[frankthetank]

and how often do you drink now?


I'll start. I started in 9th grade with a mix of beer and some hard alcohol. I remember riding home on my bike one night...one of those memories you never forget. Also remember that first Zima i downed...yuuuuuck....do they still make that stuff.

Now i usually only drink on the weekends and thats usually @ home or someone elses. Rarely do i go to the bars due to them being very smoky (non smoker). I rarely drink beer and when i do its usually Budlight. I prefer taking shots of, ahhhh, anything!? Bacardi Gold, Vodka, whatever. I'll mix things too. I hate hangovers, which i get now and then depending on how bad i've been

I forgot to mention that the town i live in holds some sort of record for bars per square mile. We had those big riots years ago downtown here and also have a huge Oktoberfest/Riverfest thing.

Maybe PO's should meet up sometime and get loaded and laugh about how nuts people think we are???

[rwwff]

I drank a lot in college. It got old. Now, other than the periodic sip of the Blood of Christ at the Eucharist, I drink about once or twice a year; typically a french red Beaujolais along with an italian dinner something; and I usually kill the bottle. I'm a very peaceful, silly drunk, so no harm, no foul..

If we had a bit of an agrarian meltdown as a result of PO, I'd probably pick up the scotch again; if only to take the edge off the grumpy, unuseful anger.....

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

I started when I was two years old. Or aleast that is what they tell me. My dad was left with one of his buddies to baby sit me and they thought it would be funny to put beer in my bottle.

By the time I was about 7, I could guzzle half a beer bottle before anyone realized that I'd just stolen someones beer and started chugging it. I've never been a very heavy drinker but I do enjoy a beer once in a while (had one last night and that probably makes about 6 or 7 beers this year in all).

[eastbay]

Interesting.... I started in 9th grade, 1968, about the same time I decided my lifetime career goal was to be a jobless draft-dodging hippy dope freak. But that didn't work out as planned.

By the time I was 18 and starting college the hippy thing was over and I decided to be a heavy drinker instead. But there was no future there either.

So by the time I was 27 and starting my 4th year of college I had consumed enough booze and DUI's to last most people a lifetime or two and for a variety of excellent reasons I decided to quit drinking.

It's now been 24 1/2 years since a drop of that stuff has entered my body. Hoo-Ray

[Turlox]

Heavily,October 13, 2005 been drinking ever since, beats thinking about the crap about to unfold, it is almost like already seeing a movie end and all the masses of humanity are just getting in the cue lines.

[jesus_of_suburbia_old]

Eighteen days and I will turn twenty-one.

I rarely drink. I'll have a drink to try something new, but I've never made a habit of it. When I was under the age of eighteen, I never drank behind my parents' back. It was just something that didn't find appealing.

I don't like seeing people drunk, whether they be silly or angry drunks. I can't imagine myself intoxicated. I am so mellow and reserved when sober that I'd be frightened of what I might say or do.

The only plans for the big day coming up later this month are to have a beer with my uncle, which I promised to do last year. Other than that, I think I will maintain my prior drinking habits.

[frankthetank]

When sober i just am too quiet. When druink i can say anthing to anyone. Its too bad because i wish my sober self could be more like my drunk self. I'm not really sure how people can stand drinking more then once or maybe twiche a week. One night usually does me in. I'll just add that i was almost killed by a drunk when i was 4 years old (head on, went through a windshield) so i KNOW what alcohol can do and would NEVER drive intoxicated.

[nwildmand]

the first time i got drunk i was in the sixth grade. second time was in ninth grade then and probably about every other month in high school.

i am now a dedicated binge drinker and i love it. i drink around 8 beers in an evening 5 times a week.
i also learned to homebrew since learning of the peakoils possible ramifications as i would not like being to poor to have a beer. luckily for me i have a malting plant only 10 miles away and i plan on getting to be buddies with the employees i already have hookups from local farmers for some varous grains.

[smiley]

I had my first beer when I was 8 , but really I started drinking when I started going out to the bars and disco's. That was when I was 14.

I had some periods when I was drinking heavily. I drunk a lot in grade school when I was 16-17. I then sobered up in order to pass my exams. However I started drinking again at college.

The years of abuse by a combination of alcohol, and various drugs made my body kind of give up on me, so I sobered up again. (I guess I'm quite susceptible to addictions.)

