Why does television and film glorify alcoholism so much?

>because people are fun when they drink
alcoholics aren't. read the OP

>people are fun when they drink

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Because there's a three year stretch between when you're 19 and 22 where it seems fun and all your friends are thinking of fun new ways to drink. Then you all start to realize that it's a pain in the ass, expensive and potentially dangerous and some of you begin to moderate and others keep doing it until they look like melted candles by age 32.

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Get you a man who can do both

There is a medical definition of "alcoholic," because it is a defined pathology. "Most people" are not alcoholics. "Consuming alcohol socially" is not alcoholism.

Alcohol can legally be purchased in most of the developed world.

Heroin is classified as a dangerous narcotic in most of the developed world.

Alcoholics are, on average, smarter than the average person. They drink because their brains always work hard so they need drugs to calm it down. The average alcoholic IQ is about 150 iirc.

>Woman comes back home
>Pours a wine of glass
Swear to god literally every fucking movie from last 10 years.
It's like they're getting paid by lobbyist to normalise daily alcohol use for "housewives"

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I'm retarded, "wine of glass" lol

what you don't crack a beer after work?
not everyone's out to get you

High intelligence is literally a birth defect and is an evolutionary disadvantage.

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>Drinking good
>Smoking bad
What did the media mean by this?

No I don't because I'm not a degenerate.

I'm an alcoholic and I'm as dumb as a doorknob.

No, and I don't know anyone who does. Maybe it was more common in early 20s, but I'm over 30 now and that sounds alien to me.

I'm usually on the floor drooling by the end of a drink binge

>"Most people" are not alcoholics.
Of course not. I didn't say they were.

I've been in recovery for a week and I keep waking up in the middle of the night sweaty and confused how long does this last?

because alcoholics represent the ideal man of the western world - a person who engages in escapism and decadent consumerism instead of striving to improve the this-worldly conditions of themselves and their countrymen

>Alcoholics are, on average, smarter than the average person
Yeah, real fucking smart constantly drinking something that will give you damage in the long run. I wish I had a 150 IQ.

*liver damage

Bad habits have no correlation with intelligence or lack thereof and the greatest minds can be susceptible to the greatest vices.

>on Yea Forums
>not a degenerate

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How is that not funny?

Lived with a guy, that I too late discovered was an alcoholic. He wasn't even fun to drink with, he'd just drink my booze when i went out and I even had money go missing.

Drinking is fun, but alcoholism is a really toxic trait

it's actually quite depressing if you've done it before

god I wish they'd just legalize all drugs

Because alcohol is an extremely powerful and addictive drug but for cultural reasons it's the only legal one.

because that shit kills you

most people are alcoholics drinking more than 3 drinks a week makes you one

tfw drinking a glass of whiskey alone while i reply to this thread

Litereally the opposite. You are put to sleep. Also, i dont see cocaine(meth glorified using your logic...
This one gets it.
Thats why we see alcohol comercials, but cigarretes ones are banned+disclaimer+tax. Why do jews mean by this? Really nonsense except maybe economic reasons?

>Alcoholism is a bad habit
>Bad habits have no correlation with intelligence
>Alcoholics are, on average, smarter than the average person.
Alright, thanks for proving how retarded and false that statement is then.

how do you know it was the same person, though? doesnt matter, though, the second replyer is a retard

There’s nothing fun about that fact

>tfw just got back from the gas station where I bought a bottle of water, emptied it out and filled it with vodka so my parents wont know how addicted ive become

Ive had a pretty shit life. I 'll go out drowning.

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Wow, you're so fucking cool. Are you also wearing a fedora and a suit indoors?

I dont know if thats true. But ive met fully functional successful alcoholics. Ive never met a functional successful meth addict or crackhead.

no. It is older people than you, not younger, that do that.

seeedgy faggot. you are not even grown up and live with your mommy. You are a retarded larper neet.

>alcoholics
you mean people that consume regularly? Becasue real alcoholics are dificult to find, unlike real drugaddicts.

Because the alcohol companies pay them to do that

Its a trade off. I'll never get married or have kids or a close family. But I can get a nice buzz every night everynight and watch Netflix or play games.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't bragging

To me an alcoholic is someone who will steal or rob for money to buy booze. I've never been that low and if I did get that low id off myself.

why are you so fucking pointlessly hostile? fuck you too asshole.

>worked in a warehouse
>my manager was a hard work bust your ass kinda dude
>super smart and always on top of things
>really admire and look up to the guy
>calls me into his office one day
>as we are talking he pulls out a bottle of crown royale and takes a few gulps and puts back into his desk
>can also see at least 4 more bottles
>mfw

Id have never even thought he drank let alone that much and on the job.

