Alcohol is over represented in media (Film & Television). It only took them a few years to ban cigarettes from most media and yet booze (which is worse in every way) is still actively promoted.
Hell even every actor now shills their own brand of this (literal) poison
Dude you sound like a fricking dork lol
This. Lighten up, OP.
>teenager, who is actually correct: alcohol tastes fricking terrible, what's the appeal of this, jesus
>slightly older teenagers and adults, who are actually in the wrong and have been socialized to """enjoy""" something that tastes bad: oh what a silly lad, you must have autism, your youthful palette will improve with time
>teenager: *quietly either keeps his opinion, or usually stops opening rejecting/objecting to alcohol itself since it's culturally ingrained*
I write this as an alcoholic btw. The XKCD comic was right on this one. I "acquired the taste" for beer, yes, but I never could for coffee. I remain autistic about that one. Why the frick do people drink that (other) garbage. In a perfect world people would only drink juice, tea, water, milk, that sort of thing, not Rancid Liver Destroyer and Bitter Black Shit. It's a real shame that "gaining the ability to tolerate something that tastes terrible" is socialized as "growing up", "getting tougher". The same basic psychological mistake happens with life in general, as adults learn to "just put up" with how awful life is on some level, while adolescents are rightly (and freshly) horrified by it once they seriously contemplate it.
your tastebuds develop with age, kids like bland and sweet stuff, it's not some conspiracy where billions of people secretly brainwash themselves
weirdo
It is, though. My tastebuds did evolve. I love complicated flavors in food. Coffee and hard liquor taste objectively bad. And yes, I do drink both for non-flavor purposes.
You sound like me. I'm in my 30s and can eat/drink and enjoy most things, but I can't for the life of me find any pleasure in drinking things like whisky, vodka, or coffee. I don't even like Guinness, it all just tastes like nail polish remover or pure bitterness.
Whiskey is 100% an acquired taste and even then requires spending money to get something decent. $40-60 will get you something you can actually enjoy sipping on, but even then most people will mellow it with water/ice. You’re really best off cutting your teeth on something like old fashions or whiskey sours though. Most people don’t drink vodka straight, so you’re not saying anything weird there, and a lot like whiskey the cheap stuff is terrible, even in a mixed drink.
the whiskey sour is the king of wienertails
For me it's the moscow mule and its variations
for me it's the espresso martini and the old fashioned and the pina colada
>coffee tastes bad
Ultra moronic. Explain decaf under this model
>this subjective feeling I have is objectively true for other people
anon you're not wrong for having preferences in what you eat/drink but you are nonetheless a sub-80 IQ moron
>Rancid Liver Destroyer
In moderation it actually doesn't harm your liver all that much, BUT it does make you more susceptible to stuff like Alzheimer's.
>Alcoholism is harder to beat than
Alcohol is literally the easiest drug to stop. Sure if you're an INSANE alcoholic then the withdrawals are deadly, but that's nothing a few valiums won't fix over a few days. And I think therein lies the problem. You figure "well I'll just drink today and then stop tomorrow," or "I'm on vacation, I'll just get shitfaced this one time." But of course then you just start drinking again, because every time you do that you're reactivating your neural synapses which have been rewired so your reward centers are altered. Now for some reason I have noticed that alcohol cravings are pretty much for life, but they can't hold a candle to opiate withdrawal and then the subsequent cravings, which thankfully completely go away after one has abstained for some time, which is why recovering opiate addicts won't even accept morphine at the hospital even if they're severely injured, because it just reactivates like you never stopped.
That's why I fricking hate drugs so much...even coffee, because it distorts the way your brain is supposed function; there's a reason your tired, angry, sad, etc. and when you deal with these problems using drugs you're not addressing the underlying cause, and therefore training your brain to know that there's an easier way to take care of this problem, and of course we will always choose the path of least resistance.
tl;dr: Just stop doing any drug and then just never do them again. Let your brain do its thing.
Alcohol harms every major organ in your body, including the amount of grey matter in your brain, which explains the moronation of your post
It's literally the truth.
