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28 commenti
Very visible in financial results of companies like Heineken, BrewDog etc.
I still drink but i cut it down a lot. Our bodies are not made to process the huge amounts of highly concentrated alcohol that were common just 2 decades ago.
People may say: “oh but they drank beer and wine all day in ye olde days!”. Yeah but the beer was often watered down (“small beer”) and wine as well.
Furthermore: only modern strains of yeast even allow us to have the beverages reach the alcohol concentrations that they do now
less purchasing power means people buy less, who would have though
It’s expensive to live in town, so now I love where I have to drive a short bit as part of my trip home.
So the booze company loses out to the parking company.
Nobody wants a drunken night recorded on social media for a lifetime.
I far prefer cannabis, for one it can’t kill you, unlike alcohol.
I stopped drinking about 20 years ago. Overall the cost, the negative health impact, the hangovers, and changing social norms put me off doing it. I’ll have the very rare cold beer at a sunny barbecue or a special occasion or something, but other than that, I don’t touch the stuff. Just does nothing for me
Makes sense. Alcohol is a depressant. We’re all already depressed
Lost most of my interest in drinking a long time ago when I started realising how much pressure other people would put on you to have a drink if you didn’t want one. My immediate response to that sort of thing is ‘well I wasn’t sure but now you’ve totally put me off.’
Went even further when I started wearing a fitness watch and could see how even one drink would affect my sleep and resting heart rate for a night. 2-3 drinks was showing results several nights later!
I’m a good drunk, so much so that when my kids saw me drunk for the first time a couple of years ago, my teenage daughter said I should become an alcoholic, as I am far more relaxed after a few drinks. Having said that, I can go years without a drink, it’s just not my thing. I grew up with an alcoholic mother, and a father that drank at least twenty pints a week, and it was common to find winos passed out on the street, no matter the weather. It’s nice to not see that as much, it’s definitely an area that society has changed for the better
My father would buy and drink 6 cans of beer a night every night no days off. His sweat would smell high pitch and rancid, his farts which were constant would smell like irritable bowels from inflammation of the gut lining. He would get drunk every night and be abusive, passive aggressive and just a mean spirited man. When I was a teen I drank as it was what we did. It was when I was 20 years old I said sod it. Never looked back, no regrets.
Not only for health reasons but on barely above minimum wage I’m too poor. I can have an edible which gives me a nice buzz for general hours and doesn’t leave me feeling out of place at the pub and that only costs about £4.50 a go when I buy a bag of gummies.
Been Cali Sober for the last few months; feel much healthier than when I was drinking.
Massive cost of living and social lives lived out online (rather than face to face) mean people are going for a drink less and less. Alcoholism is bad, but we’re losing that sense of community that people had around pubs. Obviously an argument to be had about what we socialise around in physical spaces, but it doesn’t feel like anything is replacing those pubs except vacant buildings or blocks of flats.
They aren’t avoiding it, they can’t afford it, at +£6-7 a pint do you blame them
I love alcohol but it’s too moreish – if I have a pint I’m not just having one pint. So I avoid it unless it’s a special occasion these days. Can’t be drinking the time away indoors.
Drink is definitely down, well, binge drinking in younger generations but from what I see and hear cocaine use is way up.
Culture for it just isn’t here anymore. But when I go abroad, sign me up.
2 years and 3 months no booze. Don’t miss it in the slightest.
I barely drink anymore. At 45 I have enough medical crap I don’t have to add to it.
I’ve never been a huge fan of it and I don’t like spending my own money on it.
It’s only in the summer the rare sunny summer Friday evening after work I’d maybe join my husband for a drink with work colleagues who’ve bagged a nice spot in a local bar and his work is paying a tab I will actively go for a drink. Christmas and the rare tipple at a meal out but I don’t drink wine so I usually just have some fizz or water, very rarely booze.
I don’t go out in the evenings that often and I probably don’t like hangovers at my age. I spend my money on daft things for myself I really shouldn’t spend on but they make me happy so sod it.
I’ve cut it down in favour of weed. Weed is so mix better and more relaxing! And no hangover. Cheaper too.
Welp guess I’m the only one in the thread who enjoys drinking.
But I stopped this month after Xmas and yeah it’s been fine.
I think too many commentators are focused on the cost of booze. If a pint costs £6 or £7 does it really make a difference? If you drink 10 pints a month that’s exactly a tenner difference.
I think society has moved on. No one wants to be a piss head getting fucked up all the time. Lots of people care about heath and fitness.carw about travelling. You can get dates online now… Just a million reasons not to be in your local dive bar.
I don’t want all the extra calories. I eat badly enough to not want to drink an extra meal or two.
I absolutely love a drink. Of all varieties.
But since a dry January effort this month I am no longer constantly tired, dehydrated and the lack of a cloudy mind is helping at work.
My wallet is also significantly better off.
I’ll be drinking occasionally going onwards. But I’m not going back to 3-4 nights a week drinking.
I am not amongst that number. While I enjoy non-alcoholic beers etc., I usually have a couple of beers Friday and Saturday nights; and a good session out at an event once a month. I don’t buy cases but individual beers that catch my eye (which makes it an expensive hobby!). I enter my beer ratings on Untapped, go to beer festivals and local breweries. I enjoy talking to the folk behind the bar of micro pubs about what new kegs they have got in.
Genuinely cannot see myself giving up craft beer unless I fall on hard economic times – but there’s always end-of-the-line selections at Home Bargains!
Good for them. Alcohol isn’t necessary for a good life. A glass or two at a special occasion is just fine.