^^^it's mostly narcissm. But I will stop posting so this doesn't turn into one of those threads.

[Edited on July 25, 2019 at 7:47 PM. Reason : I also don't think I've ever called you a troll? ]

7/25/2019 7:44:25 PM

4 so far tonight. shrug.gif

7/25/2019 8:13:44 PM

wait until later in the night to start

7/25/2019 8:19:03 PM

Bitch I'm stressed at 5pm check

7/25/2019 8:38:10 PM

7/25/2019 8:50:40 PM

I go many days and even over a week sometimes without drinking a beer in the summer. I work outside in the heat, so I try to eat and drink plenty of water after work.

7/25/2019 8:54:43 PM

how much water do you eat in an average day?

7/25/2019 8:55:29 PM

BanjoMan has the reading comprehension of a house cat.

7/25/2019 9:00:37 PM

I just had a drink

7/25/2019 9:01:47 PM

i had 4 beers at the pool

7/25/2019 9:35:39 PM

Early 30's guy I worked with at a body shop many years ago said he couldn't even begin to get a buzz unless he downed a case of beer. He would usually have a giant cooler in the back of his pickup truck and would go next door to the gas station every day at lunch and get ice and a case of beer. He'd do a few at lunch and start a couple more in the parking lot before he hit the road. He often rolled out with an open container in his truck. I couldn't imagine functioning at that level, but he did it almost every single day. Oh yea and he had his pickup truck roll onto him once when he was out back under it. Working on the brakes on an inclined drive and didn't chock the wheels. It was one of those big ass Chevy 3500 diesel trucks too. We pushed it off of him and he was surprisingly well off.

7/25/2019 9:41:04 PM

That infographic on the previous page is junk. Why would you call out 18 years of age.

7/25/2019 9:44:19 PM

yall dont know this, but Frosh is still just mad at me because I use to go to the Cstore at the quad while he was working and ask him to make me a fresh pot of coffee before closing.

7/25/2019 10:22:26 PM

I haven't ate enough water today.

7/25/2019 11:04:42 PM

My routine is usually a beer (miller or coors) when I get home from work around 4, then 1.5-2oz of bourbon after the kids go to bed. On weekends I usually have 3-4 drinks a day (combination of beer/bourbon). I haven't really noticed any type of adverse effects. Probably get shit faced 3-4x a year (although we're going to mexico in a week so that might skew things a little )

7/26/2019 6:22:22 AM

i had two beers

[Edited on July 26, 2019 at 11:46 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2019 11:46:26 PM

Just 3 tonight. 1 before going out, 2 since I got back home

7/27/2019 12:13:56 AM

You went out and didn't drink?

7/27/2019 12:45:52 AM

i haven’t had any beers but i’m thinking about getting one

7/27/2019 6:11:35 PM

What are our thoughts on white claw or truly? Had white claw for the first time today and drink, I think, 7. Could’ve had 7 more. Great taste + less filling imo

7/27/2019 9:22:17 PM

I've drank twice in the last year. Both in the last 2-3 weeks.

It's not too late to make it happen again, you dicks.

7/27/2019 10:30:22 PM

We shared a bottle of wine over dinner tonight. Afterwards, we went to a bar and had a cocktail. Now I'm home and could have another, but I'm thinking I want to go on a run tomorrow morning, so maybe not

7/27/2019 11:19:11 PM

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"What are our thoughts on white claw or truly? Had white claw for the first time today and drink, I think, 7. Could’ve had 7 more. Great taste + less filling imo"

i liked those but now i occasionally put cheap vodka in lime seltzer water. costs the same and has 2x the alcohol

7/28/2019 12:02:28 PM

at the beach and probably about to make a white claw run

7/28/2019 9:21:18 PM

On 3 for the night, about to pour #4

Still don't think it's a big deal, but hey at least if I do make an unexpected descent into alcoholism y'all will get the play by play

[Edited on July 28, 2019 at 9:59 PM. Reason : Where else ya gonna get free front row seats to such entertainment. buy premie tho for the real deets]

7/28/2019 9:55:43 PM

This thread makes me thirsty :glug:

Anyway, I think it really depends on the individual, their tolerance, their habits, etc.

