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Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Baptist ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:19PM

Serious question. Alcohol is complete and utter poison, yet people put that into their bodies. People don't need to drink to have a good time. The only kind of wine I drink has the word "cheer" in font of it !

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:25PM

Yeah... carbonated, caffeinated, hummingbird food is SO much better for you...

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Lurker. ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:25PM

Why do people eat ice cream? It's poison too.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2010 05:26PM by Lurker..

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Cara ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:26PM

Why are Baptists on the internet?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: no ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:28PM

they want to escape from life's problems

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Cara ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:29PM

I think that Baptists are the problem.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Paul. ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:29PM

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:29PM

I agree, but for a completely different reason. Alcohol tastes like gasoline to me...I find it so objectionable that I really don't understand how people can drink, let alone enjoy it. It tastes AWFUL! Why drink when you can have an ice cold Pepsi? Look at that son-of-a-bitch...delicious.
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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Lucy ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:31PM

I drink water to stay hydrated, I drink alcohol to get drunk. I've been known to do the latter in Baptist church parking lots, pondering the question, why do people go to Baptist churches?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Miserable Publicist ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:31PM

I just don't understand how you could possibly be a virgin

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Drinkin' Pesi ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:31PM

Drinking a Pepsi as we speak. Yummy. I think it would be better with alcohol though.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Cara ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:33PM

Baptists are all loony anyway.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:36PM

I was just reading about this.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18400_6-human-character-flaws-that-saved-species.html

First of all, scientists suspect that humans have been boozehounds since our very earliest days when we looked like something you'd hire an exterminator to chase out of your attic. Our bodies are actually designed for alcohol consumption, with portions of our livers specifically designated for metabolizing alcohol.

So human beings have been getting tanked for ages. But that just means that somehow we survived despite our drunkenness (and the fact that it helped ugly cavemen hook up), right?

Actually, some researchers think it goes way beyond that. Human beings only truly started to thrive once we developed agriculture, as it allowed us to settle down and start multiplying like catholic bunnies. And while a guy out on his own could maybe grow enough grain to feed himself and his family, to grow enough grain so that you have excess to brew beer with, well, that takes a lot of people working together. That takes a village.

This is why when you look back at Sumer, aka the very first actual civilization in human history, you find they used half of their grain for beer. Beer was what put asses in the seats, the one big draw of city life. It was something you just couldn't get as a roaming solitary nomad. For ancient man, beer was nothing short of a wonderful promise of what civilized human life could be, distilled into liquid form.


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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:38PM

Baptist Wrote:
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> Serious question. Alcohol is complete and utter
> poison, yet people put that into their bodies.
> People don't need to drink to have a good time.
> The only kind of wine I drink has the word "cheer"
> in font of it !


MEADE

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:41PM

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> I agree, but for a completely different reason.
> Alcohol tastes like gasoline to me...I find it so
> objectionable that I really don't understand how
> people can drink, let alone enjoy it. It tastes
> AWFUL! Why drink when you can have an ice cold
> Pepsi? Look at that son-of-a-bitch...delicious.



I think soft drinks are probably worse for your health than moderate drinking. Especially the ones with aspartame in them.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:42PM

Harry Tuttle Wrote:
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> Yeah... carbonated, caffeinated, hummingbird food
> is SO much better for you...


Red Bull...it gives you wings.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:44PM

Beer and alcohol was safer to drink than water. Thats why Ancient man drank it. Cuz Water was unsafe to drink in cities you'd get dysentary and DIE. Water also carried other diseases rapidly. BEER was safe. Oh and Baptist. Why did Jesus turn WATER into WINE? eh!? EH!?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ferfux is a Canadian eh!? EH!? ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:46PM

ferfux Wrote:
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> Beer and alcohol was safer to drink than water.
> Thats why Ancient man drank it. Cuz Water was
> unsafe to drink in cities you'd get dysentary and
> DIE. Water also carried other diseases rapidly.
> BEER was safe. Oh and Baptist. Why did Jesus turn
> WATER into WINE? eh!? EH!?




ferfux is a Canadian. eh!? EH!?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:47PM

It still is when you're in Mexico. Just make sure you don't drink any beer from the tap...

ferfux Wrote:
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> Beer and alcohol was safer to drink than water.
> Thats why Ancient man drank it. Cuz Water was
> unsafe to drink in cities you'd get dysentary and
> DIE. Water also carried other diseases rapidly.
> BEER was safe. Oh and Baptist. Why did Jesus turn
> WATER into WINE? eh!? EH!?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:49PM

eesh Wrote:
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> I think soft drinks are probably worse for your
> health than moderate drinking. Especially the ones
> with aspartame in them.

