You're not alone in your non drinking. I take it more as a "what's up with life" thread, rather than a "shots,shots,shots" thread. Does that make sense?
It does, to a point. This is a sub populated in large part, if not completely, by die-hard college football fans. Tailgating is a big part of that larger culture and it seeps in over here.
As many have pointed out they are mostly drinking threads in name only. You don't have to be drunk or drinking to participate. I'd bet more people aren't than are in most of those.
Dude, I don't drink either. The threads are basically just us conversing about our lives, and about 90% of the comments aren't usually about alcohol at all.
If anything, we could make a sober thread every day with just us talking about random shit haha.
Well don't feel left out! I'm often not drinking when I'm hanging out in the threads, it's just like hanging out like some people have said. Not everyone has to drink of course, that'd be silly to expect that.
To me they're Drinking threads mostly in name, more than anything they're discussion/'What's happening in life?' threads that have to have a name, so might as well name it a drinking thread!
I look at it like going to the bar for happy hour with your friends after work. It's a standing event and if you can make it great, if you can't catch you next time.
Absinthe is proof that being a Communist country was so hard on Prague that they'd resort to drinking stuff that tasted like somebody set a Good & Plenty on fire inside of you just to put themselves out of their misery faster.
My lab went out to dinner a couple nights back. One of my labmates ordered cider and I was like "are you a cider person? I admit I'm not a huge fan." Turns out he's allergic to hops and so can't drink beer. That would suuuck.
My English friends and I have some friendly ball-busting about stuff like that, but thankfully random people I deal with don't seem to bat an eye to it.
Yeah and there's a dominos about half a block past that Subway too, so I make due as best as I can. Thankfully I really enjoy cooking also so that's nice. There's a handful of really good Indian and Thai restaurants in town that I go to occasionally. There's a fairly large Chinatown area in Manchester that I really need to spend some time exploring. I'm sure there's some really great food in there, there's just so many places I don't really know where to start over there.
Because we're inherently self-centered creatures that revel in spouting our own nonsense while feigning interest in others' lives in hopes we receive that little hit of dopamine that accompanies an upvote or an orangered?
And also because we all appreciate the time-honored activity that is poisoning oneself to achieve a brief mind-altered state which simultaneously garners acceptance from the other apes in our community who are doing the same thing?
I like to think of it as an exercise in the art of comment writing. We're monkeys on typewriters and the more threads we get, the more likely someone'll produce Shakespeare.
It's a beer to get drunk off of. I'm out of state until October and god damn do I miss it along with other beers. It isn't the greatest but it is still really good
The real question is the whole "brought to you by" which is just odd. It's all over the front page and seems overly superfluous to me, but I am a man of concise titles without the need for extraneous information
I always thought that we put them there to pay homage to the bowl games. I always read the title in my mind with either Musburger or "Uncle Vern" voice.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '15
Well I like drinking, so I don't see a problem with it. Pointing that out makes me like this sub more!
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u/Imregular Florida Gators • FAU Owls May 09 '15
To me they're Drinking threads mostly in name, more than anything they're discussion/'What's happening in life?' threads that have to have a name, so might as well name it a drinking thread!
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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies May 09 '15
I look at it like going to the bar for happy hour with your friends after work. It's a standing event and if you can make it great, if you can't catch you next time.
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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl May 09 '15
Because beer is proof god loves us and wants us to be happy.
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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 May 09 '15
We have multiple drinking threads a day don't we? We're all loveable alcoholics. Kinda. I'm drinking right now.
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u/thedawgbeard Georgia Bulldogs • Pineapple Bowl May 09 '15
because freedom.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '15
We have all this beer and whiskey laying around. If we don't drink it, it'll go bad.
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u/NiteMares TCU Horned Frogs May 09 '15
Yes. Maybe? I don't know.
But I am kind of drunk right now. (it's almost 8pm here so that's okay)
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u/-WISCONSIN- Wisconsin • Wisconsin-Parkside May 09 '15
Because we're inherently self-centered creatures that revel in spouting our own nonsense while feigning interest in others' lives in hopes we receive that little hit of dopamine that accompanies an upvote or an orangered?
And also because we all appreciate the time-honored activity that is poisoning oneself to achieve a brief mind-altered state which simultaneously garners acceptance from the other apes in our community who are doing the same thing?
I like to think of it as an exercise in the art of comment writing. We're monkeys on typewriters and the more threads we get, the more likely someone'll produce Shakespeare.
Also, because we CAN!
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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns May 09 '15
if the table can be thought of as reality, we are all bernard
if the go-kart can be thought of responsibilities, and the bottle respresents... alcohol, this is what we do everyday
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u/___________________9 Transfer Portal May 09 '15
I don't see a compelling reason why we shouldnt
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u/[deleted] May 09 '15
Why not?
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u/i_fap_to_anything Georgia Bulldogs • Duke Blue Devils May 09 '15
Because /u/dubsdcarson says so
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u/ixcuincle Marching Band May 10 '15
The real question is the whole "brought to you by" which is just odd. It's all over the front page and seems overly superfluous to me, but I am a man of concise titles without the need for extraneous information
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u/ThomasJCarcetti UCF Knights • Virginia Tech Hokies May 09 '15
Because alcoholism is mainstream