Thoughts on why Gen Z is not drinking alcohol?

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The handsome tard said:
They have their own addictions but most of them grew up seeing the consequences of alcohol and smoke addiction (its likely a reason why many of them are so mentally fucked) so most of them dont see the worth in engaging in that sort of stuff.

There is a social aspect too as drinking in a bar was THE way of socializing back in the day and most zoomers legit dont care socializing much IRL anymore.
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There's also using a troon to sell one of the most popular beers in the US.
 
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Da Grim Reaper said:
You're spending money on something that will inevitably turn you into an addict, so the best way to stop an addiction is to not even start.

Then, someone will still have the audacity to say: "Why don't these youngins drink?"
Because when you're in such an environment where you're constantly seeing a half abusing alcohol while the other half tells you alcohol is bad, you tend to end up like this.
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I'm not making light of anyone's problems by saying this, but one saying I heard years ago on old Pringles commercials can be applied as well, albeit different context: "Once you pop, you can't stop."
Slap47 said:
Honestly, alcohol worship culture seems kinda retarded to people outside of that culture.
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The pic you have in your post is a Reddit screencap. I recall years ago seeing many r/AskReddit threads about "what question do you hate being asked", and the running theme with all of them was "Why don't you drink?" would pop up. Always.

I went to a shooting range to celebrate my 21st birthday. I don't plan on touching liquor. Ever.
 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
So it sounds like the general consensus is Zoomers are poor, uncool, and socially anxious faggots. They also think they're being healthier and responsible by one-upping their alcoholic parents in the gayest and uncoolest form of "FUCK YOU MOM AND DAD" in history. They also kvetch about forever chems and carcinogenic additives, yet they literally fry and inhale every single chemical that RFK is trying to ban directly into their lungs with gusto. They also go through nicotine pouches like chewing gum and still insist they're healthier than getting drunk every weekend. Despite the majority of them balding by 25 and looking older than their millennial counterparts for..."some reason".


Yeah, I think Zoomers are the single most retarded generation in history and we all should move on to working on Gen Alpha.
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It's the ones at the normie bars and party lifestyle who have aged like milk. The older Zoomies and younger Millennials who are into fitness basically don't age.
 
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PaleTay said:
It's the ones at the normie bars and party lifestyle who have aged like milk. The older Zoomies and younger Millennials who are into fitness basically don't age.
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As someone who goes outside and touches grass frequently, this is just cope. The millenials who did the party lifestyle and who do fitness age just fine.

The older and younger zoomies who sat around playing video games 24/7, and smoked vape pens are the ones who aged like milk. It's terrible. They look 40 and the millenials a generation older than them don't even look 40. I've seen more bald Zoomers than I've seen bald millennials. It's not even a contest.

Edit: Personally, I blame the vapes. I think they do something to people that we're not really aware of yet. There's a pretty big correlation between bald Zoomers who also vape.
 
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Slap47 said:
Alcohol in cooked food is harmless. You could give it to children
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Not the case for a lot of cakes. They are often quite dry when baked, and you 'moisten' them by wrapping them in liquor-soaked cloth that you freshen up in rotation, sometimes for months. Fruitcake is traditionally made this way. It's post-cooking so the alcohol never burns off, it is quite boozy, and should never be given to children. Traditional British puddings are also made this way and it's why they light on fire when served.

YWNBAM said:
Alcohol tastes bad, burns your stomach and throat, and makes you feel like crap the next day.
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I basically don't get hangovers because I don't buy rotgut/cheap slop.

I've seen articles about how it's the alcohol itself that always causes the hangovers but it's bullshit imo. Almost every time I've gotten a hangover it's because I was drinking some kind of cheap corporate product laden with pesticides or processed in some bizarre way at an event. Eat food with alcohol, drink lots of water, and don't drink bathtub gin/box wine and hangovers aren't an issue.

