Do you "respect" people who drink beer?

sad boi wrote:

I go in and buy 2-24 ounces of beer every day.

But I drink enough to get tipsy and not full out drunk.

Come on... 2/10 for the responses thus far but you're getting tipsy from two beers?!! That's the biggest drink problem you have right there.

Nothing like a few beers after a long run. I don't personally drink much at the moment because I run marathons so I have to stay super fit and strong.

If you think two beers a day is alcoholism, you're paranoid. But of course someone will tell you it's alcoholism if you go around asking people.

One of life's biggest lessons is not to get dependent on others to solve problems with your own thinking. Just get a grip on yourself.

Bad Wigins wrote:

One of life's biggest lessons is not to get dependent on others to solve problems with your own thinking. Just get a grip on yourself.

Oooh....ahhhhhh............

The # of beers per day doesn't define whether or not one is an alcoholic, rather its whether you 'need' those x $ of drinks per day. By the way, beer is cool.

Black On Blonde wrote:

sad boi wrote:

I go in and buy 2-24 ounces of beer every day.

But I drink enough to get tipsy and not full out drunk.

Come on... 2/10 for the responses thus far but you're getting tipsy from two beers?!! That's the biggest drink problem you have right there.

If you went out for a run of say 30-40 minutes and haven't eaten anything for about three to fours before that run, yeah two quick beers after a run will get you tipsy. It's because you have nothing in your stomach and you are probably craving fluids. However, the tipsy feeling will probably leave quite quickly as well because your body metabolizes it so quickly.

Ask the Hash House Harriers about this as they are basically a "drinking club with a running problem". They often drink before, during, and definitely after a Hash run.

In your other thread I thought you were going to grad school, that thread sounded kind of real while the beer thread is full of troll tells.

Are you going to work for Monsanto or Syngenta or just hoping for something like either one? Is English your primary language?

If you are mixing truth with trolling I would guess you really can't control your drinking, even though it is low level, and you really are living with your parents with no job prospects.

Don't overthink it. Run, get a job, get a place, to live, and drink when you want. It's not a problem unless you're failing in other aspects of your life. Always be aware of making healthy choices, but we get one life. Enjoy the hell out of it. There's nothing better than working hard and playing harder. Get after it!

Ever heard of a refrigerator? Shoot, you'd save yourself time and money by buying in bulk. Plus, you would also be able to enjoy a nice cold one during your post run shower.

Kinda had me until the part about going from 160 (which isn't high for a normal guy) to 115 (which isn't possible).

I refuse to go to grad school.

I'll take the option of working for an entry level position, get 3-5 years experience, and then find my ideal job - working in agricultural research.

The only real hurdle is to find an agriculture related job, and... I live in the city where most positions related to research are for cancer or making pharmaceutical drugs.

Some work requires that a bench scientist or research associate work with lab rats. That means you'll be injecting compounds into their eyes or I don't even know, and then you slice them up and see how their tissue metabolized the compound. That's why they require previous mammalian tissue culture experience. It is psycho there.

I have plant tissue culture experience, which means I can make seedless cantaloupe or drought-resistant flax seeds. I'm happy that I chose to study plant biology, but in the location where I'm in, it's hard getting that dream job right now.

So now I'm just running, drinking beer and biting at some opportunities.

Why is there a rush to get a job immediately after college? And why, on facebook, do people proudly post that they got a job 2-3 months after graduation?

To me, I feel like I'm in a rat race.

Bad Wigins wrote:

If you think two beers a day is alcoholism, you're paranoid. But of course someone will tell you it's alcoholism if you go around asking people.

One of life's biggest lessons is not to get dependent on others to solve problems with your own thinking. Just get a grip on yourself.

He is not drinking two beers, he is drinking two 24 ounce beers which is the equivalent of four regular 12 ounce beers.

My question is this: Why buy two 24 ounce beers on a daily basis? Just buy a case of regular 12 ounce beers and save both money and time. If he thinks he will continue to pound beers all night if a case is available, then there is a drinking problem. If buying a limited amount daily is his control method, then there is still a drinking problem, but sort of controlled. Awareness of a problem is a good start.

