Thoughts on why Gen Z is not drinking alcohol?

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Quence said:
There is no such thing as a “tasty wine”. Wine tastes effing AWFUL. “Oh that’s just the tannins and you’ll get used to them” say the alkies, wine aunts, and those who pretend to like it because their friends pretend to like it.

I have sampled many different wines from the highest quality to the lowest rotgut and they all have something in common: they taste like ass.
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Quence you start this shit on every board. People don't drink alcohol for the taste and they do not vape to look interesting. They do it to get fucked up. Heavy users will get into shit like the flavor and if you think wine is bad its even worse with cannabis but no one really cares all that much.

If you hate the buzz from alcohol because you're a control freak and you don't trust others enough to be in a diminished capacity around them, well every neurotic weirdo who can't be trusted says that same thing. It's a you problem, holmes.
 
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I enjoy wine, which is a real shame because I literally can’t tolerate alcohol anymore. I have no idea what happened. In my young adult times, I could drink socially and have an enjoyable evening without getting fucked up. Now, a single cocktail fucks me right up and ruins my night AND the next day. I don’t even just mean I get hammered faster, although I do, I also get SICK. My heart pounds, my head hurts, and I feel lethargic for like 36 hours. It’s to the point that I can’t even finish a can of beer without having to go lay down.

I have joked with my husband that maybe whatever the weed farmers have done to the MJ is being done to my Kirkland margarita mix, because a single bottle of the premade stuff will sit in my fridge for 6 months now because I just can’t tolerate it anymore.

I’m sad because alcohol is social lubricant and now I’m stuck with holding a can of sparkling water with which to gesticulate for emphasis and it just doesn’t feel the same.

Anyone else experience this or am I lame now?
 
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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Younger generations drink less alcohol because energy drinks are not considered adult beverages and they drink less alcohol because they are taking pills, which don't count as real drugs.

It is all a mirage. They get totally trashed but in ways that society has not yet caught up with. The dirty secret is that a lot (no joke your Mom or your sister could be on it and lying, it is everywhere) of people of all ages are abusing Xanax or other drugs like alprazolam.
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Hell, they don’t even need to be ‘abusing’ it. They could be prescribed benzos to take daily, the consequences of which are already horrific enough. It’s more addictive than heroin, and Drs nowadays prescribe them like jujubees for common general anxiety disorder. It’s absolutely a silent epidemic that we haven’t begun to feel the effects of.
 
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Quence said:
Ahh, I see I have offended a wine fruit by pointing out how utterly hideous that beverage actually tastes.

”But it’s just the tannins….you can get used to them.”
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I don't drink vodka or smoke weed as I am no fan of either, but have considered maybe it's just that it's just you?

blue gopher snakes said:
Anyone else experience this or am I lame now?
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I know a few people who sobered up due to 'I like Whiskey, but Whiskey doesn't like me' or people like me who don't have time to drink much any more.
 
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I don't necessarily buy the cost argument considering you can buy a 6 pack of Jack Daniel's punch for like $8 or so.

Honestly, I'd wager that part of it is due to the amount of SSRI-addled zoomers that are chicken-shit to drink alcohol due to possible issues with their medication, or their own experiences with alcoholic relatives.

That said, I've tried it a few times. It's fine on special occasions (Like New Years or a massive celebration), but from my own experience with it, I don't get how people could drink daily. I'm fairly light-weight, so it doesn't take me much effort to get a buzz, but it feels like the drowsiness you get an hour after taking SSRIs (Which I already stopped taking because I don't like how they affect me). I'd still prefer drinking over smoking weed though.

The withdrawal from 4 years of SSRIs lasted like three weeks, and it was hell.
 
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I am not a zoomer but I just don't like the taste. And all the people that say "well you are supposed to just get drunk" what if I don't want to get drunk? I see no reason to be intoxicated at all, especially since every party or gathering I was at where people get drunk just turns awkward and lame as people think their shitty jokes are funny due to everything being funny when drunk, they can't hold a conversation due to drunkenness, and they don't even want to do anything except sit there and drink. Weed is arguably just as bad, since when high people just want to sit on the couch and take a nap in an hour. Taking any intoxicant at all is just lame, why do you need a mood-altering substance that has such a strong effect on you?
 
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Every facet of their lives is online. Literally everything. Theyve been groomed for it from early childhood.

Too risky to have pictures of them online vomiting onto a child or whatever and the idea of just deleting their social media accounts is totally alien and completely unconscionable to them. So, they don't drink.

