Manly Non-Alcoholic Drinks
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When I want to feel manly, I drink Antifreeze. It's the most hardcore thing on the planet, and it serves a dual purpose of preventing freezing, as well as a coolant.
To paraphrase Communities Jeff Winger. It doesn't matter, any choice you make is weak because you're making it for other people. If you want to be 'manly,' order whatever you want and drink it without giving a shit which drink will make people like you the most. Whatever you do and whatever you want, you just have to own it.
Ginger beer is quite nice, especially Old Jamaica brand. Never give in to the whining of alcoholics. You'll find your life is a lot more enjoyable if you don't have to worry about what you might have done or who you might have done it to the night before. If you have to be drunk to be an interesting companion, you're doing it wrong.
Depending where you lived and the bar you go to, just get a coke/ pepsi or this juice drink called J20. That what I get when I get drag into a bar aswell (I too ain't much of a drinker).
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It isn't only a manly drink, but it makes you even more manly.
It isn't only a manly drink, but it makes you even more manly.
Wouldn't this clip be better at the 5 minute mark?Lt._nefarious said:
But in all seriousness, it shouldn't matter what you drink, alcoholic or not. But try a coke and if people ask you what you're drinking say it's "the darkest of ales."
It normally gets a few laughs.
Someone else already said it, but just have a f'ing beer. Maybe you have some reason why you can't or don't. But whats the harm, just have a bloody beer. I like em, and people have been liking them for thousands of years. Indulge, enjoy, exist.
And if you really must go to a bar and not drink for reasons other than driving/religion, just order a coke or something and no one will care. I seriously mean that, NO ONE will care. but just do yourself a favour (if none of the above) and have a drink have a laugh. Your not gonna turn into some raving alcoholic overnight, just enjoy life. Its brief.
And if you really must go to a bar and not drink for reasons other than driving/religion, just order a coke or something and no one will care. I seriously mean that, NO ONE will care. but just do yourself a favour (if none of the above) and have a drink have a laugh. Your not gonna turn into some raving alcoholic overnight, just enjoy life. Its brief.
You are more likely to fall into a "trap" of buying an effeminate alcoholic drink than non-alcoholic. But who cares anyway, just don't come across like you ashamed of ordering and drinking whatever you bloody well want to drink. Although not drinking and talking to people are drinking heavily does not sound all that fun.
I kid you not, I have found an alcoholic rootbeer. Not rootbeer and malt, real brewed hard rootbeer. That's the most hardcore thing I've EVER seen on shelves.Owyn_Merrilin said:Speaking of which, my favorite bar (which is my favorite because it's got, like, 50 beers on tap, hundreds in bottles, and good German food to go with it) actually has root beer on tap, and it is the most delicious root beer you will ever drink. Now /that/ is a manly non-alcoholic beverage.Redlin5 said:If you need to stay sober, drink Root Beer and drink it like a man. It's all about how you carry yourself.
You know, wikipedia told me things like that existed, but this is the first time anyone has actually told me they've seen it in real life. That's amazing.Nieroshai said:I kid you not, I have found an alcoholic rootbeer. Not rootbeer and malt, real brewed hard rootbeer. That's the most hardcore thing I've EVER seen on shelves.Owyn_Merrilin said:Speaking of which, my favorite bar (which is my favorite because it's got, like, 50 beers on tap, hundreds in bottles, and good German food to go with it) actually has root beer on tap, and it is the most delicious root beer you will ever drink. Now /that/ is a manly non-alcoholic beverage.Redlin5 said:If you need to stay sober, drink Root Beer and drink it like a man. It's all about how you carry yourself.
As the thread has generally suggested, anything will do.
I'll accept for a moment the premise that you're valid in your desire to preserve and articulate your manliness via beverage choice. By the way, if you get dragged to a bar, you're going to hear the phrase "let's do shots" about ten seconds in, and your ruse will be dead unless you're desperate enough to chuck it over your shoulder. At any rate, little as what you drink and who judges you has to do with the size of your junk, I'm just going to table the ethics and decode the sterotypes as I understand them. I hang out with a lot of bartenders, so liquor culture is kind of my thing anyway.
Just order a normal beverage. Water, soda, whatever you'd drink anyway. Virgin cocktails are perceived as childish, but most of the other pitfalls in terms of classic girliness would actually have alcohol in them anyway. Ordering a Coke implies you want a Coke right now. Ordering a tequila sunrise implies that you don't want to harm your poor sensitive tastebuds with any icky liquor taste.
It also depends on what subculture you're in. We think of the frat-boy broseph demographic as one that carefully preserves an insular, masculine, honestly misogynistic culture, yet when you take away the tough drink names like "kamikaze" and "mind eraser," they basically drink "like girls." For the trendy club scenesters, anything vodka based is probably ok.
On a final note, you should really have mentioned where it is you're from and where these bars are. In Helsinki, I could walk in to a bar and order a Smirnoff Ice and probably not get any strange looks. Here in America I'd probably start getting hit on by strange men. In Dublin, anything other than straight whiskey or beer might provoke the same reaction (adios to my beloved Manhattans).
I'll accept for a moment the premise that you're valid in your desire to preserve and articulate your manliness via beverage choice. By the way, if you get dragged to a bar, you're going to hear the phrase "let's do shots" about ten seconds in, and your ruse will be dead unless you're desperate enough to chuck it over your shoulder. At any rate, little as what you drink and who judges you has to do with the size of your junk, I'm just going to table the ethics and decode the sterotypes as I understand them. I hang out with a lot of bartenders, so liquor culture is kind of my thing anyway.
Just order a normal beverage. Water, soda, whatever you'd drink anyway. Virgin cocktails are perceived as childish, but most of the other pitfalls in terms of classic girliness would actually have alcohol in them anyway. Ordering a Coke implies you want a Coke right now. Ordering a tequila sunrise implies that you don't want to harm your poor sensitive tastebuds with any icky liquor taste.
It also depends on what subculture you're in. We think of the frat-boy broseph demographic as one that carefully preserves an insular, masculine, honestly misogynistic culture, yet when you take away the tough drink names like "kamikaze" and "mind eraser," they basically drink "like girls." For the trendy club scenesters, anything vodka based is probably ok.
On a final note, you should really have mentioned where it is you're from and where these bars are. In Helsinki, I could walk in to a bar and order a Smirnoff Ice and probably not get any strange looks. Here in America I'd probably start getting hit on by strange men. In Dublin, anything other than straight whiskey or beer might provoke the same reaction (adios to my beloved Manhattans).