Sobriety trend gaining steam? Noticed all last week…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I don't think kids date anymore at all.

Normal kids do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unemployed and underemployed recent grads will end up drinking more, especially as the economy contracts.

I wear an Apple Watch 24hrs a day. I’ve never checked how anything I consume changes my heart rate. It tracks my runs. Only weirdos perseverate on health data to the granular level you describe.

Nope. It's cool to be sober. Drinking is what corny gen X parents and boomer grandparents do. Sober, clear headed, lots of sleep, fitness freaks, eating clean, hustle and grind mode 24/7.

They are eating their calories instead of drinking them. Not sure which is worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I don't think kids date anymore at all.

Normal kids do.

Hopefully the odd balls with self select themselves out of the gene pool. That is one upside to all this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle aged 40+ and older affluent men within earshot were asking about 0% beers. These are the type of men who’d be drinking either wine their wife at dinner or a draft IPA, bourbon or scotch.

April is long past dry January.

Science is catching up.

No. It’s the proliferation of weed and good old fashioned arrogance regarding a lack of necessity for alcohol…. Because they have weed.

You’re in serious denial. The sober addicted to fitness white collars are not addicted to weed instead of boozing. Weed is more degenerate and trashy than boozing to that crowd.

You are so clueless.

[Anonymous]

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1958 = 55%
2025 = 54%

OMGerd it's unprecedented drop! LMAO!.

Only people who answer landline polls are really old people. No wonder, most of them are on drugs now (Thanks big pharma!) so they can't drink as much without keeling over.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is indeed drinking far less and most of them view drinking more than 2 drinks in a night as cringe. lol

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2025/09/03/gen-z-drinking-less-alcohol-social-media-gallup-health-concerns-economy/85936352007/

Let's be honest, a lot of youth drinking was for a social lubricant, to lower your anxiety and cold approach peers in bars and parties. That's literally not happening anymore.

That's for sure. No wonder 60% of women under 30 and 65% of men under 35 are single now. All introverted anxious messes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Middle aged 40+ and older affluent men within earshot were asking about 0% beers. These are the type of men who’d be drinking either wine their wife at dinner or a draft IPA, bourbon or scotch.

April is long past dry January.

Science is catching up.

No. It’s the proliferation of weed and good old fashioned arrogance regarding a lack of necessity for alcohol…. Because they have weed.

You’re in serious denial. The sober addicted to fitness white collars are not addicted to weed instead of boozing. Weed is more degenerate and trashy than boozing to that crowd.

So true.

[Anonymous]

It’s interesting. For my grandmothers generation (whatever came before greatest generation?), drinking wasn’t a really big thing and was associated with alcoholics, like artsy people on one end or unemployed losers on the other. Not so much dor the hardworking middle class unless it was a special occasion. Or you weee German American maybe.

I wonder if Gen Z’s kids will go back to hard drinking to rebel against their sober parents. No tattoos but lots of beer! I do feel like these things just swing around. Millenials didn’t smoke and now their kids all vape to irritate them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting. For my grandmothers generation (whatever came before greatest generation?), drinking wasn’t a really big thing and was associated with alcoholics, like artsy people on one end or unemployed losers on the other. Not so much dor the hardworking middle class unless it was a special occasion. Or you weee German American maybe.

I wonder if Gen Z’s kids will go back to hard drinking to rebel against their sober parents. No tattoos but lots of beer! I do feel like these things just swing around. Millenials didn’t smoke and now their kids all vape to irritate them.

Yeah there's definitely this. Doing different from parents if they have rocky relationships with them or peers.

[Anonymous]

Nobody under 40 wants to drink boomer juice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting. For my grandmothers generation (whatever came before greatest generation?), drinking wasn’t a really big thing and was associated with alcoholics, like artsy people on one end or unemployed losers on the other. Not so much dor the hardworking middle class unless it was a special occasion. Or you weee German American maybe.

I wonder if Gen Z’s kids will go back to hard drinking to rebel against their sober parents. No tattoos but lots of beer! I do feel like these things just swing around. Millenials didn’t smoke and now their kids all vape to irritate them.

Alcohol is literally poison and everyone with an iPhone now knows it. Booze is boomer coded and will die out with them. It’ll always have lower class buyers but the professional class isn’t going to wake up in 5 or 10 years yearning for it again. It’s a wrap.

[Anonymous]

WSJ just reported happy hours are dead, too.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/happy-hour-office-after-work-drinks-over-0daf6b60?

[Anonymous]

The happy hour crowd is now at the gym from 5-7pm. It's been packed for at least two years.

The reduction in drinking by Gen X and Millennials is from 1) taking care of aging parents going through liver failures and 2) increase in GLPs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The happy hour crowd is now at the gym from 5-7pm. It's been packed for at least two years.

The reduction in drinking by Gen X and Millennials is from 1) taking care of aging parents going through liver failures and 2) increase in GLPs.

It's also the deluge of foreigners since the 1990s. Indians don't drink much of average and Muslims don't drink at all. And Hispanics on average aren't interested in high-end wines, bourbons and scotch; they drink beer and tequila.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The happy hour crowd is now at the gym from 5-7pm. It's been packed for at least two years.

The reduction in drinking by Gen X and Millennials is from 1) taking care of aging parents going through liver failures and 2) increase in GLPs.

It's called looksmaxxing.