Oh that and they're all abject failures to launch. Went to college/ uni and gained a meaningless degree which didn't improve anything in their lives. Tits deep in debt. No real prospects. Not drinking is the one thing they've got which allows them to feel superior to everyone else.
 
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Rodeo Roadrunner said:
"well you are supposed to just get drunk" what if I don't want to get drunk? I see no reason to be intoxicated at all, especially since every party or gathering I was at where people get drunk just turns awkward and lame as people think their shitty jokes are funny due to everything being funny when drunk, they can't hold a conversation due to drunkenness, and they don't even want to do anything except sit there and drink. Weed is arguably just as bad, since when high people just want to sit on the couch and take a nap in an hour. Taking any intoxicant at all is just lame, why do you need a mood-altering substance that has such a strong effect on you?
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Thinking like this makes you autistic, not deep or a genius or an inherently more serious or worthy person. I know self-made millionaires, respected scientists, all sorts of undoubtedly smart, hard-working, amazing people who enjoy getting sloshed with their buddies and trying to do dumb shit like sucking the pimentos out of olives through their nose or stupid dances just because it's funny and dumb. A human with a normal social barometer enjoys doing silly, unserious things, and that's been true since the dawn of time. This is where this meme comes from:

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Stop trying to launder your inability to have fun into some kind of moral or intellectual superiority. Normal people don't need every conversation to be a serious one - in fact, the more actual serious, important, high-stakes conversations that people have in their day-to-day lives the less that they want to engage in that during their scarce free time. People have a very old social epithet at hand for people trying to force them into such conversations instead of unwinding with everyone else: bores. You're not smarter than everyone else at the party, you're just a garden-variety autist (not that there's anything wrong with that!).
 
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Mukhrani said:
Thinking like this makes you autistic, not deep or a genius or an inherently more serious or worthy person.
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Never claimed being sober meant I was a genius or anything. Nor did I say it inherently made me a better person. Just said I didn't understand the point of being intoxicated.
Mukhrani said:
trying to do dumb shit like sucking the pimentos out of olives through their nose or stupid dances just because it's funny and dumb.
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You don't have to be drunk to do dumb things and you don't have to be drunk to dance.
Mukhrani said:
Stop trying to launder your inability to have fun into some kind of moral or intellectual superiority.
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Never claimed being sober meant intellectual or moral superiority. Also, very funny to claim that I hate fun, when I actually claimed that being intoxicated meant parties were LESS fun, not more. You think you can only have fun when intoxicated? Every party and gathering I have ever been to was worse off when people got drunk.
Mukhrani said:
Normal people don't need every conversation to be a serious one - in fact, the more actual serious, important, high-stakes conversations that people have in their day-to-day lives the less that they want to engage in that during their scarce free time.
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Show me where I claimed I only like serious conversations, or where I said you should only have serious conversations with people.
Mukhrani said:
You're not smarter than everyone else at the party, you're just a garden-variety autist (not that there's anything wrong with that!).
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Never claimed I was smarter than anyone.

You seem to be conflating the idea that you can only be having fun while drunk. To make a claim about your personality (as you did mine), you seem to be the person that drinks to forget their real life problems, and can only have fun when out with friends when drunk. You don't need to drink to forget your problems (just having fun with friends can make you forget) and you don't have to drink every time you want to have fun.
 
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Quence said:
Ahh, I see I have offended a wine fruit by pointing out how utterly hideous that beverage actually tastes.

”But it’s just the tannins….you can get used to them.”
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A quick glance over your posting history suggests you're under 30, scared of getting old -
Quence said:
If there is a God, please don’t let me get old….allow someone to find a cure for the disease known as aging.
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Quence said:
If a cure for aging isn’t found before I turn 30, I don’t know if I’ll continue to want to live. I don’t want to look old EVER!
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- an Apple fanboy and for some reason you run a thread called "Today On The Kelly Clarkson show" that you regularly post in despite nobody interacting with it.
I've got more than a slight suspicion you're a kid who subsists on goyslop, which means naturally your palette is so unrefined that wine tastes bad to you - because it's not laced with high fructose corn syrup.
 
they have other addictions that im not sure are better
weed, vape, gooning, energy drinks etc.
i guess there will be less DUI cases but overall i think they are more fucked
 
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greatUncleShitHeel said:
Is it? Care to prove that? Or are you going to just demonstrate my favourite line from half baked?
If you're going to be constantly high or constantly drunk I don't think you're going to come out of it okay either way.
But then again horseshoe theory strikes again I guess.
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I do not smoke weed.

Weed is harmful, but not really that bad.

Even with driving it is not really as well known as most people who smoke weed while driving and kill somebody are also consuming alcohol.
 
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