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Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

If you are not one to go out drinking with the boys, please tell me why? What are the advantages of not drinking????

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

1. It's expensive

2. I like my sleep and rarely stay out past 12 or 1

3. I don't like the hangover

4. There are other things that I like more, which involve getting up early. For example, hiking or running in races

5. I just don't think it's that fun.

6. You look like a dumbass when you're staggering/can barely walk drunk.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Actually, I think I'll have a drink right now. Those sirens shook me up.

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

Drinking is fun - in moderation - but it gives me a headache. And probably more important, all my 'woman problems' have started when I've been drunk. Even a slow learner like me get the message after a while.

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Drinking muffles the voices in my head. So I advocate drinking for those who want to muffle the voices in their heads.

Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

The last few times i have gone out with the best of intentions, but once i get enough alcohol in me, i don't know when to stop. i get awful hangovers, spend a lot of money and do stupid things

faster · Joined: 03 Sep 2006

Usually when I don't drink it's because it's morning, or I'm at work, or I'm hungover. All three are temporary, luckily.

Rapacious Mr. Batstove · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: Central Areola

I asked the same question to a non-drinker yesterday in fact. We had a conversation about it. I couldn't imagine my life without alcohol (I've been a binge drinker since 13) and he couldn't imagine his life with it. Neither of us would change anything.

Justified he was a muslim so had his faith to fill that gap. I would be a completely different person if never drank alcohol, different lifestyle, different friends but not necessarily more well off financially. Even when I have given up drinking for periods of time, I've spent that money on expensive toys.

You've got to die of something I guess.

I think Redd Foxx said it best: �I feel sorry for people who don�t drink or do drugs. Because someday they�re going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won�t know why.�

normalcyispasse · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject:

Huh -- I don't really ever meet any other non-drinkiers.

For the record, I've never so much as had a drink of any kind of alcohol. I've never really been too tempted; my dad was a drunk and I just don't care to even risk that.

I'm sure I could keep alcohol in check, but I just don't want to drink. I'm pretty scared of anything that has the potential to make me act stupid or screw up how I see the world. I know I'm not a good dancer, and alcohol sure as hell wouldn't make me Fred Estaire! Wink

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: pc room

To me alcoholic drinks just taste really bad, and the few times I've had alcoholic drinks there were significant consequences.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Today's hint: beer poured into a Chilsung Cider bottle is undetectable. But rinse it out first.

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silver_butterfly · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Location: South Korea

I don't drink, and I actually get really tired of having to explain 'why?' (accompanied with expressions of pure disbelief).
My reasons are;
1: Did it in my late teens, doing silly things and feeling like death the next day no longer appeal
2: I don't want to waste my weekends and enjoy various activities such as hiking etc which mean having to be up and out of my apartment relatively early
3: It's too expensive, and I don't particularly like the taste. I'd rather save my money to buy things that I can keep and use time and time again, or vacations!
4: I can go out socializing and dancing without the need for any alcohol - unfortunately as the night goes on conversations with drunk people becomes EXTREMELY irritating, though sometimes it can be extremely amuzing too!
5: I don't want to put on weight etc sugar and calories..would rather have my guilty pleasures in some foods instead
6: I enjoy being the 'Black Box' and relaying embarrassing information back to guilty culprits at a future date Smile

I have no problems with people who drink, I actually do enjoy a few coctails in the right company...but when people have to get wasted each and every weekend and drink so much they slur and can't walk properly...well I don't really see the point. Many of us are in a completely different part of the world, while I'm here I'd like to see it! Seeing it from bars and clubs I guess is experiencing a little culture, but there's so much more to see!!

darkcity · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: SF, CA

i used to drink a lot and often, but i just don't have time or friends these days. now when i get back into the swig of things, i sleep in the next day till 3pm because it just messes with my system so much and i get too tired. so i try to avoid drinking unless it's for a damn good reason. but i still depend on it to dance well or do good karaoke.