Help me find Sober People
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Drambuie, excellent liquor, highly spiced. It also comes in different varieties, like Scotch. You can get 12 year old Drambuie, 16 years old Drambuie etc. It is a very good after dinner drink.
I am also a liquors fan, I have a wide selection of liquors (all bought in duty free shops). I have cointreau, Grand Marnier (both orange flavored), Frangelico (hazel nut flavor), Crème de Menthe, Tia Maria (coffee flavor), all excellent after dinner liquors. I also had a bottle of Pernod (aniseed flavored liquor) a while ago. Also I always have the old standby, Bailey’s Irish Cream on hand.
One liquor I specially like is the Benedictine (produced by the Benedictine monks). It has the flavor of saffron and almonds. One variant of Benedictine is a liquor called B & B. It is a mixture of Benedictine and Brandy (hence the name).
And of course, who can forget the Port, the king of after dinner liquors.
Meet up with Baha'is, Muslims, Buddhists, and maybe members of other religious communities that don't drink. Try a different one every week, expand your network of contacts, and then after shopping around, go back to where you feel comfortable. Many of them will likely have non-religious friends who don't drink too. After all, birds of a feather flock together. Many vegetarians don't drink too. Just some ideas there.
I don't know if you're religious or not, but I do know how difficult it is for a non-religious person to not drink; I'd been there once; that's when we notice how much drinking is expected of us in Canadian society.
Strange that. I'd chosen to turn to a teetotaller lifestyle long before I'd adopted any Faith. The only difference is that in a religious community, it's easier to organize, whereas an irreligious teetotaller does have to look much harder to find others like himself, unless of course there are secular teetotaller organizations that I don't know about. Hmmm... something to look up now, as it's peaked my curiosity.
That's a good point. Some teetotallers are in fact alcoholics or have at least addictive personalities. Their alcoholism can in fact sometimes be the very thing that leads them towards non-drinking religions such as Islam, the Baha'i Faith, or Buddhism, etc. They're attracted to a whole organized community of non-drinkers. Those who don't find religion, unless they can find an organized community of non-drinkers of some kind, are more likley to relapse, seeing how alcohol pervades our society and culture, often expencting us to drink on special events, etc. What some casual drinkers might not realise is that for an alcoholic or those with addictive personalities, even casual drinking on occasion can trigger a relapse.
Some abstaining alcoholics, even if they haven't touched alcohol for years, would still consider themselves alcoholics owing to the fact that though they no longer have a craving, also know that casual or moderate drinking isn't an option for them. The only way you could tell them apart from regular folks is precisely in that they are also teetotallers.
Anyone get the impression if it spilled on the floor, a certain blowhard would be down there licking it up - no matter what the label said?
Machjo, how about Alcoholics Anonymous?
I remember listening to a British comic once in Britain. British people don’t drink much water. Since it doesn’t get hot there, it is not necessary to drink water either; a pint of laager does just fine.
Anyway, the comic said “Do you know that in USA they use water for drinking, and put ice in it to kill the taste?”
I thought Alcoholics Anonymous specialized in helping alcoholics specifically, not all teetotallers. So if you're a non-religious and non-alcoholic teetotaller, it could be useful to have a local secular organization for local teetotallers generally, and not alcoholics specifically.
I should add to my second-to last post that even for non-alcoholic teetotallers with no religious affiliation, that the only time I had a problem with drinking prior to adopting any Faith was when I was in the infantry. Other than that, now that I think back on it, it was generally easy enough to avoid alcohol. So I suppose a secular teetotaller organization would mainly be useful for recovering alcoholics and others who simply want to make non-drinking friends. Perhaps it could be thought of as a second step after alcoholics anonymous for alcoholics, and as a general meeting ground for other non-religious teetotallers who just want to make other non-drinking friends.
I guess it depends on the local community too. As one poster mentioned above, there are also many teetotallers on university campuses too, but I suppose such an organization might be especially useful in smaller drinking towns.
I guess it depends on the local community too. As one poster mentioned above, there are also many teetotallers on university campuses too, but I suppose such an organization might be especially useful in smaller drinking towns.
A doubt LW was talking about you. There is only one blowhard that has posted on this thread.
I had no clue wht he was referring to. Oh well, maybe I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I should add that a secular general teetotaller organization (to be distinguished from AA, which limits itself to alcoholics only) would likely be especially appreciated by non-drinking soldiers in military towns.
The PM should clear things up ;-)
I'd hate to give him the excuse to post more idle threats about litigation....
By the way, SJP: is the teetotaller lifestyle a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue in your opinion? And what's the Liberal Party's stance on it?
I guess there's some who would try to make it a political issue, if so maybe they could tell us which political persuasion prefers apple pie. :lol::lol: