Do you know that the FBI monitors things like this?

well apparently, its part of my national identity?

click me.

i drink about 4 times a year, except summer 2009, when my slightly inebriated shenanigans were visible to all the vgc regulars. haaaaaa. am i ashamed? no.

all my friends go out at least every weekend, get competely rat-arsed regularly and are proud of themselves for it.

i dont like that. i dont like the taste of most alcohol, and i dont like being past the buzz stage. i dont like the thought of losing control so completely. i can sit with friends while they all drink, and be happy with my lemonade.

you can try to convince people that they shouldnt be doing what they're doing,but just remember its personal choice ;)  (you know what pisses me off? i worked in a bar and there is no law protecting me if i refuse to serve a pregnant lady alcohol. according to my manager, the company could be sued for discrimination. bullshit).

anyway, im suffering no ill health due to the very occasional drink i have, but when i am in the mood for it and i have a drink in the right setting, its all good.

(i never got into drinking when i was younger, not until i was 20. and there is a history of alcohol abuse in my family. but like i've said, im not exactly a big fan.)

and i HATE wine. and beer. and whisky. edit: and most spirits. and alcopops.

I'll let you know if I go in prison.

Though I hope you know I was joking right? :/

Ok I think it's time to provide sources to back up the claims of moderate alcohol use actually beneficial because at this point it's been 14 pages and no ones proven a single point to the other side other then that taste is subjective.

"In the past three decades, almost every follow-up epidemiologic study has demonstrated that individuals who drink small to moderate amounts of alcohol have a lower risk than non-drinkers of dying from coronary heart disease. Among drinkers, the categories with the lowest coronary heart disease rates vary across studies, ranging from less than one drink per day to three to five drinks per day. In most studies, individuals who state that they normally consume six or more drinks per day, or who admit to having problems with alcohol abuse, have rates of dying from heart disease higher than both non-drinkers and moderate drinkers."

http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.823/healthissue_detail.asp

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1336884/

Note these are by US standareds which are different for different countries.  If you live in france what you consider moderate drinking may be too much.

"Moderate drinkers tend to have better health and live longer than those who are either abstainers or heavy drinkers do. In addition to having fewer heart attacks and strokes, moderate consumers of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine or distilled spirits or liquor) are generally less likely to suffer hypertension or high blood pressure, peripheral artery disease, Alzheimer's disease and the common cold."

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/HealthIssues/1110565592.html

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAndHealth.html

I know I haven't caught a cold since I was  17 years old (I'm 22) and that's roughly when I started drinking.   There's more info on each link so I hope you're clicking and reading each one thoroughly.

Lies! Lies I tel you!!! Your trying to get impresionable young people to become alcoholics! I bet you work for the evil alcohol companies!!!

Don't hate on Europeans because they are unhealthy due to heavy alcohol use while americans are unhealthy because we shovel food down our faces.