Skin drinks alone. Yeah, hey, with nobody else. You know when Skin drinks alone he prefers to be by himself. And no. Never a condom in the ass. Once found one hanging from the corner of the bathroom mirror, though. NO explanation for that.
Sometimes I go weeks without a single drink. Other times I have 1-2 drinks a day for a whole week. And then sometimes I get smashed and and spend the next day nursing a blazing hangover. I don't fear this. I don't do horrible things when I'm drunk. I distrust those of you who fear your subconscious.
Anyone who asks his doctor's permission to drink is a faggot. A slack-jawed, tiny-handed faggot. Actually, I'm kind of like Popeye. Only instead of spinach, it is alcohol. And instead of super strength it is impaired judgment and lack of all motor skills.
1. It flat out doesn't interest me. I've been to parties and bars and the thought of even taking a sip doesn't even cross my mind. Partly this is from watching drunken bums stagger down the beer aisle and get belligerent when I refused them the sale back in my cashiering days, partly it's watching my friends get smashed (and in one case, smash a golf cart and egg their own house after futilely trying to barbeque the eggs), partly because drunks smell like shit and it's an excellent turn-off from drinking. 2. My biological grandfather was an alcoholic, and a mean one at that, so I'm told. But this is why both my dad avoided it, as there's enough evidence (without doing the research) that it's hereditary. Point in fact, though, my grandfather's alcoholism led to my grandparents divorce and my grandmother's nervous breakdown that cost her one of her eyes. He eventually sobered up and gave up the bottle for good. 3. At this point, this doesn't really play much as a factor, but I'm LDS. (So was my grandfather, but that didn't stop him at the time.) 4. A couple of my friends, when drunk and stoned, try to pressure me into trying one or both. It's a turn-off. That work?
^My brothah. Same here. Never interested me. Watching my parents and their friends act like idiots at their occasional big parties turned me right off to it.
Skin loves to watch people act like idiots. Fortunately, Skin lives in close proximity to average people, so even when they're not drunk, they're always at least faintly entertaining.
So long as you can remember how you came home that night without second-hand accounts, I say drink as much as you feel like. Personally, I can go for months without having a drink. Didn't have much money growing up and no one around me really drank (my fifty-one year old uncle has never drank, ever--and ironically, his second wife can't do a damn thing without having at least two beers in her system! ), so I never felt the urge to go guzzle alcohol at every opportunity. Hell, before I got stated in Japan, I probably had three drinks a year, and I'm considered a lightweight for not being able to get past a second drink.
The comedy bit about that, is that there is no actual science behind it. Different countries have different recommendations, none of which are actually based on that nasty irrational science stuff. The UK did do a study, many moons ago, which found people who drank between 21 and 30 units a week had the lowest mortality rate though...
Moderation is when you're in a happy enough place to dismiss minor annoyances, but not so drunk that you cannot knock a major annoyance unconscious...
Moderation means not waking up in the emergency room, and still making it to work at least half the time.
