[quote name='fanskad']Defender, I think I'd like you if we met. I like your attitude.
Definitely.
Back on topic, those of you who will never take a drink, you don't know what you're missing. Not the buzz, or the drunkeness, or especially the hangover, but the taste of a delicious stout on a cool night watching the stars pop out.
Or the atmosphere of a pub right around happy hour.
A well-matched wine rolling off your tongue right after a bite of a gourmet meal.
A mixed drink on the beach, bright and crisp like the morning sun, or colorful and rich like the sunset.
Sitting with your Dad, having a beer. The sense off community that it creates.
Alcohol has been a part of our civilization as long as we have been a civilization. Some anthropologists/archeologists believe that the reason we stopped being hunter/gatherers was to brew alcohol.
I think everyone should be well and truly drunk once in their lives, if for no other reason to feel a hangover, to comprehend that not everything that seems good is, and that anything, no matter how good, taken to excess becomes bad.
Alcohol is not something normal, something mundane, it is sublime. It is happiness distilled, community fostered, flavor mastered, and even, I dare say a little bit of truth.
I can't think of a better argument for a loving God than that there is an organism on this planet who's sole purpose is to make us feel good.[/QUOTE]
I've never done any drugs intentionally but I've had some asshole spill cocaine in my beer. I wasn't looking at it and after I shotgunned it I don't remember what happened next. Weirdest feeling. I woke up in the hospital and my parents bitching me out thinking I intentially tried to kill myself w/ drugs and alcohol. I didn't squeal on the guy but I kicked his ass for doing that shit to me. Anyway, I think that alcohol is an acquired taste. I had to hold my nose the first time I tried my first beer and it still didn't taste right. It wasn't until I discovered imports (Mexican, German, etc.) that I actually started liking the taste. I still can't stand domestic but if I'm socializing and that's all they have, it's now tolerable.