I definitely drank a ton in my teens and early twenties, but once I hit 30s, I just couldn't hang like I used to. I also teach evening classes a few nights a week, so I pretty much just go straight to bed so I can get up in the morning well-rested and hit the gym. I can't recall the last night I went out to a bar for drinks on a week night during a semester I was teaching, but during winter/spring/summer breaks, I basically will drink whenever I feel like it since "I'm on vacation." Or something. I'm also pretty cheap and introverted, so when I do drink, it's usually at home with my spouse.

I come from a long line of alcoholics, so I do worry that if I don't watch it, it could become one, too. Do you have a family history of alcoholism?

I wouldn't worry too much about what some people on TWW think about your drinking habits, but guess it boils down to answering these yes/no questions to see if you might have a 'drinking problem':

1. are you drinking 3-5 cocktails every night because you're bored/anxious/stressed?
2. are you waking up hungover or feeling guilty/shitty about drinking 3-5 cocktails the night before?
3. are you missing out on 'normal' day-to-day activities like the gym, running errands, or showing up to work late (or calling in sick) because you had 3-5 cocktails every night of the week?
4. are your relationships (spouse/kids/family/extended family/etc) suffering because you're having 3-5 cocktails a night?
5. I'm making these questions up as I go along, BUT are you freaking out and worrying that you're an alcoholic now since you've had 3-5 drinks already tonight, which apparently is a lot for some people who can't hold their liquor like you can?

If you answered YES to most of them, yeah you might be a raging alcoholic. Or, it could just be a bunch of lightweight non-drinking nerds trying to shame you for indulging a bit more than them in a daily source of pleasure.

7/29/2019 1:13:10 AM

alexa what is minimization

7/29/2019 6:43:39 AM

Had 10 or so over the course of the day (minus 4 hours in the tattoo chair) on Friday. Felt fine Saturday, didn't drink the rest of the weekend.
Taking a day off on Wednesday to hang out with the lady, and we're planning for a day of pizza and beer. Will report on Thursday.

Quote :

"What are our thoughts on white claw or truly? Had white claw for the first time today and drink, I think, 7. Could’ve had 7 more. Great taste + less filling imo"

My friends rag on me a lot, but I fucking love Whiteclaws. Not exclusively or anything, but if it's mostly a beer drinking day these are a great spacer. Grapefruit is my fave.
I'll probably go the flavored Vodka and seltzer route this year for our beach trip too.

7/29/2019 9:16:19 AM

I'm a big fan of White Claws. So much less filling than beer; makes day drinking considerably easier.

7/29/2019 9:22:56 AM

i had two foghorns on friday and saturday evening after working in the yard. and a pour of elijah craig last night.

no beer for the first time in a long time.

7/29/2019 9:26:59 AM

One thing @qntmfred that I thought about today is I'd probably be on the same 3 to 4 drinks a night if I weren't running in the morning. My alcohol consumption is inversely proportional to the number of days I exercise in the morning. It's not being hungover or anything, but, rather, I wake groggy, have a slower pace, and might have explosive shits by the end of the run. If you decide you want to cut back, picking up morning runs as a hobby would probably do it pretty quickly.

Also a question for you. Are you just as likely to drink multiple drinks of anything else you have in front of you? Example, when I was a kid, I would drink soda after soda if they were in the house. I'd easily get 6 a day sometimes. Now if I'm at a restaurant and order a drip coffee, I'll keep taking refills up until we leave. But if I buy a cup of coffee to go, I'm not jonesin' for more coffee. Things like that.

7/29/2019 9:47:14 AM

Woke up today with a bit of a hangover, so no drinks tonight.

