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I thought I'd separate my speculation from the actual answers to your questions because otherwise it would just be too long.
I drink mostly: vodka tonics (honestly, anything mixed with vodka), G&Ts, amaretto sours if I'm not actually looking to get drunk, Long Islands if I am, various girly martinis (raspberry and key lime being favorites). Lately New Glarus Spotted Cow is about the only beer I drink . . . everybody around here drinks this stuff like crazy. I also drink Sierra Nevada sometimes, mostly because my daddy does and my daddy is so painfully hip without even trying. My friends say to me, "Your dad's got a great vinyl collection," and I want to say, "No, my dad has a great RECORD collection," because in my mind vinyl is the word hipster kids use when they're going around finding stuff that was made years before they were born, and my dad got all of this stuff back in the day when it was new, not used, and it is still great.
My friend and I made it a goal of ours to start drinking PBR because PBR is "ROCK N ROLL BEER" (in all caps, always) and we want to fit in with all our guy friends who are in bands, but so far we've sort of been flunking at this.
I almost never do shots anymore.
Image is definitely part of drink choice. If I go out to dive bars with my guy friends I'm not going to be drinking a froufrou girly drink because that's not really the image I want to project. I'm not going to go to a martini bar for a girls night and suck down a PBR, either. Nor am I going to wear a miniskirt and heels to the dive bar or ripped jeans and a vintage tee shirt to the martini bar (of course, there are some nights where it ends up like that anyway, but I would never intentionally plan ahead to do things like that).
Then again, I don't ever go around drinking cosmos because I fancy myself Carrie Bradshaw either, so maybe there is still help for me.
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