Current Events > I think I'm the only person who likes alcohol....

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But hates getting sloshed. If I could drink alcohol that was 0% But still tasted the same alcohol I would drink it.

I like getting a wee bit buzzed and getting the euphoria getting drunk sucks and I hate that everyone who wants to drink just wants to make getting black out shitfaced the end goal of the night.

Im mid 20s and hangovers are steadily get worse, I'm happy drunk but I get a bit stupid when I'm pissed, and being drunk doesn't actually make anything better.

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ahh. budding alcoholism really brings a tear to my eye

Yes everyone who drinks alcohol must be uncontrollable, disfunctioning alcoholic

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Ser_Jaker posted...

I hate that everyone who wants to drink just wants to make getting black out shitfaced the end goal of the night.

Maybe get better social circles.

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

Maybe get better social circles.

Agreed. All my friends like to have a couple and be merry. I don't know anyone that wants to get fucked up.

I'm 26 and yeah, the hangovers are getting worse...there are times I'll have, say, two IPAs a couple hours before bed, I'll sleep a good amount (8 hours) and still have that hangover, sleepy feeling throughout the day that never goes away. No headache or anything, but I will definitely not be 100% and that kinda sucks.

Its a common dude thing to just enjoy a few beers and stop with that so I dont agree with your premise that youre an exception there.

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Right...

And I don't do cocaine for the affect it has, I just really like the way it smells.
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GirTheRobot posted...

Agreed. All my friends like to have a couple and be merry. I don't know anyone that wants to get fucked up.

I'm 26 and yeah, the hangovers are getting worse...there are times I'll have, say, two IPAs a couple hours before bed, I'll sleep a good amount (8 hours) and still have that hangover, sleepy feeling throughout the day that never goes away. No headache or anything, but I will definitely not be 100% and that kinda sucks.

The other night I had one martini and a beer and I felt fucked the next day. Could've been maybe i had not much sleep the night before and I haven't had much booze recently due to lockdown.
I used to have been able to go all night until 2am and be up for work by 8 and feeling fine.


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a-c-a-b posted...

Right...

And I don't do cocaine for the affect it has, I just really like the way it smells.

They aren't even comparable

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metallica846 posted...

Drink non alcoholic beer then. If you wanna get twisted then just do it.

I'm not that much of a beer guy and I've heard non alcoholic gins and whiskeys aren't great and they're sometimes just as expensive as the boozy stuff.


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have some hot sauce

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They actually make alcohol free liquor. I dont know why but apparently they try their best to emulate the flavor without the alcohol.

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I also like the taste also, but hate the feeling of being drunk. But that comes from more than 20 years of dizzy spells where I feel drunk despite not drinking anything. None of my doctors have been able to figure it out.

I've been meaning to get non alcoholic beer but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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Drink your beers slower than your friends and drink lower alcohol % beers.

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I too read playboy for the articles.

@The-Apostle posted...

I also like the taste also, but hate the feeling of being drunk. But that comes from more than 20 years of dizzy spells where I feel drunk despite not drinking anything. None of my doctors have been able to figure it out.

I've been meaning to get non alcoholic beer but haven't gotten around to it yet.

I read an article once of this guy who had alcohol producing yeast living in his intestines, and that sometimes when he would eat fruit or other sugary things he'd get drunk, but for the longest time didn't know why.
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Majority of people I know only get buzzes around me. Probably cause I stopped drinking. But also because a lot of them only stick to getting buzzed 80% of the time. It's not unpopular to do.

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Chug 1-2 bottles of water and take the fattest shit you can before sleeping. That always seems to prevent hangovers for me lol

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Notti posted...

I too read playboy for the articles.

I read an article once of this guy who had alcohol producing yeast living in his intestines, and that sometimes when he would eat fruit or other sugary things he'd get drunk, but for the longest time didn't know why.

Yeah, that's auto brewery syndrome. Sugary things tend to help me get out of itbthough.

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Ser_Jaker posted...

Yes everyone who drinks alcohol must be uncontrollable, disfunctioning alcoholic

One doesn't have to be an end-stage drinker to have a problem and having a problem doesn't have to be a wild, life-ruining thing to be disruptive or undesirable. There's a wide range of problem drinking on the way to the most severe type, and progression is not necessarily going to be quick or obvious.

I'm an alcoholic, almost two years sober now, and my trajectory had a very similar stop to what you're talking about itt, including what you said about 0% alcohol. Things started to escalate very quickly and dramatically once I got to the crossroads of no longer being okay with alcohol consumption and all that went along with it but still wanting to consume it for taste or social reasons. The most crucial mistake I made during that time was thinking I could not have possibly had a problem because there were a lot of things I didn't do, like drink every day, get a DUI, show up to work drunk, and many others that stick out as a telltale sign of a drinking problem.

Even in the absence of those things, it was still a problem in so many other ways and was progressing to a point I couldn't sustain, where the lack of alcohol was maddening while even one 5% beer could absolutely destroy my mood and start a horrible spiral. I knew alcohol was going to be the death of me but I thought It would be a bit further down the road, maybe in my early 40s. It was about a year between me having this same conversation you started here and an event that forced me to choose between quitting alcohol or dying at 31 as a direct result of it.

Anyway, that's just me and even though I know a lot of people who've had similar experiences, not everyone is going to be like that. I'm not saying you have a problem, that isn't for anyone else but you to determine, or that you will go down the same path. I just want to point out that alcohol is a very insidious substance that should not be taken lightly and if you're already at a point where you're not happy with drinking but seemingly do it anyway, it might deserve more consideration than you're giving it.

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If youre worried about hangovers, try drinking seltzers. Ive found that the hangover from them is small, and can be more or less mitigated by drinking some water and taking a multivitamin before bed.

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Also look up liquid IV and drink it before sleep. It tastes like a sprite and rehydrates you nicely

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Touch posted...

Also look up liquid IV and drink it before sleep. It tastes like a sprite and rehydrates you nicely

I'm looking at that now. Looks interesting.

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