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OK, we've had the "where are you from" thread and "your favourite book", and since I've just got back from the pub I thought I'd start another one: "What do you drink?"
Me then: -Lager mostly, especially French and Belgian lager. -NOT Budweiser, which ain't so good. -Weissbeer (ie Hoegaarden) is my favourite but it's hard to find round here. Also partial to: -good wine (French Merlot is my favourite, but anything decent will do), -whiskies (Irish or scotch) and -brandy. DON'T like: -Bad wine -Bitter (Dark beers) -Stout (ie Guinness, Murphy's) -tequila =-p -sweet alcoholic drinks -cheap cider (been ill on that once too often.) When I'm driving I'll have half a pint of orange juice mixed with half a pint of cola. Delicious=-) Great hangover cure as well. BTW, half a pint= ~0.25 litres, for all you metric types out there. ------------------ "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?" |
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Captain Spoogy prefers a nice cold Coca-Cola or if that's not availible, some nice cold chocolate milk. Oh yeah.
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When I do drink (which is less often than I used to), I usually go for an Icehouse or a hard lemonade-type, lice Doc Otis or Mike's Hard Lemonade. Sometimes Rolling Rock or Woodchuck, but I can't drink any other beer.
Liquor's gotten me in trouble lately, but I still occasionally drink vodka (mixed with just about anything), amaretto, Crown Royal, and tequila (but only in margaritas). I can't do rum anymore: the Last time I drank it, I has an excruciating visit with the Porcelain Goddess... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Oh yeah, and SWEET TEA! (If you've never been to the Southern US, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. That may be my biggest gripe when I travel north or west-- you can't get sweet tea! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon10.gif) Quikngruvn (sober for the time being) ------------------ "That which does not kill you will make you stronger." -- Nietzsche |
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------------------ "That which does not kill you will make you stronger." -- Nietzsche /QUOTE Somehow very appropriatee for this thread. What's in this "sweet tea" then? ------------------ "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?" |
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milk, at 2% or on ocasion whole.
water, from the tap, not one of these bottled yuppie things. OJ, with the pulp Grapefruit Juice. fresh from the juicer. Coke or Dr Pepper Spatten, any flavour Sam Addams, the summer ale is great for BBQs. Their regular lagger is a good staple. NewCastle, for old times other brews of the moment, or whatever seems to fit at the time Vodka, absolut for mixing or grey goose for drinking. mixed with cranberry most often, especially oceanspray cran-rasberry. Top shelf margs. rocks, salt. Scotch, just every so often. 'old fashionds' ------------------ "...the green, sticky spawn of the stars" (with apologies to H.P.L.) |
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Water, water, water. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Occasionally milk, occasionally fruit juice. But frankly I drink lots of water. I hate anything carbonated. Carbonation burns your nose and throat and the sugar/phosphorus content of "soft drinks" actually makes you thirstier. Distilled liquors are even worse than carbonated 'beers', though it's the alchohol rather than the carbonation that burns your throat http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif -- and I don't think those do much for your thirst either. Besides, how can you concentrate on managing your empire if you're getting intoxicated? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif
It's funny, I'm not against alchohol 'on principle' as it were. I just find almost any alchoholic drink revolting. About the only thing alchoholic that I can stand are light, sweet wines. NOT champagne, carbonation again... [This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 20 July 2001).] |
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I too drinks lots of water. However, I do love a good carbonated beverage on occasion. Not that domestic (US) swill crap, but the good stuff. Sam Adams, Corona, pretty much anything from Germany, and various other micro-brews.
Then, there is gin and vodka. Mmmmm, vodka, arrhahghghg (said in Homer Simpson gargle). |
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I gave up on hard stuff awhile ago..after about 30 It seemed that the ol body just couldnt take the ritual visit to the porcelain gods after one too many...
These days I like an very occasional pacific northwest beer, like for example Red Hook. |
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Milk. Two litres of milk a day, straight from the neighbour's cow. Ok, I boil it first, it isn't straight from the cow. This is down from 4 litres a day when I was 16. Mom threatened to kick me out of the house, but now credits my height to the vast amount of milk consumed.
