I see so many people these days, in movies and on TV having shooters.
Never had one in my life and they were never around in my drinking days in Tassie.
The purpose of drinking shooters is to get drunk quicker?
Don’t know about shooters, I do know getting drunk is not good!!
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I take it you mean shots, as they’re more commonly known here in little ol’ Britain.
Way back in my early days we didn’t know them as shots, but used to have a capfull or three of 150% white Jamaican Rum or a swig or two from a bottle of Thunderbird for the supercharged effect!
This before the days of passing my driving test aged 17, and more or less kicking alcohol into touch for the love of driving
Wouldn’t do it nowadays, great memories though!
Never heard them called shooters, shots or chasers are the terms I am familiar with.
When I first came to Sydney in the 60s, I was installing the PABX (telephone exchange) in the SCC building opposite the Town Hall, every arvo after work we would troop to the Town Hall Hotel for a few beers. A couple of Germans used to insist upon whisky or vodka chasers with each beer which you either poured or dropped into the beer.
After half a dozen of these I used stagger down to Circular Quay afterwards to catch the ferry to Cremorne Point. Thank gawd I was only 19/20 it would kill me now.
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I’ve been hearing some interesting stuff about tequila very recently , I am destined to try it! Not at this moment in time, I’m just off to work and fresh out of limes.
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@Bretrick I really cannot understand the desire of some just to drink to excess and then become either silly or intent on causing unrest. As I owned a band during my earlier years, drinking to excess was out of the question as that would have lost me the supportive audience.
Yes. That’s the point. 
Personally the only reason I drink alcohol is to get drunk, I definitely don’t drink for the taste.
I don’t particularly like the taste of any alcoholic drink I’ve ever tried but I drink it to get drunk.
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Maybe they drink to block out reality.
Get a bunch of people together with alcohol the inhibitions are put aside.
Oneupmanship comes to the fore.
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A long time ago I was in a bar in Glasgow and some of the locals (especially the older gentlemen) were drinking “a half and a half”. This was half a pint of beer alongside a small measure of whisky. Seems that this was a traditional order. But the whisky was sipped rather than knocked back in one - so perhaps not drunk as a shot / shooter.
For me, strong alcohol is primary to be mixed - unless it is a very good whisky, rum or armagnac. And then definitely slowly sipped and savoured.
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This is definitely the reason I started drinking. I was very reserved in social gatherings as a teenager and the alcohol meant I could enjoy time in these situations instead of avoiding them. The downside is the alcohol became a crutch so I was unable to socialise without it.
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“Oneupmanship comes to the fore”.
No Brett, that is simply the lack of self control.
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Last year at my grandson’s reception…this is his best friend since childhood, who moved to Boston and became a lawyer, back for the reception, and he encouraged me to do a shot with him. He suggested tequila, but I refused, and we settled on a “lemon drop”. Quite tasty, too!
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Hmm… there looks to be a certain technique involved 
I vaguely remember someone recommending sipping a glass of port alongside another type of drink which I tried but I can’t remember what it was.
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I can recommend shots via a vodka luge. I wouldn’t do it these days but it’s definitely the most decadent and stylish way to have a shot. They were quite a thing to have at parties back in the 90s/noughties
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