You’re not missing anything.

ehhh.... I’m a really big guy with significant alcohol tolerance. 2 drinks would leave me bored and stone cold sober. In my experience it’s generally after beer 5 that I get tipsy. For an all nighter with friends, I try to keep it below 10. I also walk home.

This is easily one of the worst life hacks I've ever read. You might as well just stay home

Okay, so here I am, age 60, well past menopause and poster child for this. My limit is usually one stiff drink or two glasses of wine. Tonight I went on an online date. Sweet, nice guy, my age. I had two Manhattans — because you said it would be all right! — and ended up clinging to him befote collapsing onto the lawn…

If my tablemate took his beer bottle to the restroom, I’d assume something was off with him, and it certainly wouldn’t be alcoholism.

One of the better tips I received was to “Be ten minutes early for a business appointment, half an hour late for a party, and right on time for a date.” Being half hour behind everyone else drinking is a good way to see how much you don’t want to be one of the drunks.

Uhm deffnitely mure fun than you at parties *sloshes drink all over himself*

Or, don’t hang around people who will think less of you if you choose not to drink...if that’s your choice, whatever, I like to drink, but I certainly wouldn’t look down on someone who didn’t; however I would look down on someone who faked it for the sake of being liked. Also I’d kind of look down on you for not…

If you don’t drink enough to know your limit, your limit is very, very low. And you’re probably boring.

It’s also a good baseline of the most common type of “party” which is usually not a party at all for most people but in fact a work function involving social drinking.

Drink etiquette varies WIDELY based on your company and industry. When I was a woman working in financial services, the fact that I could hold my liquor was hugely helpful - I was able to be “one of the guys” and network in ways that wouldn’t be possible with just one drink. At my current company there’s a C-level…

This makes no sense. Using this method, there is no difference between a Happy Hour party (2 drinks in one hour) and one that goes all night (a drink every 3 hours). My rule of thumb is one drink per hour.

Well, aren’t you just amazing, and way totally better than the ‘alarming’ and ‘disconcerting’ people who, Heaven forbid, like to have more than two drinks at a 2-5 hour party.

I mean, that quote you used is a great baseline definition of a bad party, so yes it will be automatically boring. Of course, being drunk won’t make it less boring - only smoking pot can do that.

I would do the opposite of whatever the Mormon does.

Ugh... people who badger others who are choosing not to drink, or to only have one or two, are the fuckin worst!

Alarming? Really?

Skipping the work Christmas party makes you the workplace dick.

Possibly the worst advice I’ve ever gotten on the internet. Better solution, know your limits and do you

Don’t count other people’s drinks.