Just a fun poll to see what we like to drink

water on the rocks for me, in fact make it a double!









beth

None.

But if you must drink, make it wine, and only take a sip.

Normallly I don't drink but when I did I liked wine.

No alcohol for me, but if I can have some, make that whisky on rocks with minaral waetr, and only a few glasses.

i hate beers, etc.  i do quite like shots of things though (like spirits, etc).  i don't drink much.

I am somewhat paradoxical regarding alcohol.

• I like the flavor of mixed drinks (fuzzy navels and 7highs in particular)
• I am also quite fond of sangria.
• I tend to like dark beers as well, at least somewhat.

Not all brands of the above though, few actually.

But ironically I do NOT like what effect alcohol has on the body. Well, makes a decent old time style cold medicine (aka hot toddy), so I find it kind of amusing that while I kind of like the stuff I hardly ever touch it. Probably just as well, I don't seem to be smart enough to know when to stop.

Knowing when to stop is the important part.

I like either wine or a micro-brew beer with dinner.  A nice wine can really enhance a fine meal.

Quote from: Louise on May 28, 2005, 02:57:06 PM
Knowing when to stop is the important part.

Amen! I don't drink much but when I do I have one rule. I do not drive a car even if I had one drink. Me and a drunk tank wouldn't get along and police have way too much leeway in deciding if someone is drunk or not.

I prefer wine.

well i'm not really too careful of how much i drink when i get drunk.  i basically think of it more of how it actually is than of what laws give the impression of it as... that when i decide to begin to get drunk... i am voluntarily deciding to use hard drugs - worse than lots of the illegal ones, in fact.  this is a reckless course of action from the get-go, with no purpose other than pleasure.  so if i decide to do that, then that is what i decide to do - and i do it toward its purpose, which is having a good time.

i think there's a sizeable gap between having too much alchohol to drink and having enough alchohol to drink to cause you to have a bad time.  on the rare occasion i would be drinking, i'd stop somewhere beyond the former and before the latter.  which isn't good.  but then, neither is drinking alchohol in the first place.

i personally see no justification whatsoever for having alchohol and tobacco on a different legal status to any of the other recreational drugs.  whatever argument you use to keep either of them legal, can be used to make any of the others legal.  and whatever argument you use to keep any of the others illegal, can be used to make any of the legal pair illegal.  if the issue of legality of recreational drugs is ever going to be resolved, i think it needs to start with at least some measure of consistency.  before then, the "we're all adults, we can look after ourselves" and the "you'd be taking away our basic freedoms" will just keep butting heads with the "so many irresponsible people on these things causing havoc" and the "keep our children safe"... to no end.  which i think is a shame.  jmo.

Quote from: Louise on May 28, 2005, 02:57:06 PM
Knowing when to stop is the important part.

So very true!
Undoubtedly why I usually abstain

Mind you if it actually stopped the pain I'd be an alcoholic.
But it doesn't. Doesn't help one little bit. Heck, for that matter it doesn't even dull the pain, I just care less, and that is no good.

*shrug* Alcohol is a good thing to either burn or chase the bugs away.

I am better off not driinking because jack daniels,  johnny walker, and Bud  Wiser are  Uncles who moved into my families home and only left after my mom, dad,  and step dad passed away.    My two brothers and one sister welcomed them into their homes to liive.   One sister only invited Bud Wiser in occationally and the other sister kicked them all out.    I never really let these uncles move in except for a two - three year period when my first marriage broke up and I was a lone.  Aunt Wine was my most welcome guest whom I taked to every evening when I came home.   They were all kicked out two years ago.

and also speaking of alchahol.....  my tollorance has been shot.  used to be able to handle 18 bourbon and cokes.. ie: get up and walk away without stumbling or sluring or any other drunken actions, no hang over either, but would usualy have 6 or so when hanging out with the band.
Now if I drink 6 bourbons Im drunk and likely to be hungover the next morning... so far the only problem my band has with my transitioning...

My old friend Jose Cuervo. No salt no lime no problem. My wife and I use to drink them all the time, but had to quite HRT and all. Too risky for the liver. Now it's just an occasional glass or two of wine.

Cassie

When I was more of a drinker, I would tend toward mixed drinks (I was rather fond of Long Island iced teas).  If I drank beer, it was generally of the darker, heavier varieties (stouts, porters, etc.).  Though I didn't typically seek out wine, I didn't usually turn it down, either.  I wasn't fond of shots in general, but a shot of Wild Turkey with a pint of beer was pretty satisfying.

-Celia

"but a shot of Wild Turkey with a pint of beer was pretty satisfying."

Wild Turkey, funny you should mention that.  I never was really a drinker for my whole life and while I would drink beer on occassion, I never really liked it.  that is until toward the end of the year when a Lesbian friend from work took me to her favorite girl dance bar.  I had a ball and was drinking Sierra Nevada Porter and really getting into the scene, in fact aside from some months of recuperation from a medical problem, I got quite regular there, porter and all, but mostly just groving with the girls in a non male environment.

Anyway I found I liked the porter and began drinking on an almost regular basis, then found it to be to expensive and i lost my taste for it and began drinking the common domestic beers which I actually hated before and since have become quite the beer drinker.

Wild Turkey though, back in the 70's, when it was rare to see me drink anything with alcohol, I used to hang out at a little pool bar that was owned by the mother of a friend of mine.  because of the ribbing I took over being basically a non drinker, (the old cop joke, about all cops being either insane, alcoholic or queer, .... want a beer?) I took to stopping off at a dairy queen on the way to the bar, ordering a strawberry milkshake and taking it with me.  I would then order a double shot of Wild Turkey, mix it into the milkshake and spend my time there sipping it down. The ribbing stopped, but I got some strange looks, let me tell you.  Guess they werent used to seeing a double shot sipped down with a straw.  Yeah, thats it! .....

Terri

Wild Turkey and Strawberry Milkshake? And I thought I had some unusual tastes. Sounds like an Irish version of Strawberry Daquri. I don't think I've seen that in any of the bar books. Maybe you should submit it to whatever the organization is that publishes bar books. I think there's a $100,000 reward for new drinks.

You could call it Turkey in the Strawberry.

-Celia

I put that I don't like alcohol, but that isn't quite correct. 

I was raised by parents who went to the Moose Club every night, 7 nights a week, I spent many a night there too.  They drank every day and night.  They did not consider themselves to be alcoholics, but by todays standards they probably were.

I drink from the age of 14 to 30 (I do consider that I was an alcoholic).  One night I found myself waiting for my kids to go to bed (so I could drink hard liqour) for some reason I only drank beer while they were awake.  That shocked me into quiting immediately.  That very night I went through the house and emptied every bottle of vodka and bourbon that I had (also all beer).  I have never had a drink since.

Sarah

I'm not a drinker.  No real reason why, just never liked the taste.