UK: Under-25s turning their backs on alcohol, study suggests
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HAH, JOKES ON YOU UK BOYS, MY ALCOHOLISM WILL BRING ME HAPPINESS BY REMOVING THE PROBLEM OF LIFE ALL TOGETHER IN AROUND 30 YEARS GIVE OR TAKE.
I started drinking as a taste thing but it crept up and became a habit before I realized it. Went from a hardliner who could barely take down a drink a night to throwing back 70cl bottles a night in just under two years. Struggling in and out of sobriety atm.
Don't start.
I really don't drink much just because I almost always have to be somewhere in the morning, and even a single standard drink is enough to make me wake up with a headache. Doesn't matter if I chase it with a tall glass of water. It'd be nice if they sold beer in those little half-cans you see energy drinks or soda come in sometimes, that would probably be just the right amount. Could have it with dinner too, avoid feeling like I'm forcing down 200 calories worth of liquid grain on top of what I'm already eating.
Not to mention, I like being able to drive anywhere I want anytime I want, and I don't want to risk it with even small amounts of alcohol in my system. Even if it's below the legal limit, if I got into an accident it wouldn't look good in court.
Grew up into a family that abused prescription drugs and pissed their life away multiple times to alcohol abuse.
I take it as a life lesson and move on, I don't want to become what I grew up around.
To be fair ket is a lot more fun than alcohol.
I'm 21 and I've given up alcohol unless I'm on a date. The weekend warrior cycle is the stupidest way to cripple yourself and the social life you get from it is either destined to die, or an outright facade in the first place. Save your money. Get drunk once in a while and you won't feel like a wreckhead in the morning. People treat alcohol like it's not a drug.
Oxygen's overrated anyways.
Binge drinking rates also decreased - from 27% in 2005 to 18% in 2015, based on Health Survey for England figures
I do wonder if the recent trends of things like craft beers, gins and all that playing a role against binge drinking.
Like such are more intented to be enjoyed than just drank in succession and are quite heavily advertised in pubs, so I do hope that I'm right in thinking the trend is getting people to enjoy alcohol for what it is rather than for getting drunk.
the fuck is wrong with people
I much prefer to vape weed if I'm getting intoxicated. Much clearer high than drinking, I remember everything, and there's a lot of nuance between strains that I can select based on how I want to feel.
I've watched my grandmother slowly from liver issues over a decade. It's not nice, and is very painful. I know you was joking but liver issues really are nothing to joke about.
If anything i become hyper-conscious of my actions when i drink. I have to consciously perform every action or i just sit in a smirking stupor.
The danger comes from you forgetting to worry about your actions depending on how much you knock back.
For some reason I really relate to this. I know that the whole personality change is only going to happen if you drink dubious amounts of alcohol, yet from my experience with observing my former classmates I've grown to really dislike the stuff. I especially hate how it's advertised here everywhere as the thing that you can't have an event without, with young adults drinking and laughing during a sunset.
i threw up in a urinal once but it hasn't stopped me
I can see that, there are people who just adore spicy foods and some people just hate it. People are built differently, this video explains it good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPzQ-7q36Dk&t=98s
Just listen for the first 1 minute 20 seconds.
Personally I've always enjoyed wine and beer, basically grew up with it (a little taste here and there). Never been one for getting black-out drunk, though, the hangover is awful and what's the point if you don't remember anything anyway. Nowadays I get responsibly drunk maybe once every month or so, and drink maybe half a beer or a glass of wine for dinner every other day or so. Beer and wine just taste really good, especially with food.
I honestly don't even like drinking that much. I'll have one if I'm out with friends or whatever but I very very rarely buy alcohol to just drink for the sake of it. I think I've drank alcohol like 5 times this year? Gimmie that Pepsi Max
I only really drink about once or twice a month, and then I limit myself to one or two pints of beer and that's it. I don't touch spirits or anything like that because I don't like the taste, but I do like the test of a lot of beers.
There is a /big/ difference between enjoying a drink once in a while and getting smashed; for the UK I think this is particularly relevant as UK students (which is in the age bracket in the article) have something of a reputation of getting absolutely fucked every week, often times multiple times per week. When I lived in Glasgow the amount of drink those people consumed was astonishing.
This is definitely still a firm trend in the UK even if the rate is steadily declining overall. There are pockets here and there where communities still rely on pubs to function socially, and others where people just get smashed and fight in the streets, it's a hard thing to quantify when alcohol has differing effects on people, and how people use it.
Growing up in Scotland, alcohol and drinking culture was omnipresent, underage drinking very common, some school mates getting hammered regularly at 14. Not sure how bad it is nation-wide these days, I haven't been asked to buy alcohol by the clearly underage teens hanging around shop entrances for years, but that might just be this area.
I made a 10 mile trek past a highway for pizza after going through a 2 liter bottle of Jaegermeister with 2 other people.
I'll drink, but I'm never giving jeager a chance. I'll stick with gin.
too busy shitposting to get high or drunk. checkmate athe scientists.
I can feel it destroying my brain. If i hit it hard on a Saturday then i still end up feeling hungover on Monday or Tuesday. Even a few bottles or a pint has me feeling groggy, unmotivated and generally dumb the next day which affects my study and performance at work. I know a lot of my friends are feeling the same.
"Getting drunk is just borrowing happiness from tomorrow"
A lot of beers are really gross, but then you find that one that's just... great
Gonna add on to this by saying that if you have only had stuff like Budweiser or Coors or Natural Ice at a friends house, try other stuff. I thought I hated beer too but in reality I just hate shitty beer.
Doesn't surprise me. It's not that I dislike alcohol, I just don't see the point.
Sad part is its true
Been at uni 3 years now and the amount of people i know who go out without drinking a sip of alcahol, but high as a kite is insane, they just do a shit tons of ket and go out to some trashy club, alcahol is just too expensive in some places
I literally can't drink alcohol. Any amount makes me feel like I've ingested razor blades and they're just blenderizing in my stomach.
Not nausea, no, literal pain.
It's upsetting because some of my friends think I'm either A. Making it up and I'm some prissy goody two shoes, or B. Just haven't "found the right drink yet."
Hnnngh.
Weed is infinitely better than alcohol, makes sense.
I'm 26 and American, but I've never had a drink in my life for a couple of reasons.
One, there's way too many alcoholics in my family, who've either died, are dying, or had a liver transplant and just started smoking weed instead, so addiction runs in the family and I'm not risking my future.
Two, I suffer from anxiety and depression, and alcohol + medication is a bad combination. I'd either be a sobbing mess, an unconscious mess, or an angry mess. I've seen friends on meds drink saying it "didn't affect them" but they inevitably would become the crying drunk girl after a drink or two, and no one wants to see a crying drunk guy.
Third, I know if I did drink it would just become a crutch for my social anxiety, because I'd need to drink to be confident around women. I had to go through college without liquid courage and always had to fight the urge to try it in the hopes I would just chill out and be social with a drink or two and maybe meet someone. Being drunk just complicates romance and is just a bad idea.
Fourth, my friends drank a lot in college so I was the designated sober person, and I saw how it changed their perception and personality, and I didn't like it.
I don't need alchohol, and it's just not worth the risks to try it for meager benefits. I'd like to think more people are like that, but the truth is probably that it's a more pleasant high on weed or psychoactive substances than alchohol and people are just choosing a cheaper/more effective high.
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