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[Neonivek]

Not sure it goes here but why not.

I can't really explain it and I spend a lot of time analysing myself to come up with reasons for why I do just about everything. I attempt to know everything I possibly can about myself.

For some reason I can't stand people getting drunk, not drinking, but actually becoming drunk. I find it actually repulsive to speak to someone who is drunk, even people I like or respect.

I realise I outright dislike alcohol (Tastes bad) and I am against getting drunk as a goal... but the amount of detestation I have for it is unusual compared that I have no reason to despite drunkenness.

[TheMasterTurtle]

I absolutely hate it as well. Seeing drunk people makes me sick to my stomach. I think it is fairly pathetic.

[Xotano]

same, tho i use alcoholic drinks as cough meds once in a wile i'd never drink for a different reason

[Levi]

No clue.  I sure like being drunk and slurring incoherently at my friends though.   

[Taniec]

I realise I outright dislike alcohol (Tastes bad)

You haven't tried enough. This isn't peer pressure or anything, but if you had some american light beer (Keystone Light? BLEEEHHHHH!!!!!) you don't know what you are missing. I will recommend everyone I know who wants to try a new drink to hit up a Gin and Tonic. Hmmmmmm. If you aren't careful you can turn a fairly average night to one that increases in the FUN factor. And we know how much losing (your meal) is fun.

Being tipsy off drinks is never an excuse of poor behavior but too many people tend to think it is. You are always in control of your own actions and words. I almost think it is placebo-like the way people use alcohol as an excuse to act like a douche bag. It isn't pathetic for people to drink and doesn't make them any less of a decent person. Dwarf Fortress is a game about getting drunk for crying out loud. Are those little guys (hehehe) pathetic?.

Getting a little tipsy is almost euphoric. People do it now and will continue to do so because it makes people feel good. Big reason why alcohol has been used for major celebrations in the past and present day. So lighten up and have a cold one! (But not [popular] american domestic beer. Just awful.) But if not that's cool. Nothing wrong with staying off the hooch. Just means more for me.

[Muz]

Dwarf Fortress is a game about getting drunk for crying out loud. Are those little guys (hehehe) pathetic?.

I actually like my dwarves getting drunk because they work harder when they do. When people IRL get drunk, they get rather incompetent.

Also, I don't really like people using justifications to drink. A little light social drinking, ok. Social drinking out of peer pressure, trying to look cool, ugh. Drinking because you like the flavor of the drink, understandable. Drinking to relieve stress, a dumb idea.. just the kind of thing that creates a downwards spiral of addiction when you're stressed out without your drink.

[Dwarmin]

Same here.

My bro likes to drunk and complain at me about how horrible my life, and his life, by extension, everyone else's life is. All night long. Hours and hours.

>_>

[Neonivek]

You haven't tried enough

No really... I don't like the taste of alcohol. It really isn't the case of selection.

Also I can't stomach beer at all. I should know, my parents kept trying to get me to drink beer out of fear that I would be rejected by my friends at bars for not drinking.

Really... it frustrated me to no end anyone telling me to drink because I am "supposed to".

[Stargrasper]

Neonivek, have you ever tried wine?  Start with a Riesling, it's a sweet to off dry wine.  I very much dislike beer and mixed drinks, but I do enjoy wine in very limited amounts.  I'm not saying you should or need to drink.  Just that I personally agree with you in my dislike for beer, but actually do find myself enjoying wine.

I'm not a particularly big fan of young drunk people.  Granted I don't spend time around alcoholics, the older people I know that drink can handle themselves well.

You should try to keep an open mind, however.  Everything people do is done for a reason.  Maybe not the most solid reason, but a reason none the less.  Consider why they do it.  Consider why they might enjoy it.  A lot of people enjoy being drunk for one reason or another.  If you don't want to be around them, then simply don't place yourself around them.  That's what I do and it actually works out fine.  Even when I lived with an avid drinker who regularly had parties at the house, I was able to place myself away from the people who were drunk without too many problems.

And just because I think this thread could use a bit of restraint...

Judge not, that you be not judged. -Matthew 7:1

[Neonivek]

I've tried quite a few kinds of drinks. the CLOSEST to what I'd possibly like are... mixed drinks? uhhh... whatever melon balls are under.

Though from what I hear it isn't MANLY to drink those kind of drinks... Which I find odd but whatever... Sex divisions are everywhere... why not alcoholic drinks?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't drink alcohol, I never have, and I don't like being around people when they're drunk or in the process of getting drunk. They never fail to become extremely annoying and/or angry. I have literally spent hours trying to get some fucking sleep on nights when my father goes out to the bar, because he comes back drunk and plays Slayer at maximum volume. Constantly.

[ChairmanPoo]

I do drink but I'm not too fond of being drunk myself. I don't find it enjoyable, and when it happens it's not unfrequent to be too spaced out thinking about strange things to really have fun (or care about it, for that matter).

As to other people's drunkenness... it depends on the person. And what shape their drunkenness takes.

[IronyOwl]

Nobody likes the taste of alcohol unless they're used to it. Saying you don't like how it tastes is redundant if you've already mentioned that you don't drink it.


Anyway, if you'd like to keep trying to figure out why you dislike drunkeness, try changing little bits of the equation to see if you can figure out where the lines are. Do you mind people who are fully drunk but very quiet? People who are just tipsy but acting like they're fully drunk? Is there anything that's kind of like being/getting drunk that you have noticeable feelings towards, either similar or different?

[Miggy]

I also partially detest people who are drunk, and I am a teetotalist. The causes for this are, in my mind:

My mum had a depression at one point, where she got doctor-prescribed happy pills to help deal with it. She got completely stoned out and was genuinely pathetic, unable to do anything. Being that it was my mum, I got hurt by it, and I took a big distance away from any of those kinds of substances.

In the early days of school, the people who started out experimenting with alcohol and being drunk were the people I considered douchebags, and who'd sometimes bully me. I'd feel good knowing that I was different ("better") than them in that regard.

And finally, a large pillar of my identity revolves around self-control and anger management. I used to have an extremely hot temper as a young boy (as many young boys do) which I was forced to quell and it left some marks. One of my biggest fears is losing control of myself, and doing things I know I shouldn't do. I don't know how I act drunk, or if I'm able to control myself, but the idea of throwing away self control in order to have fun doesn't align very well with how I feel as a person.

Those are the big three in my subconscious. Maybe you can identify with some of them, or find some similar.

[Enzo]

Being tipsy off drinks is never an excuse of poor behavior but too many people tend to think it is. You are always in control of your own actions and words. I almost think it is placebo-like the way people use alcohol as an excuse to act like a douche bag. It isn't pathetic for people to drink and doesn't make them any less of a decent person.

Yeah, this about sums up my thoughts on the subject. People, especially young, use "I was drunk" as an excuse to be an ass. I, however, have always been enlightened enough to know that I don't need an excuse. Sure, alcohol hits different people in different ways, but I have many a time handled myself respectably while literally one drink from passing out, so naturally I find alcohol to be a poor justification for that kind of thing. If you want to do or say something, man up and do it, don't get drunk and blame the alcohol when you decide you regret it.

On the other hand, if you don't have any inclination towards drinking, power to you. You're probably better off not, all things considered. I always had a few friends who were pretty straight edge, and no one ever held it against them. It's always nice to have a sober person who's got your back. Just don't hold it against the drunk people that they're getting drunk.

So...perhaps the people who get drunk around you, Neon, are just annoying drunks? As someone who also detests that certain type of drinker, I'd say it's a possibility.

Also, I am half drunk already. Do you hate me Neon? D: