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2025-08-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Record low number of Americans report drinking alcohol, and new teetotalers are explaining why

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-14 06:22|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [152 views ] Top

#1 No wonder crime is up in the cities.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-14 09:33|| 2025-08-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

#2 How do the alcohol or cannabis combined numbers look?

Posted by Glenmore 2025-08-14 10:03|| 2025-08-14 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Dodgers star Mookie Betts teams with Corona for first-of-its-kind baseball-beach audio experience

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-14 10:45|| 2025-08-14 10:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't be fooled. Consumption is steady if not rising among AWLFs the longer Trump is in office.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-14 12:54|| 2025-08-14 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Consumption of alcohol now causes my sleeping heartbeat to approach 100 bpm. I watch it now since the Covid shot caused RHP to go from 64 to 36 bpm. It killed another neighbor with blood clots, he was a doctor.

Posted by Old Guy 2025-08-14 18:47|| 2025-08-14 18:47|| Front Page Top

#6 It reminds me of that article from Germany; it must be considered people, women especially, are staying home because of internet activities and not worth the hassle/too dangerous to go out.

Very well could be AWFLs consumption may very well be up, as a downer to counter the uppers they take.

All I know is back in the day going bar or party hopping with the boys was a lot more fun if girls were there, even without a chance of getting numbers it felt more natural. What would be new to me would be getting absolutely wrecked by a girl on the internet and being forever ruined. Might as well stay home and Helldiver with the dudes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-14 20:00|| 2025-08-14 20:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Getting absolutely wrecked by a girl on the internet? I’m not sure what that means, but it sounds unkind.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-14 20:14|| 2025-08-14 20:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Coming from a guy's perspective, but really anyone, imagine making a pass on someone and not just rejected on having a dance or whatnot, get your picture taken, and getting paragraphs on why I was not only up to her standards, being tracked down on anti-social media and getting absolutely trashed.

So five years later, think I've found the one, and she does an internet search history, and that 0/5 don't recommend, comes up.

It is nasty out there for guys. Even at the gym, girls are ambushing dudes for staring because the gal is wearing a skin suit and doing the exercise wrong.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-14 20:27|| 2025-08-14 20:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Getting absolutely wrecked by a girl on the internet?

For too many its become a blood sport for them. It's generally about attention seeking a validation. It's so out of control that it sparked a rebellion known as Men Going Their Own Way - MGTOW. Social media has shown the dark side of the women so much that guys now prefer peace. Suddenly, they're asking 'were are all the good* guys?'

*their definition of 'good' isn't what most would consider good but rather a list of requirements that only 0.05 percent of the male population meet.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-14 21:07|| 2025-08-14 21:07|| Front Page Top

#10 I apologize on behalf of my s3x. I had no idea, but that is completely unacceptable.

Maybe the tradwife thing is a reaction by both men and women to that — a commitment on both sides to be trustworthy.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-14 23:18|| 2025-08-14 23:18|| Front Page Top

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