why do people drink it? it all tastes like medicine
you don't drink it for the taste
>>21000795then why do people always go “omg this drink is so sweet i think you’d like it”
>>21000801it sounds like you have no tolerance for the sting of alcohol and need it to be covered up by sweetness to palate it
>>21000802maybe i don’t want my drink to sting me, maybe i want it to be enjoyable
>>21000793It makes grinding in old JRPGs tolerable. I can grind old DQ games for hours when I'm drinking but multi hour grind sessions are miserable while sober.
>>21000793Thats what i think of alcohol, its either medicine or food.
>>21000793Your dad should have jizzed into a sock when he had the chance.
>>21000811youll get used to it bud. its like coffee, hundreds of millions of people enjoy it unsweetened every day
>>21000793You sound like you're 19. A lot of the 19 yer olds I speak to say the same thing. Somewhere along the line, you become an alcoholic anyway,
>>21000793It's retards unable to cope with their shitty existence with a sober head doing their best to ignore it and pressure other people into joining them in their miserable moping and drunken stupidity. Quitting alcohol was among one of the best decisions I ever made.
>>21000863i’m 22 almost 23 and i’m considering whether to drink at thanksgiving
>>21000793>it all tastes like medicineAlcohol tastes vary as much as soda. If you haven't found anything you like the taste of, you have tasted enough different types.
>>21000793because weed is illegal in most places
>>21000793They think it makes them look "cool"
>>21000793>>21000801after questioning some alcoholi... ahem... serious drinkers, I have concluded that some people either cannot taste allcohol, or because of some genetic defect actually like the taste of ethanol.
>>21003202What about the wine drinkers who have a single glass for the flavor and not the intoxication? Are they defective?
high expectations I couldn't live up to so it was easier to fail deliberately and immediately than try
>>21000793its a psyop to poison the populace socially engineered to seem like the thing to do that 'everyone' does daily coffee is another such psyop that people only 'need' to get back up to baseline after it starts wearing off. the flavor is delightful so daily decaf if you are obsessed with it. or a monthly coffee bean ice cream or tiramisu to really enjoy itglad to see you paving your own wayGod speed
>>21000811ingest or legalize thc seltzers, way better buzz than alcohol hits faster than eating weed cookie etc and dont have to overdo it to enjoy the buzz like alc
>>21000793its poisonous but addictive shit, truth is people are retarded and still preffer to drink this satans piss instead of smoking weed
Damn i would love some medicine that tastes like the fruity shit i mix
>>21004563I must be really sensitive to alcohol cause even that stuff tastes disgusting to me. For me the only way to make it palatable is to use less than 1% alcohol so why even bother with it at all
tastes bad at first because your brain recognizes, correctly, that ethanol is poisonafter a while of drinking it without negative effects, your brain recognizes it as "probably not that bad of a poison" and it'll lose that bitter vileness, but drink too much and puke once and that resets and you have to get yourself reacclimated to it againis it even worth getting acclimated towards to begin with? i'd say so, if it helps you stop being such an uptight autist
>>21000793Because it is medicine, and I'm in dire need of treatment
>>21000793it's medicine for the soul
>>21003202yeah i'm pretty sure people who are actual alcoholics just taught themselves to like the taste of ethanol>>21003217those people are lying to you about their drinking habits
religious reasons aside, I believe most people would end up liking alcohol if they bothered trying a bit of everything. The process itself would get them used to alcohol and there's so many drinks and flavors you're bound to find something you like, and the buzz itself is pleasant. Imo the biggest issue is they start with some cheap pissbeer or whiskey or bottom shelf vodka and understandably find it vile.
>>21000793because they have issues (which are of their own fault), the alcohol helps them cope
>>21000793>why do people drink it?I call it a cultural addiction. Sadly, the last time we tried to "sober up" only lasted thirteen years, between the ratification of two amendments.
>>21000793Check with the faggot OP, posting above you.
>>21006486Yes, yes, everybody is secretly an alcoholic - now go kill some more braincells while I taste a nice tipple of caribbean rum.
>>21006486we got a fucking MENSA member here boys
>>21002565You have to be at least 14 to post here
>>21000793You have to be at least 35 to post here, kids. I'm embarrassed for you
>>21004783A bullet to the head would be more effective.
They make alcopops and flavored liquors for people with a child's palate like OP
>>21000793It releases GABA and Dopamine in the brain, which makes you feel more socialised and is the source of the pleasurable 'buzz'.
>>21000801Dude, dunk a shot of fireball into a bottle of angry orchard crisp apple. It literally tastes like liquid apple pie with an atomic fireball melted on top. It’s very very easy to cover up the alcohol taste, hence why every brand has some sort of malt liquor/wine cooler now: for children like you.