The thing is... I don't just enjoy drinking beer and relaxing on the bed either.

You know how you get a runner's high when you run?

Well, I get the same feeling kind of when I'm on my 2nd 24-ounce can of beer. I bodyweight exercises, such as quarter air squats: enough for 45 minutes or longer. Eventually I'll do Hindu squats, and then pistol squats.

That feeling of being tipsy and over-exerted during moderate-intense exercise so that I have to gasp for breath - and listening to music - it's a pleasure. Listening to music while drinking is pretty nice.

I feel unhappy drinking and doing nothing. But I feel good drinking and doing that doesn't set me back.

I go to that store that's 5 minutes away from me because they sell refrigerated beer, and because it's a habit. I only buy what I need for the moment. On July 4th though, I bought Kraken rum and then vodka, and then a wine opener. Those moments are irregularities.

If I were to switch from buying 2 to 3 24-ounces of beer cans, then something changed to make me buy more alcohol than I "needed."

There is nothing wrong with people who choose not to drink. I'm really tired of the mentality that people who don't drink are judgemental or untrustworthy. I personally have never had alcohol and still live a great, socially active life. It's just a personal choice that I made due to a variety of circumstances and events in my life. Nothing more, nothing less.

Does people's drinking habits sometimes bother me? Absolutely, but most of it has to do with people's attitude though. If someone has a drink after a run, that's fine. But if they think they're somehow better because they drink? That's where I draw the line.

Oakland Fan wrote:

There is nothing wrong with people who choose not to drink... It's just a personal choice that I made due to a variety of circumstances and events in my life. Nothing more, nothing less.

My roommate would say something like that to me. It was around night time, I drank enough to feel tipsy and was watching youtube videos. I was laying on the bed with my laptop, and then he just hovers next to me. He was standing by the way.

I forget how much we talked, but I remember asking him:

"Is there anything wrong with me drinking?"

And he basically said what you just typed. One weird thing:

He commented that I laugh really loudly when I'm tipsy.And he said it in such a monotone way.

He was also trying to make small talk. And I remember half of a phrase he told me:

" . . . Do you act like that because of your mother?"

I said: "Dude, are you on something? Is something wrong?"

And then he said: "No, no, I'm just making small talk." And then he left my side of the room.

To me, the words accountants and relaxed do not belong in the same sentence. Are accountants judgmental? Probably not, but I will always keep my guard up around that guy.

I don't respect people who make GMO crops.

Free Advice wrote:

He is not drinking two beers, he is drinking two 24 ounce beers which is the equivalent of four regular 12 ounce beers.

OP is probably a troll but 4 drinks a day does raise the potential for dependency. 2 would not, even if it's a habit, except for someone with low body weight. People don't generally understand the difference between real addiction and "psychological" addiction.

I think it's funny that states exist where you have to go to a liquor store to get beer.

yesIguess wrote:

Don't overthink it. Run, get a job, get a place, to live, and drink when you want. It's not a problem unless you're failing in other aspects of your life. Always be aware of making healthy choices, but we get one life. Enjoy the hell out of it. There's nothing better than working hard and playing harder. Get after it!

Respect your opinion no problem - all I'm saying is race directors who have alcohol at their events should at least consider liability ramifications should someone get killed or kill someone as a result from drinking at the race - me personally I would not want all the hassle - liquor license, insurance, making sure people don't over drink ect ect. Now on a personal level when I was a kid growing up, I was offered alcohol and drugs but never was interested - I had a friend who we flew model airplanes together, but I'd always have to wait for him to finish his weed - so I'd be like "are you #$%^&*$ done yet? Can we go now?" Later in life I became licensed to fly REAL airplanes so thank God I didn't do the weed and alcohol - in the Air Force I was invited perhaps 100 times to go to the bar and drink - just did not interest me in the slightest - I never went 1 time - I usually went running instead - or go out to the airport to rent an airplane - I'm sorry, not trying to be mean, I just don't see what the appeal of alcohol is, don't get pissed, drink if you want but whatever - I am however very excited about the possibility of using 100% Ethanol to power our cars Ha Ha especially piston powered light aircraft.