Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass

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Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 1, 2012 @04:01AM from the fetch-the-libertarian-paternalists dept.

sciencehabit writes "Before you down that pint, check the shape of your glass—you might be drinking more beer than you realize. According to a new study of British beer drinkers, an optical illusion caused by the shape of a curved glass can dramatically increase the speed at which we swill. The researchers recruited 160 Brits, and asked them to watch a nature documentary while they drank beer from straight or curved glasses. The group drinking a full glass of lager out of curved flute glasses drank significantly faster than the other group--possibly because the curved glasses impaired their ability to pace themselves while drinking."

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I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm 27 and don't drink at all.
1. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:05 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  I'm 27 and don't drink at all.
  You are "The Most Boring Man in the World".
2. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:17 · Score: 2
  
  Oh I don't know. I am older yet and do not drink but I do remember the fun that I've had. And very little of it has resulted in throwing up, acting like an inebriated asshole or regretting the use of alcohol diminished reasoning faculties.
3. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:22 · Score: 0
  
  My precious, precious ass. Nothing bad could ever happen to you. Nothing. Not a single thing. Shhhh, baby, shhhh.
4. Re:I've never had an issue by Dripdry · 2012-09-01 04:24 · Score: 2
  
  Research suggests you are not tall and slightly curvy, then. Didn't you RTFH?
  
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5. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:28 · Score: 1
  
  I do drink (I like a good whisky or wine, beer tends to be too fizzy for me - but a few are ok), but I don't see the point of drinking so much that you end up puking your guts out holding the toilet and a terrible hangovers the next day. Or even having blackout episodes.
  
  I personally have never experienced all that bad stuff, and I don't intend to. I don't know why people repeatedly do that to themselves. Doing it once because you're ignorant is not so bad, but to do it more than once or twice seems retarded to me.
6. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:39 · Score: 0
  
  I've drank (and still do at 32) since I was 16 and haven't thrown up from it since I was 21.
7. Re:I've never had an issue by jones_supa · 2012-09-01 04:43 · Score: 1
  
  I'm 27 and don't drink at all.
  I'm also 27 and recently stopped drinking both booze and caffeine. They just make my head fuzzy these days and I thought I'd experiment with a life where I use no substances. Recommended.
8. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:43 · Score: 0
  
  I fall in with Mr I don't drink above, although I *HAVE* drank, just not socially (and not more than a glass or equivalent based on proof at a time.) Sadly in my case, the alcohol overpowers my sense of taste, ruining the flavor of the liquor, as well as anything else I'm eating. Wine and above. Beer doesn't, but if I wanted something bitter, I'd go slap down on a 6 pack of sanbitter.
9. Re:I've never had an issue by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-09-01 05:01 · Score: 1
  
  I'm 27 and don't drink at all.
  You are "The Most Boring Man in the World".
  No, he's just very dry.
  
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10. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:29 · Score: 0
  
  Dry as in "Martini Dry"?
11. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:32 · Score: 1
  
  Beer doesn't, but if I wanted something bitter, I'd go slap down on a 6 pack of sanbitter.
  Perhaps I'm off topic now, but there are many, many beers that aren't bitter. I'm not a huge bitter beer drinker, so I avoid IPAs and anything else that's high on hops. A well-done hefeweizen, brown/red ale, and some pale/blonde ales are really fantastic beverages without the overpowering bitterness. Also, avoid anything cheap. Those are almost always bitter and/or urine flavored.
  Anyhoo, I respect your decision not to drink; I just wanted to point this out in case you haven't experienced a beer that suits your tastes. Cheers!
12. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:48 · Score: 0
  
  No substances, eh? What about oxygen?
13. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 07:53 · Score: 0
  
  Why do you drink and eat at the same time?
14. Re:I've never had an issue by allcar · 2012-09-01 08:14 · Score: 0
  
  What a tedious, puritanical twat you come across as.
15. Re:I've never had an issue by Tarlus · 2012-09-01 08:31 · Score: 1
  
  Depending on what it is you're eating and drinking, food and alcoholic beverages can go very well together.
  
