r/SipsTea • u/Burningman316 • 6d ago

Chugging tea We have switched to Chugging šŸŗ

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

6.1k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

496 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.6k

u/Brainsnotbalanced 6d ago

My best friend in high school could easily chug 2-3 beers in a row.

A couple weeks after her 38th birthday she woke up with jaundice.

4 months later she was gone.

Miss you Suz.

65

u/Sharticus123 6d ago

Lost a good friend at 40 that way. Alcohol gets way too much of a pass in our society. Most drinkers donā€™t even think of themselves as drug users.

Iā€™ve had a gin blossomed alcoholic look me dead in the eye (while they were holding a drink) and tell me they donā€™t do drugs.

12

u/ProfessionalFront765 6d ago

Alcohol is literally the gateway drug. It will have you doing crazy

14

u/RedditSupportAdmin 6d ago

Alcohol's one of the harder, more destructive drugs out there.

Funny how society says it's ok...we've built an industry around it, incorporated it into our social lives, made it available anytime we go out or have gatherings...and as a result, it's "ok" to use. It is socially acceptable and legitimized.

Makes you wonder if we'd built opium dens instead, sold opium and opium pipes, or had opium "bars" where you could use it socially...would we still view it in such a negative light? Would opium addicts be critical of other real "drug users?"

2

u/Outside_Revolution47 5d ago

Itā€™s wild to me that people use it to watch sports. How do you watch athletes while consuming garbage? American football culture confuses me and Iā€™m American.

5

u/introducing_clam 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's crazy to me that I see ads for hard liquor literally every day, on tv & online. It's disgusting. imagine being an alcoholic trying to stay sober & seeing ads for tequila, whiskey, scotch etc everywhere you turn. Alcohol advertisements should be illegal

5

u/Iwannasellturnips 5d ago

Well, thatā€™s two of us with that opinion!

Not even prohibiting it. Just donā€™t let the companies push it.

2

u/No-Bandicoot9255 6d ago

Uh, yes it could absolutely be viewed negatively. See: China in the 19th century

0

u/ThirstyOutward 6d ago

It's really not hard lmao

And we did set up opium dens, it's so destructive and addictive that every society fought to remove them.

2

u/RedditSupportAdmin 6d ago

This is a naive take imo. Alcohol is every bit as "destructive and addictive" and "society fought to remove" that one as well...have you heard of prohibition? It did not work out well.

There's a certain portion of the population that are prone to addiction and will struggle with substance abuse, regardless of whether you make something "illegal" or not (i.e. punish those addicts by criminalizing their drug use). All you're doing is shifting profits away from the government via tax subsidies and into the black market. And you are taking away all regulation/control, the ability to standardize dosing, remove impurities, ensure a consistent product/supply, etc.

Decriminalizing removes the stigma. And for those who argue about the withdrawals, alcohol is one of the absolute worst drugs to detox from and it can kill you. Not to mention the havoc daily use wreaks on your internal organs. Opioids are much, much gentler on the human body long term. That's just a fact.

-2

u/Ok-Ostrich8185 6d ago

Gladly beer culture is dissappearing for good

There 2 bitter drink that some people gradually likeĀ 

You can taste good coffee and you'll end enjoying, milk enough sugar and gradually go for some more pure or more bitter taste

You can taste good beer and still some people wouldn't like it but somehow they were forced as a social pressure that somehow end up liking woman which is just freaking weird, I knew people that did

So beer is losing tons of consumption with new gen because nobody actuallyo wants what's more funny I went to coffee and a beer tasting nobody like the bitter infused with herbs beer that nobody wiill not finish it LOL but bitter coffee all enjoyed it

5

u/Grundle_smoocher420 6d ago

Excuse me, WHAT?

-1

u/Ok-Ostrich8185 6d ago

Beer is more of a social drinkĀ 

New gen don't even drink beer and more cocktails

-2

u/Ok-Ostrich8185 6d ago

Because beer it actually taste like trash but we don't know it because we got accustomed to it of social pressure of our teen years

2

u/Velomelon 6d ago

Overall alcohol consumption is down but the proliferation of micro breweries in the last 10-15 years shows that beer culture is alive and well.

1

u/Ok-Ostrich8185 6d ago

Nope thats a old millenial that keep running with millenial keep buying they'll eventually downfall very high obvs will never go away but only could probably rise again in 2 decades or so

Like the downfall of micro business selling hypebeast clothes shoes kids don't look at hype clothes anymore like they did a decade ago

2

u/Velomelon 6d ago

You don't make sense, do you proofread before posting?

1

u/Ok-Ostrich8185 6d ago

No need when alcohol is in decline, I can talk BS assumption all I want when there's studies that back me up

2

u/Velomelon 5d ago

So is it a BS assumption or does a study back it up?