Girls--beer drinking etiquette?

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by kddani

If drinking it out of the bottle is tacky, wonder what's thought of beer bonging? Which i'm guessing many people in this thread have participated in during their college career....

That's tacky. Keg stands and Edward 40 hands are so much classier.

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by PhiMuAmberkins

Okay, I didn't mean that drinking beer is tacky, per se. All I can think of when I think of girls drinking beer though is those women who go to the liquor store without a bra and with 10 screaming kids going "Give me a case of beer...can I buy that with food stamps?" I've drank beer before; I don't particularly like it, but my comment about drinking it being tacky may have been out of line. I still think, and was raised in the environment to think, that drinking ANY drink out of the bottle is tacky and just not ladylike at all. That's not saying I don't like the people who do it or wouldn't talk to them or look down on them...but I just personally wouldn't do it.

On a greek note, we're not allowed to drink out of bottles on my campus. At all. We HAVE to put it in a cup.

Oh my lawd jeebus, just when I thought it couldn't get any better (or worse). So you won't do vending machines if you're really thristy? How about bottled water? What about kool-aide koolbursts? If there's only a sip of soda left in a 2-liter, do you just turn it up, or do you get a glass for that too?

[PhiMuAmberkins]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Oh my lawd jeebus, just when I thought it couldn't get any better (or worse). So you won't do vending machines if you're really thristy? How about bottled water? What about kool-aide koolbursts? If there's only a sip of soda left in a 2-liter, do you just turn it up, or do you get a glass for that too?

Sorry, I thought everyone would understand that I was talking about alcohol. I can't drink liquor out of a bottle or can.

Personally, though, I would rather drink out of a glass. But that's a personal preference, not a rule.

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by PhiMuAmberkins

Sorry, I thought everyone would understand that I was talking about alcohol. I can't drink liquor out of a bottle or can.

Personally, though, I would rather drink out of a glass. But that's a personal preference, not a rule.

Ok, it was the last sentence that threw me off because we had that no drinking from the bottle and cans rule in elementary school. I thought your post had extended to sodas. It's odd that your campus doesn't trust college students with bottles, regardless if it's soda or alcohol.

[PhiMuAmberkins]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Ok, it was the last sentence that threw me off because we had that no drinking from the bottle and cans rule in elementary school. I thought your post had extended to sodas. It's odd that your campus doesn't trust college students with bottles, I can see it with younger kids.

It's cool. And I'm not sure whether or not it's a campus rule, but Phi Mus at my school aren't supposed to drink alcohol out of bottles or cans. I see boys in fraternities doing it, but never see girls in sororities doing it, so I assume the other sorority here has the same rule, whether or not the school does.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally Posted by PhiMuAmberkins

Okay, I didn't mean that drinking beer is tacky, per se. All I can think of when I think of girls drinking beer though is those women who go to the liquor store without a bra and with 10 screaming kids going "Give me a case of beer...can I buy that with food stamps?" I've drank beer before; I don't particularly like it, but my comment about drinking it being tacky may have been out of line. I still think, and was raised in the environment to think, that drinking ANY drink out of the bottle is tacky and just not ladylike at all. That's not saying I don't like the people who do it or wouldn't talk to them or look down on them...but I just personally wouldn't do it.

On a greek note, we're not allowed to drink out of bottles on my campus. At all. We HAVE to put it in a cup.

You have go to be fuckin kidding. I'm sure that isn't lady like at all either, but damn, I guess I'm just tacky all around.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by PhiMuAmberkins

It's cool. And I'm not sure whether or not it's a campus rule, but Phi Mus at my school aren't supposed to drink alcohol out of bottles or cans. I see boys in fraternities doing it, but never see girls in sororities doing it, so I assume the other sorority here has the same rule, whether or not the school does.

Wow weird. As far as I know we just can't drink with our letters on.

[PhiMuAmberkins]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Wow weird. As far as I know we just can't drink with our letters on.

Yeah, like I said, I'm not sure if it's a Phi Mu thing or a school thing. It's probably a school thing and the boys just don't care!

[UGAalum94]

Kind of a highjack: is the rule about drinking with letters a way of avoiding having people stumbling around drunk with their letters on, or is it a hold over from communities in which drinking itself was bad, bad, bad?

[Stef the Pef]

Originally Posted by kddani

There used to be (and may still be) people who think women should only smoke when sitting down and all sort of other ridiculous stuff.

Used to be?

Haha, I always seem to get stuck behind a smoker walking to class. I wish more people would sit down with that...then there'd be a nice cloud of smoke to avoid instead of a moving cloud in front of me on my way to class.

[winnieb]

Originally Posted by PhiMuAmberkins

All I can think of when I think of girls drinking beer though is those women who go to the liquor store without a bra and with 10 screaming kids going "Give me a case of beer...can I buy that with food stamps?"

I have never seen a kid in a liquor store! But hey around here you dont have to drag your kids in, as we got ourselves a drive thru liquor store right down the road! (im not joking!)

[33girl]

Drinking beer from a can IS tacky. Mainly, because BEER THAT COMES IN A CAN TASTES LIKE SHIT. Winnie's right, it depends where you are. I don't think you should feel like you have to order wine or a mixed drink if what you really want is beer, though - that just wastes money, either yours or whoever's buying it for you.

Just as a note to the sorority girls who must poor their beer into a glass: it makes it a heck of a lot easier for someone to slip a roofie or something else into it, not to mention one of my friends got hepatitis once from drinking out a glass at a bar (if she'd left it in the bottle she'd have been fine). So good luck with that.

Originally Posted by 33girl

Just as a note to the sorority girls who must poor their beer into a glass: it makes it a heck of a lot easier for someone to slip a roofie or something else into it, not to mention one of my friends got hepatitis once from drinking out a glass at a bar (if she'd left it in the bottle she'd have been fine). So good luck with that.

That's one of the main reasons why I drink beer out of the bottle. I've taken 2 friends to the hospital after they got their drinks 86'ed. I'd rather be safe and "tacky" than "classy" and drugged.

Hi, do we not watch Veronica Mars?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

I believe it depends on the context. I mean, at a bar with my friends, I would never pour beer from a bottle into a glass. At a business dinner or wedding, however, I would never drink straight from the bottle.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

Kind of a highjack: is the rule about drinking with letters a way of avoiding having people stumbling around drunk with their letters on, or is it a hold over from communities in which drinking itself was bad, bad, bad?

Neither: For most GLOs, it's a myth, unless you have chapter bylaws that spesifically state it.


And yes, for those who do, it's ususally to keep people from acting like idiots in letters (although it doesn't stop those who do so sober anyway).