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It's legal and alcohol is intertwined with Western culture and traditions

it's extremely unhealthy and tastes like shit though

Is drinking alone your idea of cool, goober?

I like being buzzed while I work because it makes time pass faster and I'm not aware enough of my surroundings to get distracted.

>mfw pouring out my dad's drinks

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>why are you so fucking pointlessly hostile?
Do you know where we are? Pointless hostility is basically Yea Forums culture. I scrolled up while writing this post, and sure enough, I found the banner that I was thinking of.

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from my experience if I respond nicely to a hostile person then they mellow out within a few posts. people here are brutally honest and want to vent.

ok normlord

The fact that he specified whisky is what I have a problem with. It's a drink that just smacks of "I'm a such sophisticated and mature connoisseur of finer things". If you're gonna have no self-respect and drink alone, at least have the decency to drink cheap vodka or Steel Reserve.

I knew a lot of guys who did this. As much as i like to drink and smoke weed. I cant do it while working. Sucks the fun out of kicking back and drinking/relaxing

>drink cheap vodka or Steel Reserve.
that comes in when the booze money dries up

This. Cheap vodka is pretty great. About 5 sips and im on the moon.

writers like to give protagonists flaws to round them out

when they do this, they tend to pick flaws that the audience will forgive easily, because you don't want people to hate the main character. these flaws are usually things that people relate to. the most common are alcoholism and (for men) infidelity. people like beer and sex, so they can relate to protagonists who like beer and sex just a little too much. but most people don't do heroin so it's not relatable enough.

it helps with anxiety as well because I'm normally horrible at managing any stress. it's certainly not fun or a good idea though.

Because most writers are alcoholics

this guy knows. it makes me retarded but I become more creative for some reason.

Credibility is based on how much of a damaged fuckup you are in "smart" circles. These are the same people telling you we live in clown world by the way.

this. OP is a brainlet.

Writers are often alcoholics not heroin addicts. If it was the other way around you would see funny heroin addicts in every show.

it blows my mind that dan aykroyd was high as a kite on heroin while he was doing blues brothers concerts

Me too
Not him but I genuinely enjoy the taste and I can afford it. You have it backwards, if I'm gonna drink alone I at least have the self respect to drink something nice.

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you're clearly fresh off the boat from reddit. Yea Forums is for /comfy/ discussion and humourous memes.

depnds really, plenty of musicians and writers have been heroin junkies too. basically what was said above about "smart' people is one hundred percent true, those crowds are more hardcore degenerate as rule

What are some kinos in which the protagonist has real, serious flaws?

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This. Someone who's horny and lonely because society made him that way preferably.

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Your mom's sex tape. The protagonist has a LOT of very real, very serious flaws.

Holy fucking newfag, you don't know shit about our culture

30 year old drunk here, been drinking every night for the last 2-3 years. I wish I could quit. I remember when I could have nights where I don't drink and I just watch one of my favorite shows.

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I know this feel. I was shaking and sweating my ass off earlier but I managed to ninja a morning drink while nobody was looking.

don't you just get hangover or ever feel like you're way too fucking drunk? I'm soon-to-be in 30s and two nights in a row of moderate drinking will make me wish I was literally dead the next day

90 days to get over the hump but you'll have cravings for years

>There is a medical definition of "alcoholic," because it is a defined pathology
As a medfag, I can say that 99% of psychiatric diagnosis are pure bullshit and that addictions aren't diseases.

Because smokers and cigarettes' smoke are disgusting as fuck.

I'm not gonna brag and say the actual number of years, but I'm pretty sure I've been here longer than you kiddo.

yeah but it's easier to just give your patient a pill if it's a disease and not something more complicated, the big pharma sure loves to have it this way

sober or wasted.. it's both terrible

Because grown-ups drink you teetotaling manchild. Why don't you man and have a stout drink every once in a while?

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This man proved that alcoholism is a joke and only pussies can't handle booze.
evidence:
youtube.com/watch?v=Q0u0KKAbIoo

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True. Modern medicine and specially psychiatry are hostages of the Big pharma. One day one drug/food/habit is bad and the next one is good or viceversa. I'm a physician but medicine disappointed me so much because of this and I decided to take some alternatives.

YOURE GONNA DIE MORTY

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Underrated post

Speak for yourself faggot. You don't drink. You ain't fucking.

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If you're talking about what I think you are. It never ends but it's okay. You'll be a functional alcoholic soon instead.

In your opinion. still he has a point because alcohol will give you cancer and disease, but nobody ever crashed their car and killed a whole family after roasting a whole pack of bones

only for you, but because of kin selection it's an evolutionary benefit for the whole of the species to have high intelligence anxiety-ridden fucktards.

I always thought Rescue Me had some of the best scenes related to alcohol
youtube.com/watch?v=AUg_cm_E2q8