Then, in the evening, Gin and Tonic. Bombay Sapphire. After all, tonic has quinine in it and helps prevent malaria, which is very important :-) |
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I drink at least a gallon of water a day, if not more. Seeing as I live in the desert, and I dehydrate easily, that's a good thing. I don't like anything carbonated, so I stay away form that kind of stuff.
As for alcohol, its just not my thing anymore. I’m wholly unpleasant when inebriated, so that is a state I try to avoid. I’m not a fan of beer cause its carbonated, or the hard stuff cause it (to quote Homer Simpson) tastes like burning. In my period of experimentation, I found I could drink anything if it was mixed with chocolate milk. My favorite poison then was Wild Turkey, and I dubbed the drink ‘Cow Tipper’. I found that combination most pleasing. Now that I’m actually of age, the thrill of it all is lost. I just don’t do it anymore, save the occasional bottle of wine with my girl. |
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I go through about a gallon of tap water per day, chilled in pLastic jugs in the refrigerator. Some Diet Coke, mainly when I need caffein. When I eat out, various root beers, ginger ale, Mountain Dew (when I really need caffein), or Hawaiian Punch.
I only drink alcohol socially, and being such a hermit, I haven't had any since '93. I prefer red wine to white, sweet to dry. I like vodka screwdrivers, rum and coke, sloe gin fizz, and sangria. I don't like beer, and haven't drank it since I was a college freshman. ------------------ Cap'n Q The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" |
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Weel I guess I'll post here too.....
I like sweet tea when I am working. When I take of the demons I like Texas tea (this is like a long Island tea but with teqiula.) I like Bud Ice, Sol, and a beer from china. When I want a desert, I like something chocalate and a Irish coffee. |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dogscoff:
What's in this "sweet tea" then? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Just sugar and tea. The difference is that the sugar is added while the tea is made (brew and steep the tea, pour the steep over sugar in a pitcher, mix well, add water to desired strength, chill), as opposed to unsweetened tea, where the sugar is added AFTER the tea has been brewed, diluted, and chilled. It may seem like a minor quibble, but it makes all the difference in the world! Quikngruvn ------------------ "That which does not kill you will make you stronger." -- Nietzsche |
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Non-alcohoic:
-water (tap water kept in the fridge) -Seagrams Ginger Ale, the best ginger ale ever made. I love this stuff. -Surge (rarely) -Orange and cranberry juice, whenever I'm thirsty, don't have any cold water ready, and don't want to waste a precious can of Seagrams. Alcoholic: -I LOVE white wine. Especially Johannesburg Reisling and Fume Blanc. -If I go to a party (rare), I'll have whatever beer is available (nobody ever has wine). I only drink beer to loosen up so I can mingle and dance with hot females. If there aren't any, I won't drink. Well, in the future at least. I had 6 cans of beer at my High School graduation in June and did NOT feel good the next day. |
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Anything and everything! (excluding things like toilet water and sewage)
But if I had to choose I would probably say my favorite drink of all would be...... Gravy! MMMMmmmmmmm..... Graaaaavvvvvyyyyyy. [This message has been edited by ZeroAdunn (edited 22 July 2001).] |
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I've never developed a taste for alcohol (I think I learned to hate alcohol from when my mother would give me whiskey and honey when I had breathing problems as a child) so I always drink non-alcoholic beverages.
I drink way to much caffeinated pop at work, mostly generic diet, just to stay awake. Doesn't taste too great, but it's better than nothing when the brain is trying to shut down at about two in the afternoon. At home, mostly water and milk, sports drinks and some pop. When the temp passes 110 F, it doesn't matter as long as it's cold and wet. |
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Hrmmm. Water, various juices, fruit punch, teas, colas, 'ades, and sometimes milk. Nothing alcoholic, 'tho.