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16. Re:I've never had an issue by Tarlus · 2012-09-01 08:32 · Score: 1
  
  Am I the only one who finds it odd that AC's are all posting thoughtful comments, yet a signed-in Slashdot user is the one being an asshole?
  
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17. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 10:21 · Score: 0
  
  You, sir have never Lived.
  Never even have felt the extacy of your first sip of beer after a long hot hard days work.
18. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 10:32 · Score: 0
  
  How are you coping without water? ( a known and potentially deadly substance in large quantities )
  No food or other substances?
  Hows the lack of air going?
19. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 10:32 · Score: 0
  
  you know what he meant, which means he communicated perfectly fine. twat.
20. Re:I've never had an issue by zer0sig · 2012-09-01 10:45 · Score: 1
  
  Pretty sure it's dry as in "Nobody knows how dry I am".
21. Re:I've never had an issue by mcneely.mike · 2012-09-01 10:48 · Score: 0
  
  There you go, now you're not so boring after all... good man!
  
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22. Re:I've never had an issue by Pseudonym · 2012-09-01 12:20 · Score: 1
  
  I didn't drink until I was in my thirties, and I'm with you. It has several distinct advantages:
  1. You are still invited along to events. (They do need a designated driver, after all.)
  2. If you do come to drinking later in life, when you have some disposable income, you will probably never develop a taste for megaswill-in-a-can or blended whisky. Yes, this is an advantage. If it helps, recall that Starbucks is for people who like the effect that coffee has on them, but don't actually like coffee.
  3. You can spend your time having actual fun. Drunkenness doesn't make for fun, it provides a mechanism for you to kid yourself that you're having fun when you actually are not.
  4. I'm a nerd, and my brain is my best asset. Preserve at all costs.
  
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23. Re:I've never had an issue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 18:03 · Score: 0
  
  So you're one of those people who have ruined pubs by demanding food?
24. Re:I've never had an issue by Tarlus · 2012-09-04 03:37 · Score: 1
  
  Nope.
  
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Wish I'd known that last night... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:08 · Score: -1

1st post?!
Simple solution by PPH · 2012-09-01 04:08 · Score: 1

Drink through a straw.

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1. Re:Simple solution by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:13 · Score: 1
  
  Curved or straight?
2. Re:Simple solution by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:46 · Score: 0
  
  ...through your nose.
3. Re:Simple solution by slashdyke · 2012-09-01 05:31 · Score: 1
  
  I like the ones that twist, sort of like a roller coaster for your drink!
4. Re:Simple solution by DarwinSurvivor · 2012-09-01 07:15 · Score: 1
  
  The regular ones or the ones with loops?
5. Re:Simple solution by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 20:39 · Score: 0
  
  I personally prefer single loop twister straws. I've never come across a straw with multiple loops which manages too keep the delay and T-factors sane.
First! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:08 · Score: -1

Ah, that's because I had a curved glass.
I always suspected... by vikingpower · 2012-09-01 04:09 · Score: 2

...that drinking out of my gf's pumps was my problem. Now I know for sure.

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1. Re:I always suspected... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:21 · Score: -1
  
  You don't have a girlfriend.
2. Re:I always suspected... by vikingpower · 2012-09-01 04:31 · Score: 1
  
  Damn. Then who is that woman on my couch ?
  
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3. Re:I always suspected... by Merls+the+Sneaky · 2012-09-01 04:52 · Score: 1
  
  If she's sleeping on your couch I would hazard a guess and say she's not your girlfriend.
4. Re:I always suspected... by leromarinvit · 2012-09-01 05:07 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Damn. Then who is that woman on my couch ?
  Your mom. And it's her couch, not yours.
  
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5. Re:I always suspected... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:34 · Score: -1
  
  Your mother
6. Re:I always suspected... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:36 · Score: 0
  
  Who said she was sleeping?
  Ba-Bump!
7. Re:I always suspected... by jones_supa · 2012-09-01 07:46 · Score: 1
  
  At least the basement is all for him.
8. Re:I always suspected... by AK+Marc · 2012-09-01 08:31 · Score: 1
  
  Your mom?
  
