If alcohol was discovered today, it would be considered as harmful a substance as opium and it would be banned. But humans have been consuming it for thousands of years, so it’s been normalized and grandfathered into society.
We’ve been doing opium for thousands of years and still deem it harmful enough to ban. Hell, it’s bad enough that it has actually been used as a weapon in the past to destabilize nations.
Beer is arguably the foundation of human society. Grain (and the harvesting of it) is a building block of civilization, and beer is inextricably linked to that.
I’ve been told that enjoying cocaine with your coworkers is ok, if you’re in finance.
Duh. Everyone knows you’re supposed to lie down for a little opium. Talk about a faux pas.
I think you can take “coworkers” out of this shower thought. Beer = okay. Opium = not okay.
There’s a certain inherent nastiness to alcohol. A definite taint that shouts “I am poison” or “this stuff is good for cleaning engine parts”.
Opium, not so much. More of a warm floral hug.
So this is just about you really liking opium rather than anything to do with work colleagues
I’m pointing out an incongruity between popular opinion and objective fact.
Uhm, yeah?
With respect, it totally depends on the type of work, right?
Ya maybe. But the ubiquity of alcohol suggests that the specific substance bears too.
You should have seen some of the work cocaine parties I’ve seen. But granted, I’ve never seen a work-related opium event.
As opposed to opium parties where casual friends meet and mingle?
Listen, sometimes I bang the gong. If you can’t “handle that”, maybe it’s time you find friends that don’t work on the railroad in 1850.
Getting SO close to that dragon. You might catch him THIS time!
OP has clearly never worked in a kitchen before
