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View Poll Results: How would you describe your drinking habit?
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I don't drink. Period.
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8.63% |
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I may have one if the occasion is right.
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20.86% |
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I'm a moderate drinker (wine at meal, beer on deck etc.)
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53.24% |
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I'm at a party chugging whenever I can!
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11.51% |
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I can't remember when I didn't have a drink.
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5.76% |
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25-03-2014, 05:24
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#76
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Join Date: May 2012
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
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Originally Posted by Don1500
(When they say "It's 5 O'Clock somewhere", do they mean AM or PM?)
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Does it matter?
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25-03-2014, 07:07
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#77
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
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Originally Posted by carstenb
people lie
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Yes people lie, but that is offset that they will pick the wrong answer (because they've been drinking) so the stats are accurate.
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25-03-2014, 14:56
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#78
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
the surprising thing to me on the poll is that 16% basic admit they are drunks
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25-03-2014, 16:17
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#79
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
And we should thank everyone for being honest in their answers.
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25-03-2014, 16:50
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#80
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Join Date: Dec 2013
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
I find it's the sailors who don't go very far who tend to drink to much. Marina bound liveaboards for instance tend to booze it up pretty hard as they spin yarns of what they "will do". Alcohol is more dangerous than it's given credit for, but a brainwashed conservative right demonizes marijuana. I stick to safely smoking herbs, therefore never having my judgement or motor skills compromised. Colorado is the first to right a wrong that's been going on to long. I won't even go into the war on drugs scam and what a terribly waste of money it was. My prediction - the older than 60 crowd thinks I'm nuts and wrong, unless they were involved in the 60's hippy scene/music/dead ect... And the under 45 crowd knows pot is harmless, the DARE program a joke, and has successful friends that are, lawyers, cops, insurance sales, boat brokers, mayors, stockbrokers, ect.. That smoke and are upstanding citizens. I'm way more worried about any drunks judgment than a weed smoker any day.
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25-03-2014, 17:15
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#81
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Grand Rapids MI
Boat: 1973 Easterly 36
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
I'm with the never under way crowd. When in the sun all day it only seems to give me a headache. But as with many hear once the hook is dropped a evening night cap is hard to beat! I never exceed more than two drinks on the hook as after a day on the water I'm usually falling asleep. If tied at the dick we may have two or eight more!
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25-03-2014, 17:22
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#82
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Boat: JBW club 420, MFG Bandit, Snark
Posts: 871
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
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Originally Posted by appick
. If tied at the dick we may have two or eight more!
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Funniest... typo... ever!!
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25-03-2014, 17:27
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Grand Rapids MI
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
So... I don't know about coordination but I'm pretty sure there is plenty of scientific research that says judgement and reaction times are affected by marijuana use. I could be wrong but I'm sure a quick google search will solve the question. However I've been around it enough to know that it definitely affects judgement and balance. For that reason alone I'd still never do it under way or to excess.
I will agree that you are correct on the it is far less harmful than alcohol, there is plenty of scientific data to back that up.
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25-03-2014, 17:29
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
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Originally Posted by Fiveslide
Funniest... typo... ever!!
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Haha oops! I'd need more than eight for that to happen! I'd better set down my rum and come before I spill it lol!
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25-03-2014, 22:02
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Washington State
Boat: Colvin, Saugeen Witch (Aluminum), 34'
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
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Originally Posted by appick
I'd better set down my rum and come before I spill it lol! |
Second funniest typo ever.
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26-03-2014, 00:37
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: back at langkawi
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy
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26-03-2014, 06:52
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
Originally Posted by appick 
. If tied at the dick we may have two or eight more!
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Originally Posted by Fiveslide
Funniest... typo... ever!!
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Originally Posted by appick
I'd better set down my rum and come before I spill it lol!
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Originally Posted by Panope
Second funniest typo ever.
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You can't make this stuff up!!! Priceless!!! 
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26-03-2014, 08:22
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Stuck on an island in Florida
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
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Originally Posted by Capt Phil
...In another vein, you can spot a drunk whether he is on the sauce or not...
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No you can't....a drunk of 3 months looks alot beter than a 20 year drunk....
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If I can hold on to the floor without falling off, I'm good.[/QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by Horror Hotel
... Alcohol is more dangerous than it's given credit for, but a brainwashed conservative right demonizes marijuana. I stick to safely smoking herbs, therefore never having my judgement or motor skills compromised. ... |
Dude...I'm an old pothead from back in the day....memory loss is one of the problems of....of....um, what was I talkin' about? OH YEAH, weed is....um.....OH, memory loss......Dude you probably smoked so much that you just don't remember sh!t!  LOL!!
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26-03-2014, 08:37
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cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2013
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Re: Do sailors drink too much?
Don't call me dude, Thanks.
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26-03-2014, 15:04
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#90
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Grand Rapids MI
Boat: 1973 Easterly 36
Posts: 458
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Do sailors drink too much?
... Oh man I'm just waking up what happened last night my dick is really sore and there is a glass of something very funny looking on the table!
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