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nonsmoker · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

I used to drink quite a bit with my buddies when I was younger. I still drink socially now but It seems the older I become, the older drinking gets as well. I guess it's because the older you get, the more conscious you are about your health, wealth, and overall happiness. Drinking is not pointless but it can be expensive and destructive if you don't control it. It can also lead to an awesome night out. All things in moderation, I guess. Such is the middle way, comprenez-vous?

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

Moderation is key, we all should practice it, especially with posting on Internet forums Razz

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Sage · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 144 Location: Iwate no inaka!

I don't drink. I don't see the point and it doesn't taste good.

My life hasn't been so crushed by society, my spirit destroyed by the world, my mind so weak as to let all hope slip away to take up that nasty, disgusting, stupid, and dangerous habit. I've never had a warm glass of pee but I imagine it'd taste something like a warm glass of beer. Hell, its the same color and smells about as bad.

So hay, take another big one, do it for your liver, for your car, and for your broken life. And don't worry about the future - it doesn't matter! Rolling Eyes

Really - do whatever you like. I don't care what you do so long as you don't hurt other people while doing it. But seriously, if you are going to get insulting to people who don't drink... Oh, the grand stupidity of it.

Drinking =/= cool Haha. Far far from it.

nonsmoker · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 2:48 am Post subject:

Sage · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 144 Location: Iwate no inaka!

Heh. The, "If you don't drink you are a doushebag" comment got me laughing. I just had to reply to it.

As for my vice... is being annoying a vice? Otherwise I really don't have one. :/

gaijin4life · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: Re: Does anyone here NOT drink

anne_o · Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 172 Location: Tokyo

Drinking is fun....and so are lots of other things....why doesn't everyone just !! INDULGE !!
I got a job offer today.....guess what I'm going to do?

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

anne,
because some of us think it is not fun.

Takes all kinds. Please respect that.

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

I agree, to each his own. I like a good scotch, an ale, and champagne. But if a man wishes to do without, at least tell me which parties you're going to, I can make up the difference at the nomihodais you attend. Razz

rampo · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 97

nonsmoker · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: Does anyone here NOT drink

ndorfn · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 126

MJ is illegal and harshly judged by the close-minded majority, and other drugs are even more condemned.

what's the alternative?

nonsmoker · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

flyingkiwi · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:06 am Post subject:

I love the Japanese Isakaya style of drinking. Around a table, you order a beer and it comes in less than 10 seconds it seems. We counted it once, and the record so far is 7 seconds. Very Happy

However, I sometimes don't like the stage two of the Japanese drinking, which is inevitable Karaoke. Once the singing starts you have to shout to have a conversation with someone. But I guess it's great if you are too wasted to have a conversation Smile

Also, after drinking an absolute sh*tload of beer at the isakaya, I walk for five minutes to a snack bar, get my first drink, and I find I just can't drink anymore. I don't get it.

gaijin4life · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:12 am Post subject: Re: Does anyone here NOT drink