7/29/2019 11:13:38 PM

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"If you answered YES to most of them, yeah you might be a raging alcoholic."

To be fair, answering yes to these questions indicates that he is stress drinking. That is, using alcohol as his escape. I would recommend trying to figure what's going on that would lead him to answer yes to all of those questions, and then go from there.

For instance, waking up feeling guilty can mean a lot of things. Did he get hammered alone while his kids were asleep? Did he go out and say some raunchy shit to a colleague while his partner is asleep?

Being irresponsible with alcohol does not always equate to being a raging alcoholic. It could be a case of using it as an escape due to other, stressful issues in life.

And for the record, immediately calling a person that is openly concerned about his alcohol consumption a raging alcoholic doesn't typically do much to help.

[Edited on July 30, 2019 at 12:01 AM. Reason : d]

7/29/2019 11:58:13 PM

Quote :

"Are you just as likely to drink multiple drinks of anything else you have in front of you?"

yeah very much so.

7/30/2019 12:48:44 AM

I hate how much love white claw is getting. It's just 5% abv la croix. And so is truly. and now, so is that fucking bon and viv garbage.

La croix is disgusting and if you make a malt beverage out of it, its also disgusting.

But because barstool sports fans think its cool to drink la croix, now white claw is a thing.

7/30/2019 8:15:52 AM

7/30/2019 9:05:36 AM

Lol.

I think people should drink whatever they think tastes good.

I don’t drink la croix, but I think white claw is totally fine. I also don’t like barstool sports

7/30/2019 9:43:44 AM

I am mad bro.

It's the typical anger toward fads. I'll make a soap box thread if i ever really feel like getting into.

7/30/2019 10:47:23 AM

what's the matter, Zima and Smirnoff Ice aren't good enough for you?

7/30/2019 12:02:10 PM

Sunday night, I had a couple glasses of scotch. I doubt I'll drink again until this Thursday.

7/30/2019 12:24:53 PM

I went on a beer run with my sister 2 weeks ago. She tells me to get whatever I wanted and to get her something fruity. I go in to the store and get a 6er of Yuengling Pils (which is actually damn good pilsner btw) for me, and I start to look for something to get her. So, I just go to the spot where the boxes are colorful and grab something that turns out to be Truly. I look over to the counter and ask the girl working if this is the type of fruity, cute-girl shit that girls drink now. The girl behind the counter was not amused, and she grunted to the guy next to her "aint that just a typical man thing to say." So, I just stand there confused and then my sister comes in. She sees the box of Truly and says "oh, I love that! It's my favorite!" Then she looks to the girl behind the counter and asked her "did you help my brother out?"

Counter girl got redder than a grapefruit and everybody in the store started laughing their ass off.


[Edited on July 30, 2019 at 1:12 PM. Reason : j]

7/30/2019 1:06:43 PM

Moderation

[Edited on July 30, 2019 at 2:59 PM. Reason : Ya dig?]

7/30/2019 2:58:12 PM

This thread has me drinking a soda instead

7/30/2019 6:48:47 PM

Spindrift.

7/30/2019 9:23:46 PM

soda will probably kill you faster

7/30/2019 11:39:38 PM

had beers today - 8 or 9? drinking one in bed right now.

7/30/2019 11:48:12 PM

The only time I count beers is when I am planing my weekly budget. For example:

20 bucks for the new Mikkelsen movie, and thats about 17 beers, so.... Pass!

[Edited on July 31, 2019 at 1:14 AM. Reason : it basically keeps me from impulse purchasing]

7/31/2019 1:11:48 AM

I will probably indulge in a few adult beverages this weekend.

8/2/2019 10:00:34 AM

I had 1 last night and after tonight gonna take a break for a while. at least that's the plan

8/2/2019 11:50:48 AM

Just make a rule to not drink at home

8/2/2019 12:24:55 PM