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Or grab a fucking beer and nurse it throughout the night. The anti drinking crowd in pickup is so silly because they write a narrative that you either stay stone cold sober or drop $100 and be a wasted wreck. Go to teh bar, get a water, talk to people, finish the water, get a good drink, something you'll savor, sip on that for an hour, then fuckin leave!
DJ makes a good point. It's not either you drink and get drunk. You can have a drink and water and be fine. Heck, even get a glass of water alone just to be hydrated. Drinking does not equal getting drunk. Getting drunk with women is never a good thing, but develop a taste for alcohol (unless you have alcoholism or something). Get a drink with your friends sometimes. Keep some drinks at your place for friends or if girls come over. Drink something you like, regulate how much you drink, or get a weaker version.
Exactly. It's far too easy to set up a binary system for something that exists in a dozen different degrees. Personally I say there is absolutely no issue with even getting a little buzzed. It will absolutely loosen you up if you are terrified to talk to women in bars. In that case, though, especially if you aren't used to drinking, you start by getting a bottle and hanging out with some buddies so you can figure out how much booze gets you buzzed without being sloppy.
Alcohol has existed for thousands of years and almost always has been used in the context of social settings, celebrations and ceremonies. You can either fight against it for the sole purpose of being holier-than-thou, or you can embrace it and figure out how to use it to your advantage. Hell I had a groupon like eighteen months ago that let me take a bartending class, and now I love mixing quality drinks for my friends or rando girls that come over. Those arguing otherwise either hate drinking, which is fine, or they are those zen-mode pickup dudes who think you have to have some weird holistic lifestyle for success. Gunwitch's mere existence proves that wrong lol.