A better question is why so many older people still consume the thing that damages their brains and leads to organ failure.
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A dumb question. You know what damages your brain and leads to organ failure? Life. That shit is constantly breaking down. Alcohol, like any chemical introduced to the body, changes the way it breaks down. If consumed in moderation, alcohol causes vasodilation and reduces blood pressure. This increases the 'life' of the vasculature in and between those organs, and that is the element of these system that is most likely to catastrophically fail. In the brain, that's stroke. The other big one is the heart. Getting absolutely wasted reverses those benefits and even causes the opposite effect.

Also 'the thing'? I'd rather take alcohol than SSRIs, Benzos, or vaping. Hell I'd rather smoke Pall Malls than vape. Another aspect of the earlier noted tendency of Zoomers to pick memes out of the social media ether and absorb them as incontrovertible facts is their tendency to think that if something is unknown than it is automatically good. We don't know what half of these psychiatric drugs even do long term. We have no idea what vaping does, most of the chemistry involved varies and hasn't been studied. From a health perspective, more danger lurks in something new and unknown than something that people have been imbibing since antiquity. Venetian ceruse was viewed as a harmless cosmetic until the pitting and scars began to show.
 
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Mukhrani said:
Almost every time I've gotten a hangover it's because I was drinking some kind of cheap corporate product laden with pesticides or processed in some bizarre way at an event.
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The closest I ever came to death was after a single bottle of Bud Light. That shit is vile and it's absolutely not the alcohol content.
 
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Mukhrani said:
I've seen articles about how it's the alcohol itself that always causes the hangovers but it's bullshit imo. Almost every time I've gotten a hangover it's because I was drinking some kind of cheap corporate product laden with pesticides or processed in some bizarre way at an event. Eat food with alcohol, drink lots of water, and don't drink bathtub gin/box wine and hangovers aren't an issue.
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In my experience, I only get hangovers if I get up and physically move around a lot while drunk. If I'm mostly sitting, even the cheapest pure ethanol vodka can't give me a hangover.

Or maybe, growing up with wide open access to MDMA at a young age made me resistant to hangovers, since that shit leaves you depressed for weeks/months after. No clue. Either way, seriously, don't do drugs, especially not legal ones. You're gonna fry your brain to the point where you can't have fun without the stuff anymore. I'd know, lol. There's no real "safe" or "harmless" dose of the things. Pills and alc are happiness loans. You have to pay it back eventually.
 
Type93Torpedo said:
In my experience, I only get hangovers if I get up and physically move around a lot while drunk. If I'm mostly sitting, even the cheapest pure ethanol vodka can't give me a hangover.

Or maybe, growing up with wide open access to MDMA at a young age made me resistant to hangovers, since that shit leaves you depressed for weeks/months after. No clue. Either way, seriously, don't do drugs, especially not legal ones. You're gonna fry your brain to the point where you can't have fun without the stuff anymore. I'd know, lol. There's no real "safe" or "harmless" dose of the things. Pills and alc are happiness loans. You have to pay it back eventually.
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It's the opposite for me, when I was a few years younger I drank a fifth of Jaeger + unknown amount of beers while ripping small trees apart and wildly swinging a pickaxe to keep a bonfire going at an outdoor party, and when I woke up unscathed inside the still smoldering firepit the next morning I was completely refreshed rested and renewed, I felt great!
On the other hand, around that same period of a few years I got extremely sick on lakes and at indoor parties where I didn't exert myself much.

Type93Torpedo said:
Pills and alc are happiness loans. You have to pay it back eventually.
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The only time I have alcohol is for Christmas season via eggnog and rum. I know quite a few Zoomers that drink a lot and hit the club often. I also know some that completely abstain.

One thing I do notice alot of them don't have the stereotypical shot at the end of the work day like previous generations do and are less likely to drink alone.
 
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i fuckin love alcohol. everyone saying it tastes bad just hasnt had a properly mixed drink. put some sugary ass drink in that shit (less alcohol than good tasting stuff duh) and it tastes just fine (like yeah it still burns but thats just part of the fun lol) (if u can live that sober life more power to u i am weak but free) :drink:
 
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