YOu got yer cigs, I got me alcohol. Go ahead, say it's bad for yer liver, see who gives a crap. I don't mind it. So many people seem to disagree on this too this will be a good debate. Have at it.

Alcohol can be fun. But it can also suck a lot. Personally I'm happier for having quit drinking. Go me.

You still smoke though.

me, I like to drink low-alcohol stuff and look posh and feel piratey. I'm not ready to damage my liver yet.

heh

Several(maybe TEN) bokkles of Guinness would get you there. Does anyone else like this stuff.

Nah. Guinness is disgusting anyway. I've not got much of a tollerance for alcohol what with barely ingesting the stuff, and I'm a rather small female. Hence, it doesn't take a huge amount of alcohol to get me to a relatively over the top place.

it does NOT taste disgusting, just a bit burnt. The smell is awful tho.

Ah, there's our common ground. I knew it was around here somewhere ..

On the contrary, if I do decide to go off and drink something with a group of friends and whatnot, you can be sure it's not beer. Beer is awful and piss and bleaugh, but that could be just because I live in America. It's better to have some nice peppermint schnapps(sp?) or something like that. Yes kiddies, alcohol now comes in ten thousand new fruity flavours!

But you'll never get rid of the bitter alco-aftertaste.

Yay alcohol! I don't drink that much though, or that often. Usually just on weekends. I'll probably end up drinking more when I don't live with my parents, though. I don't think that's a good thing.

alcohol was not my friend at 4am ill have you know...damn tempting vodka...damn stupid crashing computer...twas the stress y'know

Jägermeister.

That is all.

I'm sure I'd agree with you if I had any idea what it was...

Inkubus Sukkubus made a song about it. Once I get the album back from my thieving girlfriend, I'll post the lyrics.

absinthe (shudder)

Absinthe......*falls over laughing*

Good times there, if you get the GOOD stuff.

Commie....Jagermeister is teh awesome. Especially in Jager Bombs or Red Headed Sluts. Now THOSE are some choice drinks.

Raise your glasses to the night
And drink ye of your fill
Decant and taste the dark delight
And take of Heaven's milk
It's the only one
The holy one
Manna from the stars above
The liquid flame
The fire and shame
Jägermeister its sacred name
In the heat of a summer night
And when the cold wind blows
When your song yearns to be free
There's comfort in the liquid gold
And in your hand
The Promised Land
The Universe at your command
To ecstacy
From despair
Jägermeister will take you there
When the dread cold hand of Death
Is heavy on your heart
When all hope and love is lost
And your world torn apart
Jägermeister
Jägermeister
The sweetest blood from the veins of Pan
Bacchus, Dionysus, lift me up to the lips of Isis

Meh. Alcohol is fun. But...only in limitation. I'd bore you all with my past experience, but trust me on this one.

heh. you won't bore us. do tell.

Let's just say that alcohol dependancy isn't exactly the most fun thing to go through in the entire world. Especially at 16.

Well. You you're trying to tell us that you went through alcohol dependancy at 16? Phew. No wonder you didn't want to tell me. That must have been terrible.

Aye, it was hell. But I'm long past it now...

Of course, you still have the occaisonal tipple sometimes, right? Just a thimbleful for luck?

Aye, I do. But it's not at the point where I NEED to get drunk on a daily basis anymore.

I drink, but not during the week. My size kind of restricts the amount I can drink without seeing two of everything.

I have a reputation among my friends as an alcoholic... and i don't know why. i cuddled a beer bottle in my sleep once, but only once, and it was new year and the first time i'd ever been properly drunk... so surely its excusable. i dont drink much and ive only been completely LEGLESS about four or five times in the year since i was, ahem, initiated. im in no danger of damaging myself, despite being young... and i like it! its fun. it makes me more confident and more cheeful and gives you a good time. i have a very low threshhold because of bein inexperienced and ickle but hey that makes it cheaper... people want to have fun, and for some people alcohol is a way of having it. i see nothing wrong with it because people KNOW what it can do 2 them. ppl arent stupid.
when people who don't actually like drink just drink to look cool it does irritate me tho... well, i dont no whether i'm irritated or sorry for them cos of Peer Pressure Etc. the reason i didn't get drunk til i was fourteen was cos i never really found a drink i liked and i couldnt see the pointing in drinking for the sake of it.
oh, and am i the only person here who cant STAND wine?

It's made from cabbage.

Cabbage, I tells ya!

How can alcoholic cabbage juice be good?

Vodka is made from potatoes.

Yep. taters. How can you drink Smirnoff Ice? HOW?

im more concerned with people drinking WKD

its blue, people, BLUE!

Mmm...fermented potatoes... It's like french fries in a bottle!

/me goes and gets some vodka

FRENCH FRIES ARE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!

*buys vodka*

You've got to love that vodka that's so strong, one swallow will make your intestines and entire mouth feel like the cleanest, most sterile place in the world.

Then it warms your tummy for a good half hour .. That qualifies as one of the best feelings in the world despite the bitter, bile summoning taste.

I can't stand vodka straight. When it's mixed with other things it's fine (since you can barely taste it anyway) but on its own it tastes like lighter fluid. Ick.