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Hey Noble...I thought the idea was that the number of hot females at a party was directly proportional to the number of beers drunk...so the only way there would not be any hot females at a party would be either you ran out of beer or all the females left http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif
Anyways..number #1 drink for me is the sweet tea...southern style. I agree these people up north have no clue on what good tea is. If that isn't available...I guess it has to be Pepsi, and not the lead free stuff either. My dad would never drink water, it was a quart of corn whiskey a day or coffee. He would say if a nail could rust in a cup of water, just think what it's doing to your stomach...never said he was too bright but he did live to almost 80 yo. Sabre21 |
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Well being Australian I drink lots of Australian beers like Tooheys Extra Dry and Crown Lager. (Fosters is 'Export' quality, we don't touch the stuff here).
On a recent trip to Bali I drank lots of the local brew, an exceptional pilsener called Bintang. At $1AUD the price was damn excellent (thats about $0.50USD) too. If I'm up for a big night a drink lots of Scotch (mixed with dry ginger ale) and Russians (Vodka + Kahlua with either Coke or milk). The Russians will screw with my brain but the scotch I'll drink til 4am and still be fine (although I will wake up really drunk the next afternoon). If I'm coming back from overseas I'll get a litre of better scotch (21 years Chivas or Johnny Walker Blue) and I'll drink that at home with ice. At work I'll drink the boss's prefered choice of VB (cause he fills up the fridge with em). VB is probabaly the Australian baseline beer. So there's my brief summary of what I drink. Cheers, Askan |
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Lots and lots of extra-strong cappachino's. That's my way of surviving university.
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A cold diet-mountin dew.... very very little alcohol since the service, I think I got my fill back in my younger days. Oh, on a real real hot day a nice iced glass of cold beer
but that's rare.. I stick to juice and diet dew.... Also less calories, at my age, no extra weight is welcomed.... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon10.gif just some ideas mac |
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I'm about a 12-cup-a-day person myself....coffe that is....
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coffee..coffee..coffee....is there anything else http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif
I have found no other reason to drink alcohol than to get drunk, which I just don't like to do anymore... interesting reading of all the drinking choices...... couple questions/comments 1) Is sweet tea the same thing as Ice Tea ?? 2) hmmmm...SEIV players not big drinkers a correlation between the two?? 3) apprarently Tequila is the only alcholic beverage that DOES NOT cause depression when intoxicated....being made from Guava plant (I think that's the right plant) gives it some special property..... 4) all the water drinkers seem to be "tap water" drinkers as oppossed to "bottle water" drinkers....I am surprised! all I see everywhere now is bottled water, bottled water blah blah (and such a ripoff to boot...) |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
It may seem like a minor quibble, but it makes all the difference in the world! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah, we disagree about Southern Baptists, but you're dead right about tea! I call that "real iced tea" as opposed to all other kinds. I never thought of it as Southern, though. That's just how my mom made it. |
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Bottled water is a ripoff! I can't understand why anyone would buy that crap. I work in a grocery store and you would be suprised how much of that stuff we sell. I live in a small town so selling over a fifty gallons a day is a lot. (You may think that number an exageration, but personally I think it may be a bit low)
It's crazy, bottled water is exactly the same stuff you get from the tap only it tastes worse becuase of all the **** they do to it. People are crazy. Like I said, GRAVY! |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Bottled water is a ripoff! I can't understand why anyone would buy that crap. I work in a grocery store and you would be suprised how much of that stuff we sell. I live in a small town so selling over a fifty gallons a day is a lot. (You may think that number an exageration, but personally I think it may be a bit low) It's crazy, bottled water is exactly the same stuff you get from the tap only it tastes worse becuase of all the **** they do to it. People are crazy. Like I said, GRAVY!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Depends on where you live. Out here in the "Midwest" you will often find that a small community cannot get a decent water supply that isn't heavily contaminated with farm runoff. It may meet all the formal 'safety standards' but it still tastes like sh*t. Bring bottled water in from another city just 20 miles away or so and it tastes like regular tap water. For the community stuck with the 'fertilizer special' water source, that's GOOD water. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif But in many other cases, yeah, people are paying good money for a fancy label slapped on a bottle of tap water. <shrug>... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif They also pay more for brand name cereal, vegetables, etc. It's the nature of human logic, I guess. Make it look spiffy and it must be valuable. [This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 23 July 2001).] |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
[b]Bottled water is a ripoff! I can't understand why anyone would buy that crap. B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I think this is an old comedians joke but... Evian Bottled Water is "naive" spelled backwards... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif |
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SWEET TEA!
