A dry planet: No more alcohol

It depends on if the shots were the cause or the catalyst.

It also depends on if the dude in question can or cannot abide said 8 shots. The inebriation level of the lady must also be considered. Drunks consider each other far more charming than is usually justified.

And another reason I drink is to deal with the immense amount of bullshit one deals with in the military. Seriously now I see why military folk drink. Support the troops, oppose prohibition.

@Mark: What country's military are you in? (Just out of curiosity).

Morwen: US Army.

If the government made it illegal, I have a feeling that 95 percent of my unit would rebel. My unit is famous for two things, our ability to drink into the early AM and still be ready on time for the next duty day in a manner that is functional, and our savagery in anything that comes close to "roughhousing".

@Barkey: Are you in the US Army too? I guess that's why a lot of soldiers' songs are about drinking.

edited 8th Sep '12 6:47:17 PM by MorwenEdhelwen

That's just soldiers the world over. Heck, even Muslim ones have coffee- and other drug- equivalent ones.

Barkey is Air Force MP. Or a National Guard MP. I forget which, I've heard both.

I'm an Air National Guard MP(Security Forces), formerly active duty, but more than just a weekend warrior in terms of how often I'm activated and do stuff.

But yeah, my unit is a unit full of borderline alcoholics. I'd say about 2/3rds of my unit are married men who use their National Guard time as a way to get away from their wives and just hang out with the boys and drink from time to time.

edited 8th Sep '12 10:29:44 PM by Barkey

I don't drink,most people of my religion aren't supposed to,...so it'd do nothing for me.

I'd miss my beer at lunch and whiskey in the evenings.

Not enough to do anything drastic about it, mind you. But I'd miss it.

I like the taste mostly. Radlers and summer ales for beer, and something not too smoky for whiskey. They tend to bring out the taste of good food quite well.

Not much of a wine drinker though.

EDIT: Spelled 'drinker' as 'dnrker', which is pretty amusing as it's the sort of mistake a drunkard would make.

edited 10th Oct '12 7:14:30 PM by disruptorfe404

It would be detrimental to Catholicism and Judaism. What would happen to the Eucharist without wine?

Most of the time these days they use (unfermented) grape juice.

Growing up, my (Episcopalian) church used the real deal, which was pretty noxious for an eight-year-old. There was this one time I felt queasy and my parents made me go to church anyway (thinking I was faking it)...When it came time for communion, I ended up horking Jesus' blood right back into the cup from whence it came. There was quite a scene, not to mention some symbolism that I'm still not sure about.

edited 25th Oct '12 8:15:30 PM by drunkscriblerian

something about you being the antichrist or something like that, I suppose

I'm hoping that isn't it. Being the Antichrist sounds like an awful lot of work.

Not really. Got the job once. It was boring, so I quit. Not something to get work satisfaction out of. Way too easy.

edited 25th Oct '12 10:36:09 PM by IraTheSquire

I would be very, very surprised if the entire pitcher of communion wine these days has more alcohol than a shot of Boone's Farm.

edited 25th Oct '12 11:55:12 PM by Pykrete

Admittedly its been ten years since I last attended a Catholic Mass, but I assure at the time they were most definitely using wine. I could smell it on my pew-mates breath. (Despite being raised Catholic I never actually took first communion). The use of grape juice may be a regional variation.

edited 26th Oct '12 1:00:24 AM by KnightofLsama

As far as I can tell, we use real wine over here. Then again, it's not very common for laypeople to drink the wine, except on very solemn occasions — usually, you just eat the Host, and that's it.

And even if you are given the cup, you aren't really expected to take a big gulp or whatever. You just wet your lips, that's all.

edited 26th Oct '12 1:07:39 AM by Carciofus

They did wine at all the churches I've gone to, but they also never force anyone to drink it. I find that it's usually only the old people who take a sip, probably due to habit.

What? You get the little cheap haunted-biscuit-thing but no booze?

What a gyp!

If vodka had been available in Biblical days, rites in Christian mass would be a lot more interesting.

Drunk: I'm pretty sure that the wine they have is the real deal. Otherwise the sacrament isn't valid. At least among Catholics. No idea about the Piskeys. Has to be wheaten bread, normally unleavened, and grape wine. Not apple, or potato, grape wine.

And in the old days, the only one usually drinking the Precious Blood was the priest. Drinking the unconsecrated wine seems to have been a rite of passage for altar boys...

edited 27th Oct '12 4:52:42 PM by Cojuanco

Actually I think its rather specific about the bread being unleavened in all but the direst emergencies. The use of the leavened vs unleavened bread was one of the issues in the Great Schism that split the RCC and the Eastern Orthodox churches.