>>21000793Try a white russian. Also booze loosens people up and it helps socializing which leads to relationships
>>21000793Your parents tried to cure your ailments with whiskey
>>21008286For what it's worth, the temperance movement was huge among the working class for decades before prohibition started in earnest.
>>21011392So it'll be another few decades of a neo-temperance movement before a new crack at Prohibition, combined with the stated goal of the War on Drugs, can begin in earnest...
>>21011451And they'll both fail again, because both you and it are retarded
>>21011455Did you leave this blank post on purpose, or was there some error on your end?
>>21000793It makes you feel good. Also, are you an autist by chance? I've found they have a really hard time understanding why people do different things, and they're usually quite belligerent when it comes to alcohol consumption
>>21011471>they're usually quite belligerent when it comes to alcohol consumptionYeah, especially after they've "had a few..."
>>21000827he did. his mom was a homeless sock
>>21003202>>>/reddit/
>>21000793It helps us not feel feelings
>>21000793i enjoy a little bit of sting or heat, it oddly goes well with the sweetness, and compliments the feeling of being drunk
>>21004177crossfading is the best way to drink
>>21004177>instead of ingesting one intoxicant, try another!
>>21000882drink early. eat around lunch. drink some more. eat before sleep.
>>21012234Some of us just aren't high on life.
>>21013027I never asked if you were "high on life."
>>21013049and I never asked you to reply to memaybe stick to the door-to-door religion
>>21013170>the door-to-door religionWhich one? I'm subscribed to neither.
>>21004448Seethe more, pothead
>>21013204>Which one?I don't care. Pick your favorite, fag
>>21013304>Pick your favoriteNon-applicable, then.>>21013275Both of your "societies" are sitting behind the public library shouting and/or laughing at pigeons.
>>21010398Then leave? Nobody is keeping you.
>>21011471Autists and underagers both suffer from it. The idea that they sell something at the gas station that alleviates psychic suffering for 3 to 12 hours at a time is unfathomable to them.
>>21013604>Autists and underagers bothImbibe as much as possible whenever they have access to it, yes.>psychic sufferingThat's weird; your types generally also think ethanol is a poison. Of course, you then subscribe to one of a number of cults venerating a number of different poisons...
>>21013615You are such a retard it's unreal, we get tightwad fagposting threads in here constantly (like this thread) demanding an explanation for why people consume something that makes them feel better for a while. Mostly, I can only assume, from people who are just suffering forever with no end in sight and who are unwilling to consider the possibility of a way out.
>>21000793Give a gin & tonic a try.1 part gin to 4 parts tonic to start out. I loved that even when I was a kid who thought beer was disgusting.
>>21013619>an explanation for why people consume something that makes them feel better for a whileYou just said it. I know that's the explanation, I just don't think it's a good one.>people who are just suffering forever with no end in sight and who are unwilling to consider the possibility of a way outYes, anyone who isn't consuming psychoactive substances for fun must be living in some form of Hell that overlaps with shared reality...
>>21013650>anyone who isn't consuming psychoactive substances for fun must be living in some form of Hell that overlaps with shared realityCorrect.
>>21013650>anyone who isn't consuming psychoactive substances for fun must be living in some form of HellYep
>>21013659>>21013665That's so pathetic for both of you, I don't know where to start...
>>21013666what a waste of satanic trips>>>/trash/
>>21013666You can start by killing yourself
>>21013673I won't be joining you for a drink, no.
>>21000793This is like someone asking why people eat steak, because it all tastes like blood, or asking why people eat spicy food. If you think Chimay Blue or a Riesling Trocken taste like medicine then you have no palette. Sorry.
>>21013706>This is like someone asking why people eat steakSteak isn't a drug.
>>21013826A K S H U A L L Y
>>21000793I like beer, but not cheap boomerbrew or hipster hopshit.Do some manual labour then have a decent beer when you're hot and exhausted, I guarantee you'll be more refreshed than ever.Because that slight haze numbs the aches and perks up the happy levels.Anything more than tipsy is a waste of time.
>>21013905>a beer>slight hazeAre you a teenage girl?
>>21013870Actually steak can be a drug for some folx. Look at carnivore diet retards like Ja/ck/. Have you seen how that n-person eats steak?
>>21013910I have minimum three schooners after work. That's the haze I'm talking about cunt. I'm on the bus right now with almost two litres of piss I'm gonna unload on my neighbours fence 'cause fuck him.
>>21013916>bus postingLOL
>>21013959I'm not classy or successful, and I'm as ashamed of myself as I am classy and successful.
>>21004448What if I do both cunt?I'm drunk and high right now.
>>21013970Posting in public is the issue. Wait until you get home.
>>21000793I'm man enough to admit that I think liquor is really yucky and makes me gag.
just wanted to lol at the fact that J Kenji has alcohol shakes.
