I'm not quite so bad on the listmaking, though I've got a couple of excel sheets I use when I'm playing Animal Crossing.
On the drinking front I'm right with you. Don't like the taste of most alcoholic drinks, (I tried a sip or two of sambucca at a swancon party once and quite liked the taste, but aniseed balls are cheaper, ditto malibu and bounty bars.)
Usually unless it's heavily disguised I think I can actually taste the alcohol. Which my tastebuds identify as yuck.
I don't think there's so much of a push on us females to drink as you get with the blokey stuff, and usually if someone asks if I want a drink then an LLB is taken as an acceptable answer (I know technically there is alcohol in it but the amount is so tiny and so overshadowed by the bitter that I can't taste it.)
If I win any alcohol at quiz things or whatever it usually goes to my parents who do drink in moderation normally, or if they are going to push the limit a bit usually call me in advance to arrange for me to give them a lift home from the party, because after all who paid for my driving lessons ;). People who bring alcohol when visiting get thanked, and the wine put in storage for if/when I do have visitors who do drink. Or possibly cooking (another indication that it's the taste of alcohol itself that's the problem, if the alcohol is cooked out I have no problem with the stuff in cooked food)
I'm also disinclined to lose control. Fun's all very well, but I really doubt that losing inibitions through alcohol or whatever brings out the real 'me'. Besides, I don't seem to need it, sleep deprivation at cons produces perfectly natural punchy/giddy states. Possibly. Given a non-awful tasting drink, and in company I fully trusted, and if I was curious enough to find out what kind of drunk I'd make I might. But it's unlikely.
So given all that I don't see the point of cultivating a taste for something that would dent my bank balance, kill off my brain cells and probably leave me embarrassed over what I said or did.
And noone should try and bully people into doing things which they don't like. As in other contexts, 'No means No'.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-09-15 06:30 am (UTC)On the drinking front I'm right with you. Don't like the taste of most alcoholic drinks, (I tried a sip or two of sambucca at a swancon party once and quite liked the taste, but aniseed balls are cheaper, ditto malibu and bounty bars.)
Usually unless it's heavily disguised I think I can actually taste the alcohol. Which my tastebuds identify as yuck.
I don't think there's so much of a push on us females to drink as you get with the blokey stuff, and usually if someone asks if I want a drink then an LLB is taken as an acceptable answer (I know technically there is alcohol in it but the amount is so tiny and so overshadowed by the bitter that I can't taste it.)
If I win any alcohol at quiz things or whatever it usually goes to my parents who do drink in moderation normally, or if they are going to push the limit a bit usually call me in advance to arrange for me to give them a lift home from the party, because after all who paid for my driving lessons ;). People who bring alcohol when visiting get thanked, and the wine put in storage for if/when I do have visitors who do drink. Or possibly cooking (another indication that it's the taste of alcohol itself that's the problem, if the alcohol is cooked out I have no problem with the stuff in cooked food)
I'm also disinclined to lose control. Fun's all very well, but I really doubt that losing inibitions through alcohol or whatever brings out the real 'me'. Besides, I don't seem to need it, sleep deprivation at cons produces perfectly natural punchy/giddy states. Possibly. Given a non-awful tasting drink, and in company I fully trusted, and if I was curious enough to find out what kind of drunk I'd make I might. But it's unlikely.
So given all that I don't see the point of cultivating a taste for something that would dent my bank balance, kill off my brain cells and probably leave me embarrassed over what I said or did.
And noone should try and bully people into doing things which they don't like. As in other contexts, 'No means No'.