Americans. How do you cope not drinking until 21?

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Ridonculous_Ninja

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It's really easy to not want something you've never had before.

Although the few kinds of alcohol I've had small tastes of have not made me want it at all.

Rum burns...
 

Magnikai

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By not caring mostly. I've never seen what the big deal was about alcohol so I don't feel like I'm missing much
 

gerrymander61

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by being better than everywhere else in the world.


There's the American way, and there's the wrong way.
 

sabotstarr

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Horny Ico said:
chronobreak said:
TheGreatCoolEnergy said:
Explain to me what the rush to get smashed is again? I have never seen the great awsomeness to putting yourself in a state where your unable to do anything, or even think straight...
Fun. Parties. Girls. Friends. Knowing you are breaking the rules. Laughing. Living. Loving. Acting stupid and not being persecuted. Having a jolly at the expense of a friend. Having stories to share with good friends down the road.

Can you do all this without booze? Sure. Some of us like both, however. There really isn't much to explain. You know all those people that go to bars and have fun? Well, that's us. Maybe that's not you. And that is alright.
Half the things you listed are fucking stupid. Destruction of internal organs, including the liver, is never a form of utilizing life. What good are any of the even remotely good things that you listed when you don't fucking remember it afterward, especially the "having stories" bullshit? "A jolly at the expense of a friend"? That friend was probably canooing up Shit Creek when he met you, especially considering the usual sense of humor amoungst drunks.

Alcohol is a bane upon the human race and I would sooner take out a sword and castrate a "party animal" than accept his beer. If I'm going to live a healthy life, why not promote a healthy gene pool?
Hey then don't drink. You can be the sober duche bag that sits in the corner with no friends. The rest of us will just ignore you and continue with the fun.
And only you get to be in the corner of looserness, the rest of the people, even the ones who say no to alcohol, can hang with us because they don't try to push their ideas down our thoughts.
P.S. and for the most part there not total dicks.
 

TheMadTypist

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Now me, I don't drink. My roommate, though, comes back every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night drunk as all high hell and occasionally in the company of a woman.

See, Americans under the legal age drink anyway, but if they get caught, they have consequences to deal with. And of course, because other people pull dumb stunts, I, an avowed teetotaler, have to sit through idiotic online programs teaching us the "evils of drink" (rephrased in the modern way to "High risk decisions"). It got to the point where I was praying to dark gods to rend the actor's souls and wrest the very life from them.

Edit: I mean, it wasn't like the program even did any good. The people who didn't drink still don't and the people who do still do. waste of time all round. Plus, most of the folks who drink don't go 'round committing sexual assault and overdosing, so really the whole program was a joke.
 

Coldsnap

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Starnerf said:
I've yet to find an alcoholic drink that doesn't taste like alcohol. And I think the reason is that they all contain alcohol. So my question is, who actually likes the taste of alcohol? I don't think it's a flavor that humans are supposed to enjoy.
Pretty much this for me; I've tried various beers and other alcoholic beverages. They were either disgusting to tolerable, but I'd rather drink things I enjoy.

Though I do acknowledge that others have different tastes, so have fun with whatever tastes good to you.
 

Lekonua

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Drinking is overrated. I've tasted pretty much every form of alcohol at one point or another and just never understood how people could get hooked on the crap.

Do your taste buds suddenly reconfigure themselves the second you turn 21 or something?

If so, maybe I have something to look forward to in 3 years.
 

Housebroken Lunatic

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Starnerf said:
I've yet to find an alcoholic drink that doesn't taste like alcohol. And I think the reason is that they all contain alcohol. So my question is, who actually likes the taste of alcohol? I don't think it's a flavor that humans are supposed to enjoy.
Of course the alcohol adds to the flavour in a positive way. You wouldn't drink it otherwise.

It's like a spice. Salt tastes good with french fries, but you wouldn't want to eat pure salt, right?
 

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willsham45 said:
Now im a Brit so we can drink from pritty much any age as long as are parents say its ok, then 18 is the legal age to get boose. As far as i know in america drinking is prohibited until your the age of 21...How on earth do you cope/did you cope with that? it sounds regiculus.