Alcohol sure as hell isn't my friend. I've lost friends and almost ruined my life because of drinking. I became an alcoholic when I was 16, but it really kicked into high gear when I was 17. Just recently (as in within the past year) I've been able to overcome it. I detest seeing others binge drink like I used to because I saw what it can do to someone first hand. If alcohol's your friend, fine, but I don't want to lose friends, damage relationships, ruin my school career or drink away my life anymore.

alchohol has destroyed the lives of many i love and they werent even the ones drinking it! so you wanna have fun and get drunk and have a hangover, go for it. dont do it around other people, it hurts them FAR more than it hurts yourself. i cant count how many times ive sat in my room crying at night thinking of my "stepfather"'s actions towards my sisters. do what he wants to me, leave my sisters out of it. then i dthink of al the other people like him and what they are going through, and id cry more. ive never been happy, because i concern myself with the affairs of others too much. i love everyone too much. im just one f--king walking ruin. frankly, i dont care. but what its done to my sisters b/c other people drank is unforgivable. i loathe alchohol.

there's nothing wrong with enjoying a drink with friends, in fact, the occasional does have some medical advantages, people who get too drunk are just plain annoying, if it always happens and they can't control themselves it usually ends badly, to blame alcohol for peoples mistakes is just pointless

I'm not one to blame the alcohol. I hate the use of heroin, but I don't blame the heroin. Prohibition of alcohol almost destroyed the United States and I'm against the illegalization of any substance (even heroin) anyway.

Great. I know you didn't mean to do this, Acid, but now I want to go murder Harmonie's dad, stepdad and older sister for the shit they've pulled while on controlled substances. But I won't because Harmonie wouldn't like it and (not to sound like an ass), but it would kill any future chances I have with her.

im sorry righteous. i was expressing my opinion on the topic and i did not mean to cause oyu emotional distress. you have my deepest apologies, my freind.
and ot be totalyl honest, i think it was your post jsut above that made me want to post that. at any rate, im not blaming it on you, i take full responsibility for having caused you this pain. i dont expect forgiveness for this.

For the love of f*cks sake, you didn't do anything. Jeez, don't take it so personally. Calm down. Have a cookie and some chocolate milk and don't feel so bad about it.

erm..sorry...im not in a very non serious mood today. today i feel like everything is my fault. meh. again, sorry.

alcohol? at times it was my frend, but others not. When i was little my mom and her bf used to drink a lot. and bad stuff would happen when they were drunk so yah, thats when it wasnt my frend. It was my frend when i was a depressed reck and didnt wanna think about anything, i just wanted everything gone. I used to stay up late drinking with my brother, or his frends, or my frends, hell anyone! and i would go to skewl drunk...get on tables and start dancing, fall over during PE and i thought it was the best thing ever. Then came the alcohol poisioning!!!!!!!!! i drank way to much (and im a "heavyweight" i can drink a lot without getting drunk) and i went into convulsions, i coundt breath, i couldnt see anything. My frend JEssica had to call my bf (at the time) to keep me awake and talking. He rambled on about anything and everything untill the convulsions stopped. Then she asked him to come pick us up, i stayed at his house for the night and he woke me up every hour or so to feed me so i wouldnt like, die or something. It hurt lke a bit*h.. i dont want alcohol poisioning again, so i dont drink often.. and when i do, its only a little

Alcohol will not hurt you if you drink in extreme moderation (ie. a couple of beers on Friday and Saturday). The people who end up with health problems are the people who drink half a bottle of vodka 4 days a week.

There have been scientific studies that prove red wine is good for your heart.

The only people that alcohol hurts are:

1. The people who drink unhealthy amounts
2. The people who cannot cope without it
3. People who drive drunk
4. People who abuse others while using it

Of course it won't hurt in moderation, but for me, the "A" in "a beer" turns to an "S" and goes on the end and continues indefinately. I can't take it so I stray from it. Once again, that's just me.

Hmmm. Alcohol can be my friend at times, but we have definitely had our arguments.

Alcohol once resulted in the rather horrible incident of me puking in my kitty cat's food bowl. I'm not sure why I thought her room was the bathroom, or why I thought the food bowl was the toilet...but I did. I don't remember it at all. After stumbling into the hall...the next thing I remember is laying on the floor next to the toilet moaning about my poor tummy, then hearing my hubby say "What the hell happened in here?!" as he went into the cat's room. Poor, poor cat. That is the most I ever drank, and I never, EVER want to repeat that.

I don't drink very often (maybe once every 3 months), and when I do...I sometimes over-estimate what my limit is. This results in a very sick Candice. No fun. But most of the time I end up okay and just very loopy......then I get online and talk to people about wanting to run through the sprinklers that are going outside, or I decide to play FFX, and I'm at the temple in Zanarkand where you have to step on those blasted square thingys in the same pattern as the one on the screen. Yeah. That took me a good hour or so when I was drunk. Every time I screwed up, I took another drink. Not the best plan for success.

heh.

Sounds like fun.

Drinking has taught me one thing: never EVER drink cheap ginger flavored brandy. It is like the alcohol version of the pickled ginger that comes with suishi (except it is 200 times stronger). It has to be the most vile-tasting stuff on the planet.

No, the most vile tasting drink ever was this French crap I once downed after a fight with Harmonie when I desperately wanted to get wasted. I had to chase it with a massive amount of mudslide to keep from vomiting. Damn French.

Hmmmm but didnt the french invent the sweet liqour~!

Doesn't matter. It's not like the French are real people anyway.

Excuse me?

You had better be joking. Even if you are, it isn't terribly amusing.

It's this running joke that Harm and I have. I don't like the French and she does. I could go on about my dislike for the French, but I don't want to start yet another major arguement with you, my dear Candice.

All right.

I just hate racism in any shape or form. I see no reason to hate a particular group of people at all. It's never made sense to me.

Plus, uhm as far as wine goes...the French > all...so it's kind of silly to say they know nothing about alcohol. Wine is alcohol.