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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Sounds a lot like alcoholism.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could just like beer, you know

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Supreme Court candidate material

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[–] CaptainEffort 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Maybe, but this is pretty common. Getting a drink to celebrate a good day, vs getting a drink after a bad day because you deserve it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah if you can drink one beer and be done you're not an alcoholic.

If you're getting shitfaced every night that's a different story.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you need to have a beer every night that sounds a lot like dependency.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but those are different things.

An alcoholic isn't gonna stop at just one.

And coming from an alcoholic I'd definitely prefer just drinking one per night.

Both are bad but one of them isn't gonna threaten your livelihood/life/personal relationships as much as the other.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (19 children)

For me it's not so much that I want alcohol as it is I want to not be stressed out. Alcohol facilitates that. I can de-stress without it but I rarely have the time I would need to do after a workday. Having a beer/drink when I get home gets the ball rolling so I can enjoy things again rather than just sit around with fried nerves.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'm an alcoholic and reading your replies you are definitely one too. "I can take it or leave it" is such an addict thing to say. Also drinking doesn't help with stress, it just kicks the can down the road making it harder to deal with in the future

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I was in this picture. One or two, maybe even three tall ones every evening, for years. And then I discovered untappd and drinking became gamified. A beer while watching TV can't be alcoholism, right?

For a while I'd been noticing things like a lack of energy and interest, bad sleep, being irritable and impulsive, and bad memory. After a while I had to take magnesium and other supplements. I just considered it all side effects of aging.

Now I've switched to alcohol free beer since about 2 months and every day I'm surprised how much better the QOL already is. I feel fully rested, feel more confident at work, can remember stuff my kids talk about. For lack of a word, I feel more present.

And that experience completely changed my opinion about drinking alcohol regularly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's always a choice not to drink.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

i rarely choose not to drink, but i often forget to drink.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

God gives his tastiest beers to his drunkest drivers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Getting bevved is the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

[–] coffee_with_cream 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Did you ever, under the influence of alcohol, question the teachings of the Mormon church?"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is so real and is why I stopped drinking. It’s like uhhhh I can be apathetic without the expensive pisswater

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's why I drank cheap piss water when I drank!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Ahh.. there’s no such thing as cheap piss water in my country

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I'll drink to that.

[–] profoundninja 4 points 4 months ago

I'm also down with alcoholism

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Why you got to @ me like that bro?

Beer is delicious, but because it's not good for us we need excuses to drink it.

If you're wondering if I'm monologuing, have a personality disorder, or speaking to society as a whole, the answer is yes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Uh oh, they're becoming self-aware...

Quickly, arrange a social gathering! That way they have to drink.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Some drink to remember, some drink to forget.
Especially after the Euro 2024.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this realisation came about at the time I realised beer was taking more than it was giving, even when I wasn't getting buzzed.

Now I'm in this picture, but with like hibiscus vs camomille tea rofl

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Now there's a watermark I'd be in support of removing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I’m down with that. Go cow!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
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