How do you view someone who doesn't drink?

[deiseach]

The choice is deliberately either/or. I'm trying to get a sense for whether people think it's normal behaviour.

[Mudface]

I view them through the bottom of a glass usually. 

[KMD7]

Each to their own.

[Spy Bee]

Each to their own, but if they still insist on going to the pub, I don't trust them.

[Chairman Meow]

I'm not tee total, but I probably drink at most 3 or 4 times a year and even then it's a very limited amount. 

 

Whenever you tell anybody this they seem entirely baffled by it.

 

People who seem baffled by it are almost always absolutely devoid of personality and seem to think that going to the same shitty bars and clubs every week, with the same bunch of fucking idiots gives them some kind of interesting personality.

 

Also, drunk people are really, really, really fucking annoying. They are only tolerable if you are also drunk. 

[Mook]

Not arsed although if they come on nights out and take pictures/videos or generally moan about people drinking, they can fuck right off.

[Elite]

[Lario]

Pregnant.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

23 minutes ago, deiseach said:

The choice is deliberately either/or. I'm trying to get a sense for whether people think it's normal behaviour.

It's not "normal" - in the sense that it's a minority thing - but that's fine.

[Kevin D]

Religious reasons or because they're sober is fine. Anything else and I just assume they're agents of Putin.

[Bjornebye]

Absolutely their choice and fuck all to do with anyone else. I envy non-drinkers quite a bit but I doubt I could ever just quit the booze. I’ve cut back a hell of a lot after the last few years though and it feels great. 
 

 

[Strontium]

People who don't drink alcohol are fine. I don't drink much myself, don't think I've had any since Christmas.

 

People who have never drunk alcohol though? They're the oddballs.

[Total Longo]

14 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Absolutely their choice and fuck all to do with anyone else. I envy non-drinkers quite a bit but I doubt I could ever just quit the booze. I’ve cut back a hell of a lot after the last few years though and it feels great. 
 

 

Totally agree. Again. 

[YorkshireRed]

Totally their choice but I still voted ‘bit of a weirdo’ even though it’s much more my issue than theirs. If they also don’t like the unmentionable then me and them are probably going to struggle to bond.

 

The sensible answer is, of course, the first one. We don’t know what’s behind their decision not to drink. For many that can be complex and certainly not something to be taken lightly.

 

The weirdos. 

 

p.s. I was actually thinking about this earlier. I don’t even enjoy drinking or the unmentionable anymore. I still spend much of my time engaging with both though. It’s probably me that’s the weirdo. 

[Harry's Lad]

I know a couple of teetotallers, one's sound, the other a boring fucker and a bit of a nuisance. 

The same can be said of some I know who drink.

 

People are people, it doesn't matter whether they drink or not. 

 

 

 

 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

‘ it’s so eye opening being sober and watching your friends when they’re drunk’

 

Fuck off!

[Pureblood]

I don't drink, but I'd tax the fuck out of them anyway for being a little bit different.  Wait a minute. 

 

Non public poll - textbook RiS-Up. 

[Section_31]

Doesn't bother me, I'm the only one in my entire extended family who drinks, it's just never been a part of how we roll for some reason, I hardly drank until my uni days. 

[YorkshireRed]

4 minutes ago, TK-421 said:

 

I don't drink,

 

Does anyone want to change their vote?

[Total Longo]

My Mrs doesn't drink and hasn't done for 20 years. Given that when we initially met 21 years ago, she just completely changed from being lovely sober, to a jealous and unpredictable psycho when she had a few bevvies, i fully endorsed her decision to stop drinking. There is no way we would still be together if she had carried on. So i have no issue with people who don't drink, i am curious when it's people who have never even tried it once though.  

 

Also, it allowed me to get hammered and get a lift home every time we went out too. Win/win. 

[Geoff Woade]

Reformed alcoholic.

[Pureblood]

19 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Does anyone want to change their vote?

[Section_31]

10 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

My Mrs doesn't drink and hasn't done for 20 years. Given that when we initially met 21 years ago, she just completely changed from being lovely sober, to a jealous and unpredictable psycho when she had a few bevvies, i fully endorsed her decision to stop drinking. There is no way we would still be together if she had carried on. So i have no issue with people who don't drink, i am curious when it's people who have never even tried it once though.  

 

Also, it allowed me to get hammered and get a lift home every time we went out too. Win/win. 

 

I wonder how many people genuinely like booze when they start though. First time I had a pint of lager I thought it was rancid, as did most of the lads I was with, though wouldn't admit it. Takes you about ten years to drink one when you're a teenager, I knock them back like water these days. 

 

Same with whisky, first time I had neat Glenfidich I thought my eyes were going to fall out. 

 

It's no coincidence that the 'binge drinking' explosion largely coincided with the advent of booze that was more palatable to non-drinkers, like Reef and WKD. You'd see people downing about ten of the fuckers before going to a club, no way most people could do that with beer - unless they're a darts player. 

 

[littletedwest]

30 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

‘ it’s so eye opening being sober and watching your friends when they’re drunk’

 

Fuck off!

Its fucking annoying not eye opening

[YorkshireRed]

2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I wonder how many people genuinely like booze

I’ve been drinking myself into a stupor most weekends for more than thirty years. I can honestly say I’ve never liked booze all that much. It’s always been about the destination, rather than the journey. 
 

This has probably helped me in some ways though as I rarely drink at home. In my head I can’t see the point.

 

A cider in the sun or a wee dram at Christmas are the rare exceptions.