I realized in my late 20’s that I actually enjoy going out for drinks with friends. Unfortunately, all of my friends were over it by that point. I look younger than my age, probably due in part to the fact that I never drink. Hopefully my liver abuse days are still ahead of me.
Why do so many Americans spell it “sepErate”?
Nothing but clean living here, I quit all my vices, unless you count weed and alcohol, which I don’t.
Glue and gas don’t count either.
If uh anyone was curiousGrowing up, the richest kid in our school used to huff glue all the time. We were tripping on mushrooms and smoking green bud, which he turned down, then poured rubber cement into a baggie and huffed it. Go figure.
That’s horrible
I gave up drinking so I could smoke more pot
i gave up smoking so i could have more pot.
I gave up having so I could snort more pot.
The real issue is that the alcohol’s pleasant buzz itself is only part of the equation. A huge portion of regular social spots come with the expectation of alcohol in your system. If you are avoiding alcohol its seen as almost “cheating” because you are inhibited and controlled compared to everyone else around you who are psychologically vulnerable due to inebriation. Drinking is a communal agreement to chemically alter ourselves to be more honest and open. Its sort of a trust serum.
Choosing to not drink isolates you. Though drinking too much can also isolate you for different reasons.
Choosing to be isolated is really bad for you, worse than the negative effects of moderate alcohol consumption. (You are not a introvert, that is not a thing)
Some of the weirdest peer pressure i have ever seen. Well adjusted people who drink don’t care if their friends/family/rec league teamates or whatever drink. That whole isolation think sounds like what a frat bros tell freshman.
Two best choices I’ve ever made tbh. I look 10 years younger since my last fun
May I ask how important it is to look young? Or is it just a proxy for your health?
Look good feel good. Drinking to excess ages you. Most of my coworkers are in one stage or another of alcoholism, two of em have died. It always ends sad too and at least a little pathetic.
What’s the point of looking good if you can’t have fun?
the horrid farts you crop dust on your enemies. as their souls depart from this earthly realm, so to does your soul ascend to greater heights of depravity.
You can drink and not look haggard, idk what op thinks is the case, but he’s full of shit. Sunlight on your face is what makes you look old prematurely. Liquor can give you a raspy voice along with tobacco, but that is another story.
Im convinced drinking preserved my youthful looks. When i stopped drinking i gained weight and started looking haggard
I just for the first time gained weight. I got injured, and gained 20 pounds from my target weight, but 27 from my weight this time the last two years. This has never happened before, I am currently in the process of losing it. Still skinny, but I’m going to turn it into muscle.
But I am still drinking here and there, mostly homebrew stuff, but some ipa and whiskey or gin here and there, or pbr when it’s hot. And I still look youthful-ish for my age.
I drank about 12 7% ipa’s a day all 2024. If that’s alot.
