If you do not like drinking then shut the hell up.

[SilentNitingale]

i know im a bad drunkard when im drunk, but ive never been drunk before. i dont avoid alcohol, im proud im not alcoholic, i like drinking it because i rarely drink it because im a bad drunkard. people who just like being proud of not drunk... should be tied on a chair and let him drown on alcohol till they experience the bliss of being drunk (LOL) well actually dont do that. but sometimes having not done anything is embarrassing to the point other people say other things that were intended to be said in the opposite meaning XD

[NightmareKnight]

I personally don't drink, but I have no problem with others drinking (unless they have a reputation as a mean drunk). Most of my friends are fun drunks, so I don't have this problem. I understand that no one likes to be told what to do, so I don't harp about it.

Same thing with smokers, except I DO have a problem with them smoking near me. If you need to light up so badly, go outside. I'll wait.

[Choc ♦]

I've got half a bottle of Southern Comfort in my gut and Imma postin' in dis' thread.

Like all things, to each their own. I smoke and I drink and as long as I'm destroying myself and no one else (no items, either property damage is bad mmmkay?)

NK - most people can't smoke indoors in the US, except for some privately owned bars and diners...and even that differs from state-to-state. A lot of them have no smoking laws in-doors period. Is it different in Canada?

[NightmareKnight]

NK - most people can't smoke indoors in the US, except for some privately owned bars and diners...and even that differs from state-to-state. A lot of them have no smoking laws in-doors period. Is it different in Canada?

In Ontario, you can't smoke in public places, but you CAN smoke in vehicles, provided no one under the age of 16 is present. I have a big issue with people smoking in my car because I can't stand the smell or breathe. Some of my friends are smokers who like to light up after parties at the bar. Since I'm usually the designated driver, I use my own vehicle (unless there are a lot of us, in which case I borrow "the van"). I don't care how badly they crave a smoke, I will wait for them to do it outside the bar before heading home. I've had them light up in my car before, but it usually ends in their cig being put out on their pant leg.

[Shenorai]

Personally, I don't see what's wrong with the occasional drink. Gives your liver something to work with by recognizing that the fermented liquid you are introducing into your system is something meant to be filtered out.

Now when it comes to smoking, I simply stand downwind when possible. If it gets bad enough, I excuse myself to go elsewhere and use my inhaler. Factory work ruins lungs, I tell ya.

[An End For]

I enjoy getting buzzed every once in a while, it might be bad for health but it's good for me because I have some issues with just dropping my guard and relaxing a bit. Moral superiority can be a crazy concept at times.

[Thetis ♦]

Nothing wrong with having values. It's just when you think you're right and everybody else is dead wrong that there's something wrong. Anyway...

I don't think I've ever gone to a party where alcohol was a major part of the fun. And in my ignorance, I didn't know how much of a big deal turning twenty-one is to so many Americans. (Ironically, when my sister just turned twenty-one, she went overseas to Edinburgh. The joke is that in most other places, the legal drinking age is eighteen.) My own twenty-first birthday was...not like that at all. I mean there was a barbecue, an ice cream cake, and fruit punch. (Man, it sounds like I turned eleven, not twenty-one!) I don't drink at all nowadays because I'm a little freaked out about it interacting with other chemicals in my body.

Anyway, a friend invited me to go to his twenty-first birthday party. And since I'm driving there, it's probably for the best that I don't drink, but would I be right in assuming that there'll be alcohol? I'm driving my friend with me too, so yeah. Oh, I did buy a bottle of sake for my friend. Forgot to bring it that day, though, so I probably could bring it to the birthday party. But yeah, never been to a party with alcohol there.

[Anfini08 ♦]

Do what you want, and don't force other people to take your perspective - everyone has their own values.

Yeah, I turned 21 in a country where I was already legally drinking for half a year. So I went on a road trip that day instead.

But most Americans do go out to get shitfaced on their 21st. I know this is a different discussion, but I think the drinking age being so high is the reason Americans are idiotic with alcohol. Heck, I'm not even innocent - an Australian yelled at me a few months back for my dumbassery.