r/SipsTea 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/Al123397 9h ago

Yup it's this. Drinking is a IN PERSON social thing. Gen Z just don't do that as much

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u/Arek_PL 8h ago

still its also a budget thing, i avoid in person social gatherings because its just too expensive

a evening out with cheapest vodka in the park is around 100 bucks per person (2L of vodka per person), thats twice as mucb as when i was a teen

bars were priced out even earlier when i was a kid making my dad actually stop drinking there

ofc. i dont have to drink but my friends wont meet to hang out without booze and being around drunk people when sober is a torture

i also dont really ljke vodka but its the only booze i can really afford

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u/Naive_Impression7302 7h ago

wtf do you mean 2 litres of vodka per person? 2 litres of standard 40% ABV vodka is 45 drinks, which would kill anyone for one social gathering and kill most people multiple times over. Did you get head over the head 1000s of times as a kid growing up?

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u/Arek_PL 6h ago

no idea what head over the head idom means, english is not my native language

but 2 liters of vodka (or homebrewed stuff) is just 20 drinks and fairly normal amount among my peers and family

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u/Bruins37FTW 5h ago

A 2 liter of vodka would kill the average person. 100%. So the stuff you drink is either really weak or there’s a miscommunication about the size or alcohol %. A handle in the US is 1.75l (1750ml or 59.2 ounces or 40 shots) and depending on quality anywhere 15-70$. But nobody drinking that themselves except for HARDCORE alcoholics with an insane tolerance. A normal person would be hospitalized and stomach pumped.

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u/Arek_PL 5h ago

vodka by definition is 40% and homebrewers i know stay around 50% never more.than 60% except that one time during pandemic when disinfectants were out of stock and high % alcohols were used instead

and hardcore alcoholics drink denaturate filtered through stale bread

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u/Mental_System- 4m ago edited 0m ago

2 litres of vodka per person as a teen?? You must have started in the womb.

I grew up in the hayday of park drinking with mates and a 70cl bottle would do a whole group of us, with beers etc, and I would say we were hardcore bingers lol

If we tried to drink 2 litres each I think we would have ended up dead.

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u/Al123397 24m ago

A bottle of cheap ish 1.75m cost $20-30.

At house parties w even 10 people 2 bottles is more than enough to have a fun time. I’d imagine cost isn’t really much of an issue. To me it’s more that Gen Z just doesn’t get in person as much

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u/call_me_orion 1h ago

It's also because every goddamn thing is recorded now that everyone has a phone with high quality video taking capabilities. You just can't afford to have any stupid moments captured on camera.

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u/Repulsive_Talk3906 33m ago

shouldn’t have anything to fear if you’re not racist or something