Finally got around to listening to this, thanks for posting @Wilko and I hope you made it through Dry January. Really good chat and he seems to have a lot of the same views that I've now got about alcohol. It really is a fascinating culture around it.
I'm not sure – because people abstain for all sorts of reasons – but sometimes people who don't drink alcohol, might bring it up the 'elephant in the room' (as it is) before anyone else does to get it out in the open? I agree that it should be no big deal, but society makes alcohol and drinking...
On the contrary, I wonder why people make such a fuss about people who don't drink alcohol.
I haven't had an alcoholic drink since December 2020, but at almost every social/work function I go it, it seems to be a talking point with the classic 'So, WHY don't you drink?' I was on a trip the...