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What is /pol/'s relationship with Alcohol?

Do you guys like drinking alcohol everyday?

>>512097929 (OP)
Ipa
International pedo association?

Eh, depends. Only if I'm in good condition AND have something fun to do. Or if I'm physically sore. It's a tool.

I used to but now it just makes me feel ill

>>512097929 (OP)
I drink maybe 3-4 times per year. It's a shit drug but can be fun when it's used sparingly.

>>512097929 (OP)
Imagine paying $4.50 for a beer
in Aus that gets you a bottle of wine or port
or an eighth of a bottle of 'cheap' taxed-to-fuck vodka

>>512097993
India Pale Ale

>>512098081
Impotent people association?

>>512097929 (OP)
Keep drinking the liquid jew and get cancer. You work like a donkey to make the people trying to poison you richer

I might drink a pint of cider once or twice a year, when out at family dinners.

Alcohol has no positive effects on me and never has. Just dizziness and headaches.

>>512097929 (OP)
mah i drank for a decade daily and was very suicidal at the end, ended up in the psych ward for a few months, now im sober for 2 years, it's better now

why would you ever drink when you can smoke

>>512097929 (OP)
I've been drinking every day for 5 years since I got bored during covid. But I recently got naltrexone a medicine that helps with cravings and I'm 5 days sober. I'm going insane. Life is so pointless without alcohol making you feel okay with that.

For a solid 2 years I was drinking 4-6 days per week.

For the past 6 months I've managed to cut it down once a week-every two weeks and that difference is insane
>lost a fuck ton of weight
>saving a lot of money
>energy through the roof
>sleeping better
>mood improved
>when I actually get drunk now it feels a million times better and doesn't take as much
I could go on. They don't call it the liquid jew for nothing. I'd almost give it up cold turkey but unfortunately I'm a potato nigger and it's how we socialise.

>>512097929 (OP)
the blood of your children

I used to drink a lot. But I stopped when I turned 21.

>>512097929 (OP)

Liquid Jew will destroy you and always without exception make you less than you could have been

alcohol is destructive physically and inter-personally

>>512098544
>inter-personally
I want nothing to do with these whackjobs.

>>512097929 (OP)
Indian lemonade is better for the body and the soul.

>>512097929 (OP)
Don't like the taste
Don't like the smell
Don't like the effect
You can't make any friends here or advance through the career ladder without drinking, because it is considered rude and perhaps even insulting to refuse to drink in a social gathering, so it is impossible to not drink.

>>512097929 (OP)
I have never gotten drunk and I never will. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs. I don't even have any prescriptions.

I drank almost every night for 10 years. I felt 100% functional. Girlfriends would say I was an alcoholic. I insisted I wasn’t. I can quit any time. I just like having a six pack after work.

Guess what? I wasn’t an alcoholic. I decided to stop one day. Get in shape. Haven’t had a drop since. No problem at all. No cravings. No desire to get drunk.

Yes I do feel better. I thought I was 100% functional before, but I feel sharper and in a better mood now. Lost 30 lbs.

>>512097929 (OP)
Im drunk rn

>>512098195
Why would you do either when you could boof vodka? Thats how I stay. I staf boofing vodka sours.

>>512099586
*Stay* boofing. I"m drunk rn

>>512099433
I do feel autistic when I go out to a bar or something now. Doesn’t bother me at all that other people are drinking, and I don’t have an urge to join them, I just feel like a robot and I don’t know what to do with my hands.

>>512097929 (OP)
I only drink the zero alcohol ones now - been years since I had a proper beer.

dont miss the feeling of alchol.

Had to get prescribed legal speed (elvanse) to stop drinking. Occasionally I combine the two and go off the rails but I was so hooked on booze at one point and it's terrible. In terms of energy and recovery sleep even one beer ruins your night. Booze is a terrible drug compared to 70% of the "hard" stuff (((they))) want banned. It's a depressant, its incredibly hard to reach the sweet spot with, it fucks with your liver, muscles, sleep...but it's available.

>>512097929 (OP)
People who can't handle having a couple of beers or a glass or two of wine with a meal (in either direction or not handling) are fucking subhuman.
Both teetotallers and winos are dysfunctional people.

>>512097929 (OP)
I'm gonna stop tomorrow

>>512099739
Try boofing it.

>>512099830
You ever try boofing speed and beers?

>>512097929 (OP)
>one post by this leaf
glownigger's profiling data collection dream thread

>>512099881
You ever try boofing red wine?

