Then you taste it and realized it tastes like piss but you’re too prideful to actually admit it and keep drinking because it’s the “cool” thing to do.
Alcohol lost its usefulness when we able to distill drinking water in mass quantity. If you say it helped shy people to start talking to each other then I say grow some balls and talk to each other without the help of alcohol.
You’ve never had a pinacolada then, right? Because that tastes like heaven. Virgin ones, not so much. I love a good cocktail and it makes me feel good. I have a feeling most people don’t really care about the taste, especially alcoholics who’ll drink listerine to get drunk. This convo took a serious turn. Good comic Adam!
You could also be less rude and keep in mind that some people just can’t communicate with others really because of things like anxiety disorders. I have very strong anxiety in general, but particularly social, and it has been medically diagnosed. Even with medication it’s difficult for me to go out and talk to new people. Granted, I also don’t use alcohol for that, because it’s pointless, but just telling people to “grow some balls and talk to each other” is ignorant and acerbic, and both unnecessarily.
Spring Break videos…TITillating…I see what you did there!
And I don’t drink alcohol because it’s cool, I drink it because I do like the taste. Well, not wine so much…or hard liquor…but beer? Oh my, yes. Yes, I do like the taste of good craft beer.
Prior to prohibition, apparently, the majority of drunks were much less obnoxious.
Being able to “hold your liqueur” didn’t just mean staying on your feet but remaining largely functional. Back then booze was cheap and there wasn’t a nanny state so drinking until you went blind wasn’t regarded as accomplishment.
During prohibition, however, getting plastered became something of a status symbol. As prohibition didn’t make the consumption of alcohol illegal, there was no crime in being caught drunk but since you were a bad boy breaking a law, you got cool points. So, people stopped trying to maintain control when drunk and started acting out to make sure everyone knew what a rebel they were.
There were plenty of hard core drunks back prior to prohibition. That is what prompted the prohibition movement. But in the main, they tried to disguise their drunkenness by remaining in private or being unobtrusive in public.
The “town drunk” was the guy who couldn’t disguise it. At lot of the classic humor attributed to the town drunk comes from their utterly transparent attempts to act sober.
During Prohibition, it wasn’t illegal to make alcoholic beverages. It WAS illegal to sell or transport them. So you could make your own hooch, consume it at home, and be totally legal.
In the town I grew up in, we elected the drunk as mayor. The hard part was finding the drunk–we were ALL drunks by anyone else’s standard. The advantage was, he left us alone more or less, unless he ran out of booze.
Honestly, it probably came with advertising. Once you make people think alcohol tastes good, they start drinking enough of it to like it.
So enjoying alcohol is a lot like Stockholm Syndrome?
Then you taste it and realized it tastes like piss but you’re too prideful to actually admit it and keep drinking because it’s the “cool” thing to do.
Alcohol lost its usefulness when we able to distill drinking water in mass quantity. If you say it helped shy people to start talking to each other then I say grow some balls and talk to each other without the help of alcohol.
You’ve never had a pinacolada then, right? Because that tastes like heaven. Virgin ones, not so much. I love a good cocktail and it makes me feel good. I have a feeling most people don’t really care about the taste, especially alcoholics who’ll drink listerine to get drunk. This convo took a serious turn. Good comic Adam!
Beer tastes amazing. Are you on crack, Mr. AckAckAck?
Beer tastes like fermented weiner juice .-. Trust me, I know alot about weiner juice
You could also be less rude and keep in mind that some people just can’t communicate with others really because of things like anxiety disorders. I have very strong anxiety in general, but particularly social, and it has been medically diagnosed. Even with medication it’s difficult for me to go out and talk to new people. Granted, I also don’t use alcohol for that, because it’s pointless, but just telling people to “grow some balls and talk to each other” is ignorant and acerbic, and both unnecessarily.
Well it’s not that ignorant and acerbic, I have the same thing too, but I just repress my inhibitions without alcohol :3
People drink alcohol because it lowers their blood pressure, making them happier. Til tomorrow.
I wanna see the letterbox arguement video
Spring Break videos…TITillating…I see what you did there!
And I don’t drink alcohol because it’s cool, I drink it because I do like the taste. Well, not wine so much…or hard liquor…but beer? Oh my, yes. Yes, I do like the taste of good craft beer.
I prefer wine and hard overly sweet liqour. I add lime juice.
Hmm. Guess I gotta stop making those videos…
Prior to prohibition, apparently, the majority of drunks were much less obnoxious.
Being able to “hold your liqueur” didn’t just mean staying on your feet but remaining largely functional. Back then booze was cheap and there wasn’t a nanny state so drinking until you went blind wasn’t regarded as accomplishment.
During prohibition, however, getting plastered became something of a status symbol. As prohibition didn’t make the consumption of alcohol illegal, there was no crime in being caught drunk but since you were a bad boy breaking a law, you got cool points. So, people stopped trying to maintain control when drunk and started acting out to make sure everyone knew what a rebel they were.
There were plenty of hard core drunks back prior to prohibition. That is what prompted the prohibition movement. But in the main, they tried to disguise their drunkenness by remaining in private or being unobtrusive in public.
The “town drunk” was the guy who couldn’t disguise it. At lot of the classic humor attributed to the town drunk comes from their utterly transparent attempts to act sober.
During Prohibition, it wasn’t illegal to make alcoholic beverages. It WAS illegal to sell or transport them. So you could make your own hooch, consume it at home, and be totally legal.
That bug’s name is Edgar. We have a named bug!
Is this the first time a bug has been named?
Well, his name is Edgar for that strip.
In the town I grew up in, we elected the drunk as mayor. The hard part was finding the drunk–we were ALL drunks by anyone else’s standard. The advantage was, he left us alone more or less, unless he ran out of booze.
I think I’d watch Edgar’s videos. Arguing with a mailbox, that’s something I’d do when I had NOTHING to do..
I blame Prohibition.