I believe that drinking beer is OK as long as you do not drink so much that you are inebriated.
Vinny
I don't always drink but when I do its to get inebriated. :) Personally, I don't like the taste of any alcoholic beverage but after a few drinks of the disgusting stuff, my taste buds go numb and i don't really care anymore. :) last time I got drunk was in 2004, my wedding night, I was so drunk I didn't even get to go on my honeymoon, my wife and her daughters went without me, I stayed home for 3 days sobering up.
Colleen
Last time I got drunk was when I was 23. That was 28 years ago when I came to in the hospital from alcohol poisoning. I hated the taste of all alcohol too but was drinking to get drunk so I did not care what it tasted like. I decided that day there was no point in making myself drink when 1. I hated the taste of it and 2. I hated the hangovers. I hate cooked carrots so I do not eat them. No sense in drinking something I do not like the taste of or the after effects of. Sometimes we do need to pay attention to common sense, LOL
As for your tale, your lucky you still had a wife after those 3 days ;)
Vinny
Not a tale, it's true. We were already living together in sin for 20+ years. She really didn't care, she was with her daughters that flew in from Ohio and Tennessee, she was having the time of her life. Probably if I went along I would have ruined the party because i was so sick. Once in a great while I might drink a beer, I will do that on a really hot day, some reason it taste pretty good on a hot day. But drunk, 2004, never again, I was really sick. if your body is not used to this misuse and abuse it will react violently to it, I was under attack!! :)
Colleen
It did not mean tale as in fiction. Does tale denote only fiction? I'll choose a different word in the future if it does. I'm the same. One time in a summer after mowing the lawns on a really hot day, I'll down 1/2 a bottle of ice cold beer because it is refreshing. Then I dump the rest down the sink. You probably were suffering from a mild case of alcohol poisoning. A straight on case of poisoning would have landed you in the hospital in a semi comma like me for 3 days. The stuff should be made illegal. Bring back prohibition! (Kidding).
Vinny
Tale can be taken both ways, but in my experience it is more widely used to denote a fictitious story, hence 'fairytale'. but it just depends on the colloquial language of where you were brought up.
No I don't think I had alcohol poisoning but I will say that for a week afterwards i was pretty slow and not with it. It took a lot out of me, coincidentally I developed diverticulitis during that spell. This was a different sick, very painful, I don't know if it too was a result of the alcohol but my system functions were very slow and maybe due to this, the infection set in without much of a fight from my immune system.
Colleen
Painful lesson learned. We'll leave the drinking to the Scots and the bears ;)
itsmee
The sun was coming up. The tree was blossoming. The grass was greener than ever. The air was fresh. I was on my back porch steps with a bucket beside me, a head that was splitting, and sicker than I'd ever been. Carol and I had a party the night before. Scotch? I don't remember. I was 23 and I NEVER over did it again. It didn't phase Carol.