why do some people dislike it when they offer you beer and you say you don't drink?

[Narcolepsy]

I don't drink because I prefer to stay in control of my mind. I really don't mean that in a snobbish way, and I hope other people don't take it that way. I don't have a problem with other people drinking, though it is easy to wish that other people would see things like you.

I realize buying someone a drink is a sign of hospitality, but there should be no reason they couldn't buy you something else instead. Anyone who would be offended to buy me a coke instead of a beer is an idiot.

It's funny. I live inbetween a city and the country. All my city friends like Miller. All my country friends hate Miller and like Busch. All my city friends hate Busch.
Of course just like my dad I prefer Bud before both!!

That's hilaaaaarious. /Zoidberg

 

[kirovman]

I like beer precisely because I don't get drunk easily on that, unless it's a strong beer. Also, you must have been drinking the wrong beer, because there's a lot of beers that taste great. There's a load of different tastes, possibly more tastes than there are wines. Of course, if you only drink Budweiser or Fosters, of course beer tastes shit.

 

[VirusType2]

Why do some people dislike it when they offer you beer and you say you don't drink?

I haven't time to read what everyone else said, so someone probably said it, but the first thing that came to my mind was that you could make the person offering it to you uncomfortable. You might make them feel like a lush, a guy with a drug problem, or most likely, you might make them feel like you think you are better/superior willed than them, things like that. It shouldn't be more than a 20 second issue though, so just don't worry about it.

If you're still 16 years old and experiencing six-packs of Budweiser in the parking lot, then I can understand your distaste for it.

? Nothing beats the King of Beers. Ice cold Budwiser in a frozen beer mug hits the spot. :cheers:

If you want to drink skunky beer, I'd say you only do it for some kind of image of a green bottle, but I know better. It's whatever you get used to. .. whatever your friends drink, and you get used to it. Beer is just like cigarettes - you get used to a certain kind, and everything else is just not as good.

 

[Laivasse]

Meh, I don't see why it's more acceptable for someone to refuse a drink based on what some holy book says than it is for someone to refuse a drink because they secretly feel superior to people who drink.

I drink myself, but I can easily see why drinkers may be looked down upon by non-drinkers. Drink alcohol and your capacity for turning into a twat goes up by many 1000's%. Drink alcohol in a group and you and your friends may well turn into a many-limbed people-annoying machine, roaming around pissing on pavements and getting up to miscellaneous hilarious antics, the hilarity of which is inversely proportional to the sobriety of the person witnessing said antic (sobriety up, hilarity down).

This awareness - the awareness that drunk people are nearly as annoying as Spanish people - is why I don't often go out solely for the purpose of drinking, usually preferring instead to kick back on my own with some speckled hen. This pursuit is oft-cussed for being pathetic and loser-ish, but nay, I say it is most noble.

Also, the sheer bloody awfulness of many well known beers (Fosters, Carling, I'm looking at you) combined with the implicit machismo battling that goes on when drinking in company means that it is forgivable for some people to assume that people who drink beer do so only to get smashed. Great beer tastes great however, ignore this fact at your loss.

 

[Ludah]

? Nothing beats the King of Beers. Ice cold Budwiser in a frozen beer mug hits the spot. :cheers:

If you want to drink skunky beer, I'd say you only do it for some kind of image of a green bottle, but I know better. It's whatever you get used to. .. whatever your friends drink, and you get used to it. Beer is just like cigarettes - you get used to a certain kind, and everything else is just not as good.

You have something of a point there, but I've had my fair bit of Bud and to me it just tastes like watered-down Fosters. =\

This is the American one, at least. Never had the Czech.

 

[secret friend]

Am I self-righteously indignant? Absolutely. But do I feel superior to anyone because I don't drink. How could I? I don't even have a job!

 

[Rizzo]

Beer is good! I disslike my liver and brain. to hell with them.
I can imagine nothing beats coming home from the construction site a friday night and then hit the bars for a cold one. Beer is good.

A whole bottle of whisky, ey Ludah?

 

[Baserape>]

People used to get prescribed it

I'm not 100% sure but I think you can still get alcoholic drinks on the NHS.

:O

 

[Ludah]

A whole bottle of whisky, ey Ludah?

Maybe 95% of a bottle. Either way, no hangover.

Perhaps playing poker and smoking cigars for nearly the whole night (before some minger decided to try biting my crotch) cancelled it all out.

 

[DreadLord]

The only time I've had Fosters is at Outback steakhouse. It's really not bad. I wouldn't order it at a bar, but it's certainly not terrible. I like a lot of local flavored beers, but they're so damned expensive. I also drink a lot of Sam Adams Boston Lager and Boston Ale, good stuff.

I hate whiskey lol, it makes me feel dirty, like my insides need a shower. I love vodka, and most rums (even the real shitty cheap stuff is pretty decent). I HATE red wine.. I was at some girl's house one morning in Cambridge, had no idea where I was basically, other than the fact that she was pretty damn cute, and I remembered hanging out with her a bit the previous night. I got up and went into her apartment's kitchen and looked in the fridge, and saw a plastic container with what appeared to be maybe cranberry juice. So I poured myself a glass and found that it was RED WINE. After waking up with the worst hangover, imagine drinking red wine at about 7AM. I haven't tasted I since, I think it ruined wine for me for life.

 

[Ludah]

I drink whatever's around in the morning. For some reason I'm immune to hangovers, especially recently. So I feel like a power-house, take four shots and a few beers in the morning after, and then black out, waking up at 6 PM.

The ONLY thing that makes me feel crap the next day is red wine. That gives me horrid headaches, and frighteningly delusional thoughts through the course of the night (ie. talking to Xenu).

 

[DreadLord]

I don't get many hangovers these days either, but Absinthe has the tendency to cause them for me.

 

[AmishSlayer]

If I offer a beer and somebody doesn't want it, their loss. More for me.

I've had your experience when some people want me to smoke weed though. I just say no thanks and then they act as if I was insulting them and thinking I was better than them OR they say they want to "corrupt" me... Like that makes sense.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

I've had your experience when some people want me to smoke weed though. I just say no thanks and then they act as if I was insulting them and thinking I was better than them OR they say they want to "corrupt" me... Like that makes sense.

What the hell? That's ass backwards. Normal people would be thrilled at someone who wants to sit in on rotation and talk/chill with them but give them their passes.

 

[mirage4]

I love beer, there's nothing interesting going on in my brain so i don't care if it get's wasted

 

[Hullu]

Simple, if you don't drink it's a personal offense to everyone.

 

[Steven]

I beleive that a guy buying another guy a beer is the equivelent of a girl hugging another girl in a non-romantic way. So that's probably why you'd get odd looks.

I'm an underage drinker. D:

 

[Baserape>]

R whites, R whites lemonade..because I'm a underage drinker...R whites...

/Sorry

:bonce:

 

[bbson john]

People offering you beer come from HL1. The are scripted and alwasy buy you are beer. If you refuse to accept their peer, some internal problems may make him lag. After that, bugs appeared. So they are quite upset about that. Ha ha ha.

*silent crowd*

*back to the backstage*

 

[Azner]

People offering you beer come from HL1. The are scripted and alwasy buy you are beer. If you refuse to accept their peer, some internal problems may make him lag. After that, bugs appeared. So they are quite upset about that. Ha ha ha.

*silent crowd*

*back to the backstage*

*CHEER*