Do you "respect" people who drink beer?

Do you have a job? A place of your own? A car? If not, that is the problem, not the beer. No problem having a couple beers after work.

I don't have a job, not a place of my own, but I do have a car.

I have a life sciences degree, but trying to get into research. I'm just in a rut, and it'll be like this for a few months.

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Were you drunk when you wrote this? It's all over the map and has no identifiable topic. Are you wondering if you have drinking problem? And why did you put quotation marks around "respect" in your title?

I ran in the heat for 2 hours in 90+ weather. Chugged a corona and then made this thread.

I don't know, man...

The fact that you are questioning your drinking indicates you know you have, or are developing, a problem with alcohol.

Do you drink by yourself at home? Why? Running does not justify drinking.

Who cares what Sage Canaday does? Maybe he is an alcoholic also? He was also sponsored by a beer company which to me is the stupidest relationship in sport I have ever heard of. It's like a Cannabis company sponsoring a chess player.

Not to mention, Pre was DRUNK DRIVING and died because it. Wow, what a role model:

2 beers after a hard workout when you are more insulin sensitive is no problem at all!

The guy that said a "few" beers after work every day is fine may be verging on alcoholism.

Your accountant friend sounds like he's boring and unhappy (hmm maybe because of his profession??)

We were college roommates for two years.

In my senior year, I used to drink Four Loko and those colorful cans of beer - the ones where you can't see how much is left.

Sometimes when I was on my bed reading, he's go up to my desk and pick up and shake my cans of beer / malt liquor / ale and he would try to "feel" for how much was left.

A week or two before we were about to graduate, I confronted him and ask: "Why do you keep going into my side, checking through my stuff and touching my drinks?"

He said something along the lines of:

"You're just overthinking things. Overthinking is our worst enemy."

That's when I knew what gaslighting was.

Your friend has some real issues. Not sure what they are but he obviously has some big insecurities and is probably unhappy with his life choices (I don't suspect there are many completely content accountants really "living life to the fullest")

I wouldn't worry what he says or respect his opinion. Not even sure why you're friends with him but I've been friends with losers in the past so I don't judge.

Andy Capp wrote:

Were you drunk when you wrote this? It's all over the map and has no identifiable topic. Are you wondering if you have drinking problem? And why did you put quotation marks around "respect" in your title?

Great name, btw...one of my favorite comics.

I'm with you...no identifiable topic.

Perhaps the OP should define "respect," as it is in quotation marks. My take is he means something else.

Quote mark removed...I have no reason to not respect some who drinks beer. However, if the beer drinker does disrespectful things, chances are that any respect I may have had is diminished.

Now, back to my Foster's Lager "oil can."

sad boi wrote:

Who else has drinking problems and is a runner?

I was sober for a few months and have now relapsed. Unfortunately, I'm of the age where any excess alcohol resides in my gut, so my gross puffy stomach is quickly coming back. Don't be me. Be a better person.

Also, you're an alcoholic.

thepsychologist wrote:

2 beers after a hard workout when you are more insulin sensitive is no problem at all!

The guy that said a "few" beers after work every day is fine may be verging on alcoholism.

Your accountant friend sounds like he's boring and unhappy (hmm maybe because of his profession??)

Ha! Yeah, focus on running and drinking now that you are out of college and not your career. That's real sound advice.

Beer is great. Lower alcohol content. You can drink them all day during a college football bonanza. Anyone that says it's bad is full of it and a square. OTOH liquor and wine are better as you get older and have trouble with weight. A beer gut is not respected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i5k4I1AOEI

I have a few weeks, or a few months until I find a full time job in a life science setting. I can make genetically modified crops thanks to my one professor. I just need to work in the smaller stuff before I can work on crop production, which means in a few years or in a decade, I'll be moving and working for Monsanto / Syngenta.

Anyways, for now I drink to get tipsy and to have a good and pleasant time. But my friend, before I no longer considered him a friend -

He would tell me something along the lines of this:

"You're gonna settle for someone [of my ethnicity] before you're 30. I'm gonna get an accounting job, move up, marry someone, buy a house, and have kids before I'm 30. That's the dream."

What irritated me was that he was shoving all these ideas down my throat, telling me what my life plan was going to be, and he set a timeline for him and me.

I just could not believe I'm getting life advice from a person who chose to become an accountant/finance major for no reason other than to make money. He is the person who wears cargo shorts when we go out for a night in town and says to me: "Your haircut looks so bad." [I cringe].

The worst part was that he never even drank a can of beer or other spirits. Our mutual friends and I bought him small things to try, but he never did. Mixed with a pessimistic, and absolutist outlook on life, it was unpleasant being around him.

I should have changed the title of the thread to:

Do you "trust" people who drink beer? And are they likable?

You’re ok, but keep an eye on your boobs. Hops are like a breast growth hormone for men.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I enjoy playing with mine.

It's too late, mate.

I have a beer belly. I was 160 pounds before I took up running. For one dedicated year of running, I became 120 pounds, and then plateaued at 115. I have a pouch of belly fat that I cannot get rid of.

I don't have boobs, and I don't run shirtless because of my belly fat.

Ghost of lgloi wrote:

You’re ok, but keep an eye on your boobs. Hops are like a breast growth hormone for men.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I enjoy playing with mine.

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I don't drink much, usually prefer weed, but yesterday i was feeling some beer and bought an assortment of tall cans. Had two last night and was planning on having two tonight as well but now i feel guilty. Thanks, a**hole.