if you could afford to drink more alcoholic beverages and/or more often, would you?

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anxi80

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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
:music: Call it what you wanna call it :music:
:music: You're a fvckin' alcoholic :music:

- M4H
:music: Bring it if you really want it :music:
:music: Ain't gotta put no extras on it! :music:

...oh, sorry...thought it was sing-a-long...
 

Rainsford

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Apr 25, 2001
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Probably not. I might drink some better stuff, some of the expensive micro-brewery beers can be quite good. But overall, alcoholism runs in my family, and so does heart disease. Not exactly a good combination.
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: Sifl

Alcoholism is different for everyone in how it manifests itself. 12 beers a day is heavy drinking.

Right....but the same can be said about 10 liters of soda per day. Doesn't make one an alcoholic automatically though.

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PanzerIV

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I think alcohol tastes like sh!t. The only reason I would drink regulary would be to experience the health benefits of one glass of wine nightly but since I am not a drinker to begin with I don't want to start that routine either. So, I only drink a beer on the proverbial blue moon even though they taste awful too but it's nice to get a buzz every so often. Every so often meaning like a couple of years.
 

JBT

Lifer
Nov 28, 2001
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I probably would right now I probably drink once a month I would probably go up to a glass of red wine a day.
 

Bryophyte

Lifer
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Sifl

Alcoholism is different for everyone in how it manifests itself. 12 beers a day is heavy drinking.

Right....but the same can be said about 10 liters of soda per day. Doesn't make one an alcoholic automatically though.

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How addiction/compulsive behavior manifests itself is different from person to person. For example, someone I know well was, as a youth/young adult, into drugs and alcohol compulsively. He quit both (without counseling of any kind, called a "dry drunk" in the rehab field), and has spent his adult life going from one compulsive behavior to another...working non-stop, spending all of his money on collectibles, then when he's out of work and has no money to tide him over, spending all his free time on ebay selling the collectibles...
 

brigden

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Dec 22, 2002
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I keep telling my friends I have an alcohol problem... a problem in that I can never afford enough...