>>21013870That's not a pedantic point of splitting hairs; chemically, nothing in steak has been found to act as a psychoactive substance. If there was, thousands of backyard chemists would be taking time usually spent "cooking" meth trying to chemically isolate it, like that time someone thought there was a drug in bananas.>>21013912>well, some people are REALLY into it, so for them it's "like a drug"Now THAT is worthy of an ">ACKSHUALLY."
>>21000793If only medicine tasted like alcohol...Anyway, it's an acquired taste, in the sense that if you get used to the burn and stop being overwhelmed by it there's a nice array of tastes in the glass.>>21003202Drinking enough (too much) numbed me to the burning sensation of alcohol.Like many things, it's a matter of getting used to.
>>21000793The first time when i drank was like 16, normal here in Europe (still remember when the legal age for smoking and drinking in my country was 16 until I turned 18). Anyway I did it not for the taste but the buzz or you know getting drunk, but after I turned 19 and discovered weed at university the world changed for me. Stopped drinking alchool and I drank it as a party animal.After weed I stopped drinking I didn't liked it, too much to drink to get the buzz too expensive and made me feel like shit, but but.... It made me appriciate real drinking, now I only drink on occasions like birthdays and only a glass of wine. It's really good if paired with the right food but yeah IG i'm with you.
It makes tv shows more enjoyable
>>21000793I get really sick when I don't drink it.
>>21014036>those nailsuh oh
>>21014392He's ethanol dependent, and you're surprised that he adds ridiculous colors to his body?
>>21014375>I traded one addiction for anotherCool story, bro.
>>21013624what kind of Gin should i start out with?
>>21000793It tastes all awful imho but the more i drink the more the simulation im stuck in seems more tolerable
>>21000793Most people start drinking as children around 14-16 years old. At that time they are drinking to get drunk for fun and don't care what it tastes like. After many years of this, you stop tasting the alcohol, and then you start enjoying the flavor.
>>21015694>Most people start drinking as children around 14-16 years oldAnd let me guess, you "turned out fine"?
>>21000793I wish alcohol was medicine
>>21013624imagine telling someone who thinks alcohol tastes like medicine to try gin and tonic of all things
>>21016058I have a high paying job, a lot of friends, a car, and I'm in good shape and not an alcoholic or addicted to any drugs, so yes
>>21016063length and girth?cut or uncut?
>>21016063>not an alcoholicBut you still "drink.">or addicted to any drugsBut you still "drink" regularly.
>>21016114yes most adults "drink", astute observation
>>21016138Regrettably so, it seems.
>>21016157Go proselytize somehwere else, Ahmed.
>>21016164I'm not religious, I just happen to hold the radical notion that a culture of enforced sobriety would be preferable to one of permissive intoxication.
>>21016178What difference does it make? Most people aren't doing anything important anyway
>>21016190>Most people aren't doing anything importantAnd most people drink. Curious...
>>21016060it is if you've got methanol poisoning
>>21000811You need to figure out what you like. I like sour beers, fruit ales, ciders, and sour cocktails pretty much all the time, if I'm just grabbing a single drink (sugar content). I can drink almost anything but scotch ales otherwise, because I don't like the malty taste. I don't particularly like rye (had white rye and it tasted like a digestif made of caraway seeds), but scotch is pretty enjoyable.
>>21016237they don't drink in Muslim countries and all they get done is oppressing women and any kind of minority
>>21016391They have other "traditional" vices.
>>21016402Such as? And are you suggesting they don't get anything done because of their "traditional" vices? How do square that with the alcohol consuming countries who actually do shit?
>>21016413>Such as?Depending on what you mean by "Muslim country," there's khat (cathinone), tobacco (nicotine), opium (morphine and codeine), and even cannabis (THC), not to mention good old-fashioned coffee (caffeine), all found naturally in some part of the Middle East or thereabouts.>are you suggesting they don't get anything done because of their "traditional" vices?About as much as the average person gets done consuming ethanol, or any of the other intoxicants listed above when available, or others.>How do square that with the alcohol consuming countries who actually do shit?How many people in those "alcohol-consuming countries" actually "do shit"?
>>21016440The countries that rule the geopolitical order all consume alcohol.>US>China>RussiaYou also forgot the classic Muslim bussy vice.
>>21016447>The countries that rule the geopolitical orderThat's not what I asked.>the classic Muslim bussy viceThat's not the kind of vice I'm talking about.
>>21016489>if people didn't like the taste, they wouldn't have come up with so many ways to hide the taste!
>>21016492all of those people are lying
>>21016517>No drunk driving or fights. No hangover. No liver diseasesNo, instead it's stoned driving, annoying laughter, scromiting, and schizophrenia.>>21016521>a pious zealot like himI know you're not talking about me, then, because I'm not what anyone would call "pious."
