Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 day agoMy dad’s friends often claim that’s what destroys restaurants. You can’t even go and get hammered and drive home.
Yeah, not drinking would be pure insanity, i could never. Imagine spending time with friends sober.
It is kinda crazy how different the times were. In the same documentary, they also touched on immigrants and how they also like to hang out in bars. One guy casually said something like: well i some people don’t hate these Spaniards, and some people just want them dead.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just got off the phone with my kid at college and he was complaining that part of a group of his friends never hang out sober. It still happens.
He doesn’t drink so that’s a part of his social life he still needs to figure out, but he’s been taking exploration hikes instead: 18 miles today!
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 day ago
Not drinking is not easy, especially that age. I stpped drinking when i was almost 30. I thought that’s just a thing that you’re not doing, no big deal. A lot of people find it VERY weird. You wouldn’t believe the conversations i had especially with drunk people. “You don’t drink? Like never?” “Never ever?” “But how?”
I had to literally explain to people what i do instead of drinking and how to order a water in a bar. Ot that a glass of wine is also alcoholic, that i know i can drink a beer and still drive, that one glass is okay, that i don’t care how “good” it is, that i don’t drink even if you don’t even taste the alcohol. It never ends. And just like religion, you can’t just say because it’s dumb and you’re kinda proof of it right now.