Do you have the impression that alcohol consumption that was pretty normalized a few years back on every social occasion is getting questioned lately? What do you think about it?
My friend group doesn’t drink much because it doesn’t go well with heroin.
In my friend group (in Germany) certainly.
Maybe it’s aging as well, getting more severe hangovers and from less alcohol. But alcohol free beer has gotten so much better in the last 5-10 years, there’s ones where you legit can almost not even tell anymore. And there’s alcohol free wine and champagne as well.
I hear “Why aren’t you drinking?” way less.
More than half of my friends still smoke, though. Not a poor people thing here.
Yeah I got the same impression, Germany here as well.
And I wasn’t sure if it’s just a thing in my friends group and if it has to do with a certain age and not being able to drink because of pregnancy and having kids that normalized it. That’s why I asked.
I heard of the spooky two days hangover by some my age, but never experienced it myself. Still I lost motivation for drinking, somehow.
Back in the day it was alcohol or nothing. Not a lot of options to self-medicate.
How far back in the day are you thinking? I’m pretty sure recreational drugs have been around for a long while.
Tommy Chong went to jail in 2004 for selling bongs.
A lot of people went to prison for “recreational drugs.”
My wife and I are in our early 30s and bought our first flat in a student-y area in town. We thought given that we are still prone to the odd late night or having folks over for drinks we’d still fit in but it was a total miscalculation.
Our student neighbours are seldom up late drinking and instead they have phone alarms going off at 6AM to get them up to go to the gym on Saturday mornings when we are nursing hangovers. Mostly we sleep through it but sometimes I wake up dying of thirst with hot flushes to the sound of their alarm.
What’s wrong with kids these days??
