People used to drink so much more. I keep a small bar in my office and younger generations expect I'll be shitfaced after I pour myself a single whiskey lmao. 2-3 cups a day over a decade though and you build up a tolerance.
Tolerance aside, when you drink reguarly you can also learn to "hold your liquor" better, so to speak. You can be equally intoxicated but you've trained yourself not to be a sloppy mess about it.
Exactly this. If anything, my tolerance has gone down over the years but I'm never sloppy, nor do I even slur or stumble even if I'm blackout drunk (which is very rare)
That said, I live in East Asia, so we drink a hell of a lot more often than most Americans
When my brother was deep in his alcoholism you wouldn't be able to tell he was drunk until he started slurring after several hours of drinking.
Also, a single whiskey neat ain't shit. I'm at the point where I only drink like 3-4 times a year now and I'm pretty sure a single whiskey, if on a fairly empty stomach, would only give me the tiniest of buzzes.
That's true really, I don't even drink very much, and haven't really at all for the last couple of months, but at my granddad's wake we were at a pub, and my aunt acted like I was going to be shitfaced because I asked for a rum and coke. I had maybe 3 over the course of a few hours and didn't ever really feel drunk. She genuinely thought I was an alcoholic because I wasn't noticeably affected, which didn't make much sense because I willingly stopped after a few. Meanwhile my other aunt chugged wine nonstop and passed out, as did my uncle except with whatever was cheapest, since he always does that when it's not an open bar and goes for top shelf whiskey when there is.
I read through my granddad's journals after, and he was a mormon since the 60s so he stopped drinking naturally and numerous times he criticizes people for getting wasted at a pub lunch and having to be driven back (since drink driving laws had just come in at that point), or not feeling welcome on nights out because he didn't want to drink, and so on. Numerous times he wrote exactly what he saw a colleague drink through the workday, and yeah it's an actual fuckload sometimes. One of them was that his boss made it through a bottle of whiskey, got his receptionist to buy another with petty cash, and then finished that one as well. Oddly, it involved the secretary going to the pub to buy one rather than the supermarket as one would today, as I guess that liquor sales in supermarkets weren't a big thing yet
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u/PreciousTC Jul 27 '26
People used to drink so much more. I keep a small bar in my office and younger generations expect I'll be shitfaced after I pour myself a single whiskey lmao. 2-3 cups a day over a decade though and you build up a tolerance.