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>1) Is sweet tea the same thing as Ice Tea ?? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I call that "real iced tea" as opposed to all other kinds. I never thought of it as Southern, though. That's just how my mom made it<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yes, it's iced tea. No, it's not. I'm from Michigan, and that's the only way I ever knew tea--until some demented person introduced me to "real man's tea"--tasted more like real man's sock. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif That's about all I drink--up to a pitcher (2 1/2 qt.) every 24-36 hours, sometimes. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Like I said, GRAVY!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You're a sick man, Zero. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif ------------------ "The Unpronounceable" Krsqk Basic Tech Mod --Basic Tech Mod v.75 |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Puke:
now thats just ingenious. i bet it worked too. I have never heard of that being used as a remedy, but that is about 99% of what goes into most modern throat elixers such as Vicks, Nyquil, or Robotusen (did i spell those right? oh well.. do i ever spell anything right?) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> My mother was from a very small town in West Virginia (even small for WV) so I got treated to a LOT of interesting home remedies. Funny thing is, most of them worked better than what you can get at the drug store. (That is, if they didn't kill you first http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif ) |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Bottled water is a ripoff! I can't understand why anyone would buy that crap!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> well, im with you and im against you. I have seen some parts of town or some buildings with some truely nasty tasting tap water. in some cities is comes out murkey, and god, in Waco TX the stuff came out brown. Man I hated staying in that town. In Waco, I probably would not have bought that evian crap, but if I end up being stuck with those water conditions again, im either buying a few gallons of the distilled stuff, or bringing a filter. now, filtered water usually tastes a bit cleaner than the stuff straight from the tap, and alot of people love their bottled or filtered stuff, but i say TOUGH IT OUT. If its not BROWN, drink the tap stuff. no wonder people have weak immune systems, the babies. ------------------ "...the green, sticky spawn of the stars" (with apologies to H.P.L.) |
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Speaking of water. In my part of the world, we use ground water with a super high iron content. You know, the stuff that turns your white things yellow.
Doesn't taste all that bad, except for the small stuff floating at the bottom of the cup. I recommend that no one drink that. When you fill up a pool, it looks like a big cup of coffee. Man the water beatles sure love that though. They too taste like ****. Water softeners a great, but cost a ton to operate. Our water might be hard, but at least its not surface water like what Portland has to drink. Ha ha. |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
I've never developed a taste for alcohol (I think I learned to hate alcohol from when my mother would give me whiskey and honey when I had breathing problems as a child) so I always drink non-alcoholic beverages.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> now thats just ingenious. i bet it worked too. I have never heard of that being used as a remedy, but that is about 99% of what goes into most modern throat elixers such as Vicks, Nyquil, or Robotusen (did i spell those right? oh well.. do i ever spell anything right?) ------------------ "...the green, sticky spawn of the stars" (with apologies to H.P.L.) |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Krsqk:
I'm from Michigan, and that's the only way I ever knew tea--until some demented person introduced me to "real man's tea"--tasted more like real man's sock. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> The Last time I was in Michigan, I attended a semiformal dinner where tea was served (no alcohol, since we were not yet of age). Being the only southerner at my table, I tried to explain to the other folks about sweet tea. All I got was blank stares.... Oh well, they're missing out! Side note: if I lived about 15 miles to the southeast of my current home, I'd be drinking heavy sweet tea. The water there's got a bit... make that a lot of uranium, radium, and radon in it. (Naturally occurring, but radioactive is radioactive!) Suddenly bottled water makes a whole lot more sense! Quikngruvn ------------------ "That which does not kill you will make you stronger." -- Nietzsche (...or at least make you glow in the dark) [This message has been edited by Quikngruvn (edited 24 July 2001).] |
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re: crap in the water:
Give anyone pure H20, and I'd bet they would say it tastes odd. I can't stand the various "mineral water" stuff myself, leaves a nasty aftertaste. But the taste of water is mostly what gets into it, I think, plus what you're used to. Ex: I lived in a dorm in LA for a while. Water tasted like processed vomit for a while, then it was fine. Move back, and the water at home tasted funky for a whille. Phoenix-D |
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Gotta go with Puke's thoughts. If it looks ok in Canda or the States, drink it and toughen your system up. Now, I live in Kenya and when ever I go back to Canada, I start drinking the water and get constipated. The is nothing in the water to keep my insides moving things through. Tap water in North America is (some rural areas excepted) pretty damn good and the bottled kind a waste of time.