>>512097929 (OP)
>Do you guys like drinking alcohol everyday?
Once a month at most, sometimes not even that

>>512097929 (OP)
For the weekend when I wanted to drink and listen to music, write, read, or post on /pol/, I used to have a big second meal at work around 1700 then not eat anything the rest of the day. When I'd get home at midnight, I'd enjoy a bottle of merlot. Vino at night with a clear conscience and empty stomach is the best, even when drinking alone. I'd have some of my best ideas then.

All things considered, and I mean everything (the way you feel, the amount of fun you have, the money savings, the weight loss, better sleep, being autistic vs. being able to talk to people, etc), all the positives and negatives about not drinking, I’d say it’s like 2% better to not drink.

But 2% is 2% man. It’s a no brainer. I’d recommend it to everyone. Certainly don’t look down on anyone who sees it the other way though. Feels fucking good to have a few beers too.

>>512098205
It'll settle down after about a month. See, you're going to fuck it up eventually, so what you really need is max days sober you can possibly get between them, with healthy eating and exercise.

Let's say you eat well, walk 1.5 hours per day, and do 50 push ups every other day. Let's say after 4.2 months of this you fuck up and drink 3 bottles of wine, eat most of two pizzas, make a few "confusing" texts, and piss all over your toilet. Who fuckin' cares, time to dust off and try for 6 months this time, don't worry about it too much.

What happens after a few years of this is the damage is healed and really, it's better than that, you're now doing better than average. Sure, you'll still fuck up here and there, but you're looking to string the numbers along, because at some point everyone except for a few seem to look so weak, physically, mentally, spiritually, they just fall apart at the slightest problem and their life is all lies, meanwhile you are 5% of the way to your potential and you're starting to wonder where that could go now that you can think straight.

>>512099433
Kinda similar. I was drinking at least 3 beers a night and was really afraid I was hooked enough that I was gonna have a nightmare stopping but I switched to whiskey and just naturally started drinking way less, I'm not totally off but I'm good with one beer or a very small glass (like 1oz or less, I get about a month out of a standard bottle) of whiskey and skip it entirely without really noticing. Maybe I'm still some kinda high functioning very mild alcoholic but at this point I don't really see the harm in it, it's not fucking my life up and one $30-40 bottle a month isn't killing me financially either.

I drink a bottle of scotch a day. I really need to stop.

>>512097929 (OP)
yes all of /pol/ drinks enormously and have big floppy beer guts as a sign of their intellect and success as humans, once you reach the rehab centre you've officially graduated from /pol/

>>512100644
You know you can't cold turkey at 750 ml per day, right? Just checking.

>>512097929 (OP)
No. I don't really like drinking alcohol much at all. I'll have a scotch I like maybe once or twice a year when I hang out with my father but don't drink much at all outside of that. If I'm going to hang out at a party of some sort with my friends who do like drinking and I want to be on a depressant to match the vibe I'll just take a low dosage of opiates. Luckily I'm not one of the people who becomes physically addicted to the stuff so I can milk old prescriptions for years only taking a few a year for big gettogethers. Alcohol never really agreed with me even when I was young but in my early mid 20s I really dialed it back and eventually stopped drinking entirely because the hangovers were kicking my ass too hard and too often. At a certain point it just isn't worth it.

>>512100796
Yep, but thanks for the good advice. My cope is I get my bloods done every year and every second year get full heart scans and see a cardiologist and everything is golden.

>>512100633
I always had strict rules when I was drinking, and I wonder if they helped me when I decided to stop.

Rule number 1) never drink before it gets dark. Or at least until the sun starts approaching the horizon. 2) only drink coors light. And 3) I was really good about stopping the moment I knew I reached my limit. I got so good at drinking I pretty much knew to the sip when I was going to have a hangover the next day, and I never went one sip past that point. Usually that was like 6-8 beers. Sometimes it was one. I could just feel something click and I knew that was it.

So I guess for me I loved doing it, but I wasn’t drinking because I needed it. Never more more more. I like to get a certain buzz, I feel great, forget about my troubles a little, and that was it. It was certainly a habit, but obviously not an addiction. I would never have been able to quit cold turkey like it was nothing after 10 years if I was physically addicted.

I knew I sounded like an addict when I’d tell myself or say to other people “I can stop whenever I want.” And they’d say “well then why don’t you!?” Like it was proof I couldn’t. “Because I obviously dont fucking want to!”

The second I wanted to, it was nothing. I’ve never had a single craving like “I need a beer bad!”