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9. Re:I always suspected... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 09:36 · Score: 0
  
  Hi son.
  -Your mom,
So researchers have finally found out... by KrazyDave · 2012-09-01 04:10 · Score: 5, Insightful

...what the pub and bar industry has known for 200 years. Attaboy, researchers! Next research mission; Do those free peanuts and pretzels make you thirsty for more beer, too?

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1. Re:So researchers have finally found out... by habib23 · 2012-09-01 04:17 · Score: 1
  
  amen!
  
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2. Re:So researchers have finally found out... by jd2112 · 2012-09-01 05:02 · Score: 1
  
  Next research mission; Do those free peanuts and pretzels make you thirsty for more beer, too?
  
  Where can I volunteer for that experiment?
  
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3. Re:So researchers have finally found out... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 06:25 · Score: 0
  
  That's exactly why I only drinks shots. You do it and you know exactly how much you have had (or close to it anyway) and over what time period. Then I can relax and drink a nice tasting soda or something. Mixed drinks and beer are awful.
More serious study needed by Alain+Williams · 2012-09-01 04:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Just one small study with 160 people cannot be trusted. I feel it my duty to help out with the research, I think that this merits a lot of experimental evidence to ascertain the veracity of this important question. I shall be off to the pub to do repeated tests using different glasses - this evening, straight after the new Dr Who has aired.
1. Re:More serious study needed by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:59 · Score: 0
  
  ... and probably with only one kind of "beer" too.
And? by fridaynightsmoke · 2012-09-01 04:19 · Score: 1

Does this make any real difference whatsoever? Surely people are still capable of counting the number of glasses they drink, or is drinking one pint too quickly "binge drinking" now?

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1. Re:And? by pinkushun · 2012-09-01 04:48 · Score: 2
  
  Assuming the drinker in question limits their intake by units, this is true.
  But most people limit their intake by a time based function: let's have another while we are here!
  [units] = [time] * [consumption]
2. Re:And? by houghi · 2012-09-01 05:39 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  They will be able to count. I doubt that they will actually do so.
  What people do is go out and then go home at a certain time.
  Say that in that time you have 5 pints out of pint glasses, but because you now drink out of a straight glass, you will have only 4. That is 20% less consumption.
  No matter what company you are working for, 20% less sales is a LOT.
  Or look at it the other way around. Imagine that you are a company that sells beer in straight glasses. Going to curved ones can increase your sales by 25%.
  In Belgium Stella Artois is chaging the Stella straight glasses for curved ones. They do not change the beer. They do it purely out of marketing reasons. Make the beer classier and not compete with their other standard beer Jupiller. They estimated that the whole image change will take about 10 years. Turn it into a classier beer. And all this without changing the taste of it.
  
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How about the center of gravity? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:20 · Score: 1

Holding a fluted glass, you're more likely to drink faster off the top just to make it easier to hold w/o spilling. It's a less convenient form factor compared to a straight mug.
People try to avoid spillage as it invites accusations of tipsiness or worse.
Absolute worse glassware for over drinking by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:21 · Score: 5, Funny

The Mobius Mug and the Escher Pint are the worst causes of hangovers, but you don't see them at most bars because the profit margins suck.
1. Re:Absolute worse glassware for over drinking by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 07:14 · Score: 1
  
  http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm
2. Re:Absolute worse glassware for over drinking by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 10:27 · Score: 0
  
  The Mobius Mug and the Escher Pint are the worst causes of hangovers, but you don't see them at most bars because the profit margins suck.
  Nah, the Klein Bottle is much worse!
They obviously don't know about... by rsmith84 · 2012-09-01 04:25 · Score: 1

DAS BOOT!
The Problem lies in the brain by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:26 · Score: 0

What makes you drunk is not if you drank your single beer in 5, 10 or 15 minutes.
What makes you drunk is ordering another one. And another one. And another one. And another one.
Counting glasses is the same no matter how the thing is shaped, no?
1. Re:The Problem lies in the brain by jd2112 · 2012-09-01 05:05 · Score: 1
  
  I found that around the fifth glass or so they start to multiply making it hard to count.
  
