reasons for drinking

[track2004]

I'm going to go with the with friends/social lubericant/buzz answer. Sometimes I drink to get drunk, but not often. Most of the time I'm just chillin with friends having a few drinks, watching people make idiots of themselves. It's a thing, I'm in college, we like the liquor.

[Monoxide]

Can a homosexual experience love?

[Ash Wednesday]

Everyone can experience love.

[ironmonk]

Just a note....

Saying "I don't like the taste of beer" is like saying "I don't like the taste of soda pop"....

There are more different beers than there are for soda's. Budwiser, Miller, Michelob, Coors... this are all beers that are very similar and are far from being a good example of beer. The best beer comes from the microbrews... Sam Adams Cherry Wheat... Blackdog Peach... Blackdog Rasberry, Madite, etc... are all AWESOME beers that taste nothing like the macrobrewed beers.

I'll be picking up a keg (30 liter) of Maudite tomorrow for my St. Patty's Day party next week.

Maudite won best beer in the world three years straight until it was beat out by the monk's beer in Germany (which I can't wait to try) that is Pope Benedict's favorite beer.

God Bless,
iron <the happy> monk

[Lil Red]

[quote name='shortnun' date='Feb 23 2006, 09:18 AM']I enjoy a drink that compliments... either the food I'm eating, or the atmosphere of friends.
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yes...especially a good wine, a good steak, and good company!

[God the Father]

[quote name='ironmonk' date='Feb 23 2006, 09:06 AM']Also, a little alcohol is good for the heart.
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I've recently seen one aspect of that theory debunked, please, what is your reasoning?

[MagiDragon]

[quote name='God the Father' date='Mar 12 2006, 12:41 PM']I've recently seen one aspect of that theory debunked, please, what is your reasoning?
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it thins the blood slightly, making blood clots and consequental heart attacks less likely. This is only true in cases of drinking alcohol in moderation.

[cmotherofpirl]

red wine is the best for this...yum

[Lil Red]

cmom, yeahhhh!!!!!!!

[toledo_jesus]

when I drink alcohol it makes the other kids like me.

[God the Father]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Mar 13 2006, 10:22 AM']red wine is the best for this...yum
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My health teacher says the reason red wine is so good for your heart is because it's just grape juice that was let ferment. I guess the alcohol thins the blood even further though. Right? He also said the study that showed red wine was good for the heart was paid for by the Wine Makers of America(something like that), and only included males ages 40-65(something like that) who had a heart attack in the past.

Of course he's just probably trying to keep me off alcohol.

[Desert Walker]

Drinking alcohol, in any form, can be deadly dangerous to both body and soul, therefore I stopped and will never do it again.

I drink the blood of Christ on occasion, but even that I may end. My brother became sick once from even THAT small sip.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='God the Father' date='Mar 14 2006, 03:17 PM']My health teacher says the reason red wine is so good for your heart is because it's just grape juice that was let ferment. I guess the alcohol thins the blood even further though. Right? He also said the study that showed red wine was good for the heart was paid for by the Wine Makers of America(something like that), and only included males ages 40-65(something like that) who had a heart attack in the past.

Of course he's just probably trying to keep me off alcohol.
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probably

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Desert Walker' date='Mar 14 2006, 03:17 PM']Drinking alcohol, in any form, can be deadly dangerous to both body and soul, therefore I stopped and will never do it again.

I drink the blood of Christ on occasion, but even that I may end.  My brother became sick once from even THAT small sip.
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Actually moderate alcohol consumption is healthier than too much or none at all.

[url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050328182546.htm"]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/...50328182546.htm[/url]

[BonnieLass]

I don't drink I'm under aged, but i think it's ok to have wine for dinner, but it's fun to have a hard drink now and then, i love to cook with alcohol, wines, rum, vodka, bourbon, all kinda's of stuff I cook out the alcohol most of the time, i know for a fact that alcohol bring out amazing flavors from tomatoes. but you use just a little to do that.

[uruviel]

yeah I don't drink I'm undersaged as well, but I think it's compleltely harmless. Alcohal isn't a bad thing, not until people start abusing it. Its only a threat to those who misuse it.

[morostheos]

[quote name='Desert Walker' date='Mar 14 2006, 04:17 PM']Drinking alcohol, in any form, can be deadly dangerous to both body and soul, therefore I stopped and will never do it again.

I drink the blood of Christ on occasion, but even that I may end.  My brother became sick once from even THAT small sip.
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What do you say of Jesus' first miracle then?

[God the Father]

[quote name='uruviel' date='Mar 14 2006, 04:07 PM']Its only a threat to those who misuse it.
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And of course, those who come into contact with those who misuse it.

[uruviel]

yes. Thats a good point

[HisChild]

[quote name='God the Father' date='Mar 14 2006, 02:17 PM']My health teacher says the reason red wine is so good for your heart is because it's just grape juice that was let ferment. I guess the alcohol thins the blood even further though. Right? He also said the study that showed red wine was good for the heart was paid for by the Wine Makers of America(something like that), and only included males ages 40-65(something like that) who had a heart attack in the past.

Of course he's just probably trying to keep me off alcohol.
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I drink red wine. . I pretty much drink nothing else. Anyway, I had to get a blood test, along with my physical, for when I applied for the PCPA. My labs came back and without talking lab-speak, my clotting times, and my platelets were longer than normal and les than normal, but not by much. It wasn't an alarming value or anything. . .red wine does in fact thin your blood. . .but there's a difference between one glass of wine with evening meals (as my great grandmother did up until she died. . .in her 90s) and frying your liver because you drink the whole bottle!