You don't seem to want to give anyone a chance to prove that they don't engage in illegal activities after drinking although you could easily find that out by comparing drinks sales and crime rates. One goes up with the other admittedly but you'd also discover that not every person who drinks is doing what your "lunatic" townsfolk are doing.BakaSmurf said:I probably should have mentioned that earlier, the folks that I know that drink are a bunch of fucking lunatics, the loss of respect comes from when I meet someone new, learn that they drink, ask about them, and find out they're known for engaging in the same illegal acts as the other lunatics in my town after drinking.Generic Gamer said:BakaSmurf said:Fuck no, shit tastes like crap, and the following hangover sucks something fierce.
I've never understood how people could like that stuff, really causes me to lose a lot of respect for people when I find out that they do drink it.
So from what I've witnessed in my time on Earth? Drinking = Lunacy = Loss of respect.
Were any of them to prove that they don't go and start engaging in illegal activities after drinking I might respect them some more, but alas, that situation has yet to present itself.
I'm actually a pretty mean drunk compared to being a fairly nice (if somewhat grumpy-looking) guy when sober, so no, you wouldn't like me better when I'm drinking.NeuroticDogDad said:snip
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Not to mention that my alcohal tolerance is pretty much zero.
Also, I just have to say, if liquor is a requirement to make yourself and others around you interesting and capable of having a good time, you must be a pretty damn dull person with dull associates indeed.
Yes, you're right, I am pretty damn narrow-minded when it comes to alcohol, as most people would be had they been on the recieving end of a metric fuckton of emotional abuse with alcohol as the fuel for the fire.NeuroticDogDad said:You don't seem to want to give anyone a chance to prove that they don't engage in illegal activities after drinking although you could easily find that out by comparing drinks sales and crime rates. One goes up with the other admittedly but you'd also discover that not every person who drinks is doing what your "lunatic" townsfolk are doing.BakaSmurf said:I probably should have mentioned that earlier, the folks that I know that drink are a bunch of fucking lunatics, the loss of respect comes from when I meet someone new, learn that they drink, ask about them, and find out they're known for engaging in the same illegal acts as the other lunatics in my town after drinking.Generic Gamer said:BakaSmurf said:Fuck no, shit tastes like crap, and the following hangover sucks something fierce.
I've never understood how people could like that stuff, really causes me to lose a lot of respect for people when I find out that they do drink it.
So from what I've witnessed in my time on Earth? Drinking = Lunacy = Loss of respect.
Were any of them to prove that they don't go and start engaging in illegal activities after drinking I might respect them some more, but alas, that situation has yet to present itself.
I'm actually a pretty mean drunk compared to being a fairly nice (if somewhat grumpy-looking) guy when sober, so no, you wouldn't like me better when I'm drinking.NeuroticDogDad said:snip
BakaSmurf said:snip
Not to mention that my alcohal tolerance is pretty much zero.
Also, I just have to say, if liquor is a requirement to make yourself and others around you interesting and capable of having a good time, you must be a pretty damn dull person with dull associates indeed.
And the word isn't lunatic, it's moron or fuckwit. There's nothing crazy about it, they're just cretins.
Basically, the whole drinking world is nothing like those people and we don't want to be judged by your narrow-minded, one-town attitude.
I also never said I'd like you better when YOU were drinking, only when I was drinking.
You've stated you have little experience with drinking and I believe that if you see more of the world than these cretins you associate the rest of us with you might have a different opinion. You never know, you might be able to enjoy the occasional drink(ing binge) without anyone thinking you're a dick.
I don't appreciate me or my friends being called dull although I do appreciate the irony of such a sentiment coming from you. Me and my close friends have had enough good times sober to appreciate the intensified wit and hilarity that enough imbibing brings. We know how to have fun and we don't abstain from indulging in a world-renowned, long-standing pleasurable activity because of our unwarranted self-importance.
I loledAK47Marine said:I'm not an alcoholic I just drink constantly