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2. Re:The Problem lies in the brain by bickerdyke · 2012-09-01 10:41 · Score: 1
  
  but if you drink slower. you have to order less to cover the evening.
  
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Using the wrong units by another+random+user · 2012-09-01 04:27 · Score: 4, Interesting

From the article (i know, what am I doing reading that...)
"They assigned each group to drink either about 177 milliliters or about 354 milliliters of lager or soft drink from straight or curved glasses."
No they didn't! It's a British report and beer sure as hell is not measured in ml!
Still, the actual measurements used (6 fl oz and 12 fl oz) still seem to be an odd choice to me. Have to wonder why they didn't use 10 fl oz (a half) and 20 fl oz (a pint) to more accurately represent the normal quantities of beer drinking.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0043007

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1. Re:Using the wrong units by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:52 · Score: 0
  
  Still, the actual measurements used (6 fl oz and 12 fl oz) still seem to be an odd choice to me. Have to wonder why they didn't use 10 fl oz (a half) and 20 fl oz (a pint) to more accurately represent the normal quantities of beer drinking.
  Probably because the WHO had something to do with the study and actual real-life measurements would have skewed the results away from the one that they were ordered to produce.
  All joking aside if you look at the fact that glass A has half as much as glass B, why wouldn't you drink the quantity in glass A in half the time?
2. Re:Using the wrong units by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:56 · Score: 1
  
  As in any international publication, the volume must be expressed in the international system of Units (SI, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units).
  It's actually you who are still using the old, unnecessary complex and arbitrary imperial system. Sorry.
3. Re:Using the wrong units by Dr_Barnowl · 2012-09-01 05:57 · Score: 1
  
  Because a pint, or a half, would be a whole glass, and the aim is to study the ability of the drinker to estimate volume based on the glass shape. It's too easy to estimate the volume when you ask them for a volume that's a standard glass size.
4. Re:Using the wrong units by TheRaven64 · 2012-09-01 06:18 · Score: 1
  
  If so, it's a less useful result. If someone pours you a glass without you knowing the size of the glass, it's pretty hard to estimate anyway. If you buy a pint of beer, then you know that you have a pint of beer. Unless you buy it in the USA, in which case you have 83% of a pint of... something.
  
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5. Re:Using the wrong units by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 07:53 · Score: 0
  
  83% of a pint of carbonated piss.
6. Re:Using the wrong units by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 11:40 · Score: 0
  
  I dunno about the Brits, but in the USofA beer typically comes in 16 oz pint taper shaped glass, sometimes 20 oz, and thats usually a pilsner or weizen glass.
7. Re:Using the wrong units by radio4fan · 2012-09-01 21:27 · Score: 1
  
  UK (imperial) pints aren't the same size as US liquid pints: UK pint is 568mL, US pint is 473mL. In other words, a UK pint is 19.2 US fl oz.
  And an imperial fluid ounce is a 20th of an imperial pint, but a US fluid ounce is a 16th of a US pint.
  Draught beer can only be sold in pints or halves in the UK, by law.
From Observation... by Dripdry · 2012-09-01 04:29 · Score: 3, Interesting

I had a major "aha!" moment after reading this. It is absolutely true in my experience, oddly enough. I get a pint in one of those tall thin glasses and it goes down *fast*. Otheriwse I tend to be more of a sipper. I guess I just figured that might be why they serve beer in those at some of the "chain-ier" restaurants out there. They already know this information, perhaps?
The beer shoots down the into the mouth faster, I think, less feeling against the skin above the lip (what's the term for that?), so maybe you don't get that "I have to wipe my face off" feeling, and just keep drinking?
The feeling against the lips/mouth is different between glasses, and I'd be interested to get more data about the cognitive EXPERIENCE of the beer and probably other factors... I posit that this IS an ok place for me to totally geek out on thinking I'd love to conduct an experiment on this sort of thing and learn a lot more details than this research may have accounted for.

