 9th and top decile. Not bad I guess.
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spacetoaster posted:Just tell them you're a recovering alcoholic. That usually does the trick. There was someone on the radio the other day who talked about trying to turn down drinks in different parts of Europe iirc and depending on the crowd they'd get really suspicious or mad at you, and if you explained you were a recovering alcoholic they'd take it as some kind of personal offense. Also i'm not sure if this was the same interview or not but a different recovering alcoholic told a story about how this lady got incredibly mad at them for not drinking real champagne at a wedding or something like that, to the point where she dunked a finger in her champagne and forced it into the person's mouth.  People are really loving weird about booze CRUSTY MINGE posted:I burn through 2 pairs of shoes a year just from wear. Usually most of the way through a third pair. I walk a loving lot at work though, and used to walk more at a previous warehouse job where I'd walk the soles off shoes in 3 months. If I cared enough to buy dress shoes or if I ever needed to buy boots again (2 good pairs left in the closet from the army), those would probably be every other year expenses. Yeah I wear through shoes at around that rate, and I totally understand owning a few different pairs, but the national average being 7.4 seems real suspicious
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Aug 22, 2018 23:38
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Also I'm kinda mad that booze graph wrapped the bar around a bunch instead of just extending up really far or scaling everything else down, you don't quite get the full impact of just how much more that last bar is compared to the others
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Aug 22, 2018 23:40
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You can't trust someone who doesn't drink.
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Aug 22, 2018 23:40
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There was a thing in a science book that said drinking a beer a day lowered your risk of cancer, so i'm drinking 12, i'm 12 times less likely to get cancer than all of you so take that.
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Aug 22, 2018 23:45
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ate all the Oreos posted:There was someone on the radio the other day who talked about trying to turn down drinks in different parts of Europe iirc and depending on the crowd they'd get really suspicious or mad at you, and if you explained you were a recovering alcoholic they'd take it as some kind of personal offense. I think it's the same mentality of people who get way to upset or start demanding answers from you if you say you're not having children. Somehow living your life in a different way from them is deeply disturbing.
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Powershift posted:There was a thing in a science book that said drinking a beer a day lowered your risk of cancer, so i'm drinking 12, i'm 12 times less likely to get cancer than all of you so take that. you can lower your chances of dying from cancer by increasing your chances of dying from liver failure
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Rutibex posted:you can lower your chances of dying from cancer by increasing your chances of dying from liver failure I can get another one of those tho
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Aug 23, 2018 00:20
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Burt Sexual posted:I can get another one of those tho They’re not gonna give you another if it’s your fault you hosed up the first one Unless you’re rich
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Whenever I tell people I don't drink they look at me like I'm from the moon. Some get incredibly aggressive over it. This is a really Australian thing, in my experience. I know a dude who doesn't drink, never has, and I'm like "OK that's cool, it's not for everyone". But he's had people amazed that not only does he not drink, he hasn't ever even tried it like it's some sort of personal affront to their very existence.
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Memento posted:This is a really Australian thing, in my experience. I know a dude who doesn't drink, never has, and I'm like "OK that's cool, it's not for everyone". But he's had people amazed that not only does he not drink, he hasn't ever even tried it like it's some sort of personal affront to their very existence. Australians are mad. In the UK, you 'go for a drink' pretty much anytime after work or even at lunch and maybe have a couple and thats it. In the US, you 'go for a drink' on a friday evening and have exactly one drink and everyone drives home. In Australia, you 'go for a drink' because something positive may have happened and wake up on tuesday in a bathtub out deep in walla walla with a stuffed koala. There is no middle ground between 'not drinking' and the example above.
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Aug 23, 2018 02:43
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bunch of softies in here cant handle their carltons
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Aug 23, 2018 02:51
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Clawtopsy posted:bunch of softies in here cant handle their carltons Why? It's not unusual.
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Clawtopsy posted:bunch of softies in here cant handle their carltons 
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Pirate Radar posted:They’re not gonna give you another if it’s your fault you hosed up the first one Lol
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What is the scientifically calculated amount of drinking that shields you from both being called gay baby because you drink and being called a gay baby because you don’t drink?
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Maybe if Americans drank more they'd be less weird and angry. E: wanna see that top decile broken down. Vaginal Vagrant has issued a correction as of 03:40 on Aug 23, 2018 |
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Vaginal Vagrant posted:Maybe if Americans drank more they'd be less weird and angry. Steelie Georg, who lives in a cave and drinks ten cans of Steelie a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
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I'd be curious to find out the methods used to gather the data. I absolutely don't doubt there's a swathe of people who never drink, or a few that binge hardcore, but ehhh if it's self reported I'd pretty much dumpster the chart.
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Aug 23, 2018 03:44
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I assume bunch of people wrote 42069
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