• GhostFace@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    There’s nothing entirely wrong with this. I cannot function in some social settings without a little bit of liquor. Just half a can of white claw is enough to open me up somewhat.

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      I mean it’s meant to be funny, but in reality ½ a can of white claw and doing shots for 5 minutes are two very different things. Alcohol in volume is not a good anxiety remedy. Get help if you need to get drunk for social settings to be tolerable because becoming an alcoholic will make your life much, much worse.

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      6 hours ago

      She didn’t drive, she’s sitting in a parked car. But sure, America is bad because of a random story that is probably made up. Where do you live that’s perfect, I’d love to move there.

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      8 hours ago

      Yup, people in, say, Eastern Europe or South Africa never drink and drive. Hell, even Canada has higher mortality rate than the U.S. for drunk driving.

      I get that it’s fashionable to shit on America (and like 99% of time it’s justified), and I will not go as far as to say there is no drunk driving problem here (cause of course there is), but it’s not an “American attitude”

      Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/08/11/the-worst-countries-in-the-world-for-drunk-driving-infographic/

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, seems pretty clear that the drinking was done in a parked car after getting to the place they were supposed to meet. So not really.

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          8 hours ago

          Sure, or any of all other ways without driving themselves. If you cant think of any you need to get outside more.

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            8 hours ago

            Explain how they are supposed to take their car home without driving it. Because if they leave it there it would probably get towed

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              7 hours ago

              That very much depends on the neighborhood!

              • suburbs: anecdotally I’ve been fine, they don’t care as long as you come back in the morning
              • city: take the bus to the bar
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      9 hours ago

      30 years ago it was more of a “no harm, no foul” attitude. People would regularly drive around while actively drinking and mostly were not bothered.

      Then organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving did a lot of lobbying and got politicians to make more laws and police to actively enforce them.

      Now the blood alcohol limits before you can be arrested for DUI are fairly low.

  • ZMoney@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The polite thing to do in this instance is to get on her level by pounding your own set of shots.

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      15 hours ago

      Yup, dating didn’t make her drink. Also I wouldn’t want to date someone who can’t function without alcohol.

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        5 hours ago

        Theres a difference between “i need to drink before socializing” and “i may not have dated in a while and a buzz would help calm the nerves”. theres plausoble explanation for this.

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      5 hours ago

      Getting a date is a lot harder for a guy.

      Meeting up with unknown dudes met on the Internet is a lot riskier for a woman.

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        Getting a date is a lot harder for a guy.

        As a non-fit-bro-adonis I have to out shittons of effort into my profile to make it stand out. It’s pretty grating when 70% of the women in scrolling through have the same generic-ass answers while also saying “I’m not like other women”

        • Thinks liking the Office is a personality trait

        • “Go on Adventures”

        • “Fluent in sarcasm”

        • States what their love language is

        • What I order for the table: “Chips and queso!” Or “Margs and queso!”

        • Simple pleasures: “clean sheets and coffee”

  • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    My only proper post-bar one night stand, we got to my place, and the girl pulled out of her purse the largest bottle of vodka seemingly imaginable. It was like some disturbing Mary Poppins shit and really was an appropriate harbinger of everything that followed.

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    Having a drink to calm the nerves is one thing, but spending several minutes taking shots of vodka before a date sounds like straight-up alcoholic behavior. Unless OP is greatly exaggerating, either she has a massive tolerance, or she would end up a drunken mess in front of her date, which would probably be much worse than a case of the nerves.

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    22 hours ago

    I basically did this once.

    Except it wasn’t alcohol, it was molly.

    The date was going poorly, because we were on different levels.

    She said I was being egotistical, I apologised and told her I was ballin.

    This was hilarious apparently, the date went smooth afterwards.

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    1 day ago

    I, too, always keep an open bottle of vodka in my car, accessible from the driver’s seat. It’s just common sense.

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    1 day ago

    Sort of reminds me of the time my friend fixed me up with a friend of his partner.

    OK its not the same but we met up at a nice chinese restaurant in amsterdam and I immediately found my date very hot. We had chemistry right away! When the server came to take the drink order my date lean in close and whisper to my ear “only get a mixer” as she pressed two small bottles into my hand and then winked at me.

    Turned out she is a flight attendant for klm and her purse was full of them!

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    Pre gaming it is a must in today’s economy anyway. Sounds like she had a good idea but rolled a nat 1 in the execution.

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      Where are young people supposed to even meet each other anymore? JFC the only place they’re allowed to be overtly sexual is the bar, where it’s expensive now. Dating websites suck now and if you approach anyone anywhere else, you’re a creep?

      God damn no wonder we have a dwindling population. The only safe options are rich and asexual.

      /yells at cloud

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Women in movies: “Going to do a full blown date prep montage, complete with song and dance number, where I transform from mousy librarian to runway model over the course of 15 minutes. Come out cool as a cucumber and charming as a prince.”

    Women in real life: “Going to throw on a top and some jeans, half watch a Netflix special about serial killers while I curl my hair, then down a mug of hard liquor to build up the courage to look a guy I’ve got a crush on straight in the eyes. Try to make it through dinner without mumbling, burping, or mentioning that I’m on my period.”

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    Probably my closest real life example to this was I had a breakfast date, but I ended up getting pretty drunk at a party the night before and showed up still drunk :(

    I felt like an ass.

    We went on a few more dates but then she suddenly stopped texting me. She messaged me like 2 months later and said there was a death in her family and she was sorry, but we didn’t set up any dates after that.

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    22 hours ago

    So she loosened up on her own dime, and all I have to do now is convince a drunk girl I’m sexy? Sounds like I hit the lottery.