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1. Re:From Observation... by sixsixtysix · 2012-09-01 06:47 · Score: 1
  
  exactly. it has nothing to do with an "optical illusion". one pours down the gullet in a more efficient manner is all.
  
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Regular or Light? Does it matter? by Lorien_the_first_one · 2012-09-01 04:31 · Score: 1

i wonder if they tracked the type of beer as a variable.

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Count by Hatta · 2012-09-01 04:35 · Score: 1

The shape of the glass doesn't matter if you count how many drinks you have had.

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1. Re:Count by Dripdry · 2012-09-01 05:02 · Score: 1
  
  Neither does the size, if memory serves me right.
  If.
  
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Full glyph system by HomelessInLaJolla · 2012-09-01 04:35 · Score: -1

In addition...
due to historical evolutions in social cues and associations it is common for people to mistake, mischange, interrelate, and otherwise incorrectly obfuscate the associations of "bread" and "wine", ie. the desire of boredom and the desire of care and worry.
Do note the spacial relation of the bread and wine during an appropriate training participation.

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The problem with beer glasses by Stonent1 · 2012-09-01 04:42 · Score: 2

Is they stop working after about 5 minutes and someone has to replace or repair it so it starts working again.
Information request by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2012-09-01 04:42 · Score: 2

What is this "pace themselves while drinking" TFA is referring to? I have never encountered this concept before.
half yard of ale by fermion · 2012-09-01 04:42 · Score: 2

I can attest that the shape of the glass causes over drinking. When I was using my half yard, I could go though a six pack of Guinness in minutes. Switch back to a pint glass and it was a leisurely half hour per.

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Why are they looking at their glass? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:59 · Score: 1

Usually when I'm at a bar the only time I look at a glass is when it's empty. The rest of the time I'm paying attention to the people I'm with.
NYC Soda ban... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:05 · Score: 0

Somebody should have told this to NYC before they banned large sodas.
mindless eating by cthlptlk · 2012-09-01 05:10 · Score: 1

If this kind of research is interesting to you, check out http://mindlesseating.org/ ... it's not a diet book, but I definitely lost a lot of weight after I read it.
Something to be learned here by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:17 · Score: 0

Always make sure your date is using a curved glass. ;)
Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:25 · Score: 0

I don't know about this theory regarding glass shape. Fortunately I believe in science instead of a magical, invisible friend defining the rules so I can test the hypothesis myself. If you need me, I'll be running some experiments at the pub this weekend.
"Drinking too much? Blame your glass" by exentropy · 2012-09-01 05:26 · Score: 1

Yep, sounds like the attitude most people have nowadays. Nothing is ever the fault of the individual; it's always the environment that caused his actions.
Why is this cautionary? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:28 · Score: 0

I wish they served more flute shaped glasses.
Personally by QX-Mat · 2012-09-01 05:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

Personally I find beer impairs my ability to pace myself. YMMV.
Is it too late to join the study? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:34 · Score: 0

I'll drink from either shaped glass.
Curved glasses are beer goggles? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:38 · Score: 0

Did they examine whether the curved glasses make better beer goggles?
lawsuit by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:52 · Score: 0

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Personally, I'm switching to curved.
Bottle Baby by kc8hr · 2012-09-01 06:35 · Score: 1

Personally, I never use a glass; also, I prefer cans to bottles.
You can't buy beer... by SternisheFan · 2012-09-01 06:38 · Score: 1

... you can only rent it!
I don't think so.... by nerdyalien · 2012-09-01 06:42 · Score: 1

