Age That You First Got Drunk

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've never gotten that drunk but I started drinking to get buzzed occasionally last year, so twenty-two. Before that I'd only had alcohol on holidays, and never very much.

The most alcohol I've ever had at once was a whole 750ml bottle of Riesling. That got me to a point where I was slurring and giggly and couldn't really walk straight but was still in control of and could remember my actions.

I'm mostly a wine person. I don't want to have a strong reds or whites preference, but I've yet to work my way up to liking the more tannic Italian reds. I'll also drink hard cider, certain mixed drinks, and occasionally liqueurs or rum. Beer is swill.

I didn't develop any actual coherent tastes until I started dating someone who works in wine and spirits sales.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think some people in this thread are conflating different meanings of the word 'conservative'.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think some people in this thread are conflating different meanings of the word 'conservative'.

I suppose you could say that, but even so, the reason I don't drink much alcohol is because I don't like it (or its cultural associations), not because I'm "conservative" in any political or non-political sense of the word.

Okay, that's you, but to say that there's no correlation between abstaining from alcohol and being in some sense 'conservative' is just futzing around with language.