I'm sure that's true. My aversion to alcohol has nothing to do with health concerns...I just happen to have a super-duper over-developed nervous system--I'm ultra sensitive to objectionable odors, tastes, sounds, whatever. Basically, I'm Daredevil.
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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Anthropologist ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:49PM

IT TAKES A VILLAGE.size>

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:49PM

why cant I drink beer from the tap?

Reminds me of that scene in Desperado where the girls are leaving the Bar and she says, "Your beer tastes like PISS!"

and cheech marin says, "THATS CUZ WE PEEES IN EEET! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2010 05:52PM by ferfux.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:52PM

Feel free to do so in America. I would advise against it if you are in Mexico...

You can never be sure what you're actually getting...

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> why cant I drink beer from the tap?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:53PM

EXACTLY!

ferfux Wrote:
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> Reminds me of that scene in Desperado where the
> girls are leaving the Bar and she says, "Your beer
> tastes like PISS!"
>
> and cheech marin says, "THATS CUZ WE PEEES IN
> EEET! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Harries tuttle ()
Date: February 15, 2010 05:57PM

Actually the same thing was in the news about the food inspections in local area restaurants. They found fecal matter bacteria in the soda fountains in several Fairfax County fast food restaurants. also i used to work for a chain coffee shop and i know that many of those places are not very sanitary. But hey safe is a state of mind anyway. Baptists are judgemental.

Just like the Westboro Baptist Church

www.godhatesfags.com

i firmly believe that God hate Baptists.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:05PM

Anonymous Harry Tuttle post...

Harries tuttle Wrote:
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> Actually the same thing was in the news about the
> food inspections in local area restaurants. They
> found fecal matter bacteria in the soda fountains
> in several Fairfax County fast food restaurants.
> also i used to work for a chain coffee shop and i
> know that many of those places are not very
> sanitary. But hey safe is a state of mind anyway.
> Baptists are judgemental.
>
> Just like the Westboro Baptist Church
>
> www.godhatesfags.com
>
> i firmly believe that God hate Baptists.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Not so Anonymous Harry Tuttle Post ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:08PM

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: eat foie gras ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:09PM

Not so Anonymous Harry Tuttle Post Wrote:
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STFU Harry Tuttle!

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:10PM

proverbs 6:19 "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:12PM

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Cara ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:18PM

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:20PM

megan phelps needs to drink, heavily, and wear a turbin and some boy shorts.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2010 06:28PM by ferfux.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:21PM

i drink to get drunk and have fun



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2010 06:25PM by ferfux.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Another Anonymous Tuttle Topic ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:23PM

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Oppa ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:30PM

Sweet tea with sugar = poison

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:32PM

I drank beer from Megan Phelps' navel and she liked it.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:34PM


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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:38PM

Baptist Wrote:
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> Serious question. Alcohol is complete and utter
> poison, yet people put that into their bodies.
> People don't need to drink to have a good time.
> The only kind of wine I drink has the word "cheer"
> in font of it !


We drink becasue we are married.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Dane Bramage ()
Date: February 15, 2010 06:39PM

Baptist Wrote:
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> Serious question. Alcohol is complete and utter
> poison, yet people put that into their bodies.
> People don't need to drink to have a good time.
> The only kind of wine I drink has the word "cheer"
> in font of it !

Because pot is illegal.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Blutarsky ()
Date: February 15, 2010 07:24PM

Baptist Wrote:
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> Serious question. Alcohol is complete and utter
> poison, yet people put that into their bodies.
> People don't need to drink to have a good time.
> The only kind of wine I drink has the word "cheer"
> in font of it !


