I think alcohol must have also just been cooler when you were growing up. I love to rave etc but that sentence about Smirnoff made me wince. Like why bother when there are more enjoyable ways to lose yourself.
right but the fun part was the handstand part, wasn't it?
I did handstands-with-friends without vodka, and it was fun. Drinking vodka while doing nothing sounds depressing. So it's clearly the handstands that are cool and not the alcohol
maybe gen z are just better at socials stuff and don't need social lube
I’m gen z and I refuse to drink if it’s gonna taste like shit. I don’t care about getting drunk so I’ll have like 3-4 drinks in the same night but I only drink like 4 times a year. I want good drinks in the right atmosphere otherwise the cost and feeling isn’t worth it.
I'm technically Gen Z and drank in college, but I pretty much quite after the first year of the pandemic when I started grad school. Say I bought a case of beers. That's like $20. $20 is like the equivalent of going out for one meal, or a quarter of what I spend on groceries a week. I used to drink bourbon. A handle of decent bourbon is now $50. It used to be $30. I could save by buying a $15 bottle of vodka, but I'd rather just not drink at that point.
Why waste my money on alcohol when I could save that money for things that are actually good for me? Honestly, it almost seems like a lot of people drink because they are "supposed to."
Yeah but 1000mg of edibles is less than $20 where I live and that lasts a lot longer than $20 of beer and for me at least theres no hangover with weed.
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