>alcoholic brain is showing goatse 24/7
grim
You're correct but 'just stop' usually doesn't work in real life with people who have been abusing substances for years. There needs to be a real catalyst for the person to finally want to stop. People seek a reality escape in alcohol and drugs because they have problems and difficult emotions in their lives that they're trying to get away from. In their addicted minds, they are self-medicating and stopping would make it worse, and when they do try to stop and experience the horrible withdrawals their susicions are confirmed and they go back to using. Meanwhile to the observer it's obvious that the drugs is making it worse and the only way to heal is to get sober and try to deal with and fix your problems in a constructive way like everybody else does
finally i can be Rorschach. sweet.
I have acquired the taste for many alcohols, foods, and indeed coffee. It's not abnormal to develop new tastes, anon.
Your tastebuds change when you get older, moron. It's why kids never like shit like pickles or olives but when they taste them as adults they enjoy them. Also beer isn't the only alcohol. Just because you memed yourself into drinking the barley israelite doesn't mean we all have no taste. Having a sip of a good scotch or red wine would blow you away
I like the taste of coffee but I’ve never liked the taste of tea. I like a lot of different beers but hate the taste of whiskey no matter how high quality it is. It’s almost as if the XKCD guy is an autist with a self centered worldview.
normalize meth and heroin
Who fricking cares. Just sack up and and burn one without worrying if the television and film approves
I need to buy more. You guys reminded me. Thanks anons.
You're right. Alcoholism is harder to beat than cocaine addiction, and part of that is a combination of its availability coupled with favourable representation in the media. Alcohol sales need to get the same treatment gambling is starting to in Australia. Only accessible by fully identifying yourself, and you can voluntarily blacklist your own identity from access.
Why do zoomers hate killing yourself slowly?
Its almost like you want dont want to cope or something?
Kinda lame ngl tbh frfr no cap on god as your kind says
t. 27 year old alcoholic and 3 pack a week smoker blue/white collar US single male with no friends, hobbies, dating prospects or promising future
Secondhand smoke is a thing. Secondhand drunk is not
Idiot
Secondhand smoke is actually bullshit and a made up reason to pass laws regulating smoking, not an actual health concern
>drunk fathers beating their kids
>drunk drivers wiping out another family
>drunk dudes raping women
>smokers who... ????
Nah, every drug will be legalize in the near future i don't see why they would start banning alcohol and i see a lot more cigarettes and weed on movies than alcohol
shut up weedgay
hey other anons what's your favorite beer?
frick off, stoner
Bring back smoking in movies. Show people taking acid and shrooms. Normalize drug use in media.
Ngl laga is actually pretty good, though the 12 is much better than the 16.
That kind of cotch is actually about drinking less, you sip on one drink for an hour and try to savor it. If you're drunk while you drink it it's kind of a waste cuz you can't taste/smell it anymore.
Whiskey doesn't taste good. A 40% alcoholic drink can't taste good. Stop pretending.
Alcohol is a gift from God that is sometimes abused and I'm sick and tired of whiny AA homosexuals acting like children crying about a present they didn't want for Christmas.
Alcohol is very much Satan's temptation. It lures you to commit debauchery and destroys your body in the process
I unirionically think getting drunk, ever, should be a crime. Drunk driving, alcohol induced rage, unbalancedness causing accidental death, it's all just not worth it.
>but it's sooooo funny when my bros stumble around and puke everywhere
only because you are also drunk and your mind is impaired
>it can't be a crime, I wasn't in control of my actions, I was drunk!
you were sober when you decided to get drunk, so you're still responsible
>you're infringing on my freedom
most laws could be intrepreted as doing that, like seatbelt and helmet laws, or the use of other, currently illegal drugs
Sorry you or someone you know doesn't know their limits and how to control yourself buuuuuut that's just not my problem
I drank the mezcal
>alcohol destroys your body!
>look up effects of moderate alcohol consumption
>it's good for your heart health, has antioxidants, good for immune system, whole laundry list of things
Why do you people automatically jump to everybody that drinks being an alcoholic that gets black out drunk every night? Oh yeah because you're autistic and think in extremes
To be fair, cigarette companies claimed the same kind of shit
Sure, but who the frick is saying alcohol only causes positive effects or doesn't cause cancer? Frying your eggs instead of boiling them doubles your cancer risk. Who gives a shit? Getting up out of bed ups your chances.
Enough autism about alcohol if you aren't willing to be autistic about everything else that's carcinogenic. I mean people are constantly b***hing about sneed oils and corn syrup on here nowadays so I suppose it's already this way.
If you go to an AA meeting you'll see most people who talk like that about alcohol are unhinged morons with or without the sauce. And I'm glad those kinds of lunatics have that kind of support group. But most people who drink regularly aren't total frickups like they are and alcohol isn't the one thing that they need to worship hating.
>Hell even every actor now shills their own brand of this (literal) poison
they don't actually care about the alkie - they're just building up a brand in the hopes that someone will sell it out(or likely already have a buyout plan in place for creating a brand).
you think a meathead like the rock is drinking his garbage tequila all the time for eg? it's a facade to get around advertising laws on these things.
ITT: alkies convincing themselves alcohol is actually good
you're all literally moronic
go out and ride a bike or something or go hiking; stop being a fat homosexual
Go frick a goat, Muhammad.
It is good to know that we can still reliably rate the number of people with fetal alcohol syndrome or alcohol addiction by posting a few basic facts on the substance on Cinemaphile.
The ridiculous campaign against smoking was the first inkling of modern wokeslop and the soi generation.
I'm also wary of the degeneracy that comes with alcohol. However, alcohol has been a staple of human consumption for thousands of years, and got our species through the long period before the discover of bacteria in water (we literally drank low-volume alcohol in place of "pure" water because the alcohol would kill a lot of the dangerous bacteria without us even knowing that was the reason). Tobacco only for the last few hundred.
There is a traditional role of alcohol, and I believe it can still fit in somewhere outside of the degenerate weekend drunkards.
The alcohol content drank by the greeks and romans was less than 1%. Being drunk in public was always frowned upon and continued up until this very day. Greeks will look at you with disgusting if you’re visibly drunk outside of the resort containment zones
>we literally drank low-volume alcohol
>I believe it can still fit in somewhere outside of the degenerate weekend drunkards
Just posting this again because you don't seem to have read what you're replying to.
>we literally drank low-volume alcohol in place of "pure" water because the alcohol would kill a lot of the dangerous bacteria without us even knowing that was the reason
You swallowed a made-up alcohol marketing meme hook, line and sinker.
Do you also think people smoked to fend off mosquitoes?
Jesus Christ, there's conspiracy nutters even about historically accepted facts about alcohol production.
At least it is still possible to show alcohol as negative in at least some contexts.
I dare you to point out any negative portrayal of the current, rampant coffee addiction in our culture anywhere.
I dare you to post whatever poverty tier tasteless slop you eat every day. I've met enough spergs like you to know that you're doing something like spending $3 on soup to survive and think it's smart.
Oh I eat junk.
But I don't see a junk food dispenser in every place of business that employees would literally riot over if it were removed.
Responding to the question of
>has anyone made coffee in the break room yet?
with
>I don't know I don't drink coffee
somehow makes me a bizarre alien creature to many people.
>but how do you wake up in the morning
Turns out, if you don't burn yourself out with stimulants every day, waking up turns into a pretty easy task.
>But I don't see a junk food dispenser in every place of business
It's called a vending machine and it's next to the coffee machine you disingenuous autist
-I don't have one in mine
-don't try to pretend vending machines are import to people's minds as coffee machines you disingenuous homosexual
-some vending machines at places have, like, sandwiches and shit in them instead of twinkies
The system loves alcohol. The perfect npc beverage that makes you angry & work overtime.
Cigarettes lower stress and anxiety levels. Alcohol makes them worse. Its all social engineering to keep people unhealthy and stressed.
If alcohol didn't have thousands of years of culture attached to it, it would rightfully be classified as a schedule 1 drug. And pic related is based on the damage to the user of a standard dose, and not the totality of all consumption of each drug
If I was Bill Gates I would be rich
alcohol must have really nuked your brain if a point that simple flew over your head
You're moronic bro
graph doesn't say but I guarantee you this is not per capita
Put your trip on quentin so i can hide these posts
>can't show people drinking alcohol in commercials
Why is this? I really do not understand the logic.
I don't care about any of that but vaping looks fricking stupid and should get you shot if you want to immortalize it on any kind of film.