My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: February 15, 2010 08:43PM

eesh Wrote:
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> Baptist Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Serious question. Alcohol is complete and utter
> > poison, yet people put that into their bodies.
> > People don't need to drink to have a good time.
> > The only kind of wine I drink has the word
> "cheer"
> > in font of it !
>
>
> MEADE

Definetely Meade

And to answer your question Meade, drinking alcohol, unlike yoiur music, makes us feel good.



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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: graymoose1 ()
Date: February 15, 2010 09:11PM

Why do people smoke?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Shadow ()
Date: February 15, 2010 09:51PM

Way back alcohol was the only safe thing to drink. Water was not clean. Now, however, there's evidence that wine and beer are actually good for you, in moderation. But then, almost everything is good for you, in moderation, and when consumed in excess, not good for you.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Gonads & Strife ()
Date: February 15, 2010 10:22PM

Why do people drink?
Why do people smoke?

People...Hank Williams Jr. has already answered these questions for us.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Date: February 15, 2010 10:25PM

Why don't you ask Jesus why he drank? And also encouraged drinking by turning water into wine.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: DAAK ()
Date: February 15, 2010 10:34PM

This has become way more complicated than it needs to be. People drink because it's spectacular.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Crown ()
Date: February 15, 2010 10:54PM

I drink because my wife sucks, my kids are brats and I hate my job

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Gonads & Strife ()
Date: February 15, 2010 10:56PM

Crown Wrote:
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> I drink because my wife sucks, my kids are brats
> and I hate my job


this could easily cross over to the "you know you're in northern virginia if..." thread

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Numbers ()
Date: February 15, 2010 11:33PM

Why are there Baptists?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: February 16, 2010 02:14AM

I drink because I'm half-Irish biatch!

Nah, honestly, I don't drink very much, or very often. When I do though, I enjoy it, but I never go past keeping a buzz (I've seen my friends puking their guts out and going KO, but I don't like that garbage myself). I first really drank in the Bahamas, so I got used to undiluted liquor. Some people who I know who only ever drank beer, they try rum for the first time, and they drink it like water, then they pay for it.

Also, it depends upon the type of alcohol, because certain wines for instance are known to have health benefits when ingested in moderation.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Dane Bramage ()
Date: February 16, 2010 05:33AM

ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> Also, it depends upon the type of alcohol, because
> certain wines for instance are known to have
> health benefits when ingested in moderation.

And cause brain damage if moderation is exceeded.

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: § ()
Date: February 16, 2010 02:58PM

I think people drink because they are bored. The more bored you get with life, the more you drink. That's why you need to elevate the risk factor every once in a while and, say, rob a bank or two in your lifetime. Or, you could take it up a notch and do something really insane, like watch a 4-hour documentary on polar bears.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Date: February 16, 2010 03:16PM

I drink because it's cheaper than the legal fees associated with beating people to death.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: § ()
Date: February 16, 2010 03:40PM

I'm glad I'm a happy drunk. I never get sloppy, but definitely more social.

I could never understand those people who drink and get angry. Whatever is going on in their heads, they will often go out of their way to incite riots or start fights with people 3x their size. Funny to watch though.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Date: February 16, 2010 03:41PM

§ Wrote:
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> I'm glad I'm a happy drunk. I never get sloppy,
> but definitely more social.
>
> I could never understand those people who drink
> and get angry. Whatever is going on in their
> heads, they will often go out of their way to
> incite riots or start fights with people 3x their
> size. Funny to watch though.


I'm a happy drunk, too. I get happy. Then I get somber. Then I sleep...once the room stops spinning.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Regis-turd Voter ()
Date: February 16, 2010 05:54PM

I drink to empty the bottle. My anus loves that.

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Tim45 ()
Date: February 16, 2010 06:07PM

"Oh what the hell? You gotta die of
something."

Sean Connery in the Untouchables.
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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: angry whitie ()
Date: July 16, 2010 05:53PM

At what point was the Cara/Conie transformation?

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: Dude ()
Date: July 16, 2010 08:31PM

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Re: Why do people drink ?
Posted by: She DeviI ()
Date: July 16, 2010 08:46PM

who cares

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