Come to visit me and the Nairobi city water supply is going to keep you in the toilet for the first couple of weeks. :-) After that, you will be ok. |
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Of the various places I've lived here in Pennsylvania, there was only one apartment that I couldn't drink the tap water. It had such a chalky aftertaste that drinking it actually made you more thirsty. I think it was endemic to the neighborhood; I couldn't drink the lemon-lime flavored soda pop at the local McDonalds, either, because the flavoring was too light to cover the taste of the water it was mixed with.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by askan:
Well being Australian I drink lots of Australian beers like Tooheys Extra Dry and Crown Lager. (Fosters is 'Export' quality, we don't touch the stuff here). <snip> At work I'll drink the boss's prefered choice of VB (cause he fills up the fridge with em). VB is probabaly the Australian baseline beer. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Ah yes, the REAL Australian beers. I visited Australia (on a business trip) a couple years ago, and I agree that Crown Lager and Toohey's are MUCH better than Victoria Bitters (which still knocks Foster's out cold, of course). But I don't drink much alcohol these days, as my fiancee doesn't like the stuff, not even the smell of it. So I stick to Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb, root beer (any brand), and Arizona "Memory Mind Elixir" (tastes like sweetened grapefruit juice with green tea mixed in - supposedly has ginkgo biloba and other memory/mind-enhancing herbs in it). Oh yeah, and 3 cups of coffee every weekday morning. No other way to get through a workday. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif |
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Cream soda
And just so you know pure distilled water has no taste. Ah, the days of chemistry class and those distilled water bottles. Heh, what a water battle, I got soaked and the teacher blamed me! |
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But I don't drink much alcohol these days, as my fiancee doesn't like the stuff, not even the smell of it. So I stick to Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb, root beer (any brand), and Arizona "Memory Mind Elixir" (tastes like sweetened grapefruit juice with green tea mixed in - supposedly has ginkgo biloba and other memory/mind-enhancing herbs in it). Oh yeah, and 3 cups of coffee every weekday morning. No other way to get through a workday. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif[/b]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If my girlfriend didn't like alcohol I think I'de give up the girl and not the drink. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif As for that Dr. Pepper stuff....I think it must be some sort of acquired taste. And is root beer = ginger beer? Or does it have alcohol in it? I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers. Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age? Or is everyone just really old and completely out of that pub/club/bar/tavern/inn/bottle shop/21st birthday party/hotel/having a drink with mates on the porch/disco scene? What do you people do after work? Cheers, Askan Nightbringer Voice of the People's Empire of Night (who would never appoint a Fleet Commander who couldn't discuss strategies over a scotch) |
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I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers. Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, in my case I can't (see drinking age) but I don't think I would anyway. At least beer. I have this strange aVersion to drinking anything that looks like piss http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Besides, I'm screwed up enough as it is, I don't need alchol in there too. Phoenix-D |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by askan:
I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> *whew*, thanks Askan - I was beginning to worry that I maybe there was something wrong with me=-) I would find it really really hard to go alcohol free - not because of any kind of addiction, I just love beer too much. I also like that fuzzy feeling which lies on the drunk/ sober border. ------------------ "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?" |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers. Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age? Or is everyone just really old and completely out of that pub/club/bar/tavern/inn/bottle shop/21st birthday party/hotel/having a drink with mates on the porch/disco scene? What do you people do after work?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Well, in my case, I only drink socially with friends, and I'm pretty much a hermit. The Last I remember opening the white rum I have on hand was for a candlelight dinner in '93. I was never into the bar scene, and honestly can't remember the Last time I bought alcohol at a restaurant.
