When was the first time you had alcohol?

[Rossell]

LoL you made a warning system for your pregnancy?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Rossell
LoL you made a warning system for your pregnancy?

No, it's just that with it being the first, there's significant likelihood that she could drop any time from two weeks prior to the due date.

When she starts to drop, she'll need my mental and driving abilities to be up to par. I very much doubt that she could drive herself to the hospital right now, without the trauma of impending labour.

 

[Ev0]

Can't remember when I had my true first drink, but for a long time my parents have let me have small amounts of alcohol at home once in a while (I'm 16 if anyone's wondering).

First time I consumed more than one drink was at new years this year, where I had about 4 glasses of champagne, and I got a bit tipsy. Other than that, it's just been the odd drink.

This thread makes me think about how effective my parents were with the whole alcohol issue, as opposed to other parents (lots of kids at my school drink, like everywhere else...). Instead of completely restricting me from it for years, they gradually introduced it to me, keeping me from having a curiosity to try it.

 

[lethalAE86typeR]

i had a sip when i was like ten. it was in punch. i didnt know it was spiked. i had a headache and i wanted to go home. that was it.

 

[Talentless]

Originally posted by F.Zamataki
i understand if you are looking at alcoholism, but drinking and getting a little tipsy socially is definetly an understandable past time. not that were all drunkards or anything...

I'd consider that very shameful. To each their own.

 

[Klostrophobic]

I don't think I've ever had more than a sip of alcohol.

But probably at age 9 or so.

 

[DRIFT4EVA]

Originally posted by Squid
I was young when my dad would just give me a sip, But 1st time drunk I was 13. Yup im gunna be an alcoholic.

I'm exactly the same.

I hate drinking the "Hotties" Bourban, Whiskey all that kind of drink.

 

[Max Powers]

I never tried it until the beginning of 11th grade, I was 16 then. My first time ever drinking, I got plastered. It was at our high school football game and I was drinking bacardi 151 mixed into a 1 liter bottle of coke.

I started to drink occasionally after that (about once a month) then I started to go out every weekend once summer came around. I even remember one night in the summer that we drank 3 times in the span of less than 24 hours, we started late one night, woke up the next morning, went to practice, drank after practice around noon, then went to a football game around 6 or 7 and drank then too.

It has gotten out of hand a few times. When my parents found the 15 or so bottles in my closet, I quit for about 2 months. But when I had quit I realized I was starting to do things worse than actually drinking (i.e. smoking pot, taking various pills, smoking a lot more cigarettes) So one night I just gave in and started drinking again.
Since then I haven't touched pot or pills (cigarettes are a different story )

My parents have now accepted it, under their terms of course. I am never allowed to get in a car while drunk or with anyone who has been drinking (this is, of course, common sense anyway), and I am to tell them where I am going to stay on a night that I'm drinking.

So basically now I drink about once a week. All in all, I don't see it as a very bad thing, as long as I'm not out on the road or something stupid like that. As long as I enjoy drinking in moderation, which is no more than twice or so a week.

The weirdest thing is how quickly your tolerance goes up. When I first started I can remember getting hammered off of 2 drinks. Now I can drink 6 beers and not even feel a buzz. And I'm not a big guy by any means (5'7, 125 pounds). Does anybody know if a tolerance can be lost once you get one?

 

[skip0110]

Originally posted by SublimeDood10
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Since then I haven't touched pot or pills (cigarettes are a different story )
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Does anybody know if a tolerance can be lost once you get one?

Cigarettes are a b!tch and a half to quit. Its the only thing I'm really addicted to. I'd put it right up there with opiates, in terms of addiciton.

Yeah, it takes about a month to loose you tolerance.

 

[milefile]

My grandma's basement bar. I was about six or seven. I got smashed taking a few sips from each bottle. Ever had straight vermouth? I just fell asleep and nobody ever knew.

 

[kikkoman]

Originally posted by lethalAE86typeR
i had a sip when i was like ten. it was in punch. i didnt know it was spiked. i had a headache and i wanted to go home. that was it.

You Sissy!!

 

[regulate]

15, good times!

 

[Spock]

Never, Alcohol Is For Losers

 

[XzifT]

..Like..when I was 12..Woods, good times.

 

[Lamboracer]

ok wen i was like 5 0r 6 a sip from my dads beer. Then on and off just sips from my very cool aunts hard/mixed drinks. Then my sisters drunken partens wen my parents were at the casino. But at the drunken parties never alot just alittle taste . Then 12,13 me and me friend darrryl would grab a cold one and go behind his house and drink and talk never get drunk just relaxe and bond. Hes my ebst friend im not gay. And stealing a kalua and drinkin it and then yet again with my aunt and wine coolers. Overall since i moved i can say im 15 and i ahvent had a good caual drink with me mate darryl, considering he live leauges away. I will go abck home oneday and have a cold one under them stars.

