I dislike being drunk, period. I’m not a huge fan of being tipsy, though every few years it can be nice, i’m not exaggerating the time scale, it’s a very unusual thing for me to have enough to get me to that point because I prefer not to be that significantly impaired. Even then, it’s only in specific settings and situations.
That being said, I have found as I’ve aged that I enjoy some alcoholic beverages for their own sake, which I never did when I was younger. Back in my teens and twenties I could say that I didn’t like anything alcoholic at all. No beer, no wine, definitely not liquor. The closest I got was wine coolers, and even then I’d have preferred just a soda. Some mixed drinks were okay as one offs. Ciders were always kind okay though.
But in my thirties, I found a few beers I could halfway enjoy, then a couple of wines that pleased my palate enough to drink on their own. Then my tastes opened to to include bourbon and some other whiskeys here and there.
By my forties, I could appreciate scotch, if not enjoy it. And my enjoyment of bourbon increased to the point that it’s my default drink when I do drink. I discovered a range of wines and beers I could enjoy with food easily, and a few more by themselves.
In a given year, over the last decade or so, I might have something like beer, wine, or cider with a meal three or four times. A glass of bourbon maybe twice, if that. This year I haven’t had any alcohol that wasn’t an ingredient in a recipe being cooked. And I’ll gladly take a sip of something if someone offers, just to try something new.
Legit though, I’ve been thinking about popping open a cider, or maybe buying a bug zapper so I could chill in the back yard with my chickens and a bourbon on ice. Dunno, might happen or might not.
Mind you, I don’t have a moral objection to alcohol use. No issues with other people enjoying it if they do. Can’t say I enjoy being around people when they’re drunk, mostly. There’s a handful of exceptions where I can tolerate or enjoy the company of individuals when they’re drinking a good amount, but in general I’d rather hang out with a junkie than a drunk, as an indicator of my scale of difficulty in putting up with someone under the influence of something.
But I’d rather hang around a drunk than a tweaker or crack head. Pot heads are fine to hang with entirely, no objections usually.
Which is tangential to the post’s subject, but I know people outside of lemmy that use lemmy that drink, and I wouldn’t want them feeling bad because they thought I don’t like them because they drink. Just because I don’t like something, and have personal limits on what I can be around doesn’t mean that it’s some kind of horrible thing. If I’m a friend of someone that drinks regularly, it’s because they’re not only a friend, but they don’t act poorly when drinking, so it isn’t an issue.
Really rarely, and very little when I do.
I dislike being drunk, period. I’m not a huge fan of being tipsy, though every few years it can be nice, i’m not exaggerating the time scale, it’s a very unusual thing for me to have enough to get me to that point because I prefer not to be that significantly impaired. Even then, it’s only in specific settings and situations.
That being said, I have found as I’ve aged that I enjoy some alcoholic beverages for their own sake, which I never did when I was younger. Back in my teens and twenties I could say that I didn’t like anything alcoholic at all. No beer, no wine, definitely not liquor. The closest I got was wine coolers, and even then I’d have preferred just a soda. Some mixed drinks were okay as one offs. Ciders were always kind okay though.
But in my thirties, I found a few beers I could halfway enjoy, then a couple of wines that pleased my palate enough to drink on their own. Then my tastes opened to to include bourbon and some other whiskeys here and there.
By my forties, I could appreciate scotch, if not enjoy it. And my enjoyment of bourbon increased to the point that it’s my default drink when I do drink. I discovered a range of wines and beers I could enjoy with food easily, and a few more by themselves.
In a given year, over the last decade or so, I might have something like beer, wine, or cider with a meal three or four times. A glass of bourbon maybe twice, if that. This year I haven’t had any alcohol that wasn’t an ingredient in a recipe being cooked. And I’ll gladly take a sip of something if someone offers, just to try something new.
Legit though, I’ve been thinking about popping open a cider, or maybe buying a bug zapper so I could chill in the back yard with my chickens and a bourbon on ice. Dunno, might happen or might not.
Mind you, I don’t have a moral objection to alcohol use. No issues with other people enjoying it if they do. Can’t say I enjoy being around people when they’re drunk, mostly. There’s a handful of exceptions where I can tolerate or enjoy the company of individuals when they’re drinking a good amount, but in general I’d rather hang out with a junkie than a drunk, as an indicator of my scale of difficulty in putting up with someone under the influence of something.
But I’d rather hang around a drunk than a tweaker or crack head. Pot heads are fine to hang with entirely, no objections usually.
Which is tangential to the post’s subject, but I know people outside of lemmy that use lemmy that drink, and I wouldn’t want them feeling bad because they thought I don’t like them because they drink. Just because I don’t like something, and have personal limits on what I can be around doesn’t mean that it’s some kind of horrible thing. If I’m a friend of someone that drinks regularly, it’s because they’re not only a friend, but they don’t act poorly when drinking, so it isn’t an issue.