I am a regular social drinker, and I have some fair doubts about this study.
I have tried many different beers in their trademark glasses. But regardless the glass, I always stop at 4 (British) pints of regular beer (5% alcohol level) , as that's the absolute limit of liquids I can hold in my body cage.
My answer for "why some people drink too much?".. I think they are genetically able to process alcohol much faster. Also, the colder climate can make you drink slightly more. Or it could be just that, beer is so cheap*
* - I live in south east Asia, and a pint of good beer (say Guinness, Kilkenny, Hoegarden, Leffe... even Heineken) can be as steep as 12-13 US dollars!
No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Qbertino · 2012-09-01 06:42 · Score: 2

You are "The Most Boring Man in the World".
I don't drink alcohol and don't make a religion of it. I have plenty of friends who enjoy a beer or two or a bottle of whine, but none of them think im boring because I don't drink alcohol.
I also meet quite a few people - mostly men - who think what you think and have thought that since their late teens. Most of them have a beerbelly, a slow brain and can't losen up around women. Sad sight. I on the other hand get my age mistaken for early to mid 30ies (kind of a big deal when you're 42), enjoy good health and a brain that still is able to handle new stuff like high math, new languages and usefull programming performance.
I never understood the binge-drinking crowd in particular. I was the wimpy nerd, and the others were the tough guys smoking, getting drunk as a weekend pasttime and behaving like idiots or assholes or both at the same time and scoring the one or other early initial peer admiration. Now they all look as described above.
Aw, well, I'll just go on enjoying myself, my highscores with not-so-naive-anymore women and some neat dancing and social skills and the company that comes with them, all of which would actually easyly be spoiled by to much alcohol, but not at all but completely avoiding it.
But go ahead and keep calling somebody who doesn't drink alcohol 'boring' if you fancy.
My 2 cents.

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1. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 07:48 · Score: 1
  
  And yet, in the end you'll die just like the rest of us.
2. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 08:17 · Score: 1
  
  Aw, well, I'll just go on enjoying myself, my highscores with not-so-naive-anymore women and some neat dancing and social skills and the company that comes with them, all of which would actually easyly be spoiled by to much alcohol, but not at all but completely avoiding it.
  Dude, you're 42. You're supposed to be married with a 13 and 10 year old at this point...
  Maybe your social skills aren't as amazing as you think?
3. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 08:17 · Score: 1
  
  A "beerbelly" has nothing to do with beer, it's caused by other factors.
4. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by petsounds · 2012-09-01 08:22 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  You conflate a lot of things together with your abstinence from drinking. You friends with beer bellies probably drink too heavily and don't exercise or eat properly. I too look quite a bit younger than my age, I can still solve hard problems, and enjoy learning, but guess what? I drink.
  There is a nice middle area between binge drinking and being a teetotaler. It's what most people do -- have a drink now and then with friends, enjoy a good pint or glass of wine or whiskey, and enjoy themselves. I don't care whether you drink or not, and I don't think you are 'boring' for having that lifestyle, but don't try to say that drinking at all will result in horrible outcomes for your life.
5. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 08:36 · Score: 0
  
  Most of them have a beerbelly, a slow brain and can't losen up around women.
  This is why you must drink wines, fine bourbons and scotches instead of a appetite stimulant knows as beer.
6. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by dunkelfalke · 2012-09-01 09:30 · Score: 1
  
  Maybe not, but if people cannot enjoy themselves without being drunk - and exactly this is implied by quite a lot of posts here - then their outcomes are indeed horrible.
  
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7. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Jetra · 2012-09-01 09:32 · Score: 1
  
  I have a question, and if I get marked for troll I'm going to be seriously pissed because my aunt is perpetuating this myth. I do not drink whatsoever. The last thing I drank was a Sam Adam's Winter Lager, a taste of which I had at a Food Expo, but was so disgusted that I vowed to never touch alcohol again.
  