The thing is, I like alcohol, and most forms of it. And I have a high tolerance against alcohol. I don't get ill, I dont get annoying (not more than normal), and I don't have to call my friends to tell me what I did the night before. You could meet me after 20 bottles and probably wouldn't even notice.

However I came to realise that I need to keep my brain and body in a reasonable condition to make a living.

I still drink. That is on most evenings I take some form of alcohol, beer, wine or harder. But usually just one glass, just for the taste of it, and never to get drunk.

[Aaron]

Around 8:30...

But I'm not drinkin any more... not drinkin any less but...

[hippiegunlover]

I started drinking when I was about 13-14, stealing a beer or two from the fridge, or some of good ol' mom's vodka.

I drank heavily and started drugs in high school. Then when I was 19 I just decided to stop. I think that was when I realized my friends were losers and had no future, and I was just like them. I also feared becoming my parents who are both raging alcoholics.

I haven't had a drink in several years, no desire for one, and I don't want my kids to think it's acceptable as dh's family has alcoholism too.

[mekrob]

I started a while ago, probably when I was 8 or 9. My dad would let me take a few sips of his beers, which would turn into gulps when he turned around. Then a few years later during my little sis's 12(?) birthday I got pretty closed to being drunk of wine, if that's even possible.

I'm 19 now, yet it's been quite a long time since I've drank at all. I just find no need for it with PO coming and all. I feel I have better stuff to be doing like studying or preparing by other methods.

[lotrfan55345]

Last year, at a party.
Not enough to get buzzed/drunk really... never been drunk.
Just some Irish Creme (mmm) and SunnyD with vodka (lol)

I've drank maybe... once or twice this year.

[Daculling]

Maybe 10 or 11 years old. My father played a lot of Rugby, nuff said.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lotrfan55345', '
')I've drank maybe... once or twice this year.

[Tyler_JC]

I first got drunk in maybe 8th grade.

And then the next time a year later.

But I have always hated the taste of beer.

I only drink tequila, vodka, whiskey, or wine. Beer has always made me sick.

I have a fairly low tolerance for virtually everything. A couple glasses of wine feels like a bottle. Taking a couple 24-hour sudafed feels like taking speed. A single zoloft feels like ecstasy without the urge to go clubbing. (not that I would ever consider taking illegal narcotics)

When I had to take some percocet after the surgery, I spent the next week in a complete haze.

I'm getting off topic...

[Falconoffury]

I had some wild parties in high school, and got drunk numerous times. After high school, I drank on occasion, but I stopped completely a few years ago. It's all part of my healthier diet. Alcohol kills the cells in your body, or at least impedes their functions. I'm trying to get nutrition that keeps my cells healthy.

[Terran]

I tried when I was 15 years old, with my homemade alcohol. It was something I fermented from bakers yeast, and I distilled.

Well it instantly made me gag, and throw up, I didn't swallow a single drop.

Then comes the middle of junior year of high school, I was about 17 at the time. I was talking with a friend, he pulled out some vodka, I took a swag of that. Before I knew it, I felt different. I would turn and everything would be in slow motion. Wow I can't believe I am drunk.

After that it was attending the occasional party, and so forth. There has been a few times where I got totally trashed, and felt really hung over. I think in my life I only gotten drunk 15-20 times, and 5-10 times I got totally trashed.

Now I'm in college, I tend to stay away from drinking, it's not really my thing. Most of the time when people offer me beer or other alcohol I turn it down. Unless its a very special occasion, but those are rare.

[frankthetank]

I guess like anything else in life that you need to do it in moderation.

[lotrfan55345]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '
')But I have always hated the taste of beer.

I only drink tequila, vodka, whiskey, or wine. Beer has always made me sick.

[Vexed]

This evening I started drinking about 10:30.

In life, I started drinking in my early 20's when I was working 50 hour weeks (as a nanny for 4 kids), going to college full-time, living on my own, and watching my parents 20+ year marriage go down in flames.

My girlfriend, now my wife, and I used to go to the corner mart on our city block and buy Old English Lemon-Lime. Damn we were white trash! I loved it. $1.19 and you were hammered. Plus, if you wanted the whole experience, you could stand out front of the mart and bullshit with the philosophers, I mean, the bums and they would tell you the most f*cked up stories.

Now, of course, I drink nothing but the best.

I just opened a bottle of my buddies latest homebrew. He's a masterbrewer at a up-and-coming brewery (mostly cause of his work) who likes to take his work home with him.

This is a 7.2% beer and its just wicked. I am keeping him real close in case of Peak Oil.