This also goes for any other people from contries with simular drinking rules, I am only really aware of america not being able to drink till 21 sure there are more out there.
simple u drink
 

tce11

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Horny Ico said:
chronobreak said:
TheGreatCoolEnergy said:
Explain to me what the rush to get smashed is again? I have never seen the great awsomeness to putting yourself in a state where your unable to do anything, or even think straight...
Fun. Parties. Girls. Friends. Knowing you are breaking the rules. Laughing. Living. Loving. Acting stupid and not being persecuted. Having a jolly at the expense of a friend. Having stories to share with good friends down the road.

Can you do all this without booze? Sure. Some of us like both, however. There really isn't much to explain. You know all those people that go to bars and have fun? Well, that's us. Maybe that's not you. And that is alright.
Half the things you listed are fucking stupid. Destruction of internal organs, including the liver, is never a form of utilizing life. What good are any of the even remotely good things that you listed when you don't fucking remember it afterward, especially the "having stories" bullshit? "A jolly at the expense of a friend"? That friend was probably canooing up Shit Creek when he met you, especially considering the usual sense of humor amoungst drunks.

Alchohol is a bane upon the human race and I would sooner take out a sword and castrate a "party animal" than accept his beer. If I'm going to live a healthy life, why not promote a healthy gene pool?
This is a very extremist view of alcohol, from what you wrote it sounds like you think having a couple drinks will wipe your memory and cause your liver to explode. This is not the case, and it is proven billions of times every day. Sure having excess amount of it will, but there are lots of things where too much is bad, food, sleep, oxygen, etc. Many studies have even shown that reasonable amounts of alcohol are good, helping blood pressure and dealing with stress. Some compounds found in red wine have even been shown to slow the aging process.

I'm not saying that you should drink or that everybody should drink or anything I'm just saying you should at least open your mind and accept people for what they choose to do.
 

Ghost8585

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Simple. As many have explained we get friends to buy us some. I actually find this very positive and I'm not saying that in an 'oh I'm so cool kind of way'. Because since I got my first bottle of Captain Morgan at 8th Grade, and did a good deal of drinking early, turning 21 wasn't as big an occasion as it could have been if I had never drank before. Possibly saving me from alcohol poisoning or alcohol dependence.
 

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xmetatr0nx said:
Bored Tomatoe said:
We drink before 21. It just isn't legal.
This, seems pretty obvious doesnt it. Its really not that big of a deal.
It sort of is. It's a felony to provide for minors at this point. It's a stupid law set to an arbitrary age. I really don't see the difference between the 19 I am now and the 21 I (hopefully) will be. Here is how I know: I took my first shot at 18. why? peer pressure from my mother and her friends who have known me since I was 3. The only reason I can see for not (legally) drinking alcohol until you are 21 is that it will fuck up the development of the brain when you are 13 or something. In my opinion, the drinking age should the the same at 18. If people think 18 isn't responsible enough to handle drinking then they don't know what happens on people's 21st birthday nor have been to a college campus.
 

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Lekonua said:
Drinking is overrated. I've tasted pretty much every form of alcohol at one point or another and just never understood how people could get hooked on the crap.
While it's certainly plausible to have tasted at least one brandy, whisky, tenessee whiskey, vodka, wine, beer, ale, etc. And a few long drinks with those. You've hardly tried EVERY whisky, tenessee whiskey, brandy, vodka, wine, beer, ale etc. Now have you?

I remember hating red wine for quite some time, and I had tasted quite a few brands. THen I discovered this zinfandel wine called Gnarly head and the taste was awesome.

Alcoholic beverages are funny that way. It's very hard to like every sort of whisky or every sort of wine, but pretty much anyone can find their favorite brand if they put their mind to it.
 

Lazzi

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We drink illegaly, its as simple as that. Most parents dont care aslong as your around them, hell I started drinking when I was 14.

It really jsut matters were your are, when your at home or with family you can pretty much drink as much as you want. That atleast the case with most of miami, dont know about the rest of the world.

By parents encouraged me to drink when ever there was a cellibration, that way I could hold my liquor by the time I coudl by its my self. I behold, the idea worked flawlessly.