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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 4561117" data-attributes="member: 4789"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yeah, there are 4 of us in the group of 7. And it is from religious/faith based reasons that we don't drink, nor allow any alcohol in our house. But if someone wanted to drink, as long as they didn't do it at the game (or before), it isn't like I look down on them. To each their own choice. We gamed once where alcohol was involved (back in '88 I think). Somebody got drunk, and it ruined the game. Even if we didn't have other reasons for not liking drinking at a game, that would be one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Twilight 2000 actually, and it was the CO that got drunk. The characters' mutinied and left him behind because of it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And as another note - I wasn't raised in my faith, but I was a teetotaler before that point. My father was an alcoholic (died from complications of it when he was in his mid 40s). So I grew up in a classically dysfunctional home with an alcoholic father (A fifth of Vodka a day). I saw the kind of destruction that can come from the situation, and swore to never touch the stuff.I never did (aside from bowing to peer pressure at a party, where I had on beer - and I keep the bottle on my Knick Knack shelf as a reminder that even the greatest intentions can drop).Not saying that everyone (or even anyone) who drinks turns into the kind of monster my father was, but having seen it happen even once completely soured me on the concept of drinking. Both my parents smoked, and I swore never to do that either. As I like to joke "Teenage rebellion worked for me" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />End of depressing autobiographical anecdote.</blockquote>

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