>>512101116
No worries. My experience has been if I could get it down to a 750 every three days for two or three bottles, things wouldn't get too bad cold turkey from there. Good luck out there.

>>512097929 (OP)
I calmed down quite a bit. I used to drink a 12 pack every night but now I only drink maybe twice a month. When I do drink its a lot but its getting rarer and rarer. I get too hungover and my jobs demanding.

>>512101276
It’s been 20 years so I think when I get to the final point I’ll go the observed medical route. The problem is I am just so highly functioning I don’t hit rock bottom. I don’t drink going out for meals, don’t during the day, don’t in front of my kids I just do it when everyone is in bed 8pm to 11pm then up at 6.30-7am being a functioning person.

>>512101489
Yeah, I had about the same run. What happened to me one day was suddenly at 2pm I was shaking so bad I couldn't type and I felt lightheaded, so I left and went home and had a drink and was suddenly right as fucking rain, and I knew it was over, body was starting to give out.

>>512098177
Nice brother and same with myself. Drank for a decade in fleeting attempt at stifling my crippling depression and ultimately making everything worse. I quit 2 years ago but it wasn't me. I looked up AA places near by but none in my city, just everywhere but here. So, I got down my knees and humbled myself by asking God for help. I thought why tf not? I have nothing to lose by asking for help by some "imaginary" being right? So I said fuck it. I surrendered myself Him and apologized for being what I was. A few years rolled down but I felt something that I can't even put into words now. Like a vibrational bolt of lightning. I felt odd so I decided to go to bed early. When I woke up the next day I had completely lost my thirst for alcohol. I wasn't grossed out by it or anything but it had zero appeal. After a few days I was even more weirded out because the thirst hadn't returned. To the point where I almost wanted it back so I could go back to what I knew. I finally understood the basic mentality of the the guy who went to prison for a decade, gets out, and after a few months, purposely violated parole in order to go back to what he knew. I even work around it at my job and I have tried to rationalize it from every possible angle and it comes down to intervention from a much higher power. I'm proud of you however you were able to do it, but proud all the same. Sorry that you had to go to the looney bins for a while.

>>512097929 (OP)
>>512098011
I went through phases where I drank everyday during times in life that were tough.

When I started hitting the gym, following a diet, getting proper sleep, I cannot drink like I used to.

>>512098011
Believe it or not, that's a good thing. Feeling ill from drinking is the proper reaction. If I drink a lot today, the next day, I feel like I'm going through chemo.

>>512098080
Alcohol and ciggarettes are prohibitively expensive in Canada. It's like $20 or more for a pack of smokes.

I have mixed feelings about this.

>>512101750
*A few tears

>>512101787
m8 Aus is even worse on ciggies, and we don't have natives selling them cheap either. $20 gets you a pack on the black market (maybe 2 in Melb/Sydney) and the legals start at $34

i drink vodka mixers mostly (cheapest soft drinks and vodka available)

>>512101737
My problem is I treat it like I’m a professional athlete of drinking so yet to get side effects.
>liquid iv drink before bed and a pre prepared one immediately on waking up
>straight into a cold pool plunge
>strict diet, exercise and vitamin regime
My problem is my whole life is about other people except that one 8pm-11.30pm slot which is for me and it’s very ritualistic. My current plan is to replace it with a new ritual and run a half marathon every night during that slot. I just need a new ritual during that time slot.

>>512097993
IPA is what faggot hipsters who LARP as lumberjacks drink because they aren't men and don't like the taste of actual beer, so they drink fruit flavored IPAs with retarded names and call it beer. If you ever see a man drinking an IPA then he's a power bottom

>>512101750
What pushes you pussies to drink? I've never understood it. I've had a harder life than anyone I've ever met, and everyone else is an alcoholic and I can count the number of times I've been drunk on 1 hand. I've had every reason to become an addict and yet I never have, so what made you become an alcoholic because being depressed isn't a real answer.

>>512102369
One big problem I had making changes before the wheels came off completely was that I had inadvertently trained them for a decade for exact rituals. So for example when I was sore from exercising and all flushfaced and weird from drinking half my usual amount it felt to them like I was going to die, like bad things were afoot. Whereas, everything normal "yeah, he likes a few drinks" was the status quo and felt good to them.

Ironically to combat this I announced to them I had become a walker, bout exercise and walking gear, lights for night, and would get shitfaced walking. They actually got used to that eventually which was great, since I did need something to do after I finally quit and I just went back to my "old habit" of walking for hours at a time and things were great.

getting drunk on alcopops as a 16 year old is alright, but as a grown up, getting wasted becomes a huge social- and work liabilityrisk.

