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when you’re old enough to get a hangover just from staying up late

I have a zero tollerance policy for alcohol when I know I will be driving the same day or early the next.

It is far easier to just say "no" from the start than trying to calculate and estimate what would be an acceptable ammount at what time to be able to drive.

Yesterday when I drove home from NYE at my parents, road conditions were terrible, it snowed, the council had not cleared it as I drove home (understandable), and I felt my car loose grip a few times. On roads with a limit of 70km/h I drove 35-40, and on a road with a limit of 90km/h you could not drive any faster than 60, I have excellent winter tyers, but it took all my stone sober concentration to get home safely, if I had had any alcohol, trying to drive home would have been utterly reckless, to be fair, it was borderline reckless when as I drove home sober, but it was doable.

I'm really glad that more and more places are offering fun mocktails. Sometimes you want the social aspect of drinking but not the alcohol

I just wish they wouldn't charge alcohol prices for them

I'm a heavy drinker but screw it, sharing my non-alcoholic version of Irish cream here:

• 100ml whole milk; boiling hot
• a cinnamon stick
• some pieces of orange skin, just the yellow part
• drinking chocolate powder; I use 3tbsp
• instant coffee powder; I use 2tbsp
• 400g dulce de leche [see note]
• 200ml half-and-half
• vanilla extract
• 300~500ml whole milk, again; keep it cool

1. Simmer the cinnamon stick and orange skin in the whole milk for 10 minutes or so. Then throw them away, they're just to add flavour to the milk.
2. Add the other ingredients, in the sequence listed, making sure to incorporate well one ingredient before adding another. Taste it and add more or less milk as you want, if it tastes too strong add more milk.
3. Transfer to a bottle, chill it. Serve it on the rocks.

NOTE: you can buy the dulce de leche if you want, but it gets more expensive than just making it at home with the same amount of sweetened condensed milk.

I wish I could stop drinking. Save yourselves.

whenever we go as a group to get cocktails we do 2 booze rounds and 1 boozeless round so we're all set to drive

I see people share tips of what type of mocktails to get

I like blended virgin raspberry margaritas on the sour side, and will generally order one if I see one on a menu.

Honestly, I should probably just figure out a recipe to make them myself, as they're nice to slowly sip, and they'd be nice to have at home too. Never did get around to making one myself.

I wouldn't say I "appreciate" it as it leans towards being subjective, but I'd say it seems to make more sense for alcohol to be refused. What goes on in a person's mind when they're using the world's oldest form of psychiatry to reduce their faculties which are themselves implied to be the issue as a response to the weight of life?

Is not about refusing alcohol, is about more people becoming anti social and just not being comfortable with stuff related to it. I'm one of them

I really want a drink right now but i dont want to get shit faced. The problem is, once i pop the fun dont stop, ya know

Is that the way whiskey is advertised? Huh. I don't see commercials anymore, so IDK.

I drink single-malt Scottish whiskey occasionally because I enjoy the flavors. Same with most bourbons and ryes. But Kentucky whiskey? Bleah. Sadly, I am poorer than my preferences.

I don't know why drinking alcohol has to be a binary issue, but maybe my propensity for addiction is lower than normal. Does it seem like the majority of human beings have to just not drink at all or they binge out and wake up in the bushes?

I've never touched alcohol in my life outside of cleaning purposes (I mean isopropyl alcohol, or as I like to call it, icy prope). And to be honest, you've convinced me to remain teetotal.

However, I always have the feeling I wanted to try out some drinks just for that taste but can't because it's got some of that الكحول in it. And there are very few non-alcoholic alternatives for these drinks. The only one I've tried is a virgin mojito (in my country it's sometimes referred to as just "mojito" because it's the only one we know). And honestly, it tastes great. And then there's the fact that I can't make my own vanilla extract. You need ethanol for that, and I just have this fear of putting it in my body because I don't wanna get addicted to it.

I've always treated alcohol like drugs and tobacco. They feel fun, and you want more, but it will knock you out when you least expect it.

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