Poll of the Day > Does anyone know where the whole drinking before 5 oclock

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Is bad, thing came from?

I am not a big drinker but I was always curious about it.

Is it just people being jealous of other people living their life or something else?

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Some people see it as irresponsible, or possibly a sign of addiction

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I think its just a term drinkers have always used, because 5 oclock is typically the end of the work day

I always imagine people from the 50s saying this to each other and laughing, because they were always drinking.

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Mostly, it's an attitude that drinking is something to be done to relax at the end of a day of being productive. If you're drinking before then, it's because you're either not spending the day being productive or you're too addicted to alcohol to go without it until the "correct" time, both of which are seen as moral failures by the sort of person that makes a big deal out of it.

In practice, the vast majority of people don't care what time you're drinking at, so long as you aren't being irresponsible about it. The whole "it's 5 o'clock somewhere!" thing is pretty much exclusively a joke, not a matter of anyone seriously saying that it's wrong to drink before then.

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The typical work hours was 9 to 5. Probably has something to do with that?

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trodi_911 posted...

The typical work hours was 9 to 5. Probably has something to do with that?

That's what I assume.

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