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Hello forum. This is a thread for teetotalers to discuss their teetotalism. Are you a teetotaler? If so, why? Were you always? Is it driven by religious convictions or something else?

In my case I just never had an inclination to try alcohol. I have no problem with those who partake or with alcohol itself. It's just not for me. I eat too much and have a bit of a compulsive personality. I say compulsive not addictive because for example if I buy a thing of Oreos once I open it I keep getting these overpowering urges to eat the whole dang thing instead of having one or two at a time. I've gotten better about it over the years, but when I was younger (including the age at which I had my own money and could buy whatever I wanted) it was hard to control.

I figured that with such a personality I'd be drunk all the time if I started drinking. Therefore I decided to just not bother with it. So that lead to two things:

1) I was always the DD. This got me a lot of friends! The area I lived at the time either by law or by custom (not sure really) always gave me free soda and sometimes free food for being the DD of a large group of people.

2) People often teased me/pressured me to drink. That sucked. I turned to my fantasy world of comics where I battled those slanderous peer pressure trolls until I showed the world that my teetotalism was true and honest. Ok that part is a lie, but the first thing is true: peer pressure sucked. Ironically I since moved to a state which is likely the dryest in the US and it got even worse. Then I moved to a state full of drunken hillbillies and it stopped COMPLETELY. People here say things like "oh you don't drink? That's cool. You're better off anyway."

So with that I close this thread with my favorite story of being a DD.

In this case I didn't set out to be a DD. It was my boss's 40th birthday party. A bunch of us were over there including my friend who I will nickname X. X really liked the wine (red wine). A lot. So much that he drank 2 entire bottles himself (right out of the bottle) plus a couple of glasses. People were quite upset that he was refusing to hand keys over. Finally he gave me the keys and told me to drive him and his 3 week old car over to my place so he could crash for several hours before driving himself home. So while driving him home, we are on the interstate going about 70 mph when he feels the urge to puke. So he throws the passenger car door wide open and starts hurling red wine puke everywhere including all over the inside of his car. (None on me thank goodness.) Of course I'm busy swerving to avoid his door hitting anyone. Needless to say that was not really a good experience.

Oh, and when we got to my place he got out and horked all over the lawn for about 3 minutes, too.
 
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I'm trying to wrap my head around Satan's logic. I think what he's saying is that all alcoholics are like straight males taking all the pretty girls, while people who do not drink are homos and not in competition with him for pretty girls.
 
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This thread oozes so much autism I was at a loss for a few minutes on what to do with it, in the end there is only one option.

EDIT: Seems that it was reopened by someone else. Oh well.
 
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I can't drink because of the medications I'm on. I did get pretty trashed a while back when a friend of a friend of mine died. I didn't want him going alone and it felt rude not to also partake in that situation.
 
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I drink kind of rarely now, I used to do it rather heavily when I was 21 and had a friend who really liked to drink too. 34 oz mugs and like that. But now I mostly go without alcohol because another friend (who, ironically, I met through this guy, and he refuses to speak to either of us now) is putting me on a fairly strict physical training regimen.
 
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sikotik said:
I can't drink because of the medications I'm on. I did get pretty trashed a while back when a friend of a friend of mine died. I didn't want him going alone and it felt rude not to also partake in that situation.
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My best friend in the world blew his brains out a little over 10 years ago. It was really hard. I didn't drink but I don't really remember what I did that day except walking aimlessly around town for no reason. I could have driven aimlessly around town, but I'm glad I walked. I can't imagine what you went through but I can't imagine anyone thinking negatively of you wanting a temporary escape from that.

Queen of Tarts said:
If I had alcohol right now, I'd drink the shit out of it.

Then embarrass myself by hitting on one of the hot guys here.
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You'd really embarrass yourself when you sobered up and realized you've been flirting with yourself. :)

Black Sonichu said:
I drink kind of rarely now, I used to do it rather heavily when I was 21 and had a friend who really liked to drink too. 34 oz mugs and like that. But now I mostly go without alcohol because another friend (who, ironically, I met through this guy, and he refuses to speak to either of us now) is putting me on a fairly strict physical training regimen.
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Good luck. I've been trying to lose weight myself. I sit at a desk too much and even though I have some gym equipment in my basement I tend to spend more time eating and computing than I do using it. (:_(

chimpchan said:
My best friend almost died last year because she drove when drunk.