  Anyway, she says that I'm still an alcoholic even though I don't drink because most my family is a bunch of alcoholics. Is this logical or do I need to smack her upside the head?
8. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by ThePeices · 2012-09-01 10:25 · Score: 1
  
  Drinking alcohol does not need to be a binary "nothing" or "passed out in a pool of your own puke"
  Moderation is key, take the middle path. You get to enjoy a drink, but dont ever have to worry about your drinking, and what it is doing to you.
9. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by ThePeices · 2012-09-01 10:30 · Score: 1
  
  According to religionists, isnt death only the beginning?
  Were here on Earth for what, 80 odd years?
  How does 80 years on earth compare to 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 x10^800000000000000000000000000000 years in [insert heaven or hell of choice here]? ( which is not even a tiny insignificant fraction of eternity BTW )
  Once we die, the real fun begins.
  Apparently.
  So drink up...or not, it makes no difference.
  Apparently.
10. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by petsounds · 2012-09-01 11:48 · Score: 1
  
  Well yes, I'd agree with that. I think people that can only find solace/happiness in an altered state are usually using alcohol/drugs/whatever as escapism for some aspect of their life they hate. But people would often rather do that than make hard decisions in order to alter the state of their real life.
11. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 12:27 · Score: 0
  
  I would say "no". If you've never been addicted to alcohol, you are not an alcoholic, even if you have some kind of genetic (or other) predisposition for it.
12. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 20:48 · Score: 0
  
  There are two differing definitions:
  An alcoholic is someone that:
  1) is currently addicted to alcohol; i.e. still drinking or recently stopped but still struggling with withdrawel;
  2) has been as defined in point 1, even though the person has not been drinking for a long time, has no withdrawel symptoms and is functioning normal in society.
  Myself, I think the first definition is the most accurate. I'd call definition two a "former alcoholic", or somesuch. But your aunt apparently thinks anyone that looks at a bottle funny is already beyond the point of no return. Maybe your aunt is just a silly old bat?
13. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by fatphil · 2012-09-01 21:26 · Score: 1
  
  > I don't drink alcohol ...
  > ... get my age mistaken for early to mid 30ies (kind of a big deal when you're 42)
  
  Pah. I'm 42, and only 2 nights back I was placed in the mid-to-late 20s.
  
  Yet I drink like a fish (though rarely get drunk, I just drink a fair amount almost daily), so don't blame the alcohol /per se/.
  
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14. Re:No alcohol doesn't mean 'boring'. by Jetra · 2012-09-02 12:56 · Score: 1
  
  I've tried explaining this to her, but I think she's watched too much Dr. Phil to listen to reason.
Wrong terminology by mrbester · 2012-09-01 07:22 · Score: 1

In the UK, lager is not beer. Beer is never served in lager glasses.

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My personal favorite beer glass by Telecommando · 2012-09-01 08:54 · Score: 1

has always been a schooner. But it's been years since I've seen a bar that has one. (I have 3 at home; 2 glass, 1 wood.)
Second favorite container is the liter mug, followed by the half-liter.
After that I really don't care. I'll drink out of a jelly jar if that's all you've got.
But never plastic. Lord no, never plastic.

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1. Re:My personal favorite beer glass by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 09:22 · Score: 0
  
  But never plastic. Lord no, never plastic.
  I must protest; plastic is perfectly suitable for beer pong.
  At no other time should it ever be used as a vessel for the holiest of beverages, of course.
2. Re:My personal favorite beer glass by Mspangler · 2012-09-01 10:10 · Score: 1
  
  http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm
  These can make you drink to excess too.
  aka a Klein Stein
3. Re:My personal favorite beer glass by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 10:28 · Score: 0
  
  you dumb bastard. it's not a schooner, it's a sailboat
4. Re:My personal favorite beer glass by trigpoint · 2012-09-02 07:22 · Score: 1
  
  But never plastic. Lord no, never plastic.
  They are acceptable on carnival day and in the mosh pit.
Way to avoid responsibility. by Nyder · 2012-09-01 10:51 · Score: 2

If I drink too much, it's my fault. Not my glass, not the bartenders, not whom I'm with. My fault. I'm the idiot who didn't stop drinking.
Come on peeps, take responsibility for your actions. Seriously, the glasses fault that we might drink too much? What's next, it's our shoes fault when we speed?

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FTFY by Yer+Mom · 2012-09-03 02:00 · Score: 1

s/glass/users/

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