[NF] Alcohol and NF's.

[Siúil a Rúin]

I almost never drink. I never had alcohol before my 30's. I will drink it occasionally and have had one hangover that I minimized by drinking a lot of water, but it was still surprisingly unpleasant. I won't be repeating that. I've never had a drink in a social group setting, but sometimes with dinner.

The social pressure to drink makes me less likely to do it. I tend towards an opposite reaction to peer pressure.

 

[Popsicle]

I love the stuff.

However, I will add that I do not drink all that often, maybe a half dozen times a year. I don't drink alone and don't have to drink to have a good time.

But I do like to drink occasionally. I like the way it makes me feel all tingly and just a bit dizzy -- in a good way. And yes, I do use it to make it easier for me to socialize. I'm pretty introverted, but after a few drinks, I am very outgoing and friendly. I love everyone. I can see Fidelia's point that using it that way could prevent me from developing as a person, but I like being introverted most of the time. I really don't want to be a full-time extrovert, but it's nice to be able to try it on occasionally.

What I don't like is dealing with those who are angry or belligerent drunks. I also obviously do not like the effects of alcoholism. Fortunately, neither of those are an issue for me. If they were, I'd have a very different attitude toward alcohol.

 

[Phantonym]

SOI SOI SOI SO. NF's are cute when embarassed. .

I had to look that up on Urban Dictionary

The social pressure to drink makes me less likely to do it. I tend towards an opposite reaction to peer pressure.

+1

 

[Glycerine]

I usually hate the taste of it. I just drank a few times to see what it was like and I usually force it down. I purposefully drank a couple of times just to see what i was like drunk. Both times i kept saying over and over that i did not feel drunk and then passed out. So it's pretty boring and does nothing for me. Energy drinks and a lack of sleep has more of an effect on me than alcohol. haha

 

[runvardh]

Apparently I'm more enjoyable when I'm drunk, not sure why. Never been aquainted with the toilet bowl, apparently this pisses most people off. Never woke up with a hang over either, apparently this pisses most people off too...

 

[Tiltyred]

Two drinks and I'm done. That's enough to relax me a little, and that's all I want. I can usually feel that the next day, too, with a tinge of hangover.

I really don't like to be around drunk people.

 

[prplchknz]

Apparently I'm more enjoyable when I'm drunk, not sure why. Never been aquainted with the toilet bowl, apparently this pisses most people off. Never woke up with a hang over either, apparently this pisses most people off too...

you will one day trust me, one day you will find your limit.

 

[OrangeAppled]

I like it in moderation. Getting drunk is not a goal.

 

[runvardh]

you will one day trust me, one day you will find your limit.

I don't know if I want to spend the money on more than 15 drinks and usually by then I want my nap...

 

[Jonathanthegreat]

meh I'd rather have a good cooked meal than some alcohol. I don't like anything that alters me from my sober mind really.

 

[Moiety]

I don't think in terms of alcoholic VS non-alcoholic so much as in terms of tasty VS non-tasty.

 

[phthalocyanine]

i like wine.

 

[runvardh]

red/white? sweet/dry?

 

[Amargith]

Don't like the taste of alcohol, so I don't usually drink

Have trouble also with drunk people. Maybe it's coz I don't realize they're drunk as I don't get drunk myself and cannot relate. But since they start behaving often very different they feel 'fake' to me, they don't respond the way they're supposed to. I especially find this to be the case with people I know well. And I'm afraid I really really don't like the feeling it gives me, so I prefer to stay away then.

 

[phthalocyanine]

red/white? sweet/dry?

dry, red. maybe a nice riesling every now and then.

 

[runvardh]

dry, red. maybe a nice riesling every now and then.

Sounds like you have similar tastes to someone else who posted on this board. I wonder where she's hiding...

 

[phthalocyanine]

are you insinuating something or are you just bored?

 

[runvardh]

are you insinuating something or are you just bored?

Bored and letting Ne wander. I'm a wimp, I prefer 3 to 4.

 

[mwv6r]

Wow, I had no idea my fellow NFs were such teetotalers!

I really enjoy drinking and like to go out with a big group of friends two or three times a month. I like how it makes me more extraverted, and I also like how drunkenness encourages a sense of comraderie (lots of 'I love you, man's).

Sometimes I feel like a total dumbass the next day though and worry what kind of trouble my big drunken mouth got me into. (I'm pretty sure I'm an ENFJ when drunk -- they put their foot in their mouth a lot, right?)

 

[secondhandsight]

I can appreciate it as a social lubricant
but am inclined toward teetotalism. When
the going gets tough it certainly looks
more attractive, probably on account of
the negative-ESTP attention to sensory
pleasures.