I've been on disability since '83, but if I had a job, I'd play computer games and Web surf after work. As it is, I'm Online at least six hours a day, and probably at the computer but offline almost as long. ------------------ Cap'n Q The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" |
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There's a drinking age in the US? Oh no... Why don't they tell you these things! What is it? I'm screwed....
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It's 21, not that is stops anyone younger.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Well, in my case I can't (see drinking age) but I don't think I would anyway. At least beer. I have this strange aVersion to drinking anything that looks like piss http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Phoenix-D<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Its funny you might say that cause here in Australia we actually call alcohol piss. Going out on a Friday night and drinking alot is called "getting pissed". My boss is what you call a "pisshead" or a "pisspot" in that he has a beer or two at almost every oppurtunity. Cheers, Askan |
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hehe Just another Anglo term that is TOTALLY OPPOSITE to it's meaning in America -
If someone was to say "Want me to knock you up?" to a Brit they might say "yes, at 8am sharp, please." Say this to an american woman and you have a distinct chance of entering new realms of pain. Ask "You want to get pissed?" to an American and they would look at you and ask "What is going to make me angry??" |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by askan:
If my girlfriend didn't like alcohol I think I'de give up the girl and not the drink. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You haven't met my girlfriend http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by askan: As for that Dr. Pepper stuff....I think it must be some sort of acquired taste. And is root beer = ginger beer? Or does it have alcohol in it?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah, Dr. Pepper is something of an acquired taste. But I prefer it to Coca-Cola anymore. And root beer pretty much equals ginger beer; except root beer doesn't taste of ginger. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by askan: I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers. Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age? Or is everyone just really old and completely out of that pub/club/bar/tavern/inn/bottle shop/21st birthday party/hotel/having a drink with mates on the porch/disco scene? What do you people do after work? Cheers, Askan Nightbringer Voice of the People's Empire of Night (who would never appoint a Fleet Commander who couldn't discuss strategies over a scotch)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I think America just tends to have more problems with alcohol in general. I have no idea why, but it may actually be related to the whole "drinking age" thing. We're not taught at an early age to drink responsibly; in fact, if we try to drink alcohol before we're 21, it tends to turn into a "how much can I drink before I either pass out or puke everything back up?" Which leads to all sorts of other problems, of course. And it probably also goes back to the fact that the USA was founded by Puritans, who certainly were against alcohol, not to mention that bit in the early 20th century when alcohol was completely forbidden here. Oh, and probably the other factor is that most of us are "old farts" (i.e., over 30, like me) who just don't have the energy to go out drinking every night the way we did in college. |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:
Oh, and probably the other factor is that most of us are "old farts" (i.e., over 30, like me) who just don't have the energy to go out drinking every night the way we did in college.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Energy, time, or physical capability. To me anyway, hangovers hit harder and Last longer than in college, which can be a real drag when you have to go to work. (Damn responsibility!) <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>You haven't met my girlfriend http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> [applause] http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon10.gif [/applause] Quikngruvn |
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Is sweet tea anything like Lipton BRISK iced tea? I might have had it once or twice before... I am from Ohio which borders on Kentucky which is sort of a southern state http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
BTW, I like root beer and cream soda... my brother can't stand it... and it was only recently that I discovered what cream soda was flavored like... are you ready for it? ... It's VANILLA flavored soda! |
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This is one old thread...
Sweet Tea is (IIRC) tea that has a lot of sugar in it. I don't think that it is anything like Lipton BRISK iced tea. |
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