Not in this day and age, I don't think so.
It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Dec 14, 2009 11:50:48 am PST #24948 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Zenkitty - Dec 14, 2009 11:51:32 am PST #24949 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
P.-C., no, no explanation is required. "Drinking alcohol" should not be considered the default condition of a human.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2009 11:51:37 am PST #24950 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister doesn't drink now, and I think it's freakish and strange. But we grew up together, and I know her. When I meet someone new who doesn't drink it doesn't make me wonder, unless I had had plans to take advantage of them while they were inebriated.
Well, she basically doesn't drink, which means I will be trying to ply her with alcohol the whole time she's with me. I did kinda feel like a lush the last time we holidayed together at the all-inclusive place and I discovered my love of the plain daquiri.
msbelle - Dec 14, 2009 11:53:39 am PST #24951 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
To some drinkers it is though. I have (ex)friends who only socialize over drinks. It is their main activity outside of work and home and they always make a weird deal out of people 1) not drinking 2) having only one or two drinks.
Daisy Jane - Dec 14, 2009 11:54:45 am PST #24952 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
My husband is a bar manager, just about everyone I know drinks, and I still don't think it's weird not to.
Polter-Cow - Dec 14, 2009 11:55:21 am PST #24953 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"Drinking alcohol" should not be considered the default condition of a human.
That's my thinking too, even though I pretty much assume it is anyway. But usually when I tell people I don't drink, they just accept it.
my love of the plain daquiri.
Heh. I was in CVS yesterday, and I passed this teenage girl reading a shopping list or something with her mother. "'Dye-keery,'" she read. "What's that?"
Amy - Dec 14, 2009 11:56:07 am PST #24954 of 30001
Because books.
People might not drink for so many reasons, though. Health, and/or medication, just to name a few.
It strikes me as unbelievably rude that someone you don't even know would *demand* an explanation, too.
Jesse - Dec 14, 2009 11:56:50 am PST #24955 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
To some drinkers it is though. I have (ex)friends who only socialize over drinks. It is their main activity outside of work and home and they always make a weird deal out of people 1) not drinking 2) having only one or two drinks.
That's just weird. I would have to figure out what else to do with someone if they didn't want to go to a bar, but I don't care what they do while we're there!
P.M. Marc - Dec 14, 2009 11:56:51 am PST #24956 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am baffled by non-drinkers who have never been drinkers, I will admit. I have a hard time computing.
megan walker - Dec 14, 2009 11:57:34 am PST #24957 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah, I once started talking with a guy after a movie, and, when I suggested we stop for a drink, his first response was "I don't drink." Thanks to my crazy aunt, I immediately responded "Anything?" But the assumption was that I meant alcohol (when I didn't).
When I gave up drinking for Lent a number of people felt the need to comment. The rest just assumed I was pregnant.