>>512103091
>as a grown up, getting wasted becomes a huge social- and work liabilityrisk.
Unfortunately it doesn't always. Let's say some self serving cunt at the office sends out a "congratulatory" email that everyone knows is fucking bullshit. Let's say you drink half a bottle of vodka, fire up Outlook, and send out a *real* congratulatory email calling out the specific accomplishments of who did what. Not anything confrontational, just you sent what should have been sent with exactly zero fucks given (until you wake up).

If you don't fired, you'll walk in to the office with more fans than you used to have. Fortune favors the bold.

The problem is, of course, this doesn't always work. Maybe you could say it hardly ever works. But it does work sometimes, and booze can help you seize those moments. It can also help you outlast tyrants or other terrible situations. I'm not suggesting anyone do any of this, I'm just acknowledging it ain't so simple.

I've cut down dramatically. Had two drinks tonight and might have one more in a bit but to be honest I'd rather have weed and a benzo once every few weeks than drink. Too many calories.

>>512097929 (OP)
why are you posting zoomerfagslop instead of beer?

>>512101182
Basically the same rules 1 and 3 here, though since moving up north it stays light so late in the summer and gets dark so early in the winter that I've changed the first rule to "only with or after dinner."

I have to be careful with beer though, because I really fucking love drinking it. Getting off beer was the key to cutting my drinking down to a minimum because I can just keep cracking and sipping beer after beer without even noticing it. I'd stop before real drunk or the hangover point 99.9% of the time (once in a while I'd make the mistake of buying high ABV beer and it'd fuck me though) but that was still a minimum of 3 beers and often 4-6. I don't know why but beer also keeps me up, while whiskey doesn't.

Another big thing for me btw was forcing myself onto a better sleep schedule. I'd start drinking at the same time every day but would keep going until I went to bed, so if I went full NEET and stayed up until 5AM I'd drink a shitload, and as I say beer keeps me up so it fed into that. Just by forcing myself to get to sleep by 1 or even 2 I naturally drink way less.

Don't you feel sorry that you spend money on such crap? One day of drinking (normal, not cheap booze) is at least 3 days of food. This reason alone is already an argument in favor of not drinking

>>512104153
>One day of drinking (normal, not cheap booze) is at least 3 days of food
Not in America, unless you're an extremely heavy drinker. 3 days of food here will buy me about a month of decent whiskey or beer.

>>512104153
No, I have effectively unlimited money.

I quit drinking almost 3 years ago. Life has been better.

Alcohol is totally shit anon. Also a waste of money.

Also quit weed like 5 months ago.


Will prob quit porn next.

>>512097929 (OP)
4 months sober or something, i dont really count. Used to down a bottle of gin every evening for a decade. Life has improved significantly

>>512104153
both is 5% of my monthly income max

Few local made beers on a weekend in the pub or rugby/cricket club after playing then it’s home time. I don’t drink spirits, wine, cider, mixers or anything like that. Don’t drink through the week as I’m up early every day driving about

However, all that goes out the window when I go to the US. There is something completely different in alcoholic drinks there that means I avoid them entirely. I thought it was them being dramatic, but it really is unpleasant there and makes me extremely energetic/wanting more of it. A few beers there is a hangover guaranteed and any more than that is the next day ruined. No idea what it is, but it’s there

>>512102462
You are a gay retard. IPAs being for hipsters is a gay retard meme for anti white faggots.

>>512097929 (OP)
Uh...yeah...
What are you, eight?

>>512097993
India Pale Ale... Bumch of horse shit as a matter of fact...-RIP Martyn Cornell-
>>512102462
I can't stand modern "IPAs" I do miss it being associated with old school "enthusiastically hopped" bottled pale ales alone...

>>512097929 (OP)
I go out once a week at the weekend with my mates to an all white pub. It's a good time and a good crowd. I drink a session beer (Fosters, 3.7) and usually about 6/7 pints.
I made it a rule to not drink at home, although I might very infrequently have a glass of wine. Never touch spirits.

>>512097929 (OP)
Alcohol Gives you incontinence it’s their to destroying society from within. Binge then engorge then shit your meal hours later and start the process all over again because your gut can’t process food

>>512097929 (OP)
I only drink a few times a year, Madeira for 4th of July, usually eggnog for Christmas, then maybe something else once or twice other than that.