However I drink frequently, I just don't mix it with 3am, a wet road and a car.
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That's what I was saying when I started this thread. I have no problem with responsible drinking. It just isn't for me. It sounds like you are responsible so that's great. I hope your friend learned her lesson. I think we've all known people who drive drunk and insist they are fine. You can't talk some people out of it.

So here's another question -- do you guys think DUI or texting while driving is worse? Does anyone know someone who had an accident texting while driving?

Foulmouth said:
I fucking love booze.
But I have health and other problems so I've stopped drinking.
It fucking sucks like a sucky thing that sucks.
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A lot of people would have kept drinking. At least you have your priorities straight. (my opinion)
 
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I'm unclear as to how strict the definition of teetotaler is regarding persons such as myself who have drank before but don't now, particularly considering I'm not above having a shot once in a very blue moon. I can at least state, however, that I would not consider myself a drinker. I just turned 21 over the summer and I did celebrate my legal ability to purchase alcohol by getting a pack of wine coolers, but since then I haven't had any alcohol save for a shot of Malibu coconut rum with pineapple and cranberry juice a couple weeks ago.

My choice to not drink wasn't made as an effort to take what some would call the "moral high ground" - I see nothing wrong with alcohol, morally, in spite of the way some people may abuse it; when I was a teenager I had my fun getting pissed on rum and coke or a whole jug of wine and found I didn't enjoy it enough to consider it worth the resulting hangovers. And I'm allergic to the sulfite in red wine, which makes my joints ache and swell up for several days afterwards. Also, I went from 280 to 168 lbs in the last 8 months. In my ongoing efforts to keep that weight off, I have to cut alcohol out of my diet. Beer and wine are extremely high in carbs.
 
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Wow great job on the weight loss, Fibonacci. Kudos to you. I was working on mine but got depressed today and just ate a big ice cream cone and the cycle of guilt continues. It's hard to do. Keep it up, man. I actually lost 100 pounds at one point in my life but since gained 125 back. (It's been many years though to get it back.)

I may have something in common with you. When I was 6 I snuck a soda from the kitchen only it wasn't soda it was reeb. I took a sip and spit it out all over the place. Ever since then I can't even stand the smell of alcohol. Just like when I was very young I overdosed on Cheerios and barfed and can't eat them to this day. Sometimes things like that happen when we are young and turn us against things for life.

I've never heard of a sulfite allergy that's rough. Are there other foods you must avoid for that reason?

Now, as I said I'm not a drinker... but even I know wine coolers are wuss drinks. ;)
 
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Wow great job on the weight loss, Fibonacci. Kudos to you. I was working on mine but got depressed today and just ate a big ice cream cone and the cycle of guilt continues. It's hard to do. Keep it up, man. I actually lost 100 pounds at one point in my life but since gained 125 back. (It's been many years though to get it back.)
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Thanks. I started by losing 50 lbs by accident when my car broke down and I spent a few months walking to and from work, then I decided to strive for the Army or Navy and aimed for my military standard height/weight ratio, 175 lbs to my 5'7". I stopped drinking alcohol and soda and spent 3-5 days a week at the gym on the elliptical until I plateaued at 210 lbs. Then I started running on the treadmill at 6 mph on a flat incline for an hour at a time once or twice a week and living off protein powder twice a day and a multivitamin. Now I mostly do weights and light jogging or walking to maintain my current weight.

klystron said:
I've never heard of a sulfite allergy that's rough. Are there other foods you must avoid for that reason?

Now, as I said I'm not a drinker... but even I know wine coolers are wuss drinks. ;)
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No; I'm not allergic to any other foods that I'm aware of. I can handle a modest glass of red wine without the allergy flaring too badly. I attribute the severity to the fact that my few experiences with red wine have usually consisted of drinking a litre or more at a time. I used to buy those cheap 1.5 litre Carlo Rossi jugs at the grocery store and pack a whole one down in an hour or two.

And yeah, wine coolers are wuss drinks, but they taste pretty damn good. Goes down salty... :fapcup:
 
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