 

[gt4]

Originally posted by Talentless
My life is far from perfect, but others have it worse. And my health is fairly bad. Not drinking is a strategic and moral choice of mine.

i agree with this. im 19 and in college and i have never had anything to drink but being in college i get to see all the "benefits" of drinking. really it just reaffirms my belief that i shouldnt drink.

 

[millencolin]

first time i drank was 7yr old......sip if dads beer


but the first time i 'really' had my first drink was 15.....at my mates house....we decided to get smashed for the first time each. hella fun

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I can't remember, I m,ust of been really young.

 

[Dave A]

Originally posted by Talentless
I'd consider that very shameful. To each their own.

That I would dissagree with strongly, having a drink to relax and such is not getting drunk, neitherr is getting tipsy, because your still you, ofcourse everyone has a different alcohol tolerance so you can't say it's okay to have 3 pints or anything like that, but being drunk is very different. I used to nee a drink before I ever asked a girl out that I liked, it still helps. But I've only been drunk once and that was in high school, your young ans do daft things, I never got drunk again, but I stil do drink. Don't take this the wrong way because I'm only asking out of curiosity, why do you consider it shameful to drink, even just a little bit to get you relaxed? Is it a relegiouse thing or something you've made your own mind over?

 

[Rossell]

Just don't throw up like my mate did last night

 

[humbo]

The first time I had alcohol was one of the first things I remember in my entire life! It must have been when I was around 2-3 years old, I'm not joking, one of my dad's friends (he has badass mechanic friends) gave me a sip of carlsberg, and there's even a picture of me holding the can! That explains why I'm so lazy nowadays.

 

[Rue]

Can't really understand the 'holier than thou' people preaching the evils of drink. Of course, I can understand if it's a religious thing, as long as people accept that is a rule of their religion and maybe not others.

Obviously alchohol can have a terrible effect in excessive quantities and over prolonged periods of time, but I don't see what's wrong with drinking in moderation, just like everything else in life. A couple of beers whilst watching the football, a glass of wine with a meal and a good old one-eyed piss up down the pub now and again . What's wrong with any of that? Come on, we've been getting drunk for thousands of years. It's good for your state of mind to get drunk once in a while and let all those pent up emotions out in the open, isn't it?

So, in my modest opinion, I see absolutely nothing wrong with responsible (and on special occasions, a bit of completely irresponsible) drinking.

Oh, here's a tip for a hangover cure too. Before going to bed, blend about six carrots in a processor, eat the pulp and drink the juice. In the morning you'll feel right as rain! Well, I did when I stumbled (quite literally in the circumstances) across it one night.

 

[911_Carrera]

Venue: Canada
Status: About to leave my Gran's house to come back to the airport and fly home. (This is when I was 9)
Problem: Two drink bottles with ribena/blackcurrant juice coloured liquid in.
Outcome: Me taking a big gulp and realising it was 100% proof Antiguan Rum.

 

[Rue]

Originally posted by 911_Carrera
Venue: Canada
Status: About to leave my Gran's house to come back to the airport and fly home. (This is when I was 9)
Problem: Two drink bottles with ribena/blackcurrant juice coloured liquid in.
Outcome: Me taking a big gulp and realising it was 100% proof Antiguan Rum.

That's a trip to the A&E right there

 

[911_Carrera]

I didn't say anything to my parents because I felt guilty for some reason.

 

[HIGH ON LIFE]

Hmmmmm...... I was about 4-5 when my dad gave me a sip of his wine.
Then when I was about 9 he gave me a beer on the beach and i drank maybe a quarter of it (12oz can). Nothing more than that...

 

[2ez2KiLL]

Well, when i was 12 i drank my first beer. I hated it and I dont think ill drink another beer for my whole life. Unless its wine.

 

[Talentless]

Originally posted by live4speed
That I would dissagree with strongly, having a drink to relax and such is not getting drunk, neitherr is getting tipsy, because your still you, ofcourse everyone has a different alcohol tolerance so you can't say it's okay to have 3 pints or anything like that, but being drunk is very different. I used to nee a drink before I ever asked a girl out that I liked, it still helps. But I've only been drunk once and that was in high school, your young ans do daft things, I never got drunk again, but I stil do drink. Don't take this the wrong way because I'm only asking out of curiosity, why do you consider it shameful to drink, even just a little bit to get you relaxed? Is it a relegiouse thing or something you've made your own mind over?

I'm not super moral on drinking to relax specifically, though I don't support drinking in general, what I think is is that drinking till one is tipsy is something to be embarrased by, at least it would be for me. If you look at what I quoted, the context is obvious.

Edit: Religion is not a part of it.

 

[Talentless]

Anyways, you guys drink how you want, I have faith in you guys to drink with care, at least from now on. As for me, even if I didn't dislike the idea, I think it would be a bad choice for me. If any of you know what ocd is, those who do might understand why.

 

[Squid]

Ive never puked even when me and my friend split a whole bottle of Tequilla that we just opened, Never drinkin that **** again its gross as hell! Ill just stick to the Vodka ...Mmmm I can drink that **** strait out of the bottle