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Only to excess.

I don't drink, at all. Had very awful experiences with alcohol involving third parties while growing up so I decided that I was never going to drink. I hate what alcohol can do to people and how society seems so cool with drinking when it can destroy lives. Seems extremely hypocritical given how they see other drugs like weed.

I used to believe in the myth that having one or two drinks per day is fine or even healthy.

Now I know the truth that there is no safe amount of alcohol, I don't drink any more. Also because of my other health conditions, I should avoid alcohol.

my rule is that I'll drink booze only if someone else is paying for it. I never seek out alcohol, I've got other chemicals to numb the pain of existence.

Several glasses of water every day, and a couple glasses of milk.

Ethanol maybe once every month or two. Don't really like the taste or the feeling of inebriation.

Totally teetotal. Don't like alcohol, I don't judge others for it but I'm not a fan

Lots. Tap water, mostly.

I used to but I haven't in almost a decade. Honestly, after I stopped clubbing, I never saw the point. I guess it's just not a substance I find that fun overall so it was easy to let it go. And the taste, my God, the taste... I can't believe they can make neo-Nazi chatbots but they can't make rum and Coke that only tastes like Coke. 😅

I drink alcohol once in a while, socially, and only if I don’t have to drive that day or do any important things the next day.

I started some medication that made my desire to drink disappear. After a while, I tried having a beer with friends and just got an overwhelming desire to nap. My tolerance had disappeared. So I don't really drink anymore, but I used to brew my own beer and occasionally drink way too much. I've also enjoyed not having to worry about being able to drive if an emergency happens etc. One of the big downsides is how obnoxious drunk people can be when you're sober.

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I love drinking! It's lots of fun and a great way to meet people and beer is deliscious!

Unfortunately, it wrecks me physically and mentally afterwards, and makes me fat. So I typically only drink on special occasions these days, and try to keep my intake moderate. Damn shame, lol.

I don't drink much, maybe a few times a year. Nothing against it it's just not really for me and I feel like my mind is hard enough to wrestle uninhibited.

It also inhibits muscle synthesis which is not great if you enjoy lifting and want to make progress in the gym.

Yes, I drink everything drinkable. Even water.

But you, of course, mean alcohol. Yes, I drink a lot. But not often. I'm not a kid anymore, so drinkday plus hangover can easily take 2-3 days. Not always convenient.

Really rarely, and very little when I do.

I dislike being drunk, period. I'm not a huge fan of being tipsy, though every few years it can be nice, i'm not exaggerating the time scale, it's a very unusual thing for me to have enough to get me to that point because I prefer not to be that significantly impaired. Even then, it's only in specific settings and situations.

That being said, I have found as I've aged that I enjoy some alcoholic beverages for their own sake, which I never did when I was younger. Back in my teens and twenties I could say that I didn't like anything alcoholic at all. No beer, no wine, definitely not liquor. The closest I got was wine coolers, and even then I'd have preferred just a soda. Some mixed drinks were okay as one offs. Ciders were always kind okay though.

But in my thirties, I found a few beers I could halfway enjoy, then a couple of wines that pleased my palate enough to drink on their own. Then my tastes opened to to include bourbon and some other whiskeys here and there.

By my forties, I could appreciate scotch, if not enjoy it. And my enjoyment of bourbon increased to the point that it's my default drink when I do drink. I discovered a range of wines and beers I could enjoy with food easily, and a few more by themselves.

In a given year, over the last decade or so, I might have something like beer, wine, or cider with a meal three or four times. A glass of bourbon maybe twice, if that. This year I haven't had any alcohol that wasn't an ingredient in a recipe being cooked. And I'll gladly take a sip of something if someone offers, just to try something new.

Legit though, I've been thinking about popping open a cider, or maybe buying a bug zapper so I could chill in the back yard with my chickens and a bourbon on ice. Dunno, might happen or might not.

Mind you, I don't have a moral objection to alcohol use. No issues with other people enjoying it if they do. Can't say I enjoy being around people when they're drunk, mostly. There's a handful of exceptions where I can tolerate or enjoy the company of individuals when they're drinking a good amount, but in general I'd rather hang out with a junkie than a drunk, as an indicator of my scale of difficulty in putting up with someone under the influence of something.

But I'd rather hang around a drunk than a tweaker or crack head. Pot heads are fine to hang with entirely, no objections usually.

Which is tangential to the post's subject, but I know people outside of lemmy that use lemmy that drink, and I wouldn't want them feeling bad because they thought I don't like them because they drink. Just because I don't like something, and have personal limits on what I can be around doesn't mean that it's some kind of horrible thing. If I'm a friend of someone that drinks regularly, it's because they're not only a friend, but they don't act poorly when drinking, so it isn't an issue.

I drink socially. However, I'm not a big fan of the taste so I avoid it at parties. The last time I drank was the celebrate New Years.

I’m an alcoholic, so I don’t allow myself to have alcohol at home. If I go out, I have a pretty strict four drink maximum. On rare occasions I’ll drink more if I’m with friends at some kind of event or spending the night out at clubs.

The smart option would be to stop drinking, especially considering the damage alcohol has done to my life. I’m probably not going to anytime soon though, because I love drinking and this system has worked really well for 4 years.

Back in the day, I used to put down at least half a liter of liquor a night. Shit was expensive.

It takes me somewhere between a week and two weeks to get through a bottle of wine...